The Dream of Cinema – YELLOW CAT Poised to Open 21st Edition of goEast
Short, Shorter, Anarchic – The RheinMain Short Film Award and Anarcho Shorts at goEast // Propulsive Balkan Beats // Experimental Film Master Class with Péter Lichter and Márió Z. Nemes
Wiesbaden/Frankfurt, 4 March 2021
YELLOW CAT (Zheltaya Koshka, Kazakhstan/France, 2020), directed by long-time festival friend Adilkhan Yerzhanov, has been selected as the opening film for this year s edition of goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film (running from 20 to 26 April). The festival, hosted annually by DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, is proud to present the German premiere of this tragicomic road movie revolving around Kermek, who is released from prison thanks to a shady deal. In the grim reality of life on the outside, Kermek seeks escape in cinema, spurred on by the dream of creating his own movie theatre in the mountains where he can finally lea