Fri 25.05.2018 | 10:30Junior League (2017)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Éric Tessier
Canada, 2017, 115 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 1
Score:
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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.
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 | 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 | 18:00Black Peter (1963)
Section: Special Mention
Directed by: Miloš Forman
Czech Republic, 1963, 84 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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A psychological and sociological generational about the world of fathers and sons in Czech society of the 1960s. This is a mosaic of the small, seemingly insignificant events in the life of a 16-year-old apprentice – a young man who enters adulthood with uncertainty. He works in a store and is tasked with stopping shoplifters, but isn’t brave enough to catch a thief or even warn him. After work, he spends time with friends and parents, but he doesn't understand anyone much. Their conversations consist of banalities, unanswered questions and pointless monologues...
Fri 25.05.2018 | 20:10Dazed and Confused (1993)
Section: American Teen
Directed by: Richard Linklater
United States of America, 1993, 102 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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This film follows the mayhem of group of rowdy teenagers in Austin, Texas, celebrating the last day of high school in 1976. The graduating class heads for a popular pool hall and joins an impromptu keg party, however star football player Randall "Pink" Floyd has promised to focus on the championship game and abstain from partying. Meanwhile, the incoming freshmen try to avoid being hazed by the seniors, most notably the sadistic bully Fred O'Bannion.
Sun 27.05.2018 | 18:00Nothing Like Before (2017)
Section: Czech Films and TV Production
Directed by: Lukáš Kokeš, Klára Tasovská
Czech Republic, 2017, 92 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Disco clubs, poorly paid jobs, unexcused absences and unintended pregnancies... They are 19 and live ordinary teenage lives in a Czech border town where they go to the same school. Teo, Renata, Annie and Nikola from mostly broken families and try to find a place in society. Anxiety slowly creeps into their carefree lives due to the approach of adulthood. Separately, they face an important life challenge, after which nothing will be as before. And it's not just about graduation. Which of them can handle new responsibilities; who will really make it?
Mon 28.05.2018 | 10:30Junior 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.
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.
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 | 17:20Forty Baldies (2017)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Youth
Directed by: Sadegh Sadegh Daghighi
Iran, 2017, 86 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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The story takes place in a small village at the foot of forested mountains in northern Iran, and follows the moving story of Asghar's family. He, his sister Roja, and grandmother take care of his sick father. He suffers from a disorder caused by gas during the Iraq war, and the siblings do everything to take care of him. The whole area suffers from a persistent rain that causes a flood and pulls down the bridge. The only route into town is closed and Asghar can't get a new oxygen tank. His grandmother tells of a legend that says if anyone finds forty bald men and hangs a list of their names on a tree, the rain will stop. The humorous search for bald guys is linked to the dramatic events of Asghar's life. This brave boy, as the temporary head of the family, must deal not only with a natural disaster, but also with problems with a classmate, an older sister's suitor, and a surprising family secret.
Tue 29.05.2018 | 20:10Saturday Church (2017)
Section: American Teen
Directed by: Damon Cardasis
United States of America, 2017, 83 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
Score:
The Bronx, New York City. 14-year-old Ulysses has just lost his father. His mother Amara is left to raise her two young children with only help of their strict and conservative aunt Rose. Ulysses is now expected to be the man of the house, but the shy and effeminate Ulysses has another challenge to confront: he is not comfortable in his own skin. Ulysses’ life changes when he comes into contact with a lively transgender youth community where people facing the same challenges stand by each other with the help of a Saturday Church program.
Wed 30.05.2018 | 17:30Breathing (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.
Wed 30.05.2018 | 18:00Backstage (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.
Thu 31.05.2018 | 10:30Almost Famous (2017)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Marco Carmel
Israel, 2017, 95 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 1
Score:
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?
Thu 31.05.2018 | 11:10Backstage (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.
Thu 31.05.2018 | 21:30Screwed (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Nils-Erik Ekblom
Finland, 2018, 94 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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17-year-old Miku is “just some dude” devoid of personality, at least according to his brother. After a party-turned-rager that nearly destroys his home, Miku is doomed to spend the rest of the summer at their family cottage, where both his parents avoid dealing with their own relationship crisis. But the calm of the Finnish countryside takes an unexpected turn when Miku meets Elias. The boys have nothing in common except for their age and dysfunctional families. But something is pulling them together. Miku finds himself in the eye of the storm as Elias forces him to deal with his own sexuality, all the while the parents marriage heads towards destruction. Elias has his own baggage to deal with and finds it easier to just discard Miku from his life instead of starting another broken romance. Miku has had enough. For once, it’s time for him to take charge of his own life.
Fri 01.06.2018 | 17:10Almost Famous (2017)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Marco Carmel
Israel, 2017, 95 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
Score:
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 01.06.2018 | 19:40303 (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Hans Weingartner
Germany, 2018, 138 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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On the way from Berlin to Portugal in her rusty “303” camper van, young biology student Jule picks up hitchhiker Jan. While having intense conversations about everything and the world, they try not to fall in love.
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.
Fri 01.06.2018 | 20:20Saturday Church (2017)
Section: American Teen
Directed by: Damon Cardasis
United States of America, 2017, 83 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
The Bronx, New York City. 14-year-old Ulysses has just lost his father. His mother Amara is left to raise her two young children with only help of their strict and conservative aunt Rose. Ulysses is now expected to be the man of the house, but the shy and effeminate Ulysses has another challenge to confront: he is not comfortable in his own skin. Ulysses’ life changes when he comes into contact with a lively transgender youth community where people facing the same challenges stand by each other with the help of a Saturday Church program.