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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Black Red Yellow
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...
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Vojtěch Strakatý on the female fairy tale of The Other Side of Summer
Director Vojtěch Strakatý sits down with Sam Goff to discuss his coming-of-age tale The Other Side of Summer, screening on Klassiki as part of our partnership with goEast Film Festival from 23 April to 21 May. Vojtěch discusses his interest in complex female protagonists, creating the film’s bala...
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The Care Package
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...
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Fragments on Resistance
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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The directors of Fragments on Resistance on protest and filmmaking under threat
Directors Levan Tskhovrebadze and Ani Kiladze sit down with Sam Goff to discuss their documentary short Fragments on Resistance, screening on Klassiki as part of our partnership with goEast Film Festival from 23 April to 21 May. Levan and Ani discuss how the film grew out of an international frie...
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goEast Film Festival 2026 comes to Klassiki
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