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REPORT: Karlovy Vary 2026

Cineuropa is covering the 60th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival live with reviews, interviews, news...

REPORT: Karlovy Vary 2026
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68 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2026. Last article published on 22/07/2026.

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Review: The Story of Documentary Film: 1980s

Review: The Story of Documentary Film: 1980s

Mark Cousins invites us to join him on an exciting “road movie” trip through 1980s documentary cinema in the newest section of his 16-hour epic to screen at festivals  

22/07 | Golden Apricot 2026

Nader Saeivar • Director of Hijamat

Interview: Nader Saeivar • Director of Hijamat

“I wasn’t interested in judging, I wanted to observe how mechanisms continue to shape people’s lives”

The filmmaker discusses his latest film, centred on a traditional Muslim family and community whose world is shaken when they discover that one of their young members is gay  

16/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

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

Michele Fiascaris • Director of Rain Catcher

Interview: Michele Fiascaris • Director of Rain Catcher

"We created this character by trying to think and act like him, and that got us into trouble"

The British filmmaker shared the references that shaped the film's visual style and philosophical underpinnings and reflected on discovering his protagonist through the writing process  

14/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Proxima

Ivan Ostrochovský • Director of Only Beautiful Things to Look At

Interview: Ivan Ostrochovský • Director of Only Beautiful Things to Look At

"The topic of forced sterilisation is universal, not only a phenomenon of socialist times"

The Slovak director talks about his film, which revisits one of the darkest chapters of Czechoslovakia's history, the state's policy of forced sterilisation of Romani women  

14/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: Homo Sive Natura

Review: Homo Sive Natura

Giovanni C Lorusso turns a Cambodian land grab into a compelling, visually rigorous study of colonialism surviving long after the colonisers themselves have disappeared  

14/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Proxima

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

Review: Rain Catcher

Review: Rain Catcher

Michele Fiascaris turns nocturnal London into a seductive surveillance maze in a stylish neo-noir about voyeurism, obsession and the treachery of images  

13/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Proxima

Review: Morten

Review: Morten

Ivan Pavljutskov’s accomplished debut follows a teenager whose moral awakening unfolds between a hostile school environment, a fractured home and the spectral calm of the Estonian countryside  

13/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Special Screenings

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