Eastern Promise: GoEast Film Festival

Explore the Frontier of Central & Eastern European Cinema

Over the course of seven festival days, goEast presents the full range of Central and Eastern European filmmaking in Wiesbaden and additional locations around the Rhine-Main region, in a programme featuring current trends, new positions and film-historical rarities, always within the context of discourse regarding socio-political concerns, cinema aesthetics and film theory.

Please consider to DONATE to Modern Times Review if your situation allows it. In doing so, you will receive our magazines. Follow Editor-in-Chief Truls Lie on Telegram and Industry Editor Steve Rickinson on Twitter. Join our Facebook Group Modern Times Review for an uncensored conversation on all things «Modern Times».

And don’t forget to follow us on: Facebook, Instagram, X.

---

News

goEast spotlights marginalised voices across 24th edition

goEast announces its 2024 competition slate of 16 films from Central & Eastern Europe

---

Films

09.05.2022

Director: Nicole Philmon

Victory Day in Russia in 2022 – barely six weeks after Putin's invasion of Ukraine – plays out the same tired old themes of the Red Army's victory over Nazism in 1945, with those celebrating eagerly taking up the new propaganda of victory.

---

1489

Director: Shoghakat Vardanyan

A loving reconstruction of a war hero's human aura as a counterpoint to mere martyrdom and anonymous statistics.

---

Fairy Garden

Director: Gergö Somogyvári

How do marginalised individuals navigate societal structures meant to exclude them? Fairy Garden offers a raw and authentic look into the lives of two such people in Hungary.

---

In The Rearview

Director: Maciek Hamela

Filmmaker Maciek Hamela provides a singular and emotional snippet of the war as he drives Ukrainians over the border into Poland.

---

Smiling Georgia

Director: Luka Beradze

Tricked by cynical populists' fake commitments for their own obscure ends, the elderly residents of an entire village in Georgia are left toothless, figuratively and literally.

---

The Dmitriev Affair

Director: Jessica Gorter

If you can bear to witness the quintessential continuity of aspects of Stalinist evil in Putin's Russia, Jessica Gorter's meticulous study of the trials of human rights activist and historian Yuri Dmitriev is obligatory viewing.

---

Now Available