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REPORT: Karlovy Vary 2021

Cineuropa is covering the 55th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival live with reviews, interviews, news...

REPORT: Karlovy Vary 2021

69 articles available in total starting from 12/05/2021. Last article published on 03/09/2021.

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David Ondříček • Director of Zátopek

Interview: David Ondříček • Director of Zátopek

“I feel some similarities between the 1950s and today in the Czech political situation”

The Czech helmer talks about his new feature, raising big budgets for movies in the Czech Republic and making a period film resonate with today's audience  

27/08/2021 | Karlovy Vary 2021 | Special Screenings

Ioseb 'Soso' Bliadze • Director of Otar's Death

Interview: Ioseb 'Soso' Bliadze • Director of Otar's Death

"My film explores the phenomenon of making a profit out of an accident, a clash between city and village, and mother-son relationships in each of them"

The Georgian director discusses his first feature film, which homes in on a mother and son in the aftermath of a car accident involving the latter  

27/08/2021 | Karlovy Vary 2021 | East of the West

Review: Wild Roots

Review: Wild Roots

Hajni Kis' first feature is a small film with a big heart, making up for its conventional story and message with some excellent work with two wonderful non-professional actors  

27/08/2021 | Karlovy Vary 2021 | East of the West

Olmo Omerzu • Director of Bird Atlas

Interview: Olmo Omerzu • Director of Bird Atlas

"My film works as a contrast between characters, between selfishness and naïve love, between reality and virtuality"

The Ljubljana-born filmmaker discusses his competition title, which follows an ageing proprietor of a technology company who has dedicated his whole life to his work  

27/08/2021 | Karlovy Vary 2021 | Competition

Stefan Arsenijević • Director of As Far as I Can Walk

Interview: Stefan Arsenijević • Director of As Far as I Can Walk

“We need to reconsider what tradition is and adapt it to the new reality”

With the help of a medieval epic poem, the Serbian director intends to reinvigorate his cultural heritage  

27/08/2021 | Karlovy Vary 2021 | Competition

Tea Lukač • Director of Roots

Interview: Tea Lukač • Director of Roots

"My film is a sensory, ethnographical experience about people and nature trapped in time"

The Serbian filmmaker discusses her first feature film, which contains elements of documentary, ethnography and fiction  

27/08/2021 | Karlovy Vary 2021 | East of the West

German Golub • Director of My Dear Corpses

Interview: German Golub • Director of My Dear Corpses

“Film is not just art; it’s an act of empathy driven by relationships from both sides of the screen”

German Golub’s short film previously won a Student Academy Award in 2020; he is now bound for Karlovy Vary as part of EFP’s Future Frames  

26/08/2021 | Future Frames 2021

Irene Albanell Mellado • Director of Silent Club

Interview: Irene Albanell Mellado • Director of Silent Club

“The value in one’s life is not necessarily found in how perfectly you fit with society’s standards”

As part of EFP’s Future Frames, the Spanish director wends her to way to Karlovy Vary with the tale of a child and her drug-addicted parent  

26/08/2021 | Future Frames 2021

Review: Patchwork

Review: Patchwork

The second feature by Cypriot director Petros Charalambous asks the potent, little-explored question: is a woman allowed to regret being a mother?  

26/08/2021 | Karlovy Vary 2021 | East of the West

Kateřina Hroníková • Director of Rheum

Interview: Kateřina Hroníková • Director of Rheum

“I wouldn't believe that one day I'd have the opportunity to present my own film at Karlovy Vary”

The Slovak director returns to the festival she visited as an audience member to present her film, part of European Film Promotion’s Future Frames  

25/08/2021 | Future Frames 2021

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