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The best productions from Central and Eastern Europe.

Stories as diverse as Eastern Europe, ranging from Ukrainian family tragedies on speed to contemplative end-of-time reflections from Azerbaijan and coming-of-age films between Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and Securitate.

Between Polish small-town slackers, Belarusian political activists against their will and a Romanian policeman on the road to the provinces. Survival strategies before and after the changes of times, surprising and overwhelming things between the Baltic coast and the Pannonian plain.

These prizes are awarded by the international festival jury:

Main prize for the best film 25.000 EUR
donated by the Society for the Administration of Film and Television Rights (GWFF)

Special Award for Best Director 7.500 EU
donated by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg rbb

Prize for an outstanding individual performance 5,000 EUR
donated by Sparkasse Spree-Neiße

In addition to the prize money, there is also the prize sculpture LUBINA (Sorbian: the lovely one).

Bread And Salt

Chleb I Sól

Damian Kocur
PL / 2022 / 100 min

Polish kebab store racism meets a successful young pianist dressed in hip-hop clothing. Tymek is visiting his prefab-dominated hometown and soon comes to the realisation that, beyond a shared love for piano music, he no longer has much in common with ...

Fools

Głupcy

Tomasz Wasilewski
PL/DE / 2022 / 115 min

Marlena and her partner Tomasz, a few years her junior, live in a lonely house by the sea, happy with each other and with life in their secluded world. Their everyday life is turned upside down however when Marlena, against Tomek's wishes, decides to ...

Have You Seen This Woman?

Da li ste videli ovu ženu?

Dušan Zorić/Matija Gluščević
RS/HR / 2022 / 79 min

One woman, three lives: Draginja and a dead body in her apartment. Draginja with a fake child and fake husband. Draginja, who can't remember anything. Three ways for this woman in her mid-fifties to get out of her skin. And thereby fool all of those ...

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

LJUKSEMBURG, LJUKSEMBURG

Antonio Lukich
UA / 2022 / 101 min

Twins Kolya and Vasya are the children of a Ukrainian-Yugoslav mixed marriage. As kids, they adored their father, that is until he suddenly left the family. Vasya is a police officer and hopes for a career as a detective, Kolya makes ends meet as a ...

Men Of Deeds

OAMENI DE TREABĂ

Paul Negoescu
RO / 2022 / 104 min

A corruption-themed farce bordering on madness. Police officer Ilie is in the middle of a burnout and yet he doesn't notice a thing. The little village policeman wants nothing but an orchard and turns a blind eye to the quite obviously criminal ...

Metronom

Alexandru Belc
RO/FR / 2022 / 102 min

Romania 1972, coming-of-age under pressure: Ana and Sorin are in love and yet never really manage to become an item. The Beats of Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin feature on Radio Free Europe’s “Metronom” show; that is ...

Minsk

Boris Guts
EE / 2022 / 78 min

Julia and Pasha, a young couple, a small apartment in a condominium. Whilst inside these lovers toy with one another, outside the police sirens wail. The Belarusian militsiya suppress the protests against Lukashenko, Julia and Pasha also fall into ...