Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2023

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Restore Point and All Men Become Brothers
All Men Become Brothers (Všichni lidé budou bratři) (Country: Slovak Republic, Czech Republic; Year: 2023; Director: Robert Kirchhoff; Writer: Robert Kirchhoff)
Documentary about Alexander Dubček.
Facing Darkness (Country: France, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Year: 2023; Director: Jean-Gabriel Périot)
An account of the four-year siege of Sarajevo, which lasted from April 1992 to February 1996.
Restore Point (Bod Obnovy) (Country: Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Poland, Serbia; Year: 2023; Director: Robert Hloz; Writer: Tomislav Čečka, Robert Hloz, Zdeněk Jecelín; Stars: Andrea Mohylová, Matěj Hádek, Václav Neužil, Milan Ondrík, Karel Dobrý, Agáta Kryštůfková, Katarzyna Zawadzka, Jan Vlasák, Iveta Dušková, Richard Stanke)
It’s the year 2041, and humanity has reached the point where it can cheat death. Anyone who dies an unnatural death has the right to be brought back to life. All you have to do is to create a backup of your personality – a restore point – at least every 48 hours. But a movement of people try to sabotage this concept.
She Came At Night (Přišla v noci) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2023; Director: Jan Vejnar, Tomáš Pavlíček; Writer: Tomáš Pavlíček, Jan Vejnar; Stars: Simona Peková, Annette Nesvadbová, Jiří Rendl)
A young couple's lives are disrupted by the arrival of the woman's mother.
Slow (Country: Lithuania, Spain, Sweden; Year: 2023; Director: Marija Kavtaradze; Stars: Greta Grinevičiūtė, Kęstutis Cicėnas)
Dancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.
Smiling Georgia (Gimiliani Sakartvelo) (Country: Georgia, Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Luka Beradze; Writer: Luka Beradze; Stars: Nana Papidze, Lamara Samkharadze, Nodar Labadze, Bezhan Labadze)
During his 2012 election campaign titled “Smiling Georgia,” President Mikheil Saakashvili promised his country’s poorest residents new teeth in exchange for their vote. Dentists began to pull people’s decayed teeth, but after Saakashvili lost the election his trusting followers never received their new pearly whites… this documentary tracks the story.
Snake Gas (Hadí plyn) (Country: Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Romania; Year: 2023; Director: David Jařab; Writer: David Jařab; Stars: Stanislav Majer, Václav Vašák, Mara Lukama, Martin Pechlát, Dalibor Buš)
This loose adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness follows a man on a journey to find his brother, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Temporaries (Richelieu) (Country: Canada, France; Year: 2023; Director: Pier-Philippe Chevigny; Writer: Pier-Philippe Chevigny; Stars: Ariane Castellanos, Marc-André Grondin, Nelson Coronado)
Arine’s difficult financial situation forces her to return to her hometown, where she takes a job interpreting between a farm’s seasonal workers from Guatemala and their Canadian employers. Although she is supposed to remain impartial, when she repeatedly witnesses the migrant workers’ mistreatment, she cannot remain silent.
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