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.
goEast takes place from 26 April to 2 May 2023
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INTERVIEW
Exploring the role of the goEast Film Festival among the crowded continental documentary landscape, insights into what it has on offer, and more.
FILMS
Aurora’s Sunrise
Director: Inna Sahakyan
A harrowing, engrossing story of Aurora Mardiganian who finds herself in the throes of the Armenian genocide.
Fragile Memory
Director: Ihor Ivanko
A Ukrainian filmmaker turns to a forgotten photo archive as his grandfather’s memory starts fading away.
Motherland
Director: Alexander Mihalkovich, Hanna Badziaka
An insight into the militarisation of Belarusian society.
The Hamlet Syndrome
Director: Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosolowski
The young Ukrainian generation, scarred by war, prepares a play based on the motifs of Shakespeare's Hamlet.