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goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film takes place annually in Wiesbaden .

The first edition was held in 2001. Although it is a relatively young festival, it is accredited by the FIAPF film producers association as an international film festival with specialized competition. The 19th goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film took place from April 10th to 16th, 2019.

history

The film festival was founded in 2001 by the German Film Institute . After the draft of the concept, among others by Claudia Dillmann as the first director and Swetlana Sikora, who was the artistic director of the festival until 2010, the festival was placed under the patronage of Hilmar Hoffmann and to date has had three new successful directors, Christine Kopf ( 2005–2008) and Nadja Rademacher (2009–2010). In the late summer of 2010, Gaby Babic took over the management of the festival and for the first time unites festival and artistic directors. Heleen Gerritsen succeeded Gaby Babić in 2018. Since it was founded, goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film has firmly established itself as an international stage for the exchange between film culture from East and West. The festival welcomes around 200 guests annually, including directors and actors such as Krzysztof Zanussi , Jiří Menzel , István Szabó , Hanna Schygulla , Béla Tarr , Jerzy Stuhr , Kira Muratova , Martin Šulík , Otar Iosseliani , Franziska Petri and Julia Jentsch .

Sections

competition

In the goEast competition, ten feature films and six documentaries from the last two years of production compete for high-value prizes. They are purely Central and Eastern European productions or co-productions with significant participation from these countries.

symposium

(Film) scientists and historians, film experts and filmmakers shed light on topics of social relevance and contextualized artistic trends. The interdisciplinary debate on aesthetic and theoretical perspectives is of central importance in this section. A specially curated film series accompanies the lectures and discussions, which are open to all interested parties.

Promotion of young talent

The festival's own youth development has had a new name since 2014 and sets new priorities. The East-West Talent Lab continues to focus on networking young filmmakers, artists and film students from Central and Eastern European countries and Germany. It is divided into four program areas: Screen, Meet, Learn and Present.

  • Screen: Eleven works are presented in the newly created competition for experimental film and video art. These compete for the Open Frame Award, which is endowed with 5,000 euros. In addition, the film program “Emerging Artists” gives an overview of contemporary German experimental film and video art.
  • Meet: Lab participants have the opportunity to exchange ideas and network at numerous events. You will meet industry representatives, can present your project ideas and find co-production partners.
  • Learn: The training program includes panel discussions, lectures, workshops and master classes. So u. a. This year's jury president and Kubrick producer Jan Harlan will give practical tips on the subject of "Making Films with no Money". Matthias Müller, professor for experimental film and member of the jury at the Open Frame Award, speaks in his lecture “Sitting on the Fence” a. a. about different presentation locations for experimental films and video art. The panel discussion “Funding for Short Films, Documentaries and Video Art” will provide information on funding opportunities in Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Germany. In addition, Dr. Cathy de Haan held a workshop on pitching and another on project development.
  • Present: Sixteen participants of the East-West-Talent-Lab present their new project ideas from the fields of short fiction and documentary as well as experimental film and video art in front of an audience and an expert jury. The young talents come u. a. from Azerbaijan, Germany, Georgia, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Hungary and the Ukraine. The best project idea will be honored with the goEast Development Award worth 3,500 euros.

Homage / portrait

The alternating sections portrait and homage offer the opportunity to get to know a cinematic signature better: The portrait sheds light on the work of a director in the middle generation - a generation that was strongly influenced by the time of the fall and the radical transformation processes. The homage is dedicated to the life's work of selected great filmmakers. So far the focus has been: Šarūnas Bartas , Benedek Fliegauf , Otar Iosseliani , Miklós Janscó , Fatmir Koçi , Sergej Loznitsa , Kira Muratova and Sergej Paradžanov , Jan Švankmajer , Jan Svěrák , Małgorzata Szumowska and Juliusz Machulski .

Beyond Belonging

The section introduced by the former festival director Gaby Babic is dedicated to the geographic opening of goEast: Here, films outside of Central and Eastern European cinema have their place, whereby a reference to the CEE region remains visible. A different perspective is required in a changing Europe. Beyond national and regional barriers, it is important to develop a common perspective on the transformation processes to which post-communist and western societies are subject.

Highlights

Box office hits! Genre cinema meets audience darling. This section presents popular films from the Central and Eastern European mainstream.

Special offers

Film archives and partner festivals, matinee and school film days, concerts and parties: the goEast specials complete the festival program with presentations, guests and music.

Prices

An international jury awards the Škoda Film Prize, until 2012 the Škoda Prize “The Golden Lily” for the best film (10,000 euros), the City of Wiesbaden prize for the best director (7,500 euros) and the Foreign Office Prize (4,000 euros) Euro). A FIPRESCI jury also awards the international film criticism prize. Since 2007, the Robert Bosch Foundation has also been awarding the film prize for international cooperation in the animation, documentary and short fiction film categories.

The Open Frame Award for experimental film and video art, endowed with 5000 euros, has been presented by the BHF-BANK Foundation since 2014. Also in 2014, the East-West Talent Lab Award from the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain was awarded for the first time .

Award winners

Award for the best film (name change 2013)

Škoda Prize “The Golden Lily” for the best film

Prize for the best director of the state capital Wiesbaden

Documentary film award "Remembrance and Future" of the Foundation EVZ (from 2008 to 2014)

Documentary film award from the non-profit Hertie Foundation (until 2007)

German Foreign Office Prize for "artistic originality that creates cultural diversity"

International Film Critics' Prize (FIPRESCI)

Open Frame Award (for virtual reality works)

  • 2019: Aftermath VR: Euromaidan by Alexey Furman / Sergiy Polezhaka

Web links

Commons : GoEast Film Festival  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Wiesbaden is alive: Heleen Gerritsen takes over the management of goEast. In: Wiesbaden lives! Wiesbaden is alive !, October 15, 2017, accessed on October 31, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Wiesbaden is alive !: goEast: Films from Estonia, Hungary and Serbia win. In: Wiesbaden lives! - Another news site. Volker Watschounek, April 24, 2018, accessed April 24, 2018 .
  3. ^ GoEast main prize for Russian film "Der Heizer" , filmportal.de April 12, 2011, accessed March 5, 2017
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