Tue 14.09.2021 | 17:00Love, Simon (2018)
Section: Literature in Film - Young Academy
Directed by: Greg Berlanti
United States of America, 2018, 110 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 5
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InfoEveryone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated; he hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay. He also doesn't know the identity of an anonymous classmate he's fallen for online. Solving both problems turns out to be funny, frightening and life-changing.
Tue 14.09.2021 | 17:30Pinocchio (2019)
Section: Literature in Film - European Corner
Directed by: Matteo Garrone
France, Italy, United Kingdom, 2019, 125 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 6
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Geppetto, an old woodcarver creates a puppet. But something magical happens – the cheeky puppet begins to talk and can walk, run and eat like any young boy. Geppetto calls him Pinocchio, and brings him up as his son. But Pinocchio finds it hard to be good. Easily led astray, he tumbles from one misadventure to another as he is tricked, kidnapped and chased by bandits through a fantastical world full of imaginative creatures, as he tries to become a real boy.
Tue 14.09.2021 | 19:00Fortuna - the Girl and the Giants (2020)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Nicolangelo Gelormini
Italy, 2020, 108 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 4
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A little girl called Nancy (6) lives with her mother in an anonymous suburb. She spends her time with two playmates, Nicola and Anna, dreaming of being Fortuna, an alien princess chased by giants who want to kidnap her and her friends. After a tragic accident happens to Nicola, an obscure secret surfaces in a struggle between reality and imagination, unveiling a horrible truth. A dark fairy tale, based on a true story.
Tue 14.09.2021 | 19:30Forrest Gump (1994)
Section: Literature in Film - Classics
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
United States of America, 1994, 142 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 5
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The story of an ordinary man and his extraordinary life. Through three turbulent decades, Forrest Gump rides a tide of events that whisks him from physical disability to football stardom, from Vietnam hero to shrimp tycoon, from White House honors to the arms of his one true love. Forrest is the embodiment of an era, an innocent at large in an America that is losing its innocence.
Wed 15.09.2021 | 08:40Little Nicholas (2009)
Section: Literature in Film - The Club of Heroes
Directed by: Laurent Tirard
France, Belgium, 2009, 91 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 2
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Nicholas leads a peaceful existence until the day he overhears a conversation between his parents, leading him to understand that they are expecting a child. He panics and imagines the worst: a little brother! Nicholas’ parents will no longer have time for him. Maybe they'll even abandon him in the forest like Little Tom Thumb. To escape this disastrous fate, Nicholas embarks on a full-scale campaign to make himself indispensable to his parents.
Wed 15.09.2021 | 10:10The Wolf and the Lion (2021)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Gilles de Maistre
France, 2021, 99 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 5
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After her grandfather’s death, 20-year-old Alma decides to go back to her childhood home – a little island in the heart of the majestic Canadian forest. Whilst there, she rescues two helpless cubs: a wolf and a lion. They forge an inseparable bond, but their world soon collapses as the forest ranger discovers the animals and takes them away. The two cub brothers must now embark on a treacherous journey across Canada to be reunited with one another and Alma once more.
Wed 15.09.2021 | 10:40They Refused to Get on Board (2019)
Section: New Czech Films and TV Programmes
Directed by: Marta Vančurová
Czech Republic, 2019, 11 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 6
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This short animated film brings to life the true story of the hidden family of Eva Benešová (born 1940) during World War 2 in former Czechoslovakia.
Wed 15.09.2021 | 10:40They Refused to Get on Board (2019)
Section: New Czech Films and TV Programmes
Directed by: Marta Vančurová
Czech Republic, 2019, 11 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 6
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This short animated film brings to life the true story of the hidden family of Eva Benešová (born 1940) during World War 2 in former Czechoslovakia.
Wed 15.09.2021 | 15:00Dating Amber (2020)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Youth Category
Directed by: David Freyne
Ireland, 2020, 92 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 1
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Set-in Ireland during the mid-90’s, Eddie and Amber (both 17) are in the closet about their sexuality and decide to stage a relationship in order to stop everyone speculating. Eddie is keen to follow his dad into the military, while Amber dreams of moving to the liberal hub of London. However, their ‘ideal’ arrangement begins to fall apart, forcing Eddie deeper into denial as Amber realises that a perilous future awaits her best friend unless she intervenes.
Wed 15.09.2021 | 15:30All Foreigners Keep Their Curtains Closed (2020)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Ingvild Søderlind
Norway, 2020, 83 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 2
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An honest, funny, and warm slice-of-life story about identity, loss, love, and emerging sexuality. We follow 15-year old Mariana’s journey from being a typical irresponsible teenager who just goes with the flow to becoming a strong young woman who stands up – not only for herself, but also for those around her.
Wed 15.09.2021 | 17:30The Pit (2020)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Dace Pūce
Latvia, 2020, 75 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 6
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Markuss must adapt to a new life living with his granny in the countryside. After a neighbor’s daughter, Emīlija, insults his father, he does something cruel that has severe consequences which resonate throughout the village. Forced to work, he begins to harbor hatred towards the others in the village – all except an old sailor living in the nearby woods. Will this enmity between Markuss and the village continue, or can he redeem himself?
Fri 24.09.2021 | 16:30Beans (2020)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Junior Category
Directed by: Tracey Deer
Canada, 2020, 92 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 4
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Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence, he is forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.