Screening online from 25 April – 16 May
Klassiki are proud to partner with goEast Film Festival for their 2024 edition.
Klassiki is proud to partner once again with the goEast Film Festival, an annual celebration of Central and Eastern European film in Wiesbaden, Germany. From 25 April to 16 May, stream a selection of feature films from the festival programme, including Aizhan Kassymbek’s competition nominee Madina, Gergő Somogyvári’s tender trans documentary Fairy Garden, and cult classic Yugoslav fantasy Kill Me Gently. On the Klassiki Journal, we will be publishing filmmaker and programmer interviews to accompany your viewing, and subscribers can check out video interviews with directors Aizan Kassymbek and Norika Sefa.
From 3 May, you can also watch recordings of this year’s goEast symposium. “The Other Queers: Cinematic Images of the Periphery of Europe” will explore the past and present of queer filmmaking in Eastern Europe across five panel discussions featuring experts and filmmakers from across the region.
Madina
A single mother fights to support her family and uphold her rights in this austere Kazakh drama based on real events.
Looking for Venera
Norika Sefa transports the coming-of-age story to rural Kosovo in this award-winning take on adolescence and female rebellion.
Fairy Garden
Two homeless people, a trans teenager and an elderly man, build their own private world in this moving documentary.
Kill Me Gently
This disco-drenched take on the classic whodunnit from socialist Slovenia is a queer cult classic in waiting.
Symposium: The Other Queers
Presenting recording from this year’s goEast symposium: a series of discussions on the forgotten past and turbulent present of queer film in Eastern Europe
Read more on the Klassiki Journal
Go deeper on our Journal with filmmaker interviews and a discussion with symposium programmers Jasmina Šepetavc and Yulia Serdyukova.
Watch: video interviews
Watch exclusive video interviews with featured directors Norika Sefa and Aizhan Kassymbek.
