Fri 04.09.2020 | 14:30Cleo (2019)
Section: International Competition of European First Feature Films
Directed by: Eva Cools
Belgium, 2019, 105 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 5
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InfoSix months after surviving the car accident that killed her parents, Cleo is only just beginning to feel like herself again. The 17-year-old — who now lives with her grandmother along with her 7-year-old brother Bruno — is ready to revisit her favorite haunt, Club 7, for drinking and dancing with friends. For the first time, she seems to find an escape from her sorrow. So when a mysterious loner named Leos rescues her from a bar fight, Cleo doesn’t tell him about her parents. She merely mentions that she hates cars when he reveals he is an auto mechanic. Although Leos is over ten years older than Cleo, the two become friends, and, perhaps naively, Cleo hopes the relationship will become romantic. But the brooding Leos, who curiously doesn’t carry a cell phone, is dealing with his own troubled past.
Fri 04.09.2020 | 20:00Days of the Bagnold Summer (2019)
Section: International Competition of European First Feature Films
Directed by: Simon Bird
United Kingdom, 2019, 86 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 6
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Sue (52), works in a library. Daniel (15), eats crisps and listens to Metallica. This was the summer Daniel was due to spend with his father and his father’s new wife in Florida. But when they cancel his trip at the last minute, Sue and Daniel suddenly face the prospect of six long weeks together. Over the course of one long summer, an epic war of wills rages in the unassuming battleground of their suburban home as Sue and Daniel reckon with private tragedies – and pursue their personal passions.
Sat 05.09.2020 | 17:00FOMO - Fear of Missing Out (2019)
Section: International Competition of European First Feature Films
Directed by: Attila Hartung
Hungary, 2019, 94 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 5
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At one of the group's many parties, Lilla, the daughter of the school history teacher, behaves a little too indecently. More than a little tipsy, she competes for Gergö's attentions and indeed, at the point where she is barely still able to walk, they end up in bed together. Needless to say, this provides the material for the clique's latest video. The following day the footage is online and Lilla has vanished. Subsequently, Gergö, the first to fall under suspicion, risks losing more than just his school leaving certificate. Together with his friends he proceeds to search the bars of Budapest, with not only the pressure of his own conscience, but also a sense of anxiety within the group growing in the process; what are they to do should the question of guilt arise? Stick together and keep silent, or ask for forgiveness?
Sat 05.09.2020 | 20:00All for My Mother (2019)
Section: International Competition of European First Feature Films
Directed by: Małgorzata Imielska
Poland, 2019, 103 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 6
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Ola is a 17-year-old girl with boyish moves, hair falling over her big blue eyes all the time, bitten nails, and arms covered in scars from self-mutilation. Because she has run away from an orphanage too many times, the court has placed her at a youth detention centre. She’s got no fancy clothes or expensive phone. Unlike the other girls, she refuses to provide any sexual services to the caretaker in exchange for cigarettes or small sums of money. The only thing she wants is to get her mother back. The girl is an ardent athlete. She believes that once she starts being successful at sports events, her mother will find her. But because she is so “separate” from the world, she becomes a victim of violence.
Sun 06.09.2020 | 17:30Nevia (2019)
Section: International Competition of European First Feature Films
Directed by: Nunzia De stefano
Italy, 2019, 86 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 6
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Nevia is 17 and lives in the suburbs of Naples with her beloved little sister Enza, their aunt Lucia, and their grandmother Nana. She is a stubborn teenager determined to get from life much more than fate has planned for her, but it’s hard to be a girl in a place where only men can make the rules. Apparently, there is no option but to make ends meet with little illegal jobs. Then one day, a circus comes to town, changing everything in Nevia’s life and giving her new hope.
Sun 06.09.2020 | 20:00Diva of Finland (2019)
Section: International Competition of European First Feature Films
Directed by: Maria Veijalainen
Finland, 2019, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 6
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As Henna turns 18, she is anxious. She’s fed up with her small rural town in Northern Finland and the future seems scary. But now that she’s 18 there’s light at the end of the tunnel. After this last winter she can move away from the small town and start her own life. But something else happens on her birthday; a new girl moves right next door, and she’s about to mix things up. The girl, Silja is from a big city in Southern Finland. She seems to excel in everything Henna wants to be good at, plus she charms everyone around Henna, especially her best friends, a pair of twins called Iris and Ii. As Silja steals Henna’s spotlight, Henna is struck by a wave of vicious envy, and envy makes Henna obsessive about Silja, which may lead to her own downfall.
Mon 07.09.2020 | 17:00Days of the Bagnold Summer (2019)
Section: International Competition of European First Feature Films
Directed by: Simon Bird
United Kingdom, 2019, 86 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 5
Score:
Sue (52), works in a library. Daniel (15), eats crisps and listens to Metallica. This was the summer Daniel was due to spend with his father and his father’s new wife in Florida. But when they cancel his trip at the last minute, Sue and Daniel suddenly face the prospect of six long weeks together. Over the course of one long summer, an epic war of wills rages in the unassuming battleground of their suburban home as Sue and Daniel reckon with private tragedies – and pursue their personal passions.
Tue 08.09.2020 | 17:30Man Up! (2019)
Section: International Competition of European First Feature Films
Directed by: Benjamin Parent
France, 2019, 89 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 6
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16-year-old Tom is a sensitive teenager who has stopped growing because of a traumatic event in his life. As he is getting ready to start at a new lycée, he has every expectation of finding his place there, making friends and attracting the girl he is infatuated with. To do this, Tom needs the support of his older brother, Leo, a real mentor who sets about turning him into a man, a real man. But this tutelage weighs heavy on him and Tom ends up wanting to break away from it in order to build his own personality.