Film programme 2021

Life Giver (2020)

Section: Brainz VR Cinema

Directed by: Petter Lindblad, Alexander Rönnberg

Sweden, 2020, 12 min

Projection place: Univerzitní centrum U13

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It's 2068 and it’s not long until the end of the Earth. Humanity must escape to another planet. But the escape rockets are not for everyone.

The 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.

Brainz VR Cinema: 3. pásmo 15+

Section: Brainz VR Cinema

, 0, 19 min

Projection place: Univerzitní centrum U13

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Mica (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.

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?

The Fault in Our Stars (2014)

Section: Literature in Film - Young Academy

Directed by: Josh Boone

United States of America, 2014, 126 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 4

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Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old cancer patient, meets and falls in love with Gus Waters, a similarly afflicted teen from her cancer support group. Hazel feels that Gus really understands her. They both share the same acerbic wit and a love of books, especially Grace's touchstone, "An Imperial Affliction" by Peter Van Houten. When Gus scores an invitation to meet the reclusive author, he and Hazel embark on the adventure of their brief lives.

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.

Shoky & Morthy: Poslední velká akce (2021)

Section: Open-Air Cinema

Directed by: Andy Fehu

Czech Republic, 2021, 103 min

Projection place: Open Air Cinema

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Closely 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.

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.