goEast Film Festival 2025: 24 April – 22 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 24 April to 22 May, stream a selection of feature films from the competition programme, including Pavel G. Vesnakov’s acclaimed family drama Windless, Elvin Adigozel’s musical crime caper My Magical World, and tender Georgian documentary Blueberry Dreams. This year, the festival pays homage to groundbreaking filmmakers Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio, and Klassiki will host both their classic feature Seven Songs from the Tundra and an exclusive new extended interview with the duo.
On the Klassiki Podcast and Journal, you will find an interview with outgoing festival director Heleen Gerritsen and a watchlist of her favourite Eastern European gems across the years. And subscribers can accompany their viewing with video interviews with featured directors Pavel G. Vesnakov and Elene Mikaberidze.
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Windless
Directed by Pavel G. Vesnakov • 2024 • Bulgaria
When his estranged father dies, taciturn Koko (rapper Ognyan “Fyre” Pavlov) returns to his native Bulgaria after years spent working abroad. As Koko tries to put the late man’s affairs in order, he is drawn ineluctably back into a world he thought ...
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My Magical World
Directed by Elvin Adigozel • 2025 • Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani writer-director Elvin Adigozel confirms his status as a major talent in Caucasian filmmaking with this darkly funny tale of friendship and artistic ambition gone wrong. Wedding musicians in rural Azerbaijan, Babek and Sahil (Kamil Nazim ...
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Blueberry Dreams
Directed by Elene Mikaberidze • 2024 • Georgia
In a village in northern Georgia, retired engineer Soso has decided to turn his hand to farming blueberries. Together with his wife and two sons, he throws himself into the venture in an attempt to secure a future for his family in this conflict-rav...
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Seven Songs from the Tundra
Directed by Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio • 2000 • Finland
A groundbreaking work of Indigenous cinema, Seven Songs of the Tundra is Anastasia Lapsui’s greatest tribute to her native Nenets culture. A nomadic people native to Siberia, the Nenets found their traditional way of life disr...
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At home with Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio
At this year’s goEast Film Festival, the annual Homage retrospective strand is dedicated to the life and work of Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio, whose films about the indigenous nations of Arctic Russia and Finland provide a beautiful and vital insight into Native cultures in the Soviet...
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Pavel G. Vesnakov on the radical visual storytelling of Windless
Director Pavel G. Vesnakov sits down with Sam Goff to discuss his film Windless, screening on Klassiki as part of our partnership with goEast Film Festival from 24 April to 22 May. Pavel describes casting popular Bulgarian rapper Fyre in the lead role, explains his bold decision to shoot in a squ...
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Elene Mikaberidze on the real-life struggles behind Blueberry Dreams
Director Elene Mikaberidze sits down with Sam Goff to discuss her documentary Blueberry Dreams, screening on Klassiki as part of our partnership with goEast Film Festival from 24 April to 22 May. Elene explains how she gained the trust of her host family, the symbolic importance of agriculture in...
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goEast Film Festival 2025 comes to Klassiki
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