CROSSROADS - Festival for Documentary Film and Discourse.
Crossroads invites us to engage with crucial developments of the present. In addition to current challenges, our selection of exciting new documentaries makes visible people, initiatives and movements that are working to preserve our livelihoods and social achievements, for justice, democratization and a good life for all. With impressive images, inspiring stories are told that show possibilities for action and give courage.
Many films celebrate their Austrian premieres during the festival and have been awarded various prizes. Talks following the screenings will provide an opportunity to exchange ideas with filmmakers and protagonists and to discuss the topics addressed by the films. Additional lectures, debates and workshops with scholars and activists complete the program.
Theme days at Forum Stadtpark:
Thursday, 5/25 - Opening - Harvesting Hope.
The Last Seed
DE, 2022, 98 min, OF with German subtitles
Friday 5/26 - Feminism for Everybody.
Seven Winters in Tehran
DE/FR, 2023, 96 min, Farsi with German subtitles
How We Want
DE, 2021, 98 min, German
After and between screenings: Delicious vegan food (Küfa) & Filmbeisl at Forum Saloon.
Saturday 27.5. - Feminism for Everybody
Blooming on the Asphalt
BR, 2022, 79 min, Portuguese with English subtitles
Mama Bears
US, 2022, 90 min, English OV
After and between screenings: Delicious vegan food (cooked by Die Zödelei, the experimental solidarity garden in Graz/Weinzödl) & Filmbeisl in the Saloon.
Sunday 28.5. - People Power.
Rise Up
DE, 2022, 98 min, OF with German subtitles
Afterwards: Delicious meal together, cooked by the Solidarity Initiative for Earthquake Victims (in Turkey and Northern Syria), at the Saloon.
More information about CROSSROADS can be found here.