Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2019

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Happy End Happy End
Happy End and Jan Palach
Another Chance (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2019; Director: Eva Tomanová; Writer: Eva Tomanová)
Documentary, about a pregnant woman and a conman she believes can change.
Apart (Spolu sami) (Year: 2018; Director: Diana Cam Van Nguyen; Stars: Voiced by, Petr Cuker, Ondřej Gabaš, Barbora Vildová)
Animation telling the tale of three people who all lost a parent in adolescence.
Bloody Fairy Tales (Krvavé pohádky) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2018; Director: Tereza Kovandová; Writer: Lukáš Hrdý, Tereza Kovandová)
Fairy tales become a morbid homage to the films of Lotte Reininger and Quentin Tarantino.
The Cage (Klec) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2019; Director: Jirí Strach; Writer: Marek Epstein; Stars: Jirina Bohdalová, Krystof Hádek, Viktor Preiss, David Svehlík, Vilma Cibulková, Jaromír Dulava, Miroslav Etzler, Andrea Elsnerová, Barbora Munzarová, Andrea Danková, Pavel Kríz, Karel Smyczek, Josef Hervert, Jana Hanusová, Martin Pacek)
A lonely pensioner and an indebted young man end up trapped in a flat in this psychological thriller.
Daughter (Dcera) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2019; Director: Daria Kashcheeva; Writer: Daria Kashcheeva)
A dad and daughter try to reach a mutual understanding.
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Daughter and Off Sides
The Fishermen (Rybáři) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Bára Anna Stejskalová; Writer: Bára Anna Stejskalová; Stars: Adam Podhradský)
A lonely fisherman is forced to recognise the skeletons in his closet.
Fruits Of Clouds (Plody mraků) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2017; Director: Kateřina Karhánková; Writer: Kateřina Karhánková; Stars: Sebastian Husák, Teo Arichtev, Michaela Hoffová)
A forest creature attempts to overcome his fear of the unknown.
Golden Sting (Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia; Year: 2018; Director: Radim Spacek; Writer: Jakub Bazant, Kristina Nedvedová, Jirí Závozda; Stars: Filip Brezina, Zdenek Piskula, Patricia Volny, Jan Mansfeld, Jiri Roskot, Ondrej Malý, Stanislav Majer, Alena Mihulová, Jan Hartl, Simona Lewandowská, Jaromír Dulava, Chantal Poullain, Jirí Vojta, Alan Weissabel, Martin Klapil)
Sports drama about basketball.
Happy End (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Jan Saska; Writer: Jan Saska)
A black comedy animation about death with a happy ending.
Hide N Seek (Schovka) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2019; Director: Barbora Halířová; Writer: Barbora Halířová)
A game of hide and seek offers a gateway to the human subconscious.
Jan Palach (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2018; Director: Robert Sedlácek; Writer: Eva Kanturková; Stars: Michael Balcar, Denisa Baresová, Zuzana Bydzovská, Jacob Erftemeijer, Karel Jirák, Kristína Kanátová, Martin Lev, Alexander Minajev, Denis Safarík, Jan Vondrácek, Jirí Zapletal, Viktor Zavadil, Michael Balcar, Denisa Baresová, Zuzana Bydzovská)
A reconstruction of the final months of Palach´s life, describing his path to becoming 'Torch Number One'.
Karel, Me And You (Karel, já a ty) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2018; Director: Bohdan Karásek; Writer: Bohdan Karásek; Stars: Jenovéfa Boková, Miroslav Faderholz, Miloslav König)
Drama about a woman who leaves her husband and moves in with a friend.
The Kite (Pouštět draka) (Country: Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Poland; Year: 2019; Director: Martin Smatana)
A boy and his grandad spend the day flying a kite.
Miss Hanoi (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2018; Director: Zdenek Viktora; Writer: Marek Grajciar, Adela Kabelková, Zdenek Viktora; Stars: Ha Thanh Spetlíková, David Novotný, Ján Jackuliak, Miroslav Hruska, Chip Nguyen, Jirí Kocman, Radim Madeja, Vu Tien Tung, Dang Thi Trang, Pham Thi Thinh, Jan Marsál, Josef Feco, My Pham, Roman Nguyen, Natálie Topinková)
Crime drama sees a cynical detective and a young idealistic officer investigate a murder in the Vietnamese community.
Off Sides (Letni Hokej) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2019; Director: Tomas Bojar, Rozalie Kohoutova)
The story of a friendship that grew, via exchange trips, between hockey players in East Bohemia and Morocco.
On The Roof (Na střeše) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2019; Director: Jirí Mádl; Writer: Jirí Mádl; Stars: Vojtech Dyk, Duy Anh Tran, Mary Havranová, Alois Svehlík, Adrian Jastraban, Marie Bartalos, Vojtech Dyk, Duy Anh Tran, Mary Havranová, Alois Svehlík, Adrian Jastraban, Marie Bartalos)
A grumpy old man happens upon a young Vietnamese lad on the roof of his Prague apartment block and offers him a temporary home in his flat.
Woman's Day (Den žen) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2018; Director: Evgeny Terpugov; Writer: Elizaveta Simbirskaya)
A sauna becomes a place of transformation.
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