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

Martin Mareček • Director of Over The Hills

Interview: Martin Mareček • Director of Over The Hills

"This might be a film about man's search for his inner woman"

Czech filmmaker Martin Mareček talked to us about Over The Hills, which was world-premiered in the Documentary Competition at Karlovy Vary  

10/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | Documentary Competition

Bohdan Sláma in the editing room with WWII drama Shadow Country

Bohdan Sláma in the editing room with WWII drama Shadow Country

The Czech director has finished shooting his first historical drama on celluloid  

10/07/2019 | Production | Czech Republic/Slovakia

Ivan Zachariáš • Director of The Sleepers

Interview: Ivan Zachariáš • Director of The Sleepers

"It's easier to write characters when they are strong and not quite passive"

HBO mini-series The Sleepers was presented out of competition at Karlovy Vary, and we met up with its director Ivan Zachariáš to discuss it  

10/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | Out of Competition

Review: A Certain Kind of Silence

Review: A Certain Kind of Silence

Czech director Michal Hogenauer’s first feature film takes a sterile approach to telling a perverse story about families and manipulation (and maybe something else)  

10/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | East of the West

Martin Dušek, Ondřej Provazník • Directors of Old-Timers

Interview: Martin Dušek, Ondřej Provazník • Directors of Old-Timers

"The story is not only Czech, and not only about communism - it could happen anywhere and anytime"

Martin Dušek and Ondřej Provazník, the Czech directing duo behind Old-Timers, shown out of competition at Karlovy Vary, discuss their film with us  

10/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | Out of Competition

Review: Silent Days

Review: Silent Days

Pavol Pekarčík has made what is so far the warmest Slovak docu-fiction drama about the Roma population, one of the staples of the country's modern cinema  

10/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | East of the West

Michal Hogenauer  • Director of A Certain Kind of Silence

Interview: Michal Hogenauer • Director of A Certain Kind of Silence

“It is necessary to find your own film language and your own poetics”

Cineuropa talked to debutant Czech filmmaker Michal Hogenauer about his movie A Certain Kind of Silence, the banality of evil, genre filmmaking and minimalism  

09/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | East of the West

MIDPOINT Feature Launch Script Consultancy @ KVIFF Eastern Promises Industry Days

Interview: MIDPOINT Feature Launch Script Consultancy @ KVIFF Eastern Promises Industry Days

Interview

We interviewed the professionals participating in the MIDPOINT Feature Launch Script Consultancy workshop that took place as part of the KVIFF Eastern Promises Industry Days  

09/07/2019 | MIDPOINT 2019

MIDPOINT Feature Launch winners @ KVIFF Eastern Promises Industry Days

Interview: MIDPOINT Feature Launch winners @ KVIFF Eastern Promises Industry Days

Interview

At the KVIFF Eastern Promises Industry Days of the 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, we interviewed the winners of the MIDPOINT Feature Launch programme  

08/07/2019 | MIDPOINT 2019

REPORT: Docs in Progress @ Karlovy Vary 2019

REPORT: Docs in Progress @ Karlovy Vary 2019

Intriguing, socially conscious and personal documentary projects at the post-production stage have been showcased at Karlovy Vary  

08/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | KVIFF Eastern Promises

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