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The Lab of Cultural, Creative and Festival Journalism | Articles from Crossing Europe 2026

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→ Articles, reviews and interviews written during the Crossing Europe film festival Linz 2026 by the participants:

Isolation and the Postmodern Condition: Review of Traveling Warrior - Aaron Geraghty

A Mountain Odyssey: Review of Bearcave - Andromachi Arvaniti

Interview with Stergios Dinopoulos and Krysianna B Papadakis, directors of Bearcave - Andromachi Arvaniti

Alienated Society, Distanced Viewer: Review of Don’t Let the Sun - Bertalan Timar

Family Portrait Without a Landscape: Review of No Ghosts on Good Street - Ece Ceren Yalçın

This Is Not a Didactic Documentary: Review of This Is Not a French Film - Ece Ceren Yalçın

Harbour, Labour, Neighbour: Review of The Thing to Be Done - Pavla Banjac

Manipulated Desire: Review of Seduction: The Cruel Woman - Aaron Geraghty

A Retrospective on Retro: Introducing the European Eighties - Aaron Geraghty

Family Ties Across Borders: Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz 2026 - Ece Ceren Yalçın

A Tune to Grow Up to: Review of Ida Who Sang So Badly Even the Dead Rose Up and Joined Her in Song - Gvozden Milivojević

Interview with Ester Ivakič, director of Ida Who Sang So Badly Even the Dead Rose Up and Joined Her in Song - Pavla Banjac

Night Is Freedom, But at What Cost?: Review of Gaua - Gvozden Milivojević

Blunders and Tragedies of Parenthood: Comparative analysis of Adam’s Sake and Father - Bertalan Timar

In Search of Resolution: Review of Closure - Bertalan Timar

The Other Is Us: Analysis of Straight Circle

Through our partnership with Cineuropa, an article written by a participant during the latest Crossing Europe Lab will be published on the Cineuropa website.

The participants worked under the guidance of senior journalist Vladan Petkovic (Screendaily).

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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 (600 accredited festival participants) and the Austrian audience a program with approx. 140 outstanding, hand-picked fiction films and documentaries.

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