The main prizes of the film festival in Wiesbaden go to stories between worlds: the documentary “This Rain Will Never Stop” from Ukraine wins the “Golden Lily”.
In the end, the stage at the award ceremony was surprisingly well attended for a digital edition. On Tuesday evening, the Go-East film festival first and foremost honored filmmakers: 29-year-old Alina Gorlova from Ukraine received the “Golden Lily” in Wiesbaden, the main prize endowed with 10,000 euros, for her documentary “This Rain Will Never Stop”.
In it, the filmmaker describes the diaspora of a Kurdish family from Syria who came to Europe on the run from the civil war. Some of them end up in eastern Ukraine and soon find themselves in the next conflict. Gorlova takes this as an opportunity for a visually impressive film essay about the madness of the war machine.
“Gorlova’s vision, outwardly stoic and full of empathy, crosses simple boundaries by using image and sound as a sensory experience,” said two members of the jury on site, explaining their decision.
Juja Dobrachkous, who lives in London, received the prize of 7,500 euros for the best director for the Georgian-British feature film “Bebia, à mon seul désir”. In mystically charged images, she tells how a young woman travels to her Georgian homeland for a funeral service and processes a childhood trauma.
Third prize went to the Czech-Slovak documentary “How I became a partisan” by Vera Lacková. The jury honored the Russian film “Chupacabra” by Grigory Kolomytsev with an honorable mention.
Today, Wednesday, the films can still be booked online for a period of two days. In the summer, if possible, the planned drive-in cinema on the Dern’schen site and short film projections in public spaces should be made up for.
