Festival Awards & Award Winners 2023

Here you can find details about the CROSSING EUROPE awards and award winners in 2023.

Competition Fiction

CROSSING EUROPE Award - Best Fiction Film
€ 5.000,- powered by Linz Kultur

Winning Film: 
Damian Kocur, PL 2022, 100 min

Special Mention: 
Giacomo Abbruzzese, FR/IT/BE/PL 2023, 91 min

CROSSING EUROPE Audience Award - Best Fiction Film
€ 5.000,- powered by Land Oberösterreich Kultur

Winning Film: 
Juraj Lerotić, HR/SI 2022, 102 min
 
The section Competition Fiction comprises first and second European feature fiction films. During the awards ceremony, the Competition Fiction jury gives out the Best Fiction Film award to the director of the award-winning film. The audience chooses the Audience Award.

Competition Documentary

CROSSING EUROPE Social Awareness Award - Best Documentary Film
€ 5.000,- powered by Gutenberg-Werbering and CROSSING EUROPE

Winning Films: 
Marek Kozakiewicz, DE/PL 2022, 72 min

Alisa Kovalenko, UA/FR/PL/US 2023, 99 min

The CROSSING EUROPE Social Awareness Award - Best Documentary is awarded to one of the documentary films from the section Competition Documentary, comprising of films with socio-political/social relevance, a minimum length of 60 minutes, an Austrian premiere and which were produced in 2022/23. The award goes to the director of the prize-winning film.

YAAAS! Competition

CROSSING EUROPE Award – YAAAS! Youth Jury
€ 3.000,- powered by VdFS – Verwertungsgesellschaft der Filmschaffenden

Winning Film: 
PETITES / LITTLE ONES
Julie Lerat-Gersant, FR 2022, 90 min
 
Special Mention: 
Milena Aboyan, DE 2023, 110 min

The YAAAS! Competition comprises European feature fiction films selected by the YAAAS! Young Programmers. The YAAAS! Youth Jury rates the seven films of the YAAAS! Competition and awards the prize to the director of the winning film.
 


MIOB New Vision Award

MIOB New Vision Award 2023
€ 3.000,- powered by MIOB | Moving Images Open Borders

Winning Film: 
BERDREYMI / BEAUTIFUL BEINGS
Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson, IS/DK/SE/NL/CZ 2022, 123 min

The members of the festival network Moving Images – Open Borders award the prize annually to an innovative European first or second feature-length film.

Competition Local Artists

CROSSING EUROPE Award - Local Artist
€ 5.000,- powered by Land Oberösterreich / Kultur

Winning Film: 
Isabella Friedl, IT 2022, 50 min

CROSSING EUROPE Award - Local Artist
€ 2.000,- Voucher The Grand Post – Audio & Picture Post Production

Winning Film: 
Selma Doborac, AT/DE 2023, 130 min

Special Mention:
Siegfried A. Fruhauf, AT 2023

With this competition section Crossing Europe presents recent short and feature films from Upper Austria. All the films/videos presented in the program section Competition Local Artists participate in the competition. The expert jury Competition Local Artists awards the prizes to the directors of the award-winning films.
 
CREATIVE REGION Music Video Award
€ 1.500,- powered by Creative Region Linz & Upper Austria

Winning Film:
Clemens Niel, AT 2022
 
The Competition Local Artists jury gives out the Creative Region Music Video Award powered by the Creative Region Linz & Upper Austria and Crossing Europe. Included in the competition are all music videos presented in the program section Competition Local Artists, in which directors and/or musicians live, work or study in Upper Austria.

 

All CROSSING EUROPE Award Winners 2004-2023