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1378 articles available in total starting from 04/10/2002. Last article published on 11/06/2025.

Adam Martinec  • Director of Our Lovely Pig Slaughter

Interview: Adam Martinec • Director of Our Lovely Pig Slaughter

“Humour opens up the audience's heart, making it easier to smuggle in the heavier moments”

The director discusses his use of the pig-slaughter tradition to explore generational and gender tensions, plus his influences from the Czechoslovak New Wave  

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Review: Our Lovely Pig Slaughter

Review: Our Lovely Pig Slaughter

Debuting filmmaker Adam Martinec delivers a probe into Czech identity and generational conflict set against the fading tradition of domestic pig slaughter  

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Review: The Hungarian Dressmaker

Review: The Hungarian Dressmaker

Iveta Grófová takes us to wartime Bratislava in a solid period drama based on Peter Krištúfek’s novella Ema and the Death’s Head  

01/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Karel Och  • Artistic director, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Interview: Karel Och • Artistic director, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

“This willingness to engage with and sometimes polemicise against established canons lends Proxima vibrancy”

We sat down with the Czech festival's artistic director to discuss the Proxima competition, the gathering's focus on debut films, the vibrant state of Czech cinema and the KVIFF Talents incubator  

27/06/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024

Europa Distribution returns to Karlovy Vary for the latest edition of the Film Distribution Innovation Hub

Europa Distribution returns to Karlovy Vary for the latest edition of the Film Distribution Innovation Hub

The network's members will explore and discuss the latest digital innovations presented by leading tech company representatives  

27/06/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | KVIFF Eastern Promises

KVIFF Eastern Promises reveals this year’s crop of promising film projects

KVIFF Eastern Promises reveals this year’s crop of promising film projects

Karlovy Vary’s industry platform will welcome a diverse variety of 39 projects hailing from countries across Europe, the Middle East and Japan  

26/06/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | KVIFF Eastern Promises

The CEE Animation Forum unveils its 2024 selection

The CEE Animation Forum unveils its 2024 selection

Thirty-one projects have been selected for this year's pitching forum, after a record-breaking number of applications were sent in  

26/06/2024 | CEE Animation 2024

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Karlovy Vary entry Waves

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Karlovy Vary entry Waves

Urban Sales sells Czech helmer Jiří Mádl's film, a thriller that looks back at the period leading up to the invasion of the Czech Republic by the Warsaw Pact in 1968  

25/06/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Special Screenings

First Cut+ releases its selection for Karlovy Vary

First Cut+ releases its selection for Karlovy Vary

Eight films will take part in the session that forms part of the KVIFF Eastern Promises programme, with a number of acclaimed advisors having been confirmed to participate  

25/06/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | KVIFF Eastern Promises

Review: Diplodocus

Review: Diplodocus

The first Polish film in 3D, directed by Wojtek Wawszczyk, transports us to the fantastical world of a little dinosaur who takes on the unknown in order to find his parents  

19/06/2024 | Annecy 2024

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