The Ape Star (2021)
Section: Literature in Film - European Corner
Directed by: Linda Hambäck
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, 2021, 76 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 1
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There is nothing the orphan Jonna wants more than a mother. The feisty young girl dearly wants to be adopted. Jonna will accept anyone, really, so long as her new parent loves Jonna… and only Jonna. But when her potential new mom drives up to the orphanage in an old car, she gets a big shock when the door opens and a gorilla steps out! Now she’s not so sure she wants to leave…
The Ogglies - Welcome to Smelliville (2020)
Section: Literature in Film - European Corner
Directed by: Jens Møller, Toby Genkel
Germany, 2020, 85 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 3
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The Ogglies are looking for a new home. They end up in Smelliville, a beautiful and peaceful village. Unfortunately, Smelliville has a stinky problem: The local garbage dump is spoiling the place. Something must happen! Max, son of the mayor and his ambitious wife, secretly hopes to solve the stinky problem with a crazy machine, but when Max meets the Ogglies on the rubbish dump, it becomes clear what the Ogglies might mean for Smelliville: they eat garbage!
The Ape Star (2021)
Section: Literature in Film - European Corner
Directed by: Linda Hambäck
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, 2021, 76 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 2
Score:
There is nothing the orphan Jonna wants more than a mother. The feisty young girl dearly wants to be adopted. Jonna will accept anyone, really, so long as her new parent loves Jonna… and only Jonna. But when her potential new mom drives up to the orphanage in an old car, she gets a big shock when the door opens and a gorilla steps out! Now she’s not so sure she wants to leave…
The Ogglies - Welcome to Smelliville (2020)
Section: Literature in Film - European Corner
Directed by: Jens Møller, Toby Genkel
Germany, 2020, 85 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 1
Score:
The Ogglies are looking for a new home. They end up in Smelliville, a beautiful and peaceful village. Unfortunately, Smelliville has a stinky problem: The local garbage dump is spoiling the place. Something must happen! Max, son of the mayor and his ambitious wife, secretly hopes to solve the stinky problem with a crazy machine, but when Max meets the Ogglies on the rubbish dump, it becomes clear what the Ogglies might mean for Smelliville: they eat garbage!
Remi, Nobody´s Boy (2018)
Section: Literature in Film - European Corner
Directed by: Antoine Blossier
France, 2018, 108 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 6
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Raised by a kindly peasant woman after being found as a baby, 10-year-old Remi is brutally taken from his adopted mother and sold by her husband to Signor Vitalis, an old travelling street musician with a shadowy past. Remi sets off on a long journey through France with his new master, their faithful dog Capi, and mischievous monkey Mister Joli-Coeur. Through adventures and misadventures, young Remi not only discovers his extraordinary singing talent, but also his true identity.
Pinocchio (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.
The Footballest (2018)
Section: Literature in Film - European Corner
Directed by: Miguel Ángel Lamata
Spain, 2018, 101 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, sál 1
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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.
School 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.
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
Score:
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.