After two "Corona years" with postponements and abbreviated programmes, in 2022 we were finally able to experience once again the special atmosphere in springtime in the three-country region and personal relationships between audiences and filmmakers. Now we are looking forward full of anticipation to the 20th festival year...

The tri-national Neisse Film Festival brings films to 22 screening sites in 14 towns, and that in three countries! The distance between individual screening sites can thus at times be a hurdle for filmgoers. In order to enable all festival guests to visit the various unique screening locations, the Kulturraum Oberlausitz-Niederschlesien (Upper Lusatian-Lower Silesian Cultural Area) along with the…

Dear guests from the Ukraine and other countries, who are seeking refuge here,

here in the tri-country corner on the Neisse River, May 17-22, is an international film festival, the 19th Neisse Film Festival. There are over 90 films in the program – feature films, documentaries and short films, for adults and children. There are also concerts – including DAKHABRAKHA from the Ukraine. The films and…

The festival program for your pocket: From now on there is the new app for the Neisse Film Festival for Android or Apple. Simply download all the program information once and have its all at a glance during the festival - even without a network and without consuming data volumes...

On May 18 Lutz Seiler will be reading in the Gerhart-Hauptmann Theater in Zittau from his newest novel "Stern 111" during the 19th Neisse Film Festival. In this novel the prize-winning author tells an atmospherically loaded family story from the time directly following the fall of the Berlin Wall.