CINEMA AS CULTURAL MEMORY Memory is often created not only by individual experience but as part of a broader historical, social, and political process in a certain space. Looking back on a person’s private circumstances, gains more nuanced and deeper meaning through...
DOCUMENTARIES OPEN DEBATES Important stories, new voices, relevant questions; all are to be found in our selection of documentary films. Interestingly, in several documentaries the filmmakers’ concerns are connected to the notion of belonging, in a focused and...
LIVE TALK ON WOMEN’S POWER ENFF brings strong female line-up in this year’s special program WOMEN’S POWER and CINEMA AS CULTURAL MEMORY in which we highlight several true stories that got acknowledgement in remarkable films that were recently made. Join...
MASTERCLASS BY DRAGOS TUREA The director from the Republic of Moldova Dragoș Țurea will reflect on his documentary THE SOVIET GARDEN, done in a coproduction of Romania and Moldova. The masterclass will be moderated by Otto Boele – senior lecturer on Russian cinema and...
NEW TALENTS COMPETITION This year we introduce our first ever competitive program! Eastern Neighbours Film Festival invited young filmmakers with their first or second film after school to compete for an Audience Award (€1000). We were delighted to receive a total of...
WOMEN’S POWER In the last decade, there is an advent of extremely talented, daring, efficient young female directors in Eastern Europe. Especially in the Balkans where, almost as a rule, men mostly directed fiction features and women documentaries, animations...
