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1089 articles available in total starting from 26/09/2013. Last article published on 18/09/2026.

Barbora Chalupová making her fiction film debut with Madam

Barbora Chalupová making her fiction film debut with Madam

The Czech filmmaker is moving into fiction with a mobile-phone-shot BDSM-set drama about acceptance, control and the pressures surrounding intimacy and motherhood  

29/07 | Production | Funding | Czech Republic

Jerry Carlsson, Frida Mårtensson • Director and producer of Selamlik

Interview: Jerry Carlsson, Frida Mårtensson • Director and producer of Selamlik

“The queer perspective on war has not often been told in cinema”

The Swedish director frames a queer Syrian love story spanning Damascus and Córdoba, exploring exile, displacement and the search for home  

14/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | KVIFF Industry Days

Anastasia Tykha, Darya Bassel • Director and producer of Reminiscence

Interview: Anastasia Tykha, Darya Bassel • Director and producer of Reminiscence

“Some families knew exactly what war was”

The Ukrainian director discusses her psychological drama rooted in loss, exploring how families of Ukraine's missing soldiers live inside trauma  

14/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | KVIFF Industry Days

REPORT: KVIFF Central Stage @ KVIFF Promises 2026

REPORT: KVIFF Central Stage @ KVIFF Promises 2026

KVIFF Promises’ showcase of established Central European filmmakers foregrounded bruised coming-of-age stories, refugee fables, post-war reckoning, class rage and historical memory  

13/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | KVIFF Industry Days

Aung Phyoe’s Fruit Gathering scoops the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary

Aung Phyoe’s Fruit Gathering scoops the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary

Mads Mengel’s The Guest picked up two awards, while Martina Buchelová’s Lover, Not a Fighter triumphed in the Proxima Competition  

13/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Awards

Aung Phyoe • Director of Fruit Gathering

Interview: Aung Phyoe • Director of Fruit Gathering

“Love is never a binary thing, a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’”

The director discusses a story of longing, ambiguity and unequal privilege, and how he merged social realism with memory, confinement and imagined escape  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Bohdan Karásek • Director of Everything As It Should Be

Interview: Bohdan Karásek • Director of Everything As It Should Be

“Prague is the capital of the country, but not the capital of life"

The Czech director discusses moving from micro-budget filmmaking to a more structured production, his relationship with the mumblecore label and the search for “truth on the cinema screen”  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Special Screenings

Review: Fruit Gathering

Review: Fruit Gathering

Aung Phyoe’s feature debut turns the ambiguous intimacy between two seamstresses into a delicate study of desire, labour and social repression in contemporary Myanmar  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: Gregorius, the Chosen One

Review: Gregorius, the Chosen One

Tomasz Mielnik's sophomore feature transforms the medieval Pope Gregory legend into a deadpan mock-epic of sin and destiny, in a minimalist yet mannerist auteur comedy  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Special Screenings

Review: Everything As It Should Be

Review: Everything As It Should Be

Bohdan Karásek refines dialogue-driven cinema into an incisive study of middle-age ambivalence, centred on an accomplished woman confronting the gulf between social fulfilment and private doubt  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Special Screenings

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