Fri 24.05.2019 | 10:00TvMiniUni: The Question Thief (2019)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Children, Festival Gala
Directed by: Jan Jirků
Czech Republic, 2019, 75 min
Projection place: Congress Centre
Score:
InfoThis time the well-known characters from the children's program TvMiniUni has to solve the mystery of the oddly obedient children who have stopped acting up. Frightened parents turn to Director Crow and his team; they don't recognize their own children anymore. Their kids have stopped being naughty, they're refined, and without imagination. Who's behind these mechanically obedient kids? Isn't there a similar risk to Valentinka and Bóďa?
Fri 24.05.2019 | 10:50Phantom Owl Forest (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Anu Aun
Estonia, 2018, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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For 10-year-old Eia, her Christmas holiday is taking an unexpected turn after being brought to a remote farm in the middle of nowhere, so she assumes. There she will discover the beauty of nature and wildlife, help rescue a primeval forest inhabited by mysterious owls, and unwrap her family´s well-kept secret.
Fri 24.05.2019 | 11:00Binti (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Frederike Migom
Belgium, Netherlands, 2018, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
Score:
Twelve-year-old Binti dreams of becoming a famous vlogger like her idol Tatyana. But when the police raid her home and try to deport her and her dad, they are forced to flee. Binti meets Elias and the two become friends. While Binti helps Elias to vlog about his 'save-the-okapi-club', she hatches the perfect plan: her dad has to marry Elias´s mom, so they can stay in Belgium.
Fri 24.05.2019 | 14:30Taiki (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Mirjam de With
Netherlands, 2018, 86 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Bruno does not want to go to Sweden with his parents and sister on holiday. He prefers to play games with his digital friend Taiki. But his mother thinks he's addicted and wants Bruno to learn that the real world is more exciting than the computer world. Even the tv-screens in the car remain off. During the much too long and boring drive, Bruno´s complaints force his parents put him out of the car. As a warning. Then Bruno decides to teach his parents a lesson. When they come back a little later to pick him up again, he disappears into the big Swedish forest.
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.
Sat 25.05.2019 | 09:00Taiki (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Mirjam de With
Netherlands, 2018, 86 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
Bruno does not want to go to Sweden with his parents and sister on holiday. He prefers to play games with his digital friend Taiki. But his mother thinks he's addicted and wants Bruno to learn that the real world is more exciting than the computer world. Even the tv-screens in the car remain off. During the much too long and boring drive, Bruno´s complaints force his parents put him out of the car. As a warning. Then Bruno decides to teach his parents a lesson. When they come back a little later to pick him up again, he disappears into the big Swedish forest.
Sat 25.05.2019 | 10:00TvMiniUni: The Question Thief (2019)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Children, Festival Gala
Directed by: Jan Jirků
Czech Republic, 2019, 75 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 1
Score:
This time the well-known characters from the children's program TvMiniUni has to solve the mystery of the oddly obedient children who have stopped acting up. Frightened parents turn to Director Crow and his team; they don't recognize their own children anymore. Their kids have stopped being naughty, they're refined, and without imagination. Who's behind these mechanically obedient kids? Isn't there a similar risk to Valentinka and Bóďa?
Sat 25.05.2019 | 17:20Winter Flies (2018)
Section: Czech Films and TV Production
Directed by: Olmo Omerzu
Czech Republic, Poland, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, 2018, 85 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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A road movie about the friendship of boys, adventure, and freedom. Fourteen-year-old outsider Mára and his 12-year-old friend Hedua make their way to freedom. Mara steals a car and even manages to influence a young hitchhiker. Everyone is on the run on an adventure and enjoying a sudden freedom they may never experience again. Until the police nab Mara. The two police officers who interrogate him can't quite decide which parts of his story are real and what's fictional; sometimes it is difficult to distinguish reality from fantasy.
Sun 26.05.2019 | 13:30Captain Korda (1970)
Section: Anniversary - Pinkava
Directed by: Josef Pinkava
Czechoslovakia, 1970, 88 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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A little orphan named Pepík and a train dispatcher called "Captain" Korda become friends while in hospital. Korda then wants to adopt Pepík. The joy found by this childless married couple and Pepík, however, is disrupted by the boy's real mother..
Sun 26.05.2019 | 16:30Children of the Snow Land (2018)
Section: Competition of European Documentary Films for Children and Youth
Directed by: Zara Balfour, Marcus Stephenson
Nepal, United Kingdom, 2018, 93 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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The story of a group of children born in the High Himalayas of Nepal - a remote area of great natural beauty but where life is extremely tough. Some children are sent by their parents at the age of four to the capital city, Kathmandu, to a school run by a Buddhist monk in the hope that education will give them a better chance in life. For ten years or more they do not see or speak to their parents due to the remoteness of their villages. Now, upon graduation, aged 16, the children are making the trek home: an arduous and lengthy journey across mountains that takes them to the highest inhabited place on the planet. It´s a faraway, off-grid land where the way of life has not changed for thousands of years, and where their parents are waiting to see children brought up in a world of mobile phones, social media and most modern conveniences. And then the earthquake strikes.
Mon 27.05.2019 | 10:30Scent of Oranges (2019)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Youth, Festival Gala
Directed by: Ivan Pokorný
Czech Republic, Germany, Slovak Republic, 2019, 92 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 1
Score:
Darek lives with his father and sister in a mountain village on the Czech-German-Polish border. His life changes after his mother's death. He has more freedom, but life has lost its luster. His mother could solve problems playfully and imaginatively; his father struggles with them - he's shut himself off, drowns his sorrows with alcohol, and puts too much of a burden on Darek's shoulders. Darek is growing up fast. He´s getting tougher and earning respect. And the charming Hanka has eyes for him. When his father loses his job, he can no longer keep the family together. But then pops up an old friend, Uli, bringing new prospects: they'll breed horses together. His dad gets caught up in the idea, picks himself up, and their problems seem to be over. Darek eagerly helps out and the horses give him new meaning, prestige and love. Now he can impress Hanka and score more points than his rival Hugo. But nothing is forever..
Mon 27.05.2019 | 16:00Invisible Sue (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Markus Dietrich
Germany, Luxembourg, 2018, 93 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
Score:
Sue (12) is a lonely teenage girl. Her mum is a researcher who spends all her time working at the lab. When Sue and her dad decide to surprise her at work on her birthday, they just end up getting in the way. In the commotion, Sue accidentally comes into contact with a liquid which makes her invisible! When her mum is kidnapped, Sue enlists the help of her friends to save her and apprehend the kidnappers.
Tue 28.05.2019 | 08:10Binti (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Frederike Migom
Belgium, Netherlands, 2018, 90 min
Projection place: Congress Centre
Score:
Twelve-year-old Binti dreams of becoming a famous vlogger like her idol Tatyana. But when the police raid her home and try to deport her and her dad, they are forced to flee. Binti meets Elias and the two become friends. While Binti helps Elias to vlog about his 'save-the-okapi-club', she hatches the perfect plan: her dad has to marry Elias´s mom, so they can stay in Belgium.
Tue 28.05.2019 | 10:50Invisible Sue (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Markus Dietrich
Germany, Luxembourg, 2018, 93 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
Score:
Sue (12) is a lonely teenage girl. Her mum is a researcher who spends all her time working at the lab. When Sue and her dad decide to surprise her at work on her birthday, they just end up getting in the way. In the commotion, Sue accidentally comes into contact with a liquid which makes her invisible! When her mum is kidnapped, Sue enlists the help of her friends to save her and apprehend the kidnappers.
Tue 28.05.2019 | 17:20Scent of Oranges (2019)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Youth, Festival Gala
Directed by: Ivan Pokorný
Czech Republic, Germany, Slovak Republic, 2019, 92 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
Score:
Darek lives with his father and sister in a mountain village on the Czech-German-Polish border. His life changes after his mother's death. He has more freedom, but life has lost its luster. His mother could solve problems playfully and imaginatively; his father struggles with them - he's shut himself off, drowns his sorrows with alcohol, and puts too much of a burden on Darek's shoulders. Darek is growing up fast. He´s getting tougher and earning respect. And the charming Hanka has eyes for him. When his father loses his job, he can no longer keep the family together. But then pops up an old friend, Uli, bringing new prospects: they'll breed horses together. His dad gets caught up in the idea, picks himself up, and their problems seem to be over. Darek eagerly helps out and the horses give him new meaning, prestige and love. Now he can impress Hanka and score more points than his rival Hugo. But nothing is forever..
Wed 29.05.2019 | 10:30My Extraordinary Summer With Tess (2019)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Children
Directed by: Steven Wouterlood
Netherlands, Germany, 2019, 82 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 1
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A week of vacation at the beach with the whole family! For Sam, it´s a week full of ruminating on life, death, and Tess. He´s haunted by the notion that his brother and his parents will all die someday, most likely before he does, seeing as he´s the youngest. So Sam resolves to prepare for the inevitable as best he can: with daily practice of being alone. It´s a bit unfortunate for him then to meet chaotic and fascinating Tess on the first day of his training as he´d much rather wander through the dunes with her. When she shares her well-kept secret with him, Sam´s world starts to wobble even more. In the summer heat of a Dutch holiday island, the two teenagers dare to ponder life´s biggest questions and come up with their very own answers.
Wed 29.05.2019 | 14:30Double Trouble and the Magical Mirror (2019)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Marcus H. Rosenmüller
Germany, 2019, 92 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
Score:
Frido is a fun-loving kid and just like most kids his age, a little lazy in school. One day during a town fair he encounters a magical mirror. With the mirrors magic he can create a double of himself - who is just perfect at everything he is not. With the help of his double, who is very smart in school, Frido starts to give up more and more responsibility - not only in school but also at home. When his classmates find out, they copy themselves too. No one goes to school anymore, but the freaky doubles start taking over...
Wed 29.05.2019 | 17:40Bille (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Inara Kolmane
Latvia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, 2018, 104 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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Latvia. Late 1930s. Bille lives in a world where the poor have their streets and the rich have theirs. She has learned to cope with poverty but is deprived of her mother´s love; relatives take care of Bille but keep reminding her regularly that she is a good-for-nothing who won´t achieve much in her life&. This hurts Bille, but the girl has a dream - to prove herself and break loose from the bondage of feeling inferior. Bille´s personal growth passes through complex and tragic stages of Latvian history.
Wed 29.05.2019 | 20:15Winter Flies (2018)
Section: Czech Films and TV Production
Directed by: Olmo Omerzu
Czech Republic, Poland, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, 2018, 85 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
Score:
A road movie about the friendship of boys, adventure, and freedom. Fourteen-year-old outsider Mára and his 12-year-old friend Hedua make their way to freedom. Mara steals a car and even manages to influence a young hitchhiker. Everyone is on the run on an adventure and enjoying a sudden freedom they may never experience again. Until the police nab Mara. The two police officers who interrogate him can't quite decide which parts of his story are real and what's fictional; sometimes it is difficult to distinguish reality from fantasy.
Thu 30.05.2019 | 08:30Double Trouble and the Magical Mirror (2019)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Marcus H. Rosenmüller
Germany, 2019, 92 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
Score:
Frido is a fun-loving kid and just like most kids his age, a little lazy in school. One day during a town fair he encounters a magical mirror. With the mirrors magic he can create a double of himself - who is just perfect at everything he is not. With the help of his double, who is very smart in school, Frido starts to give up more and more responsibility - not only in school but also at home. When his classmates find out, they copy themselves too. No one goes to school anymore, but the freaky doubles start taking over...