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23 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2026. Last article published on 16/07/2026.

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Nader Saeivar • Director of Hijamat

Interview: Nader Saeivar • Director of Hijamat

“I wasn’t interested in judging, I wanted to observe how mechanisms continue to shape people’s lives”

The filmmaker discusses his latest film, centred on a traditional Muslim family and community whose world is shaken when they discover that one of their young members is gay  

16/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Ivan Ostrochovský • Director of Only Beautiful Things to Look At

Interview: Ivan Ostrochovský • Director of Only Beautiful Things to Look At

"The topic of forced sterilisation is universal, not only a phenomenon of socialist times"

The Slovak director talks about his film, which revisits one of the darkest chapters of Czechoslovakia's history, the state's policy of forced sterilisation of Romani women  

14/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Aung Phyoe’s Fruit Gathering scoops the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary

Aung Phyoe’s Fruit Gathering scoops the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary

Mads Mengel’s The Guest picked up two awards, while Martina Buchelová’s Lover, Not a Fighter triumphed in the Proxima Competition  

13/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Awards

Aung Phyoe • Director of Fruit Gathering

Interview: Aung Phyoe • Director of Fruit Gathering

“Love is never a binary thing, a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’”

The director discusses a story of longing, ambiguity and unequal privilege, and how he merged social realism with memory, confinement and imagined escape  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Jan-Eric Mack • Director of A Happy Family

Interview: Jan-Eric Mack • Director of A Happy Family

“We wanted to reveal a side of Switzerland that is hardly ever discussed”

The Swiss filmmaker discusses his first feature, which follows a working mother struggling to keep her children with her, and what audiences can take away from it  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: Fruit Gathering

Review: Fruit Gathering

Aung Phyoe’s feature debut turns the ambiguous intimacy between two seamstresses into a delicate study of desire, labour and social repression in contemporary Myanmar  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Miroslav Terzić • Director of 3 Weeks After

Interview: Miroslav Terzić • Director of 3 Weeks After

"This film provokes the audience to ask themselves: ‘What would I do in this situation?'"

The Serbian director speaks about the film's casting and working with an entire classroom of young actors, as well as using horror as a storytelling tool  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov • Directors of Black Money for White Nights

Interview: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov • Directors of Black Money for White Nights

"Our characters are very confused people, living half of their lives under communism and the other half in and after the transition"

The duo speaks about portraying a generation that has lived through two opposing political systems and exploring the many shades of corruption and moral compromise  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Mads Mengel • Director of The Guest

Interview: Mads Mengel • Director of The Guest

"I wanted nuance in every character, everyone to be right and everyone to be wrong at some point"

The Danish director speaks about developing complex characters with the actors, portraying mental illness without easy answers, or even the proper vocabulary to talk about it  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: Hijamat

Review: Hijamat

Nader Saeivar's new film explores questions of sexual identity and the overbearing influence of religion within Berlin's Turkish community  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

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