GoEast, styled goEast, is an international film festival which has been held annually in the

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state capital of

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, Germany, since its inception in 2001. The festival is primarily for films with an

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background, and is held by the

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(German Film Institute) for one week every April.

History

The goEast film festival, launched in 2001, was founded by Claudia Dillmann, the Director of the German Film Institute – DIF. Likewise involved in developing the original festival concept was Swetlana Sikora, who has remained the festival's Artist Director until 2010. "The time has come to open ourselves to the thoughts, images, myths and stories of our Eastern neighbours. To their culture. To their films.", wrote Claudia Dillmann in her foreword to the first festival catalogue. From the beginning, the state capital Wiesbaden and the state government of Hesse has given substantial support to the festival, as it made its home in the Caligari cinemas.

Hilmar Hoffmann Hilmar Hoffmann (25 August 1925 – 1 June 2018) was a German stage and film director, cultural politician and academic lecturer. He founded the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. He was for decades an influential city councillor in Fr ...

became patron of the festival. In late summer 2010 Gaby Babic took over the post of Festival Director, and for the first time a combined role as Artistic Director as well. After Claudia Dillmann, Christine Kopf and Nadja Rademacher she is the fourth front woman of goEast. The 2021 festival took place in April, mainly online, as well as in the cities of

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its ...

Darmstadt Darmstadt () is a city in the state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it the fourth largest city in the state of Hesse a ...

and

Giessen Giessen, spelled Gießen in German (), is a town in the German state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 univer ...

.2021 programme
/ref> Directors and stars who have been guests at the festival includes

Krzysztof Zanussi Krzysztof Pius Zanussi (born 17 June 1939) is a Polish film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is ...

Jiří Menzel Jiří Menzel () (23 February 1938 – 5 September 2020) was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Some of these films ...

István Szabó István Szabó (; born 18 February 1938) is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director. Szabó is one of the most notable Hungarian filmmakers and one who has been best known outside the Hungarian-speaking world since the la ...

Hanna Schygulla Hanna Schygulla (; born 25 December 1943) is a German actress and chanson singer associated with the theater and film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. She first worked for Fassbinder in 1965 and became an active participant in the New German ...

Béla Tarr Béla Tarr (born 21 July 1955) is a Hungarian filmmaker. Debuting with the film '' Family Nest'' (1977), Tarr began his directorial career with a brief period of what he refers to as "social cinema", aimed at telling everyday stories about ordi ...

Jerzy Stuhr Jerzy Oskar Stuhr (; born 18 April 1947) is a Polish film and theatre actor. He is one of the most popular, influential and versatile Polish actors. He also works as a screenwriter, film director and drama professor. He served as the Rector of th ...

Kira Muratova , honorific_suffix = People's Artist of Ukraine , birth_date = , birth_place = Soroca, Kingdom of Romania(now Moldova) , death_date = , death_place = Odessa, Ukraine , birth_name = Kira Gueórguiev ...

Otar Iosseliani Otar Iosseliani ( ka, ოთარ იოსელიანი, born 2 February 1934) is a Georgian-born film director. He was born in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi, where he studied at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire and graduated in 1952 ...

, Maria Schrader, Joachim Król,

Sergei Loznitsa Sergei Vladimirovich Loznitsa ( be, Сяргей Уладзіміравіч Лазніца, russian: Сергей Владимирович Лозница, uk, Сергій Володимирович Лозниця; born 5 September 1964) is a Uk ...

, Bohdan Sláma,

Cristi Puiu Cristi Puiu (; born 3 April 1967) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. With Anca Puiu and Alex Munteanu, in 2004 he founded a cinema production company, naming it Mandragora. Early life, education and career Cristian Emilian Puiu was ...

and many more.

Sections

Competition

Ten feature films and six documentaries are nominated for the goEast Competition. Eligibility is restricted to productions completed within the past two years in the applicable countries; in addition, since 2008 documentaries made in Germany or Israel may be nominated if they possess clear thematic relevance to Central and Eastern Europe.

Symposium

The annual goeast symposiUm invites (film) scholars, historians and specialists to examine socially relevant topics within the context of historical artistic developments. This section is built around interdisciplinary debate encompassing a range of aesthetic and theoretical perspectives, and is accompanied by a separately curated series of films. All lectures, discussions and screenings are open to the general public.

Young Professionals Programme

The goeast Students' Competition presents work by young filmmakers from East and West. The BHF-BANK Foundation finances three audience prizes worth 1,000 EUR respectively as well as an adjudicated supporting prize (1,500 EUR) for the best short film from an Eastern European film school. Since 2007, goEast has hosted the presentation of the Co-Production award of the

Robert Bosch Stiftung The Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH () is a German foundation that owns a majority shareholding in Robert Bosch GmbH, from which it derives its funding. The foundation was established in accordance with the wishes of Robert Bosch, who died in 1942, an ...

, which offers support to three projects involving the cooperation of young filmmakers from Eastern and Southeastern Europe as well as from Germany. Awarded in cooperation with

ARTE Arte (; (), sometimes stylized in lowercase or uppercase in its logo) is a European public service channel dedicated to culture. It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based European Economic Interest Grouping ARTE, pl ...

, a grant of up to 70,000 EUR goes to one outstanding project proposal in each of the three categories Documentary, Animation, and Short Film. With a week-long programme geared towards exchange of experience and provision of support for joint proposals, the annual Project Market fosters networking among young filmmakers from Eastern Europe and Germany. The workshops and discussions held during the goeast Young Professionals programme allow upcoming filmmakers to profit from the experience of renowned

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s, producers and directors.

Homage/Portrait

Dedicated to

Sergei Parajanov Sergei Parajanov, ka, სერგო ფარაჯანოვი, uk, Сергій Параджанов (January 9, 1924 – July 20, 1990) was an Armenian filmmaker. Parajanov is regarded by film critics, film historians and filmmakers t ...

one year, to

Jan Svěrák Jan Svěrák () (born 6 February 1965 in Žatec) is a Czech film director. He is the son of screenwriter and actor Zdeněk Svěrák. He studied documentary filmmaking at the FAMU. He and his films have received awards including the Academy Awa ...

Benedek Fliegauf Benedek "Bence" Fliegauf (born 15 August 1974 in Budapest) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Life and career Originally Fliegauf planned to become a writer. However, he had to abandon his plans due to a lack of finances. Instead, Fl ...

or Fatmir Koci the next – this alternating festival slot pays tribute to the achievements of established masters or highlights the inspiring careers of contemporary filmmakers or actors.

Beyond Belonging

Beyond Belonging is open to productions from countries outside Central and Eastern Europe but bearing a clear relation to the region.

Highlights

This section presents hand-picked highlights of Central and Eastern European mainstream cinema.

Specials

Special events include film archives, school film days, concerts and closing parties.

Awards

An international jury chooses the recipients of the Škoda Prize (10,000 EUR) – the “Golden Lily” – for Best Film, the "Remembrance and Future" documentary prize (10,000 EUR), the prize for Best Director (7,500 EUR) from the City of Wiesbaden, and the prize (2,000 EUR) from the Federal Foreign Office of Germany. A jury dispatched by

FIPRESCI The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI, short for Fédération Internationale de la PRESse CInématographique) is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world fo ...

awards the International Film Critics' Prize.

Award Winners

ŠKODA Film Award (prize name changed in 2013)

* 2013 -

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By Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß

The ŠKODA Award "The Golden Lily" for Best Film

* 2012 - '' Living'' By Vassily Sigarev * 2011 - '' A Stoker'' By Alexei Balabanov * 2010 - '' Street Days'' By

Levan Koguashvili Levan Koguashvili ( ka, ლევან კოღუაშვილი; March 18, 1973) is a Georgian film director and screenwriter. He studied in Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography after graduating school. Biography Levan Koguashvili was b ...

* 2009 - '' The Other Bank'' By George Ovashvili * 2008 - ''

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'' By Kadri Kõusaar * 2007 - ''

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'' By

Ivan Vyrypaev Ivan Aleksandrovich Vyrypaev (russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Вырыпа́ев; pl, Iwan Wyrypajew; born August 3, 1974) is a Polish, Russian-born playwright, screenwriter, film director, actor and art director. He is a leading ...

* 2006 - '' Tbilisi-tbilisi'' By Levan Zakarejšvili * 2005 - '' The Tuner'' By

* 2004 - ''

Roads To Koktebel ''Roads to Koktebel'' (russian: Коктебель, Koktebel) is a 2003 Russian adventure drama film directed by Boris Khlebnikov and Aleksey Popogrebskiy. Plot A Boy with his Father go to the sea. They come in a freight car in the trucker's c ...

'' By

Boris Khlebnikov Boris Igorevich Khlebnikov (, born August 28, 1972) - is a Russian film director, screenwriter and producer. Filmography As director * '' Roads to Koktebel'' (2003) * '' Free Floating'' (2006) * '' Help Gone Mad'' (2009) * '' Crush'' (2009) * ...

and Aleksei Popogrebski * 2003 - '' The Key Determining Dwarfs, Or The Last Travel Of Lemuel Gulliver'' By Martin Šulík * 2002 - '' Hi, Tereska'' By Robert Gliński * 2001 - ''

The Big Animal ''The Big Animal'' ( pl, Duże zwierzę) is a 2000 Polish film directed by Jerzy Stuhr from a screenplay by Krzysztof Kieślowski, based on a short story ''Wielbłąd'' (1995) by Kazimierz Orłoś. Plot Mr. Zygmunt Sawicki is a bank employee, who ...

'' By

and '' Second Class-people'' By

Award For Best Director Donated By The City Of Wiesbaden

* 2013 - ''

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'' By Srdan Golubović * 2012 - '' AVÉ'' By

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* 2011 - ''

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'' By Marian Crişan * 2010 - '' Days Of Desire'' By József Pacskovszky * 2009 - '' Help Gone Mad'' By

* 2008 - '' Love And Other Crimes'' By Stefan Arsenijević * 2007 - '' The Trap'' By Srdan Golubović * 2006 - ''

Garpastum ''Garpastum'' (russian: Гарпастум) is a 2005 Russian historical drama film written and directed by Aleksei German Jr. It was entered into the main competition at the 62nd edition of the Venice Film Festival. Plot The film begins in ...

'' By Aleksei German Jr. * 2005 - ''

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'' By

Małgorzata Szumowska Małgorzata Szumowska (; born 26 February 1973) is a Polish film director, screenwriter and producer, born in Kraków. Her 2013 film '' In the Name Of'' received the Teddy Award for Best Feature at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, ...

* 2004 - ''

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'' By

* 2003 - ''

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'' By

Lívia Gyarmathy Lívia Gyarmathy (8 January 1932 – 25 May 2022) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.The Last Supper Image:The Last Supper - Leonardo Da Vinci - High Resolution 32x16.jpg, 400px, alt=''The Last Supper'' by Leonardo da Vinci - Clickable Image, Depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art have been undertaken by artistic masters for centuries, ...

'' By Vojka Anzeljc * 2001 - ''

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'' By

Péter Gothár Péter Gothár (born 28 August 1947) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 23 films since 1974. His film ''The Outpost (1995 film), The Outpost'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Fest ...

Documentary Award – “remembrance And Future” Of The Foundation Evz (since 2008)

* 2013 - Anton's right here By Lyubov Arkus * 2012 - ''

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'' By Philip Scheffner * 2011 - '' The Last Day Of Summer'' By Piotr Stasik * 2010 - '' OJ Mama'' Von orna Ben Dor By Noa Maiman * 2009 - '' I Love Poland'' By joanna Sławińska And Maria Zmarz-koczanowicz * 2008 - '' The Flower Bridge'' By Thomas Ciulei

Documentary Award By The Hertie Foundation (until 2007)

* 2007 - '' How To Do It'' By Marcel Łoziński * 2006 - '' Facing The Day'' By Ivona Juka * 2005 - '' Pretty Dyana'' By Boris Mitić * 2004 - '' Alphabet Of Hope'' By Stephan Komandarev * 2003 - '' Bread Over The Fence'' By Stephan Komandarev * 2002 - '' Joy Of Life'' By

Svetozar Ristovski Svetozar Ristovski (born January 26, 1972) is a Macedonian film director who now resides in Canada. His first film was the 2000 short ''Hunter'' about the psychological study of a wartime sniper. He marked his English language debut with 2010's ...

Award Of The Federal Foreign Office For “artistic Originality Which Creates Cultural Diversity”

* 2013 - Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari By Aleksey Fedorchenko * 2012 - '' Mother’s Paradise'' By

Aktan Arym Kubat Aktan Arym Kubat (; born March 26, 1957, Sokuluk District, Kyrgyzstan), also known as Aktan Abdykalykov, is a Kyrgyzstani director, screenwriter and actor. Member of the National Film Academy of the Kyrgyzstan, acting Member of the European Film A ...

* 2011 - '' Gorelovka'' By Alexander Kviria * 2010 - ''

How I Ended This Summer ''How I Ended This Summer'' (russian: Как я провёл этим летом, translit. ''Kak ya provyol etim letom'') is a 2010 Russian drama film directed by Alexei Popogrebski. It was critically acclaimed and garnered several awards ...

'' By

Alexei Popogrebski Alexei Petrovich Popogrebski (russian: Алексе́й Петро́вич Попогре́бский; born 7 August 1972) is a Russian film director and screenwriter. His 2010 film '' How I Ended This Summer'' was nominated for the Golden Bear ...

* 2009 - ''

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'' By Alexei Balabanov * 2008 - '' At The River'' By Eva Nejman * 2007 - '' Armin'' By

Ognjen Sviličić Ognjen Sviličić (born 1971 in Split) is a screenwriter and film director, based in Berlin noted for his critically acclaimed 2007 films Sorry For Kung Fu, '' Armin and These Are the Rules'' Career Sviličić was born 1971 in Split, in a f ...

* 2006 - '' Death Rode Out Of Persia'' By Putyi Horváth

References

External links

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