Romy's Salon (2019)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Mischa Kamp
Netherlands, Germany, 2019, 92 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Romy´s mother has to work a lot. That´s why Romy visits her grandmother every day after school. If you think it´s fun, well then you´re wrong. Because Grandma Stine is very busy working in her own hairdressing salon and is very strict with Romy. But everything is different when Romy finds out that her grandmother also has a totally different side.
Hang 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?
Zero Days (2017)
Section: Virtual Reality
Directed by: Yasmin Elayat
United States of America, 2017, 21 min
Projection place: Univerzitní centrum - U13
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The story of Stuxnet: placed inside the invisible world of computer viruses, you experience the high stakes of cyber warfare at a human scale.
VR Cinema: Zero Days
Section: Virtual Reality
, 0, 21 min
Projection place: Univerzitní centrum - U13
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Sune vs Sune (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Jon Holmberg
Sweden, 2018, 89 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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On his first day as a fourth-grader, Sune is welcomed by an unwanted surprise. A new boy is in his seat, and he´s everything Sune wants to be. Not only that, but his name is also Sune - it´s the worst possible start to the fourth grade. At the same, Håkan notices that his big brother is about to enter the boring adult world, their dad Rudolf has a midlife crisis and wants to quit his job to pursue a career in music and their mum Karin glares jealously at the new Sune´s perfect mum and her even more perfect car. Welcome to the Andersson family!
VR Cinema: Alternation
Section: Virtual Reality
, 0, 18 min
Projection place: Univerzitní centrum - U13
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I 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.
Alteration (2017)
Section: Virtual Reality
Directed by: Jérôme Blanquet
France, 2017, 18 min
Projection place: Univerzitní centrum - U13
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Alexandro volunteers for an experiment carried out to study dreams. He doesn´t even imagine that he´s going to be subjected to the intrusion of Elsa, a form of A.I.
Zero Days (2017)
Section: Virtual Reality
Directed by: Yasmin Elayat
United States of America, 2017, 21 min
Projection place: Univerzitní centrum - U13
Score:
The story of Stuxnet: placed inside the invisible world of computer viruses, you experience the high stakes of cyber warfare at a human scale.
VR Cinema: Zero Days
Section: Virtual Reality
, 0, 21 min
Projection place: Univerzitní centrum - U13
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Taina 2 - A New Amazon Adventure (2005)
Section: Discover & Explore: People
Directed by: Mauro Lima
Brazil, 2005, 76 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Catiti, a 6-year-old Indian girl, joins Tainá, a beautiful and brave teenager, walking through the rainforest. Together they get rid of traps set to catch rare animals. When they encounter Carlito, a city boy who is looking for his lost dog Boris, the first thing they do is argue because Catiti found Boris and wants to adopt him. But all personal and cultural differences are left behind when gangsters steal all the tribe´s pets. Tainá and Catiti try to find a way to outfox the poachers...
VR Cinema: Alternation
Section: Virtual Reality
, 0, 18 min
Projection place: Univerzitní centrum - U13
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A Boy and Sungreen (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: AHN Ju-young
South Korea, 2018, 99 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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There is a fragile and sensitive boy in a tough world. His mother named him Bo-hee, but others have given him an unusual nickname. There is a seemingly unbreakable girl. Her name is Nok-yang (Sungreen) and she is Bo-hee´s best friend. Bo-hee finds out that his mother has a boyfriend, and that his supposedly-dead father is alive. He sets out to find his father with Sungreen. His life is suddenly flooded with new people; his father´s friends, his cousin and her boyfriend. Tracing him down through the clues given by those people, Bo-hee gets closer to his father.
Alteration (2017)
Section: Virtual Reality
Directed by: Jérôme Blanquet
France, 2017, 18 min
Projection place: Univerzitní centrum - U13
Score:
Alexandro volunteers for an experiment carried out to study dreams. He doesn´t even imagine that he´s going to be subjected to the intrusion of Elsa, a form of A.I.
Tito and Me (1992)
Section: Discover & Explore: Balkan
Directed by: Goran Markovič
Yugoslavia, 1992, 118 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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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.
Hacker (2019)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Youth
Directed by: Poul Berg
Denmark, 2019, 98 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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Thirteen-year-old Benjamin is a highly skilled hacker, but also a teenager who is highly distrustful of others following the loss of his mother seven years earlier. Benjamin, who has never known his father, lives in a children´s home. One day he receives a visit from two men from the Danish Defence Intelligence Service who inform him that a woman they believe to be Benjamin´s mother was spotted by an airport surveillance camera several days earlier. At first, Benjamin is shocked by the news. However, he soon makes up his mind to investigate the matter and get to the bottom of what really happened to her.
Wild Witch (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Kasper Munk
Denmark, 2018, 100 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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12-year-old Clara is a normal girl until the day she is scratched by a mysterious black cat. Soon after, Clara discovers that she can communicate with the cat and that she belongs to a family of wild witches with a strong connection to nature and animals. It turns out that Clara is a particularly special wild witch whose blood can set free the ancient and evil witch Bravita Bloodyoung. Together with her aunt Isa and her friends, Clara must face her destiny and embark on a dangerous journey in order to save herself and the Wild World from the evil forces of Bravita.
Indie 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.
Book 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.
For a Happy Life (2018)
Section: Competition of European First Feature Films
Directed by: Salima Sarah Glamine, Dimitri Linder
Belgium, Luxembourg, 2018, 88 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Amel, 17, of Algerian origin, lives alone with her father Karim. For the past couple of months, she has had a secret love affair with her best friend's brother, Mashir, 22, of Pakistani origin. Following a work accident, Mashir's uncle comes to live in the neighbourhood with his wife and his daughter, who he now wants to marry off. Barely arrived, he sees Mashir as the ideal son-in-law. And faced with the determination of this fragile man, nobody dares criticize his idea. Despite the love he has for Amel, Mashir is unable to openly oppose his uncle and risk disappointing his family. The noose is tightening around their relationship and Mashir's fate seems sealed. Amel, in a last-ditch attempt to save the one she loves, will break taboos and violently disrupt the lives of those around her.