Film programme by theatre and day
| Programme | Time |
|---|---|
| Young Andersen | 08:45 |
| It's 1822 in Denmark and 17-year-old Hans Christian Andersen is poor as a church mouse. However, the manager of the Royal Danish Theatre has mercy on him and sends him to a school in the country where the principal Meisling holds sway. The result is a conflict of wills. Meisling seeks to suppress Andersen's vivid imagination though a ban on writing and mental terror. When Andersen develops a friendship with a working class lad, Tuk, Meisling punishes Tuk every time Andersen puts a foot wrong. To save Tuk, he leaves the school. But when Anderson returns, he finds that he has to bury his first and only friend. At the worst period of his life, Andersen seeks payback… | |
| My Good Enemy | 11:10 |
| Tired of being bullied and humiliated at school, Alf decides to take action against his tormentors. He allies himself with a classmate and together they form a secret pact. Inspired by the struggles of Niccolo, the hero of a Manga comic book, the two of them challenge the mechanisms of power in the class. And they succeed in shaking up the hierarchy and changing the rules of the game. Or do they? | |
| Fat Kid Rules the World | 13:10 |
| Troy Billings is seventeen, overweight, and suicidal. Just as he's about to jump in front of a bus, he's saved by Marcus, a charming high school dropout/street musician. The two begin an uneasy friendship when Marcus enlists the musically challenged Troy to become the drummer in a new punk rock band. As Troy's relationship with Marcus grows, Troy's father becomes increasingly concerned about his son's new friendship. | |
| The Emperor's Nightingale | 15:50 |
| The Emperor of China learns that one of the most beautiful things in his empire is the song of the nightingale. When he orders the nightingale brought to him, a kitchen maid leads the court to a nearby forest. The nightingale agrees to sing at court. The Emperor is so delighted with the bird's song that he keeps the nightingale in captivity. When he's given a bejeweled mechanical bird, he loses interest in the nightingale, who returns to the forest. The mechanical bird eventually wears out and breaks down. The Emperor is taken deathly ill a few years later. When the nightingale hears about this, he returns to the palace to sing for the Emperor. Death himself is so moved by his singing that he leaves and the Emperor recovers. The nightingale starts singing about the events in Emperor's lands so that he becomes known as the wisest man. | |
| The Swineherd | 15:50 |
| A stop-motion animation film based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a proud princess and a prince who disguises himself as a swineherd. | |
| Wanna See My Beautiful Navel? | 17:50 |
| When a fifteen-year-old eighth-grader Claus heads out for a camp in Sweden, he is joined by his bolder and more outgoing classmate Lene. During the trip Claus gets to know Lene better and gets a taste of what adult life has to offer. A film about the trials and tribulations of puberty, happiness, grief, love and jealousy. | |
| Shopping | 21:00 |
| New Zealand, 1981: muscle cars, racial tensions and a thieving bird all make up the small town life of brothers Willie and Solomon. After a chance encounter with the charismatic thief Bennie and his gang of 'shoppers', Willie is seduced into a criminal world that allows him to escape mounting tensions with his volatile father. But as Bennie's hold over him grows Willie finds himself in over his head; and when Solomon is left to fend for himself at home, Willie's two worlds collide with shattering consequences. | |
Screening place: Golden Apple Cinema, č. 6
Day: May 29th 2013
