What to Watch at goEast 2026
goEast 2026 pushes hybrid cinema and Central & Eastern Europe’s shifting realities to the forefront
From 21–27 April, the goEast Film Festival returns to Wiesbaden as one of Europe’s key platforms for Central and Eastern European cinema. This year’s programme resists clean categorisation, alongside a competition slate foregrounding new regional voices. A dedicated portrait programme honours producer Ada Solomon, tracing the infrastructural force behind Romanian cinema’s global visibility, while newly announced juries reflect the festival’s ongoing investment in critical and transnational dialogue.
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News
goEast 2026 unveils Ada Solomon portrait and new competition titles
goEast 2026 expands documentary focus across competition and shorts
goEast 2026 targets AI-era image politics with «Strategies of Resistance» programme
goEast 2026 outlines dates, new director and Revolution-themed programming
Interview
«It was the people and not the authorities»
Ada Solomon on Romanian cinema, documentary, and institutional failure.
Films
Better Go Mad in the Wild
Director: Miro Remo
Rural twin brothers resisting modern life, where imagination, memory, and rebellion shape a fading yet vivid freedom.
Death of Death
Director: Dāvis Sīmanis
A witty and unsettling journey through cryonics, anti-ageing science, and transhumanist fantasy, Death of Death explores the growing pursuit of immortality while exposing the inequality and power that may shape who gets to outlive death.
Flowers of Ukraine
Director: Adelina Borets
On the outskirts of Kyiv, a woman in her 70s demonstrates her love of freedom.
Outliving Shakespeare
Director: Inna Sahakyan, Ruben Ghazaryan
In a remote Armenian retirement home, the clocks are no longer standing still.
The Kartli Kingdom
Director: Tamar Kalandadze, Julien Pebrel
Three generations endure postwar exile in a fractured building above Tbilisi.