Fri 24.05.2019 | 09:00Spoiled Mimoza (1973)
Section: Discover & Explore: Balkan
Directed by: Xhanfise Keko
Albania, 1973, 43 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
InfoMimoza is a spoiled little girl who receives too much attention from her family. Mimoza has her grandmother ready to indulge her every whim. She continuously sends her friends out of her house, and destroys all their toys. In the end, repented, she is left on her own, with her doll by her side.
Fri 24.05.2019 | 18:15Shelter (2010)
Section: Discover & Explore: Balkan
Directed by: Dragomir Sholev
Bulgaria, 2010, 88 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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While changing TV channels, making pickles and discussing politics, the parents of 12-year-old Rado have missed their son´s growing up. Now they cannot understand why, after disappearing for two days, he isn´t sorry for the nightmare he has caused them and why is he ready to run away from home with the first junkies he met on the street.
Fri 24.05.2019 | 19:00The Way I Spent the End of the World (2006)
Section: Discover & Explore: Balkan
Directed by: Cãtãlin Mitulescu
Romania, France, 2006, 106 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
It is 1989 in Bucharest - the last year of Ceausescu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7-year-old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu is convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva's decision to leave, so he devises a plan to kill the dictator.
Sat 25.05.2019 | 11:20Tomka and his friends (1977)
Section: Discover & Explore: Balkan
Directed by: Xhanfise Keko
Albania, 1977, 74 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
During WWII in a small Albanian village, little Tomka, the oldest among his young friends, plays daily on the riverbank until the Nazis invade the playground. The outraged children decide to retaliate. First, they poison the black German shepherd that does not permit them to approach their beloved playing field. Later, the children help blow up the enemy military camp Who knew war could be this much fun?
Sat 25.05.2019 | 14:00The Mystery of Green Hill (2017)
Section: Discover & Explore: Balkan
Directed by: Čejen Černić
Croatia, 2017, 81 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
Koko and his friends are spending summer vacation on the shores of a lake near the idyllic Green Hill, hanging out and playing. The magical countryside is disturbed by unusual events which alarm the children as well as the locals; under cover of night, burglars break into one house after another, stealing anything of value they can find. When the police turn a blind eye to denunciations by adults, the children decide to take matters into their own hands and unmask the burglars.
Sun 26.05.2019 | 18:15Tito and Me (1992)
Section: Discover & Explore: Balkan
Directed by: Goran Markovič
Yugoslavia, 1992, 118 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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The story of a 10-year-old boy who, as most of the children in Yugoslavia of the 1950s can hardly imagine his life without the great national leader - marshal Tito. After winning the contest for the best composition, he is rewarded with participation in the "Tito's Native Land" march. This march is a difficult temptation for him. Unaccustomed to nature, long walks, independent living and harassed by the teacher, a Stalinist, he fails, gets lost in the mountains and his life changes.
Sun 26.05.2019 | 19:00Avé (2011)
Section: Discover & Explore: Balkan
Directed by: Konstantin Bojanov
Bulgaria, 2011, 86 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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The story of two young people, Kamen, a student of art; and Avé, an unpredictable seventeen-year-old. Their lives intersect while hitchhiking in Bulgaria. While Kamen is travelling to his friend's funeral, Avé is running away from family and responsibility in despair, and Kamen is constantly seduced by her lies and invention of new identities. Kamen is enchanted by her spontaneity and is involuntarily drawn into new adventures and ever greater problems. During their journey, they are both forced to face death, love and responsibility for the first time.
Mon 27.05.2019 | 21:30Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981)
Section: Discover & Explore: Balkan
Directed by: Emir Kusturica
Yugoslavia, 1981, 106 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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The fragile story of the emotional maturation of 16-year-old Dino, who is experiencing his first falling in love and is coping with his father's illness and death. All of this coincides with a convincing depiction of a peripheral quarter of Sarajevo in the early 1960s. A girl going by the name of Dolly Bell represents the world of love, as well as the world of disappointment and falsness.
Tue 28.05.2019 | 13:30The Lonely Wolf (1972)
Section: Discover & Explore: Balkan
Directed by: Obrad Gluščević
Yugoslavia, 1972, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
Score:
A boy finds a large wolf-like dog in the mountains and they befriend each other. The local peasants think that this may be the wolf responsible for the sheep pestilence. They decide to kill the animal, but the boy is worried about it and he secretly provides the dog with food.
Tue 28.05.2019 | 19:00The Way I Spent the End of the World (2006)
Section: Discover & Explore: Balkan
Directed by: Cãtãlin Mitulescu
Romania, France, 2006, 106 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
It is 1989 in Bucharest - the last year of Ceausescu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7-year-old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu is convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva's decision to leave, so he devises a plan to kill the dictator.
Tue 28.05.2019 | 20:45If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (2010)
Section: Discover & Explore: Balkan
Directed by: Florin Șerban
Romania, 2010, 94 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Silviu, a young man who has spent years in a youth penitentiary, is granted release. Before he can leave, his mother returns to Romania to bring his little brother to Italy with her, despite Silviu's objections. He meets a young woman, Ana, who is working on a research project in the prison and becomes interested in her. In desperation, Silviu resorts to violence and Ana becomes his hostage.
Wed 29.05.2019 | 09:00The Mystery of Green Hill (2017)
Section: Discover & Explore: Balkan
Directed by: Čejen Černić
Croatia, 2017, 81 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
Koko and his friends are spending summer vacation on the shores of a lake near the idyllic Green Hill, hanging out and playing. The magical countryside is disturbed by unusual events which alarm the children as well as the locals; under cover of night, burglars break into one house after another, stealing anything of value they can find. When the police turn a blind eye to denunciations by adults, the children decide to take matters into their own hands and unmask the burglars.
Wed 29.05.2019 | 20:45When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
Section: Discover & Explore: Balkan
Directed by: Emir Kusturica
Yugoslavia, 1985, 136 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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In the tumultuous 1950s, as Yugoslavia resists the pressures of Stalinism, a young boy narrates the story of his family's troubled world. Mesha, a minor party official in Yugoslavia, has been sent away to the mines for fooling around with a voluptuous communist party official. The drama unfolds through the eyes of Mesha's six-year-old naive son, Malik, who thinks Papa is away on business.
Thu 30.05.2019 | 14:00The Flea (1990)
Section: Discover & Explore: Balkan
Directed by: Dimitris Spyrou
Greece, 1990, 97 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Flea is the name of a handwritten newspaper published and edited by a 12-year-old student, Ilias Silaidis, in an isolated mountain village in Olympia. However, The Flea is also Ilias himself. Since he is so closely identified with his newspaper no one calls him by his name any more.
Thu 30.05.2019 | 18:15Enclave (2015)
Section: Discover & Explore: Balkan
Directed by: Goran Radovanović
Germany, Serbia, 2015, 92 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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In a small Serbian enclave in Kosovo lives 10-year-old Nenad together with his father Vojislav and his sick grandfather Milutin. Besides them, the Serbian Orthodox priest Drazha and a 30-year teacher are the only Serbs for miles around. Every day, Nenad is taken by a KFOR military vehicle from his father's farm to school, where he is now the only student. His great desire to play with other children seems unattainable. Again and again, he sees Albanian boys his age through the slots of the armored vehicle and wonders...
Fri 31.05.2019 | 11:20Tomka and his friends (1977)
Section: Discover & Explore: Balkan
Directed by: Xhanfise Keko
Albania, 1977, 74 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
During WWII in a small Albanian village, little Tomka, the oldest among his young friends, plays daily on the riverbank until the Nazis invade the playground. The outraged children decide to retaliate. First, they poison the black German shepherd that does not permit them to approach their beloved playing field. Later, the children help blow up the enemy military camp Who knew war could be this much fun?
Fri 31.05.2019 | 14:30Hang on, Doggy (1977)
Section: Discover & Explore: Balkan
Directed by: Jane Kavčič
Yugoslavia, 1977, 83 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Matic´s mother really loves him, but she has plenty of problems of her own at home and at work. And Matic's father is working abroad in Lybia. It´s only natural that his best friend is a boy his own age called Rok. Matic's life changes when he is discovered by a film team and given the leading part in a film. His partner is a dog - a big, black Newfoundland. Matic becomes so attached to the dog that the film team makes him a present of it after the end of shooting. And that is where the problems starts: where to put a dog in a concrete estate?
Fri 31.05.2019 | 17:00Tito and Me (1992)
Section: Discover & Explore: Balkan
Directed by: Goran Markovič
Yugoslavia, 1992, 118 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
Score:
The story of a 10-year-old boy who, as most of the children in Yugoslavia of the 1950s can hardly imagine his life without the great national leader - marshal Tito. After winning the contest for the best composition, he is rewarded with participation in the "Tito's Native Land" march. This march is a difficult temptation for him. Unaccustomed to nature, long walks, independent living and harassed by the teacher, a Stalinist, he fails, gets lost in the mountains and his life changes.