The Crystal Globe-winning drama by Radu Jude “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], both co-produced by Czech outfit endorfilm. Besides Jude, the controversial Golden Bear-winning psychological drama Touch Me Not [+lee también:
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Jude’s provocative drama about Romania’s past is not the only award-winning film to be plucked from this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) line-up: The TIFF programmers also picked Olmo Omerzu’s coming-of-age road movie Winter Flies [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] for the selection that provides a peek at current world cinema. Winter Flies, which netted the Best Director Award at this year’s KVIFF, marks the third collaboration between the Slovenian-born, Prague-based director and producer Jiří Konečný, of endorfilm.

Another award-winning movie from the largest Czech gathering, a cinematic time capsule providing an insight into Vladimir Putin’s rise to power, Putin’s Witnesses [+lee también:
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