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

Review: A Report for Minerva 2

Review: A Report for Minerva 2

Hotel staff, guests, spirits and aliens collide in Miroslav Krobot's and Lubomír Smékal's adaptation of their own stage play  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Special Screenings

Martina Buchelová • Director of Lover, Not a Fighter

Interview: Martina Buchelová • Director of Lover, Not a Fighter

“The film’s documentary feel represents an aesthetic choice, not a lack of control“

The Slovak director reflects on how her film looks to reframe serious social and generational concerns through an accessible romantic form  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Proxima

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

Jan Holoubek discussed turning national memory into global TV with High Water and Heweliusz at Karlovy Vary

Jan Holoubek discussed turning national memory into global TV with High Water and Heweliusz at Karlovy Vary

The Polish director argued that, despite potentially being shaped by strategy, audience anticipation still begins with a creator’s belief in the story  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | KVIFF Industry Days

Review: City of Fathers

Review: City of Fathers

A thirty-year-old manchild sets on a punk rock odyssey in search of his biological father in Zdeněk Tyc’s latest feature  

08/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Special Screenings

Karlovy Vary asks what Europe is leaving off screen

Karlovy Vary asks what Europe is leaving off screen

Victoria Thomas used new ARTEF research to argue that Europe’s screen narratives are still shaped by old hierarchies — and launched Main Character to help locate the stories missing from view  

08/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | KVIFF Industry Days

KVIFF Promises unveils its award winners

KVIFF Promises unveils its award winners

The Swedish-Danish project Selamlik and the Ukrainian title Reminiscence have emerged among the main victors in the Czech festival’s industry platform  

08/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | KVIFF Industry Days

Review: Lover, Not a Fighter

Review: Lover, Not a Fighter

Martina Buchelová’s feature film debut turns a turbulent romance into a loose, semi-documentary-style, Gen Z mosaic of intimacy, anxiety and comic disarray  

07/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Proxima

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

Marie Lukáčová • Director of Orla

Interview: Marie Lukáčová • Director of Orla

“I want my children to be able to watch a fairy tale that speaks their language”

Czech filmmaker Marie Lukáčová will make a triumphant homecoming as her film will screen at Karlovy Vary as part of EFP’s Future Frames  

06/07 | Future Frames 2026

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