Karlovy Vary Features – Page 4
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FeaturesFestival Focus: Karlovy Vary 2014
Karlovy Vary (July 4-12) offers an eclectic guest list — ranging from Lech Walesa to William Friedkin — and screens close to 200 films. Artistic director Karel Och gives the lowdown to Michael Rosser.
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FeaturesKarlovy Vary 2013
From John Travolta to Oliver Stone and Ben Wheatley, the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival welcomed a diverse group of guests.
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FeaturesJoanna Kos-Krauze, Papusza
The co-director of Polish film Papusza, screening in Karlovy Vary’s competition, tells Screen about her desire to bring the Polish poet back to prominence.
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FeaturesJanos Szász and Sándor Pál, The Notebook
Screen speaks to the director and producer of Le Grand Cahier (aka The Notebook) which screens at Karlovy Vary and is one of the first films to come out of the new Hungarian National Film Fund
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FeaturesOliver Stone: 'Film can't change things but it can educate'
Screen talks to Oliver Stone in Karlovy Vary for a retrospective of his work
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FeaturesMarteinn Thorsson, XL
The Icelandic director Marteinn Thorsson is in Karlovy Vary with the international premiere of his film XL in Competition.
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FeaturesJerry Schatzberg
Screen International caught up with the director of The Panic It Needle Park and the 1973 Palme D’or winning Scarecrow as he visits the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for a retrospective of his work.
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FeaturesFestival Focus: Karlovy Vary
Karlovy Vary (June 28-July 6) celebrates its 48th edition by welcoming veterans as well as newcomers to its diverse programme of 425 screenings. Andreas Wiseman talks to the organisers.
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FeaturesBorderline Films
Acclaimed film-making collective Borderline Films is the subject of a retrospective at Karlovy Vary in July. Jeremy Kay meets the principals.
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FeaturesKarlovy Vary Q&A: Robert Vinovskis, People Out There
Set to premiere in the East of the West competition, Aik Karapetjans’ People Out There is an intense Latvian film about a young man who dreams of a better life despite his difficult circumstances.
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FeaturesKarlovy Vary Q&A: Toomas Hussar, Mushrooming
Estonian film Mushrooming is an intriguing mixture of satire and drama as a politician, in the midst of being accused of expense fraud, finds himself lost in the woods.
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FeaturesKarlovy Vary Q&A: Marek Najbrt (Director), Polski Film
The film, exploring the boundaries of reality and fiction, offers a different style than other Czech productions.
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FeaturesKarlovy Vary Q&A: Jan Jakub Kolski, To Kill A Beaver
Polish Film To Kill A Beaver is an intense and raw tale of a soldier undertaking a mysterious mission while holed up in an abandoned farm. There he has a torrid encounter with a young girl and it soon becomes apparent all is not what it seems.
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FeaturesKarlovy Vary Q&A: Alicia Cano – El Bella Vista
Receiving its world premiere in the Karlovy Vary Documentary Competition section, El Bella Vista is a quirky yet moving documentary about Uruguayan brothel El Bella Vista, its transvestite inhabitants and the small village community that wants to remove them and change the brothel into a Catholic School.
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FeaturesYoung at heart
The Karlovy Vary International film festival (June 29-July 7) may be entering its 47th edition, but the platform it offers to debut film-makers and its youthful popularity show it has not lost its edge.
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FeaturesKVIFF 2012: Forum of Independents
World premieres include Miroslav Momčilović’s Death of a Man In The Balkans.
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FeaturesKVIFF 2012: Documentary Competition
World premieres in the documentary competition include Timo Novotny’s Trains of Thoughts [pictured] from Austria.
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FeaturesKVIFF 2012: East of The West Competition
World premieres in this regional competition include Piotr Mularuk’s Czech feature Yuma.
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FeaturesKVIFF 2012: Competition
The eight world premieres in competiton include Greek debut Boy Eating The Bird’s Food [pictured0.
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