Here you can find details about the CROSSING EUROPE 2022 awards and award winners.
Competition - Fiction
CROSSING EUROPE Award - Best Fiction Film€ 5.000,- powered by Linz Kultur
Winning Film:
CICHA ZIEMIA / SILENT LAND
Aga Woszczyńska, PL/IT/CZ 2021, 113 min
CROSSING EUROPE Audience Award - Best Fiction Film
€ 5.000,- powered by Land Oberösterreich Kultur
Winning Film:
UN MONDE / PLAYGROUND
Laura Wandel, BE 2021, 72 min
The Competition Fiction comprises first and second European feature fiction films. During the awards ceremony the Competition Fiction jury gives out the Best Fiction award to the director of the award-winning film. The audience chooses the Audience Award.
Competition - Documentary
CROSSING EUROPE Social Awareness Award - Best Documentary FilmAWARD for social relevance of a European documentary film
€ 5.000,- powered by gfk Gesellschaft für Kulturpolitik Oberösterreich
Winning Film:
TVORNICE RADNICIMA / FACTORY TO THE WORKERS
Srđan Kovačević, HR 2021, 105 min
The CROSSING EUROPE Social Awareness Award - Best Documentary is given out to one of the documentary films from the section CROSSING EUROPE Competition - Documentary with a minimum length of 60 minutes and with socio-political/social relevance, which is an Austrian premiere and produced in 2021/22. The award goes to the director of the prize-winning film.
YAAAS! Competition
CROSSING EUROPE Award – YAAAS! Youth Jury€ 3.000,- powered by VdFS – Verwertungsgesellschaft der Filmschaffenden
Winning Film:
YOUTH TOPIA
Dennis Stormer, CH/DE 2021, 85 min
The YAAAS! Competition comprises European feature fiction films selected by the YAAAS! Young Programmers. The YAAAS! Youth
Jury rates the six films of the YAAAS! Competition and awards the prize to the director of the winning film.
Competition - Local Artist
€ 5.000,- powered by Land Oberösterreich / Kultur
Winning Film:
STORIES FROM THE SEA
Jola Wieczorek, AT 2021, 86 min
€ 2.000,- Voucher The Grand Post – Audio & Picture Post Production
Winning Film:
HOLLYWOOD
Leni Gruber, Alex Reinberg, AT 2022, 28 min
With this competition section CROSSING EUROPE presents recent short and feature films from Upper Austria. All the films/videos presented in the program section Local Artists participate in the competition. An expert jury awards the prizes to the director of the award-winning film.
CREATIVE REGION Music Video Award
€ 1.500 powered by CREATIVE REGION Linz & Upper Austria
Winning Film:
I ACCEPT - NNELLA
Alexander Au Yeong, Nadja Bodlak, AT 2021, 4 min
The Competition Local Artist jury gives out the CREATIVE REGION Music Video Award powered by the CREATIVE REGION Linz & Upper Austria and Crossing Europe. The choice is between all the music videos presented in the program section Local Artists 2022, in which directors and / or musicians live, work or study in Upper Austria.