Debut director Mads Mengel on casting his Karlovy Vary competition title ‘The Guest’: “I was so nervous the first time I met Trine Dyrholm”
The film is a tense drama about a matriarch who shows up unannounced at a family gathering
How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reshaped Karlovy Vary premiere ‘Black Money And White Nights’
The film, which is competing for the Crystal Globe award, is the Bulgarian directing duo’s fifth feature
Cypriot director Tonia Mishiali on her Karlovy Vary premiere ‘The Lion At My Back’: “My actress disappeared six weeks before the shoot”
Mishiali’s second feature is part of this year’s main competition at the festival
Czech filmmaker Šimon Holý on how his Karlovy Vary premiere ‘Chica Checa’ shows “otherness is not only about queerness”
The film is part of this year’s Crystal Globe competition
David Puttnam calls for bolder action from UK producers
“I hate defeatism, I really do, and I particularly hate it when it comes from within my own industry.”
Munich’s Julia Weigl and Christoph Gröner explain why they are making the festival a home for US indie cinema
They also discuss the festival’s role as a forum for political debate.
“I hit a wall,” says actor Maggie Gyllenhaal of what inspired her move into directing
”I came to the edge of what acting allowed me in terms of my artistic expression,” she said at Slano Film Days.
“I need a face, I need a person,” says Michel Franco of his quest to bond with a sales executive
The Mexican filmmaker did not have much luck with sales execs earlier in this career.
Sébastien Laudenbach on turning opera into animation with ‘Viva Carmen’
“We had to develop a story which does not exist in the opera.”
Lili Horvat reveals her hopes and fears for fresh era of Hungarian film funding
Horvat was screening early footage of her second film ‘My Notes On Mars’ at Slano Film Days this month.
Our regional funds are falling apart, says Danis Tanovic of the struggle to get films financed in south-east Europe
The Bosnian director is attending Slano Film Days in Croatia, mentoring emerging filmmakers.
Word of Mouth: Director Tina Gharavi gets her viewing tips from students, scholars and the Green Eyeshadow Glitterati
Gharavi’s feature credits include ‘I Am Nasrine’ and ‘Virginia Woolf: Night And Day’.
Transilvania’s Mihai Chirilov on the ‘existential claustrophobia’ of the 2026 lineup
Chirilov has been artistic director since the decision to bring arthouse film to Cluj in 2002.
