goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film 2014
The 14th goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film took place from April 9th to April 15th, 2014 in Wiesbaden . The opening film was Ida by Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski .
International competition
The festival's international competition comprised ten feature films and six documentaries. The jury president of the international competition was the German producer Jan Harlan . Other members were Nana Ekvtimishvili , Iván Forgács , Ivan Shvedoff and Dmytro Tiazhlov . The film Ida was awarded the ŠKODA Film Prize. The film Judgment in Hungary was awarded the documentary film prize “Remembrance and Future” . Blind Dates received the award of the state capital Wiesbaden for best director and the award of the Federal Foreign Office “for artistic originality that creates cultural diversity” went to the film Kleiner Bruder .
The FIPRESCI competition for the “International Film Critics Prize” also took place at the festival . The award was given to the film Free Range - Ballad by the approval of the world .
Feature films
Documentaries
| Film title (reference title) | Director | country |
|---|---|---|
| Temptation (film) | Viktar Dashuk | Belarus |
| Judgment in Hungary | Eszter Hajdú | Hungary , Germany |
| Nepal Forever | Aliona Polunina | Russia |
| Father and son go on a trip | Marcel Łoziński | Poland |
| Valley of tears | Mihai Andrei Leaha | Romania |
| Zelim's Confession | Natalia Mikhaylova | Germany |
Other Events
The Robert Bosch Foundation awarded the film prize for international cooperation to young talents from Germany and Eastern Europe in the categories animation, short film and documentation. The Open Frame Award for experimental film and video art from the BHF-BANK Foundation, endowed with 5000 euros, has been presented since 2014 . The prize is awarded to two works each year. Also in 2014, the East-West Talent Lab Award from the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain was awarded for the first time .
The film competitions were supplemented by other items on the program. The Beyond Belonging series, for example, presented films under the title “Socialism - Utopia Revisited” that address post-socialist societies in Eastern Europe. The portrait of the festival was dedicated to the Polish director Małgorzata Szumowska . The symposium was dedicated to the development of Polish film in the 1960s with lectures and film screenings. The crisis in Ukraine also led to discussions at the festival.
