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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...

MENSCHENFRAUEN / Human Females (D: VALIE EXPORT)

EXTRACTS: Analog Cinema Experience | Autumn 2020

14.05.2020 // 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”. That is why it is immensely...

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...

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...

Festival Program 2020: This would have been it!

07.04.2020 // 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. That is why we want to publish the entire program of CROSSING EUROPE 2020...

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

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, and documentaries from every section of the...

THIS IS LOVE - CRYSTN HUNT AKRON, photo: Reinhold Bidner

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. The beginning will consist of a live talk with...

TAKE ME SOMEWHERE NICE (D: Ena Sendijarević)

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...

Canceled, but active!

07.04.2020 // The Covid-19 pandemic is a serious challenge for all of us, for our families, our society, and particularly the cultural field. As is the case with everyone else, the lives of everyone in the festival team have changed completely from one day...

CANCELLATION CROSSING EUROPE 2020

18.03.2020 // The developments surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic have had a massive impact on the planning and carrying out of the coming edition of CROSSING EUROPE. With a heavy heart we have to cancel the seventeenth edition of CROSSING EUROPE Film...

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