16/06/2017 - The latest oeuvres by Michael Haneke, Fatih Akin, Aki Kaurismäki, Sergei Loznitsa, Bruno Dumont, Bruce LaBruce and Kornél Mundruczó are on the line-up of the biggest Czech film festival

After revealing all of its competition titles (see the news) and its official selection of out-of-competition films (see the news), the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) has now unveiled the full line-up for its upcoming 52^nd edition. The KVIFF programmers have sorted the most interesting recent titles into two sections, Horizons and Another View. Michael Haneke’s latest, Happy End [+see also:
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interview: Fatih Akin
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interview: Kornél Mundruczó
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interview: Helene Hegemann
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interview: Bruno Dumont
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interview: Daan Bakker
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interview: Bojan Vuletić
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Unconventional and avant-garde oeuvres come together in the Imagina section, including Fiona Tan’s uncanny combination of pictures and voice-overs in her docu-fiction Ascent [+see also:
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film profile]. Visitors in search of a taste of domestic cinema can enjoy Tereza Nvotová’s feature-length fiction debut, Filthy [+see also:
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interview: Iveta Grófová
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interview: György Kristóf
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interview: Zofia Wichlacz
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The gathering will also celebrate 30 years of the European Film Academy by screening Ken Loach’s Land and Freedom and Sweet Sixteen [+see also:
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interview: Jan Ole Gerster
film profile]. People Next Door is a thematic section that aims to show the public how to communicate and interact with people with disabilities, and this year’s titles include Eskil Vogt’s Blind [+see also:
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film profile], Juraj Lehotský’s Blind Loves [+see also:
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film profile] and Miroslav Janek’s The Unseen, among others. As part of the Special Events, the festival will introduce the Czech web-series Growroom on the big screen, the documentary biopic I Am Heath Ledger by Derik Murray and Adrian Buitenhuis, David Lowery’s A Ghost Story and Václav Vorlíček’s cult classic Who Wants to Kill Jessie?. 

The full line-up is available on the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival website. 

The 52nd KVIFF will run from 30 June–8 July.