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1387 articles available in total starting from 04/10/2002. Last article published on 02/07/2025.

Šimon Holý • Director of And Then There Was Love...

Interview: Šimon Holý • Director of And Then There Was Love...

"To me, the movie is about manipulation more than about the relationship between mother and daughter"

In his newest feature, the filmmaker explores the manipulative world of fortune-telling and easy solutions in life  

12/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Proxima

Matt Sarnecki • Director of The Killing of a Journalist

Interview: Matt Sarnecki • Director of The Killing of a Journalist

"Thanks to the clear evidence, this case is a blueprint for how corruption works throughout the region, but maybe also around the world"

The director unpicks his investigative documentary that tackles the 2018 murder of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová  

11/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Special Screenings

Adéla Komrzý and Tomás Bojar • Directors of Art Talent Show

Interview: Adéla Komrzý and Tomás Bojar • Directors of Art Talent Show

"Maybe the Western, liberal, individualistic way of thinking has gone too far, and we’re too obsessed with the personal side of things"

The directors talk us through their Proxima Grand Prix winner, which was filmed over the course of one week during the entrance exams for the Prague Academy of Arts  

11/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Proxima

Review: And Then There Was Love…

Review: And Then There Was Love…

Šimon Holý’s sophomore feature is a quirky, melancholic comedy about two generations struggling to understand each other  

11/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Proxima

Review: BANGER.

Review: BANGER.

Adam Sedlák’s drug tragicomedy evokes Trainspotting as a young dealer races against the clock to raise €5,000  

11/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Special Screenings

Review: Borders of Love

Review: Borders of Love

Things get messy in Tomasz Wiński’s Crystal Globe Competition entry, about a couple who want more and somehow end up with less  

11/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Summer with Hope by Sadaf Foroughi wins the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary

Summer with Hope by Sadaf Foroughi wins the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary

Czech films by the youngest generation, such as The Word and Art Talent Show, also took centre stage and received accolades from the international juries  

11/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Awards

Ofir Raul Grazier • Director of America

Interview: Ofir Raul Grazier • Director of America

"I wanted to tell a story about childhood and its influence on our life; it's the basic thing in our human spirit"

The Israeli director unpicks his new feature, a cleverly structured, psychologically complex story about relationships, which has just screened in competition at Karlovy Vary  

08/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Tomasz Wiński • Director of Borders of Love

Interview: Tomasz Wiński • Director of Borders of Love

“I’m just interested in pain”

A long-standing couple decide to live out their fantasies – also with other people – in the Polish-born, Czech-based filmmaker’s new effort  

08/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Review: My Father, The Prince

Review: My Father, The Prince

Lila Schwarzenberg approaches the biography of her famous father Karel through the lens of their often-strained relationship  

08/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Special Screenings

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