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29.02.2024
Albania and Kosovo in Focus // Yugoretten 2.0 // East-West Talent Lab // Accreditation // Save the Date: goEast Press Conference: Wednesday, 17 April, 11 am
Wiesbaden/Frankfurt, 28 February 2024  This year, goEast's Cinema Archipelago program, made possible once again through the generous support of Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain, focuses on the (film) cultures of Kosovo and Albania, as well as on impulses from the Western Balkan region as a whole.
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31.01.2024
First 2024 Program Highlights Revealed // Symposium: "The Other Queers – Cinematic Images from the Periphery of Europe" // Fostering Emerging Filmmakers and Up-and-Coming Producers in the East-West Talent Lab
Wiesbaden/Frankfurt, 31 January 2024 Every year since 2001, goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, hosted by DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, transforms the Hessian state capital of Wiesbaden into one of the most internationally significant platforms for cinema from Central and Eastern Europe.
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Publications
Symposium
Specials
Albania-Kosovo Focus
Award Ceremony
Opening Film
Portrait: Jasmila Žbanić
Symposium
DAVRA COLLECTIVE KURZFILMPROGRAMM
Space Age Animation
RheinMain Short Film Award
Focus on Slovenia
In Memoriam Juraj Jakubisko
Competition
Bioskop
Anarcho Shorts
SchoolsgoEast
czech Anidocs

Accreditation

The accreditation phase for the 24th Festival Edition is now running! It will take place from April 24 – 30 in Wiesbaden and other venues in the Rhine-Main region.

Your festival badge grants you entrance to the screenings of festival films in Wiesbaden, Darmstadt and Giessen as well as to most of the events in the supporting programme. The prerequisite in each case is that the events are not yet sold out. Some events (“specials”, such as the boat trip on the Rhine) may not be included. Your accreditation also gives you access to the goEast online media library containing a selection of our festival films.

Further information on the current accreditation procedure can be found in our FAQ section (LINK). 

You can apply for accreditation exclusively via Eventival, or at short notice during the festival week at our info counter (you may have to expect waiting times). Please also note that we will charge an additional late accreditation fee from April 20.

East-West Talent Lab

This year, goEast once again is supporting 15 non-fiction filmmakers and emerging talents with a project from Central and Eastern Europe as well as up to 8 producers without a project from Central and Eastern Europe and Germany in their professional development and helping to connect them with their peers.

In 2024, the East-West Talent Lab is particularly tailored to the needs of non-fiction and documentary filmmakers.

Two awards will be given within the East-West Talent Lab 2024:

  1. Renovabis Research Grant, endowed with 3.500 Euros for an early-stage documentary project focusing on human rights and/or minority rights.
  2. Pitch the Doc Prize, a training to support the development of the project (value of 500 Euros).

Deadline for application was February 27th, 2024.

More details, as well as the entry regulations can be found on the submission form on Eventival. Here you will also find an example of the application documents to be submitted for submissions with a project.

*Eligible countries for applications with and without a project are: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

** A further eligible country for applications without a project (producers) is Germany.

Applicants should either have the nationality of one of the eligible countries, or be a permanent resident there.

Virtual Reality

goEast has featured a bespoke competition for virtual reality works since 2018, which has, however, up until now solely shown completed VR projects in Wiesbaden and Frankfurt. Now the festival is set to take on a new challenge – with a programme and accompanying competition exclusively intended for work-in-progress and collaborative projects in the fields of virtual and extended reality.

The declared goal here is to promote new talents from Central and Eastern Europe, as well as students from Germany, who are united by a common passion for VR and XR. Within the programme, the selected participants will receive assistance in their search for further opportunities to fund their projects.

In 2023 this programme was made possible for goEast thanks to the support of the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain within the framework of the side programme Cinema Archipelago.

You can find the program here.