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.
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 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!
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.