The goEast! festival aims at promoting communicative exchange between young directors from East and West and advancing a dialogue between historians and film scholars. It will present in a separate "Profil" retrospective programme four feature films and five short films by international award-winning director Benedek Fliegauf.
In the features category, Zoltan Kamondi's "Dolina", a fictitious Eastern European village with its inhabitants oppressed by a totalitarian regime of priests, will compete with eight other titles for the Golden Lily award.
The Hungarian documentary "The Last Bus Stop " by Zsuzsa Boszormenyi about a village divided by the Slovak-Ukrainian border, will compete in its category against five other films. Tamas Toth's movie "The Wolf" about a small Siberian settlement where reindeer breeding is the community's prime source of living will be screened in the separate Signature section.
The festival, launched in 2001, is hosting over 150 films from 20 countries and will close on April 15.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
