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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.

Jan Holoubek discussed turning national memory into global TV with High Water and Heweliusz at Karlovy Vary

Jan Holoubek discussed turning national memory into global TV with High Water and Heweliusz at Karlovy Vary

The Polish director argued that, despite potentially being shaped by strategy, audience anticipation still begins with a creator’s belief in the story  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | KVIFF Industry Days

Review: 3 Weeks After

Review: 3 Weeks After

Serbian director Miroslav Terzić delivers a highly artistic, technically impressive and morally ambiguous drama about school bullying  

08/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: City of Fathers

Review: City of Fathers

A thirty-year-old manchild sets on a punk rock odyssey in search of his biological father in Zdeněk Tyc’s latest feature  

08/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Special Screenings

Review: Paris Paris

Review: Paris Paris

Three immigrants search for happiness in the French metropolis in Isabelle Tollenaere’s docu-fiction  

08/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Proxima

Karlovy Vary asks what Europe is leaving off screen

Karlovy Vary asks what Europe is leaving off screen

Victoria Thomas used new ARTEF research to argue that Europe’s screen narratives are still shaped by old hierarchies — and launched Main Character to help locate the stories missing from view  

08/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | KVIFF Industry Days

Review: To Die to Live

Review: To Die to Live

Yuliia Hontaruk's emotionally direct, 12-year portrait of three Ukrainian fighters reveals how war endures not only in the trenches, but in homes, families, language and memory  

08/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Special Screenings

Karlovy Vary argues Ukrainian cinema needs structural support, not only emergency solidarity

Karlovy Vary argues Ukrainian cinema needs structural support, not only emergency solidarity

Ukrainian cinema arrived at the Czech festival with the numbers to prove it is still working — and with a clear demand for Europe to move beyond crisis response  

08/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | KVIFF Industry Days

KVIFF Promises unveils its award winners

KVIFF Promises unveils its award winners

The Swedish-Danish project Selamlik and the Ukrainian title Reminiscence have emerged among the main victors in the Czech festival’s industry platform  

08/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | KVIFF Industry Days

Review: The Lion at My Back

Review: The Lion at My Back

Cypriot director Tonia Mishiali's second feature teams up two excellent actresses, Elena Kallinikou and Sokhna Diallo, in a story of unlikely female bonding  

07/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: Lover, Not a Fighter

Review: Lover, Not a Fighter

Martina Buchelová’s feature film debut turns a turbulent romance into a loose, semi-documentary-style, Gen Z mosaic of intimacy, anxiety and comic disarray  

07/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Proxima

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