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Martin Kudláč


999 articles available in total starting from 26/09/2013. Last article published on 17/07/2025.

Review: Summer School, 2001

Review: Summer School, 2001

Dužan Duong’s debut feature paints a portrait of the Vietnamese diaspora in the early-2000s Czech Republic through a family triptych  

08/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Special Screenings

Karel Och • Artistic director, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

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

“We have given a bit more space to films that are more provocative, both in form and in subject”

We spoke to the Czech gathering’s artistic director about its renewed embrace of provocative cinema, emerging Central European voices and the launch of a new industry platform  

02/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025

The 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival unveils its competition line-up

The 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival unveils its competition line-up

The Czech film gathering rounds off its selection, which includes the latest works by Bence Fliegauf, Nathan Ambrosioni, Pere Vilà Barceló and Vytautas Katkus  

26/06 | Karlovy Vary 2025

Karlovy Vary unveils the full line-up for its 59th edition

Karlovy Vary unveils the full line-up for its 59th edition

After a four-year hiatus from episodic content, the festival will present the world premiere of the miniseries Absolute 100 and, for the first time, will give a video game the big-screen treatment  

20/06 | Karlovy Vary 2025

Vojtěch Strakatý finishes his genre-inflected flick The Other Side of Summer

Vojtěch Strakatý finishes his genre-inflected flick The Other Side of Summer

The Czech director’s sophomore feature merges subdued magical realism with coming of age to explore emotional dislocation and adolescent longing  

19/06 | Production | Funding | Czech Republic/Croatia

Dužan Duong putting the finishing touches to Summer School, 2001

Dužan Duong putting the finishing touches to Summer School, 2001

The Czech-Slovak co-production examines intergenerational dynamics, identity and queer self-discovery within the Vietnamese diaspora in the Czech Republic  

10/06 | Production | Funding | Czech Republic/Slovakia

The Zlín Film Festival celebrates 65 years of spotlighting global youth cinema

The Zlín Film Festival celebrates 65 years of spotlighting global youth cinema

The world’s oldest and largest festival dedicated to children’s cinema returns with nearly 300 films, and retrospectives focusing on Slovak animation and Studio Ghibli  

14/05 | Zlín 2025

Czech Republic’s Anifilm goes sci-fi

Czech Republic’s Anifilm goes sci-fi

The festival will explore science fiction in animation, pairing genre-defining films with an industry platform for cinema, gaming, and XR professionals  

05/05 | Anifilm Liberec 2025

Slovak crime-thriller Černák becomes the highest-grossing film in domestic cinemas

Slovak crime-thriller Černák becomes the highest-grossing film in domestic cinemas

The second film in the saga about a local mafia boss, directed by Jakub Króner, outgrossed its first part, which dominated Slovak cinemas last year  

02/05 | Box Office | Slovakia

The 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival set to honour the legacy of John Garfield

The 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival set to honour the legacy of John Garfield

The festival’s industry strand, KVIFF Eastern Promises, is adding a new initiative, KVIFF Central Stage, intended for established filmmakers with fiction projects from Central Europe  

24/04 | Karlovy Vary 2025

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