The Crystal Globe-winning drama by Radu Jude “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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