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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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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

Jan-Eric Mack • Director of A Happy Family

Interview: Jan-Eric Mack • Director of A Happy Family

“We wanted to reveal a side of Switzerland that is hardly ever discussed”

The Swiss filmmaker discusses his first feature, which follows a working mother struggling to keep her children with her, and what audiences can take away from it  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

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

Miroslav Terzić • Director of 3 Weeks After

Interview: Miroslav Terzić • Director of 3 Weeks After

"This film provokes the audience to ask themselves: ‘What would I do in this situation?'"

The Serbian director speaks about the film's casting and working with an entire classroom of young actors, as well as using horror as a storytelling tool  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Utopai pitches itself as a full-stack studio for the age of AI

Utopai pitches itself as a full-stack studio for the age of AI

At Karlovy Vary, COO Kevin Chong argued that AI’s most disruptive promise may be less about replacing artists than restoring the scale of filmmaking that has largely vanished from Hollywood  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | KVIFF Industry Days

Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov • Directors of Black Money for White Nights

Interview: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov • Directors of Black Money for White Nights

"Our characters are very confused people, living half of their lives under communism and the other half in and after the transition"

The duo speaks about portraying a generation that has lived through two opposing political systems and exploring the many shades of corruption and moral compromise  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Mads Mengel • Director of The Guest

Interview: Mads Mengel • Director of The Guest

"I wanted nuance in every character, everyone to be right and everyone to be wrong at some point"

The Danish director speaks about developing complex characters with the actors, portraying mental illness without easy answers, or even the proper vocabulary to talk about it  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

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