goEast Film Festival 2026: 23 April – 21 May

goEast Film Festival 2026: 23 April – 21 May

Klassiki is proud to partner once again with the goEast Film Festival, an annual celebration of Central and Eastern European film in Wiesbaden, Germany. From 23 April to 21 May, stream a selection of features and shorts from the festival programme.

Kyrygyz master Aktan Arym Kubat returns with Black Red Yellow, a poetic meditation on carpet weaving and lost romance. Emerging Czech director Vojtěch Strakatý captures the hazy indecision and painful pulls of adolescence in his dreamlike teen drama The Other Side of Summer. Vera Shysh’s stop motion short The Care Package captures the brutality and tenderness of life for political prisoners in Belarus. Levan Tskhovrebadze and Ani Kiladze’s Fragments on Resistance builds a portrait of protest movements in Georgia and Serbia out of messages sent between distant friends.

Go deeper with goEast on Klassiki

Read interviews with the festival’s new director Rebecca Heiler on the Klassiki Journal.

Watch exclusive video interviews with featured directors Vojtěch Strakatý and Levan Tskhovrebadze and Ani Kiladze.

Romanian producer Ada Solomon is the subject of a major retrospective at this year’s festival. Listen to our 2024 interview with Ada about her groundbreaking career.

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goEast Film Festival 2026: 23 April – 21 May
  • Black Red Yellow
    Black Red Yellow
    Movie + 1 extra

    Black Red Yellow

    Movie + 1 extra

    Directed by Aktan Arym Kubat • 2025 • Kyrgyzstan

    One of Central Asia’s most revered directors returns with a meditation on tradition and transformation set against the rolling hills of Kyrgyzstan. Aktan Arym Kubat brings his customary empathy to bear on this story of three people whose fates are...

  • The Other Side of Summer
    The Other Side of Summer
    Movie + 2 extras

    The Other Side of Summer

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Vojtěch Strakatý • 2025 • Czechia

    Emerging Czech filmmaker Vojtěch Strakatý captures the hazy indecision and painful pulls of adolescence in his dreamlike sophomore feature. Teenager Bětka (Lucie Fingerhutová) is spending the summer at a rustic lake house with her best friend Alma (N...

  • The Care Package
    The Care Package
    Movie + 1 extra

    The Care Package

    Movie + 1 extra

    Directed by Vera Shysh • 2025 • Belarus

    Vera Shysh’s stop motion short captured the brutality and tenderness of life for political prisoners in Belarus. Inspired by a fairy tale written by the sister of an imprisoned friend, Shysh’s film centres of the anthropomorphised figure of the care packag...

  • Fragments on Resistance
    Fragments on Resistance
    Movie + 2 extras

    Fragments on Resistance

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Levan Tskhovrebadze and Ani Kiladze • 2025 • Georgia/Serbia

    Georgian filmmaker Levan Tskhovrebadze and Serbian journalist Pavla Banjac meet in Sarajevo shortly before protest movements erupt in their home countries. Back home, they send each other messages and mobile phone videos of ...

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