The films, all from Eastern Europe or Germany, will compete for four prizes: the ŠKODA Film Award (10,000 EUR); the Award of the City of Wiesbaden for Best Director (7,500 EUR), the Award of the Federal Foreign Office (4,000 EUR) for “artistic originality which creates cultural diversity”; and the “Remembrance and Future” Documentary Award (10,000 EUR) of the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future.”

In addition to the awards in the main Competition, the BHF-BANK Foundation will sponsor the Open Frame Award for Experimental Film and Video Art (5,000 EUR) for the first time, and the goEast Development Award (3,500 euro) will be presented in the context of the East-West Talent Lab.

A total of 140 films from 22 countries will be shown at the festival, including 13 German premieres and two world premieres in the competition. Polish New Wave, new Slovak cinema, and Czech animation are the subjects of festival special sections.

The films in competition follow:

IDA, Paweł Pawlikowski, Opus Film, Poland, Denmark 2013
FATHER AND SON ON A JOURNEY, Marcel Łoziński, Poland 2013
LITTLE BROTHER, Serik Aprymov, Kazahkstan 2013
TEMPTATION, Viktar Dashuk, Belarus 2013
SEDUCE ME, RTV Slovenija, Marko Šantić, Slovenia 2013
BLIND DATES, Levan Koguashvili, Georgia 2013
VALLEY OF SIGHS, Mihai Andrei Leaha, Andrei Crişan, Iulia Elena Hossu, Romania 2013
JUDGMENT IN HUNGARY, Eszter Hajdú, Hungary, Germany 2013
WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM, Independenta Film, Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania, France 2013
SHAME, Yusup Razykov, Russia 2013
ZELIM'S CONFESSION, Natalia Mikhaylova, Germany 2013
QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM, Icon Production, Andrei Gruzsniczki, Romania 2013
FREE RANGE - BALLAD ON APPROVING OF THE WORLD, Veiko Õunpuu, Estonia 2013
NEPAL FOREVER, Aliona Polunina, Russia 2013
THE HOPE FACTORY, Natalia Meshchaninova, Russia 2014
FREE ENTRY – ONE DAY OF BETTY, Yvonne Kerékgyártó, Hungary 2014