Film programme 2022

The Apple Day (2022)

Section: Festival Laurels from around the World , Patron of Children Audience Award

Directed by: Mahmoud Ghaffari

Iran, 2022, 79 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4

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A first-grade primary school teacher in a poor suburb of Tehran assigns a letter to each student and asks them to bring items starting with an assigned letter, related to their fathers’ jobs. Mehdi's father is a fruit seller and Mehdi must bring 30 apples (“Seeb” in Farsi) to class on the “S” Day. However, an unfortunate event immerses the family in a crisis. Saeed, Mehdi's older brother, must find a way to overcome this challenge and help Mehdi for “apple day”.

Black (2016)

Section: Top Teen Ten

Directed by: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah

Belgium, 2016, 95 min

Projection place: Castle SVOBODY

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Mavela, a 15-year-old black teenager was a misfit until she encountered the Black Bronx, a well-known gang of young Africans. She feels at home in the gang: accepted. She has friends now, who get her mixed up in street life. For the very first time, Mavela feels like she belongs. In return, she quickly learns that Black Bronx is a lifetime commitment; once a gang member, always a gang member. And she has no intention of leaving. One day, however, she meets Marwan. He´s Moroccan and a member of the 1080s, another teenage gang and the enemy of the Black Bronx gang. It´s love at first sight, but a dangerous Romeo and Juliet story now begins