The Young Talents Competition includes films by Kosara Mitić, Martin Gonda, Alina Şerban, Hristo Simeonov, and Emi Buchwald.
Apart from the films in the Main Competition and the Young Talents Competition, the programme includes sidebar sections Cinéscop, Cinédocs, Cinécourts, Cinéspecials (special screenings), and East goes West (films produced between East and West).
The festival will screen over 65 feature films and 60 short films through over 120 screenings in cinemas, alongside numerous events: concerts at Melusina Club, Rotondes, Neimënster, several film debates, a large photography exhibition, and several special evenings.
This year, the festival will highlight Bulgaria. The Focus on Bulgaria will include seven feature films as well as several short films, numerous Bulgarian filmmakers present at screenings (including Petar Valchanov and Pepa Hristova), a Bulgarian evening consisting of a screening and a Q&A, as well as music concerts.
The festival will also host the avant-premieres of two films coproduced by Luxembourg. One of them is 3 Weeks After / 3 nedelje posle (Serbia, Luxembourg, Italy, Bulgaria, Croatia) directed by Miroslav Terzić, produced by This and That Productions, and coproduced by Paul Thiltges Distribution, Nightswim, Invictus, and Kinorama, in the presence of actor Jovan Ginic and coproducer Paul Thiltges. The other one is Guria by Levan Koguashvili (Georgia, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Turkey, Bulgaria, Norway), produced by Kino Iberica and coproduced by Cineworx, Tarantula, ArtFest, TatoFilm/Maya Films, Staer, with participation from Saudi Arabia) in the presence of the director, producer Donato Rotunno and other guests.
For the 15th time, the festival is organising the CinEast Pro coproduction meeting, organised in collaboration with the Film Fund Luxembourg, professional associations, and film institutes, which aims to develop CinEast as a platform allowing professionals from Luxembourg and Central and Eastern European countries to meet, present their projects, and foster collaborations.
The festival will open with a Warm-up Weekend from 9–11 October, before its official opening on 14 October 2026.
CinEast 2026 is organised by CinEast asbl in collaboration with the Kinepolis group, Cinémathèque, Neimënster, Cinextdoor network, Ancien Cinéma and others. Main partners and sponsors: Luxembourg Ministry of Culture, City of Luxembourg, Film Fund Luxembourg, PwC Foundation Luxembourg, Kulczyk Investments and Polish Film Institute. Co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
Main Competition:
A Safe Place / Un loc sigur (Romania)
Directed by Cecilia Ștefănescu
Produced by Point Film, Libra Films
Coproduced by Avanpost Media
Supported by the Romanian Film Centre (CNC)
Dua (Kosovo, Switzerland, France)
Directed by Blerta Basholli
Everything as It Should Be / Mistryně (Czech Republic)
Directed by Bohdan Karásek
Honey Bunny / Koke (Croatia, Serbia)
Directed by Igor Jelinović
Produced by Eclectica
Coproduced by Baš Čelik
Supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Film Center Serbia, Creative Europe – MEDIA
Only Beautiful Things to Look at / Prameň (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary)
Directed by Ivan Ostrochovský
Produced by Punkchart Films, Negativ
Coproduced by the Slovak Television and Radio, Proton Cinema, the Czech Television
Supported by Czech Audiovisual Fund, Eurimages, the Slovak Audiovisual Fund, the National Film Institute – Hungary (NFI), the Hungarian National Film Office, Kultminor
Shame and Money (Germany, Kosovo, Slovenia, Albania, North Macedonia, Belgium)
Directed by Visar Morina
Produced by Schuldenberg Films
Coproduced by Vicky Bane, Eagle Eye Film, Vertigo Ljubljana, On Film Production, List Production, Quetzalcoatl
Supported by Eurimages, BKM, Film – und Medienstiftung NRW, DFFF, QKK, the North Macedonia Film Agency, the National Center of Cinematography Albania, the Slovenian Film Centre, Tax Shelter Belgium
Tell Me What You Feel / Powiedz mi, co czujesz (Poland)
Directed by Łukasz Ronduda
Young Talents Competition:
17 (North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia)
Directed by Kosara Mitić
Produced by Black Cat Production
Coproduced by Art & Popcorn, December
Supported by the North Macedonia Film Agency, Film Center Serbia, the Slovenian Film Centre
Flood / Potopa (Slovakia, Czech Republic)
Directed by Martin Gonda
Produced by Silverart, CINEART TV Prague
Coproduced by Harine Films, Y-House
Supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund, the Polish Film Institute, the Radio and Television Slovakia, the Minority Culture Fund, Creative Europe - MEDIA, the Košice Self-Governing Region, the Czech Film Fund, the Belgian Tax Shelter
I Matter / Eu contez (Romania, Germany, Belgium)
Directed by Alina Şerban
Produced by microFILM, 2Pilots Filmproduction, Frakas Productions
Coproduced by ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel, Lemming Film Belgium, Avanpost Media, Orange & Be tv, Proximus, Shelter Prod, the Romanian Public Television kkk
Supported by the Romanian Film Centre, the Government of Romania, Creative Europe MEDIA, Film-und Medienstiftung NRW, Film and Audiovisual Centre of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Tax Shelter Programme of the Belgian Federal Government, Tax shelter.be & ING, The Belgian Development Cooperation, in association with ZDF/ARTE
My Father's Shoes (Bulgaria, France)
Directed by Hristo Simeonov
Produced by Contrast Films
Coproduced by Films de Force Majeure
Supported by the Bulgarian National Film Center, the French CNC – the expected amount of 130,000 EUR will be confirmed in December, Eurimages
No Ghosts on Good Street (Poland)
Directed by Emi Buchwald
