Festival Awards 2020
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 17th edition of Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz had to be cancelled.
With the alternative program "Crossing Europe 2020 - EXTRACTS" Crossing Europe invites you to an analog cinema experience in autumn 2020.
Competition - Fiction
CROSSING EUROPE Award - Best Fiction Film
€ 5.000 powered by Linz Kultur
CROSSING EUROPE Audience Award - Best Fiction Film
€ 5.000 powered by Federal Province of Upper Austria / Department of Culture
This section with nine to eleven new feature films offers a significant selection of current European young cinema dealing with contemporary subjects. This meant-to-be fresh and original section is open to first and second films of a director only and an Austrian premiere is mandatory.
Competition - Documentary
CROSSING EUROPE Social Awareness Award - Best Documentary
AWARD for social relevance of a European documentary film
€ 5.000 powered by gfk - Gesellschaft für Kulturpolitik Oberösterreich
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 2019/20. The award goes to the director of the prize-winning film.
YAAAS! Competition
CROSSING EUROPE Award – YAAAS! Youth Jury
€ 3.000,- powered by Crossing Europe
This Competition sections contains six current European feature-length films, selected by a group of juveniles, the so-called YAAAS! Young Programmers. The YAAAS! Youth Jury awards the prize to one of these films.
Competition - Local Artist
CROSSING EUROPE Award - Local Artist
€ 5.000 powered by the Federal Province of Upper Austria / Department of Culture
€ 2.000 Voucher The Grand Post – Audio & Picture Post Production
CROSSING EUROPE Innovative Award - Local Artist
€ 3.500,- powered by OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH
With this competition section CROSSING EUROPE presents recent films from Upper Austria.
CREATIVE REGION Music Video Award
€ 1,500 powered by CREATIVE REGION Linz & Upper Austria
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 2020 made by a director living/working in Linz or Upper Austria, respectively.