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 | 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 | 15:00Video Games: The Movie (2014)
Section: 2020: Back to the Future-Science Is Science
Directed by: Jeremy Snead
United States of America, 2014, 105 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 6
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A documentary chronicle of the meteoric rise of video games from nerd niche to multi-billion-dollar industry. Offering a colorful history of the video game, from Pong and Space Invaders through Super Mario Bros. and Zelda to Call of Duty, Halo and Grand Theft Auto, this survey features a Who’s Who of video game icons and pioneers as it traces the evolution of a whole new form of interactive entertainment – the consoles, the joysticks, the bits and the bytes.
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 | 19:00The Abstainer (2019)
Section: Czech Films and TV Production
Directed by: David Vigner
Czech Republic, 2019, 83 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 4
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Adam had his life ahead of him; all that was left was to finish his exams and apply to university. To fight off boredom and to feel relaxed and funny, he turned to alcohol. Then came the trouble. Now at a rehabilitation centre for alcoholics, he initially defies the strict regime here. His views of the treatment and himself change only thanks to an empathetic therapist. The inhospitable environment becomes a place of self-reflection on an event that irreversibly changed Adam's life.
Sun 06.09.2020 | 21:00Caught in the Net (2019)
Section: Czech Films and TV Production
Directed by: Barbora Chalupová, Vít Klusák
Czech Republic, 2019, 100 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 3
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Three actresses, three rooms, ten days, and 2458 potential sexual predators actively searching for and contacting "12-year-old girls" on the net. This experiment opens up the taboo subject of Internet child abuse and tells the captivating drama of three heroines whose participation in the experiment, from casting to personal meetings with predators under the supervision of security, becomes a crucial life experience. In this experiment hunters become the hunted. BIOGRAPHY Barbora Chalupová is a Czech documentary filmmaker. She co-directed the TV series Czech Journal (2017, 2019), and during her studies she shot films such as Arms Ready (2016), and Portrait of Lubor D (2018). Vít Klusák is a well-known Czech documentary filmmaker and producer. Among his films, we can mention, e.g. The Czech Dream (2004), All for the Good of the World and Nosovice! (2010), The White World According to Daliborek (2017), and several episodes for the Czech Journal TV series, e.g. Matrix AB (2015).
Mon 07.09.2020 | 08:40Caught in the Net: Behind School (2019)
Section: Czech Films and TV Production
Directed by: Barbora Chalupová, Vít Klusák
Czech Republic, 2019, 64 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 2
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Three actresses, 3 rooms, 10 days, and 2458 potential sexual predators who actively searched for and contacted "12-year-old girls" on the net. The film opens up the taboo subject of child abuse on the Internet and tells the captivating drama of 3 heroines, for whom participation in the experiment, from casting to personal meetings with predators under the supervision of security, becomes a crucial life experience. Predatory tactics are gradually turned against their masters: Hunters become the hunted. Special version suitable from the age of 12, even without an adult. BIOGRAPHY Barbora Chalupová is a Czech documentary filmmaker. She co-directed the TV series Czech Journal (2017, 2019), and during her studies she shot films such as Arms Ready (2016), and Portrait of Lubor D (2018). Vít Klusák is a well-known Czech documentary filmmaker and producer. Among his films, we can mention, e.g. The Czech Dream (2004), All for the Good of the World and Nosovice! (2010), The White World According to Daliborek (2017), and several episodes for the Czech Journal TV series, e.g. Matrix AB (2015).
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.
Thu 10.09.2020 | 19:30Boy 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.