Mon 27.05.2019 | 20:45Boy (2010)
Section: Discover & Explore: People
Directed by: Taika Waititi
New Zealand, 2010, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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InfoNew Zealand. 1984. Michael Jackson's Thriller is changing children's lives. Boy is a dreamer who loves Jackson. His father Alamein is another hero of his and is the subject of Boy's fantasies - in his thoughts he's a deep diver, a war hero and a close relative of Michael Jackson. In reality, Alamein is an incompetent criminal who is sitting in prison for robbery. When he returns home after seven years, Boy is forced to cope with the man he's had fictional ideas about, find his own potential, and learn to dispense with the hero he'd hoped for.
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 | 08:10Binti (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Frederike Migom
Belgium, Netherlands, 2018, 90 min
Projection place: Congress Centre
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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 | 08:10Ailo´s Journey (2018)
Section: Competition of European Documentary Films for Children and Youth
Directed by: Guillaume Maidatchevsky
France, Finland, 2018, 86 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 1
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Our hero is a little reindeer named Ailo. He was just born in Lapland, a region in northern of Europe whose largest part lies beyond the Arctic Circle. It doesn't sound very encouraging. But reindeer easily get used to harsh conditions. Immediately after birth, he can quickly stand on his feet - it just takes five minutes. In the next five minutes he learns to walk. Another five to swim and run through the snow. Thanks to his wide hooves, he can move quickly in the snowdrifts and grazing is not too demanding. Satisfied with a little grass and moss, his favorite delicacy is lichen. And is he cold? Nope. His thick coat allows him to survive temperatures as low as -40 ° C. In his journey through Lapland, Ailo meets other residents of this beautiful landscape: agile stoat, dangerous wolves, a clever wolverine, arctic fox, shaggy squirrel, silent owl, and a high flying eagle.
Tue 28.05.2019 | 08:30My Grandpa is an Alien (2018)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Children
Directed by: Marina Andree Skop, Dražen Žarković
Croatia, Luxembourg, Norway, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018, 79 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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In a single moment, the entire life of a girl Una is turned upside down; her grandpa is abducted by aliens and her mum collapses and ends up in a hospital. Una discovers that her grandpa is an alien himself whose spaceship hit the planet some time ago. But his pilot is still here! The small grumpy robot and Una have less than 24 hours to find and rescue her grandpa. This extraordinary adventure will lead to a new friendship, rational robotic logic will be replaced with emotions, and Una's selfless love will save her partly alien family.
Tue 28.05.2019 | 08:40Summer with Rana (2019)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Sanne Vogel
Netherlands, 2019, 68 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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Suzan is spending the summer holidays with her grandmother while her mother goes to Syria as a war reporter. She forms a close friendship with Rana, a little Syrian girl, who lives in the nearby refugee camp. However, one night, Suzan receives some terrible news. Her mother has gone missing in a war zone. Now, only Rana can help her as she shares her experiences of escaping alone from Syria and surviving without any parents.
Tue 28.05.2019 | 08:50Douch (2018)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Children, Festival Gala
Directed by: Amir Mashhadi Abbas
Iran, 2018, 78 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Ten-year-old Gholamreza, who lives in a village in northern Iran, needs a bicycle to win a bicycle race and pay off his father´s debt. To get money for the new bicycle, he notices a prize for teaching an illiterate person how to read and write, but there aren´t any illiterate people in the village except a 90-year-old bad tempered woman who does not want to learn anything.
Tue 28.05.2019 | 09:00Speaking of Our Country (2018)
Section: Czech Films and TV Production
Directed by: Maria Procházková
Czech Republic, 2018, 5 min
Projection place: Alternativa
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An animated cycle made for the 100th anniversary of the establishment of an independent Czechoslovakia that introduces the meaning of Czech state symbols. We are introduced to the anthem, the flag, and the emblem. What is the anthem, why is it important, what and when is it used, what is its history, and what are its verses? Why is there a lion on the Czech emblem, how is it that he has two tails, who does the eagle belong to? How do you not confuse the colors of the flag? And when and how is the flag used.
Tue 28.05.2019 | 09:00Born in China (2016)
Section: Discover & Explore: Nature
Directed by: Chuan Lu
United States of America, 2016, 79 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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A spectacular trip to the Chinese wilderness and the adventures of three animal families - majestic pandas, long-lived langur, and elusive snow leopards. The breathtaking footage captures vast lands - from the freezing mountains to the very heart of a bamboo forest - on the wings of a Manchurian crane, and presents the most intimate family moments captured for the first time on film.
Tue 28.05.2019 | 09:10Five Minutes to Sea (2018)
Section: International Competition of Short Animated Films for Children
Directed by: Natalia Mirzoyan
Russia, 2018, 7 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Boredom ensues when a mother tells her little girl that she has to take a 5-minute break from swimming in the ocean. She observes the other bathers as she waits
Tue 28.05.2019 | 09:10The Fisherman and Spring (2018)
Section: International Competition of Short Animated Films for Children
Directed by: Seyed Hassan Soltani
Iran, 2018, 10 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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A fisherman is just waiting for spring to arrive. His waiting over, he tries to find out why spring came so late. He has no answers till he sees a beautiful blossom
Tue 28.05.2019 | 09:10The Wiremen (2018)
Section: International Competition of Short Animated Films for Children
Directed by: Jessica Patterson
Ireland, United Kingdom, 2018, 9 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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When electricity is first brought to rural Ireland, a young girl believes this new power is in fact a faerie who has entered her home with "the Light".
Tue 28.05.2019 | 09:10The Big Bad Wolf Is Back and other animations
Section: International Competition of Short Animated Films for Children
International, 0, 54 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Tue 28.05.2019 | 09:10Cloudy (2018)
Section: International Competition of Short Animated Films for Children, Neighbourhood
Directed by: Filip Diviak, Zuzana Čupová
Czech Republic, 2018, 5 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Mr. Gnome is sunbathing in his garden when a little cloud hides the sun. Mr. Gnome is pretty annoyed but he knows precisely what to do with such clouds.
Tue 28.05.2019 | 09:10Nine Coo Five (2018)
Section: International Competition of Short Animated Films for Children
Directed by: Anye Chen
United Kingdom, 2018, 3 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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A struggling artist tries to make a living through his chalk drawings. Although unable to charm the people around him, he forms an unlikely friendship with a pigeon
Tue 28.05.2019 | 09:10Ming (2018)
Section: International Competition of Short Animated Films for Children
Directed by: Brenna Johnson
United States of America, 2018, 2 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Ming is a young monk who has been training under her wise master. One night, she's confronted with the task of lighting the inside of a dark, foreboding temple
Tue 28.05.2019 | 09:10The Diver (2018)
Section: International Competition of Short Animated Films for Children
Directed by: Iulia Voitova
France, 2018, 4 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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A professional diver is exhausted by an intense training regime punctuated by the relentless blowing of her trainer's whistle. Is it time to quit
Tue 28.05.2019 | 09:10The Big Bad Wolf is Back (2019)
Section: International Competition of Short Animated Films for Children
Directed by: Pascale Hecquet
France, Belgium, 2019, 11 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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The Big Bad Wolf is back, and firmly intends to resume his usual behavior but finds out that things change upon meeting Little Red Riding Hood again
Tue 28.05.2019 | 09:10Angel's Trumpet (2019)
Section: International Competition of Short Animated Films for Children
Directed by: Martinus Daane Klemet
Estonia, 2019, 3 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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It took millions of years of evolution to develop such cooperation between a very long billed hummingbird and the Angel´s Trumpet plant. What´s the next step?
Tue 28.05.2019 | 10:30Whale Rider (2002)
Section: Discover & Explore: People
Directed by: Niki Caro
Germany, New Zealand, 2002, 105 min
Projection place: Congress Centre
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In a small New Zealand coastal village, Maori claim descent from Paikea, the Whale Rider. In every generation, a male heir has succeeded to the chiefly title. The time is now. When twins are born, and the boy twin dies, Koro, the chief, is unable to accept his grand-daughter, Pai, as a future leader. A few years later, Koro is convinced that the tribe's misfortunes began at Pai's birth and calls for his people to bring their sons to him, in the hope that the new leader is among them. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must stand up to him and tradition.