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This year's festival will run from June 30 to July 8. The festival will open with Firebrand. The programme is in progress of being announced, so please check back regularly.
View Films by Strand:
- Another Birth. Iranian Cinema Here and Now.
- Crystal Globe Competition
- Horizons
- Imagina
- Midnight Screenings
- Proxima Competition
- Special Screenings
- Tribute to Yasuzo Masumura
View previous years coverage of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival festival:
Karlovy Latest Reviews
When a man who was cast out as a child after being considered a sorceror returns home, he faces prejudice.
A woman's moral compass starts to slip after she is conned out of her savings by a phone scammer.
Iman, an Iranian, lives with his family in Sweden in an ever-changing succession of refugee hostels. To increase his chances of obtaining residence permits for them all, he resumes his career as a wrestler – and is confronted with the reason he had to flee.
The story of a group of archaeologists and the black market in historical artefacts.
Samsara is the Buddhist cycle of death and reincarnation. From the temples of Laos, alongside with teenage monks, we will accompany a soul in its transit from one body to another through the bardo.
A mother is shocked when she learns what a teacher has said to her son, but the truth is more complicated.
The filmmaker doesn’t have any pictures of herself as a child. This is the starting point of a documentary investigation that unfolds the secrets of a Casablanca family.
A young teacher hopes to be appointed to Istanbul after mandatory duty at a small village. After long time waiting he loses all hope of escaping from this gloomy life. His colleague helps him to regain his perspective.
Two bank staff rob their own establishment.
The story of an urban renewal project which involves the creation of 17 public toilets in key locations in the Japanese capital.
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