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REPORT: Karlovy Vary 2025

Cineuropa is covering the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival live with reviews, interviews, news...

REPORT: Karlovy Vary 2025

75 articles available in total starting from 07/03/2025. Last article published on 22/07/2025.

Review: Cinema Jazireh

Review: Cinema Jazireh

In her second feature, Turkish filmmaker Gözde Kural pairs an unrelentingly bleak story with a sensitive observational approach  

14/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

Miro Remo’s Better Go Mad in the Wild nets the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary

Miro Remo’s Better Go Mad in the Wild nets the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary

The French family drama Out of Love and Broken Voices, a Czech drama tackling sexual abuse within a youth choir, received two awards apiece  

14/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Awards

Review: TrepaNation

Review: TrepaNation

Syrian refugee and director Ammar al-Beik has spent ten years filming his life in Germany, and compiled an almost four-hour essay on uprooting, loss and longing  

11/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Proxima

Review: Better Go Mad in the Wild

Review: Better Go Mad in the Wild

Miro Remo's newest genre-defying hybrid work provides an insight into two twins living in the wild, a kind of life that might seem unbelievable for many viewers  

11/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

The first trailer for Agnieszka Holland’s Franz debuts at Karlovy Vary

The first trailer for Agnieszka Holland’s Franz debuts at Karlovy Vary

The highly anticipated biopic, sold internationally by Films Boutique, is set to hit Czech cinemas on 25 September  

11/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025

Gabrielė Urbonaitė • Director of Renovation

Interview: Gabrielė Urbonaitė • Director of Renovation

“There's something magical about the way celluloid captures not only light, but also the energy that people bring onto the set”

We talked to the Lithuanian director about her debut feature, hinging on a couple who move into a new flat amidst renovation works that upend their lives  

11/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Proxima

Review: Action Item

Review: Action Item

Paula Ďurinová’s observational-essayistic hybrid documentary reframes mental health problems as a systemic condition, rather than an individual struggle  

11/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Proxima

Review: Duchoň

Review: Duchoň

Slovak director Peter Bebjak charts the rise and fall of a Czechoslovak pop singer and examines state-sanctioned stardom behind the Iron Curtain  

11/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Special Screenings

Review: Promise, I’ll Be Fine

Review: Promise, I’ll Be Fine

Katarína Gramatová’s feature debut is a coming-of-age tale filled with hard truths, set in the heart of the Slovak countryside  

11/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Special Screenings

REPORT: KVIFF Central Stage @ KVIFF Eastern Promises 2025

REPORT: KVIFF Central Stage @ KVIFF Eastern Promises 2025

Eastern Promises’ new platform has spotlighted a slew of bold, genre-fluid stories exploring political unrest, spiritual crises, artistic ego and fractured identities  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | KVIFF Industry Days

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