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There's lots happening at the year's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, with some great titles from across Europe and the wider world, as well as the Crystal Globe awards.
The festival runs from 6 to 12 July.
View Films by Strand:
- Afterhours
- Crystal Globe Competition
- Horizons
- Imagina
- Special Screenings
- The Life and Times of John Garfield
- Tribute to Michael Douglas
View previous years coverage of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival festival:
Karlovy Latest Reviews
Two street coaches in a bustling neighborhood face an unexpected crisis when locals transform into bizarre, slimy beings.
Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination... the desk of a newly appointed local prosecutor, who embarks on a quest for justice.
A grieving new mother, while struggling to make ends meet for her family, uncovers an unexpected passion within herself.
Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.
What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences.
Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation. But the farther they advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realise that this war may never end.
A bubblegum grindhouse adventure through sunny and romantic Trashtown, USA.
Two estranged brothers with chequered childhoods in the care system suddenly find themselves living under the same roof.
When Colleen volunteers to care for her elderly neighbor Elsie, the two quickly bond. But beneath the pleasantries, motives start to be questioned leading to a devastating series of events.
After many years, Suzanne and her two children unexpectedly show up at the home of her sister Jeanne. It initially looks like Suzanne is tentatively attempting to re-establish a relationship with her sister. But this illusion is shattered with the morning light: Suzanne is gone and Jeanne is forced to become a mother to children she barely knows.
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