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    • 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
    • Masterclass with Janez Burger
      This masterclass presents a unique opportunity to explore Burger's distinct storytelling style, genre use, and exploration of contemporary social issues. Join us on Saturday 30 November at 17h - Room 5
    • Panel Discussion: Exploration of individual and collective memory in cinema
      Panel Discussion: Exploration of individual and collective memory in cinema on Friday 29 November at 18h

ENFF On Tour in Utrecht

The new edition of ENFF On Tour in Utrecht produced by artTrace brings four films from Eastern and South-eastern Europe, in presence of special guests!

This year the Eastern Neighbours will screen a humorous Macedonian documentary Avec L’Amour supported by IDFA Bertha Fund, about a retiring professor who owns more than 100 vintage cars. The director Ilija Cvetkovski will be present!

Furthermore, the festival brings to Utrecht an award-winning My Aunt in Sarajevo by Goran Kapetanovic, followed by Q&A with the actor Izudin Bajrovic from Sarajevo. Before the film, the audience will get chance to see a short gem Invisible by Amra Mehic.

And finally, after the Eastern Neighbours Film Festival cocktail at 18:15 hours, get ready for a Dutch premiere of Posoki by Stefan Komandarev, an exciting road movie set in today’s Sofia. The winner of Heart of Sarajevo and selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes festival! The screening will be followed by Q&A with the screenwriter Simeon Ventsislavov.

Come and join us on Sunday 28 October from 15:00 hours in Filmtheater ’T Hoogt.

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME

The ENFF offers opportunities for schools and universities to participate in the Festival’s program and all the events for reduced rates. The goal of our carefully curated educational program Film & Class is to spread film culture and knowledge among young audience about history, culture and lifestyle of the South East and East European countries by showing them contemporary thought-provoking films and engaging them in lively discussions with filmmakers. The Festival also provides a film reader with additional information for teachers as a guide to help initiate a vibrant film discussion in the classroom.

This year, the Eastern Neighbours Film Festival will organize screening of an engaging documentary TITITA. A deeply humane story of what it really takes to persuade one’s dream, directed by Tamas Almasi, one of the most well known Hungarian documentary filmmakers. Anti, a young Roma boy is selected for a prestigious guitar summer school, and hereby given an unexpected opportunity to break out from his seemingly predestined life. The screening will be followed by Q&A with the main protagonist Antal Kuru.

Screening time: Thursday 8 November at 09:00 hours in Filmtheater ‘T Hoogt.

SPECIAL SCREENING + ARTIST’S TALK

Join us for the Dutch Premiere of an intriguing documentary Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body by artist and filmmaker Marta Popivoda! A research-based essay film that deals with the collective history and politics in a specifically cinematic way, via found-footage, with question of how ideology performs itself in public space through mass performances.

The screening will be followed by a talk with Marta Popivoda and Q&A joined by co-writer and dramaturge Ana Vujanović. This will provide the opportunity for an in-depth and open discussion about the film, its concepts, the techniques and the researcher/artist’s practice. Read more about it here.

Screening time: Wednesday 23 January 2019 at 19:30 hours in BAK – Basis voor actuele kunst