Starting this Wednesday, the 4th
LET΄S CEE Film Festival (October 1 to 11) will screen exactly 118, mostly Austrian premieres, feature, documentaries and short films from Central and Eastern Europe.
LET΄S CEE Film Festival 2015 invites interested individuals and parties, migrants and Austrians to engage in an intercultural exchange and dialogue, amidst the continuing lack of support from the public institutions and an increasingly xenophobic climate.
The festival, in which there isn΄t any Greek film, will host more than 100 international film guests and, among its 118 films presented, an abundance of known and awarded Balkan films and co-productions await the Viennese audience. There, besides watching competition and non-competition films, retrospectives or modern Czech and Polish cinema, they will participate in Master Classes, panel discussions as well as exhibitions and concerts.
You Carry Me by Ivona Juka
Almost 1/3 of the programme of LET΄S CEE 2015 is covered by Balkan films - 40 feature, docs and short films.
Featute Film Competition
Documentary Competition
Promising Debuts
25 – The Retrospective
Highlights Forever Friends
Highlights Family Matters
Honey Night by Ivo Trajkov
Young Generation
Short Film Competition
Life With Herman by Chintis Lundgren (Estonia/Croatia, 2015, 11΄)
Bright Future My Love by Marko Zunic (Serbia, 2014, 30΄)
Short Films – Out of Competition
In the Sidecar by Mircea Bobina (Germany/FYROM/Romania, 18΄)
Forgive by Marieta Petchanska (Bulgaria/Netherlands, 2015, 13΄)
While They Flying To The Moon by Borisa Simovic (Serbia, 2015, 21΄)
Laughter in the Dark by Marta Trela (Poland/Slovenia, 2014, 14΄)
Films & Books
Films & Music
Time to Improvise by Tina Lesnicar & Janez Stucin (Slovenia, 2014)
Laibach: Divided States of America by Saso Podgorsek (Slovenia, 2006)
Predictions of Fire by Michael Benson (Slovenia, 1996)
Closing Films
Among the masterclasses taking place this year, Romanian producer
Ada Solomon will engage into a discussion on the basic conditions and possible challenges as well as the highs and lows of a production like Aferim!, which she produced. The audience will will be informed on how to find good projects, how to work well with film directors, and why there is no guarantee that the next production is going to be easier than the previous one.
Serbian filmmaker and critical intellectual
Zelimir Zilnik is also visiting Vienna to give his own masterclass on the social commitment, humour or grotesque, comedic elements and explicit political criticism, elements essential to his work. At LET’S CEE he will show his, due to the political development, highly topical documentary Logbook Serbistan.
As an extra treat for the audience, the Balkan Gypsy Brass group Fanfara Transilvania will perform a concert, presenting sounds from different parts of Central Balkans, promising a smashing evening!
