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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

71 articles available in total starting from 07/03/2025. Last article published on 18/07/2025.

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

Review: How Come It’s All Green Out Here?

Review: How Come It’s All Green Out Here?

Nikola Ležaić returns 14 years after Tilva Roš with a subtle autobiographical film about the unreliability of memory and shifting ideas of identity  

08/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Proxima

Veera Lamminpää • Director of Fish River Anthology

Interview: Veera Lamminpää • Director of Fish River Anthology

“After we wrapped, a friend told me they’d heard I’d been keeping our cinematographer trapped in a dark cellar for two months”

Part of EFP’s Future Frames at Karlovy Vary, the Finnish director’s short will enchant audiences with its mixture of existentialism, singing and seafood  

08/07 | Future Frames 2025

Review: The Visitor

Review: The Visitor

Vytautas Katkus makes his feature debut with a poignant beach-town tale carved through the connections between individuals, spaces and encounters  

08/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

Review: Before / After

Review: Before / After

Manoël Dupont’s first feature is a loosely told and largely improvised docufiction about two men forming a bond as they embark on a hair transplant journey  

08/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Proxima

Simon Schneckenburger • Director of Skin on Skin

Interview: Simon Schneckenburger • Director of Skin on Skin

“I believe that limitations are good for art, as they help you focus on what really matters and get to the core of a story”

The German director breaks down his raw and visceral short film, which explores the lives of two men trying to find a space for love in a brutal setting  

08/07 | Future Frames 2025

Nathan Ambrosioni • Director of Out of Love

Interview: Nathan Ambrosioni • Director of Out of Love

"I really liked the idea of an inverted drama, a film which starts with the hardest part of the story"

The French filmmaker discusses his third feature, which revolves around a woman who suddenly finds herself responsible for two young children who’ve been left behind by her sister  

08/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

Dominik Mirecki • Director of Son of Happiness

Interview: Dominik Mirecki • Director of Son of Happiness

“It’s a fight to simply be part of society, to belong to a group without being excluded”

The Polish director talks about representation and parental love in his short, due to screen at Karlovy Vary as part of EFP’s Future Frames  

08/07 | Future Frames 2025

Mila Ryngaert • Director of Karaokiss

Interview: Mila Ryngaert • Director of Karaokiss

"I’m convinced that movies are here to play with reality, not imitate it"

The filmmaker's exuberant short film is a playful musical that will soon have its world premiere as part of EFP's Future Frames at Karlovy Vary  

07/07 | Future Frames 2025

Review: Broken Voices

Review: Broken Voices

Ondřej Provazník's feature is a gripping coming-of-age story that dives into a young choir singer's emotional turmoil with subtle force  

07/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

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