Tue 06.06.2023 | 14:30Girl Gang (2022)
Section: Beyond the Childhood Horizon
Directed by: Susanne Regina Meures
Switzerland, 2022, 98 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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InfoFourteen-year-old Leonie is a successful teen influencer who lives on the outskirts of Berlin. Millions of followers are at her feet, and companies shower her with products. When Leonie’s parents recognize the enormous economic potential of their daughter’s online activities, they quickly take over her management. They want Leonie to have a better life than they had. But Leonie’s life, dictated by brands and pressure to produce content, has a dark side that the adrenaline, fame, and free sneakers can’t make up for.
Tue 06.06.2023 | 15:00Baghdad Messi (2022)
Section: Beyond the Childhood Horizon
Directed by: Sahim Omar Kalifa
Belgium, 2022, 88 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Iraq. Hamoudi (11) lives for football and he dreams of being as outstanding as his hero Lionel Messi. One day, when he is unintentionally involved in an attack, he wakes up in hospital with only one leg. While his parents do everything to keep the family safe, Hamoudi fights to achieve his dream in spite of his injuries.
Tue 06.06.2023 | 16:30Billie Blue (2023)
Section: Beyond the Childhood Horizon
Directed by: Mariloup Wolfe
Canada, 2023, 115 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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At 16, Billie is just now catching up with her peers: in love, in height (a growth spurt has propelled her to 1m80), in having her first period. In a hurry to catch up, she begins her summer as a lifeguard at the water park with her best friends and her oh-so-perfect older sister Annette. Everything goes wrong when Billie and Annette both fall for Pierre, a talented local racing cyclist. Thus begins a heartbreaking love triangle where Billie must once and for all take her place, shine bright and fight to live the love story she deserves.
Tue 06.06.2023 | 17:00Beautiful Beings (2022)
Section: Beyond the Childhood Horizon
Directed by: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Czech Republic, 2022, 123 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Fourteen-year-old Balli is an outsider from a broken family. In vain, he seeks support at home and at school, where he is a victim of bullying. Everything changes when he meets a group of three troubled teenagers who unexpectedly take him in. A gang dominated by the violent Konni and intelligent Addi offers Balli a missing home. A story told with poetic feeling and rawness about relationships that can last forever and help shape us in our most important moments. About cruelty and tenderness born on the magical border between childhood and adulthood.
Wed 07.06.2023 | 11:20Exodus (2022)
Section: Beyond the Childhood Horizon
Directed by: Abbe Hassan
Sweden, 2022, 102 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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We follow the journey of a young Syrian refugee, Amal (12). Fleeing to Romania to reunite with her family at a refugee camp there, she first must pass through Turkey. Smuggled to Istanbul in a crowded shipping container, she barely escapes when it’s raided by Turkish immigration authorities. With one of the smugglers, Sam (40), they embark on a perilous journey across Europe to try to get Amal back to her family.
Wed 07.06.2023 | 15:00Arnold is a Model Student (2022)
Section: Beyond the Childhood Horizon
Directed by: Sorayos Prapapan
Thailand, Singapore, France, Netherlands, Philippines, 2022, 85 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Arnold is a clever student who has won many academic awards. One day, he meets Bee who runs an underground business helping students cheat on their exams. Bee asks Arnold to join his cheating ring and offers him a lot of money. While Arnold considers working with Bee, many of his schoolmates, unhappy with their school’s disrespect of their freedom, organize a big protest.
Wed 07.06.2023 | 16:30Our Home (2022)
Section: Beyond the Childhood Horizon
Directed by: Romi Meitei Mayanglambam
India, 2022, 86 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Belonging to an isolated fishing community on Loktak Lake, Chaoren makes the best use of his exclusive existence by excelling in school. When the canoe he uses every day to attend school must be sold off because of his father’s illness, his spirit is not dampened. He covers the long distance from his shanty floating hut to school by swimming. But when the Government issues an eviction notice demanding Chaoren’s family to leave their home, his dreams are left with the angst of a displaced person.
Wed 07.06.2023 | 17:30Sixteen (2022)
Section: Beyond the Childhood Horizon
Directed by: Philippe Lioret
France, 2022, 94 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Nora and Leo (16) live in the same town, in the same suburbs, and go to the same high school, but they’re opposites: their social backgrounds, their families’ religions, their everyday lives. Yet, they fall in love at first sight. But an accusation of theft brings conflict between their respective families and their love story faces a series of trials and dramas.
Wed 07.06.2023 | 18:30When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before (2023)
Section: Beyond the Childhood Horizon
Directed by: Sonja Heiss
Germany, 2023, 116 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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Growing up on the grounds of one of Germany's largest psychiatric hospitals is somehow - different. For Joachim, the director's youngest son, the patients are like family. They are also much nicer to him than his two older brothers, who drive him into fits of rage. His mother, painting watercolors, longs for Italian summer nights instead of constant German rain, while his father secretly, but not discreetly enough, goes his own way. But as Joachim slowly grows up, his world, not only through the loss of his first love, gets more and more cracks...