Film programme 2021

Her Name Was Jo (2020)

Section: Panorama

Directed by: Joe Duca

United States of America, 2020, 103 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 5

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When 10-year-old Jo’s abusive junkie stepdad, ODs on heroine, she panics when the police come, and flees with her friend Selma in her step-dad’s beat-up Buick. They are bound for Los Angeles, in hopes of finding her biological father, who she only knows from an old CD left her by her deceased mother, folk singer Johnny Alvarez. On the way, they must contend with trains, meth heads, unexpected deaths, and more; it’s a poetic, yet brutal portrait of the dark side of Americana.

Beans (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.