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23,000 Visitors in 6 Days – a New Record

02.05.2017 // 23,000 festival guests, film and music enthusiasts accepted the invitation from Festival Director Christine Dollhofer to make use of the virtual Interrail ticket – which she promoted at the program press conference – and set out on a cineastic...

CE 17 - Award Ceremony //Thomas Stelzer (Governor), Christine Dollhofer (Festival Director), Hana Jušić & Ankica Jurić Tilić (Award winner, producer), Gerhard Weixelbaumer (Member of the City Council)

Awards Ceremony

CE 17 - Award Ceremony //Vitaly Mansky (Award winner) // photo ® Andreas Wörister / subtext.at

CE 17 - Award Ceremony //Markus Zett (Moderator), Wiltrud Katherina Hackl (Manger of gfk OÖ) // photo ® Andreas Wörister / subtext.at

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AWARDS 2017

29.04.2017 // The Awards Presentation for the thirteenth CROSSING EUROPE Film Festival Linz took place on April 29 in the Ursulinensaal of the Upper Austrian Culture Quarter. CROSSING EUROPE Competition - Fiction CROSSING EUROPE Award – Best Fiction...

Masterclass: Yeşim Ustaoğlu

26.04.2017 // The new section Spotlight comprises five feature films by the acclaimed Turkish auteur filmmaker Yeşim Ustaoğlu, who explores themes of Turkish society. The director will hold a masterclass on April 29 at 4:00 pm.

Talk: Anka & Wilhelm Sasnal

26.04.2017 // CROSSING EUROPE devotes this year’s Tribute to the Polish artist couple Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal. In the Directors’ Talk today at 4:00 pm they will give insights into the making of their films.

Competition Fiction

25.04.2017 // Issues of identity politics as well as an engagement with the realities of life in today’s Europe: Twelve film discoveries can be seen in this year´s Competition Fiction section, ten feature-length film debuts and two second feature-length...

Talks, Events & Exhibitions

26.04.2017 // In addition to the hand-picked film program, again this year CROSSING EUROPE also offers numerous discussion events, remarkable exhibitions and installations, and an audiovisual live performance and experimental cinema in Deep Space 8K.

CE 17 - opening ceremony // photo © Christoph Thorwartl / subtext.at

The Opening Ceremony

CE 17 - opening ceremony // Moderator Neil Young // photo © Christoph Thorwartl / subtext.at

CE 17 - opening ceremony // Christine Dollhofer (Festival Director), Doris Lang-Mayerhofer (City Councilor for Culture, Tourism and Creative Industries of the City of Linz), Klaus Luger (Mayor) // photo © Christoph Thorwartl / subtext.at

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Local Artists

21.04.2017 // A total of 160 works were entered for this program section last fall. The selection for this year’s festival comprises 60 productions, which are presented in 17 program slots – including 21 world premieres, two Austrian premieres and one...

Cinema Next Europe

20.04.2017 // In 2015 CROSSING EUROPE placed a focus on the “next generation” of European filmmakers for the first time with the program focal point Cinema Next Future in cooperation with the young talents initiative Cinema Next. Conceived as a platform for...

Working Worlds

20.04.2017 // This year the program section revolves around the theme of meaningfulness of work under the title What We Do. The four selected works (three documentary films and one fictional work) raise questions such as: What do we actually work for? For...

Night Sight

20.04.2017 // For the tenth time, the film journalist and festival-maker Markus Keuschnigg has curated the NIGHT SIGHT at CROSSING EUROPE and this year again presents five unusual feature films – all of them from the genre of the “fantastic film”. This time...

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