Film programme by theatre and day
| Programme | Time |
|---|---|
| Stepping on the Flying Grass | 08:30 |
| Assigned by their teacher to write an essay about their most cherished dream, four young friends in rural Indonesia each take a different approach to their assignment. Class representative Jono wants to be a soldier when he grows up, and practices by playing war games in his backyard. Mey wants to be a famous actress, and works on her smile in front of the mirror as her stage mother looks on. Puji dreams about helping others, while Agus, whose family does not have a wide variety of food at home, wants nothing more than to eat at an authentic Padang restaurant in the city - and when an opportunity arises to earn some money, he sets out to make his dream come true. | |
| Month's Rulers | 10:30 |
| A peaceful village wakes up one day before Christmas when its native son - young man called Karel - comes back home from abroad, where he was apparently doing very well. Karel would be a good catch for all the local girls, who are so eager to marry him that they lay siege to his cottage. Karel, though, wants to avoid tying the knot, so his brother comes up with the idea to give the marriage-hungry girls tasks impossible to fulfill. Marushka's spoiled sister Kvyeta would also like to get married, so her step-mother forces Marushka to fulfill the difficult tasks instead of Kvyeta. What is Marushka to do? Who can help her gather violets and strawberries and bring an old apple tree to life when it's winter? | |
| Jirka and the White Mice | 10:30 |
| Eight-year-old Jirka and his parents are visiting the family of his father's boss, a professor of a research institute. Although the boy tries hard to behave, he accidentally releases three laboratory mice from their cage. Not wanting the visit to end in fiasco, Jirka must catch the mice before anybody notices. His task is complicated not only by his parents, who carefully watch him, but also by the suspicious hostess. In addition, the boy soon discovers that the mice are exceptional for their unprecedented intelligence and have their own plans for their temporary freedom than Jirkas. But then another completely unexpected and very dangerous opponent appears... | |
| David's Tour | 13:00 |
| David, a city tour guide, leads his faithful tourists into a bizarre and surreal excursion through Rome and its famous landmarks that have witnessed the reasons for his broken heart. | |
| Roadside Girls | 13:00 |
| A spring morning on a coutryside road. Two hitchhikers get acquainted. Sarah, a 28 years old bohemian lifestyle traveller meets and take under her wing the young Alex, 19, that seems to have no purpose but to leave the place where she landed. | |
| Needle | 13:00 |
| Young Lilly is going to get her ears pierced. A quarrel between her parents overwhelms the situation and directs it differently. | |
| Small Circle of Attention | 13:00 |
| Přemek is a known theater actor who falls in love with his new colleague in the theater. He is married, though, and his wife is ill. Will he manage to overcome his love for the sake of responsibility? Will he make amends with his son, with whom he argued because of a similar uncontrolled situation? The film is a chamber tale about interpersonal relationships. | |
| The Album | 13:00 |
| This is a love story about teenagers in which a cyber-drummer plays an important role. The young girl has to decide which of the two drummers she will choose. Whose album will grab her heart the most? And whose concert will be the most successful? | |
| The boy who wanted to fly | 13:00 |
| A young boy assembles his toy glider as an escape from reality. When it fails, he returns to his broken home trying to fix the world in another special way. | |
| N/A | 13:00 |
| Synopsis not available. | |
| The Wild Swans | 15:10 |
| Princess Elisa lives happily with her eleven brothers. When their father remarries, the beautiful new queen uses her powers of enchantment to force her father to send Elisa away. Meanwhile the Queen transforms her brothers into swans. When Elisa returns as an adult, her father is unable to recognize her, and she is chased out of the kingdom. With the help of an old woman - the fairy Fata Morgana in disguise - she tracks down her brothers. They are now swans by day, and human beings by night. Elisa vows to do everything in her power to save her brothers. | |
| Touch of Light | 17:10 |
| This is a story of inspiration, discovery and love. A son born to a rural family in Taiwan, blind Yu Siang was a curious and precocious child. Touch and sound was everything to him. With the love of his mother and support of his family, he grew up with no barriers; that is until he had to face the real world as he left his family behind in order to attend university where he had to compete on the same level as the sighted students. He soon crossed paths with Jie, a beautiful but frustrated cold drinks vendor who dreams of being a dancer but whose struggles against the harsh realities of her life render her helpless. However, when she witnesses Yu Siang's fearless determination and understands his optimism and inner peace, she is inspired and determined to hold on to her dream. | |
| Blackbird | 21:30 |
| Sean Randall, a troubled teen, seeks to protect himself from his college mates and issues a death threat online. Soon, he is arrested and falsely accused by the media and the authorities of planning a Columbine shooting scenario. Sean's only hope is to overcome his dark image and prove his innocence to his girlfriend Deanna while realizing that the worst prisons are often the ones we create for ourselves. | |
Screening place: Golden Apple Cinema, č. 2
Day: May 29th 2013
