Thu 26.05.2022 | 16:00Olga (2021)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Youth Category, Patron of Children Audience Award
Directed by: Elie Grappe
France, Switzerland, Ukraine, 2021, 86 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
Score:
Info2013. Olga, a talented and passionate 15-year-old Ukrainian gymnast, goes to Switzerland, where she tries to secure a place in the National Sports Centre. In Kiev, however, the Euromaidan suddenly breaks out, and her relatives are in the middle of it. As the young girl must adapt to a new country and prepare for the European Championships, the Ukrainian revolution enters her life and upends everything…
Thu 26.05.2022 | 19:30Besties (2021)
Section: Beyond the Childhood Horizon
Directed by: Desseigne Ravel Marion
France, 2021, 80 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
Paris. Nedjma, a teenager living with her mom and sister, spends the summer with her gang. Her life is turned upside down when she meets Zina, from another gang. Rivals in broad daylight; they are lovers in secret. Nedjma is sucked into a spiral, torn apart between the values of the hood and her own desire, which no one around her can possibly understand or tolerate. She will have to make a choice that will ultimately define who she is.
Thu 26.05.2022 | 20:00Mikado (2021)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Emanuel Parvu
Romania, Czech Republic, 2021, 96 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
Score:
One day, teenaged Magda offers her expensive necklace to a sick child in a hospital where she volunteers. Her father is sure she's lying again. When she proves her innocence, her father feels guilty, but is also unable to admit that he was wrong. Relationships are damaged and in chaos... Prior decisions have irreversible results.
Fri 27.05.2022 | 14:00Singo (2022)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Children’s Category
Directed by: Alireza Mohammadi
Iran, 2022, 82 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
Score:
From the first scene, it's clear that our hero, Shafa, is no ordinary girl. She races motorcycles, defends weaker friends, and saves animals from danger. Shafa lives with her father and two siblings on the island of Singo, a fishing community with strict rules. It is ruled by a local rich man who thinks money can buy everyone and everything. One day, Shafi's dad catches some very rare crabs, called horseshoe crabs, whose blood is worth a lot of money. The profit from their sale is to be distributed among all the island's inhabitants. But Shafa feels bad for the animals and releases them into the sea at night. Anger and blame fall on her father and the whole family faces the unpleasant consequences. The brave girl, however, refuses to be cast out by the locals. She sets out for a nearby island where rare crabs are said to live to save her loved ones from impending disaster.
Sat 28.05.2022 | 20:00Olga (2021)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Youth Category, Patron of Children Audience Award
Directed by: Elie Grappe
France, Switzerland, Ukraine, 2021, 86 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
Score:
2013. Olga, a talented and passionate 15-year-old Ukrainian gymnast, goes to Switzerland, where she tries to secure a place in the National Sports Centre. In Kiev, however, the Euromaidan suddenly breaks out, and her relatives are in the middle of it. As the young girl must adapt to a new country and prepare for the European Championships, the Ukrainian revolution enters her life and upends everything…
Sun 29.05.2022 | 10:30My Robot Brother (2022)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Children’s Category
Directed by: Frederik Nørgaard
Denmark, 2022, 84 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
Score:
This utopian high-tech future helps you re-imagine life on Earth: the climate crisis is solved, people live in harmony with nature and robots work as personal assistants. Nevertheless, not everything is golden glitter. School life still sucks for 12-year-old Alberte. Her old teddy bear-like android Robbi is quite an embarrassment to her. With the perfect birthday present – the newest model of humanoids not even on the market yet – everything seems to change. The new robot Konrad looks and acts completely as if he were human and suddenly Alberte’s popularity spikes as she is now the kid with the most advanced technology at school. But can the connection between Alberte and Konrad hold up to a real friendship?
Sun 29.05.2022 | 15:30How I Learned to Fly (2022)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Children’s Category
Directed by: Radivoje Andrec
Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovak Republic, 2022, 85 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
Score:
Adventurous and funny Sofija is forced to spend her vacation with her overbearing grandmother Maria, on an island in Croatia. It’s not the ideal summer experience she had hoped for, but with the help of her warmhearted old aunt Luce and her charming cousin, Sofija overcomes her initial boredom. She makes new friends and together they explore everything the summer on the island has to offer: sparkling sun, fun in the water, lots of ice cream, and her first kiss. But her carefree time comes to an abrupt end when beloved Luce has to be taken to hospital, leaving Sofija with a pair of family members she’d never met. Nevertheless, in the wake of tragedy, the family overcomes old traumas and when Sofija returns home, she realizes that revealing painful secrets is challenging but very liberating.
Sun 29.05.2022 | 17:30Scoundrels (2022)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Youth Category
Directed by: Aditya Sarpotdar
India, 2022, 120 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
Score:
Unaad is a coming-of-age story about three teenagers from Harne, a small coastal fishing town in Maharashtra. Shubya, Bandya, and Jameel are three friends who while away their time roaming around town and have no I am in life. The locals consider them the scoundrels of the town as these boys are known to get into trouble. This is the story of the phase in their lives that changes them forever.
Mon 30.05.2022 | 08:10How I Learned to Fly (2022)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Children’s Category
Directed by: Radivoje Andrec
Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovak Republic, 2022, 85 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 1
Score:
Adventurous and funny Sofija is forced to spend her vacation with her overbearing grandmother Maria, on an island in Croatia. It’s not the ideal summer experience she had hoped for, but with the help of her warmhearted old aunt Luce and her charming cousin, Sofija overcomes her initial boredom. She makes new friends and together they explore everything the summer on the island has to offer: sparkling sun, fun in the water, lots of ice cream, and her first kiss. But her carefree time comes to an abrupt end when beloved Luce has to be taken to hospital, leaving Sofija with a pair of family members she’d never met. Nevertheless, in the wake of tragedy, the family overcomes old traumas and when Sofija returns home, she realizes that revealing painful secrets is challenging but very liberating.
Mon 30.05.2022 | 14:30Singo (2022)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Children’s Category
Directed by: Alireza Mohammadi
Iran, 2022, 82 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
From the first scene, it's clear that our hero, Shafa, is no ordinary girl. She races motorcycles, defends weaker friends, and saves animals from danger. Shafa lives with her father and two siblings on the island of Singo, a fishing community with strict rules. It is ruled by a local rich man who thinks money can buy everyone and everything. One day, Shafi's dad catches some very rare crabs, called horseshoe crabs, whose blood is worth a lot of money. The profit from their sale is to be distributed among all the island's inhabitants. But Shafa feels bad for the animals and releases them into the sea at night. Anger and blame fall on her father and the whole family faces the unpleasant consequences. The brave girl, however, refuses to be cast out by the locals. She sets out for a nearby island where rare crabs are said to live to save her loved ones from impending disaster.
Mon 30.05.2022 | 17:00Sublime (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
Score:
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.
Mon 30.05.2022 | 18:30Poppy (2020)
Section: Beyond the Childhood Horizon
Directed by: Linda Niccol
New Zealand, 2020, 98 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
Score:
Poppy Simpson is an irrepressible young woman with Down syndrome and an assumption she should get to do what everyone else does – have a job, drive a car, have sex, get married. Holding her back is Dave, her older brother and her only family since the death of their parents. Poppy and Dave work together in their inherited auto repair business. Dave doesn’t think she can get a driver’s licence. Quietly rebellious, Poppy secretly begins to teach herself to drive.
Mon 30.05.2022 | 19:30Back to Those Days (2021)
Section: Beyond the Childhood Horizon , Patron of Children Audience Award
Directed by: Konrad Aksinowicz
Poland, 2021, 104 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
Alek has just come back from a long emigrant stay in the US and wants to start a new life in the new post-communist Poland. Unfortunately, he’s an alcoholic and drags his wife and 12-year-old son Tomek into being co-dependent alcoholics. As young Tomek starts to have difficulties at school, he gradually begins to understand the drama of his father’s alcoholism. Alek must make a choice…
Mon 30.05.2022 | 20:00The Perfect David (2021)
Section: Beyond the Childhood Horizon
Directed by: Felipe Gomez Aparicio
Argentina, 2021, 78 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
Score:
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.
Tue 31.05.2022 | 10:10How I Learned to Fly (2022)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Children’s Category
Directed by: Radivoje Andrec
Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovak Republic, 2022, 85 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
Adventurous and funny Sofija is forced to spend her vacation with her overbearing grandmother Maria, on an island in Croatia. It’s not the ideal summer experience she had hoped for, but with the help of her warmhearted old aunt Luce and her charming cousin, Sofija overcomes her initial boredom. She makes new friends and together they explore everything the summer on the island has to offer: sparkling sun, fun in the water, lots of ice cream, and her first kiss. But her carefree time comes to an abrupt end when beloved Luce has to be taken to hospital, leaving Sofija with a pair of family members she’d never met. Nevertheless, in the wake of tragedy, the family overcomes old traumas and when Sofija returns home, she realizes that revealing painful secrets is challenging but very liberating.
Tue 31.05.2022 | 17:00Scoundrels (2022)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Youth Category
Directed by: Aditya Sarpotdar
India, 2022, 120 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
Unaad is a coming-of-age story about three teenagers from Harne, a small coastal fishing town in Maharashtra. Shubya, Bandya, and Jameel are three friends who while away their time roaming around town and have no I am in life. The locals consider them the scoundrels of the town as these boys are known to get into trouble. This is the story of the phase in their lives that changes them forever.
Wed 01.06.2022 | 09:10TBH (2022)
Section: New Czech Film and TV Programmes
Directed by: Lucia Kajánková
Czech Republic, 2022, 138 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
Score:
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?
Wed 01.06.2022 | 10:30My Robot Brother (2022)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Children’s Category
Directed by: Frederik Nørgaard
Denmark, 2022, 84 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 1
Score:
This utopian high-tech future helps you re-imagine life on Earth: the climate crisis is solved, people live in harmony with nature and robots work as personal assistants. Nevertheless, not everything is golden glitter. School life still sucks for 12-year-old Alberte. Her old teddy bear-like android Robbi is quite an embarrassment to her. With the perfect birthday present – the newest model of humanoids not even on the market yet – everything seems to change. The new robot Konrad looks and acts completely as if he were human and suddenly Alberte’s popularity spikes as she is now the kid with the most advanced technology at school. But can the connection between Alberte and Konrad hold up to a real friendship?