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“Crossing Europe” is a special programme of Nordic Cinema Forum Scanorama outlining the developments in Europe today. Film plots will provoke a cultural crossing of entire Europe, discovering and understanding European diversity and perceiving oneself as part of it. The festival inviting young and ambitious film-makers from all around Europe helps to discover directors of the future, who will shape the future face of European filmmakinSt. The programme also opens new opportunities for Lithuanian film-makers as it introduces them in Linz film festival “Crossing Europe” and calls for discussion in co-production forum “Young Generation of Cinema”.
The culmination accord of the programme “Crossing Europe” will be a unique event in the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre on 5 November 2009, which blends European classical cinema with the modern interpretation of Lithuanian artists. It will feature Carl Theodor Dreyer’s masterpiece of silent film La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928) and music composed for this work by Lithuanian famous composer Bronius Kutavičius.












































