At the closing ceremony held at Caligari FilmBühne prizes valued at a total of 28,000 EUR were announced in the Main Competition, the RheinMain Short Film Competition and the East – West Talent Lab.
Sixteen titles including films by Mladen Đorđević and Tinatin Kajrishvili competed in the main competition. The festival screened 90 films and welcomed over 200 guests.
The symposium “The ‘Other’ Queers: Cinematic Images from the Periphery of Europe”, the exhibition “Political Textile” and a panel discussion addressing queer anti-war activism in Ukraine were among the highlights of the sidebar programme.
Hosted by DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmuseum, goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film is one of the most internationally significant platforms for cinema from the CEE region. With its programme consisting of film screenings and accompanying events, goEast’s reach extends beyond regional audiences – to communities with histories of migration from Eastern Europe and industry guests from the international film sector alike.
FULL LIST OF WINNERS:
Golden Lily for Best Film:
Silence of Reason (Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia)
Directed by Kumjana Novakova
Produced by Pravo Ljudski
Coproduced by Medea
Award of the City of Wiesbaden for Best Director:
Maryna Vroda for Stepne (Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Slovakia)
Produced by vrodastudio
Coproduced by Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Tandem Production, Koi Studio, New Europe Film Sales, Kerekes Film
Supported by the Ukraine State Film Agency, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, (MBB-ILB) Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, RBB – Rundfunk Berlin- Brandenburg, Koi-Studio, New Europe Film Sales, the Slovak Film Commission, Kerekes Film, FVG Audiovisual Fund
Special Mention:
1489 (Armenia)
Directed by Shogakat Vardanyan
3Sat Feature Film Broadcast Selection:
Bauryna Salu (Kazakhstan)
Directed by Ashkat Kuchinchirekov
CEEOL Award for Best Documentary Film:
A Picture to Remember (France, Germany, Ukraine)
Directed by Olga Chernykh
Special Mention of the International Jury:
KIX (Hungary, Croatia, France)
Directed by Bálint Révész, Dávid Mikulán
Produced by ELF Pictures
Coproduced by Eclectica, Cinephage, HBO Max, ARTE France
FIPRESCI Jury Documentary Award:
KIX (Hungary, Croatia, France)
FIPRESCI Jury Feature Film Award:
Plague (Russia)
Directed by Dmitrii Davydov
RheinMain Short Film Competition:
RheinMain Short Film Award:
QIRIM (Czech Republic)
Directed by Katerina Khramtsova
East – West Talent Lab:
Special Mention:
Sacred Songs (Georgia)
Directed by Nona Giunashvili
Produced by Mariam Bitsadze
Pitch-the-Doc Award:
Echoes of Avey (Azerbaijan)
Directed by Atanur Nabiyeva
Renovabis Research Grant:
The Amateur Photographer’s Family Portrait (Azerbaijan, Georgia)
Directed by Nurlan Hasanli
Produced by Irina Gelashvili
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