Film programme 2022

Barley Fields on the Other Side of the Mountain (2017)

Section: Top Teen Ten

Directed by: Tian Tsering

United Kingdom, 2017, 88 min

Projection place: Castle SVOBODY

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A story about the price of freedom and who pays for it told through the eyes of a teenage girl. Sixteen-year-old Pema lives in the remote mountains of Tibet. For generations, her family has farmed their barley fields in peace. But when Pema's father is taken away by the authorities, her world is shattered. A Buddhist nun from the local nunnery walks into Pema's life and invites her to join a group of locals escaping persecution by walking over the Himalayas into India. Pema is torn; can she leave her mother, grandmother and younger siblings at this time of crisis? Does she have the right, or the courage, to join her friend and seek a new life for herself? As Pema struggles with her dilemma, there is no news about her imprisoned father. The clock is ticking for everyone

First-time Voters 2021 (2022)

Section: New Czech Film and TV Programmes

Directed by: Markéta Ekrt Válková

Czech Republic, 2022, 53 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4

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The development and shaping of the political views of several young people from different social backgrounds and schools – apprentice school kids to private high school students – just before the elections in autumn 2021 in relation to their social environments. Young people hold political stances across the political spectrum, from ANO to SPOLU to PirSTAN. It is thus a collective portrait of one generation, its ideas about adulthood, the future, and state of our society.