[syndicate] fwd: goEast Film Festival Wiesbaden - Newsletter 03/2007

[claudia westermann]

Colourful, bizarre, precise: cinema from Eastern Europe 

goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film begins at 19.00 on
Wednesday, 28 March with the ceremonial opening by Udo Corts, Hessen State
Minister of Higher Education, Research and the Arts, and Rita Thies, Head of
the Wiesbaden Department of Education and Cultural Affairs, at the Caligari
cinema in Wiesbaden. A programme of short films will launch the festival. 

With two world premieres, one international premiere, and a large number of
first German screenings, the goEast audience can look forward to a highly
exciting Competition. Among the ten features and six documentaries selected
for competition are several debut films, such as FRISS LEVEGO / FRESH AIR,
the colourful Gesamtkunstwerk by Hungarian director Ágnes Kocsis, and
EUPHORIA by Ivan Vyrypaev, a Russian director so far noted for his work in
the theatre. The Estonian comedy 186 KILOMETER / 186 KILOMETRES by Andres
Maimik and Rain Tolk is receiving its world premiere at goEast. With ARMIN
(dir: Ognjen Svilicic) and KLOPKA / THE TRAP (dir: Srdan Golubovic), two
competition films from ex-Yugoslavia testify to the emergence of a new
generation of directors who deliver precise societal descriptions far
removed from the hackneyed Balkan clichés. In the fast-paced KILNIEKS / THE
HOSTAGE, Laila Pakalnina effortlessly deconstructs both the thriller genre
and a number of sacred national institutions. For barbed allusions to
society, the legal system and politicians, that film is matched only by the
equally bizarre Russian film IZOBRAŽAJA ŽERTVU / PLAYING THE VICTIM (dir:
Kirill Serebrennikov). With HEZKÉ CHVILKY BEZ ZÁRUKY / PLEASANT MOMENTS, the
goEast Competition features the latest film from the masterly Vera
Chytilová, who radically altered the aesthetic direction of Czech cinema
during the Prague Spring together with colleagues like Miloš Forman and Jiri
Menzel, and has retained her critical eye in a transformed society. The same
is true of the highly awarded Polish documentary filmmaker Marcel Lozinski,
who together with Krzysztof Kieslowski altered the face of Polish
documentary filmmaking in the late 1960s and in JAK TO SIE ROBI / HOW TO DO
IT scrutinizes an experiment conducted by the political adviser Piotr
Tymochowicz. The competing documentaries also include a world premiere,
namely that of ROSSOSH...RAGTIME... (dir: Pulat Ahmatov), a depiction of the
everyday life of two young Russian women in a small frontier town. Forman's
HORI, MA PANENKO / THE FIREMEN'S BALL, which is showing in the Homage
section, served as inspiration for SEJDEME SE V EUROCAMPU / I GUESS WE'LL
MEET IN THE EUROCAMP, a documentary by young Czech director Erika Hniková. 

Thanks to the special assistance of the Hessen State Ministry of Higher
Education, Research and the Arts, all competing films screening at the
Caligari cinema (17.30 or 18.00 and 20.00) will have additional German
subtitles for the first time.

The "second" competitive slot is the Students' Competition traditionally
sponsored by the BHF-Bank Foundation. The section enjoys special popularity
with the goEast audience, whose votes decide who wins the prizes amounting
to 3,000 euros. Forty films, among them two world premieres, are showing in
the three categories (Documentary and Experimental Film, Museum Wiesbaden,
Thurs. 29.03, 20.00; Animated Film, Fri., 22.00; Short Films, Caligari
FilmBühne, Fri., 22.00). In 2007, goEast has issued an invitation to film
students from Tirana, Tallin, Dessau, the Rhine-Main region, and Kassel.
Winners are notified immediately after the screening and the prizes are
presented during the festival closing ceremony together with the BHF-Bank
Foundation Promotional Prize for the best film from a foreign film school. 

The complete programme of films and accompanying events can be found at
www.filmfestival-goEast.de.


For more information please contact us:

Deutsches Filminstitut - DIF
Filmfestival goEast
Schaumainkai 41
D-60596 Frankfurt
Tel.: +49-69 / 961 220 650
Fax: +49-69 / 961 220 669 
info at filmfestival-goEast.de <mailto:%20info at filmfestival-goEast.de> 
www.filmfestival-goEast.de

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