Covid-19-Update: In March 2020 the 17th edition of Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz had to be canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. For documentation purposes the program planned for 2020 is published HERE. With "Crossing Europe 2020 - EXTRACTS", Crossing Europe is presenting a multi-part alternative program from April to December 2020 with an online program and a series of physical events in the cinema.
The YAAAS! Competition is one of the four competition sections, and one of the modules of the YAAAS! Youth Program at CROSSING EUROPE that established a holistic program for film mediation, the acquisition of media competency and DIY-video production. In the YAAAS! Competition, the YAAAS! Youth Jury selects the winner of the festival prize CROSSING EUROPE Award – Youth Jury – endowed with € 3000,-. The YAAAS! Competition is a selection of current European feature films that were hand-picked by the YAAAS! Young Programmers. After a rigorous sighting process they decided on six feature films that deal with the living realities of youths and young adults in Europe in different ways.
- GIMTINE / MOTHERLAND (Tomas Vengris, LT/LV/DE/GR 2019)
- KOKON / COCOON (Leonie Krippendorff, DE 2020)
- PAPICHA (Mounia Meddour, FR/DZ/BE/QA 2019)
- PARWARESHGAH / THE ORPHANAGE (Shahrbanoo Sadat, DK/DE/FR/LU/AF/QA 2019)
- SOLE (Carlo Sironi, IT/PL 2019)
- WSZYSTKO DLA MOJEJ MATKI / ALL FOR MY MOTHER (Małgorzata Imielska, PL 2019)
Three of these titles will also be screened within the framework of school screenings.
KOKON / COCOON (Regie: Leonie Krippendorff); photo: m-appeal
PAPICHA (Regie: Mounia Meddour); photo: jour2fetes
ALL FOR MY MOTHER / WSZYSTKO DLA MOJEJ MATKI (Regie: Małgorzata Imielska); photo: ikh
