Crossing Europe

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The festival centre and Moviemento cinema, based in the O.K. cultural centre.

Crossing Europe is an international film festival in Linz, Austria, that takes place every year in April since 2004. [1] It defines itself as a platform for young European film makers. The focus of the film selection lies on sociopolitical and youth cultural topics. Every year, about 180 films from more than 30 European countries are chosen to be shown on this six days long festival. Besides Viennale and Diagonale, Crossing Europe is the third biggest film festival of Austria with about 20,000 visitors every year. [2]

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Festival juries give away awards in several categories to European fictional and documentary films as well as to locally produced films. For the award competition, only the first or second film made by a director can be qualified. The main prize, the Crossing Europe Award, is endowed with €10,000.

The next date of the festival is from 28 April – 03 May 2026.

Awards

Following program sections [3] and awards [4] are part of the festival:

Jury awards
CategoryDonatorSince Remuneration
(in euros, 2015)
Crossing Europe Award – Best Fiction FilmLinz Culture, Federal Government of Upper Austria200410.000
Crossing Europe Social Awareness Award – Best Documentary FilmFederal Government of Upper Austria20145.000
Crossing Europe Award – Local ArtistFederal Government of Upper Austria, Synchro Film20047.000
Crossing Europe Social Awareness Award – Local ArtistFederal Government of Upper Austria20144.000
audience awards
CategoryDonatorSinceRemuneration
Crossing Europe Audience Award – Best Fiction FilmCrossing Europe20061.000
Creative Region Music Video Audience AwardCreative Region Linz & Upper Austria (2013 as jury award)20131.500
other awards
CategoryDonatorSinceRemuneration
Crossing Europe Award – Local Artist Drehort TabakfabrikTabakfabrik Linz2015–
Crossing Europe Award – Local Artist Atelierpreis Atelierhaus Salzamt Linz2010–
former awards
CategoryDonatorSinceRemuneration
Crossing Europe Award European Documentary ORF 2010–2011non-cash prize: TV broadcasting
FEDEORA Award for European Documentaries2012–2014
New Vision Award Silhouette 2011–20125.000

Notes

  1. ↑ About us Archived 2016-06-11 at the Wayback Machine , crossingeurope.at (pageview on May 2nd, 2016)
  2. ↑ Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz Archived 2016-06-02 at the Wayback Machine on festivalfocus.org (pageview on May 2nd, 2016)
  3. ↑ "About the program sections Archived 2016-06-11 at the Wayback Machine ", crossingeurope.at (pageview on May 2nd, 2016)
  4. ↑ Award winners 2004-2016 Archived 2016-06-11 at the Wayback Machine , crossingeurope.at (pageview on May 2nd 2016)
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