Mon 05.06.2023 | 20:00Winter Boy (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Christophe Honoré
France, 2022, 122 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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InfoLucas is 17 when his teenage world is suddenly shattered. He views his life as a wild animal in need of taming. Between a brother settled in Paris and a mother with whom he now lives alone, Lucas will have to fight to rediscover hope and love.
Tue 06.06.2023 | 11:10Sweet As (2022)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Junior Category (over 11 years of age)
Directed by: Jub Clerc
Australia, 2022, 87 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Aborigine teen Muura's life is like the landscape in which she lives with her alcoholic mother: lonely, boring and even pathetic. In her remote part of Australia, she has no friends and prefers to spend time away from home, which is beginning to lack any meaning. One day she runs out of patience and goes to her uncle. To keep his niece from getting lost in the welfare system, he signs Muuru up for a photography trip to the Australian outback with three other troubled teens. Their task is to find stories through the viewfinders of their small cameras. This fresh road movie tells the story of growing up and finding unexpected friendship, first love, new challenges, responsibility, and the truth about yourself. We sit next to Muura in the seat of a rundown bus and embark on a journey into the depths of the breathtaking Australian outback and the souls of broken young people who are taking a chance.
Tue 06.06.2023 | 17:30Scrapper (2023)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films in the Junior Category (over 11 years of age)
Directed by: Charlotte Regan
United Kingdom, 2023, 83 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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When her mother dies, 12-year-old Georgie does everything she can to avoid going to an orphanage. She has a lot on her mind for her age. She must to both grow up quickly to be able to take care of herself, and use her child's ingenuity and innocence to deceive local authorities and others. She and her best friend Ali make money stealing bikes and she pretends to live with an “uncle”. But this fake family member is soon replaced by her real father, who’s been gone so long that she doesn't recognize him. Not happy with his intrusion, she tries to find out why her father has reentered her life. This great British dramedy combines elements of the social film genre, fresh formal flavors, memorable scenes (especially the interaction between Georgia and her father), funny lines and talking spiders. The film won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema section at this year's Sundance.
Tue 06.06.2023 | 19:30Mountain Onion (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Eldar Shibanov
Kazakhstan, 2022, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Eleven-year-old Jabai sells mountain onions alongside the highway and one day he catches his idol trucker having sex with his mom. Jabai and his sister, Saniya, embark on a journey from their small village in Kazakhstan to China, to obtain the only thing that will save their father and help him become a strong man, the ‘Golden Viagra’.
Tue 06.06.2023 | 20:00Daughter of Rage (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Laura Baumeister
France, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Nicaragua, 2022, 91 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Nicaragua, today. Maria (11) lives with her mother Lilibeth at the edge of a garbage dump. Their future depends on selling a litter of purebred puppies to a local thug. When the deal falls through, Lilibeth must go to the city and drops Maria off at a recycling center where she must stay and work. But days pass and she doesn’t return. Maria feels lost, bewildered and angry. One night, Maria meets Tadeo, an imaginative new friend who is determined to help her to reunite with her mother.
Wed 07.06.2023 | 09:10The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse (2022)
Section: World Children´s Film Panorama
Directed by: Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy
United States of America, United Kingdom, 2022, 34 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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A heartwarming story of the unlikely bond between four friends as they explore the meaning of kindness, friendship, courage and hope. A beautifully animated film for viewers of all ages based on Charlie Mackesy's bestselling book.
Wed 07.06.2023 | 14:30Close (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Lukas Dhont
Belgium, Netherlands, France, 2022, 105 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Léo and Rémi are close. They have boyhood adventures, share the world and almost every moment together. But they're reaching an age when things start to have names. What do they have, friendship or love? School starts after the holidays and thus start the nosy questions and ironic remarks of their classmates. As childhood ends, adulthood intrudes inexorably into the two friends' previously carefree world.
Wed 07.06.2023 | 17:00Little Ones (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Julie Lerat-Gersant
France, 2022, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Pregnant, 16-year-old Camille is placed in a home for teen mothers by a family court judge. Separated from her own loving yet toxic mother, she strikes up a friendship with Alison, another rather immature underage mother, and rebels against the social worker Nadine, a passionate, albeit blasé authority figure. These encounters will radically change her destiny.
Wed 07.06.2023 | 19:30The Young Arsonists (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Sheila Pye
Canada, 2022, 93 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Set in the ‘80s amongst the sparse landscape of an isolated farming community, four restless adolescent girls band together to escape their troubled lives and patriarchal constraints by reclaiming an abandoned farmhouse as their own. When their secret world is threatened, the girls’ relationships are tested to an extreme.
Wed 07.06.2023 | 20:00The Kings of the World (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Laura Mora
Colombia, Luxembourg, Mexico, France, Norway, 2022, 104 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Rá, Culebro, Sere, Winny and Nano, five street kids from Medellin, five kings without a kingdom, with no law and no family, looking for The Promised Land. The five embark on a trip to claim a piece of land that Rá inherited after a long process of land restitution. A subversive tale about a savage and lovely clan that transits between reality and delirium. A journey to nowhere where anything can happen.