11/10/2013 - The festival will honour the best talents of the region from October 9 to 27, including Child's Pose and Circles

The city of Luxembourg holds the new edition of the Central and Eastern European Film Festival, CinÉast. For the sixth consecutive year, the festival focuses on films coming from the region that is still dealing with the cultural and social burden of its communist past, but whose talents are now key within the European contemporary cinema. CinÉast aims to honour them by selecting the best productions of the season.

From October 9 to 27, the Luxembourger festival will screen films from countries such as Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia, Slovakia or Bulgaria. The official competition will include the last winner of Berlin’s Golden Bear, Romanian filmmaker Calin Peter Netzer’s Child’s Pose [+see also:
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interview: Calin Peter Netzer
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interview: Nikola Rakocevic
interview: Srdan Golubovic
film profile], awarded in Berlin and Sundance; Slovakian filmmaker Mira Fornay’s My Dog Killer [+see also:
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film profile], awarded in Rotterdam; and Polish director Andrzej Jakimowski’s Imagine [+see also:
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Estonian filmmaker Kadri Kõusaar’s The Arbiter [+see also:
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interview: Ignas Jonynas
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interview: Bobo Jelcic
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Out of the official competition, CinÉast also offers an interesting selection of films. Among the films to be shown in the Cinéscope section, veteran director Andrzej Wajda’s Walesa, Man of Hope [+see also:
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interview: Malgorzata Szumowska
interview: Mateusz Kosciukiewicz
film profile] recognised with the Teddy Award at the last Berlinale. On the other hand, the Cinéspecials section will present films in special screenings such as acclaimed Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland’s TV-bound Burning Bush [+see also:
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CinÉast doesn’t end there, though. The FunnyEast section will screen some of the most interesting comedies of the season, and Cinédocs will focus on the best documentaries from the region. Also, East Go West will show the works some Eastern European filmmakers developed within the Western industry.