Tue 14.09.2021 | 09:10Sihja, the Rebel Fairy (2021)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Marja Pyykkö
Finland, Netherlands, Norway, 2021, 89 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 3
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InfoWhen Sihja, a young, charming and outrageous fairy leaves her forest home for the city, she makes a new friend named Alfred (11) and comes to love the city and orderly habits that humans have. But when a smelly factory turns out to be the culprit for the death of many birds, Sihja reveals her uncontrolled fairy powers, scaring the city folk. Alfred and Sihja must find out what is threatening nature to prevent an environmental disaster and Sihja must learn to control her powers...
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 | 14:30Petya of My Petya (2020)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Alexander Kossev
Bulgaria, 2020, 94 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 5
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Just prior to the new school year, Petya’s parents surprise her with the fact that they have gotten divorced. Feeling sad and betrayed, she seeks help and support from her father, but finds out that he has a mistress and is expecting a child from her. Overwhelmed, decides to end it all by diving into the icy sea on the same day that another Petya died: her idol Petya Dubarova. Is it too late to turn back?
Tue 14.09.2021 | 15:00Spaceboy (2020)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Children’s Category
Directed by: Olivier Pairoux
Belgium, 2020, 100 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 1
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Arriving in a new town with his dad, Jim, a gifted 11-year-old boy, has to participate in a young scientist competition with his new classmate Emma. Jim convinces her to secretly build a real air balloon. Pursuing his father’s dream of going to space, Jim drags her into an adventure which brings them closer.
Tue 14.09.2021 | 15:00Remi, Nobody´s Boy (2018)
Section: Literature in Film - European Corner
Directed by: Antoine Blossier
France, 2018, 108 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 6
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Raised by a kindly peasant woman after being found as a baby, 10-year-old Remi is brutally taken from his adopted mother and sold by her husband to Signor Vitalis, an old travelling street musician with a shadowy past. Remi sets off on a long journey through France with his new master, their faithful dog Capi, and mischievous monkey Mister Joli-Coeur. Through adventures and misadventures, young Remi not only discovers his extraordinary singing talent, but also his true identity.
Tue 14.09.2021 | 15:30Nahuel and the Magic Book (2020)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Germán Acuña
Brazil, Chile, 2020, 98 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 2
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Nahuel lives with his father in a fishing town, yet he has a deep fear of the sea. One day, he finds a magical book that seems to be the solution to this problem, but a dark wizard is after it and captures Nahuel’s father. This is where his fantastic adventure begins: to rescue his father while overcoming his deepest fears.
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.
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 | 19:30Forrest 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 | 08:10The Footballest (2018)
Section: Literature in Film - European Corner
Directed by: Miguel Ángel Lamata
Spain, 2018, 101 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 1
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Francisco and his closest friends play on a soccer team that has reached its lowest point. They’ve got to win one of the next three games to keep the school from cutting their team altogether. A series of strange events take place in the first two games. Coincidence? Conspiracy? Francisco and his friends decide to create The Footballest, an investigative team that will get them into all kinds of adventures, where their ingenuity and their friendships will be put to the test.
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 | 13:30Night Forest (2021)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Junior Category
Directed by: Andre Hörmann
Germany, 2021, 96 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 3
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Paul and Max are best buddies. On the first day of their summer vacation, they sneak out of their homes and venture into the green wilderness that surrounds their little mountain village. They are on a mission to find a legendary cave hidden somewhere in the mountains. The boys follow the traces of Paul’s missing father Thomas, who is seen as a madman by everyone in the village. To find the path to the cave, the boys must decrypt Thomas' notes about an ancient local tale. Alone in the woods, both boys experience a newfound sense of freedom and light-heartedness. As they blaze their trails through the deep forest and steep mountains, the runaways face challenges far greater than they had imagined, leading them to face their greatest fears and discover more about each other and their very different home lives.
Wed 15.09.2021 | 14:30School of Magical Animals (2021)
Section: Literature in Film - European Corner
Directed by: Gregor Schnitzler
Germany, 2021, 89 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 5
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The charming adventure about an unusual school, where the children receive a magical animal as a companion, centres on the new girl Ida, who goes from being an outsider to the star student thanks to her magical animal, the talking fox Rabbat.
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 | 16:00The Footballest (2018)
Section: Literature in Film - European Corner
Directed by: Miguel Ángel Lamata
Spain, 2018, 101 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 3
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Francisco and his closest friends play on a soccer team that has reached its lowest point. They’ve got to win one of the next three games to keep the school from cutting their team altogether. A series of strange events take place in the first two games. Coincidence? Conspiracy? Francisco and his friends decide to create The Footballest, an investigative team that will get them into all kinds of adventures, where their ingenuity and their friendships will be put to the test.
Wed 15.09.2021 | 16:30Mica (2020)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Ismaël Ferroukhi
France, Morocco, 2020, 104 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 4
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Saïd (Mica) sells grocery bags in souks. He lives with his mom and sick dad in a slum near Meknes. When Hajj Kaddour comes to take Mica to be an errand boy in a tennis club in Casablanca, the job leads to opportunities to learn to play tennis and perhaps… immigrate.
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?