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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

In 1858, a six-year-old Jewish boy is forcibly seized from his family by the Catholic church.

A married man cheats on his husband with a woman... then tells him about it.

A woman is accused of her husband's murder.

A man has to return his sister-in-law's body to her hometown after an accident while, along with his nephew, he searches for his long-lost brother.

The story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin, the fine gourmet she has been working for over the last 20 years.

In summer 2014, sunflower fields and coal mines in eastern Ukraine turned into a 12 square kilometer crime scene. A multi-layered investigation into the downing of flight MH17, in which a butterfly-shaped shrapnel was found in the pilot's body, implicated the state responsible for a war crime that remains unpunished.

A musing on the future of The Old Oak, the last remaining pub in a village in Northeast England, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed. Houses are cheap and available, thus making it an ideal location for Syrian refugees.

The course of potential love does not run smooth for shelf-stacker and a metal worker.

Donya works for a Chinese fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Formerly a translator for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, she struggles to put her life back in order. In a moment of sudden revelation, she decides to send out a special message in a cookie.

Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends, are separated from each other when Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York where Nora now lives with her American husband.
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