"CinEast presents" in collaboration with LUkraine asbl invites you to a charity screening of the unique documentary "Intercepted" by Oksana Karpovych, screened on 13 June at the Cinémathèque in the framework of the UA Days in Luxembourg. Tickets here.
CinEast is proud to collaborate once again on the screenings of the 5 films nominated for the LUX Audience Award between 16 and 25 Jan 2024 at Ciné Utopia. The screenings are free of charge - for details and reservations click here.
Cycle of screenings outside the festival "CinEast presents" brings Radu Jude's "Do Not Expect Too Much From The End of the World" (Ciné Utopia, 13/12) with online Q&A and Agniezska Holland's "Green Border" (Ciné Utopia, 9/01) in the presence of the renowned Polish director. Tickets @ kinepolis.lu
The 16th edition of CinEast attracted over 10450 participants, including 7500 spectators in cinemas, over 1250 online views and more than 1700 people attending our concerts. Huge thank you to all and see you in 2024!
Some of the best moments from the 16th edition of the CinEast film festival. Thank you to all our partners, sponsors, team members, volunteers and the audience for making the festival a success! Music "Kid Satellite" by Luxembourgish indie-rock band Cyclorama/.
The Grand Prix of CinEast 2023 goes to Citizen Saint by Tinatin Kajrishvili. The film will be repeated on Sun 22/10 at 7 pm at the Cinémathèque. Tickets are available here.
During the Awards Ceremony the creation of the Eastern European Film Festival Network (EEFFN) was announced, bringing together CinEast, GoEast FF (Wiesbaden, DE), BEAST IFF (Porto, PT), Eastern Neighbours FF (The Hague, NL), A l'Est FF (Rouen, FR), and EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal (Vienna, AT) to increase the visibility of Eastern European cinema across Europe.
Don't miss our national evenings - typically including a film, a guest and an informal drink with some free traditional snacks, in collaboration with local associations or embassies. On the menu this year: Serbian (10/10), Czech (14/10), Croatian (15/10), Slovenian (18/10) & Ukrainian (19/10).
One of the highlights of the musical programme of CinEast 2023 will be the concert of the Bosnian band Dubioza Kolektiv on the lucky Friday 13 October at the Rockhal. Organised in collaboration with Rockhal. Get your tickets here.
The Official Opening of the 16th edition will take place on 5 October at 7 pm at neimēnster. The ceremony will be followed by the Opening film - the extraordinary documentary from Ukraine In the Rearview by Maciek Hamela, recent winner of the Sheffield DocFest.
One of the highlights of the musical programme of CinEast 2023 will be the concert of the Bosnian band Dubioza Kolektiv on the lucky Friday 13 October at the Rockhal. Organised in collaboration with Rockhal. Get your tickets here.
The energetic folk band Yagody from Ukraine will perform live at the festival's Opening event at Melusina on Sat 7/10 from 8 pm. Followed by a DJ party and with Ukrainian food available! Get your tickets here (5 EUR from each ticket goes to our charity project).
The full programme and all details about our competition line-up, films, guests, juries, concerts and other events will be presented at our Press Conference held at the Cinémathèque on Tue 19 Sept. (11 am). On 20 Sept. the programme will be published on our website.
Join the CinEast team and help us make the upcoming 16th edition as wonderful as possible. We need you and your skills (e.g. photography, video, graphics, driving...)! Apply by 18 Sept here.
The visual for the 16th edition is based on a photo by Marta Iwanek taken near Lutsk in Ukraine before the war. We hope that you like it! Click to see the whole poster.
A special charity screening of the award-winning film Klondike on 12 June at the Cinémathèque, organised in the framework of "CinEast presents" cycle of screenings outside of the festival and "Ukrainian Days in Luxembourg". We managed to collect 1036,96 EUR! Thank you!
The 15th edition of CinEast attracted over 9850 participants, with over 6800 spectators in cinemas, 1200 online views and more than 1800 people attending our special events. Big thanks to all and see you in 2023!
Video capturing some of the best moments from the 15th edition of the CinEast film festival held in Luxembourg from 6 to 23 October 2022. Photos from the festival are available in our gallery.
Thanks to your generosity we managed to collect 16500 EUR through our CinEast4Ukraine charity project. We sent an equipped ambulance and some sleeping bags to help those in need in Ukraine. More info here.
The Grand Prix of CinEast 2022 goes to the film Gentle by L.Csuja & A.E.Nemes (repeated on Sun at Cinematheque)! Other prizes: 107 Mothers by P.Kerekes (Special Jury Prize), How Is Katia? by C.Tynkevych (Critics' Prize), Sonata by B.Blaschke (Audience Award). Congratulations!
Four short film marathons presenting some of the most remarkable short films from CEE countries (fiction, documentary and animated) are on the programme, starting with fiction shorts (South) at Neimënster on Tue 11/10.
The Ukrainian avantgarde ensemble DZ'OB will perform live at Neimënster on Wed. 19/10 at 8 pm. Think of Aphex Twin meeting Shostakovich.
We are proud to host the national premiere of Pamfir by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk. The film was co-produced by Adolf El Assal from Wady Films (Luxembourg) and also Klaudia Śmieja from Madants (Poland) - both will attend the screening on Tue 18/10 (Ciné Utopia 7 pm).
CinEast & Rockhal present the legendary musician Goran Bregović with his Wedding & Funeral Band live at the Rockhal in Esch sur Alzette on 17 October 2022. Get your tickets here!
After the film The Visitors, the director Veronika Lišková and the head of Greenpeace Luxembourg Raymond Aendekerk will discuss environmental and social sustainability and building communities. Cinémathèque on Fri 14/10 at 20.30.
The vernissage of the "Communities" photo exhibition takes place on Thu 6/10 at the Cloitre in Neimënster. In the presence of the curator Martyna Szymańska, free entrance. The exhibition will be freely accessible until 23 October.
We are proud to present the Official Competition selection. Discover the 7 films in competition of CinEast 2022 here. We are also happy that we have achieved a perfect gender balance as regards the film directors of the competition films.
The full programme of the 15th edition of CinEast is now available in the Programme section and can be also downloaded here. You can also buy festival passes and tickets for most screenings and events via our ticketing page.
Help us make this 15th anniversary edition a success. Become a volunteer of CinEast 2022. We'd love to have you in our team! Apply here by 18 September.
The 15th anniversary edition of CinEast will take place from 6 to 23 October 2022. Save the date and get ready for a good dose of Central and Eastern European films, music & more.
Thanks to your generosity our special charity screening of "The Earth Is Blue As An Orange" by Iryna Tsylik on 31/03/2022 and the related action raised 5432,52 EUR that we donated to LUkraine asbl. See photos. We will continue to support Ukraine throughout 2022.
The 14th hybrid edition of CinEast attracted over 8500 participants, with more than 4800 spectators in cinemas, over 2600 online views and more than 1100 people attending our special events. Many thanks to all and see you in 2022!
A video capturing some of the best moments from the 14th edition of the CinEast film festival held from 7 to 24 October in Luxembourg. Photos from the festival are available in our gallery.
We are happy to announce that in the framework of the 2021 Charity Project we managed to collect 2239,06 EUR for the Lindenfeld Association in Romania. Thank you for your generosity and stay tuned for more details.
