All Karlovy Vary articles
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News‘Black Money For White Nights’: first trailer for Karlovy Vary competition title
The film is directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, who won KVIFF’s top prize in 2019 for ’The Father’.
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NewsKarlovy Vary to honour Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jesse Eisenberg
Gyllenhaal will receive her award at the festival’s opening ceremony.
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NewsBendita Film Sales boards Karlovy Vary title Jan-Eric Mack’s ‘A Happy Family’
EXCLUSIVE: The film explores themes of poverty and social inequality in Switzerland.
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NewsKarlovy Vary competition selection ‘The Lion At My Back’ picked up for sales
EXCLUSIVE: The Cyprus-shot film tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a teenage Senegalese asylum seeker and a 40-year-old Cypriot woman rebuilding her life.
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NewsKarlovy Vary Film Festival unveils 2026 official selection
Lineup includes new films by Nader Saeivar, Valeria Sarmiento, and Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov.
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NewsKarlovy Vary programmes events, retrospective titles to celebrate twin anniversaries
World’s second-oldest film festival is celebrating 80 years since founding, and 60th edition.
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News17 film festivals receive official ‘A’-list classification as part of major FIAPF revamp
EXCLUSIVE: Annecy, Busan and Clermont-Ferrand are among those now with an ‘A’ classification.
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NewsTop film festival directors rally in defence of Berlinale’s Tricia Tuttle
Letter is signed by leading festival directors including Cannes’ Thierry Frémaux, Locarno’s Giona A. Nazzaro and Sundance’s Eugene Hernandez.
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Features20 films to watch from the 2025 summer festivals
Includes titles from Locarno, Edinburgh, Annecy, Karlovy Vary, Transilvania, Munich and Fantasia.
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News‘Better Go Mad in the Wild’: first trailer for Karlovy Vary winner with late Frantisek Klisik
EXCLUSIVE: Protagonist Klisik died hours after the film’s Karlovy Vary win.
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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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NewsFrantišek Klišík from ‘Better Go Mad in the Wild’ dies just after film’s Karlovy Vary win
Klišík drowned in a pond just hours after the film won the Karlovy Vary Grand Prix, according to Czech media reports.
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NewsKarlovy Vary film festival unveils 2025 winners
Awards for ‘Better Go Mad in the Wild’, Iranian film ‘Bidad’.
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NewsCannes ACID Gaza doc ‘Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk’ secures US deal
Cercamon represented sales onn documentary that just screened at Karlovy Vary.
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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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FeaturesGözde Kural talks Afghanistan-set ‘Cinema Jazireh’: “Every partner had to be convinced one by one”
Turkish director’s sophomore feature, which world premieres at Karlovy Vary, is a co-production between Turkey, Iran, Romania and Bulgaria.
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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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News“It has given us confidence”: Czech producers welcome reforms and incentive uplift
“The hope is there will be significantly more resources available for local production,” says one producer.
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NewsDirector Nina Knag talks forbidden liaisons in her Karlovy Vary premiere ‘Don’t Call Me Mama’
Norwegian director’s debut centres on a respected pillar of the community who has an affair with a young asylum seeker.
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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