Filmfest Eberswalde – Provinziale Festival

The Provinziale festival has developed three branches: Short feature films, animated and documentary films. We consider them equal, although we require less topical commitment with the first two. We have had a long process of reflecting where the link between those programmatic branches would be and whether it was a problem. Finally, we found that they had one thing in common, apart from that we like the idea of showing films that would not otherwise find their way onto the screens of Eberswalde: We insist on deciding ourselves what to focus on, in political and aesthetic terms. Our selection is an offer for talk to the audience, frequently meant to be continued and extended