The accreditation phase for the 25th Festival Editionstarts in Feburary 2025! It will take place from April 23 – 29 in Wiesbaden and other venues in the Rhine-Main region.

Your festival badge grants you entrance to the screenings of festival films in Wiesbaden, Darmstadt and Giessen as well as to most of the events in the supporting programme. The prerequisite in each case is that the events are not yet sold out. Some events (“specials”, such as the boat trip on the Rhine) may not be included. Your accreditation also gives you access to the goEast online media library containing a selection of our festival films.

After April 14th, we will have to charge an additional €10.00 handling fee.

Further information on the current accreditation procedure can be found in our FAQ section. 

You can apply for accreditation exclusively via Eventival, or at short notice during the festival week at our info counter (you may have to expect waiting times). Please also note that we will charge an additional late accreditation fee from April 14.

In 2024, the East-West Talent Lab was particularly tailored to the needs of non-fiction and documentary filmmakers.

Two awards were given within the East-West Talent Lab 2024:

1. Renovabis Research Grant, endowed with 3.500 Euros for an early-stage documentary project focusing on human rights and/or minority rights.
2. Pitch the Doc Prize, a training to support the development of the project (value of 500 Euros).

NOMINATED PROJECT IDEAS 2024

9 LIVES OF A CAR
(Documentary)
by director Lesia Kordonets, Ukraine, Switzerland

AMALIA
(Documentary)
by director Kamila Rustambekova, Uzbekistan

BEYOND THE BORDER
(Documentary)
by director Ana Otasevic

BIG IN GAZI BABA
(Documentary)
by director Pauline Blanchet, presented by producer Avdi Thachi, North Macedonia, United Kingdom

BURNING LAND
(Documentary)
by director Almira Ismailova, Kazakhstan

CALL ME IF YOU’RE LOST
(Short documentary)
by director Joanna Suchomska, Poland, Ukraine

ECHOES OF AVEY
(Documentary)
by director Atanur Nabiyeva, Azerbaijan

FROM RADVANKA
(Documentary)
by director Tomi Hazslinszky, Ukraine

LET GIRLS PLAY
(Documentary)
by director Iuliia Kushnarenko, Dagestan, Belgium

MANASCHY
(Documentary)
by director Aizada Bekbalaeva, Kyrgyzstan

MY MOTHER IS AN AGENT
(Documentary)
by director Jurate Samulionyte, Lithuania

OUR PEOPLE
(Documentary)
by director Maksym Melnyk, Ukraine, Slovakia

SACRED SONGS
(Documentary)
by director Nona Giunashvili, presented by producer Mariam Bitsadze, Georgia

SECOND HAND
(Documentary)
by director Bojan Mrđenović, Croatia, Serbia

SONGS OF DUOLAN
(Documentary)
by director Sakhamin Trofimov, Georgia, France, Kazakhstan

THE AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER’S FAMILY PORTRAIT
(Documentary)
by director Nurlan Hasanli, presented by producer Irina Gelashvili, Georgia, Azerbaijan

PARTICIPATING PRODUCERS

Antonia Best (Germany)
Luke Bliedtner (Germany)
Margarita Dreiling (Germany)
Ben-Alexander Hüttig (Germany)
Glib Lukianets (Ukraine)
Vera Paulmann (Germany)
Dascha Petuchow (Germany)
Anja Rajšel (Montenegro/Germany)
Katerina Ryzhakova (France)

The Project Market Pitch, in which the nominated projects were presented was public and took place on Monday, April 29 in the Museum Wiesbaden.

goEast has featured a bespoke competition for virtual reality works since 2018, which has, however, up until now solely shown completed VR projects in Wiesbaden and Frankfurt. Now the festival is set to take on a new challenge – with a programme and accompanying competition exclusively intended for work-in-progress and collaborative projects in the fields of virtual and extended reality.

The declared goal here is to promote new talents from Central and Eastern Europe, as well as students from Germany, who are united by a common passion for VR and XR. Within the programme, the selected participants will receive assistance in their search for further opportunities to fund their projects.

In 2023 this programme was made possible for goEast thanks to the support of the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain within the framework of the side programme Cinema Archipelago.