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CROSSING EUROPE 2021

Al via la 18ma edizione del Festival Crossing Europe di Linz

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- L'evento austriaco, che si svolgerà sia nelle sale cinematografiche che online, presenterà 123 titoli e assegnerà un totale di € 30.000 in premi finanziari in cinque sezioni competitive

Al via la 18ma edizione del Festival Crossing Europe di Linz
Beginning di Dea Kulumbegashvili

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The Crossing Europe Film Festival in Linz kicks off its 18th edition today, and it will take place both in cinemas and online until 6 June. Traditionally focusing on first and second films by European directors, the festival has five competitive strands, and its backbone, the Fiction Competition, includes ten films: the Toronto hit Beginning [+leggi anche:
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by Georgia's Dea Kulumbegashvili; the Venice International Film Critics’ Week Grand Prize winner Ghosts [+leggi anche:
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by Turkey's Azra Deniz Okyay; Spanish director Guillermo Benet's Seville entry Los inocentes [+leggi anche:
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; Janis Rafa's Dutch-Greek co-production Kala Azar [+leggi anche:
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, which world-premiered at Rotterdam; Christos Nikou's Venice Orizzonti hit Apples [+leggi anche:
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; Serbian helmer Ivan Ikić's Giornate degli Autori prizewinner Oasis [+leggi anche:
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; the Dutch-Spanish co-production Last Days of Spring [+leggi anche:
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, which earned Isabel Lamberti the New Directors Award at San Sebastián; Magnus von Horn's Cannes label title Sweat [+leggi anche:
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; and two Berlinale Panorama titles – Siamak Etemadi's Pari [+leggi anche:
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from 2020 and Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas' The World After Us [+leggi anche:
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from 2021. The ten films will be competing for jury and audience awards, each worth €5,000.

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The 12 titles in the Documentary Competition will be vying for the €5,000 Social Awareness Award, and these include Alina Gorlova's IDFA prizewinner This Rain Will Never Stop [+leggi anche:
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, Salomé Jashi's Sundance hit Taming the Garden [+leggi anche:
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, Volkan Üce's CPH:DOX crowdpleaser All-In [+leggi anche:
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, and Asia Dér and Sári Haragonics' Hot Docs pick Her Mothers [+leggi anche:
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, as well as the Berlinale entries Garage People [+leggi anche:
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by Natalija Yefimkina and Courage [+leggi anche:
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by Aliaksei Paluyan. For the full list, please click here.

The YAAAS! Competition, which is part of a wider, youth-orientated educational programme aiming to produce films by internationally mixed teams, includes six pictures ranging from Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh's Gagarin [+leggi anche:
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to Ronnie Sandahl's Tigers [+leggi anche:
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, which will be jousting for the €3,000 YAAAS! Youth Jury Award. The full list of films can be found here.

Crossing Europe continues to lend its support to filmmakers from Upper Austria through the Local Artists Competition, in which 52 short films and video works will vie for three prizes worth €9,000 in total. The list of titles is here.

The €3,000 MIOB New Vision Award, given out by members of the Moving Images Open Borders festival network to an innovative European feature-length film, has already been announced, and the winner is Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time [+leggi anche:
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by Hungary's Lili Horvát. This film will be shown in the European Panorama Fiction section along with 12 other titles, listed here. Other non-competitive sidebars include European Panorama Documentary, Working Worlds, Architecture and Society, and Night Sight.

Finally, this year's tribute is dedicated to Slovak filmmaker Ivan Ostrochovský and will present seven films that he has directed and/or produced, including Servants [+leggi anche:
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and Velvet Terrorists [+leggi anche:
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