Karlovy Vary reviews
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Reviews’Better Go Mad In The Wild’: Karlovy Vary Crystal Globe winner follows Czech twins living off-grid
Miro Remo’s documentary pays tribute to idosyncratic brothers Frantisek and Ondrej Klisik
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Reviews‘Don’t Call Me Mama’ review: Complex Norwegian debut follows an ill-fated small town affair
A wealthy socialite seduces a teenage asylum seeker in elegantly uncomfortable Karlovy Vary competition title
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Reviews‘Bidad’ review: A female singer fights to be heard in potent Tehran-set drama
Iranian filmmaker Soheil Beiraghi’s fourth feature premieres in Karlovy Vary competition
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Reviews‘Broken Voices’ review: Powerful Czech choir drama is loosely based on real-life abuse scandal
Ondrej Provaznik’s 1990s-set feature explores the dark underbelly of an elite all-girls choir
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Reviews‘The Visitor’ review: Lithuanian debut takes a fresh approach to the issue of migration
A Lithuanian ex-pat struggles to return home in Vytautas Katkus’s impressive move to features
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Reviews‘The Luminous Life’ review: A Lisbon spring brings new opportunities for a troubled 20-something
The debut feature from Joao Rosas is a continuation of three previous short films
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Reviews‘Sand City’ review: Two disparate lives are linked by sand in lyrical Bangladeshi feature
Dhaka-set drama is debut feature of short filmmaker Mahde Hasan
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Reviews‘Out Of Love’ review: Camille Cottin stars as a French woman flung into motherhood
Nathan Ambrosioni’s intimate drama premieres in Karlovy Vary
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Reviews‘Dragonfly’ review: Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn headline potent Paul Andrew Williams drama
Williams returns to the big screen with unnerving study of a community in crisis
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Reviews‘A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things’: Karlovy Vary Review
Mark Cousins examines the life and work of Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham in his latest cine-essay
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Reviews‘Pierce’: Karlovy Vary Review
Two estranged brothers reconnect through fencing in this sharp Taiwan-set ’sophisticated genre piece’
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Reviews‘Tiny Lights’: Karlovy Vary Review
Delicate Czech drama spends a day in the life of a six-year-old girl as she navigates family discord
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Reviews‘Loveable’: Karlovy Vary Review
The breakdown of a marriage is not what it first appears in this shape-shifting Norwegian debut
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Reviews‘Xoftex’: Munich Review
Life in limbo in a Greek refugee camp leads one bright teenage boy to crumble under the pressure
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Reviews‘Windless’: Karlovy Vary Review
Bulgarian rapper FYRE is a returning emigrant forced to confront both his own past, and that of his country
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Reviews‘Living Large’: Karlovy Vary Review
Annecy Jury Prize-winning animation about a plus-sized adolescent comes to Karlovy Vary
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Reviews‘Real’: Karlovy Vary Review
Raw GoPro footage from a Ukrainian trench provides a visceral snapshot of the realities of conflict
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Reviews‘The Hypnosis’: Karlovy Vary Review
A professional woman undergoes hypnotherapy to surprising results in this Karlovy Vary prizewinner
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Reviews‘Blaga’s Lessons’: Karlovy Vary Review
Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe winner is a tense thriller about an elderly Bulgarian woman who falls for a telephone scam
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Reviews‘Fremont’: Karlovy Vary Review
An Afghan woman living in California dreams of new adventures in Babak Jalali’s fourth feature