Press Releases 2025

Press Release #1/25

Local Artists Special: Edgar Honetschläger / YAAAS! Young Programmers 2025 / MIOB: Current Activities of the European Festival Network
03.02.2025
From 29 April to 4 May, Linz will turn into a European hot spot of cinema for the 22nd time: Crossing Europe Film Festival invites new voices as well as established important figures of film to bring their recent works to the provincial capital. In today’s press release, we can announce our first program highlight: The 2025 Local Artists Special is dedicated to the visual artist, filmmaker and environmental activist Edgar Honetschläger.

Press Releases 2024

Press Release #8/24 (in German only)

LET’S LIVE TOGETHER! Communities and Culture on Screen
28.08.2024
Eine Kooperation von Crossing Europe und Kulturverein Kino Ebensee
im Rahmen von Salzkammergut 2024.

Press Release #7/24

Festival Résumé 2024
06.05.2024
With 14,500 visitors, the previous year's level was almost maintained, which can still be considered a great success in view of a somewhat reduced supporting program and summer temperatures at the start of the festival. The number of visitors to the cinema remained almost stable. The audience and around 550 accredited professional guests used the opportunity for low-threshold engagement with around 100 film guests from Austria and abroad.

Press Release #7/24

Festival Résumé 2024
06.05.2024
With 14,500 visitors, the previous year's level was almost maintained, which can still be considered a great success in view of a somewhat reduced supporting program and summer temperatures at the start of the festival. The number of visitors to the cinema remained almost stable. The audience and around 550 accredited professional guests used the opportunity for low-threshold engagement with around 100 film guests from Austria and abroad.

Press Release #6/24

Festival Awards 2024
04.05.2024
The Awards Ceremony for the 21st edition of the Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz took place today in the Ursulinensaal at OK Linz, with Miriam Hie hosting the atmospheric evening.

Press Release #5/24

Festival Program 2024
17.04.2024
144 feature films, documentaries and short films from 41 countries reflect the diversity of Europe in its many facets and offer audiences the chance to rediscover the continent.

Press Release #5/24

Festival Program 2024
17.04.2024
144 feature films, documentaries and short films from 41 countries reflect the diversity of Europe in its many facets and offer audiences the chance to rediscover the continent.

Press Release #4/24

Opening Films & Closing Film / Tour d'Europe: Swiss Films Touring Europe / filmfriend.at: Crossing Europe Collection
01.04.2024
Crossing Europe Film Festival once again opens with four films that represent the variety of the festival program through their diversity in terms of content and artistry.

Press Release #3/24

Tribute: Aliona van der Horst (NL) | Architecture and Society: Transformation | YAAAS! School Screenings - YAAAS! Competition
19.03.2024
In today’s press release, we announce the Dutch documentary filmmaker Aliona van der Horst as this year’s guest in the Tribute program section, give a first look at the Architecture and Society program section and present the three films of the YAAAS! Competition, which will be offered as school screenings as part of the YAAAS! Youth Program.

Press Release #2/24

Festival Trailer: RAUSCHFARBEN | Working Worlds 2024 | Cinema Next Europe Club | GOLDEN BAG Window Display Contest
08.03.2024
In this press release, we are presenting this year’s festival trailer, for which we were able to recruit the Linz-born filmmaker Lorenz Tröbinger. We are also announcing the first two films from the Working Worlds program section that in 2024 centers on people in the tension between job and activism. 

Press Release #1/24

Local Artists Special 2024: Dagmar Schürrer | YAAAS! Young Programmers | "anton bruckner 2024": Crossing Europe Warm-up on 26 April with Die Phantastische
30.01.2024
In this press release, we are happy to announce our first festival highlight, the Local Artists Special, which in 2024 is dedicated to the internationally renowned digital artist Dagmar Schürrer. We are also presenting our YAAAS! Young Programmers 2024 and the warm-up event Die Phantastische before the festival and in the context of “anton bruckner 2024”.