The CinÉast - Central and Eastern European Film Festival in Luxembourg is celebrating its 12th edition from 3-20 October. The programme features a wide array of feature and short films coming from every country of Central and Eastern Europe, which will be screened across different venues in the capital of the Grand Duchy.

The festival is inviting a total of seven feature films to partake in its Competition, and they come from the selections of the main film festivals in Europe: Cat in the Wall [+lee también:
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entrevista: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
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entrevista: Bartosz Bielenia
entrevista: Jan Komasa
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entrevista: Juris Kursietis
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entrevista: Florenc Papas
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entrevista: Karolis Kaupinis
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entrevista: Martti Helde
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entrevista: Miroslav Terzić
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As usual, the festival has invited a group of international film professionals to make up the jury of the Competition, which this year will be chaired by veteran French filmmaker Jacques Doillon, who will be flanked by Venice Days programmer Renata Santoro, Romanian filmmaker Marius Olteanu, Luxembourgish director-producer Adolf El Assal and Luxembourgish actress Sophie Mousel.

The Competition is only a small portion of the festival’s programme, which will be introducing Luxembourgish audiences to several sections, such as Funnyeast, a selection of comedies, including Urša Menart’s My Last Year as a Loser [+lee también:
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entrevista: Timon Sturbej
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entrevista: Martin Dušek, Ondřej Prova…
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ficha de la película]; Cinédocs, a selection of documentaries, including Aistė Žegulytė’s Animus Animalis (A Story about People, Animals and Things) [+lee también:
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entrevista: Aistė Žegulytė
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entrevista: Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara …
entrevista: Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir …
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The closing film of the festival will be one of the highest-profile titles in the selection, as Corneliu Porumboiu’s acclaimed thriller The Whistlers [+lee también:
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entrevista: Corneliu Porumboiu
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Besides the art, music and gastronomy events that CinÉast will also be organising as part of its programme, the festival will be inviting along a huge number of guests and film professionals from the region, most of them representing the films in the selection, in order to make a kind of Central and Eastern European embassy out of the city during the month of October.