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Karlovy Vary 2024


87 articles available in total starting from 22/01/2024. Last article published on 18/07/2024.

Review: The Hungarian Dressmaker

Review: The Hungarian Dressmaker

Iveta Grófová takes us to wartime Bratislava in a solid period drama based on Peter Krištúfek’s novella Ema and the Death’s Head  

01/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Review: Three Days of Fish

Review: Three Days of Fish

In his second feature, Dutch helmer Peter Hoogendoorn comes up with a minimalist and bittersweet family drama, playing with the ambiguity of the mutual affection between a father and son  

01/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Marthe Peters • Director of Baldilocks

Interview: Marthe Peters • Director of Baldilocks

“Looking through other people’s eyes, I suddenly feel really proud that I can point to her and tell people that it’s me”

The Dutch director takes her raw and personal documentary, which delves into her past, to Karlovy Vary to screen as part of EFP’s Future Frames  

01/07/2024 | Future Frames 2024

William Sehested Høeg • Director of The Complaint

Interview: William Sehested Høeg • Director of The Complaint

“I’ve made a film about human facades, and how far we will go to fit in and feel recognised”

We get the low-down on this dark, satirical drama that lays bare the falsity of corporate culture and self-help, as it screens at Karlovy Vary as part of EFP’s Future Frames  

01/07/2024 | Future Frames 2024

Katarína Gramatová  • Director of A Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places

Interview: Katarína Gramatová • Director of A Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places

“I am not a fan of documentary films that just capture the moment, where there is no vision or ideas from a filmmaker”

The Slovakian director talks about gaining the trust of the protagonist of her short documentary, which will screen as part of EFP’s Future Frames at Karlovy Vary  

01/07/2024 | Future Frames 2024

Review: Real

Review: Real

Oleh Sentsov’s record of the Russo-Ukrainian war, shot in the trenches themselves, is a compelling piece of “accidental” filmmaking  

30/06/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Special Screenings

Bogdan Alecsandru  • Director of If I Float

Interview: Bogdan Alecsandru • Director of If I Float

“I am interested in the limits and specificities of the short film as an independent art form”

As his work is about to screen as part of EFP’s Future Frames at Karlovy Vary, Cineuropa talks to the Romanian director about queer cinema and the short-film medium  

28/06/2024 | Future Frames 2024

Lucía G Romero  • Director of Cura Sana

Interview: Lucía G Romero • Director of Cura Sana

“For me, love is the essence of the film”

We talk to the Spanish director about her Berlinale Crystal Bear-winning short film as it awaits more plaudits when it screens at EFP’s Future Frames in Karlovy Vary  

28/06/2024 | Future Frames 2024

Anna Maria Jóakimsdóttir-Hutri  • Director of Who Stands Up for Alvar?

Interview: Anna Maria Jóakimsdóttir-Hutri • Director of Who Stands Up for Alvar?

“How we treat the elderly is a measure of the health of a society”

As her film screens at Karlovy Vary as part of EFP’s Future Frames, we talked to the Icelandic director about the importance of caring for the older generation  

28/06/2024 | Future Frames 2024

Karel Och  • Artistic director, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Interview: Karel Och • Artistic director, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

“This willingness to engage with and sometimes polemicise against established canons lends Proxima vibrancy”

We sat down with the Czech festival's artistic director to discuss the Proxima competition, the gathering's focus on debut films, the vibrant state of Czech cinema and the KVIFF Talents incubator  

27/06/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024

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