Since 2014, Kassel Dokfest has been portraying an international film festival every year to connect with other similarly orientated festivals that put together their programs with the same passion.
Since 2004, Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz, Austria's second largest international film festival, has been dedicated to showcasing the current cinematic work of a young generation of European filmmakers: films that stand out for their unconventional, courageous, and sometimes controversial artistic approaches or new narrative forms. With a hand-picked selection of around 140 feature films, documentaries, and short films, Crossing Europe aims to spark discussion about different artistic positions in film and to adequately present the diversity of European cinema in the cinema as a social space. Diversity in all its forms should find a place in the program in order to do justice to the diversity that defines this continent. Films about people in different regions of Europe and the stories that connect and divide them, with different collective identities and cultures – European realities and utopias on the big screen.
The short film programme, curated especially for Kassel, comprises four remarkable works from the Local Artists section of the 2024 festival programme, each with its own unique artistic signature that will resonate with audiences for a long time to come.
WHERE DOES THE REST OF THE WORLD BEGIN? Dagmar Schürrer’s answer may be somewhere out there: in the infinite ocean of possibilities – in the symbiotic interaction of cinema, the art space, and digital space. (Sebastian Höglinger)
… >>>In the form of a cinematic memorial to his grandmother Fatma Selek, who came to Austria in 1973, Tolga Karaaslan recounts the personal story of his family’s migration. (Tolga Karaaslan)
… >>>Cyberpunk images and the noise of machine learning algorithms produce a dystopian narrative that deals with our present by employing past visions of the future. (Rainer Kohlberger)
… >>>Just as the film’s timewise progression is counted by a clock, production in the factories runs day and night.... (Ulla Rossek, sixpackfilm)
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