Fri 25.05.2018 | 08:10Matti 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
Score:
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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.
Fri 25.05.2018 | 08:20Krakonos and the Skiers (1981)
Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Film Music
Directed by: Věra Plívová-Šimková
Czechoslovakia, 1981, 72 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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This fabulous story about a mountain community is based on the rumors and fairy tales of this region and draws on the origins of these stories – the hard life of the people of the Giant Mountains. Something new arrived to these mountains at the start of the 1900s – skiing. And skiing is at the heart of this story whose main heroes are two little boys and their friend, a famous smuggler with all the qualities of the Lord of the Giant Mountains from fairy tales.
Fri 25.05.2018 | 17:10The Best of All Worlds (2017)
Section: International Competition of European First Films
Directed by: Adrian Goiginger
Austria, 2017, 103 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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Adrian is seven and growing up in Salzburg. His young mother Helga and her boyfriend are both heroin addicts; his biological father died before he was born. Helga loves her son above all else. She is torn between her attempts to be the best mother possible and her need to fill the void inside with the consumption of drugs. In this world, privation is the norm. What little money there is goes to heroin, and although Helga keeps trying to kick the habit, her efforts regularly come to nought. All of this is part of young Adrian’s daily life. His world is nonetheless full of adventure and all kinds of experiences and he perceives his to be a happy childhood. It goes without saying that this happiness is far from being an innocent idyll. When Helga finally decides to face up to her addiction and undergo treatment it also means that she must – albeit temporarily – surrender custody of her son to social services.
Fri 25.05.2018 | 20:20I am Not a Witch (2017)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Rungano Nyoni
United Kingdom, France, Germany, 2017, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
Score:
After a minor incident in her village, nine-year-old Shula is exiled to a travelling witch camp where she is told that if she tries to escape she will be transformed into a goat. As she navigates through her new life with her fellow witches and a government official who espouses her, exploiting her innocence for his own gain, she must decide whether to accept her fate or risk the consequences of seeking freedom.
Sat 26.05.2018 | 10:50A Horse on the Balcony (2012)
Section: Austrian Trip
Directed by: Hüseyin Tabak
Austria, 2012, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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Mika (10) is different: he loves math, only tells the truth, and notices things other people miss. Though not so good with people, he’d really like some friends. One night he discovers a horse on the balcony of the next apartment. The horse belongs to Sascha, who‘s in big trouble. Mika spends all his spare time with the stallion, and the first time he sits on the animal‘s back he is completely transformed. He and his friend Dana decide to help find a new home for the racehorse, but this means rescuing the horse from two gangsters who are owed money by Sascha.
Sat 26.05.2018 | 15:30Supa Modo (2018)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Children
Directed by: Likarion Wainaina
Kenya, Germany, 2018, 74 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
An honest and inspiring story about the strength of young people in the face of adversity. Obsessed with Jackie Chan and action films, nine-year-old Jo dreams of being a superhero, but time is not on her side. When the doctors reveal that she is terminally ill, Jo leaves the hospital and returns home to be with her mom and sister. While her mom insists that she stay inside and rest, her sister has different plans. With the entire village's support, they decide to make dreams a reality and turn Jo into the superhero they know she is.
Sat 26.05.2018 | 17:10Summer Children (2017)
Section: International Competition of European First Films
Directed by: Guðrún Ragnarsdóttir
Iceland, Norway, 2017, 84 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
Score:
Two small children, Eydis and Kari, are put in a bus and sent from the city to the countryside to an orphanage. Their mother tells the sister to take care of her younger brother and that’s what she does. But both of them are still too young and being away from home is not easy – especially when the teachers are severe and strict. The only thought that helps the siblings is that they are there temporarily – there are children who live there all year long and have no other place to go. In time Eydis and Kari find new friends and adjust somewhat, but every so often one of them irritates the teachers and gets punished. Their lively imagination and playful minds help them get through many difficult moments and, after all, they will go back home soon! But their mother hasn’t come and summer is almost over...
Sun 27.05.2018 | 09:00The Three Mail Robbers (1998)
Section: Austrian Trip
Directed by: Andreas Prochaska
Austria, 1998, 93 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
Score:
When12-year-old Ivonka Pivonka decides to follow and snoop on three robbers of postal money transports, she is more curious than she is careful and gets caught and is locked up at gentle-natured Kitty's apartment. Meier and Ferri find out about Ivonka's disappearance and decide to help her escape. With the help of Liese, Ivonka's best friend, and Alice and Aline, two elderly ladies, they begin to track down the postal robbers.
Sun 27.05.2018 | 11:00To Be a Child Again - Israel (2017)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Gabriel Volcovich, Moy Volcovich
Israel, Canada, Mexico, 2017, 58 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
Score:
A look at Israel through the eyes of eleven children from different backgrounds and demographics. A candid, intimate, and personal view of Israel's youth.
Sun 27.05.2018 | 14:00Barefoot (2017)
Section: Czech Films and TV Production
Directed by: Jan Svěrák
Czech Republic, 2017, 104 min
Projection place: Malá scéna
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Eight-year-old Eda Souček's family is forced under the Protectorate to move from Prague to the countryside. The little town where he'd previously only spent the holidays is now his home. The young city family must adapt to the new environment and coexist under one roof with relatives – including a strict grandfather. Eda has a difficult task: to find and defend his place within a local group of boys whose world is totally different from his urban one. He searches for both courage and to uncover a mysterious family secret that slowly comes to light.
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.
Sun 27.05.2018 | 20:10I am Not a Witch (2017)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Rungano Nyoni
United Kingdom, France, Germany, 2017, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
Score:
After a minor incident in her village, nine-year-old Shula is exiled to a travelling witch camp where she is told that if she tries to escape she will be transformed into a goat. As she navigates through her new life with her fellow witches and a government official who espouses her, exploiting her innocence for his own gain, she must decide whether to accept her fate or risk the consequences of seeking freedom.
Mon 28.05.2018 | 09:00Lisa and the Sabretoothed Tiger (1995)
Section: Austrian Trip
Directed by: Bernd Neuburger
Austria, 1995, 89 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Eight-year-old Lisa is an orphan. She’s excited when she hears she will be adopted. What Lisa does not know is that her “new parents” Eva and Martin are planning to split up and are waiting until the adoption goes through before they file for divorce. At first, she’s busy with her new life, school, friend, and home, as well as the Museum of Natural History, where her best friend the saber-toothed tiger lives. But she soon sees Martin coming out of an advertising studio arm in arm with a model and, disappointed, packs her things and runs away.
Mon 28.05.2018 | 11:00To Be a Child Again - Israel (2017)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Gabriel Volcovich, Moy Volcovich
Israel, Canada, Mexico, 2017, 58 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
Score:
A look at Israel through the eyes of eleven children from different backgrounds and demographics. A candid, intimate, and personal view of Israel's youth.
Mon 28.05.2018 | 13:05Matti 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.
Mon 28.05.2018 | 13:20The Cat Prince (1978)
Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Ota Hofman 90
Directed by: Ota Koval
Czechoslovakia, Germany, 1978, 80 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
As a family moves because of work, the children's fantasies transform the landscape they pass through into in fairy-tale land. When their truck is stuck in a snowstorm, their magical grandfather comes by sleigh and takes them to a castle where they meet a mysterious rider on a black horse. He's the castle renovator, Albert, who doesn't like cats. When their cat Liza has kittens, Albert takes them out of the castle, but the children save them. Radek then goes at night to a magical land behind the mirror to find the water of life to resurrect the drowned Liza.
Mon 28.05.2018 | 17:10Summer Children (2017)
Section: International Competition of European First Films
Directed by: Guðrún Ragnarsdóttir
Iceland, Norway, 2017, 84 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
Score:
Two small children, Eydis and Kari, are put in a bus and sent from the city to the countryside to an orphanage. Their mother tells the sister to take care of her younger brother and that’s what she does. But both of them are still too young and being away from home is not easy – especially when the teachers are severe and strict. The only thought that helps the siblings is that they are there temporarily – there are children who live there all year long and have no other place to go. In time Eydis and Kari find new friends and adjust somewhat, but every so often one of them irritates the teachers and gets punished. Their lively imagination and playful minds help them get through many difficult moments and, after all, they will go back home soon! But their mother hasn’t come and summer is almost over...
Mon 28.05.2018 | 21:30Giants 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.
Tue 29.05.2018 | 08:30Pichku's Dream (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Nila Madhab Panda
India, 2018, 110 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
Score:
Growing up in one of the oldest slum in Delhi, Pichku, who is turning 9 years old, is about to discover that being an adult is a lot different than being a child. He’ll learn things like why he can’t roam around naked and why he can’t defecate in the open, among other things. The story is about a child’s thoughts as they translate and unfold the inner mysteries of the world. Pichku knows he lives in isolation inside the community because he is different, but he also knows he has to do something to end this misery.
Tue 29.05.2018 | 08:50Matti 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.