CinEast


CinEast or Central and Eastern European Film Festival is an annual non-profit film festival held at various venues around Luxembourg in October.

Festival

The CinEast film festival is dedicated to presenting the current film productions from countries of Central and Eastern Europe, part of what was formerly called the Eastern Bloc. Although focusing on the recent feature films, the festival equally presents the most remarkable documentaries, animated works and short films. Besides film projections, the festival also offers a rich programme of accompanying events, including concerts, exhibitions, debates and gastronomic evenings, as well as support to a charity project. CinEast is organised by the non-profit association CinEast asbl. Since 2010, the festival has also included an official competition.

History

Building on experience gained during Polish Film Days in 2006, the first edition of Central European Film Festival of Luxembourg held in October 2008 presented films from 4 countries at the premises of the Abbaye de Neumünster in Luxembourg.
In 2009, Luxembourg’s Cinémathèque became the second main festival venue and the festival grew in terms of both number of films and spectators.
In 2010, the festival acquired the current name “CinEast” and expanded to numerous new venues, almost doubling in size. Romania became the next featured country and an official competition was introduced.
For the 2011 edition, Bulgaria was added to the countries represented and around 80 projections and many accompanying events were offered, attracting over 7,000 participants.
In 2012, CinEast opened its doors to Baltic countries as well as Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia, thus featuring 12 countries in total. The cinematography of the rest of the ex-Yugoslavia countries has been represented at CinEast since 2013. The 7th edition of CinEast in 2014 presented over 55 feature and 45 short films from 18 countries and attracted 9,800 festival-goers. Ukraine and Moldova were represented for the first time. The 2014 International Jury was presided by Sergei Loznitsa, in 2015 by the late Andrzej Zulawski who had to cancel his visit due to health reasons.
Since the 8th edition, the festival has been awarding a Critics Prize, chosen by a Press Jury. The 2015 edition attracted an audience of 9500 visitors with more than 50 feature films and 50 short productions.
The 9th edition took place from 6 to 23 October 2016 and presented more than 60 long and 40 short films from 18 countries of the former Eastern Bloc and attracted more than 10,400 visitors to the screenings and events. The International Festival Jury was presided by actress/director Mirjana Karanović. The 10th edition of the festival took place from 5 to 22 October 2017 and presented more than 100 films from 19 countries, the selection having been extended by films from Albania this year. The international jury was composed of the film director Anne Fontaine, actor Adrian Titieni, director and producer Bady Minck, producer Philippe Carcassonne and Oliver Baumgarten, the programme director of the Max-Ophüls Preis Festival. The Press Jury included Pablo Chimienti, Valerija Berdi and Matthew Boas. The 11th CinEast featured the "Identities" thematic cycle as well as a special Focus on Latvia and attracted over 10,400 festival-goers. The International Jury was presided by the Hungarian director Benedek Fliegauf, actors Arta Dobroshi and Astrid Roos, director Govinda Van Maele and producer/festival organiser Sergej Stanojkovski. The Press Jury comprised journalists Claude Neu, Charlotte Wensierski and Loïc Millot.

Current Edition

The 12th edition of CinEast will take place from 3 to 20 October 2019.

Award winners

2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010