Walking On Water at Mudam (13/10)

Film & dance performance with Trois C-L (Banannefabrik 11/10)

Women's event with Little Star Rising (Neimënster 6/10)

Slavic night with Krambabula (Sang a Klang 12/10)

Traveller's evening (Neimënster 10/10)

Photo exhibition 'Down with Walls' (Neimënster)

Balkan Party with Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar (Melusina 4/10)

Focus on Lithuania with films, guests & more

Cinédocs: looking at the world around us

Closing event with Malaka Hostel and Baltic Balkan (Melusina 19/10)

National premieres of Luxembourg co-productions

Apero Jazz: Artur Dutkiewicz Trio plays Hendrix & more (Neimenster 13/10)

FunnyEast: have fun with CinEast

Remarkable animated films

Touching dramas

CinEast 2019 awards

CinEast 2019 awards

Grand Prix: Oleg
Special Jury Prize: Corpus Christi
Critics' Prize: Corpus Christi 
Audience Award: Honeyland
Audience Awards - Short Films:
The Christmas Gift (fiction), Toomas Beneath The Valley Of The Wild Wolves (animation), Dancing For You (documentary) (more details)

CinEast 2020 call for entries

CinEast 2020 call for entries

Submit your film to the 13th edition of CinEast film festival held from 8 to 25 October 2020 in Luxembourg. The deadline is 30 June 2020. Click here for more information and the link to our submissions partner FilmFestivalLife.

Festival trailer

Festival trailer

We are proud to present the festival trailer of the 12th edition of CinEast  directed by Adolf El Assal, starring Nilton Martins and Monique Hartmann.

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Adolf El Assal

Adolf El Assal

Adolf El Assal, born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1981, grew up in Dubai, London and Luxembourg. After graduating with a Master´s in Filmmaking from Kingston University, he won his spurs while working on several video clips and TV shorts, and worked as a producer on Divizionz (2008) which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and went on to be selected at over 100 festivals. He has since directed a couple of short films including the award-winning La Fameuse Route… (2011) and Mano de Dios (2011). He completed his first feature, The Notorious Guys in 2014. Sawah (2019) is his latest feature film.