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1522 articles available in total starting from 04/10/2002. Last article published on 18/09/2026.

CEE Animation Forum announces its selection

CEE Animation Forum announces its selection

A total of 33 projects have been selected for the 14th edition of the pitching, financing and co-production event for animation, taking place in Pilsen from 10 to 12 November  

14/07 | CEE Animation 2026

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

REPORT: KVIFF Central Stage @ KVIFF Promises 2026

REPORT: KVIFF Central Stage @ KVIFF Promises 2026

KVIFF Promises’ showcase of established Central European filmmakers foregrounded bruised coming-of-age stories, refugee fables, post-war reckoning, class rage and historical memory  

13/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | KVIFF Industry Days

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

Bohdan Karásek • Director of Everything As It Should Be

Interview: Bohdan Karásek • Director of Everything As It Should Be

“Prague is the capital of the country, but not the capital of life"

The Czech director discusses moving from micro-budget filmmaking to a more structured production, his relationship with the mumblecore label and the search for “truth on the cinema screen”  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Special Screenings

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

Review: Gregorius, the Chosen One

Review: Gregorius, the Chosen One

Tomasz Mielnik's sophomore feature transforms the medieval Pope Gregory legend into a deadpan mock-epic of sin and destiny, in a minimalist yet mannerist auteur comedy  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Special Screenings

Utopai pitches itself as a full-stack studio for the age of AI

Utopai pitches itself as a full-stack studio for the age of AI

At Karlovy Vary, COO Kevin Chong argued that AI’s most disruptive promise may be less about replacing artists than restoring the scale of filmmaking that has largely vanished from Hollywood  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | KVIFF Industry Days

Review: Everything As It Should Be

Review: Everything As It Should Be

Bohdan Karásek refines dialogue-driven cinema into an incisive study of middle-age ambivalence, centred on an accomplished woman confronting the gulf between social fulfilment and private doubt  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Special Screenings

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