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    • New Talents Open Call 2025
      As the only competitive program at ENFF, the New Talents Competition invites filmmakers or artists with their first, second or third short film, to compete for an Audience Award. Submit your film till 21 August 2025.
    • On Tour: Chajdas’s Imago at Cavia, Amsterdam
      ENFF lands in Cavia, Amsterdam for the first time! On Friday 28 February, we screen the post-punk psychological drama Imago by Polish director Olga Chajdas.
    • NTC Award Ceremony
      New Talent Competition gives young filmmakers from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe the opportunity to present their outstanding debut or second film to the public. Join us on Sunday 1 December at 19h
    • Music at ENFF
      The Eastern Neighbours Film Festival welcomes special musical guests each year to enrich our program. For this 16th edition, we’re thrilled to present two talented young musicians: guitarist Antonio Peršak (CR) and violinist İdil Yunkuş (TR). Together, they will perform a traditional Balkan dance and folk song, highlighting the beauty of this music through the… Read more: Music at ENFF

The first day at Het Nutshuis, ENFF audience enjoyed Balkan film and food. Iris Uffen and Gudrun Seijsener, who made a documentary cookbook about the Balkan cuisine, hosted this special event. After the three-course meal, ENFF screened Croatian documentary Family Meals in the presence of director Dana Budisavljevic.

On Friday 14 November we had Ukrainian night with two Dutch premieres of Ukraine_Voices and Cornered by Dmytro Tiazhlov with whom we had a special talk on his first hand experience. At the very end in Het Nutshuis, ENFF screened The Agreement by Karen Stokkendal Poulsen and organized a debate with professors Paul Meerts and Nenad Fiser. The screening of Happily Ever After by Tatjana Bozic was accompanied with her workshop afterwards.

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