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Karlovy Vary 2025


75 articles available in total starting from 07/03/2025. Last article published on 22/07/2025.

Nikola Ležaić • Director of How Come It's All Green Out Here?

Interview: Nikola Ležaić • Director of How Come It's All Green Out Here?

"We believe in our memory, but the only reality is the one we’re in right now"

The Serbian director discusses his quiet, autobiographical road trip around a weekend across Dalmatia to re-bury his grandmother  

22/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Proxima

Bence Fliegauf and Barbara Bernáth • Director and producer of Jimmy Jaguar

Interview: Bence Fliegauf and Barbara Bernáth • Director and producer of Jimmy Jaguar

"Jimmy Jaguar is a bodyless revenge demon looking for justice"

The Hungarian director and producer discuss their film, a mixture of procedural realism with folk horror that blurs the boundary between reality and psyche  

22/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

Yelizaveta Smit, Eugene Rachkovsky • Director and producer of In Vacuo

Interview: Yelizaveta Smit, Eugene Rachkovsky • Director and producer of In Vacuo

“The war has taught us to adapt”

The Ukrainian filmmaker and producer discuss her fiction debut, a meditation on memory and absence set in Odesa, which won the Eurimages Special Co-production Development Award at KVIFF  

21/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | KVIFF Industry Days

Diana Caravia, Ștefan Bîtu-Tudoran • Producer and director of Battalion Records

Interview: Diana Caravia, Ștefan Bîtu-Tudoran • Producer and director of Battalion Records

“I’m going for a transgressive and sensorial type of cinema, where I try to blend comedy and horror in the same scene”

The producer and director of the winner of the Eurimages Co-production Development Award at Karlovy Vary break down their project focusing on a group of artists who want to start a cultural revolution  

20/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | KVIFF Industry Days

João Rosas • Director of The Luminous Life

Interview: João Rosas • Director of The Luminous Life

"My main character is built on doubt, rather than certainty"

The Portuguese director unpicks his movie, which continues to build the fictional universe of Nicolau, a world he has developed since the character's childhood through short films  

18/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

KVIFF Industry Days focuses on creative control in European and global series development and production

KVIFF Industry Days focuses on creative control in European and global series development and production

Writers, producers and directors explored the evolving role of showrunners as well as the collaborative models available to facilitate writing  

17/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | KVIFF Industry Days

Pere Vilà Barceló • Director of When a River Becomes the Sea

Interview: Pere Vilà Barceló • Director of When a River Becomes the Sea

"My film is based on interviews with more than 100 women who were victims of gender-based violence"

We caught up with the director to talk about his movie, in which a young archaeology student is struggling to find her true calling all while recovering from an abusive relationship  

17/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

Paula Ďurinová • Director of Action Item

Interview: Paula Ďurinová • Director of Action Item

“I wanted to recognise how the politics of destruction, violence and a crumbling democracy affect our mental health”

The Slovak-born, Berlin-based director talks about the making of her film, and her shift from character-driven storytelling to a collage approach  

17/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Proxima

Vojtěch Strakatý • Director of The Other Side of Summer

Interview: Vojtěch Strakatý • Director of The Other Side of Summer

“The desire to discover new worlds naturally brings in the mysterious and the magical”

The Czech director talks about subverting narrative clichés, experimenting with structure, and drawing inspiration from video games and vaporwave  

16/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Proxima

Nina Knag • Director of Don't Call Me Mama

Interview: Nina Knag • Director of Don't Call Me Mama

"I wanted to introduce a female character that would be complex and difficult to like"

We sat down with the Norwegian director to chat about her film, which examines the fragile interplay of power, desire and vulnerability through an intimate character study  

15/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

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