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Karlovy Vary 2026 / Competition

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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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Tonia Mishiali • Director of The Lion at My Back

Interview: Tonia Mishiali • Director of The Lion at My Back

"I needed the audience to catch their breath while also sinking them into the darkness of each character"

The Cypriot filmmaker discusses her warm-hearted sophomore feature, which explores maternal figures, found family and sacrifice for those you grow to love  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: A Happy Family

Review: A Happy Family

Jan-Eric Mack’s film, the first Swiss title ever in the Crystal Globe competition, follows the unraveling of a mother after her two children are sent to foster care  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Šimon Holý • Director of Chica Checa

Interview: Šimon Holý • Director of Chica Checa

“This film has become a highly political appeal for individual freedom”

The Czech director chatted with us about turning queer identity, drag culture and rural family comedy into mainstream cinema, shaped by “radical positivity” and “radical hope”  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: 3 Weeks After

Review: 3 Weeks After

Serbian director Miroslav Terzić delivers a highly artistic, technically impressive and morally ambiguous drama about school bullying  

08/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: The Lion at My Back

Review: The Lion at My Back

Cypriot director Tonia Mishiali's second feature teams up two excellent actresses, Elena Kallinikou and Sokhna Diallo, in a story of unlikely female bonding  

07/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: The Guest

Review: The Guest

Mads Mengel applies Nordic dark comedy to his first feature film, which charts the breakdown of a family event following the arrival of the titular character  

07/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: Black Money for White Nights

Review: Black Money for White Nights

Bulgaria’s Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov are back with another tragicomedy rooted in the peculiarities of their home country’s petty mentality, this time fuelled by the global political context  

06/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: Only Beautiful Things to Look At

Review: Only Beautiful Things to Look At

Ivan Ostrochovský’s careful unraveling of biopolitical control centres on the friendship between a white female doctor and a Romani nurse in 1980s Czechoslovakia  

06/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: Chica Checa

Review: Chica Checa

In Šimon Holý’s warm, intergenerational dramedy, a son’s hidden drag persona becomes the catalyst for a widowed mother’s late-life reawakening and hard-won acceptance  

06/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

EXCLUSIVE: Poster for Karlovy Vary competition title 3 Weeks After

EXCLUSIVE: Poster for Karlovy Vary competition title 3 Weeks After

Serbian director Miroslav Terzić's secondary-school bullying drama is inspired by real events while not being based on any specific case  

02/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

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