SCHOOL FILM DAYS
7 Short Films
43 min.
OV with German Voice Over

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Over the course of a year filmmaker Dumitru Budrala documented the life of an extensive Roma family. Members of the Băieşi group of Roma, the family lives in extreme poverty. In winter the family leaves its domicile in the south Carpathian... > more

Ole, aged 40, used to be a punk musician with an eye for the ladies, and now runs the Helsinki, a smoky bar in an east German city. When his bar is forced to close, Ole makes a journey back through time back to the darkest period in his life. In... > more

SCHOOL FILM DAYS
The story of little orphan Max who escapes from his wicked foster parents only to find himself in Frankenstein’s castle. There he meets mysterious and sometimes peculiar creatures who, for all their... > more

IN MEMORIAM MIKLÓS JANCSÓ
There is much that one might write about the importance of Miklós Jancsó for Hungarian cinema and for international filmmaking altogether. About the breathtaking beauty of his films in which human... > more

/ Vilnius, home of Baltic Balkan, was always a melting pot of different cultures with music to match. After Baltic Balkan started up in 2009 their reputation soon spread beyond the Lithuanian club scene. Inspired by Yugoslav punk rock, Klezmer and... > more

PRESENTATION: MOVEAST WORKSHOP
Moveast Workshop is an international film-culture project aiming to compile a new, comparative history of film in Central and Eastern Europe. Such an endeavour seems highly relevant in view of the economic,... > more

Both as a director and a cameraman – on films such as Želimir Žilnik’s RANI RADOVI – Karpo Godina counts among the foremost figures of Yugoslav and Slovene cinema over the past 40 years. In tribute to his seventieth birthday the... > more

On a cold winter evening the patrons of a cool nightclub are dancing, drinking and flirting away. When two young men on a night out meet two young women, the foursome’s interaction with other guests spins an intricate web of relationships... > more

Pre-World-Championship-Special
A tiny Georgian village is in the grip of football fever at the beginning of the 20th century. While the men blithely go about setting up a team and visiting the beach for daily training sessions... > more

Once the whistle blows on the Georgian football comedy it’s time to choose your team and get on the ball! Take part in the goEast table-football tournament and see whether one of the World Cup qualified countries– Germany, Croatia,... > more

IN MEMORIAM ALEKSEY BALABANOV
Aleksey Balabanov, one of the most wayward and controversial Russian directors of the post-Soviet era, died aged 54 in May 2013. After initially establishing his filmmaking reputation with literary... > more

East Berlin in the late 1970s. Nelly Senf, a doctor of chemistry, is allowed to leave the German Democratic Republic together with her son Alexey. After crossing the border, the mother and son land in Marienfelde refugee centre in Berlin, where she... > more

some of the particular highlights from the past ten years and A presentation of three works in progress commenced during the past two years.

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IN MEMORIAM ALEKSEY BALABANOV
Aleksey Balabanov, one of the most wayward and controversial Russian directors of the post-Soviet era, died aged 54 in May 2013. After initially establishing his filmmaking reputation with literary... > more

4 Short Films
83 min.
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8 Short Films
84 min.
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Portret}Polonia is an open competition for short films dedicated to the common theme of Polish life in Germany.
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SLOVAK CINEMA NOW – PANEL DISCUSSION
In connection with the 2014 focus on Slovakia, goEast joins forces with the Slovakian Film Institute to stage a panel discussion that aims to identify the current position of Slovak... > more

Eva dreams of getting away from her hated village the instant she finishes school. She’s desperate to see the big, wide world, and London will do for starters. Unfortunately, her traditionalist father is spending all his free time building his... > more

Zaitsa’s recipe for success involves nothing more than a pinch of Eastern European folk laced with jazz, pop and Balkan beats. Frankfurt-based frontwoman Olga Zaitseva stems from Ukraine and brings audiences to the boil with her powerful... > more