goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film 2015
The 15th goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film took place from April 22nd to April 28th, 2015 in Wiesbaden . The opening film was Ciało by Polish director Małgorzata Szumowska .
International competition
The festival's international competition comprised sixteen films, six of which were documentaries. The jury president of the international competition was the Czech producer Pavel Strnad . Other members were the Polish actress Anja Antonowics , the German film journalist Bernd Bruder , the Romanian director Marian Crișan and the Bosnian-Herzegovinian director Ines Tanović .
The film No Man's Child ( Ničije dete ) by Vuk Ršumović was awarded the prize for the best film . Koza ( Koza ) by Ivan Ostrocovský received the Prize of the State Capital Wiesbaden for Best Director . And the German Foreign Office award went to the film Logbook Serbistan ( Destinacija_Serbistan ) by Želimir Žilnik .
The FIPRESCI competition for the “International Film Critics Prize” also took place at the festival . The award also went to the film Koza.
Feature films
| Film title (reference title) | Director | country |
|---|---|---|
| The lesson ( Urok ) | Kristina Grozeva , Petar Valchanov | Bulgaria , Greece |
| Citizen ( Obywatel ) | Jerzy Stuhr | Poland |
| The Grim Reaper ( Kosac ) | Zvonimir Jurić | Croatia , Slovenia |
| Angel of the Revolution ( Angely Revolyutsii ) | Aleksey Fedorchenko | Russia |
| Kebab & Horoscope ( Kebab | Horoscope ) | Grzegorz Jaroszuk | Poland |
| No Man's Child ( Ničije dete ) | Vuk Ršumović | Serbia , Croatia |
| The white nights of the postman ( Belye nochi pochtalona alekseya tryapitsyna ) | Andrey Konchalovsky | Russia |
| Credit limit ( Kreditis Limiti ) | Salome Alexi | Georgia , Germany , France |
| Koza ( Koza ) | Ivan Ostrocovský | Czech Republic , Slovakia |
| Why me ? ( De Ce Eu? ) | Tudor Giurgio | Romania , Bulgaria, Hungary |
Documentaries
| Film title (reference title) | Director | country |
|---|---|---|
| Naked Island ( Goli ) | Tiha Gudac | Croatia |
| Flotel Europa ( Flotel Europa ) | Vladimir Tomic | Serbia, Denmark |
| Logbook_Serbistan ( Destinacija_Serbistan ) | Želimir Žilnik | Serbia |
| Drifter ( drifter ) | Gábor Hörcher | Hungary, Germany |
| Together ( Vmeste ) | Denis Shabaev | Russia |
| Home ( Jáma ) | Jiří Stejskal | Czech Republic |
Other Events
The film competitions were supplemented by numerous other program items. The festival offered the East-West Talend Lab for young filmmakers from Eastern Europe and Germany . The Open Frame Award of the BHF-BANK Foundation for experimental film and video art, endowed with 5000 euros, was presented at this advanced training event. The goEast Development Award was also given.
This year's Beyond Belonging series was titled Films Against War: On Trauma and Reconciliation and was devoted to the conflicts in the region since the fall of the Wall. In addition to the current conflict in Ukraine, she dealt with the wars in the Caucasus and the collapsed Yugoslavia.
A symposium was held this year on the work of director Artur Brauner . The work of the director, author and actor Marlen Chuzijew was honored with a comprehensive homage.
literature
- Claudia Dillmann (Ed.): GoEast 15th Festival of Central and Eastern European Films ; Wiesbaden 2015
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Film Institute - DIF e. V .: Award winners goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Films 2015 ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed May 1, 2015)
