Fri 04.09.2020 | 08:40Inventing Tomorrow (2018)
Section: 2020: Back to the Future-Science Is Science
Directed by: Laura Nix
United States of America, 2018, 87 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 2
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InfoMeet passionate teenage innovators from around the globe who are creating cutting-edge solutions to confront the world’s environmental threats – found right in their own backyards – while navigating the doubts and insecurities that mark adolescence. Take a journey with these inspiring teens as they prepare their projects for the largest convening of high school scientists in the world, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF).
Fri 04.09.2020 | 09:40Underage Engineers (2020)
Section: Competition of European Documentary Films for Young Audience
Directed by: Aleksandra Skowron, Hanna Polak
Poland, 2020, 52 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 4
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An observational story about how a particular person can dramatically change the lives of a typical teenager – and how such an adult can also change under the influence of his pupils. This is a film about transformation, discovering passion, and forever having a positive impact on a child's approach to learning and life... All the protagonists have been observed for three years through the ages 12-15, at the most important moment in their development. And in so many ways their development has been atypical. During their very first lesson they heard that they should throw away their textbooks. Then it got even stranger, with 12-year-olds from a small Polish town attempting to build satellite sail test models, inspired by a group of professional engineers...
Sat 05.09.2020 | 13:00Krakonos and the Skiers (1981)
Section: Old Time Cinema
Directed by: Věra Plívová-Šimková
Czechoslovakia, 1981, 72 min
Projection place: The Old Time Cinema
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This fabulous story about a mountain community is based on the rumors and fairy tales of this region and draws on the origins of these stories the hard life of the people of the Giant Mountains. Something new arrived to these mountains at the start of the 1900s - skiing. And skiing is at the heart of this story whose main heroes are two little boys and their friend, a famous smuggler with all the qualities of the Lord of the Giant Mountains from fairy tales
Sat 05.09.2020 | 14:00Back 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.
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?
Sun 06.09.2020 | 09:30Starry Road (2019)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Children
Directed by: Deju Xie, Zhanchang Huang
China, 2019, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 5
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There is no basketball court in the school, so Weiqiang Du chooses rope skipping, a low-cost sport. To attract pupils to sign for joining, Weiqiang Du tells students that “anyone who joins the rope skipping team will be given a new team uniform and shoes.” Two brothers named Jiang Hai and Jiang He thus join the team. However, they are “punished” by senior team members, including Xiaoqin Fang and Yuxiang Ren. Unable to endure the hard training, these two brothers want to exit from the team repeatedly. But when a volunteer teacher named Yuxin Feng joins the rope skipping team, bringing in new concepts and techniques, things change for the better. Eventually, the rope skipping team makes leapfrog development. Now all of the team members insist on practicing for the World Rope Skipping Championship. BIOGRAPHY A creative tandem from China. Together they have made many film and video projects that have been awarded, e.g. I Will Dance and Happness Comes from Hard Work (2018). The children's film Starry Road (点点 星光, 2019) is their latest film.
Mon 07.09.2020 | 14:30Underage Engineers (2020)
Section: Competition of European Documentary Films for Young Audience
Directed by: Aleksandra Skowron, Hanna Polak
Poland, 2020, 52 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 5
Score:
An observational story about how a particular person can dramatically change the lives of a typical teenager – and how such an adult can also change under the influence of his pupils. This is a film about transformation, discovering passion, and forever having a positive impact on a child's approach to learning and life... All the protagonists have been observed for three years through the ages 12-15, at the most important moment in their development. And in so many ways their development has been atypical. During their very first lesson they heard that they should throw away their textbooks. Then it got even stranger, with 12-year-olds from a small Polish town attempting to build satellite sail test models, inspired by a group of professional engineers...
Tue 08.09.2020 | 09:40The 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?
Tue 08.09.2020 | 14:00Starry Road (2019)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Children
Directed by: Deju Xie, Zhanchang Huang
China, 2019, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 4
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There is no basketball court in the school, so Weiqiang Du chooses rope skipping, a low-cost sport. To attract pupils to sign for joining, Weiqiang Du tells students that “anyone who joins the rope skipping team will be given a new team uniform and shoes.” Two brothers named Jiang Hai and Jiang He thus join the team. However, they are “punished” by senior team members, including Xiaoqin Fang and Yuxiang Ren. Unable to endure the hard training, these two brothers want to exit from the team repeatedly. But when a volunteer teacher named Yuxin Feng joins the rope skipping team, bringing in new concepts and techniques, things change for the better. Eventually, the rope skipping team makes leapfrog development. Now all of the team members insist on practicing for the World Rope Skipping Championship. BIOGRAPHY A creative tandem from China. Together they have made many film and video projects that have been awarded, e.g. I Will Dance and Happness Comes from Hard Work (2018). The children's film Starry Road (点点 星光, 2019) is their latest film.
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.
Wed 09.09.2020 | 17:301982 (2019)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Oualid Mouaness
Lebanon, Norway, Qatar, United States of America, 2019, 100 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 6
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On the last day of school in the mountains, during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, 11-year-old Wissam is determined to tell his classmate Joanna that he loves her, while his teachers – on different sides of the political divide – try to mask their fears.