Keitel, Hoffman and Binoche take the waters in Karlovy Vary

Karlovy Vary Festival regular Harvey Keitel returns to the scene of previous glory Photo: Courtesy of Film Servis Karlovy Vary

Dustin Hoffman to graduate with an opening night Crystal Globe award Photo: Courtesy of Film Servis Karlovy Vary

The roster of star names lining up to attend the 60th anniversary edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has gone into overdrive with the announcement that Dustin Hoffman, Juliette Binoche, Jeffrey Wright, Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon are set to join the throng.

Cinematographer Robert Richardson also will make the journey to the Bohemian spa town where Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jesse Eisenberg already have confirmed their attendance at the event which opens in ten days on 3 July and runs until 11 July.

Married couple Bacon and Sedgwick will bring their ironically titled Family Movie in the company of their children Sosie and Travis, who co-star and produced the horror comedy along with their parents. Bacon has called the film “our love letter to horror, to independent film and most of all family”.

The Festival’s opening film will be The Match, which tells of the iconic "Hand of God" match between Argentina and England which was played at the Azteca Stadium during the 1986 Football World Cup and features rare archival footage of the legendary Maradona. The documentary is narrated by soccer legends Gary Lineker and Jorge Valdano and was presented earlier this year in the Cannes Premiere section of the Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Juan Cabral and Santiago Franco the film sifts more than 200 years ears of tension, encounters and conflict between the two nations including the Falklands conflict.

A family affair, from left: Kevin Bacon, Sosie Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, and Travis Bacon in horror spoof Family Movie

Cabral, in a Cannes interview, has said about the project: “I remember coming from school. My grandmother Angelica was waiting for me, watching TV. She was watching a football match. I was like, why are you watching this? She said: ‘No, this is the World Cup, Juan. The World Cup, it’s not football. It’s the best players of each country playing against the best players of another country.’ For me, it was like, wow, we can play a game together all across the planet? That’s just amazing. It really was a beautiful idea that we could all play together.”

The closing film on 11 July will be The Only Living Pickpocket In New York, directed by Noah Segan, with John Turturro in his element as a nimble-fingered thief in what has been described as his best film role in years. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and the cast also features Giancarlo Esposito, Steve Buscemi and Tatiana Maslany.

Jeffrey Wright is lining up for a President’s Award in Karlovy Vary Photo: Courtesy of Film Servis Karlovy Vary

Hoffman will be honoured on opening night with a Crystal Globe award for outstanding contribution to world cinema and the Festival also will screen his breakthrough role in The Graduate by Mike Nichols.

Juliette Binoche will be similarly honoured with a Crystal Globe at the Festival’s closing ceremony and during the course of the event three films will be shown: Certified Copy (2010), Three Colours: Blue (1993) and last year’s In-I in Motion, a documentary account of her 2008 stage collaboration with British dancer and choreographer Akram Khan.

The Festival’s President’s Award will go to Jeffrey Wright, who came to the Festival in 1996 to present Basquiat which also will be screened as part of the programme.

Keitel, who has been a festival regular over the years, and already has received a Crystal Globe, will attend screenings of one of his breakthrough films, Mean Streets by Martin Scorsese.

The festival’s opening ceremonies always have proved memorable, and this year’s promises to be no exception with what is described as “a unique musical programme, created specifically for this occasion by DJ and producer NobodyListen.” The evening will unite leading personalities from the contemporary Czech music scene spanning a range of genres and generations.

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival runs from 3 to 11 July.

Juliette Binoche to be honoured with a Crystal Globe and a screening of In-I In Motion, a documentary account of her 2008 stage collaboration with British dancer Akram Khan Photo: Courtesy of Film Servis Karlovy Vary