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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
A young, pregnant woman finds emancipation as aliens land in Morocco.
On the remote island of Chiloé in the late 19th century, an indigenous girl named Rosa lives and works with her father on a farm. When the foreman brutally turns on Rosa’s father, she sets out for justice, seeking help from the king of a powerful organisation of sorcerers.
Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.
Docufiction interpretation of Virginia Woolf's novel.
When a man who was cast out as a child after being considered a sorceror returns home, he faces prejudice.
A woman's moral compass starts to slip after she is conned out of her savings by a phone scammer.
Iman, an Iranian, lives with his family in Sweden in an ever-changing succession of refugee hostels. To increase his chances of obtaining residence permits for them all, he resumes his career as a wrestler – and is confronted with the reason he had to flee.
The story of a group of archaeologists and the black market in historical artefacts.
Samsara is the Buddhist cycle of death and reincarnation. From the temples of Laos, alongside with teenage monks, we will accompany a soul in its transit from one body to another through the bardo.
A mother is shocked when she learns what a teacher has said to her son, but the truth is more complicated.
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