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1033 articles available in total starting from 26/09/2013. Last article published on 30/01/2026.

Adam Martinec  • Director of Our Lovely Pig Slaughter

Interview: Adam Martinec • Director of Our Lovely Pig Slaughter

“Humour opens up the audience's heart, making it easier to smuggle in the heavier moments”

The director discusses his use of the pig-slaughter tradition to explore generational and gender tensions, plus his influences from the Czechoslovak New Wave  

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Review: Lapilli

Review: Lapilli

Paula Ďurinová intertwines personal grief with environmental contemplation, offering a meditative documentary essay that reflects on loss and resilience through images of geological formations  

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Proxima

Turkish drama Life nabs the top prize at the second Mediterrane Film Festival

Turkish drama Life nabs the top prize at the second Mediterrane Film Festival

Besides Zeki Demirkubuz’s feature, other winners at the Maltese gathering included To a Land Unknown, Out of Season and The Damned  

02/07/2024 | Festivals | Awards | Malta

Review: Our Lovely Pig Slaughter

Review: Our Lovely Pig Slaughter

Debuting filmmaker Adam Martinec delivers a probe into Czech identity and generational conflict set against the fading tradition of domestic pig slaughter  

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Karel Och  • Artistic director, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Interview: Karel Och • Artistic director, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

“This willingness to engage with and sometimes polemicise against established canons lends Proxima vibrancy”

We sat down with the Czech festival's artistic director to discuss the Proxima competition, the gathering's focus on debut films, the vibrant state of Czech cinema and the KVIFF Talents incubator  

27/06/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024

KVIFF Eastern Promises reveals this year’s crop of promising film projects

KVIFF Eastern Promises reveals this year’s crop of promising film projects

Karlovy Vary’s industry platform will welcome a diverse variety of 39 projects hailing from countries across Europe, the Middle East and Japan  

26/06/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | KVIFF Eastern Promises

The CEE Animation Forum unveils its 2024 selection

The CEE Animation Forum unveils its 2024 selection

Thirty-one projects have been selected for this year's pitching forum, after a record-breaking number of applications were sent in  

26/06/2024 | CEE Animation 2024

Review: Witches

Review: Witches

Elizabeth Sankey destigmatises postpartum depression and the mental health of mothers in her intimate memoirist meta-cinematic essay  

21/06/2024 | Tribeca 2024

Review: Bikechess

Review: Bikechess

Kazakh director Assel Aushakimova's blend of satire and social realism paints a stark yet subtly comical portrait of life under an oppressive regime  

21/06/2024 | Tribeca 2024

Review: Hacking Hate

Review: Hacking Hate

Simon Klose's documentary exposes the grim realities of modern extremism, from right-wing ideology to psy-ops trying destabilise Western democracies  

21/06/2024 | Tribeca 2024

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