22-04-2016

FESTIVALS: The 16th goEast Kicks Off

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    WIESBADEN: Feature films and documentaries are competing together in the Competition of the16th edition of goEast, which takes place in Wiesbaden on 20-26 April 2016.

    Aside the Competition, other sections are: Open Frame Award, Young Filmmakers for Peace, Beyond Belongings, Symposium, Portrait (dedicated this year to the Polish filmmaker Juliusz Machulski), Highlights and Special.

    With the East-West Talent Lab, goEast provides young filmmakers from the areas of direction and production with a valuable platform for networking and further education during the festival week in Wiesbaden.

    GoEast is also launching the pilot project OPPOSE OTHERING!, while the Young Filmmakers for Peace project, initiated in 2015, is returning for its second edition.

    COMPETITION LINEUP:

    Dawn/Ausma (Latvia, Estonia, Poland)
    Directed by Laila Pakalnina
    Produced by Hargla Pictures
    Coproduced by Digital Sputnik, Staron Film
    Supported by the National Film Center of Latvia, Latvian Cultural Capital Foundation, Polish Film Institute

    Bopem (Kazahstan)
    Directed by Zhanna Issabayeva

    Not My Job (Russia)
    Directed by Denis Shabaev
         
    The Red Spider/Červený pavúk (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia)
    Directed by Marcin Koszałka
    Produced by MD4
    Coproduced by Fog'n'Desire Films, SOKOL KOLLAR, Telco Orange, Zentropa Poland, Krakow Festival Office, Krakow Film Commission
    Supported by Audiovizuálny fond, Státní fond kinematografie, Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, REGIONALNY FUNDUSZ FILMOWY W KRAKOWIE
         
    The Lure (Poland)
    Directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska
    Produced by Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych, WFDiF
    Coproduced by Platige Image, Telewizja Polska – Agencja Produkcji Telewizyjnej i Filmowej
    Supported by the Polish Film Institute

    The Dazzling Light of Sunset (Georgia, Germany)
    Directed by Salomé Jashi
    Produced by Sakdoc Film
    Coproduced by Inselfilm Produktion
    Supported by the Georgian National Film Center (GNFC)

    Eva Nová (Slovakia, Czech Republic)
    Directed by Marko Škop
    Produced by Artileria
    Coproduced by Sirius Films (CZ), Filmpark production (SK), Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska (SK)
    Supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund, Czech State Cinematography Fund, the MEDIA Programme, the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic

    Insight (Russia)
    Directed by Alexandr Kott

    We Are Never Alone (Czech Republic, France)
    Directed by Petr Václav
    Produced by Mimesis Film
    Coproduced by Czech Television, Cinema Defacto
    Supported by the Czech State Cinematography Fund

    Orizont (Romania)
    Directed by Marian Crisan
    Produced by Solar Indie Junction, Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Mandragora Movies, Rova Film
    Supported by the Romanian National Film Centre

    Song of Songs (Ukraine)
    Directed by Eva Neymann

    When the Earth Seems to Be Light (Georgia, Germany)
    Produced by Georgian Artist Collective Goslab
    Coproduced by Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Zazarfilm and Jörg Langkau

    Anthill / Sipelgapesa (Estonia)
    Directed by Vladimir Loginov
    Produced by Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Allfilm

    Death in Sarajevo / Smrt u Sarajevu (France, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
    Directed by Danis Tanovic
    Produced by Margo Films, Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 CCA/pro.ba from Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Coproduced by France 3 Cinema

    The Waiting Room (Canada, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
    Directed by Igor Drljača
    Produced by TimeLapse Pictures
    Coproduced by Gearshift Films, YN Films

    Ukrainian Sheriffs (Ukraine, Latvia, Germany)
    Directed by Roman Bondarchuk
    Produced by VFS Films
    Coproduced by Docudays Production, Taskovski Films Production Berlin

    Waiting Room / Čakáreň (Slovakia)
    Directed by Palo Korec
    Produced by Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Artileria
    Coproduced by Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 RTVS , FILMPARK
    Supported by the Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Slovak Audiovisual Fund, Ministerstvo kultúry SR

    Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Mandragora Movies, Rova Film