Film programme by theatre and day
| Programme | Time |
|---|---|
| My Strange Grandfather | 08:40 |
| Creative people often seem weird, funny and a little bit crazy. Even friends and family do not always understand them and often feel ashamed of them. But sometimes they can create a real miracle - merely from garbage. | |
| Competitive Animated Films 4 | 08:40 |
| Synopsis not available. | |
| The Hotan Carpet Tale | 08:40 |
| A proverb says that it's easier to gather sand with a needle than to weave a carpet. A Hotan carpet tells an epic tale in which the carpet itself is the motif - a legend of the predators tiger, fox and a wolf, who rule the animal kingdom. Though they rule by force and strong fangs, they are outsmarted by the wits and cunning of the hares. Who's the strongest now? | |
| The Gifts of the Black Raven | 08:40 |
| Gocha is always cheerful and welcoming to his friends. It's a pity that he sometimes has nothing to offer. Once, his visitors turned out to be birds with their King Raven. The host decides to do his best to please his guests... | |
| Two Hansels and Grettel | 08:40 |
| The boys Kuba and Shruba travel by vacuum cleaner to a dark forest. The two brothers reach a clearing where they see a strange house made of gingerbread. There is nobody around. The hungry boys tear off pieces of the house's gingerbread walls and eat them. But then a witch comes on her broomstick and begins feeding Shruba lots of sweets and locks Kuba in a cage with Grettel. Wild boars open the cage and the children run away from the witch... | |
| Flying Animals - Nothing | 08:40 |
| The flying turtle is looking for something in his house. But he can't find it, not even in his shell. His neighbor the elephant comes for a visit. He sees the mess the turtle has made while searching and immediately imagines what must have happened. Is he preparing for the end of the world? Or is he looking for the meaning of life? The turtle says that nothing can be done. So the elephant suggests that when there's nothing that can be done, let's at least have cup of tea. | |
| Matei Child Miner | 10:40 |
| Matei (11) lives with his grandfather in a coalmining region in Romania. His parents went to work in Italy a couple of years ago. His relationship with his grandfather is very close. After an incident, Matei is unfairly kicked out of school and his grandfather reacts violently to this. Their mutual trust is destroyed. Matei flees from home and seeks shelter with Isidor, a mountain shepherd, who sends him back to school. Instead, Matei goes to Bucharest where he discovers The Museum of Natural Science. He returns home. Shortly after his arrival, his grandfather dies and Matei is sent to a children's home. When his mother and younger brother return to Romania to take him to Italy, Matei hides and they are forced to leave without him. He decides to stay and follow in his grandfather's footsteps. | |
| The Last One Goes to Hell | 15:20 |
| This historical adventure story is set in 1611 just after the Passau invasion of Bohemia. The main heroine, twelve-year-old Magdalena, accidentally witnesses a cruel and merciless battle between Passau mercenaries and their Czech pursuers. At this time she meets the wandering musician Matouš Psík. Their friendship helps them overcome all dangers, caused in no small extent by a miraculous bottle - a bottle that can grant its owner one wish, but which must then be sold at half the price than which it was purchased, otherwise its holder is doomed to Hell... | |
| Mother, I Love You | 17:20 |
| Raimonds is an adolescent pupil at a school specializing in music. His behavior earns him a severe reprimand, but he has no intention of obtaining his mother's signature on the form he's given and unplugs the telephone when his teacher tries to call her at home. Raimonds' mother's life is hard. She works overtime at a clinic to make ends meet. This means Raimonds is left to deal with his problems on his own. To cap it all, he discovers his mother has been deceiving him with all her talk of night shifts. She is unaware of the number of desperate acts he gets into. The excuses which follow soon ensnare him in an impossible situation. | |
| Dragon’s Return | 19:40 |
| This is a ballad about love, hate, and a search for a way out of loneliness. It is a dramatic story about the strange potter, Martin Lepiš, nicknamed Dragon, who is suspected by the villagers as the cause of natural disasters happening to them. He lost his wife, his home, and his freedom due to false accusations. After years he returns to his native village but the past cannot be mended or changed. Putting his own life to risk, he saves a herd of sheep in danger from forest fires high up in the hills. But not even this heroic deed helps to restore him to the local community. | |
| Clip | 21:40 |
| Sixteen-year-old Jasna runs with a crowd of girls engaged in a perpetual pursuit of fun, drugs and cheap sex. They record and replay their exhibitionistic antics on their smart phones as a form of validation; their recordings seem to have a more tangible reality than their actual existence. This blurring of the line between self-realization and self-degradation leads Jasna to regard the abusive behavior of her new drug dealer boyfriend as the start of a meaningful relationship. But when she visits an orphanage and meets a child who might not have long to live, her long-dulled emotions start to resurface. Her tearful confession to her boyfriend leads him to redouble his sadistic assault on her body, mind and spirit. | |
Screening place: Golden Apple Cinema, č. 3
Day: May 28th 2013
