25 Years of goEast
Celebrating Resistance, Reverie, and Regional Realness
The 2025 edition of goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film marks a major milestone, celebrating 25 years of championing cinematic voices from the region. Held from 23–29 April in Wiesbaden, the festival remains one of Europe’s most important platforms for Central and Eastern European cinema, blending film screenings, symposia, and talent development with a politically conscious and artistically rich program.
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goEast 2025 celebrates 25 years of Central and Eastern European cinema
Films
A Picture to Remember
Director: Olga Chernykh
The impact of war on three generations of women, blending personal stories, family archives, and historical parallels.
At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking
Director: Maja Novaković
A hauntingly beautiful portrait of old age and loneliness in a timelessly rural setting.
Eight Postcards from Utopia
Director: Radu Jude, Christian Ferencz-Flatz
Radu Jude’s latest weaves commercials from the past 35 years, creating a disorienting critique of capitalist culture, advertising, and national identity in post-communist Romania.
Ms. President
Director: Marek Šulík
A look at Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová’s transformative term.
My Armenian Phantoms
Director: Tamara Stepanyan
Private family memories and collective cinematic captions intertwine in this intimate exploration of a dissolving past, which, if not captured in time, can easily disappear in the frenetic pace of our amnesiac digital era.
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