Sat 11.09.2021 | 15:00Little Spirou (2016)
Section: Literature in Film - Comic Book Paradise
Directed by: Nicolas Bary
France, Belgium, 2016, 59 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 6
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InfoLike every hero, the intrepid Spirou was once a kid. And when you’re a kid, you have to obey your elders. Like his entire family before him, Little Spirou is destined to become a professional bellboy. So when his mom announces that he’ll be starting bellhop academy next year, Little Spirou decides, with the help of his friends, to make the most out of their last days together, and to confess his undying love to his sweetheart Suzette.
Sat 11.09.2021 | 17:30Persepolis (2007)
Section: Literature in Film - Comic Book Paradise
Directed by: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
France, 2007, 95 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 6
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The story follows Marjane, a smart and strong-willed girl whose life is forever changed when the Shah of Iran is overthrown by the Islamic Revolution of 1979. While far from being supporters of the Shah, Marjane's left-wing parents find their lives even harder under the new regime - and Marjane herself finds it impossible to adapt, rebelling in a country where rebellion increasingly has no place, especially for girls.
Sat 11.09.2021 | 18:30The Book Thief (2013)
Section: Literature in Film - Young Academy
Directed by: Brian Percival
Germany, United States of America, 2013, 131 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 3
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A profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family’s home, escape from the events unfolding around them in this extraordinary, acclaimed film directed by Brian Percival.
Sun 12.09.2021 | 10:30The Ape Star (2021)
Section: Literature in Film - European Corner
Directed by: Linda Hambäck
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, 2021, 76 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 2
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There is nothing the orphan Jonna wants more than a mother. The feisty young girl dearly wants to be adopted. Jonna will accept anyone, really, so long as her new parent loves Jonna… and only Jonna. But when her potential new mom drives up to the orphanage in an old car, she gets a big shock when the door opens and a gorilla steps out! Now she’s not so sure she wants to leave…
Sun 12.09.2021 | 13:30Trash (2020)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Children’s Category
Directed by: Luca Della Grotta, Francesco Dafano
Italy, 2020, 88 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 3
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Boxes, bottles, cans. Garbage. Abandoned everywhere. Ignored by everyone. Inert. Until nightfall. Slim is an old cardboard box. Resigned to his fate, he does not believe in the legend of the Magic Pyramid: a magical place where it’s possible for all garbage to be Carriers again, useful to themselves and others. His life changes when a small box, Spark, interrupts his routine. Spark involves Slim and his pal Bubbles in an adventure which will take him to a place where he belongs, a toy store. But someone is looking for Spark: the discarded Kudo, lord of the landfill. Kudo’s gang pursues the group until they capture him. After an epic battle Slim saves Spark and they are able to find the Magic Pyramid. At its feet their destiny is fulfilled, they are given a second chance: another life.
Sun 12.09.2021 | 15:00Sami, Joe and I (2020)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Youth Category
Directed by: Karin Heberlein
Switzerland, 2020, 94 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 6
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Sami, Joe and Leyla are an inseparable group of friends. Chatting and laughing, they roam through the suburbs of Zurich. The end of their time at school together should have been the start of an exciting summer, but the three youngsters have their hands full: Sami suffers under her overly strict parents, Joe has to look after her siblings, while her single mother works overtime, and Leyla nervously begins her apprenticeship in a canteen kitchen. For the teenage girls, tough decisions overshadow their dreams. In those defining days of their lives, their friendship seems to be the only constant. But as events take a harsh turn, even their friendship is put to the test. Determined to stand up for themselves, the three friends find out how right Leyla’s mom was when she told them: always keep more dreams in your soul than reality can destroy.
Sun 12.09.2021 | 16:30My Favorite War (2020)
Section: Competition of European Documentary Films for Young Audience
Directed by: Ilze Burkovska- Jacobsen
Latvia, Norway, 2020, 82 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 4
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An animated documentary tells the personal story of its director, Ilze, about her growing up in Cold-War USSR – about choices a girl has to make in a very young age, then getting wiser and finding the courage to speak out. It is an exciting coming-of-age story about finding one’s own identity, truth, and loyalty. First, we meet Ilze as a little girl playing war at her granddad ́s farm, then she is faced with the horror of war threats at school. Ilze lives in a clash between Soviet reality and state propaganda denying what people actually experience. Moreover, Ilze also finds out how opposite in their beliefs are people whom she loves the most.
Mon 13.09.2021 | 08:10The Ogglies - Welcome to Smelliville (2020)
Section: Literature in Film - European Corner
Directed by: Jens Møller, Toby Genkel
Germany, 2020, 85 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 1
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The Ogglies are looking for a new home. They end up in Smelliville, a beautiful and peaceful village. Unfortunately, Smelliville has a stinky problem: The local garbage dump is spoiling the place. Something must happen! Max, son of the mayor and his ambitious wife, secretly hopes to solve the stinky problem with a crazy machine, but when Max meets the Ogglies on the rubbish dump, it becomes clear what the Ogglies might mean for Smelliville: they eat garbage!
Mon 13.09.2021 | 08:40Kids are Fine (2021)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Children’s Category
Directed by: Ji Won LEE
South Korea, 2021, 108 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 2
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With an ailing mother and a very busy father, Da-yi is used to doing everything by himself. His family moves closer to his mother’s hospital so Da-yi can visit his mother every day. Though in a new neighborhood and school, Da-yi does not feel lonely as long as he is with his mother. He visits his mother every day to spend time with her. Gradually adjusting to his new school, Da-yi becomes best friends with his classmates Yu-jin and Min-ho. As he spends more time with his friends, he spends less time thinking about his mother. However, when his mother’s condition worsens and she is transferred to a faraway hospital, Da-yi gets worried that he may never see her again and heads out on the search with his friends.
Mon 13.09.2021 | 09:40Only Time for Loving (2020)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Children’s Category
Directed by: Liang Ming
China, 2020, 98 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 4
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A college student starts teaching at a rural school as a volunteer. As a girl from the city, she tries to adapt to local living conditions. It's not easy. One little boy in particular causes her a lot of trouble. All she thinks about is leaving this God-forgotten place. But she gradually discovers the beauty of the mountain landscape, where she can read poetry to her students in nature under a 100-old tree. She also finds a connection to her five students and tries to fix their difficult lives. At the end of her volunteer work, the teacher must say goodbye to her beloved students.
Mon 13.09.2021 | 14:00Bangla Surf Girls (2021)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Elizabeth D Costa
Canada, 2021, 86 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 4
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An immersive story that takes us into the heart of a slum near Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, where we witness the transformation of young girls who join a local surf club and dare to dream of freedom and escape from a life of drudgery and abuse. The film captures the raw emotions, the family dynamics, and the complex pressures of poverty, juxtaposed against the freedom of the waves. A coming-of-age story in a developing country.
Mon 13.09.2021 | 16:30Sisters: The Summer We Found Our Superpowers (2020)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Children’s Category
Directed by: Arild Østin Ommundsen, Silje Salomonsen
Norway, 2020, 77 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 4
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Vega (9) and her wild sister Billie (5) are going on an overnight outdoors hike in the Norwegian woods. The anticipated trip is full of sweet adventures and happy moments until their father falls into a mountain crack and twists his ankle. Unable to move, he asks Vega and Billie to get help. Initially girls feel lost, but after several magical and mysterious encounters in the woods, they embrace the mission! They bravely face their fears, discover their superpowers, and find strength in sisterhood!
Mon 13.09.2021 | 18:30Last Film Show (2020)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Pan Nalin
India, 2020, 100 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 3
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When 9-year-old Samay, living in a remote village in India, discovers films for the first time, he’s absolutely mesmerized. He goes to the cinema every day to watch more films, and even befriends the projectionist, who, in exchange for his lunch box, lets him watch movies for free. But when the cinema switches from 35mm film to digital, he and his friends move heaven and earth make their own film projector.
Mon 13.09.2021 | 19:00Ashes in the Snow (2018)
Section: Literature in Film - Young Academy
Directed by: MARIUS A. MARKEVICIUS
Lithuania, United States of America, 2018, 100 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 4
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During World War II, a 16-year-old aspiring artist and her family are deported to Siberia amidst Stalin’s brutal dismantling of the Baltic region. One girl’s passion for art and her never-ending hope will break the silence of history.
Mon 13.09.2021 | 19:30Valentina (2020)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Youth Category
Directed by: Cássio Pereira dos Santos
Brazil, 2020, 95 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 5
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Valentina wishes the only complications in her life were crushes on cute boys and fake IDs to go clubbing. But as a transgender teen in Brazil today, she faces significant social stigma and bureaucratic barriers. Her steadfast mum will do anything to smooth the path, so together they start over in a new town where nobody knows Valentina is trans. She becomes fast friends with a sweet gay guy and a pregnant computer nerd, but when they find themselves separated at a drunken party Valentina is harassed by someone who threatens to out her. However, with her steely support network and a maturity and resolve far beyond her years, she steamrollers the haters in this timely and transcendent drama.
Mon 13.09.2021 | 20:00La Francisca, A Chilean Youth (2020)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Rodrigo Litorriaga
Belgium, France, Chile, 2020, 80 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 6
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Francisca lives in a small town found between the Atacama desert and the Pacific Ocean. She dreams of leaving, but she has a little brother, Diego, who is imprisoned in his deep autism and mutism. When Fernando, Diego's new teacher, offers to apply some new pedagogical initiatives aimed at helping him, Francisca decides to take the chance and agrees, without imagining that she might be involved in an irreversible issue.
Tue 14.09.2021 | 10:10Little Vampire (2020)
Section: Literature in Film - Comic Book Paradise
Directed by: Joann Sfar
France, Belgium, 2020, 82 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 5
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Little Vampire has been 10 years old for the last 300 years. Despite living in a haunted house with a merry group of monsters, he is bored to death... His dream? Going to school to meet other kids. Accompanied by his trusted bulldog Phantomato, Little Vampire secretly sneaks out on a quest for new friends. He soon meets a human boy, Michael, but their friendship catches the attention of the terrifying Gibbus, an old enemy of the Little Vampire and his family...
Tue 14.09.2021 | 10:40My Very Own Circus (2020)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Miryam Bouchard
Canada, 2020, 100 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 6
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Born into a circus family, 12-year-old Laura has spent much of her young life on tour with her single father, Bill, a professional clown. But, secretly, she longs for a less hectic life. It’s thanks to her new teacher, who recognizes her academic potential, that Laura gets to fulfill her dream: attendance at a private high school… Can free spirit Bill accept that the apple of his eye has fallen so far from the paternal tree?
Tue 14.09.2021 | 16:00On the Water (2020)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Peeter Simm
Estonia, 2020, 106 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 3
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Andres is a sensitive teenager raised by his strict grandparents in a small bland Soviet Estonian town. He is bullied at school and his only friends are the drunks, whores, and thieves living next door. Among them are the rough but sensible recidivist Valter and the simpleminded fisherman Kolla. His only escape from his worries is to go fishing on the lake...
Tue 14.09.2021 | 16:30Mission Ulja Funk (2021)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Barbara Kronenberg
Germany, Luxembourg, Poland, 2021, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 4
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When Ulja (12) is prevented from pursuing her passion, astronomy, she decides to take matters into her own hands. With a stolen hearse and a 13-year-old classmate as a driver, she makes her way across Eastern Europe to watch the impact of an asteroid. In doing so, she not only has to shake off her persecutors, but also her pragmatic view of friendship and family.