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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.
    • On Tour | My Late Summer | LHC, Utrecht | 07.12.24.
      Last night, we took On Tour to Utrecht for a special screening at Louis Hartlooper Complex and mingled. We showed our festival’s closing film, My Late Summer by Danis Tanovic, one more time! Thank you to everyone who joined us for an evening filled with great film and fantastic company.
    • ENFF Closing Day | Filmhuis Den Haag | 01.12.24.
      Photos by Mladen Pikulic

New Talents Competition

The New Talents Competition is back with our third edition! We invited young filmmakers from Eastern and Southern Europe to send us their debut film to compete for an Audience Award (€1000). Yet again we are thrilled by the emerging directors’ curiosity towards the world. The world is changing and the young makers feel that as no one else. They reflect on the past events and dream about a better future, they switch perspectives and search for new protagonists, they discover intimate stories and try unexpected ways of storytelling.

This year we selected 8 films from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Poland, Lithuania and Hungary. You can see them at Eastern Neighbours Film Festival in Filmhuis Den Haag between 23 – 27 November.

The drama Branka reveals a shocking story that happened at a maternity ward of a state hospital in 1991 Yugoslavia. Going Diaspora tells about ​​a young man who leaves Bosnia in search for a better life; and the film gives a reminder about the power of farewell. The documentary Prisoner by two Polish filmmakers is inspired by cinéma-vérité and it’s about one extraordinary night with an ex-convict on the streets of Vancouver. Songs From the Backyard takes a new gaze on a penitentiary center and leads an intimate conversation with one of the workers there. An honest story we all can relate to – Burnout from Serbia deals with a question – is it possible to escape from oneself? Two mothers learn to let go of each other in order to grow, in the Lithuanian fiction short Mothers. The Devil, a dark and satirical real life parable from Poland elaborates on the strength of faith. A touching story of mother and daughter, Somali descendants, who finally became Hungarians yet have not found an answer to the question: what is home, in Hooyo, Why Here?

See you at Filmhuis Den Haag, and don’t forget to vote for your favorite film!

Kristina Daurova & Stefan Pavlovic