Film Entry / goEast Countries

REGULATIONS
1. goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film aims at increasing the international audience’s awareness for film-cultural developments in Central and Eastern Europe, and it will facilitate international contacts between filmmakers, thus raising international dialogue, understanding and cultural integration. goEast is organized by Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF (The German Film Institute) in Frankfurt am Main.
2. The 11th goEast Festival will take place in Wiesbaden, Germany, from 06.04. to 12.04.2011. The festival presents current film productions – feature films as well as documentaries – from countries in Central and Eastern Europe (* see below) as well as co-productions with decisive contributions from those countries. The films will be shown in a competition, out of competition and in special programmes. To the competition of documentaries, films produced in Germany and Israel but bearing a clear relation to Central and Eastern Europe can be submitted likewise.
3. Films must meet the following criteria for entering the competition:
· Feature films: 35mm format, minimum length of 80 minutes.
· Documentaries: 35mm, Beta SP, DigiBeta, DV, minimum length of 30 minutes.
· Production year: 2009, 2010 or 2011.
· No distribution or TV-broadcasting in Germany before the time of the festival.
4. A selection committee chooses films for competition. The selection process will not be public and there is no legal right to enter the competition.
5. The management of the festival appoints an independent international jury. The jury will decide about awards and prices. The jury’s decision is final, and the jury does not need to justify their decisions. The awards: Main Award "Die goldene Lilie"(The Golden Lily), Skoda-Award for Best Film with a prize-money of Euro 10,000; the Documentary Award "Remembrance and Future" with a prize-money of Euro 10,000, donated by the Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future"; Award for Best Direction with a prize money of Euro 7,500 (sponsored by the City of Wiesbaden).
6. After a film’s entry into competition has been publicly announced, a withdrawal of the film is no longer possible.
7. Films will only be screened in original language with English subtitles.
8. The Festival acknowledges that for each film the international regulations authorise a total of no more than three screening.
9. The deadline for entering feature films and documentaries is 31.12.2010. By then the selection committee must have received: the film on DVD, a completed entry form with all attachments.
10. The above mentioned DVDs will not be returned.
11. A print of the film is to be sent only after an official invitation has been received. The film print must arrive at least 10 days before the festival starts.
12. The participants must usually pay the costs for transport, insurance and customs.
13. The festival covers the insurance of the film prints while they are on location in Wiesbaden, from their arrival until they are given back to the shipper.
14. Only the rights holder or his representative can enter a film. The festival requests that a DVD of the film is deposited in the festivals archive.
15. Entering a film means the acceptance of the festival’s regulations.
16. The management of the festival is authorized to change the festival’s regulations in special cases but only in accordance with the International Regulations.
17. The festival’s legal domicile is Frankfurt am Main, Germany.