Fri 25.05.2018 | 15:10Following (2017)
Section: Czech Films and TV Production
Directed by: Jiří Sádek
Czech Republic, 2017, 91 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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The window into the world used to be television. Now there's YouTube. A portal that features the heroes of today – youtubers. From ordinary people we have artists and showmen unafraid of becoming public figures. Media stars that have created a work of art just by showing others how they live. The filmmaker spent a year among the best youtubers, as well as with newcomers, and tried to understand what drives them – what makes them publicly expose themselves to the public, what their motivation is, and whether they actually have anything to say.
Fri 25.05.2018 | 17:20Godless Youth (2017)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Alain Gsponer
Germany, 2017, 113 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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In a dystopian, performance-oriented society, adolescents struggle for good grades while their dreams are shattered by an indifferent system. In a not-to-distant future, cities are hellholes and the countryside holds the fairytale promise of a better life. A school girl’s body is found in the woods during the annual graduates' assessment camp and a teacher tries to find the truth – and is increasingly entangled in a net of his own lies. Suddenly someone confesses to a murder that they couldn‘t have committed, and the fragile cohesion of a youthful elite society is threatened.
Sat 26.05.2018 | 15:20The Girl Down Loch Änzi (2016)
Section: Documentary Film
Directed by: Alice Schmid
Switzerland, 2016, 87 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Twelve-year-old Laura lives in the Swiss hills on the family farm. She is fascinated by a local legend about a maiden who is supposed to be held captive in the caves close to where she lives. But she won’t dare go check out the story on her own. She whiles away the lonely days bird-watching and helping out on the farm. Then a boy from the city comes to work on the farm. Will he be a new friend and take her to the famous cave where no one else dares to go?
Sun 27.05.2018 | 13:00Maria Theresa (2017)
Section: Special Mention
Directed by: Robert Dornhelm
Czech Republic, 2017, 203 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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The historical epic look at the life of the young Maria Theresa, who later successfully ruled for more than 40 years an empire that occupied the territory of twelve of today's European countries. The film unfolds from two crucial moments in her life – the story of her love and marriage to Francis Stephen and her ascension to the throne and attainment of the Hungarian crown. We see her relationship to the Habsburg court and to the outbreak of the War of the Austrian Succession, when it was necessary to join with the major Hungarian Esterházy family.
Sun 27.05.2018 | 15:20The Children (2016)
Section: Documentary Film
Directed by: Arash a Arman T. Riahi
Austria, 2016, 95 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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This film follows children and teenagers of different origins through their sometimes difficult and confusing, sometimes funny and bitter lives. They all take part in the Supercar music education program, where these neglected and sometimes invisible children develop from outsiders into confident young people who learn about their hidden potentials through the power of music.
Mon 28.05.2018 | 17:30Adventures in Public School (2017)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Kyle Rideout
Canada, 2017, 86 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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When Liam spots one-legged beauty Anastasia during a visit to his town’s local school, he’s instantly hooked. Determined to find a way of getting closer to her, and fed up with his sheltered existence, Liam persuades the principle and his mom, Claire, to give him a chance to try out high school life for himself. As her beloved son navigates a new and unfamiliar world of sex, drugs and social studies, and struggles to impress a girl who doesn’t even know he exists, his mom/best friend decides it’s time to teach him the ropes of teenage rebellion.
Mon 28.05.2018 | 20:10Julia ist (2017)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Elena Martin
Spain, 2017, 96 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Júlia, an architecture student from Barcelona, decides to take an Erasmus year in Berlin. This is how Júlia leaves her parents home for the first time in her life. Full of expectancies and lacking life experience Júlia finds herself lost in a cold and grey Berlin, undergoing a student exchange year far from the adventure she initially imagined. Little by little she builds a life in Berlin and gets to know who she is in this new context. But as she gets to know the city from the inside out, the end of this adventure is coming closer and closer.
Wed 30.05.2018 | 11:00Children Online (2017)
Section: Documentary Film
Directed by: Kateřina Hager
Czech Republic, 2017, 53 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Most children today can use a computer or a cell phone before learning how to tie their laces or ride a bicycle. Worldwide, a new generation of children is spending more time in the virtual world, giving them unrivaled entertainment and more excitement than on the playground. What have they got to lose? Do we know that our kids are at risk of computer addiction? And do we know how much danger they face on line? The film provides 3 stories: the tale of glory of a youtuber, a fanatic gamer, and a girl who is the victim of a sexual predator on a social network.
Thu 31.05.2018 | 11:00Liyana (2017)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Aaron Kopp, Amanda Kopp
Swaziland, United States of America, Qatar, 2017, 77 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Liyana is a young, fictional girl created by several young orphans in Swaziland, where the scourge of AIDS has ravaged the population, leaving hundreds of thousands of children to fend for themselves. In a storytelling workshop, the youngsters learn to create a central character for their story, then draw on their own – often ghastly and horrifying – true-life experiences to create an exciting adventure for their heroine, which relies on her bravery, cleverness and sheer determination.
Thu 31.05.2018 | 19:40Jan Kříženecký - A Pioneer of Czech Cinema
Section: Special Mention
, 0, 60 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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A Pioneer of Czech Cinema Jan Kříženecký Commentary zone In its eighth anniversary, the National Film Archive will also commemorate 150 years since the birth of Jan Kříženecký, a pioneer of Czech cinema. The set of this person's digitized films, accompanied by commentary, has taken several years of work to complete and collate. Both original camera negatives and original copies and other media were digitized. The first films created on our territory can thus be presented in a form that emphasizes their variety and materiality. The musical accompaniment to the film set was created by Jan Burian Jr. Jan Kříženecký (March 20, 1868 - February 9, 1921) was a Czech film director, a cinematographer, a businessman and a photographer – by trade an engineer. He began getting interested in film in the autumn of 1896, when he first saw the film works of the Lumière brothers at the hotel U Saského Dvora. In 1898, during the Exhibition of Architecture and Engineering in Prague, he and his colleague Josef František Pokorný bought a cinematographic apparatus and film material. With this equipment, Kříženecký made the first Czech films, which he presented at the Czech Cinemas Pavilion at the Exhibition. Screenings of life in Prague and the first live-acted films with Josef Šváb-Malostranský were shown here. Kříženecký continued in film production but, due to the obligations of permanent employment, only temporarily. He later filmed the live-acted film interlude for the theater performance The Best Number (1902), extensive reportage of the IV. and V. All-Sokol Rally (1901, 1907), and various news from the Jubilee Exhibition of the Chamber of Commerce and Trade in 1908. His last extant film, dedicated to the monument to František Palacký, was completed in 1911. In addition to cinematographic achievements, Jan Krizenecky was also known as a photographer. He took thousands of photographs of Prague between 1902 and 1915.
Fri 01.06.2018 | 15:00Following (2017)
Section: Czech Films and TV Production
Directed by: Jiří Sádek
Czech Republic, 2017, 91 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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The window into the world used to be television. Now there's YouTube. A portal that features the heroes of today – youtubers. From ordinary people we have artists and showmen unafraid of becoming public figures. Media stars that have created a work of art just by showing others how they live. The filmmaker spent a year among the best youtubers, as well as with newcomers, and tried to understand what drives them – what makes them publicly expose themselves to the public, what their motivation is, and whether they actually have anything to say.
Fri 01.06.2018 | 20:10Do It Right (2017)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Chad Chenouga
France, 2017, 97 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Nassim is a junior in a well-reputed Parisian high school and seems as carefree as his friends. Nobody has the slightest idea that in reality he has just lost his mother and returns every evening to a foster care facility. Despite the kindness of the woman who runs the children’s home, he refuses to assimilate with the other youth in the center. Like a tightrope walker, Nassim navigates between his two lives that he is determined to keep separate no matter what.