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Cash and non-cash prizes totaling around 26,500 euros will be awarded in four competition sections, plus 3,000 euros from the New Vision Awards of the MIOB festival network.
„Europe, we need to talk“
“Europe, we need to talk” is the title given to the festival this year. Thematically, many of the films revolve around war, but in terms of organization they return to the time before the pandemic – without coronavirus measures, but with an additional location and a supplementary streaming offer. This year’s tribute guest is not a director or producer, but an actress: Angeliki Papoulia, who has appeared on the screen at Crossing Europe time and again over the years.
Opening with “20,000 species of bees”
At the opening, Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s contribution to the Berlinale, “20,000 especies de abejas/20,000 species of bees” will be shown, whose eight-year-old leading actress Sofia Otero received a Silver Bear for her acting performance. In the coming-of-age film, she plays a child who is searching for her gender identity and finally finds a new name for herself during a holiday in the Basque Country – because neither the birth name Aitor nor the nickname Coco were ever appropriate .
“Shidniy Front/Eastern front” about war in Ukraine
Also shown on the opening night is the documentary “Shidniy Front/Eastern front” by Vitaly Mansky and Yevhen Tiarenko about the war in Ukraine. For several months, Titarenko joined with the camera a group of paramedics recovering the wounded on the Ukrainian-Russian front. His partner Witaly Mansky, who also sits on the Crossing Europe competition jury, is a Ukrainian-born, Russian documentary filmmaker who increasingly distanced himself from the regime under President Vladimir Putin and has lived and worked in Latvia since the annexation of Crimea.
From the Greek financial crisis to witchcraft narratives
Sylla Tzoumerka’s drama “A Blast” is set against the backdrop of the aftermath of the Greek financial crisis of the 2010s. From one day to the next, Maria decides to run away. She drops everything and flees to the front. This year’s Crossing Europe tribute is dedicated to the leading actress Angeliki Papoulia. The opener in the night vision is “Svetlonoc/Nightsiren”, in which Tereza Nvotova breaks the classic witch narrative: Decades after a family tragedy, Sarlota returns to her small Slovakian hometown, where a poisonous cocktail of patriarchal structures and blind superstition has created a climate of misogyny.
Overview of current filmmaking in Europe
In addition, the festival offers an overview of current filmmaking in Europe in the “Panorama” section, and in the Local Artists section of that of local artists. This year’s program section “Architecture and Society” has the motto “Pretty Ugly”, the “Work Environments” operate under the heading “Art is also just a job”. The Youth Track YAAAS! In cooperation with the Youki International Youth Media Festival, presents a close-up in which young filmmakers give the audience an insight into their work. With live acts, the Nightline on the OK deck ensures a party atmosphere during the festival.
Films can also be seen via stream
If you can no longer get tickets for the cinema or are prevented from attending, you can watch at home again. Crossing Europe @home offers festival films on Kino-VOD-Club (May 1 to May 31), filmfriend (since April 4), Flimmit (from April 26) and on ÖBB-Railnet (May 1 to June 30) .
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