Toilet Talks (2022)
Section: New Czech Film and TV Programmes
Directed by: Erika Hníková
Czech Republic, 2022, 22 min
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InfoAbout 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.
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
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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…
Fri 27.05.2022 | 17:30My Brothers Dream Awake (2021)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Youth Category
Directed by: Claudia Huaiquimilla
Chile, 2021, 85 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Ángel and his younger brother Franco have been incarcerated in a juvenile prison for a year. Despite the difficulties, they have formed a solid group of friends with whom they spend their days sharing dreams of freedom. Everything changes when the arrival of a rebellious young man offers a possible escape: the only door to make those dreams come true. Inspired by many true events.
Fri 27.05.2022 | 18:30Keeper (2015)
Section: Top Teen Ten
Directed by: Guillaume Senez
Belgium, Switzerland, France, 2015, 95 min
Projection place: Castle SVOBODY
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Maxime and Mélanie are in love. Together they clumsily explore their sexuality with fiery curiosity until the day Mélanie realizes she´s pregnant. At first Maxime takes the news badly, but then he gets used to the idea of becoming a father. He convinces Melanie to keep the baby. So it´s been decided - Maxime and Mélanie, all of fifteen years old, are going to become parents
Fri 27.05.2022 | 20:00Morning Glow (2021)
Section: New Czech Film and TV Programmes
Directed by: Dan Wlodarczyk
Czech Republic, 2021, 85 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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Given the "unauthorized" name of Morning Glow by her alternative family, Social Services are taking the 8-month-old girl from them. After an ombudsman intervenes, the girl is returned, but the case continues. The media portrays this as petty bourgeois officials using bureaucracy to trouble those with lifestyles they disagree with. Morning Glow now symbolizes the conflict between the state and civil defiance. But where are the boundaries between normal and alternative?
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 | 17:00Hello 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.
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
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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.
Sun 29.05.2022 | 19:30Californie (2021)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman
Italy, France, 2021, 81 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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A unique coming-of-age story filmed over the course of five years of life of Moroccan girl Jamila (from 9 to 14 years of age) who lives in a port city in southern Italy. Rebellious, feisty and street-smart, Jamila has a lot of potential. However, she has to deal with a difficult life. Her mother loses her job and Jamila drops out from middle school. The dream of returning one day to her home country and her job at “Californie” beauty salon push the girl forward.
Sun 29.05.2022 | 20:00Soul of a Beast (2021)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Youth Category
Directed by: Lorenz Merz
Switzerland, 2021, 110 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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In a delirious summer rush, teenage father Gabriel falls in love with the enigmatic Corey, the girlfriend of his best friend Joel. Overwhelmed with the decision of his life, Gabriel is catapulted into the unforgiving wilderness of his heart, where imagination is more real than reality. Director succeeds in treading the line between film genres - post-apocalyptic films, coming of age tales, Samurai sagas, etc. - without ever sliding into pure compilation.
Mon 30.05.2022 | 14:00First-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.
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
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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.
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
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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 | 18:30Black (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
Tue 31.05.2022 | 14:30One Classroom (2022)
Section: New Czech Film and TV Programmes
Directed by: Petr Hátle
Czech Republic, 2022, 53 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Venezuelan Grecia, Vietnamese Linda, and Ukrainian Andrei are students of the inclusive META school, supporting the integration of young migrants into Czech society. Their families came to the Czech Republic under different circumstances; each has different ideas about their future. The boxer Andrej wants to become independent ASAP, the artistically-gifted Grecia would like to get into a secondary art school, and Linda is still looking for her own path to education and a career.
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.
Tue 31.05.2022 | 18:30Social Suicide (2015)
Section: Top Teen Ten
Directed by: Bruce Webb
United Kingdom, 2015, 92 min
Projection place: Castle SVOBODY
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A teen thriller about the devastating impact of one wrong post - loosely based on Romeo and Juliet. After a scared boy is arrested for the murder of two teenagers, he must convince the police of his innocence so that he can save his best friend from dying. However, his story is brought into question by his own internet history, the half-truths posted by concerned teenagers and messages beyond the dead from the victims themselves. When the police realize that one boy is willing to do anything for internet fame, even die, the stakes are raised in this nail-biting race-against-the-clock thriller
Tue 31.05.2022 | 20:00Soul of a Beast (2021)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Youth Category
Directed by: Lorenz Merz
Switzerland, 2021, 110 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
Score:
In a delirious summer rush, teenage father Gabriel falls in love with the enigmatic Corey, the girlfriend of his best friend Joel. Overwhelmed with the decision of his life, Gabriel is catapulted into the unforgiving wilderness of his heart, where imagination is more real than reality. Director succeeds in treading the line between film genres - post-apocalyptic films, coming of age tales, Samurai sagas, etc. - without ever sliding into pure compilation.
Wed 01.06.2022 | 16:30Scheme (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Farkhtat Sharipov
Kazakhstan, 2022, 74 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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The focus is on Masha, a teenager who, through a friend, gets caught in an opaque web of dependency and exploitation. In complex images that capture Masha's lack of anchors and connections, as well as her search for support, the film creates the multi-layered portrait of coming of age in new-rich Almaty, precise, vivid, dramatic and of universal relevance.
Wed 01.06.2022 | 19:30My Brothers Dream Awake (2021)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Youth Category
Directed by: Claudia Huaiquimilla
Chile, 2021, 85 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
Ángel and his younger brother Franco have been incarcerated in a juvenile prison for a year. Despite the difficulties, they have formed a solid group of friends with whom they spend their days sharing dreams of freedom. Everything changes when the arrival of a rebellious young man offers a possible escape: the only door to make those dreams come true. Inspired by many true events.