Film programme 2021

Call me Blackbird (2020)

Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Junior Category

Directed by: Pavel Mirzoev

Russia, 2020, 93 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 4

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At first glance, Kostya is a completely ordinary 14-year-old boy. He is quite a capable rapper, but doesn't believe in himself, doesn't have many friends, and isn't good at school. He is attracted to his red-haired classmate Dina, who is going out with the popular and successful Valer. Kostya lives with his mother because his father has left them for another woman, which he views as a betrayal and he's ready to hate his father. All this until he meets a new and mysterious friend on the Internet…

A Brixton Tale (2020)

Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Youth Category

Directed by: Darragh Carey, Bertrand Desrochers

United Kingdom, 2020, 77 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 5

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Shy Benji is from the Somerleyton Estate in Brixton, a suburb of London. He spends his days protecting his best friend Archie and getting him out of trouble, mostly with drugs. Leah is a young white youtuber from a rich neighborhood and is obsessed with street art. Although Benji and Leah are from different worlds, one day their paths join after Leah chooses Benji as the subject of her new film. Leah is obsessed with capturing the immediate reality of Benji's difficult life. Due to their film practice, they get more and more ruthless and their romance begins to fall apart. The boundaries between image and reality are blurred, between cooperation and abuse, everything is out of control.