Since 2004, the CROSSING EUROPE Film Festival Linz has devoted its program each year in April 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 (nearly 600 accredited festival participants) and the local cinema audience a program with approximately 130 outstanding, hand-picked films, documentaries and short films