At the moment she's still representing her country on the stage in Malmö at the Eurovision Song Contest. On May 18th the Ukrainian rapper Alyona Alyona will be live at the Neisse Film Festival. Since her breakthrough with the viral hit "Ribki", she has taken the hip-hop world by storm. Her texts, which she raps in her native tongue, portray images of women beyond all clichés, and speak of the…

The "Panorama Weekend" is taking place for the ninth time as part of the Neisse Film Festival. From May 17 to 19, Centrum Panorama in Czech Varnsdorf is showing historical films and cinematic milestones in opulent 70mm technology and in special 35mm and 3D versions. Highlight of the series is "Oppenheimer" by Christopher Nolan.

On May 14th, the Neisse Film Festival starts it's 21st run. Through May 19th, the film festival will be showing approximately 90 current feature films, documentaries and short films from Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic as well as from broader eastern Europe at 19 cinemas and locations in the three neighbor countries. In addition to three competitions and various thematic film series, there…

On May 14th the opening ceremony of the 21st Neisse Film Festival will take place in Zittau's Gerhart-Hauptman Theater. The Focus series this year, "Female Perspectives", is dedicated to the female perspective (not only) on the big screen, presenting films that show the women's point of view of our society and which have been created under the direction of women. The opening film is very fitting…

In about two months the 21st round of the Neisse Film Festival begins. The festival organizers at Kunstbauerkino e.V. in Grosshennersdorf, Germany are still working on the final film selection and program planning. Some highlights of the festival week have, however, been decided already!