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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.

Review: A Whole Person Almost

Review: A Whole Person Almost

In Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis' debut feature, the hero travels to an island to claim his inheritance, but instead learns something new about himself, his father and humanity itself  

07/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Proxima

Review: The Guest

Review: The Guest

Mads Mengel applies Nordic dark comedy to his first feature film, which charts the breakdown of a family event following the arrival of the titular character  

07/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: Black Money for White Nights

Review: Black Money for White Nights

Bulgaria’s Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov are back with another tragicomedy rooted in the peculiarities of their home country’s petty mentality, this time fuelled by the global political context  

06/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: Only Beautiful Things to Look At

Review: Only Beautiful Things to Look At

Ivan Ostrochovský’s careful unraveling of biopolitical control centres on the friendship between a white female doctor and a Romani nurse in 1980s Czechoslovakia  

06/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Jozo Schmuch • Director of Shallow Ground

Interview: Jozo Schmuch • Director of Shallow Ground

“The tragedy of Vukovar should never be used to sow hatred, but should rather serve as a lesson so that nothing like it ever happens again"

Blending the dreamlike with realism, the Croatian director's work is a personal story of those who have disappeared, and will screen as part of EFP's Future Frames at Karlovy Vary  

06/07 | Future Frames 2026

Marie Lukáčová • Director of Orla

Interview: Marie Lukáčová • Director of Orla

“I want my children to be able to watch a fairy tale that speaks their language”

Czech filmmaker Marie Lukáčová will make a triumphant homecoming as her film will screen at Karlovy Vary as part of EFP’s Future Frames  

06/07 | Future Frames 2026

Review: Petty Thieves

Review: Petty Thieves

Croatian director Mate Ugrin's feature debut is a subtle, atmospheric and ambiguous film about two young employees of a posh hotel who team up to steal from the rich guests  

06/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Proxima

Review: 33 Steps

Review: 33 Steps

Slovak filmmakers Anna and Šimon Domček's first feature is a docufiction hybrid about a Roma man suffering from trauma after a brutal attack that almost killed him  

06/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Proxima

André Vaara • Director of Sister of Mine

Interview: André Vaara • Director of Sister of Mine

“I’m probably a big dreamer at heart, but I’m also a proper realist”

The Swedish director talks to us about his sensitive short film, which will soon screen in EFP’s Future Frames line-up in Karlovy Vary  

06/07 | Future Frames 2026

Review: Chica Checa

Review: Chica Checa

In Šimon Holý’s warm, intergenerational dramedy, a son’s hidden drag persona becomes the catalyst for a widowed mother’s late-life reawakening and hard-won acceptance  

06/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

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