25th goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film

Best Fiction Film:

„Coming from an established master of documentaries, this film reveals layers of history, social commentary and conflicting generational viewpoints. It subverts our expectations about ageing, disarms us with the deliberate naivety in the non-professional actors’ performances and boldly states that the life does not stop once arrived at a senior age. The FIPRESCI Award for the best fiction film goes to Eighty Plus.”

Best Documentary:

“Democracy doesn’t thrive on its own. A just society requires heart, dedication, civil courage, a willingness to suffer – and trust in others. In surprising, rare, creative, and expressively edited original images, this documentary shows how a country and its inhabitants defy attempts to be oppressed and controlled by a government that imposed martial law. Its battle cry resonates to this day: Solidarność. The FIPRESCI Award for the best documentary goes to A Year in the Life of a Country.“

FIPRESCI celebrates 100th anniversary:

Claudia Dillmann, the goEast founder and previous director of DFF, spoke at a Masterclass moderated by FIPRESCI member Dunja Bialas about the connection between film (theory) studies and film criticism.