fwd: goEast

[claudia westermann]

NEWSLETTER I
English Version

Plunging into the Film Worlds of Eastern Europe

Taking place in Wiesbaden from 5 to 11 April 
2006: goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern 
European Film.

In its sixth year of existence goEast presents a 
total of more than 100 films from 15 different 
countries.
The Portrait section introduced last year will be 
carried forward in 2006 with the work of the 
Lithuanian director Sarunas Bartas. His sparse 
and challenging films, shot in black and white or 
restrained colours and frequently without 
specific narration or dialogue, are striking for 
their brittle lyricism.
The Students' Competition gives young filmmakers 
from Sarajevo, Bucharest, Berlin, the Rhine-Main 
region, and Kassel the opportunity to present 
their short films.

"Mainstream Made in Russia" is the title of the 
goEast symposium running from 6 to 8 April 2006. 
Its subject will be the latest developments in 
the Russian film industry, which became clear to 
German audiences, too, on release of the film 
"Wächter der Nacht" (Night Watch). The symposium 
is built around a comprehensive film programme 
and lectures by experts from Russia and Germany. 
All of the events programmed for the symposium 
are open to the general public.

In order to do justice to a cultural diversity of 
which many people in Germany remain unaware, 
goEast supplements the festival competition and 
other film sections with a comprehensive sidebar 
programme.
In 2006 the exhibition "Krzysztof Kieslowski. 
Signs and Memory" at the Museum Wiesbaden offers 
some insight into the life and work of the great 
Polish director. A number of his films will be 
shown to accompany the exhibition. In Viktor 
Jerofejew, goEast has won as a guest one of 
Russia's leading authors and the son of a close 
friend of Stalin. In his book "The Good Stalin, 
which was published by Berlin Verlag in 2004, he 
reflects upon his childhood at the centre of 
political power, and his path to liberation.

A concert by the Russian skacore outfit 
"Leningrad" promises to deliver a highlight of 
the goEast sidebar programme. Regularly listed in 
the Russian charts, this underground band came to 
the notice of a German audience primarily through 
Wladimir Kaminer's "Russendisko", the hip Berlin 
event whose acclaimed guest appearance at goEast 
2005 "Leningrad" seems sure to match.

For more information please contact us:

Deutsches Filminstitut - DIF
goEast Film Festival
Schaumainkai 41
60596 Frankfurt
Telephone: +49-69 / 96 12 20 27
Fax: +49-69 / 66 37 29 47
<mailto:info at filmfestival-goeast.de>info at filmfestival-goeast.de
<http://www.filmfestival-goEast.de>www.filmfestival-goEast.de