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24.03.2026
goEast Portrait: Ada Solomon // Kaleidoscope: goKids, Archive Presentations, Matinee: BETTER GO MAD IN THE WILD // Competition Films // Festival Accreditation // goEast Press Conference – Tuesday, 14 April, 11:00
goEast 2026 – Save the Date! // Focus on: Revolution! // Festival Motif, Visual Identity and Trailer by Zuza Banasińska // "Sto lat!" – Celebrating Andrzej Wajda's 100th Birthday // Fostering Young Film Professionals in the East-West Talent Lab
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26.02.2026
Symposium: "Cinematic Strategies of Resistance" // goEast 2026: First Competition Films // Festival Accreditation // Save the Date: goEast Press Conference – Tuesday, 14 April, 11:00 // Advance Ticket Sales
goEast 2026 – Save the Date! // Focus on: Revolution! // Festival Motif, Visual Identity and Trailer by Zuza Banasińska // "Sto lat!" – Celebrating Andrzej Wajda's 100th Birthday // Fostering Young Film Professionals in the East-West Talent Lab
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30.01.2026
goEast 2026 - 1. Press Release
goEast 2026 – Save the Date! // Focus on: Revolution! // Festival Motif, Visual Identity and Trailer by Zuza Banasińska // "Sto lat!" – Celebrating Andrzej Wajda's 100th Birthday // Fostering Young Film Professionals in the East-West Talent Lab
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Head of Festival
"Sto lat!" – Celebrating Andrzej Wajda's 100 th Birthday
Competition
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Romani Cinema: Against the odds
Archives/ Festival presentation
DFF Treasure chest
Matinee
GoKids
Portrait
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Accreditation
The accreditation phase for the 26. Festival Edition is now running! It will take place from 21 – 27. April 2026 in Wiesbaden and other venues in the Rhine-Main region.
Your festival badge grants entrance to the screenings of festival films in Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Mainz, 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 from the “Kaleidoskop” section 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.
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 17.
East-West Talent Lab
We are inviting emerging documentary filmmakers and producers from Central and Eastern Europe to apply for the East-West Talent Lab, which will take place at the 26th goEast Film Festival (21-27 April 2026). The talent program is looking for 12 non-fiction projects in development, as well as for up to 8 producers to apply without a project. 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 2026:
- A Research Grant, endowed with 3.500 Euros for an early-stage documentary project focusing on human rights and/or minority rights.
- ThePitch the Doc Prize, a training to support the development of the project (value of 500 Euros).
Deadline for application is February 24th, 2026.
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, Kosovo, 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 (this applies only to producers) is Germany.
