After the corona-related cancellation in 2020 and a reduced program in the previous year, everything should go back to normal at this year’s edition of “Crossing Europe”. “We want a nice, cool and healthy festival. Finally, the film experience can be enjoyed again,” said festival directors Sabine Gottesroither and Katharina Riedler at a press conference on Wednesday. The third-largest Austrian film festival after the Viennale and Diagonale (budget: 750,000 euros) is showing 148 feature and documentary films from 34 countries from April 27 to May 2 in the Moviemento, City-Kino, Kulturquartier and Central venues. The focus is on works dealing with war, flight, migration and integration.
The 19th festival edition will be opened on April 27 by Nicolette Krebitz’s Berlinale contribution “AEIOU – The Fast Alphabet of Love”, the story of an unusual love between a 17-year-old handbag thief and the aging actress Anna. This will be played by Ottensheim native Sophie Rois, who will also be present as a guest star.
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Also at the start, the documentary “Journey To The Sun” by Susana de Sousa Dias deals with a little-known episode in post-war history. It shows the fate of children who were “sent” to Portugal from bombed-out Austria after the end of the Second World War. The trailer:
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Another film on the opening night is presented by Belgian director Fabrice du Welz – to whom this year’s five-film “Tribute” section is dedicated – his elegant thriller “Inexorable” about a neurotic author with writer’s block. The 49-year-old will answer questions at a talk on April 30th.
Horror, Plato and Everyman
Choosing the right thing from the variety on offer is difficult. However, fans of cultivated horror should not miss the Finnish horror shocker “Hatching” – a young girl finds a strange egg in the forest and hatches a deadly creature. Here is a first insight:
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The same applies to the wild French satire “Some Like It Rare” about a vegan-murdering butcher couple.
The Philipp Hochmair portrait “Everyman and I” and the documentary “Young Plato” about an idealistic school principal in Belfast seem less horrible, but no less exciting. This year’s graduation film “Everyone is talking about the weather” already caused a stir at the Berlinale in spring. In Linz, Annika Pinske’s debut film about inner-German Ossi-Wessi sensitivities celebrates its Austrian premiere on May 2nd. The trailer:
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Back after the Corona break, the musical “Nightline” is on the OK square and in the OK deck.
online tickets are available from Thursday at crossingeurope.at.
Source: Nachrichten
