The cross-border film festival Tribute to a Vision has come to a close

Dear visitors, guests, filmmakers, journalists, partners, friends, and co-creators of our cross-border moments,

thank you for shaping the cross-border film festival Tribute to a Vision with your presence, support, and curiosity. This year’s edition was especially festive, resonating as part of the official programme of the European Capital of Culture GO! 2025.

In just six days, we travelled accross 21 countries and watched 82 films – seven feature films and seventy-five shorts. We announced the winners of the First Crossings section: the Main Award went to Naomi Noir for Mother’s Child, the Special Mention to Jakob Krese for Ceasefire, and the Young Audience Award to Melita Sandrin for Arachnophobia.We were honoured to welcome representatives from the Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema (Pesaro, Italy), Dokufest (Prizren, Kosovo), Niesse Film Festival (Poland–Germany–Czech Republic), Alexandre Trauner Art/Film Festival (Szolnok, Hungary), Kino Otok (Slovenia), and the K3 Film Festival (Villach, Austria).The festival also hosted the world premiere of the collective film Nostro Cine Quotidiano (produced by Kinoatelje) and the Slovenian premiere of The Last One for the Road (Le città di pianura) by Francesco Sossai. A special place was reserved for two masterclasses – one by Yervant Gianikian, recipient of the Darko Bratina Award, and one by Daniele Ciprì, a unique master of social critique.The programme concluded with the screening of the masterpiece Sátántangó, paying tribute to Béla Tarr and to this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, László Krasznahorkai.

The moving pictures reminded us that vision is not only a look forward, but also the ability to see beyond — beyond borders, beyond the screen, beyond ourselves.

The festival continues to live on through its images — we invite you to visit our photo gallery and relive its captured moments!

You are also warmly invited to watch the festival video below, which encapsulates the spirit of this year’s edition. 

See you next year — on both sides of the border.