goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film 2016
The 16th goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film took place from April 20 to April 26, 2016 in Wiesbaden . The opening film was Death in Sarajevo by Bosnian director Danis Tanović . It was visited by over 12,200 visitors.
International competition
The festival's international competition comprised sixteen films, six of which were documentaries. It is the German premiere for fifteen of the films. The jury president of the international competition is director, cameraman and screenwriter Karpo Aćimović Godina . Other members are the Croatian actress Tihana Lazović , Ewa Mazierska , professor of film studies at the University of Central Lancashire , the Serbian film producer Miroslav Mogorović and the Czech program curator Lenka Tyrpáková . The FIPRESCI competition for the “International Film Critics Prize” also took place at the festival .
The Russian film Insight by Alexandr Kott was awarded the prize for the best film. The Polish fiction film Die Rote Spinne by Marcin Koszałka received the Prize of the State Capital Wiesbaden for Best Director and the Prize of International Film Critics. And the German Foreign Office Prize for Cultural Diversity went to the documentary Stranger Work by Denis Shabaev.
Feature films
| Movie title | Director | country |
|---|---|---|
| Dawn | Laila Pakalniņa | Latvia , Poland , Estonia |
| Bopem | Zhanna Issabayeva | Kazakhstan |
| Siren song | Agnieszka Smoczyńska | Poland |
| The red spider | Marcin Koszałka | Poland, Czech Republic , Slovakia |
| Eva Nová | Marko Škop | Slovakia, Czech Republic |
| Insight | Alexandr Kott | Russia |
| We are never alone | Petr Vaclav | Czech Republic, France |
| Orizont | Marian Crișan | Romania |
| Song of songs | Eva Neymann | Ukraine |
| The waiting room | Igor Driljaca | Canada , Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Documentaries
| Movie title | Director | country |
|---|---|---|
| Waiting room | Palo Korec | Slovakia |
| Foreign work | Denis Shabaev | Russia |
| In the light of the sunset | Salome Jashi | Georgia |
| When the world gets easy | Salome Machaidze , Tamuna Karumidze , David Meskhi | Georgia, Germany |
| The anthill | Vladimir Loginov | Estonia |
| Ukrainian sheriffs | Roman Bondarchuk | Ukraine, Latvia, Germany |
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 for experimental film and video art is presented at this advanced training event. The goEast Development Award was also given.
This year's Beyond Belonging series was entitled We and You? About Being Different and Making Different is devoted to current political issues in the region, such as the ongoing confrontation between Russia and the West, global Islamic terror, right-wing state restructuring in some Eastern European countries and right-wing populist mass protests in Germany.
The “Young Filmakers for Peace” project aims to bring together young filmmakers from the conflict and post-conflict regions of Eastern Europe and the Middle East. The new project “Oppose Othering!” Aims to bring young filmmakers from Germany and Central and Eastern Europe together.
The symposium, entitled “Die im Schatten”, deals with the genre of crime films in Central and Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1989. The work of director and author Juliusz Machulski is honored with a comprehensive portrait. A solidarity event is held for the imprisoned Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov .
literature
- Claudia Dillmann (Ed.): GoEast 16th Festival of Central and Eastern European Films ; Wiesbaden 2016
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsches Filminstitut - DIF eV: And the Winner Is… Russian and Polish films win at goEast! (Accessed May 9, 2016)