FAQ – Festival Postponement

24.01.2021
Why is CROSSING EUROPE being postponed to 1 to 6 June, 2021?
Based on today’s standpoint, it will most likely be possible to carry out a festival that our audience will be able to experience with its usual high standard and in a similar scope in June, while still...

Résumé – Festival Edition 2020

15.12.2020
Many things are different this year. Usually such a résumé would focus on the week of the festival, and present numbers, stats, and impressions of six lively Crossing Europe festival days.

The YAAAS! Youth Program 2021

15.12.2020
In 2019, CROSSING EUROPE presented a holistic program of film education, acquisition of media competency, and DIY video production for youths for the first time.

10.10.2020: Festival Awards Local Artists Shorts 2020

10.10.2020
Today the award ceremony of the “Local Artists Shorts @ OÖ Kulturquartier” (in cooperation with OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH) took place in the Ursulinensaal in the Upper Austrian Culture Quarter.

Film Submission 2021

22.09.2020
Filmmakers are invited once again to enter their current work for the coming edition of the CROSSING EUROPE Film Festival Linz, which will take place April 21 – 26, 2021.

EXTRACTS: Streaming Fiction

21.04.2020
In terms of feature films in our VoD film package within “Crossing Europe EXTRACTS”, the audience can look forward to a French alternative to the super hero mainstream, a colorful youth drama paired with Bollywood elements...

EXTRACTS: Streaming Docs

21.04.2020
The documentaries in our VoD film package within “Crossing Europe EXTRACTS” feature a Greek village that made their exit strategy out of the financial crisis a self-made tomato sauce, and a group of young “rebels” who find their way into adulthood...

Crossing Europe 2020 – EXTRACTS: The Alternative Program

07.04.2020
After the announcement of the cancellation of the festival on 18 March, the festival team and the festival director Christine Dollhofer went through various scenarios in which parts of the planned festival program could be made accessible to audiences.

EXTRACTS: An Opening, 21. April

07.04.2020
On the day of the planned festival opening (Tuesday, 21 April) CROSSING EUROPE will present a live discussion and screening from 8 pm onward together with our long-standing media partner dorf tv.

EXTRACTS: Analog Cinema Experience | Autumn 2020

07.04.2020
The cinema is a special place to show films. Particularly in the context of those “live moments” during film festivals, the cinema becomes a social space, and is an integral part of the “festival feeling”.

EXTRACTS on VoD | 21 April to 20 May

07.04.2020
Considering that cultural life, and thus also going to the cinema has moved into the world of the internet within our own four walls, CROSSING EUROPE will present ten current European feature films...

Festival Program 2020: This would have been it!

06.04.2020
For months we have been working intensely on this year’s festival program. Countless hours, and vast amounts of enthusiasm were put into curating this year’s edition.