Fri 31.05.2019 | 10:30A Plastic Ocean (2016)
Section: Discover & Explore: Nature
Directed by: Craig Leeson
Hong Kong, 2016, 102 min
Projection place: U18
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InfoOur story begins when journalist Craig Leeson, searching for the elusive blue whale, discovers plastic waste in what should be pristine ocean. Craig teams up with free diver Tanya Streeter and an international team of scientists and researchers, and they travel to twenty locations around the world over the next four years to explore the fragile state of our oceans, uncover alarming truths about plastic pollution, and reveal working solutions that can be put into immediate effect.
Fri 31.05.2019 | 11:00A Journey Like No Other (2019)
Section: Discover & Explore: Countries
Directed by: Viktorie Lörinczová
Czech Republic, 2019, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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The journey of a lifetime for friends Lukáš Socha and Tomáš Vaňourek is a reconstruction of the famous Eurasian journey by Czech legends Jiří Hanzelka and Miroslav Zikmund from 1959 to 1964. The travelers show us how they searched for the places Zikmund and Hanzelka visited and photographed 60 years ago, as well as their own incredible stories.
Fri 31.05.2019 | 11:1017 Seconds (2018)
Section: Panorama, Festival Gala
Directed by: Alon Marom
Israel, 2018, 84 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Four adolescents, outstanding athletes, live and train at Israel's national sports Academy. They are facing a system that pushes them to their limits while they question whether their youth isn´t being spent in vain. The story shifts between exhausting training routines and painful injuries to sporting peaks only a few are blessed to experience. But even when they hit rock bottom, what stops them from giving up is their fear of discovering that disillusionment from their dream will be much more painful than striving for it.
Fri 31.05.2019 | 15:30I Used To Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Jessica Leski
Australia, 2018, 96 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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From The Beatles to the Backstreet Boys and One Direction, I Used to be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story will take you back to the fun, fantasy and feelings of your teenage years. Filmed over four years, and spanning three generations, this intimate story follows a diverse group of women who have had their lives dramatically changed by their boyband obsessions. These four women must navigate the challenges of love, sexuality, family and faith, while constantly grappling with all the problems and contradictions that are part of being in love with a boyband.
Fri 31.05.2019 | 18:00Indie Rickshow (2017)
Section: Discover & Explore: Countries
Directed by: Jakub Janča, Martin Hamouz, Jan Tomšů
Czech Republic, India, 2017, 51 min
Projection place: U18
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Three Czechs in a rickshaw race through India& Adrenaline-inducing, crazy, breathtaking, deadly - thus can the race on ridiculous carts across the colorful and unpredictable India be described. In a country where everybody takes their lives on the road into their own hands and getting on the road requires a lot of courage, the "tuk-tuk" race is a truly insane idea. And when you put three men from the heart of a civilized Europe, who only know about India curry and the Kama Sutra, it's a series of unfortunate events.
Fri 31.05.2019 | 18:15Book of Klaudie (2019)
Section: Czech Films and TV Production
Directed by: Zuzana Dubová
Czech Republic, 2019, 43 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Klaudia completes the fourth grade in Karviná and looks forward to the summer. Klaudie is wild - like a literary character, she recently almost ended up in a children's home. While playing with a friend, security cameras caught her putting heavy stones on some train tracks. The train could have been derailed. After a police investigation, she was in danger of going to a children's home instead of her grandmother's care with her younger siblings. Her mom and dad aren't interested in her, and she's going to grow up quickly - even though she's only 10.