As of now, you can register for your festival accreditation to goEast 2023.

The 23^rd edition of the festival will take place in Wiesbaden from April 26^th to May 2^nd.

An extra handling fee will be charged for applications submitted after April 19^th.

The ACCREDITATION BADGE grants you entrance to the screenings of festival films in Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Mainz and Giessen (subject to availability) as well as to additional events in Wiesbaden (with the exception of specials such as lectures). Furthermore, it also allows you access the goEast Online Media Library containing a selection of the festival films.

An ACCREDITATION can be requested exclusively via Eventival.  

All necessary information for the accreditation process can be found in the FAQ section.

Once again, goEast supports filmmakers and young talents from Central and Eastern Europe and connects them with like-minded people from Germany. For the East-West Talent Lab, a multifaceted training program has been designed, which gives participants the opportunity for a first exchange with industry representatives as well as the chance to present their project ideas. The program for participants includes pitching training by filmmaker Cathy de Haan and one-on-one mentoring with industry and documentary expert Brigid O’Shea. In 2023, the East-West Talent Lab will continue to specialize in non-fiction and documentary formats.

NOMINATED PROJECT IDEAS

ARMENIA, FANTÔME   
(Feature Documentary)
by director Tamara Stepanyan, Armenia, France

ASHES TO ASHES, DUST TO SIDE CHICKS
(Feature Documentary)
by director Intizor Otaniyozova, Kazakhstan

BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
(Feature Documentary)
by director Ana Gurdiș, Moldova

CUBA & ALASKA
(Feature Documentary)
by director  Yegor Troyanovsky, presented by producer Olga Beskhmelnytsina, Ukraine, France

SALYANGOZ
(Feature Documentary)
by director Baris Mumin, Bulgaria

SISTERS
(Feature Documentary)
by director Tereza Bernátková, Czech Republic

SYMPHONY OF DONBAS
(Feature Documentary)
by director Elena Rubashevska, Ukraine

TAU
(Feature Documentary)
by director Timofey Stekolshchuk, presented by producer Sergei Yahontov, Georgia, France, Germany

PARTICIPATING PRODUCERS

Julian Gerchow (Germany)
Denis Kliewer (Germany)
Ondřej Lukeš (Czech Republic)
Kristina Mikhailova (Kazakhstan)
Louis Beaudemont (France)
Valeria Venturelli (Germany)
Ksenia Gapchenko (Germany)
Christina Demenshina (Germany)

FORBIDDEN
(Feature Documentary)
by director Anelise Salan, Romania

GORKY PARK. FACTORY OF HAPPY PEOPLE.
(Feature Documentary)
by directors Yana Osman and Anton Khamchishkin, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia

MOM AND ME
(Short documentary)
by director Aynur Kazimova, Azerbaidjan

MY MOTHER, THE WAR, AND ME
(Short documentary)
by director Inga Pylypchuk, Ukraine, Germany

THE DEATH OF UNDERGROUND
(Feature Documentary)
by director Romina Ruda, Albania

THE SIGH OF MEMORY
(Feature Documentary)
by director Gulzat Egemberdieva, Kyrgyzstan

YAGANOV
(Feature Documentary)
by director Anzor Dokhov and Tessa de Baudiniere, Russia, France

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 is made possible for goEast thanks to the support of the Kulturfonds Frankfurt Rhein Main within the framework of the side programme Cinema Archipelago.

You can find the program here.