Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2016

Additional short films are included in this line-up.

View other Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Films by strand: A Female Take on Mexico, Another View, Czech Films 2015–2016, Documentary Films - Competition, East of the West - Competition, Horizons, Midnight Screenings, Official Selection - Competition, Official Selection - Out Of Competition, Out Of The Past, People Next Door, Seven Close Encounters, Special Events, Tribute to Otto Preminger, Variety Critics Choice

Notes On Blindness Notes On Blindness
Notes On Blindness and Homo Sapiens
Afternoon (Na ri xiawu) (Country: Taiwan; Year: 2015; Director: Tsai Ming-liang)
Tsai Ming-Liang and his actor Lee Kang-sheng confess and put on stage a pièce in which attention and slowness are in tune with the rhythm of memory.
Bending To Earth (Country: Germany, US; Year: 2015; Director: Rosa Barba), Official Site
Experimental short involving aerial photography.
Bring Me The Head Of Tim Horton (Country: Canada; Year: 2015; Director: Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin; Stars: Michael Kennedy)
Making of documentary for Hyena Road.
Homo Sapiens (Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland; Year: 2016; Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter; Writer: Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
Remnants of buildings constructed - then left behind.
Invention (Country: Canada, UK; Year: 2015; Director: Mark Lewis; Writer: Mark Lewis)
Anthology of films.
The Sky Trembles And The Earth Is Afraid And The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers The Sky Trembles And The Earth Is Afraid And The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
The Sky Trembles And The Earth Is Afraid And The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers and Invention
Lampedusa (Country: Italy, France, US; Year: 2015; Director: Philip Cartelli, Mariangela Ciccarello; Writer: Mariangela Ciccarello; Stars: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Mariangela Ciccarello, Joris Lachaise, Carlo Signati), Official Site
Interlinked narratives shot on high definition and Super 8, based on past and present events.
Notes On Blindness (Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Pete Middleton, James Spinney; Writer: Pete Middleton, James Spinney; Stars: Rafe Beckley, Ellie Bindman, Anoushska Bruce, Celia Henebury, Stanley Pemberton-Warbrick, Lorelei Winterfrost)
Adaptation of John Hull's audio diary about the experience of losing his sight.
Sfumato (Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Christophe Bisson; Stars: Bernard Legay)
Experimental work.
The Sky Trembles And The Earth Is Afraid And The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Ben Rivers; Stars: Oliver Laxe)
The beauty of Morocco transformed into a mysterious landscape.
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