CinEast 2022 - Festival du Film d'Europe Centrale et Orientale - Luxembourg (2024)

OPENING EVENTwithMYDY(CZ, electro/dance/pop) live & DJ Don Simon

Friday 7 October from 19.30
Melusina(tickets)

One of the most energetic bands from the Czech Republic will open this year’s anniversary edition of CinEast and blast Melusina with their electro pop sounds.

Hailing from Prague, the musical project MYDY was originally rooted in electro swing. Since their formation ten years ago, they’ve managed to shorten their band name (from the original ‘Mydy Rabycad’), coin their own music with the genre name glamtronic - also the title of their second album from 2015 - and flourish in full-on electro pop spheres, while keeping at least one leg on the dancefloor. The 5-member ensemble led by the charismatic singer Žofie Dařbujánová is probably the only Czech band to have had a gig at the Glastonbury and Sziget festivals, successfully toured North America twice, and to have performed as far away as in South Korea. With over 300 live performances and festival appearances in 17 countries on 4 continents, the band has a reputation for giving spectacularly energising shows.

Numbers is MYDY’s current, and already fourth album. It was released in pre-pandemic times, end of 2019, and mixes the electronic immediacy of Klaxons and the atmospheric otherworldliness of Röyksopp. In their own words, Numbers has a gloomy vibe stemming from the challenging and uncertain times that the band collectively experienced in the years before 2019. Nothing to do with the pandemic! June2022 saw MYDY return with the release of their new single Let Me Be proclaiming the need for a fuller and freer life.

After the live performance by MYDY, the fire on Melusina’s dance floor will be kept burning or maybe even stoked further by the well-known DJ Don Simon. The music enthusiast and radio host has probably already played on all the decks around Luxembourg. You will dance the night away to the rhythms of his joyful and energetic mix of various genres.

The CinEast 2022 Opening event with MYDY in Melusina will be a special treat for local dance-craving audiences, kickstarting this festival‘s Focus on Czechia with just the right dose of MYDY energy. After the live show, the party will continue with an eclectic DJ set until 3 am.

A selection of Eastern European dishes will be on offer to keep energy levels high throughout the event.

Programme of the evening:
19.30 Doors and food
21.00 MYDY live
23.00 DJ Don Simon (until 3am)

Links: MYDY website / fb / insta /video / live video

Tickets: 15 EUR (presale), 18 EUR (door)

Main partner of the event:

Organised in collaboration with, &

GORAN BREGOVIĆand his WEDDING & FUNERAL BAND

Monday 17 October from 20.00
Rockhal (tickets)

The Balkan legend and his motley crew will heat up Rockhal with breathtaking energy.

The son of a Croatian father and a Serbian mother – he himself still considers himself a Yugoslav - Goran Bregović is not unknown in Luxembourg. On the contrary, most are familiar with the one in a lifetime sound of Goran Bregović and his Wedding & Funeral Band.

Goran and his music rose to fame in the late 80s and 90s, when his musical output for Emir Kusturica films Time of the Gypsies, Arizona Dream and Underground deservedly received high accolades. However, limiting Bregović to film music only is doing him an enormous disservice. Already during Tito’s time Bregović enjoyed a star status in Yugoslavia as frontman of the band Bijelo Dugme, which released over two dozen albums.

Rock star, film musician or contemporary composer - Goran Bregović lives it all. But it’s mostly with the Wedding & Funeral Band that he still tours the continents and will energise the audience in Rockhal in celebration of the 15^th anniversary of CinEast. Bregović fuses gypsy brass music with oriental percussions, mixes Bulgarian female polyphony with a classical male choir and string sections with electronic programming. He uses the violin as a metaphorical instrument that brings together klezmer, classical and oriental styles, evoking and reconciling, allegorically, the three religions of his home town Sarajevo in a message of peace and reconciliation.

His show at the Rockhal, in a relatively intimate setting, will certainly be a memorable one!

Links: Goran Bregović web / fb / video / video

Tickets: 39 EUR (presale)

The concert is organised by in collaboration with CinEast

DZ'OB ENSEMBLE(UA) - Forward meets CinEast

Wednesday 19 October at 20.00
Neimënster (tickets)

If Aphex Twin and Shostakovich had had a child in Ukraine, it would probably be this highly exciting project, which transcends all notions of genres and musical borders

The band chosen for the first collaboration between Neimënster and CinEast in the framework of the Forward cycle is quite unusual. Electroacoustic tonalities from Dnipro, Ukraine, is what awaits behind the mysterious band name DZ’OB. The ensemble’s set up consists of 5 instruments: oboe, bassoon, violin, cello and electronics and their music not only synthesizes genres like classics, IDM, techno and dubstep, but also comes up with distinctive eclectic sounds and inspirations from traditional Ukrainian music.

It comes as no surprise that DZ’OB - when starting out in 2014 - were so heavily influenced by Warp label IDM legends Aphex Twin and Squarepusher that they started to cover their compositions. Not the simplest of undertakings, considering the instruments they play. Later the group embraced also (contemporary) classical influences like Alfred Schnittke, Shostakovich and even Haydn. Their current, highly original work is a very exciting hybrid that blurs the line between epochs, genres and traditions. In Ukrainian media, DZ’OB is often heralded as the undisputed leader of the local avant-garde scene and their signature sound, which the band defines as “electroacoustic IDM”, is certainly unique both in the Ukrainian and global contexts.

Links: web / fb / video / video

Tickets: 15/9 EUR

Organised by in collaboration with CinEast

CINÉCONCERTwith NEUVĚŘITELNO (CZ) - PAUSE meets CINEAST

Sunday 23 October at 11.00
Neimënster(tickets)

An incredible trio of musicians playing live to a 101-year old Frankenstein-like Czechoslovak film

For its collaboration with CinEast, Neimënster’s “Pause” cycle of musical matinées presents a somewhat spooky menu – live soundtrack to the century-old motion picture The Arrival from the Darkness. But fear not, even though the storyline is reminiscent of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein project, there is little risk that you will need to cover your eyes in dread… The film directed by Jan S. Kolár - the Czechoslovak D.W. Griffith, one could say - was restored in 2013. It was only during restoration that historians discovered that all existing prints made after 1950 were made from a negative that had two of the film reels switched. Back then the film was considered obscure and mysterious.

The screening will be accompanied by the Czech/Italian trio Neuvěřitelno, Andrea Rottin, Jan Procházka and Tomáš Majtán, which is truly incredible. And not only because Neuveřitelno uses the actual word for incredible as their name. If our calculations are correct, the three of them play 11 instruments (not counting knives and other kitchen utensils by the piece). From guitars and kazoos to drums and kalimba, they play it all. The band uses this wide array of instrumentation, machinery and voices to accompany numerous silent films and their musical output, melting rock, blues and jazz, the project tries to capture the soul of any given film in the best possible way. For them, the film is always the priority. With a résumé that includes cinéconcerts at the Cinémathèque française and the Barbican Centre, Luxembourg’s audience might well be in for an unusual treat.

Links: Neuvěřitelno web / video

Tickets: 6 EUR(presale)

Organised by CinEast andwith the support of

CINÉCONCERT with TOMÁŠ VTÍPIL (CZ)

Wednesday 12 October at 20.30 (tickets)
Cinématheque

An enjoyable silent social drama accompanied by a colourful live soundtrack

The orphan Nina, heroine of this early Czechoslovak melodrama, becomes involved with an escaped prisoner who wants to visit his dying mother for the last time... This is the backbone of the story of the 1924 movie The White Paradise, a seminal and important piece of work of early Czechoslovak cinema that will be screened at the Cinémathèque accompanied live by the Czech multi-instrumentalist Tomáš Vtípil.

This social drama by the ‘strong four’ - a team comprising director and actor Karel Lamač, cinematographer Otto Heller, actress Anna Ondráková and screenwriter Václav Wasserman - enjoyed extraordinary success with audiences at the time and still retains its charm today. With well-known Gustav Machatý (director of the notorious Ecstasy) appearing in a smaller role, the film belongs to the lesser-known treasures of early European cinema, waiting to be rediscovered.

CinEast presents the film in the framework of its “Focus on Czechia”, with a special live musical accompaniment performed by Czech composer, performer and producer Tomáš Vtípil, who is far from unknown on the country’s musical scene. He is a solo artist with his own projects, but he has also collaborated with various Czech ensembles and artists (DG307, Čvachtavý lachtan, Monika Načeva) and composes music for theatre, film and radio. His work on Radim Špaček’ film Walking Too Fast (Pouta, screened at CinEast), film music he co-signed with the band WWW, was nominated for the Czech Lion Awards as well as the Film Critics’ Award.

Tickets: 12 EUR (presale), 15 EUR (door)

Links: Vtípil web/ fb /video / video

Organised in collaboration with

CINEAST UKRAINIAN EVENING with JORYJ KŁOC (UA)

Thursday 20 October from 19.00
Rotondes (tickets)
Concert & short films & food & DJ

Support Ukraine while enjoying the live show of the high-energy Ukrainian band Joryj Kłoc!

CinEast invites you to see out this year’s 15th anniversary festival edition in the company of the Ukrainian folk-rock band Joryj Kłoc. Enjoy a great show and at the same time support Ukraine - 5 EUR from each ticket sold will go to the CinEast4Ukraine charity project aiming to purchase an ambulance for the victims of the war in Ukraine. Additional contributions will also be possible while purchasing your tickets and during the event.

Joryj Kłoc band members will arrive at Rotondes straight from Lviv. Starting in 2008 as an electronic project that spiced up dancefloor tracks with old Ukrainian songs and folk elements, the 4-member group gradually moved to a playful combination of fully-fledged rock, turbo-folk, ethno hip-hop and Cossack break-beat, mastering the art of making traditional Ukrainian instruments resound in a modern way.

The evening will also offer the screening of a Ukrainian short films programme “The One Minutes Jr. Ukraine“ and some surprises to mark the 15th anniversary of CinEast. A selection of Ukrainian traditional dishes and snacks will be available at the entrance and a DJ party will round up the event celebrating peace and life.

Links: Joryj Kłoc fb / video / video / live video

Tickets: 18 EUR (presale), 20 EUR (door) (5 EUR from each ticket will go to the CinEast4Ukraine charity project)

The Ukrainian Evening is organised by CinEast in collaboration with , , and other partners.