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Local Artists Shorts @Upper Austrian Cultural Quarter

31.08.2020 // Every year the Local Artists program gives an engaging insight into the current state of filmmaking in Upper Austria. For this reason Crossing Europe will make a three day stop in the Upper Austrian Cultural Quarter in October, in order to...

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. From 22 September onwards you’ll find conditions for entry, rules,...

Crossing Europe EXTRACTS goes …

17.09.2020 // This autumn Crossing Europe will present selected film programs in arthouse cinemas and film houses throughout Austria. Current films from the 2020 festival program can be discovered in Vienna, Salzburg, Ebensee, Innsbruck and Dornbirn.

Tribute VALIE EXPORT @ Ars Electronica 2020

31.08.2020 // The Tribute 2020 is dedicated to one of the most important representatives of international conceptual media, film, and performance art: VALIE EXPORT. On the occasion of her 80th birthday, CROSSING EUROPE takes a closer look at her...

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Festival Premieres 2020 at City-Kino

31.08.2020 // From 15 September to 22 December Crossing Europe presents current film premieres from the canceled festival edition every Tuesday at the City-Kino in Linz. Fifteen current feature films and documentaries give the audience the possibility to...

LE MILIEU DE L'HORIZON / BEYOND THE HORIZON © Be for Films

Crossing Europe @ Festival DER NEUE HEIMATFILM

19.08.2020 // The Heimatfilmfestival in Freistadt (Upper Austria) celebrates its 33rd edition from 26 to 30 August 2020. Also this year there is a program cooperation between the festival and CROSSING EUROPE Film Festival Linz. This year two current...

MENSCHENFRAUEN / Human Females (D: VALIE EXPORT)

EXTRACTS: Program 2020 in Summer/Autumn/Winter

14.05.2020 // The cinema becomes a social space, and is an integral part of the “festival feeling”. That is why it is immensely important to us that festival films from this year’s CROSSING EUROPE program (cancelled due to Covid-19) will be screened in...

Festival Trailer 2020: MOTH

04.03.2020 // directed by Karol Kensy, color, 1 min. Karol Kensy. Born in 1988 in Suzbin/Poland, he was raised near Linz and studied time based and interactive media at the Art University in Linz. The beatmaker and music video director/producer has had...

Festival Titles at Open-Air Cinemas

30.06.2020 // This summer some CROSSING EUROPE films selected for 2020 are fortunately included in the program of domestic summer cinemas. In Linz and Graz the audience can expect to see current, unconventional films from Europe.

Finally back to the cinema!

27.05.2020 // The cinema as a social space is a special place to show films. We are happy that the cinemas are running again in Austria. Nothing comes close to the live experience of seeing a film in a cinema. Of course there will be guidelines to ensure a...

OTAN O WAGNER SINANTISE TIS NTOMATES / WHEN TOMATOES MET WAGNER (D: Marianna Economou, GR 2019)

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...

PARWARESHGAH / THE ORPHANAGE (Shahrbanoo Sadat, DK/DE/FR/LU/AF/QA 2019)

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, a cheeky roadmovie...

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