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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InfoFrancisca 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 | 10:40My 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 | 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 | 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.
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 | 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 | 20:00Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Section: Literature in Film - Classics
Directed by: Jiří Menzel
Czechoslovakia, 1966, 89 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 6
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Miloš Hrma begins working at a provincial railway station during the Second World War. Historical events are overshadowed by his delicate problem with persistent virginity and by the beautiful train conductor Máša. It seems that the naïve Miloš fits in perfectly with the peculiar staff of the local station, where no one seems to be interested in war or politics. However, fate cannot be escaped. Miloš experiences seconds of intoxicating happiness, becoming a man, and then a tragic hero.
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.