Live from the Moss: Rap, lazybones! (2016)
Section: International Competition of Animated Films for Children, Czech Films and TV
Directed by: Filip Pošivač
Czech Republic, 2016, 3 min
Projection place: Mala scena
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This is a compilation of 6 stories in which two tiny elves support a little water nymph to become a forest radio hostess. She tells stories about the elves and the creatures they meet.
A True Knight (2016)
Section: Czech Films and TV
Directed by: Martin Dolenský
Czech Republic, 2016, 15 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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In many once-upon-a-time fairy-tales it's like this: an evil wizard kidnaps a princess and the hero has to complete three tasks to save her...The characters are typically fairy-tale-like, yet they have a lot in common with the people of today. An ambitious knight has planned out his son's entire life and constantly has the need to tell him what to do. He even takes him out into the world where he looks out for him. The son would rather read books or paint, but all his father knows are weapons and fighting. But circumstances force them to reconsider their attitudes: the knight learns that not everything can be solved with a sword, and his son realizes that evil must be fought. The love of a beautiful princess and half of a kingdom is then his legitimate reward.
Awaker (2017)
Section: International Competition of Animated Films for Children
Directed by: Filip Diviak
Czech Republic, 2017, 9 min
Projection place: Mala scena
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A story from the early 19th century, it takes place in a Nordic region and shows us the everyday life of an old man who makes a living waking people up. His life changes when one of the awakened people gives him a glittering bell instead of a handful of change.
Pippi on the Run (1970)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Olle Hellbom
Sweden, Germany, 1970, 94 min
Projection place: Aula
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When siblings Tommy and Annika Settergren come home late from playing at their friend Pippi Longstocking’s, they are greeted at home by nagging parents. Pippi joins the family at breakfast the following morning. When Tommy and Annika are asked by their family to pull weeds in the garden, they bitterly decide to run away from home. Feeling that their two children might be serious about this, the Settergrens send Pippi to look after them. Pippi, Tommy, and Annika disembark on a wild adventure. But the harsher their journey gets, the more Tommy and Annika learn they had it a lot better back at home after all...
Short Animations 10
Section: International Competition of Animated Films for Children
International, 0, 42 min
Projection place: Mala scena
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How We Brought Grandad Back to Life (2016)
Section: Czech Films and TV
Directed by: Karel Janák
Czech Republic, 2016, 15 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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Broňa and Jirka arrive with their parents to visit their grandfather only to find him lying in bed and refusing to get up. Children find that behind his alleged illness is his longing for their grandmother, who recently died. They decide to cure him, but they don't have much success. Their parents see but one solution – send their grandfather to a hospital. Neither the kids nor their grandfather like this idea, so they run away together. The secret trip does their grandfather good, but then a stray dog appears and indirectly causes him and his wheelchair to end up in a pond. Though the kids can't swim, they jump in after him. We'll see who actually has to save them in the end...
The Unicorn (2016)
Section: International Competition of Animated Films for Children
Directed by: Rémi Durin
France, Belgium, 2016, 13 min
Projection place: Mala scena
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When a little king spies an extraordinary creature in his forest that is white as snow and fast as the wind, he orders the creature brought to him. But only the little queen manages to bring the unicorn to the castle.
The Children from the Napf (2011)
Section: Welcome to Switzerland
Directed by: Alice Schmid
Switzerland, 2011, 87 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Fifty children of mountain farmers, six miles of walking to school, a childhood in the heart of Switzerland. We accompany the children early in the morning, plodding through deep snow to the village school, back to the farms in the afternoon, where every child has its chores. At an early age the youngest generation is initiated to the livelihood of mountain farming. The story takes us from farm to farm and introduces us to an isolated, but also sheltered life. Through the eyes of the children we closely experience what it means should a wolf turn up or a hawk get the chickens, and how the children face the inclement whims of the weather.
Elina (2002)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Klaus Härö
Sweden, Finland, 2002, 77 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Young Elina lives in an agricultural part of northern Sweden in the early 1950s. She returns to school after recovering from tuberculosis, which had killed her father some time ago. Elinina's family is part of the Finnish minority and her teacher is trying to force her not to speak her native language at school. Elina's mother, sister, and a young liberal teacher are trying get the media involved in this conflict, but young Elina runs away out into some dangerous bogs seeking solace in imaginary conversations with her dead father.
Peter-No-Tail (1981)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Stig Lasseby
Sweden, 1981, 81 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Pelle is a cat who was born without a proper tail. He is taken care of by a family living in Uppsala. Without a tail, he becomes the talk of the town among the other cats, and especially Måns, who teases him cruelly. Måns' rough and silly courting of Maja Gräddnos does not impress her, since she’s interested in the kind and gentle Pelle. But Måns won't give up that easy...
Pippi in the South Seas (1970)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Olle Hellbom
Sweden, Germany, 1970, 86 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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With their parents on vacation, Tommy and Annika spend time with their wonderful friend Pippi Longstocking at her cottage Villa Villekulla, until she finds a bottle with a message from her father Captain Efraim Longstocking, who warns her that he was captured by a band of evil pirates led by Blood-Svente and Jock the Knife, who hold him prisoner in their castle on the island of Porto Piluse, so they can find the secret location of his treasure. Pippi, Tommy and Annika then travel to Porto Piluse to rescue her father before he is forced to reveal the whereabouts of his treasure...
Pippi on the Run (1970)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Olle Hellbom
Sweden, Germany, 1970, 94 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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When siblings Tommy and Annika Settergren come home late from playing at their friend Pippi Longstocking’s, they are greeted at home by nagging parents. Pippi joins the family at breakfast the following morning. When Tommy and Annika are asked by their family to pull weeds in the garden, they bitterly decide to run away from home. Feeling that their two children might be serious about this, the Settergrens send Pippi to look after them. Pippi, Tommy, and Annika disembark on a wild adventure. But the harsher their journey gets, the more Tommy and Annika learn they had it a lot better back at home after all...
Land of Light (2016)
Section: Documentary Films
Directed by: David Ruf
Syria, Turkey, Germany, 2016, 70 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Based on theater workshops with Syrian refugee children living in the Turkish-Syrian border town Reyhanli, the film tells the story of five children that flee when their village is destroyed. Acted completely by Syrian children who themselves fled to Turkey, this film is a parable for what war does to children.
Loving Lorna (2017)
Section: Documentary Films
Directed by: Annika Karlsson, Jessica Karlsson
Sweden, 2017, 60 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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Horses have been part of daily life for generations in the deprived Dublin suburb of Ballymun – and for 17-year-old Lorna and her family too. Her unemployed father finds structure and purpose in daily life by caring for his horses, while her sick mother wistfully remembers the days when she used to turn heads as she galloped through the town. These days it's Lorna who likes to spend all her free time in the stable or riding Bigfoot, her horse. She's long since set her heart on becoming a farrier when she leaves school – if only it weren't for her constant back pain. A poetic film about longing, happiness, dreams and the transient nature of life.
Boy on the Bridge (2016)
Section: International Competition of European First Films
Directed by: Petros Charalambous
Cyprus, 2016, 85 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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Spring has come to a Cypriot village, bringing with it an invitation for Socrates to indulge in his favourite pastimes: setting off homemade fireworks, tormenting local pensioners, hurtling through the village on a moped and defying his mother. As Easter looms, Socrates masterminds a plan to make the biggest firecracker of the year and set it off at midnight on Holy Saturday. The device explodes collapsing part of the church and burying an old man beneath the rubble. The spotlight shines briefly on Socrates before illuminating a more serious crime. A boy has been attacked and the village becomes a hotbed of gossip and finger-pointing. When a friend is arrested for the crime, Socrates, convinced of his innocence, is determined to find the real perpetrator. Behind the scenes in this seemingly idyllic backwater, an abused wife plots revenge on her husband, a scheming miser falls in love and a dangerous predator stalks the innocent. Spring brings a rude awakening to all the villagers and Socrates in particular.
Sadie's Last Days on Earth (2016)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Michael Seater
Canada, 2016, 93 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Everything in high school feels like the world is ending. And Sadie Mitchell's crippling fear of the coming apocalypse is a heightened version of that. Undeterred by non-believers, Sadie has created a check-list of things to master before the predicted doomsday, and she has just two weeks to complete it. Sadie needs to master survivalist cuisine, learn to sew, and a few more... personal things; go to a high school party, kiss a boy, and most importantly, get her best friend back.
Weirdos (2016)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Bruce McDonald
Canada, 2016, 85 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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The laconic black-and-white humorous story of two adolescent runaways, Kit and Alice. On the eve of the 1976 United States Bicentennial, the film accompanies the two hitchhikers on a turbulent journey through the breathtaking landscape of the Canadian east coast, set to a quintessentially 1970s soundtrack. While Kit wants to start a new life in his glamorous but unstable mother's artist commune, Alice makes no bones about her longing for romance. Yet in the glow of the crackling campfire of a beach party, they both reach new insights that put their relationship to the test. Likewise, the day following their joyous reunion sees Kit and his mother facing up to some uncomfortable truths.
One-Two-Three GO! (2016)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg
Denmark, 2016, 114 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Jeppe and Cecilie meet in their high school freshman year and immediately fall in love. But life doesn’t turn out the way Jeppe imagines, as Cecilie carries a dark secret that will impact their growing relation. Cecilie has cancer but finds comfort in Jeppe’s kindness, understanding, and willingness to listen; a support that she doesn’t get from her parents. Together they realize how fragile life is and decide to make every second count.
The Young Offenders (2016)
Section: International Competition of European First Films
Directed by: Peter Foott
Ireland, 2016, 83 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 1
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Best friends Conor and Jock dress the same, act the same, and go pretty much everywhere together. When news breaks that 61 bales of cocaine worth seven million euros each has gone missing off Ireland's west coast, the boys steal a pair of bicycles — Jock is already an inveterate bike thief who has attracted the keen attention of a local police sergeant — and pedal across the Irish countryside hoping to find the contraband treasure and sell it to finance their escape from difficult circumstances. With the Garda in close pursuit, mayhem and misadventure inevitably ensue. Delightful and absurdly funny, the film is a portrait of the friendship between two sensitive young desperados with noble intentions.
Amadeus (1984)
Section: Golden Slipper for Special Contribution in Children´s and Youth Cinema
Directed by: Miloš Forman
U.S.A., 1984, 180 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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The year is 1781 and Antonio Salieri is the court composer of Emperor Joseph II. When Mozart comes to the court, Salieri realizes with horror that the divine musical talent that he wished for himself has been given to this lewd and mischievous prankster. The Italian composer, compelled by jealousy, arranges intrigues in order to destroy Mozart and he'll stop at nothing to do it.