The Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz, Austria's third-largest film gathering, will for the 16th time focus on first or second feature films by European directors in its Competition Fiction section, unspooling from 25-30 April.

Out of the total of 149 films set to screen at the festival, the main competition strand features 11 titles, all of which will be having their Austrian premieres in Linz. The line-up consists of Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyńska's Cannes Critics’ Week title Fugue [+lire aussi :
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interview : Agnieszka Smoczyńska
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interview : Roman Bondarchuk
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interview : Martina Apostolova
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interview : Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
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interview : Marius Olteanu
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interview : Rosanne Pel
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interview : Ali Vatansever
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interview : Simon Jaquemet
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interview : Mark Jenkin
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The Competition Documentary also features 11 films that depict the current state of Europe on a social, political and economic level, but also in relation to contemporary history. The selection includes Anja Komfel's Chris the Swiss [+lire aussi :
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interview : Anja Kofmel
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fiche film], as well as two world premieres: Pierre Goetschel's The Last of Them (France), and Friederike Berat and Ulrike Ertl's We Did What Had to Be Done (Germany). For the full list, please click here.

The newly established YAAAS! Competition will present six feature films aimed at and selected by young people (including Winter Flies [+lire aussi :
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interview : Olmo Omerzu
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interview : Marta Bergman
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interview : Darko Štante
interview : Timon Sturbej
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In addition to the traditional non-competitive European Panorama Fiction and Documentary sections (see the line-ups here), the Working Worlds thematic segment this year deals with the somewhat thorny topic of “women and work” under the title Independent Women. 

This year's Tribute section is dedicated to Catalan filmmaker Jaime Rosales, while the Spotlight sidebar focuses on a leading female figure in European cinema for the third time. After Yeşim Ustaoğlu and Ada Solomon, Linz has chosen Albanian filmmaker Iris Elezi, a co-founder of the Albanian Cinema Project initiative intended to preserve the national film heritage, who will showcase a mix of historical and current films from her country. 

The festival will open with five films in parallel: Elezi's own Bota [+lire aussi :
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interview : Iris Elezi
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interview : Jaime Rosales
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interview : Elliott Crosset Hove
interview : Ulaa Salim
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interview : Nora Fingscheidt
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interview : Labina Mitevska
interview : Teona Strugar Mitevska
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