Fri 25.05.2018 | 10:50Almost Famous (2017)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Marco Carmel
Israel, 2017, 95 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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Shiri is a young female teenager who has one best friend, excellent grades and butterflies in her stomach whenever she sees the handsome Omeri. She doesn’t think that brains will help her attract boys or help her become popular. But now that her brother Tomer has been accepted to a famous singing reality TV show, maybe everyone will know her as the sister of the mega famous Tomer? How far is she willing to go to become popular and join the fashionable but vicious in-crowd? What will she discover about real friendship and first love?
Fri 25.05.2018 | 13:10The Prince and the Dragon (1980)
Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Film Music
Directed by: Jiří Adamec
Czechoslovakia, 1980, 60 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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A story of love and wisdom that implies that not only princes can defeat a dragon. A mother tells her sons they'll have a new father, and little Martin has a fairy-tale-like dream about a kingdom which is threatened by an evil dragon. Luckily, clever Martin has got fairy tales literally in his little finger. He advises the king on how to tackle the dragon; it'll require is brother Honza to build a wall, fall in love with the princess, and everyone will be happy... A funny tale proving the saying that "manual labor chases away all sadness".
Fri 25.05.2018 | 15:00Let the Princess Stay with Us (1981)
Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Films of My Childhood
Directed by: Martin Hoffmeister
Czechoslovakia, 1981, 55 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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Katka lacks for nothing except some emotional attention from her parents. One morning she leaves in her mother's dress and finds a garden where there is a chateau containing an orphanage. Tired, Katka goes into a room and there falls asleep. Not long afterwards some children discover her. Due to her clothes, they think she's a princess and hide her. The cleaning lady, however, finds her. At that moment, Katka's mother arrives and urges her daughter to come home. But the kids won't give up their "princess" and Katka joins the orphanage as a governess.
Fri 25.05.2018 | 15:30Once Upon a Time There Was a King (1954)
Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Films of My Childhood
Directed by: Bořivoj Zeman
Czechoslovakia, 1954, 107 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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The arrogant ruler of the kingdom has decided to take a break and wants one of his three daughters to reign. He puts his daughters to the test, asking them how much they love him. The oldest daughter likes her father like gold, the middle daughter as like a golden voice, and the youngest daughter, Maruska, says she loves him like salt, because salt is needed. Maruska's father is angry, so he has her taken out of the castle and orders all the salt in the kingdom destroyed. But the king soon finds out that salt and true love are indeed better than all the treasures on earth.
Fri 25.05.2018 | 17:20Marketa Lazarova (1967)
Section: Golden Slipper for Special Contribution in Children´s and Youth Cinema
Directed by: František Vláčil
Czechoslovakia, 1967, 162 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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This historic ballad is set in the mid-13th century, when robber knights attacked travelers on royal roads, while Christianity still fought against paganism, and human life had little value. Love, however, was still passionately potent. The title heroine is the virtuous girl Marketa Lazarová, predestined to a monastery. She's forced, however, to become the lover of a violent young man, Mikoláš, the son of the irreconcilable rival her clan, Kozlík of the Roháč's. Her love for Mikoláš causes Markéta to renounce her love for God, to whom she was originally promised.
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.
Fri 25.05.2018 | 21:30Tigermilk (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Ute Wieland
Germany, 2018, 106 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Nini is a German girl and Jameelah an Iraqi girl with a life-long desire to become German. They are inseparable and like to rebel more or less, especially during breaks between lessons when mixing a little alcoholic cocktail they call Tiger Milk. It’s a stressful time: the decision on Jameelah's naturalization application is coming and they are also hoping for "it" to happen and they practice for “the main event” by observing the hookers who are streetwalking. But when they witness a murder, everything comes to a stop - their plans, their future, their lives.
Sat 26.05.2018 | 11:10Ruffiano and Sweetteeth (1997)
Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Film Music
Directed by: Karel Smyczek
Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, 1997, 99 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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When the old bandit Ruffiano realizes that his son has grown into a nice but uneducated young man, he sends him to a monastery to be educated by monks, where he becomes a gentle young man. When his father lays on his deathbed, he promises to take over his trade. When his father dies, the young Ruffiano has a hard time; well-raised, he isn't able to rob anyone. Fortunately, he meets up with the woodcutter Drnec, with whom he ends up visiting a sultan looking to cure his princess. Instead of a cure, however, the princess "gets sick" in love with Ruffiano...
Sat 26.05.2018 | 20:00Ava (2017)
Section: International Competition of European First Films
Directed by: Léa Mysius
France, 2017, 105 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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Thirteen-year-old Ava is on vacation when she learns that she will lose her sight earlier than predicted. Her mother decides to behave as though nothing has changed so they can spend the loveliest summer of their lives by the seaside. Ava, however, deals with the problem in her own way. Exploring her identity, she questions her surroundings and steals a large black dog that belongs to a young man on the run…
Sat 26.05.2018 | 20:10The Bachelors (2017)
Section: American Teen
Directed by: Kurt Voelker
United States of America, 2017, 100 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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After his wife passes away, Bill Ponder and his 17-year-old son Wes move to the big city in an attempt to have a fresh start. As they adjust to their new life and seek ways to heal their wounds, they both find comfort in newfound romance. Wes meets Lacy, an introverted but fierce girl whose enigmatic personality captivates Wes' attention, and Bill meets Carine, a compassionate and elegant teacher whose own past heartaches resonate with his. As relationships are tested, Bill and Wes grow apart and back together again while discovering their true selves in the process.
Sun 27.05.2018 | 20:00Once Upon a Time in Indian Country (2017)
Section: International Competition of European First Films
Directed by: Ilker Çatak
Germany, 2017, 96 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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A wild genre mix between a boxer film, urban western, road movie and music video, set at the end of the summer holidays in a drab neighborhood in the outskirts of a Hamburg suburbia. Young boxing talent Mauser is preparing for a pivotal competition when his father kills his step-mother and flees. Trying to find his father, Mauser embarks on a journey through the world of music, psychedelia, violence, love and a biblical thunderstorm. And what is with the Native American? "Once upon a time in Indian country" is a story that radiates both, heat and poetry.
Mon 28.05.2018 | 08:20Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)
Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Films of My Childhood, Czechoslovakian Cinema: Film Music
Directed by: Václav Vorlíček
Czechoslovakia, Germany, 1973, 85 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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When Cinderella's father dies, she's left to the mercy of her step-mother and her daughter. Neither of them like Cinderella and do everything possible to make sure she can't go to the ball where the local prince is to choose a bride. Fate, however, wants more for Cinderella than do the two evil women...
Mon 28.05.2018 | 15:20The Beauty and the Beast (1979)
Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Films of My Childhood, Czechoslovakian Cinema: Film Music
Directed by: Juraj Herz
Czechoslovakia, 1979, 84 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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A rich widowed merchant has three daughters. The two eldest think only of good marriages and riches. For Julie, the youngest, the most important love is for their father. One day, while in a mysterious forest, the merchant loses all his wagons and is immediately destitute. He escapes into a mysterious castle occupied by a threatening monster. In exchange for the man's life, he demands one of his daughters. Julie eventually goes to the castle and awakens in its master feelings he's never felt before. Instead of killing her, a human heart awakens in his animal body...
Mon 28.05.2018 | 20:00L´Animale (2018)
Section: Austrian Trip
Directed by: Katharina Mueckstein
Austria, 2018, 96 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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Riding on their tuned-up bikes, Mati and her posse of male friends intimidate their neighborhood and harass the girls. In their village, they rule. But when her closest pal Sebastian falls in love with Mati and her enemy Carla unexpectedly turns into a friend, Mati is in danger of losing her standing among her male friends. Meanwhile Mati’s parents have a decision to make: What’s more important, appearances or reality?
Tue 29.05.2018 | 11:10Indian Summer (1995)
Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Film Music
Directed by: Saša Gedeon
Czech Republic, 1995, 65 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Closed and reclusive teenage Klara spends the end of the summer with her grandmother and her cousin Maria, who is her opposite. At the local disco, Klara meets two boys crazy about Mary. The relationship between the two girls and their relationship to both boys form a fragile story of adolescence. Having learned something, Klara sets out for further wins and losses, wherever her destiny takes her.
Tue 29.05.2018 | 16:30Capricious Summer (1967)
Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Films of My Childhood
Directed by: Jiří Menzel
Czechoslovakia, 1967, 74 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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This poetic story takes place at the Krokovy Vary river spa on the Silesian river Orše. The owner of a small refreshment stand, the delightful Antonín Důra, spends rainy June days in delightful, petty, pseudo-philosophical chats with his friends: the introverted, idealistic abbe Roch and the rationalist Major Hugo. The wandering magician Arnoštek and his assistant Anna bring some excitement to the local life. The trio of enchanting aging men vainly try to gain the heart of the beautiful girl. Antonin's wife Kateřina is enchanted by young Arnoštek...
Tue 29.05.2018 | 19:00Seventeen (2017)
Section: Austrian Trip
Directed by: Monja Art
Austria, 2017, 105 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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As school is drawing to a close and the summer holidays approach, boarding school pupil Paula is secretly in love with her friend Charlotte. But Charlotte’s going out with Michael. Lovelorn, Paula decides to try and take her mind of things by getting involved with schoolmate Tim, whose feelings for her are at least genuine. Paula has no idea how often Charlotte thinks of her. And then there’s Lilli, who is just dying for someone to fancy her and tries to play the wild seductress. Paula must decide if she wants to follow her own feelings or yield to other people’s.
Wed 30.05.2018 | 13:20The Third Prince (1982)
Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Ota Hofman 90
Directed by: Antonín Moskalyk
Czechoslovakia, 1982, 84 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Twins Jaromir and Jaroslav, princes of the Land of Lion, are loyal friends. The royal parents inform their sons that they had yet another brother, Jindřich, who disappeared in the Land of Diamond Rocks. The princes discover a picture of the one who caused their brother's tragedy and Jaromir sets out to find the beautiful girl and his missing brother. His brother's fate awaits him in the Land of Diamond Rocks. Following the trail of both princes, Jaroslav is not led by love, but by courage, cleverness and his bond to his brothers...
Wed 30.05.2018 | 14:00The Proud Princess (1952)
Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Films of My Childhood
Directed by: Bořivoj Zeman
Czechoslovakia, 1952, 94 min
Projection place: Malá scéna
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The beautiful but very proud Princess Krasomila, daughter of ruler of the Midnight Kingdom, has refused to marry the noble king Miroslav, who has asked for her hand. But he sets off to her native kingdom and, in disguise, works at the castle as a gardener. The princess falls in love with him and, under his influence, gradually stops all of her capriciousness. The two lovers run away together, but the royal emissaries soon catch them. The reformed Krasomila also uncovers the gardener's true identity and ultimately accepts his offer of marriage. The first Czechoslovak film fairytale for children was filmed according to one of the most beautiful fairytales by Božena Němcová - Pride Punished.
Wed 30.05.2018 | 15:20Prince Bajaja (1971)
Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Films of My Childhood, Golden Slipper for Special Contribution in Children´s and Youth Cinema
Directed by: Antonín Kachlík
Czechoslovakia, 1971, 73 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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An orphaned prince, traveling the world, listens to the advice of his talking horse. When he falls in love with the beautiful Princess Slavěna, the magical stallion advises him to go to the royal court and pretend to be a mute gardener's helper. He remains incognito even after defeating the furious dragon that threatens the kingdom. This makes it possible for the insidious Black Knight to claim credit for saving the princess himself. The hero, nicknamed Bajaja, because of the sounds he emits as a mute, also rises to the occasion for all the following difficult tests…