Sections
Feature Film Competition
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 ...
Short Film Competition
Traditionally, on Friday evening the curtain rises on "The Long Night of Short Films". In two programs, the filmmakers show all their skills in the short genre. With lightness, wit and irony, they dare to take a look at past times and seriously address the problems of the present. It is about ...
Youth Film U18 Competition
The films in the youth competition impressively tell us about young people's wild search for identity in the face of the rapidly changing world of the 21st century. A German-Polish-Czech jury of students will choose the best film in the competition.
Spectrum
Everything but average. Serial killers with a history, mid-life crises in the Arctic Circle, fugitives with a cut, skiing on the border: the Spectrum shows everything that cinema can do. Here arthouse meets action, trauma meets morality, intelligence meets musical. A section of unusual encounters - ...
Homeland | Domownja | Domizna
The film series HEIMAT | DOMOWNJA | DOMIZNA highlights film-making in Lower and Upper Lusatia on Sorbian and regional themes.HEIMAT musy serbski byś! A program full of references to what Lusatia is first and foremost: Sorbian. Curated by Grit Lemke and Hella Stoletzki. The series HEIMAT I DOMOWNJA ...
EcoEast
The new festival section EcoEast shows films on ecological topics and sustainability. How do people change the landscape, and how does the landscape change people? How does Eastern Europe deal with climate change? How are large-scale projects that interfere with the ecological balance discussed? ...
Hits
Box office hits and street sweepers! In their production countries, Central and Eastern European productions often compete successfully with Marvel, Disney & Co. for the favor of the audience. With their specific humor, their allusions to regional mentalities, political culture and history, ...
Children's Film
Fantastic adventures and stories suitable for viewers between the ages of three and twelve. On the festival Sunday, the world premiere of the latest ARD fairy tale film production traditionally takes place, followed by a children's festival.
Lusatian FilmShow
Lausitzer FilmSchau - Łužyska filmowa pśeglědka - Łužiska filmowa přehladka From climate protection to structural change, from Sorbian traditions to modernity, from everyday worries to fantasies and love - thematically, the Lusatian FilmSchau sets no limits. The only conditions are ...
FullDome
Cinema under the dome: The FullDome cinema offers the unique opportunity to completely enter the world of film and be enchanted all around with the 360° projection. The dome of the Planetarium "Juri Gagarin" in Cottbus becomes a canvas for abstract representations of technical processes and human ...
MIOB
MIOB is a network of seven European film festivals and was founded in 2017. All festivals are industry meeting points and public festivals at the same time, which means that there are exciting Q&As and appropriate (film) workshops after the films. At all film festivals, programs and films are ...