Metropolis (1926)
Section: 2020: Back to the Future-The Magic of Film Tricks
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Germany, 1926, 148 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 5
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Metropolis: city of the future, technological marvel, and symbol of progress. In 2027, riots break out between dissatisfied workers and the wealthy living in luxury. Frederick, the ruler's son, learns firsthand the inhuman conditions on which his father's city stands, and falls in love with Mary, who preaches to the workers about a better world. However, Maria is captured by a mad scientist who creates a robot copy of her. The city's destruction is nigh…
Samsam (2019)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Tanguy de Kermel
France, 2019, 61 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 3
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The young and intrepid Samsam has almost everything a cosmic-hero could want: loving heroic parents, a bunch of super-friends, and a spaceship to explore space... except that his first superpower hasn't kicked in yet! When Mega, the new cool kid in town claims she can teach him superpowers, Samsam sees in her the chance to finally reveal his superhuman abilities. They embark on a cosmic adventure, learning that friendship and courage may well be the best superpowers he could wish for.
Back to the Future (1985)
Section: 2020: Back to the Future-Sci-Fi Films for Young Audience
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
United States of America, 1985, 116 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 4
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A young man is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling Delorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown. A fish out of water in 1955, he must make sure his high-school-age parents unite in order to save his own existence.
Alien (1979)
Section: 2020: Back to the Future-The Magic of Film Tricks
Directed by: Ridley Scott
United States of America, United Kingdom, 1979, 117 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 3
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On their voyage home to Earth, the crew of the deep-space tug Nostromo are awakened from stasis when their ship’s computer detects what is believed to be an alien distress signal coming from a nearby planet. While investigating the desolate landscape, one of the crew is attacked by an alien creature that latches to his face and is rushed back to the Nostromo to receive medical treatment. They soon learn that the creature’s life cycle has only just begun…
WALL-E (2008)
Section: 2020: Back to the Future-Sci-Fi Films for Young Audience
Directed by: Andrew Stanton
United States of America, 2008, 103 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 2
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It’s 2700. The last operating WALL•E robot is still cleaning the Earth. The little robot gradually develops its own personality. It lives in a shelter full of peculiarities and artifacts from human life, such as a Rubik's Cube, a kitchen beater and his greatest treasure – an old videotape of the movie Hello Dolly. One day, a spaceship lands nearby, launching a small flying robot, Eve. It starts looking for something on the surface of the planet and WALL•E falls hopelessly in love…
The Matrix (1999)
Section: 2020: Back to the Future-The Magic of Film Tricks
Directed by: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
United States of America, 1999, 136 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 3
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Imagine that your present is the past and the future is happening now. Thomas Anderson is a young man trying to survive in the hustle and bustle of a modern big city. One day, he faces a terrible nightmare. It seems that he has been entered into a computer as data against his will, and everything he has known is just a whirlwind of data within circuit boards. BIOGRAPHY A creative unit from the USA. Their debut was the thriller Bound (1996), and the sci-fi Matrix (1999) was a worldwide hit, which was followed by the films Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions (both 2003). The duo also co-directed, e.g., the drama Cloud Atlas (2012).
Samsam (2019)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Tanguy de Kermel
France, 2019, 61 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 2
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The young and intrepid Samsam has almost everything a cosmic-hero could want: loving heroic parents, a bunch of super-friends, and a spaceship to explore space... except that his first superpower hasn't kicked in yet! When Mega, the new cool kid in town claims she can teach him superpowers, Samsam sees in her the chance to finally reveal his superhuman abilities. They embark on a cosmic adventure, learning that friendship and courage may well be the best superpowers he could wish for.
The Substitute (2007)
Section: 2020: Back to the Future-Sci-Fi Films for Young Audience
Directed by: Ole Bornedal
Denmark, 2007, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 4
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The 6th grade class gets a new substitute teacher. She wants to train the class for an international competition in Paris. But something isn't right. How is she able to read kids' minds? Why is she so mean? And how does she manage to convince everyone's parents she is so great when the whole class knows she is really an alien?
The Iron Giant (1999)
Section: 2020: Back to the Future-Sci-Fi Films for Young Audience
Directed by: Brad Bird
United States of America, 1999, 86 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 2
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It's 1957. Hogarth, 9, lives in the seemingly quiet town of Rockwell, Maine. He dreams of invading aliens and fighting communist agents. One day, his dream comes true – a huge robot from space is said to have fallen into a nearby lake. Hogarth manages to find the robot and hides it at his friend Dean's place. A government agent, Kent Mansley, wants to destroy the robot and soon learns of its whereabouts. And it is on Hogarth if he succeeds.
Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)
Section: 2020: Back to the Future-Sci-Fi Films for Young Audience
Directed by: Jon Favreau
United States of America, 2005, 102 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 4
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When their Dad goes to work, Danny and Walter get bored and annoy each other. While fighting one day, Danny ends up locked in the cellar, where he discovers an old board game, Zathura. As he starts playing, it becomes clear that it is not an ordinary game – the piece moves by itself, and when it lands on a "meteor swarm" square, the house is bombarded by real meteors. Through a gaping hole in the roof, both boys realize that they have found themselves in a deep, dark space...
The Bobot (2018)
Section: 2020: Back to the Future-Sci-Fi Films for Young Audience
Directed by: Max Ksjonda
Ukraine, 2018, 100 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 4
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Summer camp. Our time. Vadyk, a 12-year old dreamer and little liar, becomes an exile amongst his friends due to a serious mistake. Just yesterday he was a life of the party; today nobody wants to be his friend. Vadyk, not used to being an outcast, is trying to perform a feat so he can gain back the respect of his comrades. Instead, he fatally gets in the middle of a confrontation between two extraterrestrial forces.
Explorers (1985)
Section: 2020: Back to the Future-Sci-Fi Films for Young Audience
Directed by: Joe Dante
United States of America, 1985, 109 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 4
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Ben Crandell is an alien-obsessed teenager, whose dreams are being influenced by a group of extra-terrestrials! When he wakes one morning, he is able to draw an advanced circuit board designed for space flight. With the assistance of his two friends Wolfgang and Darren, Ben constructs a home-made spaceship to meet the aliens. Hilarity ensues as they discover that the creatures are obsessed with American culture!
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Section: 2020: Back to the Future-The Magic of Film Tricks
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
United States of America, United Kingdom, 1968, 149 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 6
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"2001" is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well). Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon's surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and human (Bowman) to reach the monolith placers.
Boy 7 (2015)
Section: 2020: Back to the Future-Sci-Fi Films for Young Audience
Directed by: Lourens Blok
Belgium, Hungary, Netherlands, 2015, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 5
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When Sam wakes up in the middle of a busy subway, he doesn't know how he got there, where he came from, nor even his own name. With the help of another girl in the same situation and using the contents of his backpack, he slowly but surely realizes that his life is in great danger.