Film programme 2022

Toilet Talks (2022)

Section: New Czech Film and TV Programmes

Directed by: Erika Hníková

Czech Republic, 2022, 22 min

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About sex for young people just starting out in this area of life. Two young women, Terézia and Zuzana, talk in the restroom about various topics related to sexuality, intimacy, physicality, and self-acceptance. They tell their own stories, sometimes they invite guests, but they always speak plainly and with knowledge. The goal is sex education, to “expell myths”, and get teenagers to think about the role of social networks, media icons, and pornography in their lives.

Gabi, Between the Ages 8 and 13 (2021)

Section: Competition of European Documentary Films for Young Audience, Patron of Children Audience Award

Directed by: Engeli Brobert

Sweden, Norway, Denmark, 2021, 77 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5

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We follow the remarkable Gabi over the course of five formative years as she wrestles with society’s stereotypes about boys and girls. When her family moves from Stockholm to a small rural town, and as puberty kicks in, Gabi must decide whether she wants to fit in with the crowd or chart her own path.

Hello World (2021)

Section: Competition of European Documentary Films for Young Audience

Directed by: Kenneth Elvebakk

Norway, Sweden, 2021, 88 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5

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While their classmates and friends are doing everything to fit in, Runa, Dina, Viktor, and Joachim (aged 12-14) are defining themselves differently. They are the first people to be openly gay in their classes and the youngest ones in their respective communities to come out. But building pride is not easy in a world where hate messages are just a click away, and even harder in schools where administration and education systems seek to erase and marginalize outstanding voices. What is it really like to be the only open queer in the whole school? Told through the eyes of the four young people, the film gives us a window into understanding what it is like to grow up as a queer.

Sublime (2022)

Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Youth Category

Directed by: Mariano Biasin

Argentina, 2022, 100 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5

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Manuel (16) lives in a small coastal town. He plays bass in a band with his best friends. One of them is Felipe, with whom he’s been good friends since childhood. Manuel is dating Azul, a relationship that they are intensely exploring. But when it comes time to have their first time together, Manuel feels something completely new that makes him see Felipe with different eyes. The routines of their friendship change tenor. Manuel tries to figure out if the impulse is mutual. The challenge is in not putting their friendship at risk. Something that inevitably ends up being tested.

The Perfect David (2021)

Section: Beyond the Childhood Horizon

Directed by: Felipe Gomez Aparicio

Argentina, 2021, 78 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6

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At 16, David is much like any teenager, but his boyish good looks rest upon a hulking, muscular body. His weightlifting obsession is driven by his mother Juana, a troubled artist whose only goal is to have her son reach physical perfection by his 17th birthday. With countless hours spent at a grungy gym in the company of a motley clique of pumped-up gym rats, David desperately searches for what it means to be a man.

TBH (2022)

Section: New Czech Film and TV Programmes

Directed by: Lucia Kajánková

Czech Republic, 2022, 138 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3

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The abbreviation TBH in Czech online slang represents the phrase "to be honest". A web series shows the search for boundaries in the painful world of adolescence and manipulative social networks and describes how a shooting attack forever changes the lives of several Brno high school students. What will change after the attack in a community where the cruel rules have been determined by the strong boys from the floorball team and their angry fans – a girl group that calls itself Bitchez?