17 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.
Muzbalak (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Turdybek Maidan, Tilek Toleugazy
Kazakhstan, 2018, 67 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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Muzbalak tells a story of an eagle which saves people from a bloodthirsty dragon. The proud raptor has been by a man through love. They create an inextricable connection between each other. The ups and downs in the story represent real life problems. The creators of the cartoon have also experienced difficult times.
Ratatouille (2007)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Jan Pinkava, Brad Bird
United States of America, 2007, 111 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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Little Remy is a rat living with his large family on the outskirts of Paris. But he is unique; he has a perfect sense of smell and truly refined taste for food - like a real gourmand. He longs to experiment with flavors and smells and to cook. One day while stealing food, he's accidentally separated from his family and ends up in front of the restaurant of the best chef, Gusteau. He befriends his son Linguini, who is not a cook. They join forces and succeed in becoming a cooking legend. But in their way stands the insidious and famous restaurant critic Anton Ego.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Icebox (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Daniel Sawka
United States of America, 2018, 88 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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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.