Matti and Sami and the Three Biggest Mistakes in the Universe (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Stefan Westerwelle
Finland, Germany, 2018, 94 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 1
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Matti dreams of a family vacation in his father’s native country, Finland. He manages to get what he wants by telling a whopping lie. But once they get there, Matti, his younger brother Sami and his parents find themselves without a place to stay, no money and no car in the middle of the Finnish wasteland. Only a miracle can save them – or Uncle Jussi, who has been struggling to compete with Matti’s father his whole life. A summer movie for children that stands out for its wonderful pun... And that´s not a lie.
Junior League (2017)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Éric Tessier
Canada, 2017, 115 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 1
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Five years after his team’s victory at the Quebec Pee-Wee Tournament, Janeau Trudel, a young eighteen-year-old prodigy hockey player, is now playing in the Quebec Major Junior League. At the dawn of his professional NHL selection, many obstacles will jeopardize his career and his most cherished friendships.
Bad Lucky Goat (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Samir Oliveros
Colombia, 2018, 76 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
Score:
After accidentally killing a bearded goat with their father's truck, two incompatible teenaged siblings embark on a journey of reconciliation. Corn and Rita must find a way to repair the truck in time to pick up the tourists that will be staying at their family's hotel. As they struggle to find the means necessary to conceal the accident, the siblings visit a butcher, Rastafarian drum makers, a pawn shop, and even a witch doctor in a 24-hour adventure around Port Paradise.
End of Summer (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Quan Zhou
China, 2018, 102 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Xiaoyang, a fifth grader, and his neighbor Grandpa Zheng bond over the World Cup fever sweeping China in June 1998 and Grandpa Zheng starts to secretly train Xiaoyang for the school soccer team tryout.The mission takes an unexpected turn when Xiaoyang discovers his father’s romance with his homeroom teacher. But when Grandpa Zheng decides to reunite with his own family in a faraway city, Xiaoyang goes with him in the hope of staying with his best friend forever. How will Xiaoyang reconcile with his new life, and face the complexities of adolescence?
Love, Simon (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Greg Berlanti
United States of America, 2018, 110 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated; he hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay. He also doesn't know the identity of an anonymous classmate he's fallen for online. Solving both problems turns out to be funny, frightening and life-changing.
The 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.
Once 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.
Junior League (2017)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Éric Tessier
Canada, 2017, 115 min
Projection place: Aula
Score:
Five years after his team’s victory at the Quebec Pee-Wee Tournament, Janeau Trudel, a young eighteen-year-old prodigy hockey player, is now playing in the Quebec Major Junior League. At the dawn of his professional NHL selection, many obstacles will jeopardize his career and his most cherished friendships.
17 (2017)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Widad Shafakoj
Jordan, 2017, 74 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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This film follows the Jordanian under-17 women’s football team as they prepare for the FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup Jordan 2016. Coming from different backgrounds, each of the girls has faced a different set of challenges as a national team player. But now they face their biggest challenge yet. Who will make it in the final squad? Are they ready to play with so little time to prepare? “17” is a social exploration into the lives of young women who are passionate about a sport they have been told was only for men.
Matti and Sami and the Three Biggest Mistakes in the Universe (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Stefan Westerwelle
Finland, Germany, 2018, 94 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
Score:
Matti dreams of a family vacation in his father’s native country, Finland. He manages to get what he wants by telling a whopping lie. But once they get there, Matti, his younger brother Sami and his parents find themselves without a place to stay, no money and no car in the middle of the Finnish wasteland. Only a miracle can save them – or Uncle Jussi, who has been struggling to compete with Matti’s father his whole life. A summer movie for children that stands out for its wonderful pun... And that´s not a lie.
Julia 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.
Giants Don´t Exist (2017)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Chema Rodriguez
Spain, Guatemala, 2017, 82 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Guatemala, in the 1980s. The worst days of the Civil war. Andrés is 9 years old. He lives with Pedro González, one of the men who massacred all the women and children in his village. Andrés has survived, but he’s scared. Pedro’s wife, María, is also scared: scared to go out, scared to lose Andrés, whom she considers as “her new son”. Even Pedro is scared: scared of himself and what the Army orders him to do. Andrés would like to run away, but he also wants to stay in his new family – until his sister appears.
Matti and Sami and the Three Biggest Mistakes in the Universe (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Stefan Westerwelle
Finland, Germany, 2018, 94 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
Matti dreams of a family vacation in his father’s native country, Finland. He manages to get what he wants by telling a whopping lie. But once they get there, Matti, his younger brother Sami and his parents find themselves without a place to stay, no money and no car in the middle of the Finnish wasteland. Only a miracle can save them – or Uncle Jussi, who has been struggling to compete with Matti’s father his whole life. A summer movie for children that stands out for its wonderful pun... And that´s not a lie.
Matti and Sami and the Three Biggest Mistakes in the Universe (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Stefan Westerwelle
Finland, Germany, 2018, 94 min
Projection place: Malá scéna
Score:
Matti dreams of a family vacation in his father’s native country, Finland. He manages to get what he wants by telling a whopping lie. But once they get there, Matti, his younger brother Sami and his parents find themselves without a place to stay, no money and no car in the middle of the Finnish wasteland. Only a miracle can save them – or Uncle Jussi, who has been struggling to compete with Matti’s father his whole life. A summer movie for children that stands out for its wonderful pun... And that´s not a lie.
Bad Lucky Goat (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Samir Oliveros
Colombia, 2018, 76 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
Score:
After accidentally killing a bearded goat with their father's truck, two incompatible teenaged siblings embark on a journey of reconciliation. Corn and Rita must find a way to repair the truck in time to pick up the tourists that will be staying at their family's hotel. As they struggle to find the means necessary to conceal the accident, the siblings visit a butcher, Rastafarian drum makers, a pawn shop, and even a witch doctor in a 24-hour adventure around Port Paradise.
Me & Earl & the Dying Girl (2015)
Section: American Teen
Directed by: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
United States of America, 2015, 105 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Greg Gaines is an awkward and self-loathing high school student determined to go unnoticed into adulthood. He avoids more intense relationships with others and spends most of the time making parodies of famous films with his only friend, Earl. Well-intentioned, his mother forces Greg to befriend Rachel, a classmate who has been diagnosed with leukemia. Against his convictions, Greg does it. Greg and Rachel gradually become inseparable friends. They find they really love each other. But when Rachel gets worse, Greg retreats into his inner world...
Breathing (2011)
Section: Austrian Trip
Directed by: Karl Markovics
Austria, 2011, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Roman Kogler (19) has lived all his life in institutions. Abandoned by his mother as a young child and raised in an orphanage, he is now serving time in a juvenile detention centre having accidentally killed a boy his own age in a brawl. When threatened with life behind bars unless he finds a job and sticks to it, he finds a probation job shifting dead bodies at the municipal morgue. When Roman one day is faced with a dead woman who bears his family name, it occurs to him that this may be the mother who gave him up for adoption and he begins to explore his past.
Backstage (2018)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Youth
Directed by: Andrea Sedláčková
Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, 2018, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 1
Score:
A dynamic lovestory full of dance and music. Mary and Buddy's lives revolve around their love – mainly their love for each other. They’re also bound by their love of dance. In their nowhere small town they put together a dance group. Street dance provides them with friendship, freedom and dreams – a dream of one day not only being loved, but also famous and rich. The door to that dream finally opens up to them; during a dance battle, an acclaimed producer offers to cast them for a big TV dance competition. But the backstage rules for a show like this tough. Each of their characters and their friendship is tested by fame – as is the love of the central couple. So far, it's been a compromise-free relationship, but new and unexpected people will affect their emotions.
Twinni (2003)
Section: Austrian Trip
Directed by: Ulrike Schweiger
Austria, 2003, 89 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
Score:
Summer of 1980, Austria. Great expectations and great dreams. At the age of 13, Jana has to relocate from Vienna to her grandmother's home in the countryside. Deeply shocked by her parents' divorce she tries to find warmth and orientation outside of the family. But the strict confines of catholic culture make her become a rebel and the conflict with her mother escalates. At the end of summer, Jana is on the brink of growing up and experiencing her first moments of love.
Backstage (2018)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Youth
Directed by: Andrea Sedláčková
Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, 2018, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
A dynamic lovestory full of dance and music. Mary and Buddy's lives revolve around their love – mainly their love for each other. They’re also bound by their love of dance. In their nowhere small town they put together a dance group. Street dance provides them with friendship, freedom and dreams – a dream of one day not only being loved, but also famous and rich. The door to that dream finally opens up to them; during a dance battle, an acclaimed producer offers to cast them for a big TV dance competition. But the backstage rules for a show like this tough. Each of their characters and their friendship is tested by fame – as is the love of the central couple. So far, it's been a compromise-free relationship, but new and unexpected people will affect their emotions.