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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: My Friend the Porn Star

Review: My Friend the Porn Star

Rosa Friedrich’s aborted attempt at documenting her friend filming a porno turns into a somewhat half-baked but entertaining essay on intimacy and sexuality  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Proxima

Review: Learning to Breathe Under Water

Review: Learning to Breathe Under Water

In her charming tale of learning to cope with loss, Rebekah Fortune sends a father-and-son duo on a fantastical, bittersweet journey  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Special Screenings

Review: Hijamat

Review: Hijamat

Nader Saeivar's new film explores questions of sexual identity and the overbearing influence of religion within Berlin's Turkish community  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Tonia Mishiali • Director of The Lion at My Back

Interview: Tonia Mishiali • Director of The Lion at My Back

"I needed the audience to catch their breath while also sinking them into the darkness of each character"

The Cypriot filmmaker discusses her warm-hearted sophomore feature, which explores maternal figures, found family and sacrifice for those you grow to love  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: Everything As It Should Be

Review: Everything As It Should Be

Bohdan Karásek refines dialogue-driven cinema into an incisive study of middle-age ambivalence, centred on an accomplished woman confronting the gulf between social fulfilment and private doubt  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Special Screenings

Review: A Happy Family

Review: A Happy Family

Jan-Eric Mack’s film, the first Swiss title ever in the Crystal Globe competition, follows the unraveling of a mother after her two children are sent to foster care  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: Truck Driver

Review: Truck Driver

With his docu-fiction hybrid, Francisco Marise tries to capture every angle of a trucker’s life, while doing so in a new and original way  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Proxima

Review: A Report for Minerva 2

Review: A Report for Minerva 2

Hotel staff, guests, spirits and aliens collide in Miroslav Krobot's and Lubomír Smékal's adaptation of their own stage play  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Special Screenings

Martina Buchelová • Director of Lover, Not a Fighter

Interview: Martina Buchelová • Director of Lover, Not a Fighter

“The film’s documentary feel represents an aesthetic choice, not a lack of control“

The Slovak director reflects on how her film looks to reframe serious social and generational concerns through an accessible romantic form  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Proxima

Šimon Holý • Director of Chica Checa

Interview: Šimon Holý • Director of Chica Checa

“This film has become a highly political appeal for individual freedom”

The Czech director chatted with us about turning queer identity, drag culture and rural family comedy into mainstream cinema, shaped by “radical positivity” and “radical hope”  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

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