20/06/2016 - A slew of recently awarded titles have made it onto the Czech gathering’s programme for this year

After presenting its competition titles (read the news), the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has now unveiled its 51^st-edition line-up in its entirety. Earlier, it was made public that a retrospective would be dedicated to Austrian-American director Otto Preminger and that a spotlight would also be shone upon contemporary Mexican female filmmakers. The official out-of-competition selection includes a film essay dedicated to the hometown of director Pepe Diokno, Manila, Brotherhood; a documentary about a Mongolian girl striving to become a bird hunter, The Eagle Huntress; the controversial dramedy Swiss Army Man, starring Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe; and Darren Thornton’s feature debut, A Date for Mad Mary [+see also:
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Felix van Groeningen’s Belgica [+see also:
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interview: Artemio Benki, Sylvie Leray
interview: Felix Van Groeningen
film profile] has been picked for the Horizons section, which rounds up the most interesting current titles, including Christian Vincent’s Courted [+see also:
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film profile] and the Golden Bear-winning Fire at Sea [+see also:
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interview: Gianfranco Rosi
film profile] by Gianfranco Rosi. The boldest recent titles are gathered under the umbrella of the Another View section, such as Tobias Nölle’s solo feature debut, Aloys [+see also:
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interview: Tobias Nölle
film profile], a reality-bending tale of romance between two alienated people; the Un Certain Regard-winning Finnish boxing biopic The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki [+see also:
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interview: Juho Kuosmanen
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interview: Oliver Laxe
film profile] by Oliver Laxe; Pietro Marcello’s essayistic fable of a film, Lost and Beautiful [+see also:
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interview: Pietro Marcello ­
film profile]; Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s horror-musical fairy tale The Lure [+see also:
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interview: Agnieszka Smoczyńska
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interview: Shahrbanoo Sadat
film profile] by Shahrbanoo Sadat. 

Films characterised by “distinctive and radical visions of film language” make up the Imagina section. This year’s chosen titles are Martin Kollár’s contemplative docu-diary 5 October, Ben Rivers’ genre-defying The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers [+see also:
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interview: Marko Škop
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interview: Olmo Omerzu
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interview: Petr Zelenka
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interview: Petr Vaclav
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The full line-up of the 51st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (1-9 July) is available here.