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Karlovy Vary 2024 / Competition


26 articles available in total starting from 28/05/2024. Last article published on 11/07/2024.

Beata Parkanová • Director of Tiny Lights

Interview: Beata Parkanová • Director of Tiny Lights

“Adults tend to look down on children; in this film, they are all equal”

The Czech filmmaker discusses her tiny protagonist, whose family are convinced she is completely oblivious to the turmoil that’s ripping them apart – but they’re wrong  

05/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Review: Banzo

Review: Banzo

In Margarida Cardoso’s feature, a mysterious illness is befalling the workers on a remote African island  

05/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Review: Tiny Lights

Review: Tiny Lights

Through the eyes of her child heroine, Beata Parkanová shows a whole history of perpetuated family trauma and allows us to imagine the little girl’s future  

04/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Margarida Cardoso  • Director of Banzo

Interview: Margarida Cardoso • Director of Banzo

“One of the challenges of the film is that it takes place from the point of view of those in power”

In her new feature, the Portuguese director focuses on a little-discussed historical happening: the death of expatriated African workers owing to their longing for their homeland  

04/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Review: Celebration

Review: Celebration

Having endured only hardships in his life, a good man crosses a moral boundary to become a member of a fascist militia in Bruno Anković’s mesmerising debut feature  

03/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Peter Hoogendoorn • Director of Three Days of Fish

Interview: Peter Hoogendoorn • Director of Three Days of Fish

“My work is often described as autobiographical, but I find that definition limiting”

The Dutch director breaks down his second feature, revealing the biographical connection to its plot  

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

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: Xoftex

Review: Xoftex

Noaz Deshe makes tragic reality and surreal fantasies overlap in order to portray the frustrating situation at a Greek refugee camp  

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Review: Panopticon

Review: Panopticon

George Sikharulidze’s debut tells the story of an 18-year-old boy who experiences conflicting emotions as his sexuality awakens against the backdrop of Georgian society  

01/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

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