Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz has devoted its program to idiosyncratic, contemporary and socio-political auteur cinema from Europe. Over the six days of the festival, Crossing Europe offers international film and press representatives and guests of the film industry and the Austrian audience a program with between 120 and 140 outstanding, hand-picked fiction films and documentaries. Despite changes in media consumption and reception behavior, film festivals still play an important role: in bringing new positions and developments in film art to a wider public for discussion, curating programs and films that, all too often and despite international festival success, have no place in cinemas for economic reasons, and giving them an audience. This also includes presenting films from a young generation of directors.
