News around Crossing Europe 2025
The 12 short films nominated for the MIOB IN SHORTS Audience Award 2025 will be presented in two programs in Linz with the audience voting directly in the cinema.
MIOB IN SHORTS 1, 89 min
01.05.2025, 11:30 Movie 3
MIOB IN SHORTS 2, 87 min
01.05.2025, 13:30 Movie 3
The MIOB NEW VISION Award 2025-winning film will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on 3 May.
MIOB IN SHORTS 2, 87 min
01.05.2025, 13:30 Movie 3
The MIOB NEW VISION Award 2025-winning film will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on 3 May.
MIOB NEW VISION AWARD WINNING FILM 2025
04.05.2025, 19:00 City 1
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WHAT IS MIOB?
The passion for young cinema from Europe and the desire to provide an appropriate platform for it: This is how the European festival network MOVING IMAGES - OPEN BORDERS (MIOB) was born. Initiated by Crossing Europe in 2017, it brings together the Festival de Sevilla (ES), European Film Festival Palić (RS), Les Arcs European Film Festival (FR), Scanorama European Film Forum (LT), Trieste Film Festival (IT) and FilmFestival Cottbus (DE), seven film festivals with a European focus, and has since established itself as a prime example of international festival cooperation. The cooperation takes place on an artistic, organizational and technological level and includes numerous activities such as workshops, the development of joint innovation tools (e.g. Green Charter for Film Festivals, cross-festival audience survey) and the organization of two film awards.
The regular exchange between the partner festivals picked up speed in 2019. Relevant topics include intensifying the promotion, representation and distribution of European filmmaking, joint marketing activities, workshops, training sessions and regular meetings with the aim of taking immediate and sustainable measures within the European festival map. MIOB is 100% dedicated to European creative filmmaking and gives all participating partner festivals the opportunity to benefit from the exchange of experience on an organizational and programmatic level in a long-term and practical manner. Since autumn 2020, MIOB has also been supported by the EU's Creative Europe MEDIA program.
Sustainable festival work (a two-year monitoring process by a professional “green consultant” will start with the 2025 edition of the festival) and the promotion of accessibility will be among the focal points of work in the coming months, as will the topics of audience building and mental health in the cultural sector.
You can find more information about MIOB at miob.info
PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES (a selection)
MIOB competitions
Every year, MIOB organizes two international competitions for current European short and feature-length films. The MIOB NEW VISION AWARD (€ 3,000; feature-length films) recognizes a first or second European feature or documentary film that deserves wider international recognition. It will be awarded again in 2025 as part of the Crossing Europe Award Ceremony, the selection will be made by an international jury: Marta Balaga (PL), Annina Wettstein (CH), Neil Young (GB/AT)
The nominated films for the short film Audience Award MIOB IN SHORTS 2025 (€ 1.000) will be shown for the first time this year in the European Panorama Special program section, with a live voting by the Linz audience. The votes of visitors at the film festivals in Cottbus (November 2024) and Palić (July) will also be counted.
Sustainable festival work - Green Charter for Film Festivals & Green Consultant
As organizers and cultural decision-makers, film festivals have a responsibility to raise awareness of social issues among audiences and the industry. Climate change has become the world's most important challenge, prompting festival network members to change their own practices to reduce the environmental impact of the film festivals we organize. For this reason, the MIOB network has developed a charter for sustainable festival work to create a common assessment basis for film festivals. This aims to define internal processes of festival organization and methods of data collection that are necessary to design strategies and define goals to be achieved in the coming years. The Green Charter is seen as the first step in a more general collective movement within the film festival landscape.
Further information on the MIOB Green Charter for Film Festivals Award can be found on the Green Charter website.
LAB of Cultural, Creative and Festival Journalism
The LAB of cultural, creative and festival journalism is a training initiative that takes place across Europe over several months. The workshop for young cultural and film journalists and critics was held for the fourth time in 2024. A group of young film critics and journalists were given the opportunity to gain practical experience and complete workshops at the MIOB festival partners in France and Italy.
Audience Survey (2024-2026 - ongoing project)
MIOB co-designed and commissioned a comprehensive, cross-festival audience survey, which was conducted at six MIOB partner festivals across Europe in 2024. The aim was to obtain precise (demographic) data on audience behavior and structure on the one hand, and to open up a dialogue with visitors and give them the opportunity to share their festival experiences and express wishes and suggestions for improvement on the other. In the medium term, the results should serve as a catalyst for audience building. The findings were evaluated and incorporated into the planning of the 2025 festival edition. Based on the insights gained, another audience survey will be conducted in 2026.
The passion for young cinema from Europe and the desire to provide an appropriate platform for it: This is how the European festival network MOVING IMAGES - OPEN BORDERS (MIOB) was born. Initiated by Crossing Europe in 2017, it brings together the Festival de Sevilla (ES), European Film Festival Palić (RS), Les Arcs European Film Festival (FR), Scanorama European Film Forum (LT), Trieste Film Festival (IT) and FilmFestival Cottbus (DE), seven film festivals with a European focus, and has since established itself as a prime example of international festival cooperation. The cooperation takes place on an artistic, organizational and technological level and includes numerous activities such as workshops, the development of joint innovation tools (e.g. Green Charter for Film Festivals, cross-festival audience survey) and the organization of two film awards.
The regular exchange between the partner festivals picked up speed in 2019. Relevant topics include intensifying the promotion, representation and distribution of European filmmaking, joint marketing activities, workshops, training sessions and regular meetings with the aim of taking immediate and sustainable measures within the European festival map. MIOB is 100% dedicated to European creative filmmaking and gives all participating partner festivals the opportunity to benefit from the exchange of experience on an organizational and programmatic level in a long-term and practical manner. Since autumn 2020, MIOB has also been supported by the EU's Creative Europe MEDIA program.
Sustainable festival work (a two-year monitoring process by a professional “green consultant” will start with the 2025 edition of the festival) and the promotion of accessibility will be among the focal points of work in the coming months, as will the topics of audience building and mental health in the cultural sector.
You can find more information about MIOB at miob.info
PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES (a selection)
MIOB competitions
Every year, MIOB organizes two international competitions for current European short and feature-length films. The MIOB NEW VISION AWARD (€ 3,000; feature-length films) recognizes a first or second European feature or documentary film that deserves wider international recognition. It will be awarded again in 2025 as part of the Crossing Europe Award Ceremony, the selection will be made by an international jury: Marta Balaga (PL), Annina Wettstein (CH), Neil Young (GB/AT)
The nominated films for the short film Audience Award MIOB IN SHORTS 2025 (€ 1.000) will be shown for the first time this year in the European Panorama Special program section, with a live voting by the Linz audience. The votes of visitors at the film festivals in Cottbus (November 2024) and Palić (July) will also be counted.
Sustainable festival work - Green Charter for Film Festivals & Green Consultant
As organizers and cultural decision-makers, film festivals have a responsibility to raise awareness of social issues among audiences and the industry. Climate change has become the world's most important challenge, prompting festival network members to change their own practices to reduce the environmental impact of the film festivals we organize. For this reason, the MIOB network has developed a charter for sustainable festival work to create a common assessment basis for film festivals. This aims to define internal processes of festival organization and methods of data collection that are necessary to design strategies and define goals to be achieved in the coming years. The Green Charter is seen as the first step in a more general collective movement within the film festival landscape.
The 2025 festival edition marks the start of a two-year monitoring process by a professional “Green Consultant". We are delighted to have found Brigitte Bidovec, an expert with many years of festival experience in the field of sustainability and social responsibility!
Promoting accessibility will also be a focus of our work in the coming months, as will the topics of audience building and mental health in the cultural sector.
LAB of Cultural, Creative and Festival Journalism
The LAB of cultural, creative and festival journalism is a training initiative that takes place across Europe over several months. The workshop for young cultural and film journalists and critics was held for the fourth time in 2024. A group of young film critics and journalists were given the opportunity to gain practical experience and complete workshops at the MIOB festival partners in France and Italy.
Audience Survey (2024-2026 - ongoing project)
MIOB co-designed and commissioned a comprehensive, cross-festival audience survey, which was conducted at six MIOB partner festivals across Europe in 2024. The aim was to obtain precise (demographic) data on audience behavior and structure on the one hand, and to open up a dialogue with visitors and give them the opportunity to share their festival experiences and express wishes and suggestions for improvement on the other. In the medium term, the results should serve as a catalyst for audience building. The findings were evaluated and incorporated into the planning of the 2025 festival edition. Based on the insights gained, another audience survey will be conducted in 2026.
CROSSING EUROPE FILM FESTIVAL LINZ
www.crossingeurope.at
EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL PALIC
www.palicfilmfestival.com
FILM FESTIVAL COTTBUS
www.filmfestivalcottbus.de
LES ARCS EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL
www.lesarcs-filmfest.com
SCANORAMA FILM FESTIVAL – EUROPEAN FILM FORUM
www.scanorama.lt
SEVILLE EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL
www.festivalcinesevilla.eu
TRIESTE FILM FESTIVAL – ALPE ADRIA CINEMA
www.triestefilmfestival.it
