GOLDEN BAG Window Display Contest

Crossing Europe has hosted an annual window display contest for local shops since 2014, in which local shops, restaurants, salons and ateliers take part in creating a Crossing Europe festival atmosphere in Linz. With creative and uniquely decorated window displays, Linz gets ready for the festival week. In the week before the festival, the displays in Linz become small stages where various ideas and mottos relating to film are approached in an artistic way. Crossing Europe posters, postcards, bags, displays and more are used by the shops to create displays that highlight the festival throughout the city, welcoming international and regional audiences to the festival.
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Here's how it works!

Conditions:

  • Placement of a GOLDEN BAG display stand
  • At least 3 Crossing Europe bags and 3 other Crossing Europe promotional items must be visible in your display area
  • Shop windows must be decorated from 13 April until at least 3 May
  •  for participation until 9 April

Advantages of participating in our display window contest:

  • Media presence and promotion, among others through our partners OÖNachrichten and Linzer City Ring and the Crossing Europe social media channels
  • Invitation to the Golden Bag Evening with drinks, award drawing and free film screening as part of Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz 2026

For questions and support in obtaining Crossing Europe promotional materials, simply send a message to .

 

 

Prizes for participating stores 

Golden Bag Design Award

This prize is awarded by a jury

  • 500 pcs. Europack paper bags (Roma model in the design of your choice)
  • Trumer Hopfenbox
  • 4 Crossing Europe cinema vouchers
  • 1 Crossing Europe 2026 Festival Pass + 1 bottle of Prosecco for the decorator

Golden Bag Shop Award

This prize will be determined by drawing on the Golden Bag evening; from all participating stores that meet the eligibility requirements
 
  • 250 pcs. Europack paper bags (Torino model in the design of your choice)
  • Trumer Hopfenbox
  • 4 Crossing Europe cinema vouchers
  • 1 Crossing Europe 2027 Festival Pass + 1 bottle of Prosecco for the decorator

All stores participating in the contest and fulfilling the conditions of participation will receive 2 Crossing Europe cinema vouchers and a small gift for the decorator.


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GOLDEN BAG Winners 2026


Golden Bag Design Award 2026
Creazy Design (Atrium City Center, Mozartstraße 7)

 


Golden Bag Shop Award 2026
CARLA - Second Hand-Shop (Baumbachstraße 3)
 
We would like to thank all participating shops! You can find photos of this year's display designs on our flickr.
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Participating Stores 2026

Anton Baumgartner GmbH, Landstrasse 15a
Bellissima la Moda, Spittelwiese 7
Bücher & Mehr, Klosterstraße 12
CARLA Linz - Caritas Second-Hand-Shop, Baumbachstraße 3
Creazy Design, Mozartstraße 7
Death Positiv, Magazingasse 5
Dr. Gumpelmayer Augenoptik, Landstraße 49
Druck & Faden, Bethlehemstraße 1d
DurchReise by Maria Morro, Graben 21
ECO - Ethically Correct Outfits, Rainerstraße 16
Face To Face finest beauty, Hauptplatz 14
Freudig, Promenade 29
Fürstelberger, Promenade 7
GEA, Graben 25
Haarschneider Franz, Herrenstraße 8
Haut und Seele, Herrenstraße 18/8

In the Box, Herrenstraße 2
Kinderkram, Volksgartenstraße 28
Kleider machen Leute, Herrenstraße 14
Lederwaren Hackl, Landstraße 24
Lofthaar, Hafferlstrasse 3
Morawa, Hauptplatz 21
Papiertiger, Pfarrplatz 17
schöner reisen mit Wiesinger, Biegung/Kaarstraße 1
Schulz Elektrotechnik, Altstadt 20
Schutzengel Apotheke Linz, Herrenstrasse 2
Teekönig, Bethlehemstraße 1d
trails - mehr als laufen, Nestroystraße 4
Voix, Altstadt 28 
Weltladen Linz, Pfarrplatz 8
xiling, Altstadt 17
ZERUM Lifestyle GmbH Linz, Herrenstraße 8

WINNERS 2025
Golden Bag Design Award - VOIX
Golden Bag Shop Award - Moxie
 
WINNERS 2024
Golden Bag Design Award - Bücher & Mehr
Golden Bag Shop Award - Rumetshofer Adelheid

WINNERS 2023
Golden Bag Design Award - GIOIA CUBO
Golden Bag Shop Award - Buchhandlung MERITAS
 
WINNERS 2022
1. Preis - BÜCHER & MEHR
2. Preis - KLEIDER MACHEN LEUTE
3. Preis - INTHEBOX

WINNERS 2021
1. Preis - ZERUM LIFESTYLE
2. Preis - HAUT UND SEELE

3. Preis - DURCHREISE

2020 - Canceled due to COVID-19

WINNERS 2019
1. Preis - BEGEGNUNGSZENTRUM ELIA
2. Preis - DURCHREISE
3. Preis - KAYSOO

WINNERS 2018
1. Preis - GÖTTIN DES GLÜCKS 
2. Preis - PICCOLO MODA  
3. Preis - DODS - FROZEN WONDERLAND   
4. Preis - SISI-TOP  
5. Preis (ex aequo) - KLEIDER MACHEN LEUTE und GEKOWINNERS 2017
1. Preis - ZERUM LIFESTYLE
2. Preis - CARLA SECOND HAND
3. Preis - GÖTTIN DES GLÜCKS 
4. Preis - LA STORIA MODA ITALIANA

5. Preis - WILD THING LIFESTYLE STORE  

WINNERS 2016
1. Preis - MARIPOSA - RAUM MORPHOSE 
2. Preis - HAARSCHNEIDER FRANZ
3. Preis - XILING 
4. Preis - KLEIDER MACHEN LEUTE  
5. Preis - ANTIQUARIAT UNDERCOVER G54

WINNERS 2015
1. Preis - GOLDMARI
2. Preis - ANTIQUARIAT UNDERCOVER G54
3. Preis - MODEHAUS STEINER 1914

WINNERS 2014
1. Preis - KLEIDER MACHEN LEUTE


 

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