Press Release #2/25
Festival Trailer 2025: CYBER SWAMP by Dagmar Schürrer / Working Worlds: Guides on the Path
26.02.2025 // Festival Trailer 2025: CYBER SWAMP – online today
For the 2025 festival trailer, Crossing Europe was able to recruit the renowned media artist Dagmar Schürrer, to whom a Special was dedicated in last year’s edition’s Local Artists program section. A native of Upper Austria, she lives in Berlin and works in the field of expanded animation as well as with extended reality (XR) technologies. Her works have been presented at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Louvre in Paris, the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, and the Diagonale in Graz, among others. An artistic associate and workshop instructor for XR development at the University of Applied Sciences Berlin since 2018, she became a member of the board of the medienkunstverein Berlin in 2021.
The festival trailer will be used to promote the festival on the internet, on social media, and in Austrian arthouse cinemas.
Working Worlds: Guides on the Path
A fixture of Crossing Europe’s program for the 22nd time this year, the program section Working Worlds and its four documentaries once again focus on real working conditions in present-day Europe. Titled Guides on the Path, the series in 2025 deals with people starting their adult or professional lives from a more difficult position than the majority of society – and with those who lend them professional support through care, assistance or education, respectively. At the same time, it also takes a look at European countries where this professional field is not to be taken for granted.
AZ ÉLETED NÉLKÜLEM / YOUR LIFE WITHOUT ME (HU/SE 2024) by Anna Rubi, for instance, portrays mothers in Hungary who do everything in their power to enable their severely disabled children to have a good life, and who fight for more support from the government. Heidrun Holzfeind, whose works have been shown at Crossing Europe on several occasions, accompanies students and educators of an integrative pre-vocational school in DER OKTOPUS HAT DEN MOND ZERSTÖRT / AN OCTOPUS DESTROYED THE MOON (AT/DE 2024). Also previously featured at Crossing Europe, Daniel Abma uses IM PRINZIP FAMILIE / THE FAMILY APPROACH (DE 2024) to let us glimpse into the everyday life of a living group in a rural area, where professional caregivers and five boys between the ages of seven and fourteen live together under one roof. And for LOXY (GR 2024; directed by: Dimitris Zahos, Thanasis Kafetzis), a dream comes true when she is the first actress with Down syndrome to be hired as an ensemble member at the National Theatre of Greece.
The program section was curated by Lina Dinkla (DOK Leipzig) and Katharina Franck. With kind support by AK Oberösterreich/Kultur.
THE FILMS OF THE WORKING WORLDS SECTION:
AZ ÉLETED NÉLKÜLEM | YOUR LIFE WITHOUT ME (HU/SE 2024)
directed by: Anna Rubi, 73 min, documentary / Austrian premiere
DER OKTOPUS HAT DEN MOND ZERSTÖRT | AN OCTOPUS DESTROYED THE MOON (AT/DE 2024)
directed by: Heidrun Holzfeind, 90 min, documentary / Austrian premiere
IM PRINZIP FAMILIE | THE FAMILY APPROACH (DE 2024)
directed by: Daniel Abma, 91 min, documentary / Austrian premiere
LOXY (GR 2024)
directed by: Dimitris Zahos, Thanasis Kafetzis, 87 min, documentary / Austrian premiere
The logo, festival motif and press photos are available as usual on our website.
For the 2025 festival trailer, Crossing Europe was able to recruit the renowned media artist Dagmar Schürrer, to whom a Special was dedicated in last year’s edition’s Local Artists program section. A native of Upper Austria, she lives in Berlin and works in the field of expanded animation as well as with extended reality (XR) technologies. Her works have been presented at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Louvre in Paris, the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, and the Diagonale in Graz, among others. An artistic associate and workshop instructor for XR development at the University of Applied Sciences Berlin since 2018, she became a member of the board of the medienkunstverein Berlin in 2021.
The festival trailer will be used to promote the festival on the internet, on social media, and in Austrian arthouse cinemas.
Working Worlds: Guides on the Path
A fixture of Crossing Europe’s program for the 22nd time this year, the program section Working Worlds and its four documentaries once again focus on real working conditions in present-day Europe. Titled Guides on the Path, the series in 2025 deals with people starting their adult or professional lives from a more difficult position than the majority of society – and with those who lend them professional support through care, assistance or education, respectively. At the same time, it also takes a look at European countries where this professional field is not to be taken for granted.
AZ ÉLETED NÉLKÜLEM / YOUR LIFE WITHOUT ME (HU/SE 2024) by Anna Rubi, for instance, portrays mothers in Hungary who do everything in their power to enable their severely disabled children to have a good life, and who fight for more support from the government. Heidrun Holzfeind, whose works have been shown at Crossing Europe on several occasions, accompanies students and educators of an integrative pre-vocational school in DER OKTOPUS HAT DEN MOND ZERSTÖRT / AN OCTOPUS DESTROYED THE MOON (AT/DE 2024). Also previously featured at Crossing Europe, Daniel Abma uses IM PRINZIP FAMILIE / THE FAMILY APPROACH (DE 2024) to let us glimpse into the everyday life of a living group in a rural area, where professional caregivers and five boys between the ages of seven and fourteen live together under one roof. And for LOXY (GR 2024; directed by: Dimitris Zahos, Thanasis Kafetzis), a dream comes true when she is the first actress with Down syndrome to be hired as an ensemble member at the National Theatre of Greece.
The program section was curated by Lina Dinkla (DOK Leipzig) and Katharina Franck. With kind support by AK Oberösterreich/Kultur.
THE FILMS OF THE WORKING WORLDS SECTION:
AZ ÉLETED NÉLKÜLEM | YOUR LIFE WITHOUT ME (HU/SE 2024)
directed by: Anna Rubi, 73 min, documentary / Austrian premiere
DER OKTOPUS HAT DEN MOND ZERSTÖRT | AN OCTOPUS DESTROYED THE MOON (AT/DE 2024)
directed by: Heidrun Holzfeind, 90 min, documentary / Austrian premiere
IM PRINZIP FAMILIE | THE FAMILY APPROACH (DE 2024)
directed by: Daniel Abma, 91 min, documentary / Austrian premiere
LOXY (GR 2024)
directed by: Dimitris Zahos, Thanasis Kafetzis, 87 min, documentary / Austrian premiere
The logo, festival motif and press photos are available as usual on our website.
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