The 51st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, a non-specialized festival with three competitive categories, took place from July 1st to July 9th this year. It was organized by Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary, a.s., with Jiří Bartoška as president of the festival and Karel Och as an artistic director. The 52nd Karlovy Vary IFF will […]
Award of International Film Critics Awarded by The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI). Original Bliss / Gleißendes Glück Directed by: Sven Taddicken Germany, 2016 Original Bliss is a distinctive, daring and provocative film, disturbing but at the same time romantic; it does not cease to surprise. The director’s thematic and artistic ambition is matched […]
The lucky winners of the awards are Bojan Vuletić’s Requiem for Mrs J. and Perseverance by Miha Knific. Works in Progress Award @ KVIFF The 8 projects (plus 1 out of competition) selected out of 57 registered projects from Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Turkey, Greece and post-Soviet territories. The 2016 award, in a total […]
The Demons / Les démons Directed by: Philippe Lesage Cast: Edouard Tremblay-Grenier, Pier-Luc Funk, Yannick Gobeil-Dugas, Vassili Schneider Canada, 2015, 118min.Ten-year-old Felix is growing up in a peaceful environment and you might say his childhood is ideal. The movie looks at events through his eyes, thereby revealing little by little how much fear and anxiety […]
French actor Jean Reno will be a guest at this year’s 51st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where he will receive the Festival President’s Award. He will receive the award on July, 4 at 10:30pm in the Grand Hall at the Hotel Thermal, where Luc Besson’s film Léon will be screened to his honor. This […]
The Crystal Globe for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema at the 51st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will be presented to leading film and theatre actor and two-time Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe. In 1979, Willem Dafoe was given a small role in Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate from which he was fired. His first feature role came shortly […]
Karlovy Vary Festival will host world producer Ted Hope and pay tribute to Frank Daniel Ted Hope and Amazon Studios at KVIFF The Karlovy Vary IFF is excited to welcome back Ted Hope, a renowned producer of independent films (e.g. 21 Grams, Happiness, American Splendor, and Storytelling) who is now representing Amazon Studios as Head […]
NEW FILMS BY TVERDOVSKY, HAJDU, MITULESCU AND TADDICKEN TO PREMIERE IN KARLOVY VARY COMPETITION The dozen of titles in the festival’s main section will include the last film of the recently deceased Czech legend Jan Nemec The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street, while one of the KVIFF’s most faithful filmmakers Jan Hrebejk will introduce his […]
In addition to director Sean Ellis, the 51st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival opening ceremony will be attended by actors Jamie Dornan, Charlotte Le Bon, Aňa Geislerová and Toby Jones. World War II drama, ANTHROPOID is based on the extraordinary true story of “Operation Anthropoid,” the code name for the Czech operatives’ mission to assassinate […]
This year, the Karlovy Vary IFF again kicks off with a large concert in front of the Thermal Hotel! Following the success of last year’s grand opening concert, this year’s 51st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will kick off on 1 July with a concert in front of the Hotel Thermal. The festival’s general partner […]