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The Karlovy Vary Film Festival is back this year for its 52nd edition with a strong selection of films from across Europe and beyond.
The festival runs from 30 June to 8 July.
View Films by Strand:
- 30 Years Of The European Film Academy
- Another View
- Czech Films 2016–2017
- Documentary Films: Competition
- East Of The West
- Horizons
- Imagina
- Midnight Screenings
- Official Selection - Competition
- Official Selection - Out Of Competition
- Out Of The Past
- People Next Door
- Six Close Encounters
- Special Events
- Variety Critics' Choice
View previous years coverage of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival festival:
Karlovy Latest Reviews

A radical female ‘army of lovers’ is preparing itself to fight for a world without men.

A stylised portrait of an authentic Czech neo-Nazi, who hates his life but doesn’t know what to change.

A fragile young woman falls for her psychotherapist... and his twin.

Three teenage punks gatecrash a party on the Queen's jubilee night in London and have an unexpected experience that feels out of this world

Jelena wants to end her life and she’s only got a week to sort things out... a situation that proves difficult.

Isabelle, single mum, divorced artist with one child, is looking for love. True love at last.

A group of German construction workers on a job in Bulgaria begin to compete for the approval of the locals.

Musical about the French heroine.

When, less than two decades since the war ended in Yugoslavia, a diverse group of veterans gathers at a remote mountain hotel to undergo days of therapy, it’s hard to expect absolute harmony.

A Syrian director dusts off memories of the past, when people were persecuted for their political beliefs.
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Features
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival News

Filming sensations Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
Character arc Seth A Smith on filming with a two-year-old and bringing marbling to life in The Crescent
Keeping up appearances Marcello Martinessi on cultural conservatism and filmmaking honesty in The Heiresses
A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
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