John Carney's Oscar-winning Once and Abdellatif Kechiche's Cesar winner The Secret Of Grain will be the opening films at this year's fifth anniversary edition of the Crossing Europe Film Festival being held in Linz from April 22 - 27.
The first evening will also see Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza's Spanish horror film [Rec] kicking off a new sidebar called Night Sight dedicated to European genre films.
An international jury of Swiss writer/critic Catherine Ann Berger, Belgian critic/festival director Koen van Daele, Dutch film journalist Belinda van de Graaf, Bosnian filmmaker Srdan Vuletic, and Rastislav Steranka of MEDIA Desk Slovakia has been appointed to decide on the winners from this year's European Competition of ten debut and second films by young European directors.
Festival director Christine Dollhofer has selected the following films for the 2008 European Competition:
Moreover, the festival will be casting a particular spotlight on three Lithuanian documentary filmmakers Audrius Stonys, Arunas Matelis and Sharunas Bartas in the special tribute entitled Lithuanian Documents and presenting a selection of films from last year's edition of the Dokufest - International Documentary and Short Film Festival in Kosovo's Prizren.
At the same time, the European Panorama sidebar will feature Austrian premieres of such films as Bulgarian Andrey Paounov's Mosquito Problems And Other Stories, Luc Mollet's parody of the film business Death's Glamour, and jury member Srdan Vuletic's It's Hard To Be Nice which was the opening film at the Sarajevo Film Festival last year.
The first evening will also see Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza's Spanish horror film [Rec] kicking off a new sidebar called Night Sight dedicated to European genre films.
An international jury of Swiss writer/critic Catherine Ann Berger, Belgian critic/festival director Koen van Daele, Dutch film journalist Belinda van de Graaf, Bosnian filmmaker Srdan Vuletic, and Rastislav Steranka of MEDIA Desk Slovakia has been appointed to decide on the winners from this year's European Competition of ten debut and second films by young European directors.
Festival director Christine Dollhofer has selected the following films for the 2008 European Competition:
- Ain't Scared by Audrey Estrougo (France)
- Andalucia by Alain Gonis (France/Spain)
- Charly by Isild Le Besco (France)
- Correction by Thanos Anastopoulos (Greece)
- I Am From Titov Veles by Teona Strugar Mitevska (Macedonia/France/Belgium/Slovenia)
- Love And Other Crimes by Stefan Arsenijevic (Serbia/Germany/Austria/Slovenia)
- Shelter by Marco Simon Puccioni (Italy/France)
- Sooner Or Later by Ulrike von Ribbeck (Germany)
- Unrelated by Joanna Hogg (UK)
- Vogelfrei by Janis Kalejs, Janis Putnins, Anna Viduleja, and Gatis Smits (Latvia)
Moreover, the festival will be casting a particular spotlight on three Lithuanian documentary filmmakers Audrius Stonys, Arunas Matelis and Sharunas Bartas in the special tribute entitled Lithuanian Documents and presenting a selection of films from last year's edition of the Dokufest - International Documentary and Short Film Festival in Kosovo's Prizren.
At the same time, the European Panorama sidebar will feature Austrian premieres of such films as Bulgarian Andrey Paounov's Mosquito Problems And Other Stories, Luc Mollet's parody of the film business Death's Glamour, and jury member Srdan Vuletic's It's Hard To Be Nice which was the opening film at the Sarajevo Film Festival last year.
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