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).
Sat 05.09.2020 | 16:00Apollo 11 (2019)
Section: 2020: Back to the Future-Science Is Science
Directed by: Todd Douglas Miller
United States of America, 2019, 93 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 3
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It is 1969, the Apollo 11 mission. This is the first spaceflight from which men walked on the Moon. The film consists solely of archival footage, including 70 mm film previously unreleased to the public, and does not feature narration, interviews, or modern reenactments. The Saturn V rocket, Apollo crew consisting of Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins, and Apollo program Earth-based mission operations engineers are prominently featured.
Sat 05.09.2020 | 17:30Side by Side (2012)
Section: 2020: Back to the Future-Science Is Science
Directed by: Chris Kenneally
United States of America, 2012, 98 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 6
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Can film survive our digital future? Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating an evolution in the medium, slowly replacing the standard format. Keanu Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.
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.
Tue 08.09.2020 | 10:10Jawline (2019)
Section: 2020: Back to the Future-Science Is Science
Directed by: Liza Mandelup
United States of America, 2019, 93 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 5
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An entertaining and eye-opening portrait of influencer culture reveals the world behind social media stardom. The handsome 16-year-old Austyn Tester wants to escape the confines of life in small-town Tennessee. In the online world he is worshipped by thousands of teenage girls, who all angle for his likes and attention during his live streams.
Tue 08.09.2020 | 19:00More Human than Human (2018)
Section: 2020: Back to the Future-Science Is Science
Directed by: Tommy Pallotta, Femke Wolting
Belgium, Netherlands, 2018, 79 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 4
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What does it mean to live in the age of intelligent machines? In this playful quest, the filmmaker finds out how much of his creativity and human values are at stake as he builds his own robot to replace himself as a filmmaker. The filmmaker’s journey takes him to the world’s leading AI experts and robot pioneers confronting them with existential questions such as: will AI, infinitely smarter, interconnected and possibly self-aware, render humanity obsolete? BIOGRAPHY Tommy is from the USA, Femke from the Netherlands. Both are successfully engaged in production and directing. Their joint filmography includes the documentaries Last Hijack (2014), Wir sind die Roboter (2015) and More Human Than Human (2018).
Wed 09.09.2020 | 19:00Five Star Existence (2011)
Section: 2020: Back to the Future-Science Is Science
Directed by: Sonja Linden
Finland, Sweden, 2011, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 4
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A personal and sensitive quest to the core of the modern information society, where technology and human being get more and more entwined. It explores our society being on the verge of turning ubiquitous – a wireless society, where the laws of time, space and distance are revolutionizing the concept of liaison. Do the consequences of the technological revolution increase our freedom or do they limit us?
Thu 10.09.2020 | 19:00Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
Section: 2020: Back to the Future-Science Is Science
Directed by: Werner Herzog
United States of America, 2016, 98 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 4
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Documentary journey through a series of provocative conversations that reveal the ways in which the online world has transformed how virtually everything in the real world works - from business to education, space travel to healthcare, and the very heart of how we conduct our personal relationships.