Still: Gerlach - Aliona van der Horst

Tribute: Aliona van der Horst
Aliona van der Horst will be present in person at the festival in Linz to present a selection of her films to the festival audience and Crossing Europe is planning a tribute talk with the director. 6 feature docs are part of the programme:

• Gerlach* (2023): A humorous and loving portrait of an old-school crop farmer who cheerfully weathers life's headwinds. SEE NL interviewed van der Horst & co-director Luuk Bouwman about their film in the run up to Idfa 2023, where it won the IDFA Award for Best Dutch Film. Prod. Docmakers.
• Turn your Body to the Sun* (2021): A daughter attempts to retrace her father’s steps against the backdrop of the Second World War and the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler. Prod. Docmakers.
• Love is Potatoes* (2017): After inheriting part of a small house outside Moscow, director Van der Horst embarks on a journey back into the secrets of her mother's Russian past. Prod. Zeppers.
• Water Children* (2011): A finely wrought auteurist documentary that combines several complex elements.
• Boris Ryzhy (2008): Aliona van der Horst meets the former neighbours of the Russian poet Boris Ryzhy, seven years after his death (Boris committed suicide in 2001 at the age of 27). Prod. Zeppers.
• Voices of Bam (2006): About the indominable live force, memory and mourning in an Iranian city. Prod. Zeppers.

 Three Dutch (co-)productions are being presented in other program sections:

Stefanie Kolk's debut feature Melk** (prod. Lemming Film, sales: Bendita Film Sales) that world premiered in Venice Giornate degli Autori, is presented in the Competition Fiction. Before Venice SEE NL talked to the director about the film, centered around a woman on a difficult quest to donate her milk after her baby is stillborn. We also spoke to lead actress Frieda Barnhard before IFFR at the beginning of this year. 

Starring an international cast Krazy House** is a dark comedy set in the 1990s about religious homemaker Bernie and his sitcom family. The black comedy by Steffen Haars & Flip van der Kuil is part of the Night Sight section. It is produced by Kaap Holland Film in co-production with writers/directors Steffen and Flip. The feature world premiered at Sundance Film Festival, where Dutch maverick Steffen Haars talked to SEE NL about their comedy horror.

Pieter Van Eecke's documentary Planet B (min. co-prod. Baldr Film) is selected for Architecture and Society 2024. How do you grow up on a planet that is being destroyed by humanity? His film looks for answers to this urgent question.

Find out more about Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz here.

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*Film is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund
**Film is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund and Production Incentive