Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2015

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The Forbidden Room The Forbidden Room
The Forbidden Room and Lucifer
Am I Dreaming Of Others, Or Are Others Dreaming Of Me? (Year: 2014; Director: Shigeo Arikawa)
Experimental short.
Back Track (Country: Austria; Year: 2015; Director: Virgil Widrich; Writer: Virgil Widrich)
Twenty-five old movies, three men under the spell of one woman, and 3-D.
The Forbidden Room (Country: Canada; Year: 2015; Director: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson; Writer: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Robert Kotyk, John Ashbery, Kim Morgan; Stars: Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Louis Negin, Udo Kier, Gregory Hlady, Mathieu Amalric, Noel Burton, Geraldine Chaplin, Paul Ahmarani, Caroline Dhavernas, Jacques Nolot, Slimane Dazi, Maria de Medeiros, Charlotte Rampling, Victor Andrés Trelles Turgeon)
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.
Lost Case (Ztracený případ) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2014; Director: Roman Štětina)
This compilation film employes scenes from the cult series Columbo to create an new story.
Lucifer (Country: Belgium; Year: 2014; Director: Gust Van Den Berghe; Writer: Gust Van Den Berghe; Stars: María Acosta, Jeronimo Soto Bravo, Norma Pablo, Gabino Rodríguez)
An angel falling from heaven to hell unexpectedly lands in a Mexican village where his presence affects the villagers in surprising ways.
Natural History (Country: Austria; Year: 2014; Director: James Benning; Writer: James Benning)
A somewhat different kind of excursion to Vienna’s Museum of Natural History that doesn’t urge us to view the exhibits with a sense of wonder
Nipomo (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2015; Director: Marek Partyš)
Music video for Czech band Dva.
The Old Jewish Cemetery (Country: Netherlands; Year: 2015; Director: Sergei Loznitsa)
Story of the first Jewish cemetery in Riga, opened in 1725.
Orgy Of The Devil And Other Forbidden Tapes Of Ivan Cardoso (O bacanal do diabo e outras fitas proibidas de Ivan Cardoso) (Country: Brazil; Year: 2013; Director: Ivan Cardoso)
Compilation film about Cardoso's career.
Ov (Country: Hungary, Czech Republic; Year: 2014; Director: Martin Blažíček)
Foggy memories of a French nightclub from the mid-20th century; glitchy stuttering electronic music by Lanuk, 2014.
A Purpose (Year: 2015; Director: Luca Dipierro)
Father Murphy video.
San Siro (Country: Italy; Year: 2014; Director: Yuri Ancarani; Writer: Yuri Ancarani)
Study of the Milan stadium.
Sleeping District (Country: Denmark; Year: 2014; Director: Tinne Zenner)
Silent film about the empty apartments of Moscow’s enormous prefab housing complexes.
The (Country: Austria; Year: 2015; Director: Dieter Kovacic, Billy Roisz)
Abstract horror.
Things (Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Ben Rivers)
Each season of the year ushers in a different mood, the nature of which leading British experimenter Ben Rivers investigates in his latest, highly personal film.
Twelve Tales Told (Country: Austria; Year: 2014; Director: Johann Lurf)
3D deconstruction of film introductions.
Vanishing Circuit (Shoushitsusuru Kairo) (Country: Japan; Year: 2014; Director: Shunsuke Hasegawa)
This dreamlike movie, created under the influence of Chris Marker’s film La jetée (1962).
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