Film programme 2021

Small Country: An African Childhood (2020)

Section: Panorama

Directed by: Eric Barbier

France, Belgium, 2020, 111 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 5

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Gabriel, aged 10, lives in a comfortable ex-pat neighborhood in Burundi, his ‘small country’. Gabriel is a normal kid; he’s happy, carefree and has adventures with his friends and little sister. Then in 1993, tensions in neighboring Rwanda spill over, threatening his family and his innocence.

The 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?