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 | 17:20Your Beauty Is Worth Nothing (2012)
Section: Austrian Trip
Directed by: Hüseyin Tabak
Austria, 2012, 85 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Half-Kurd half-Turkish Veyse fled from Turkey to Austria with his family and has only been in Vienna for a few months. He’s stressed because his lack of German makes him an outsider and his older brother Mazlum has run away from home. Fortunately, he’s found distraction in Ana, a girl in his class. For a poetry assignment in class he decides to translate his favorite Turkish poem into German, hoping to impress Ana. But when the police show up at the family’s home due to Mazlum, the whole family is in danger of being deported.
Sat 26.05.2018 | 19:00Fly Away Home (2016)
Section: Austrian Trip
Directed by: Mirjam Unger
Austria, 2016, 109 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Vienna 1945: The powder keg of war and the Russian occupation as seen through the innocent eyes of nine-year-old Christine. She knows as little about peace as children today know about war. Bombed out and penniless, she and her family are put up in a fancy villa on the outskirts of Vienna. They now have a roof over their heads – nothing more. After the German soldiers capitulate, the Russians take over the house. Everybody is scared of the Russians, who are believed to be a capricious lot. Everybody, except Christine.
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
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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.
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 | 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 | 09:00Holidays with Silvester (1990)
Section: Austrian Trip
Directed by: Bernd Neuburger
Austria, 1990, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Silvester is an old bachelor of seventy-six who sees more in the stars than in people. Katharina is seven years old, she is lively and full of curiosity. The two of them spend one summer together. Step by step, Katharina manages to conquer this scruffy astronomer. She and her girlfriend Veronika start out with him on a quest for Silvester's times lost. They come across a puppy dog which almost drowned, Egon, a long lost friend from his childhood, and a pair of brass binoculars which had been kept for 65 years in some secret place in the woods…
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 | 09:00Mozart in China (2008)
Section: Austrian Trip
Directed by: Bernd Neuburger
Austria, 2008, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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When a young Chinese-Austrian boy invites his best friend Danny to spend the summer at his grandfather's house on Hainan Island in China, the two friends must work together to save their elderly host's shadow theater from loan sharks. Little does Danny realize that a marionette named Mozart has come to life, and hitched a ride to China in his suitcase, and as the theater is threatened by circling loan sharks, the kids and the puppets collaborate on a plan to save the theater once and for all.
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 | 19:00Macondo (2014)
Section: Austrian Trip
Directed by: Sudabeh Mortezai
Austria, 2014, 98 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Macondo is a refugee settlement in Vienna with about 3,000 asylum-seekers from 22 different countries. One of them is 11-year-old Ramasan who has come here from Chechnya with his mother and two younger sisters. Fatherless, he tries his best to take his father’s place looking after his family. But then a brooding man named Isa, a friend of Ramasan’s father from the old days, suddenly arrives and Ramasan's life is thrown into disarray.
Thu 31.05.2018 | 09:00Villa Henriette (2004)
Section: Austrian Trip
Directed by: Peter Payer
Austria, 2004, 84 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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12-year-old Marie, a quick witted girl, is faced with a dilemma; not only must she suddenly choose between her two best friends, but on top of that her grandmother has been taken in by a cunning con man and is forced to put the family villa up for sale. So now the girl has her hands full as she tries desperately to rescue her friendships and the home she shares with her eccentric family.
Thu 31.05.2018 | 11:10Twinni (2003)
Section: Austrian Trip
Directed by: Ulrike Schweiger
Austria, 2003, 89 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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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.
Thu 31.05.2018 | 20:20Center of My World (2016)
Section: Austrian Trip
Directed by: Jakob M. Erwa
Germany, Austria, 2016, 115 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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After a summer away at camp, Phil returns home to find that his mother and twin sister aren’t speaking to one another. Avoiding family conflict, Phil escapes to hang out with his best friend, Kat, eating ice cream and playing dress-up. As the school year begins, a new student arrives – the handsome and mysterious Nicholas. Smitten, Phil watches him as he runs around the track after school, and is thrilled when Nicholas returns his feelings. But he’s going to first have to deal with the problems of his past in order to deal with the issues of his present.
Fri 01.06.2018 | 09:00Karo and God Himself (2006)
Section: Austrian Trip
Directed by: Danielle Proskar
Austria, 2006, 94 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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"You’re dead rotten! You don’t care about me!", Karo yells into her walkie-talkie. She is addressing the Lord God, who has allowed her parents to split up. A grumpy voice answers Karo. Is this God? It seems that way at first, but when Karo meets him face to face, she isn‘t sure. Does the Almighty look so shabby? And why does he want to stop her from bothering him? But Karo persists and soon persuades him to help her hatch various schemes to reunite her parents…