ACCREDITATION
goEast 2024

The accreditation phase for the 24th festival edition has begun. Filmmakers, representatives from the media, film, cinema and festival industries (Professional), press representatives (Press), and students of Slavic, Central and Eastern European Studies, Film and Media Studies, as well as Queer and Gender Studies (Student) can apply for an accreditation.  

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FOKUS AND SYMPOSIUM FLYER

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Get the first glimpse into the goEast program 2024!

 

OBITUARY FOR SVETLANA SIKORA

 

Last week we received sad news from Lithuania: Svetlana Sikora, the first artistic director of goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, passed away in her hometown Vilnius. We would like to express our sincere condolences to Svetlana’s family.  

Claudia Dillmann, former director of Deutsches Filmmuseum and Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF e.V. in Frankfurt as well as the founder of goEast, shares her memories of Svetlana in this obituary.

 

CHECK OUT THE DISCUSSION PANEL UKRAINEXPLOITATION

“Paratroopers” was the term that Jean-Marie Straub liked to use for filmmakers who “simply fall from the sky somewhere and boom, the camera is running already. They film something they have never even seen. They’ve never taken time to look at it.” The Ukrainian film industry is hardly profiting from the presence of these “paratroopers”; many Ukrainians work on the side as “fixers” (when they are not at the front themselves), constantly putting their own lives on the line, often without insurance or employment contracts.

In this panel discussion, we will get to the bottom of the problem, while simultaneously highlighting examples of initiatives supporting the Ukrainian film industry instead of exploiting it.

Keynote: Illia Gladshtein

With: Alisa Kovalenko, Rita Burkovska, Miriam Carbe
Moderation by Heleen Gerritsen

 

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