Press Release #3/25
Tribute – Silvia Luzi & Luca Bellino, Architecture and Society, New Festival Award & YAAAS! News
18.03.2025 // Tribute 2025: Silvia Luzi & Luca Bellino (IT)
In this press release, we are announcing this year’s Tribute program section, which is dedicated to the Italian directing duo Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino. The filmmakers’ oeuvre includes captivating documentary as well as experimental-fictional works. In addition to numerous other international prizes, they have also been presented with awards at Crossing Europe. Different forms of power, the possibility of revolt, and the role of the image as a weapon constitute key elements in the works of the duo. A program comprising seven works has been curated in collaboration with Luzi and Bellino. It forges both a creative and content-related bridge from their first to their most recent joint film and also provides a glimpse of their artistic influences through an additional film. Luzi and Bellino will be present in person in Linz and will provide insights into their cinematic approaches in a tribute talk and film discuss
ions.
Architecture and Society: And What Do You Do?
Part of the program for the 16th time and titled “And What Do You Do?” this year, the film series Architecture and Society presents documentary works dealing with, among other things, the inner motivations and passions of architects and cultural creatives.
MIRALLES, for instance, has Maria Mauti portraying the eponymous Spanish architect: Eleven variations of his work have found their way into this film providing an overview of his life’s work with powerful images and in a poetical style. The setting of POZOR, PADÁ SNG! / HANGING WITHOUT WALLS is the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava: Jana Durajová and Lena Kušnieriková follow Alexandra Kusá, the director of a museum whose renovation has been dragging along for two decades, and depict the complex challenges of this process. The other two films in the program will be announced at the program press conference on 17 April.
New Partner and Award Sponsor: University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria With the CROSSING EUROPE Award Local Artist – Young Talent
In 2025, the Crossing Europe Awards Ceremony will be enriched by the handing-out of a new prize in the context of the program section Competition Local Artists: The CROSSING EUROPE Award Local Artist – Young Talent is awarded to one of the works by students or persons in training and carries a cash prize of € 3,000. This award has been initiated and endowed by the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (FH Oberösterreich) in order to support young talents in the film and media industry and to make a valuable contribution to culture and society:
“Culture is one of the areas that are especially important to us, as it stands for entertainment as much as it stands for reflection and an aesthetic experience. Year after year, Crossing Europe gathers diverse groups of people in Linz and stands for inspiration as well as openness towards all of Europe. We identify with these values, which is why it is with great pleasure that this year for the first time, we are sponsoring the CROSSING EUROPE Award Local Artist – Young Talent.“
YAAAS! Youth Program: School Screenings and Announcement of First YAAAS! Competition Titles Plus New Workshop for Young Film Nerds
Two of the films presented in the YAAAS! Competition are offered as school screenings followed by talks with those film guests present: LA STORIA DEL FRANK E DELLA NINA (IT/CH 2024; d: Paola Randi) and CHRISTY (IE/GB 2025; d: Brendan Canty). WENN DU ANGST HAST NIMMST DU DEIN HERZ IN DEN MUND UND LÄCHELST / IF YOU ARE AFRAID YOU PUT YOUR HEART INTO YOUR MOUTH AND SMILE (AT 2025; d: Marie Luise Lehner), which recently received the TEDDY Jury Award at the Berlinale and is presented here in the program section Competition Local Artists, will be shown as an additional school screening.
To complement the practical part of the YAAAS! Youth Program, JUMP CUT EUROPE, a practice-oriented workshop on the language of film in cooperation with the Austrian Film Museum, will have its first edition this year. Guided by professionals and using European films as examples, young people will have the chance to discover and make practical use of film analytical theories.
All details on the YAAAS! Youth program can be found on www.crossingeurope.at/yaaas.
The logo, festival motif and press photos are available as usual on our website.
In this press release, we are announcing this year’s Tribute program section, which is dedicated to the Italian directing duo Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino. The filmmakers’ oeuvre includes captivating documentary as well as experimental-fictional works. In addition to numerous other international prizes, they have also been presented with awards at Crossing Europe. Different forms of power, the possibility of revolt, and the role of the image as a weapon constitute key elements in the works of the duo. A program comprising seven works has been curated in collaboration with Luzi and Bellino. It forges both a creative and content-related bridge from their first to their most recent joint film and also provides a glimpse of their artistic influences through an additional film. Luzi and Bellino will be present in person in Linz and will provide insights into their cinematic approaches in a tribute talk and film discuss
ions.
Architecture and Society: And What Do You Do?
Part of the program for the 16th time and titled “And What Do You Do?” this year, the film series Architecture and Society presents documentary works dealing with, among other things, the inner motivations and passions of architects and cultural creatives.
MIRALLES, for instance, has Maria Mauti portraying the eponymous Spanish architect: Eleven variations of his work have found their way into this film providing an overview of his life’s work with powerful images and in a poetical style. The setting of POZOR, PADÁ SNG! / HANGING WITHOUT WALLS is the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava: Jana Durajová and Lena Kušnieriková follow Alexandra Kusá, the director of a museum whose renovation has been dragging along for two decades, and depict the complex challenges of this process. The other two films in the program will be announced at the program press conference on 17 April.
New Partner and Award Sponsor: University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria With the CROSSING EUROPE Award Local Artist – Young Talent
In 2025, the Crossing Europe Awards Ceremony will be enriched by the handing-out of a new prize in the context of the program section Competition Local Artists: The CROSSING EUROPE Award Local Artist – Young Talent is awarded to one of the works by students or persons in training and carries a cash prize of € 3,000. This award has been initiated and endowed by the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (FH Oberösterreich) in order to support young talents in the film and media industry and to make a valuable contribution to culture and society:
“Culture is one of the areas that are especially important to us, as it stands for entertainment as much as it stands for reflection and an aesthetic experience. Year after year, Crossing Europe gathers diverse groups of people in Linz and stands for inspiration as well as openness towards all of Europe. We identify with these values, which is why it is with great pleasure that this year for the first time, we are sponsoring the CROSSING EUROPE Award Local Artist – Young Talent.“
YAAAS! Youth Program: School Screenings and Announcement of First YAAAS! Competition Titles Plus New Workshop for Young Film Nerds
Two of the films presented in the YAAAS! Competition are offered as school screenings followed by talks with those film guests present: LA STORIA DEL FRANK E DELLA NINA (IT/CH 2024; d: Paola Randi) and CHRISTY (IE/GB 2025; d: Brendan Canty). WENN DU ANGST HAST NIMMST DU DEIN HERZ IN DEN MUND UND LÄCHELST / IF YOU ARE AFRAID YOU PUT YOUR HEART INTO YOUR MOUTH AND SMILE (AT 2025; d: Marie Luise Lehner), which recently received the TEDDY Jury Award at the Berlinale and is presented here in the program section Competition Local Artists, will be shown as an additional school screening.
To complement the practical part of the YAAAS! Youth Program, JUMP CUT EUROPE, a practice-oriented workshop on the language of film in cooperation with the Austrian Film Museum, will have its first edition this year. Guided by professionals and using European films as examples, young people will have the chance to discover and make practical use of film analytical theories.
All details on the YAAAS! Youth program can be found on www.crossingeurope.at/yaaas.
The logo, festival motif and press photos are available as usual on our website.
Comprehensive press release HERE: