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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2023

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Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife (Arsenie. Viața de apoi) (Country: Romania, Luxembourg; Year: 2023; Director: Alexandru Solomon)
Arsenie Boca, a priest, theologian, and mystic persecuted by the communist regime, is considered holy by many believers, although he has yet to be canonised. Documentary filmmaker Alexandru Solomon and a group of selected believers set out on a pilgrimage in his footsteps.
International premiere
Birth (Country: South Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Ji-young Yoo; Writer: Ji-young Yoo; Stars: Hae-in Han, Han-ju Lee , Man-seok Oh, Mi-hyun Park, Hee-jin Choi)
A couple's lives are thrown off course by unplanned pregnancy.
International premiere
Brutal Heat (Brutální vedro) (Country: Czech Republic, Slovak Republic; Year: 2023; Director: Albert Hospodářský; Writer: Albert Hospodářský; Stars: Vincent Hospodářský, Zdeňka Petrová, Milan Mikulčík, Václav Kopelec, Ivana Uhlířová, Tereza Dočkalová, Marta Bačíková, Anežka Kalivodová, Marta Vítů, Petr Motl)
A massive segment of the Sun has broken off and is heading for Earth, whose surface is slowly heating up to an unbearable level... against this backdrop a teen gets stranded.
World premiere
Dark Matter (Maade Tarik) (Country: Iran; Year: 2023; Director: Karim Lakzadeh; Writer: Karim Lakzadeh; Stars: Mahdis "Shaadab" Mahdiyar, Iman Sayyadborhani, Keivan Parmar, Raha Soleimani)
An actor and actress are brought together during a casting for a mainstream film. They don’t get the roles, so they decide to make their own film instead... one which defies censorship rules.
World premiere
Embryo Lava Butterfly (Country: Cyprus, Greece; Year: 2023; Director: Kyros Papavassiliou; Writer: Kyros Papavassiliou; Stars: Maria Apostolakea, Hristos Sougaris, Makis Papadimitriou, Stephania Sotiropoulou, Yiannis Niarros)
Penelope and Isidoros live in a world where today they are lovers but the following day they scarcely know one another - a place where time doesn’t flow.
World premiere
Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife
Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife and Brutal Heat
Guras (Country: India, Nepal; Year: 2023; Director: Saurav Rai; Writer: Saurav Rai; Stars: Tulsi Khawas, Menuka Pradhan)
A little girl goes on an odyssey looking for her lost dog.
World premiere
Imago (Country: Poland, Netherlands, Czech Republic; Year: 2023; Director: Olga Chajdas; Writer: Lena Góra, Olga Chajdas; Stars: Lena Góra, Bogusława Schubert, Wojciech Brzeziński, Mateusz Więcławek, Wacław Warchoł, Łukasz Orbitowski, Justyna Wasilewska)
Portrait of a woman living in late-Eighties Poland.
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World premiere
In Camera (Year: 2022; Director: Naqqash Kahlid; Writer: Naqqash Khalid; Stars: Nabhaan Rizwan, Amir El-Masry, Rory Fleck Byrne)
An actor struggles with the various roles he is juggling in life.
Full Review See: Naqqash Khalid on modern masculinity and 'anti-acting' in his debut In Camera
World premiere
Keeping Mum (Maman Déchire) (Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Emilie Brisavoine)
Documentary about the director's relationship with her mother.
World premiere
The Lost Children (Country: Belgium; Year: 2023; Director: Michèle Jacob; Writer: Michèle Jacob)
Four children find themselves having to take care of each other after they are abandoned in an old house.
World premiere
Say God Bye (Year: 2023; Director: Thomas Imbach)
Diary about the directors attempts to persuade Godard to film him.
World premiere
The Song of the Auricanturi (El canto del Auricanturi) (Country: Colombia, Argentina; Year: 2023; Director: Camila Rodríguez Triana)
A woman struggles to find a way to communicate with her traumatised mother.
World premiere
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