FESTIVALS: Winners of 23rd goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film

03-05-2023

FESTIVALS: Winners of 23rd goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film

By FNE Staff

WIESBADEN: Lithuanian film Remember to Blink / Per arti directed by Austėja Urbaitė received the Golden Lily for Best Film at the 23rd edition of the GoEast, the Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, which took place 26 April - 2 May 2023 in Wiesbaden and the surrounding region.

The festival was hosted by DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum and made possible with the support of numerous partners. Primary funding partners were HessenFilm und Medien GmbH, the State Capital Wiesbaden, Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain, the film festival funding programme of the Goethe-Institut in co-operation with the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, Osteuropa-Hilfswerk Renovabis and the Central and Eastern European Online Library GmbH / CEEOL.

FULL LIST OF WINNERS:

Golden Lily for Best Film:

Remember to Blink / Per arti (Lithuania)
Directed by Austėja Urbaitė
Produced by Fralita Films
Supported by the Lithuanian Film Centre, LRT

Award of the City of Wiesbaden for Best Director:

Titas Laucius for

Parade / Paradas (Lithuania)
Produced by After School
Supported by Lithuanian Film Centre

CEEOL Award for Best Documentary Film:

We Will Not Fade Away / My ne zgasniemo (Ukraine, France, Poland)
Directed by Alisa Kovalenko

Special Mention of the International Jury:

This Is What I Remember / Esimde (Kirghizstan, Japan, the Netherlands, France)
Directed by Aktan Arym Kubat

FIPRESCI Award (fiction feature):

Remember to Blink / Per arti (Lithuania)
Directed by Austėja Urbaitė