Crossing Europe
Crossing Europe Filmfestival Linz has been a six-day film festival that has been held in Linz every year since 2004 at the end of April . It sees itself as a presentation area for the diverse, contemporary European filmmaking with a focus on socio-political issues, youth and music culture.
Crossing Europe has committed itself to the idea of arousing the public's desire for artistic auteur cinema from Europe, of taking visitors on a - sometimes uncomfortable - journey across Europe today, while sharpening their awareness of socio-political imbalances and social wounds. Year after year, the festival takes on the task of presenting a young generation of directors from Europe to a broader public in Austria and honoring these works with monetary and material prizes.
Around 160 outstanding hand-picked feature films, documentaries and short films from all over Europe are shown on the screen in Linz every year - including numerous world premieres as well as internationally awarded films that are being presented for the first time in Austria. Numerous film highlights from the past festival season (from A-festivals in Berlin , Cannes , Locarno , Venice , Karlovy Vary , Warsaw or San Sebastían ) as well as selected local filmmaking can be seen.
Crossing Europe, as the second largest international film festival in Austria , is also about the presentation of films from so-called "low capacity countries", i.e. countries with a smaller or structurally weak film industry, and productions that, despite international festival successes, no longer find a place in regular cinema operations .
The 2020 festival was originally scheduled to take place April 21-26 , but has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The edition planned for April 2021 was postponed to June 2021, the awarding of the prizes took place on June 5th.
history
The festival was initiated in 2004 by Wolfgang Steininger , the operator of the art house cinemas Moviemento and City-Kino in Linz and founder of the Neuer Heimatfilm festival in Freistadt . Not least in view of the upcoming EU expansion to the east and Linz's application as European Capital of Culture , European film should be the theme of the festival. In the summer of 2003 he commissioned the former director of Diagonale , Christine Dollhofer , who also came up with the idea for the festival name (“Crossing Europe” was a program focus of Diagonale), with the preparation of the festival.
The first edition of the new film festival took place between May 4th and 9th, 2004 on six days - whereby on the first day only one screening of the opening film was shown at "Arenaplatz" (since 2007 "OK Platz") in front of the Moviemento cinema - with the seven program lines “European Cinema Competition”, “Panorama Europe”, “Tribute”, “Panorama Special”, “Working Worlds”, “Local Artists” and “Atelier” (renamed “Artist in Residence” the following year). Festival cinemas , each with two halls, were the two arthouse cinemas “ Moviemento ” and “City-Kino”. Selected performances about music groups took place in the KAPU cultural center , three “Local Artists” performances were held in the Landesgalerie Linz. With a budget of 260,000 euros, around two thirds of which were public funding, 181 films were shown. The supporting program of discussions with directors, presentations of film projects, music events at the end of each festival day ("Nightline") as well as the opening, press conference and award ceremony comprised 14 program items, all of which were held in the "Festival Lounge" on the media deck of the Open House of Culture "OK". The first edition of the festival was attended by around 8,500 people. From 12 competition films , the jury selected Kako ubiv svetec (How I killed a Saint) by Macedonian director Teona S. Mitevska as the winner of the first Crossing Europe Award European Competition, endowed with 10,000 euros. The Local Artist Award, endowed with 6,000 euros, went to Michaela Schwentner's six-minute music video Jet .
In 2005, the festival took place from April 26th to May 1st over six days, with only the opening film Lost and Found (2005) being shown in three screenings in the City Cinema on the first day . The Landesgalerie and Arenaplatz venues were no longer included for film screenings. The festival budget remained roughly the same at 250,000 euros and was therefore still well below the Diagonale in Graz , which was more heavily funded with public funds . 150 films from 30 countries were shown in 100 screenings. One innovation was that in the mornings, festival films suitable for children and young people were shown especially for school classes. The supporting program offered 20 other events. A total of 12,000 visitors were counted.
In 2006 Moviemento handed over the festival management to the newly founded Crossing Europe GmbH. The budget increased in part because initial funding from the MEDIA program of the EU to 300,000 euros, of which about half of public funding accounted for. The first of the six days of the festival had eight screenings, which was retained in the following years, and European animation and short films in general received greater attention. After two European short film programs were created for the first time with “Short Matters” in 2005, “European Animation Highlights” were presented in 2006 and 2007 and, in addition to the Upper Austrian local artists short film programs, cooperations with Austrian short film festivals have been taking place since 2006, with a selection of new ones for Crossing Europe and put together excellent short film productions. The 2006 festival ended after 110 screenings of 160 films from 27 countries with 12,000 visitors.
In 2007 the budget was 350,000 euros, also thanks to the first funding from the City of Linz “Capital of Culture 2009”. The festival again recorded an increase in visitor numbers. 120 films from 29 countries as well as the supporting program reached 13,000 visitors.
In 2008 the new program section “Night Vision” was introduced, which is dedicated to European genre film. In 2008 five horror films were shown. Austrian film festivals were once again guests: the Youki - International Youth Media Festival and the Vienna Video and Film Days (WVFT). The number of film screenings was increased to 132 with the opening of an additional cinema hall in Moviemento, including all supporting events. The festival lasted six days, from April 22nd to 27th. Including all short films, around 150 films from 32 countries were shown. The number of visitors could thus be increased to around 16,000.
In 2009 the festival took place one day longer, i.e. seven days, due to additional financial means from the 2009 Capital of Culture budget. The number of films shown increased to 177 (including short films) from 33 countries, which were shown in 180 screenings. 130 directors and other people involved in the films shown were guests and present at the screenings of their films. A total of 570 accredited guests were counted. The number of visitors increased to almost 18,000.
In 2010, after three years of funding from the Linz '09 pot, the festival had to make do with fewer funds than in the previous year. The festival lasted six days again, during which 117 films from 25 countries were shown in 133 screenings. 115 directors and filmmakers were present for discussions with the audience after their films were screened, and a total of 600 accreditations were given to filmmakers, industry guests, media representatives and film students. Due to the volcanic eruption in Iceland , 75 international guests and 5% of the film copies were missing at the beginning of the festival; however, most of the guests and all of the film copies arrived late.
Including the 12 supporting events, such as the “Nightline”, the festival counted around 17,000 visitors. The occupancy rate of the cinemas increased sharply, however, since the 133 cinema screenings in 2010 had the same number of admissions (the number of which is not shown separately) as the 180 screenings in the previous year.
In 2011, 160 films from 35 countries were shown in 155 screenings. Including the supporting program, 19,000 visitors were thus reached from April 12th to 17th.
In 2012 the festival took place from April 24th to 29th. 146 films from 43 different countries were shown in 160 screenings. The festival thus reached 21,000 visitors. As a new location, the Ursuline Hall in the Upper Austrian Cultural Quarter (formerly known as the Ursulinenhof ) could be used for the first time in 2012 .
The 10-year anniversary was celebrated from April 23 to 28, 2013 with a new venue, the Upper Austria Culture Quarter, and around 20,000 visitors. A total of 162 feature films, documentaries and short films from 40 countries (96 of which were Austrian premieres) were shown. In autumn of the same year, the festival was awarded the Great State Culture Prize for initiative cultural work by the state of Upper Austria . Over 1000 films were submitted for the 2014 festival edition.
The 2020 festival was originally scheduled to take place April 21-26 , but has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
Sections
The film program of the festival is divided into several sections or program lines. In four of them - Competition Fiction, Competition Documentary, Competition Local Artists and (since 2018) YAAAS! Youth jury - prizes are awarded by juries.
In the other sections, outstanding European film productions, most of which are not scheduled to be released in Austria, are shown. These are often internationally awarded productions or new works by young filmmakers that are to be presented to the Linz audience, but also to cinema owners and film distributors. In the Local Artists section, innovative Upper Austrian filmmaking is presented. New priorities are set every year in tributes, working environments, architecture & society, spotlight and specials.
Competition fiction
Only first and second works by European directors are eligible for the Competition Fiction competition. The competition includes nine to eleven films. All of them premieres in Austria.
The winner of the Competition Fiction competition is determined by an annually changing three-person jury. In addition, at the end of the festival, one of the films receives the Audience Award, which is determined by evaluating the ballot papers filled out by the audience in the cinema after each film screening in the competition. The recipient of the prize is the director in each case.
Competition Documentary
The competition category for documentary films was introduced for the first time in 2010 and was endowed with purchase and broadcast by the ORF in the first year . From 2010 to 2012 one of the feature films in the Panorama Fiction section received the New Vision Award. The category has been called Competition Documentary since 2018 .
Competition Local Artists
In the program rail Local Artists films of all kinds - short -, long, game - documentary - experimental - and animated films shown have been produced by Upper Austrian directors or a generic reference to Austria have -. For the competition, however, only those films are eligible that have not already been released in cinemas or are planned to be released, that have not yet been distributed, as well as television productions. Specials also do not take part in the competition. The number of nominees for the Local Artist Award varies greatly, as the numerous short films are also taken into account.
As part of the Local Artists, several short film programs will be shown, each presenting a series of music videos, short, experimental and animated films from Upper Austria. From 2006 these will be supplemented by short film programs that are specially compiled by Austrian short film festivals and presented in Linz. From 2006 to 2009 the youth film festival YOUKI was a guest with its own program (and in 2006 an additional six-pack film in the “Austrian Screenings” section). In addition, Vienna Independent Shorts in 2007 and the Vienna Film and Video Days in 2008 were also guests. Since 2009 there have been no guest programs for other Austrian festivals, but as part of the panorama section or in specials, a varying number of specially compiled programs from other European film festivals or film schools are shown.
In 2008, all Local Artist films were shown for the first time as part of seven thematically compiled programs, each between 70 and 100 minutes long and containing between two and 14 films. The number and names of the various programs vary from year to year, but the structure has been retained. Two specials were added in 2008: the “Masterclass” with current work by lecturers from the University of Artistic and Industrial Design Linz , including Mara Mattuschka , and a program of films by the experimental filmmaker Dietmar Brehm from Linz (as in 2009 and 2011).
European panorama
Other selected European feature films and documentaries that do not take part in the competition will be presented in the European Panorama Documentary and European Panorama Fiction sections. Current productions from all over Europe are gathered here. The cinematic positions of these sections, the highlights of the current festival season, cinematic discoveries and new works by previous Crossing Europe guests are presented in Austrian premieres as varied as European filmmaking.
European Panorama Specials
In several festival years there are various special programs with changing titles. For example in 2011 a retrospective of “Flipt! Austrian flip book festival ”(in the Atelierhaus Salzamt Linz ) as well as a film program in bb15 - room for contemporary art. A selection of works from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem and a film by its director Renen Schorr as well as short films from the Slovenian festival for Central and Eastern European animated film Animateka were also shown. The Soviet and GDR “Western” films (“Red Westerns”), which were produced in cooperation with the Int. Film Festival Rotterdam .
The focus in 2004 was "Closer View" and was dedicated to the EU accession countries Czech Republic and Slovakia . In 2005 the Panorama Special consisted of a selection of European hip-hop videos, selected festival films from the Cottbus Film Festival and two European short film programs under the title “Short Matters!”. In 2006 and 2007 it also contained its own program of selected European animation films, which were put together under the title "European Animation Highlights" by the animation film artists Thomas Renoldner and Igor Prassel. In addition, in 2006 several music documentaries, Spanish short films under the title “Mirador 06” and “Three Films by Thomas Heise ” were shown. Further specials in 2007 were “Belle de Jour / Belle toujours” about the two films of the same name by directors Luis Buñuel and Manoel de Oliveira, as well as a program of three selected Romanian films.
The 2008 specials were Želimir Žilnik's “Kenedi Trilogy” and three films from the Prizren Documentary Festival, the oldest film festival in Kosovo founded in 2002 . In 2009, as part of the Linz 09 Extra Europa project, three specials were dedicated to filmmakers from three European non- EU countries - Switzerland, Turkey and Norway. These were Young Turkish Cinema, animation films from the Fantoche animation festival in Switzerland and Norwegian film and video art from the Tromsø International Film Festival . In 2010 there were no Panorama Specials, instead a short film program by NISI MASA , a European network of young filmmakers, was shown outside the sections , represented by the Austrian member kino 5 . In 2011 a separate “Specials” section was introduced.
Working environments
In “Working Worlds” only feature films and documentaries are shown that deal with an annually changing focus on “contemporary working conditions” under catchphrases such as neoliberalism or the new economy and show their effects on society. This film section is programmed by different trustees, such as the Wiener group cinema Real consisting of the cineasts Dominik Kamalzadeh (film critics The standard ), Michael Loebenstein (curator, Austrian Film Museum ), Dieter Pichler ( film editor , and the editor of the film magazine kolik.film ) and Catherine Riedler. Each in cooperation with the Chamber of Labor Upper Austria / Culture .
The first program in 2004 raised the question “Brave new world of work?”. Four German, one French and one Austrian work were shown. Among them, for example, darker lipstick makes more serious by Katrin Rothe (D 2003). In the second year, four Austrian and German productions were shown under the title Invisible Opponents . Including the classic documentary Post Adresse Schlöglmühl (1990) by the Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Egon Humer and the much-noticed documentary about a predicted personality in German economic policy Has Otto Wolff von Amerongen committed bankruptcy crimes by Gerhard Benno Friedl (D / Ö 2004). 2006 was dominated by “company policy”, whose ethical self-assessment and legal scope for action were questioned with three Finnish and one Czech films. Die Arbeitswelten 2007 showed four German and one Indian films on the subject of “Upheavals and New beginnings”, with a focus on globalization and its side effects such as outsourcing . The 2008 work world films were selected on the subject of “Fortress Europe, Right-Wing Radicals, Xenophobia and Unemployment” and, with the exception of one British film, all come from Germany. In 2009 the economy was dominated by globalization and the social consequences of increasingly precarious working conditions were an issue. In 2010 the section was headed “World 3.0”. In addition to documentaries on current work realities, two films about former and existing industrial landscapes were shown ( Milltown, Montana and Petropolis - Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands ). In 2011, globalization-related upheavals in the “world of work” were the focus of the films shown, with the focus primarily on female workers.
tribute
In the Tribute section , Crossing Europe is dedicated to the complete works of “extraordinary European directors”. This included selected films as well as discussions with the directors present.
The previous tributes:
- 2004: Matteo Garrone (Italy) and Priit Pärn (Estonia)
- 2005: Maja Weiss and Harry Rag (Slovenia / Germany)
- 2006: Susanna Helke and Virpi Suutari (Finland)
- 2007: Marc Recha (Spain)
- 2008: Lithuanian Documents - Audrius Stonys, Arunas Matelis and Sharunas Bartas (all Lithuania)
- 2009: Ursula Meier (Switzerland), Lionel Baier (Switzerland)
- 2010: Koktebel Film Company (Russia)
- 2011: Nanouk Leopold and Stienette Bosklopper (Netherlands)
- 2012: Anca Damian (Romania)
- 2013: Przemysław Wojcieszek (Poland)
- 2014: Joanna Hogg (England)
- 2015: Sergei Loznitsa (Belarus)
- 2016: Helena Třeštíková (Czech Republic)
- 2017: Anka Sasnal , Wilhelm Sasnal (Poland)
- 2018: Edoardo Winspeare
- 2019: Jaime Rosales
Austrian Screenings
From 2006 to 2014 the “Austrian Screenings” were part of the Crossing Europe program. Selected new Austrian films that were still about to go to theaters were shown to the festival audience. In 2006 this was the documentary Our Daily Bread (director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter , 2005) and in 2007 the documentary film Shortly Before It Happened (Director: Anja Salomonowitz , 2006), which won a prize at the Berlinale and addressed the past, was one of them. In 2008, internationally acclaimed films were also on the program, such as Götz Spielmann's Revanche , which premiered at the Berlinale. In 2011, the “Austrian Screening” was Die Vaterlosen by Marie Kreutzer and Schwarzkopf by Arman T. Riahi . In 2012 Kuma by Umut Dağ and Outing by Sebastian Meise and Thomas Reider were presented.
The accredited specialist guests, around 400 to 750 per year, were also given the opportunity to view new Austrian films of all kinds, as well as selected Eastern European documentaries from East Silver Caravan, an initiative of the Jihlava Documentary Film Festival, in the Crossing Europe Video Library before they hit theaters .
Night vision
In 2008, with “Nachtsicht”, a new program was introduced that is dedicated to European genre films, especially horror films (2011) or “unreasonable films that contradict conventional production logic” (2012).
OK artist in residence
“OK Artist in Residence” was a program in which an artist from the cross-over area of art / film was represented with an exhibition in the Open Culture House OK and a film program in the festival cinemas. This cooperation with the OC has been continued in a different form since 2015.
Previous OK Artists in Residence:
- 2004: Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Austrian experimental filmmaker
- 2005: Corinna Schnitt, German photographer, film and video artist
- 2006: Viktor Alimpiev, Russian artist
- 2007: Sejla Kameric, Bosnian artist
- 2008: Lida Abdul, Afghan performance and video artist
- 2009: Inger Lise Hansen , Norwegian video artist
- 2010: Rainer Gamsjäger, Austrian video artist
- 2011: Harald Hund and Paul Horn, Austrian film / video artists
- 2012: Heidrun Holzfeind (AT), Christoph Draeger (CH)
- 2013: Omer Fast (IL / DE)
- 2014: Fernando Sánchez Castillo (ES), Gabriele Edlbauer (AT)
Democratized use, design and transformation of urban space
Since 2010, in cooperation with the Architekturforum Oberösterreich (AFO), a series of films has been dedicated to the possibilities of democratized use, design and transformation of urban space.
In 2010 the film series was titled “Reclaiming Space” with films about actions in public space (two Austrian short films, Body Trail and Corners ), Street Art ( Street Art - the transient rebellion , Germany), a squatting ( This Moment is not the Same , Switzerland) and the gentrification in St. Pauli ( Empire St. Pauli - of pearl necklaces and place references , Germany).
In 2011 the theme was “City – Migration – Identity”, the four films shown were from France ( Le Bateau en Carton / The Paper Boat and Qu'ils reposent en révolte (des figures de guerre) / Strange Fruit ), Germany (Neukölln Unlimited ) and Switzerland (Pizza Bethlehem) . In 2012, the topic “Transition Spaces - Nowhere Places” was dealt with in cooperation with the AFO; in 2013 the focus was on peripheral locations .
Since 2017, this line has been called "Architecture and Society", with an annually changing focus.
Supporting program
The supporting program includes daily presentations, discussions with directors such as “Meet the film directors” or, in cooperation with the Architekturforum Oberösterreich (AFO), the “AFO-Talk”, the “Nightline” night program and an exhibition by the OK Artist in Residence. Since 2009, Austrian film directors have been invited to “Screenings & Lectures” in Linz under the title Filmatelier . Conversely, individual film programs are also shown as “Crossing Europe as a guest” at cooperation partners such as the Vienna Film Museum or the Medienkulturhaus Wels.
Local and international DJs and bands play on the media deck of the OK every day of the festival from 10 p.m. admission is free. The nightline is programmed by corridor.
The first nightlines in 2004 and 2005 were mostly handled by Austrian DJs and two concerts by international bands took place. One of the highlights of the night program of the first two years was DJ DSL . From 2006 on, bands of various musical styles played almost every day of the festival before the DJ program. The DJ program also became more international and internationally known groups such as T.Raumschmiere and Funkstistern played . Among other things, "Falkner 3" - a combination of Attwenger with the rapper Huckey from Texta - and Gustav appeared. In 2008 there was a concert every day, except for the last one - including the Viennese musician Didi Bruckmayr .
In 2010 the Nightline included a concert and a DJ or a DJ team on 5 days each, with the exception of the Saturday on which two international bands played before the DJ program with TV Buddhas (Israel) and Men (USA). The planned concert by Lydia Lunch was canceled due to the volcanic eruption , which made it impossible to arrive on time.
2011 again held four live concerts and DJs on all five days. International guests were the US band Dum Dum Girls and the German DJs DJ Fett and DJ Phono , the rest of the program was played by local musicians and DJs known throughout Austria. With Flip, DJ Dan (two Texta members) and the SK Invitational Rhythm Crew there was hip-hop from Linz, The Incredible Staggers provided rock and the Adalbert Günther Trio provided electronic dance music from the Linz house label etage noir . The acoustic techno group Elektro Guzzi and the Munich band Candelilla were among the best-known acts in 2012, while the Linz pop band Shy and the Berlin duo DJ Sarah Farina & Mr. Chix performed in 2013.
Venues
The majority of the program is shown in the meanwhile five (up to 2007 there were four) cinemas of the Moviemento and City-Kino arthouse cinemas, which are only a short distance from each other in the center of Linz. About one film a day with a focus on youth and music culture from various program lines is shown in the KAPU cultural center , and films were also shown in the Ann & Pat youth center on several days in 2009. Since 2012, the festival has also been able to use the Ursulinensaal, a large multi-purpose hall in the Upper Austrian Kulturquartier , which is also located on OK-Platz. Since then, the festival opening and award ceremony have also taken place here.
The supporting program as well as the exhibition of the OK Artist in Residence take place in the OK Offenes Kulturhaus OÖ , which is located in the building above the Moviemento cinema. Both the nightline and press conferences take place on the media deck on the top floor.
Prices
| Jury awards | |||
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| category | donated by | since |
Allocation (in euros, 2015) |
| Crossing Europe Award - Best Fiction Film | Linz Culture, Province of Upper Austria / Culture | 2004 | 10,000 |
| Crossing Europe Social Awareness Award - Best Documentary Film | Society for Cultural Policy Upper Austria | 2014 | 5,000 |
| Crossing Europe Award - Local Artist | State of Upper Austria Culture / Culture, Synchro Film | 2004 | 7,000 |
| Crossing Europe Innovative Award - Local Artist | Upper Austrian cultural quarter | 2017 | 3,500 |
| Crossing Europe Award - Youth Jury | Crossing Europe | 2018 | 1,000 |
| Audience awards | |||
| category | donated by | since | Doping |
| Crossing Europe Audience Award - Best Fiction Film | Park Inn Radison Linz | 2006 | 1,000 |
| Creative Region Music Video Audience Award | Creative Region Linz & Upper Austria (2013 as jury award) | 2013 | 1,500 |
| Former prices | |||
| category | donated by | Period | Doping |
| Crossing Europe Award European Documentary | ORF | 2010-2011 | (Prize: TV broadcast) |
| Crossing Europe Award - Local Artist Atelier Award | Atelierhaus Salzamt | 2010-2016 | (Material prize) |
| New Vision Award | silhouette | 2011–2012 | 5,000 |
| FEDEORA Award for European Documentaries | 2012-2014 | ||
| Crossing Europe Social Awareness Award - Local Artist | Province of Upper Austria / Social affairs | 2014-2016 | 4,000 |
| Crossing Europe Award - Local Artist Film Location Tobacco Factory | Tobacco factory Linz | 2015 | (Material prize) |
The main prize, the Crossing Europe Award European Competition, is awarded to the film selected by the international jury from the European Cinema Competition. The prize money has been the same 10,000 euros since 2004, provided by the state of Upper Austria and the city of Linz.
The Crossing Europe Award Local Artist is given by a different jury to an Upper Austrian film project, whereby short, experimental and animated films of different lengths are considered equally as feature films or documentaries. As a restriction, however, the film must not have started in the cinema or shown on television. This is intended to support young filmmakers in a targeted manner. The prize is endowed with 7,000 euros, with 5,000 being contributed by the state of Upper Austria and 2,000 as a material voucher from a sponsor from the post-production sector.
Since 2006, the third prize has been the audience award for a feature film from the competition program. Since 2013, the Creative Region Music Video Audience Award has also been an audience award for a short film from the music video program.
In 2010 and 2011 the European Documentary Award sponsored by ORF was presented. From 2012 to 2014, the documentary film prize was awarded by a three-member jury from the FEDEORA film critics association . The documentary film prizes have been presented as the Social Awareness Award - Documentary since 2014 and are endowed with 5,000 euros.
In 2011 the New Vision Award (5,000 euros) for “outstanding artistic performance in the visual field” was launched. The prize, sponsored by an eyewear manufacturer, was last awarded in 2012.
Award winners
The film title is given in the original language and, if applicable, in brackets with the English world distribution title.
Crossing Europe Competition - Fiction
Main competition for feature films.
| Crossing Europe Award - Best Fiction Film | ||||
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| year | Director | Movie title | ||
| 2004 | Teona Strugar Mitevska | Kako ubi svetec (How I killed a Saint) | ||
| 2005 | Isild Le Besco | Demi tariff (half price) | ||
| 2006 | Isabelle Stever | Gisela | ||
| 2007 | Pia Marais | The Unpolished ( international title: The Unpolished ) | ||
| 2008 | Isild Le Besco | Charly | ||
| 2009 | Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun | Uzak İhtimal (Wrong Rosary) | ||
| 2010 | Zvonimir Jurić , Goran Dević | Crnci (The Blacks) | ||
| 2011 |
Lluís Galter Pia Marais |
Caracremada At the age of Ellen |
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| 2012 | Anka Sasnal , Wilhelm Sasnal | Z daleka widok jest piękny (It Looks Pretty from a Distance) | ||
| 2013 | Ektoras Lygizos | to agori troi to fagito tou pouliou (Boy Eating the Bird's Food) | ||
| 2014 |
Thierry de Peretti Liliana Torres |
Les Apaches (Apaches) Family Tour |
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| 2015 |
Ana Lungu Ivan Ikić |
Autoportretul unei fete cuminţi (Self-portrait of a Dutiful Daughter) Varvari (Barbarians) |
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| 2016 |
Visar Morina Rachel Lang |
Babai Baden Baden - luck from the hardware store? (Baden-Baden) |
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| 2017 | Hana Jušić | Ne gledaj mi u pijat (Quit Staring at My Plate) | ||
| 2018 | Leonardo Mouramateus | Antonio one two three | ||
| 2019 | Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov | The Man Who Surprised Everyone | ||
| 2020 | Event canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | |||
| 2021 | Dea Kulumbegashvili | Dasatskisi / Beginning | ||
Crossing Europe Audience Award
The audience award goes to one of the competition films.
| Crossing Europe Audience Award | ||||
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| year | Director | Movie title | ||
| 2006 | Sergei Stanojkovski | Contact | ||
| 2007 | Gérald Hustache-Mathieu | Avril | ||
| 2008 | Stefan Arsenijević | Love and other crimes (Ljubav i drugi zlocini) | ||
| 2009 | Alexis Dos Santos | Unmade beds | ||
| 2010 | Severine Cornamusaz | Coeur Animal | ||
| 2011 | Ágnes Kocsis | Pál Adrienn | ||
| 2012 | Andrew Haigh | Weekend | ||
| 2013 | Marçal Forés | Animals | ||
| 2014 | Carlos Marques-Marcet | Long Distance [10,000 KM] | ||
| 2015 | Anatol Durbală | Ce Lume Minunată (What a Wonderful World) | ||
| 2016 | Svetla Tsotsorkova | Jajda (Thirst) | ||
| 2017 | Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson | Heart stone (Hjartasteinn) | ||
| 2018 | Iram Haq | What will the people say (Hva vil folk si) | ||
| 2019 | Nadejda Koseva | Irina | ||
| 2020 | Event canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | |||
| 2021 | Christos Nikou | Mila / Apples | ||
Crossing Europe Competition - Documentary
This award was presented for the first time in 2010 and was endowed with an ORF TV broadcast as a material prize until 2011. From 2012 to 2014 this prize was awarded by the FEDEORA jury as the Fedeora Award European Documentary . In 2014, the Social Awareness Award was also launched, which replaced the FEDEORA jury from 2015.
| Crossing Europe Award European Documentary | ||||
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| year | Director | Movie title | ||
| 2010 | Erik Gandini | Videocracy | ||
| 2011 | Michael Madsen | Into Eternity | ||
| Fedeora Award European Documentary | ||||
| 2012 | Sebastian Mez Special Mention: Melanie Jilg Fernand Melgar Special Mention: Manuela Frésil |
A letter from Germany Hauptfriedhof Vol Special Entrée du personnel |
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| 2013 | Peter Liechti | Father's garden - my parents' love | ||
| 2014 | Claire Simon | Geography Humaine | ||
| Crossing Europe Social Awareness Award for European Documentaries | ||||
| 2014 | Luca Bellino, Silvia Luzi Special Mention: Robert Kirchhoff |
Dell'arte della Guerra (On the Art of War) Kauza Cervanová (Normalization) |
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| 2015 | Vladimir Tomic | Flotel Europe | ||
| 2016 | Maya Kosa, Sérgio da Costa | Rio Corgo | ||
| 2017 | Vitaly Mansky | Rodnye (Close Relations) | ||
| 2018 | Bernadett Tuza Knight | A woman captured | ||
| 2019 | Thomas Heise | Home is a space made of time | ||
| 2020 | Event canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | |||
| 2021 | Asia Dér and Sári Haragonics | Anyáim Története / Her Mothers | ||
Crossing Europe - Local Artist Awards
| Crossing Europe Award Local Artist | ||||
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| year | Director | Movie title | ||
| 2004 | Michaela Schwentner Special Mention: Rainer Gamsjäger Special Mention: Regina Stefanschitz |
Jet Blowfeld Nothing in it |
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| 2005 | Siegfried A. Fruhauf Special Mention: Barbara Musil, Karo Szmit |
Mirror Mechanics SW-Lower Austria 04 |
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| 2006 | Gisela Hesser, Gregor Stadlober Special Mention: Sofie Thorsen Special Mention: Robert Praxmarer |
We LAWOG women have a nice time Am Hauptplatz, in the forest Fuge 1.6180339887 - Part 2 |
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| 2007 |
Libertad Hackl Lukas Marxt , Michael Petri Special Mention: Oliver Stangl, Christian Tod |
I want to stay where I've never been After the Fatsy ice cave |
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| 2008 | Barbara Musil Special Mention: Ernst Spießberger Special Mention: Edith Stauber |
Market Sentiments Barrens Entry to Paradise 3 € 20 |
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| 2009 | Martin Music Harald Hund, Paul Horn Special Mention: HS Steinerkirchen |
Top Dropping Furniture Romeo and Juliet (Franz and Rosi) |
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| 2010 | Michaela Mandel Ella Raidel |
Sinister Sisters Slaughterhouse Slam Video Maputo |
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| 2011 | Ella Raidel Ludwig Loeckinger |
Subverses - China in Mozambique Daschka |
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| 2012 | Katharina Gruzei Edith Stauber |
The workers leave the factory after treatment |
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| 2013 | Rainer Kohlberger Special Mention: Florian Kofler |
Humming, Fast and Slow Pfitscher |
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| 2014 | Selma Doborac Special Mention: Kornelia Kugler, Hanna Bergfors |
It was a day like any other spring or summer performance |
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| 2015 | ONLSD, Leo Calice, Gerhard Treml Felix Huber |
Eden's Edge - Three Shorts on the Californian Desert Farfalla |
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| 2016 | Selma Doborac Siniša Vidović |
Those shocking shaking Days Korida |
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| 2017 |
Bernhard Sallmann Marie Luise Lehner |
Oderland. Fontane chewing gum cigarettes |
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| 2018 | Leni Gruber | Snowman | ||
| 2019 | Sebastian Brameshuber | Movements of a nearby mountain | ||
| 2020 | Event canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | |||
| 2021 |
Norbert Pfaffenbichler Julia Windischbauer , Elena Wolff Mohammad Reza Rasouli |
2551.01 hover. / Swaying. Arriving |
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| Crossing Europe Innovative Award - Local Artist | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| year | Director | Movie title | ||
| 2017 | Susanna Flock | Fetish fingers | ||
| 2018 | Bernhard Hetzenauer | A God's Shadow | ||
| 2019 | Nikki Schuster | Animistica | ||
Creative Region Music Video Audience Award
Introduced in 2013 as the jury prize Creative Region Music Video Award , this category has been continued as an audience award since 2014.
| Creative Region Music Video Audience Award | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| year | Director | Movie title | Remarks | |
| 2013 | Karin Fisslthaler | Goodbye from Cherry Sunkist | awarded as a jury prize | |
| 2014 | Andreea Săsăran, Katja Seifert | Meltingsphere by Richard Eigner & Abby Lee Tee | ||
| 2014 * | Jakob Kubizek | Sleep Sleep by Gospel and Same City, Another Planet by Kreisky | * Residency , was only awarded in 2014 | |
| 2015 | Lukas Jakob Löcker | Heaven by Felix Schager, Konstantin Diggn | ||
| 2016 | Leni Gruber | Wösside by Wös Rap Rec | ||
| 2017 | Josef Fink, David Haunschmidt | Naked Thoughts by Alpine Dweller | ||
| 2018 | Alexei Sigalov | Soul Fever Blues by Parov Stelar ft. Muddy Waters | ||
| 2019 | Dagmar Schürrer | Driving pleasure - Chris Imler | ||
| 2020 | Event canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | |||
| 2021 | Mark Gerstorfer | Immigrant - Dacid Go8lin | ||
Crossing Europe Award - (YAAAS!) Youth Jury
| Youth jury | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| year | Director | Movie title | ||
| 2018 | Nanouk Leopold | Cobain | ||
| 2019 | Darko Štante | Consequences | ||
| 2020 | Event canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | |||
| 2021 | Kirsikka Saari, Elli Toivoniemi, Anna Paavilainen, Alli Haapasalo, Reetta Aalto, Jenni Toivoniemi, Miia Tervo | Tottumiskysymys / Force Of Habit | ||
MIOB New Vision Award
| MIOB New Vision Award from the festival network Moving Images Open Borders | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| year | Director | Movie title | ||
| 2021 | Lili Horvát | Preparing to be together indefinitely | ||
Former categories
| New Vision Award (2011–2012) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| year | Director | Movie title | ||
| 2011 | Oleg Novkovic | Beli beli svet (White White World) | ||
| 2012 | João Canijo | Sangue do Meu Sangue | ||
| Crossing Europe Award Local Artist Studio Prize (2010–2016) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| year | Director | Movie title | ||
| 2010 | Gloria Gammer, Sigrid Nagele | The Law of the Time by Ritornell | ||
| 2011 | Remo Rauscher | The Streets of the Invisibles | ||
| 2012 | Susanna Flock | Trying to Build a Sentence | ||
| 2013 | Miguel José Gonzalez-Gonzalez | 2x10m ² Baltic Sea view | ||
| 2014 | Markus Burgstaller | Untended outskirts | ||
| 2015 | Vildan Duralic | Untitled 014 | ||
| 2016 | Maria Czernohorszky | Last Supper IV | ||
| Crossing Europe Social Awareness Award Local Artist (2014-2016) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| year | Director | Movie title | ||
| 2014 | Alexandra Schneider | Private Revolutions | ||
| 2015 | Eva Hausberger Special Mention: Ufuk Serbest |
Monumenti Evdeki Ses - 22m² Austria |
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| 2016 | Djordje Čenić, Hermann Peseckas | Below | ||
| Crossing Europe Award Local Artist Location Tabakfabrik (2015) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| year | Director | Movie title | ||
| 2015 | Klaus Pamminger | Notes on Mackey | ||
See also
literature
- Michael Meisterhofer: cultural management in the context of film festivals and film education . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2015, 4th Crossing Europe , p. 35–48 ( othes.univie.ac.at [PDF; 3.1 MB ]).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Crossing Europe Festival in Linz canceled. In: ORF.at . March 18, 2020, accessed March 18, 2020 .
- ↑ Crossing Europe film festival postponed to June. In: ORF.at . January 27, 2021, accessed January 27, 2021 .
- ↑ Entry Wolfgang Steininger on RegiowikiAT
- ↑ Wolfgang Schmutz: In conversation with Christine Dollhofer. Kulturterrorist.at, August 14, 2003.
- ↑ Europe crosswise. In: Rheinische Post , March 18, 2004.
- ^ Magdalena Miedl: Quer-Film-ein in Linz. In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , May 10, 2004.
- ^ Christoph Huber: Crossing Europe: Young cinema. In: Die Presse , May 3, 2005.
- ↑ Philipp Wagenhofer: The Crossing Europe brand has solidified. In: Neues Volksblatt , May 2, 2005.
- ↑ Crossing Europe film festival with increased visitor numbers. In: Salzburger Nachrichten , April 30, 2006.
- ^ Stefan Grissemann: Artificial construction site. In: Profil , May 7, 2007.
- ↑ Crossing Europe Balance Sheet 2008 , Newsletter # 11, April 27, 2008, accessed on May 3, 2008.
- ↑ Crossing Europe Balance Sheet 2009, Media Information, April 26, 2009 ( Memento of December 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Media information on the Crossing Europe balance sheet 2010 ( Memento from May 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 40 kB) Linz, April 25, 2010.
- ^ Festival program 2011 ( Memento from February 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). crossingeurope.at, accessed on April 4, 2011.
- ↑ Crossing Europe has outdone itself . In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , April 18, 2011.
- ↑ Media information on the Crossing Europe balance sheet 2012 ( Memento from May 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 41 kB) Linz, April 29, 2012, accessed on November 30, 2012.
- ↑ Conclusion and review 2012 , accessed on November 30, 2012.
- ↑ Media information on the Crossing Europe balance sheet 2013 ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) Linz, April 28, 2013
- ↑ a b Media Info October 17, 2013: State Prize, Festival Trailer, Film Submission and Film Atelier - crossingeurope.at ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Media information on the festival opening 2014 - crossingeurope.at (PDF) ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ crossingeurope.at: Festival prices (accessed on November 29, 2018)
- ↑ crossingeurope.at: Competition Fiction (accessed November 29, 2018)
- ↑ crossingeurope.at: Jury (accessed on November 29, 2018)
- ↑ crossingeurope.at: European Panorama Fiction , European Panorama Documentary (accessed on November 29, 2018)
- ↑ crossingeurope.at: Working Worlds (accessed on November 29, 2018)
- ↑ crossingeurope.at: night vision (accessed on November 29, 2018)
- ↑ Festival newspaper Crossing Europe, special edition by Ray , 20. – 25. April 2010, p. 30.
- ↑ crossingeurope.at: Architecture and Society (accessed on November 29, 2018)
- ↑ a b c d e f g orf.at: Crossing Europe: tragic comedy best film . Article dated April 29, 2018, accessed April 29, 2018.
- ↑ a b c d e f g orf.at: Crossing Europe - Best feature film from Russia . Article dated April 29, 2019, accessed April 29, 2019.
- ↑ Festival prices 2021. In: crossingeurope.at. June 5, 2021, accessed June 5, 2021 .
- ↑ Crossing Europe Awards for religious drama and queer documentary. In: k.at. June 5, 2021, accessed June 5, 2021 .