Programme 2014
Monday | 14.04. |
Festivalzentrum
10:00
GOEAST DEVELOPMENT AWARD
Project Presentation
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
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
8 Short Films
84 min.
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Festivalzentrum
14:00
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
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
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 – 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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