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:
InfoIt 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.
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
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.
Mon 27.05.2019 | 19:00Fig Tree (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian
Ethiopia, France, Germany, Israel, 2018, 93 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
Sixteen-year-old Jewish Mina is trying to navigate between a surreal routine dictated by the civil war in Ethiopia and her last days of youth with her Christian boyfriend Eli. When she discovers that her family is planning to immigrate to Israel and escape the war, she weaves an alternate plan in order to save Eli. But in times of war, plans tend to go wrong. Davidian´s coming of age film debut film is based on her childhood memories of a civil-war-torn Ethiopia.
Mon 27.05.2019 | 20:15King Skate (2018)
Section: Czech Films and TV Production
Directed by: Šimon Šafránek
Czech Republic, 2018, 82 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
Score:
Stick to the concrete. Zoom through the town. Keep everything in motion. Skateboarding! Something new has come to the gray period of the 1970s and '80s Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. it's love at first sight. An endless party. Adrenaline. The iconic figures of Czech and world skateboarding in stories of broken bones, unbreakable friendships, and a wild ride for freedom in the middle of communism.
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.
Wed 29.05.2019 | 19:30Icebox (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Daniel Sawka
United States of America, 2018, 88 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
Score:
The grim reality of the current US immigration system through the eyes of Oscar, a 12-year-old schoolboy from Honduras, whose unwanted ties to a brutal gang have prompted his parents to smuggle him out of the country in the hope that he will escape to America and lead a better life under the protection of his uncle Manuel, a recent immigrant. However, Oscar is caught in the Arizona desert by border police and sent to a juvenile immigration center, where he tries regain control of his life inside a "wire box" and reach his dream destination.
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
Score:
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.
Wed 29.05.2019 | 21:30Fig Tree (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian
Ethiopia, France, Germany, Israel, 2018, 93 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
Sixteen-year-old Jewish Mina is trying to navigate between a surreal routine dictated by the civil war in Ethiopia and her last days of youth with her Christian boyfriend Eli. When she discovers that her family is planning to immigrate to Israel and escape the war, she weaves an alternate plan in order to save Eli. But in times of war, plans tend to go wrong. Davidian´s coming of age film debut film is based on her childhood memories of a civil-war-torn Ethiopia.
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
Score:
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 | 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.
Fri 31.05.2019 | 20:45Icebox (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Daniel Sawka
United States of America, 2018, 88 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
Score:
The grim reality of the current US immigration system through the eyes of Oscar, a 12-year-old schoolboy from Honduras, whose unwanted ties to a brutal gang have prompted his parents to smuggle him out of the country in the hope that he will escape to America and lead a better life under the protection of his uncle Manuel, a recent immigrant. However, Oscar is caught in the Arizona desert by border police and sent to a juvenile immigration center, where he tries regain control of his life inside a "wire box" and reach his dream destination.