Karlovy Vary reviews
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Reviews‘Fruit Gathering’ review: Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe winner is delicate LGBTQ Myanmar drama
Aung Phyoe’s fine-tuned feature debut is powered by an impressive central performance from Nandar Myat Aung
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Reviews‘Rain Catcher’ review: A London street photographer loses his grip on reality in intriguing, twisty neo-noir
Dudley O’Shaughnessy impresses in Michele Fiascaris debut feature, premiering in Karlovy Vary’s Proxima competition.
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Reviews‘Hijamat’ review: Jafar Panahi produces Nader Saeivar’s disjointed study of a Turkish immigrant family in Berlin
The fourth feature from Panahi collaborator and It Was Just An Accident co-writer Saeivar premieres in Karlovy Vary competition
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Reviews‘Black Money For White Nights’ review: Absurdist drama reckons with Bulgaria’s culture of corruption
Directors Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov return to Karlovy Vary following their Crystal Globe-winning The Father
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Reviews‘The Lion At My Back’ review: Cypriot migrant drama is anchored by persuasive performances
Tonia Mishiali’s second feature makes its debut in Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe competition
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Reviews‘The Guest’ review: Trine Dyrholm is magnetic at the heart of knotty Danish domestic drama
Mads Mengel’s feature debut premieres in Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe competition
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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