Festival Trailer 2021: GRÜN IN

09.04.2021
In Laurien Bachmann’s video work GRÜN IN, the media artist shows a seemingly untouched natural landscape in lush green tones complete with a waterfall. Across from that we see a digital traffic light. In red letters it counts down the seconds: Green in 3, 2, 1.

First Documentary Highlights

09.04.2021
Once again, CROSSING EUROPE devotes itself particularly to contemporary sociopolitical auteur cinema from Europe. Today we would like to present four documentaries that deal with current political topics, reflect social and cultural contexts, and invite audiences to delve into topics of our more recent history and the current state of Europe.

Architecture and Society: TOGETHER!

09.04.2021
For the twelfth time CROSSING EUROPE presents the program section Architecture and Society in cooperation with the afo architekturforum oberösterreich. This year’s program was curated by Lotte Schreiber and consists of four documentaries on the topic of community: TOGETHER! Communities, Collectives, Co-operations. The films raise questions about how communities act and represent themselves in a larger social practice.

Working Worlds: CHANGES

09.04.2021
Re-education, structural change, new missions in life – under the title “Changes”, this year’s Working Wolds deals with changes in the working life of 2021: Both of a professional and private nature, forced or voluntary, planned or unplanned.

Cinema Next Europe Club 2021: Apply now!

08.04.2021
The Cinema Next Europe Club is a four day practical module that takes place within the framework of CROSSING EUROPE between 1 and 4 June 2021, in which ten young film creatives from Austria can take part. 

YAAAS! Competition Films & School Screenings

24.02.2021
The YAAAS! Competition is one of four competition sections and a module within the YAAAS! Youth Program at CROSSING EUROPE. Established in 2019, the goal of the program is a holistic offer for film education and to acquire media competency and DIY video productions skills. 

Tribute 2021: Ivan Ostrochovský (SK)

23.02.2021
This year the CROSSING EUROPE tribute section is dedicated to the Slovakian director and producer Ivan Ostrochovský (*1972).

CROSSING EUROPE 2021 will be postponed until June

24.01.2021
In light of the current pandemic, CROSSING EUROPE will not take place as planed between 21 and 26 April 2021. Instead the eighteenth festival edition will be postponed to 1 to 6 June.

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.