Programme 2014

Monday | 14.04. |

Festivalzentrum

10:00
GOEAST DEVELOPMENT AWARD

Project Presentation

GOEAST DEVELOPMENT AWARD

The participants of the East-West Talent Labs present their project ideas in a public pitch to a jury of experts. Each pitch has a 5 min time slot. Feedback will be given immediatelly after the presentation. The Best Pitch will be awarded with the... > more

Alpha

14:00
QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM

Andrei Gruzsniczki

Romania 2013

QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM

As the title suggests, the drama QUOD ERAT DEMOSTRANDUM displays a certain affinity with academia and advanced mathematics. As such, the film goes against the grain of the Romanian New Wave. The old-school patina, moreover, is deepened by the plain... > more

Caligari

14:00
Archive Presentation: National Film Archive of B&H
Archive Presentation: National Film Archive of B&H

8 Short Films
84 min.
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Festivalzentrum

14:00
KURZFILMPROGRAMM: PORTRET POLONIA
KURZFILMPROGRAMM: PORTRET POLONIA

Portret}Polonia is an open competition for short films dedicated to the common theme of Polish life in Germany.
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Alpha

16:00
33 SCENES FROM LIFE

Małgorzata Szumowska

Poland, Germany 2008

33 SCENES FROM LIFE

An autobiographically inspired drama in which an artist called Julia seeks a way of coping with her mother’s illness with cancer. The disease is threatening to destroy the intellectual family in which the mother is a writer and her husband a... > more

Caligari

16:00
NEPAL FOREVER

Aliona Polunina

Russia 2013

NEPAL FOREVER

Global revolution is coming – sooner than we think if Sergey and his assistant get their way. The two men are members of a small party, based in St. Petersburg, that broke away from the old Communist Party. The new splinter party might be... > more

Festivalzentrum

16:00
Slovak Cinema Now

panel discussion

Slovak Cinema Now

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

Alpha

18:00
HOUSE

Zuzana Liová

Slovak Republic, Czech Republic 2011

HOUSE

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

Caligari

18:00
FREE ENTRY – ONE DAY OF BETTY

Yvonne Kerékgyártó

Hungary 2014

FREE ENTRY – ONE DAY OF BETTY

Betty and her friend V have a major project: the open-air Sziget festival held every summer on Óbudai, one of the Danube islands in Budapest. Instead of money the teenagers have a stash of grass waiting for a buyer. Food? Nothing wrong with the... > more

Festivalzentrum

18:00
MARRIED TO THE SWISS FRANC

Arsen Oremović

Croatia 2013

MARRIED TO THE SWISS FRANC

The dream of home ownership suddenly seems less remote when banks are willing and eager to furnish a loan. For some 120,000 Croats, however, the sweet and simple deal turned out to be misleading if not to say deceptive. Encouraged by politicians and... > more

Kino DFM, Frankfurt

18:00
FREE RANGE - BALLAD ON APPROVING OF THE WORLD

Veiko Õunpuu

Estonia 2013

FREE RANGE - BALLAD ON APPROVING OF THE WORLD

Fred, a film critic, finds himself out of a job: the editor-in-chief was not impressed by his hatchet job, richly punctuated with expletives, on Terrence Malick’s TREE OF LIFE. Fred’s not overly worried: he needs time for his own... > more

Alpha

20:00
VELVET TERRORISTS

Pavol Pekarčík, Ivan Ostrochovský, Peter Kerekes

Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, Croatia 2013

VELVET TERRORISTS

The first man planned a bomb attack on the speakers’ platform at a Communist Party conference, the second intended to assassinate the state president, the third blew up placards and hoardings and distributed his protest leaflets to all and... > more

Caligari

20:00
THE HOPE FACTORY

Natalia Meshchaninova

Russia 2014

THE HOPE FACTORY

A harsh Arctic wind blows in the industrial centre of Norilsk in the far north of Russia. The greyish air is chemically contaminated and the outlook anything but bright for the young generation. Local kids often take refuge in what’s left of... > more

Festivalzentrum

20:00
NEPAL FOREVER

Aliona Polunina

Russia 2013

NEPAL FOREVER

Global revolution is coming – sooner than we think if Sergey and his assistant get their way. The two men are members of a small party, based in St. Petersburg, that broke away from the old Communist Party. The new splinter party might be... > more

Palatin, Mainz

20:00
KNIFE IN THE WATER

Roman Polański

Poland 1961

KNIFE IN THE WATER

A chance encounter as starting point for a biting social analysis: a day out on the lake, two men and one woman desired by both her companions, a car made in the West, a yacht. Critics deemed that the embittered competition for status objects... > more

Programmkino Rex

20:15
IN THE NAME OF

Małgorzata Szumowska

Poland 2013

IN THE NAME OF

Adam is a gay priest who works in a young offenders’ institution, where he finds it difficult to distract himself with pious thoughts. He is particularly fascinated and unsettled by the taciturn Łukasz. When praying doesn’t help, he... > more

Kino DFM, Frankfurt

20:30
QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM

Andrei Gruzsniczki

Romania 2013

QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM

As the title suggests, the drama QUOD ERAT DEMOSTRANDUM displays a certain affinity with academia and advanced mathematics. As such, the film goes against the grain of the Romanian New Wave. The old-school patina, moreover, is deepened by the plain... > more

Caligari

22:00
THE DEVIL

Andrzej Żuławski

Poland 1972

THE DEVIL

January 1793. The Prussian army marches into Greater Poland. After a massacre in a convent a young nun and the would-be regicide Jakub are led to safety by a stranger. Jakub now becomes both witness to and agent of the collapse of any residual... > more

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