Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2026

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33 Steps (Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic; Year: 2026; Director: Šimon Domček, Anna Domček; Writer: Anna Domček, Šimon Domček, Matúš Ďuraňa, Rastislav Graňák; Stars: Milan Daniel, Jana Poláková, Mili Daniel, Gabriel Daniel, Róbert Jakab, Eliška Křenková, Róbert Mikla)
Thirteen years after Milan Daniel suffered a serious head injury in a racially motivated attack, his assailant is set to be released. What feelings does this moment awaken in a traumatised man?
Against Nature (Contra la Naturaleza) (Country: Mexico; Year: 2026; Director: Axel Bertha)
After many years away, Jonás returns to the countryside to start work as a stonemason. In a place marked by the harshness of life, he opens himself up to something intangible – a force that permeates the landscape, bodies, and time itself.
Homo Sive Natura (Country: Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Giovanni C Lorusso; Writer: Giovanni C Lorusso; Stars: Rous Mony, Bich Kosal, Pic Kara, Yan Voy, Chhun Savin, Chang Sapleak)
In the remote forests of eastern Cambodia lives a community of indigenous inhabitants. A businessman arrives with seemingly selfless intentions but he has an ulterior motive.
Incinerator (Shokyakuro) (Country: Japan; Year: 2026; Director: Shuntaro Uchida)
Japan Japan One liner: Ten-year-old Kozue, who definitely is not one of the popular kids at school, secretly spends her time tossing various objects into the school’s incinerator. When university student Jinta comes to her classroom and invites the children to a shadow play performance, something awakens inside Kozue, and her path toward adulthood begins.
The Ink-Stained Hand And The Missing Thumb (Country: India; Year: 2026; Director: Yashasvi Juyal; Writer: Yashasvi Juyal)
A pair of toll booth workers are bound by love, until one day, a sudden tragedy turns their lives upside down.
Lover, Not A Fighter (Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia; Year: 2026; Director: Martina Buchelová; Writer: Martina Buchelová; Stars: Adam Kubala, František Beleš, Michaela Kostková, Jaroslava Pokorná, Marián Mitaš, Mia Sofia Arpášová)
Andrej has a plan to stay sober by spending the summer with his grandmother, but as he starts to fall in love, there are challenges ahead.
My Friend The Porn Star (Mein Freund der Pornostar) (Country: Austria; Year: 2026; Director: Rosa Friedrich; Writer: Rosa Friedrich; Stars: Rosa Friedrich)
A woman tries to help her friend get an erotic film off the ground, but as he gets cold feet, they turn to AI to help.
Paris Paris (Country: Belgium; Year: 2026; Director: Isabelle Tollenaere)
Drama about a trio of men, from different countries, living in exile.
Petty Thieves (Country: Croatia, Germany, France, Serbia; Year: 2026; Director: Mate Ugrin; Writer: Mate Ugrin; Stars: Gavrilo Jović, Tea Ljubešić, Snježana Sinovčić Šiškov, Izudin Bajrović, Lana Meniga, Lana Barić)
When a young man's thievery is rumbled by a co-worker the pair become partners in crime.
Rain Catcher (Country: UK, US; Year: 2026; Director: Michele Fiascaris; Writer: Michele Fiascaris, Filippo Polesel; Stars: Dudley O'Shaughnessy, Jessie Mei Li, Lorenzo Richelmy, Youssef Kerkour)
A photographer takes snapshots of strangers, sharing them online as 'Rain Catcher' but he is unsettled when he spots a mysterious woman who is photographing him.
Truck Driver (Camionero) (Country: Argentina, Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Francisco Marise; Writer: Javier Rebollo, Francisco Marise)
Hybrid film about truckers.
A Whole Person Almost (Country: Greece; Year: 2026; Director: Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis; Writer: Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis)
Ilias arrives on a remote island to claim his late father’s inheritance. But the longer he is forced to stay on the island, the more his initial indifference begins to fade.
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