Eight of the films will be presented on 35mm prints “We are excited to remember the exceptional but somewhat forgotten career of a pioneer of what was an unusually realistic approach to acting,” Och said in a statement Garfield rose from a troubled youth in New York City to become a key figure in both theater and film delivering raw and emotionally resonant performances that paved the way for actors like Marlon Brando and James Dean his breakout film role in Four Daughters (1938) earned him an Academy Award nomination and launched a successful Hollywood career under Warner Bros. where he stood out among stars like Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis Garfield became known for roles that blended toughness with emotional depth He starred in socially aware crime dramas such as They Made Me a Criminal (1939) and the boxing classic Body and Soul (1947) which earned him a second Oscar nomination His nuanced performance in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) further cemented his reputation as one of the screen’s most dynamic talents Garfield sought more creative freedom by founding his own production company Collaborating with independent studio The Enterprise a noir masterpiece directed by Abraham Polonsky that reflected Garfield’s own idealistic worldview and political leanings But as McCarthyism swept through Hollywood Blacklisted for his alleged Communist ties he refused to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee and never named names His principled stance and declining health led to an early death in 1952 at just 39 KVIFF’s tribute includes key titles such as Humoresque The Breaking Point—an adaptation of Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not—and He Ran All the Way The retrospective offers festivalgoers a rare opportunity to rediscover Garfield’s legacy not just as a movie star but as an artist who gave everything to his craft and beliefs The full lineup of John Garfield films screening at this year’s festival includes: and Patricia Neal in The Breaking Point (1950) and website in this browser for the next time I comment About | Contact | Terms | Privacy Pot Limit Omaha players have a new event to mark on their calendars this January brings a €800,000 guaranteed prize pool to the region catering to fans of this increasingly popular poker variant The festival’s schedule features a variety of PLO formats giving players a mix of buy-ins and guarantees: satellite tournaments will run throughout the festival offering a lower-cost way to compete in the larger events Players who prefer cash games will find tables running 24/7 with stakes starting at €5/€5 and higher-stakes games available The rake for cash games is 5% with a cap of 25€ Karlovy Vary is known for its hot springs and historic charm and enjoy winter activities like skiing or ice skating A 20% discount is available for players booking a 5-night stay at the Thermal Hotel free soft drinks in the casino and dinner and night buffet. the package costs €399 (regular €499) and includes breakfast and spa access For further details, contact poker manager Frank at [email protected] or via WhatsApp at +420 735 124 100 + Get the Texas Hold'em Poker Cheat Sheet - FREE PokerNews.com is the world’s leading poker website visitors will find a daily dose of articles with the latest poker news Disclaimer: any promotions presented on this page were correct and available at the time of writing We encourage all users to check the promotion displayed matches the most current promotion available by clicking through to the operator welcome page Please read the terms and conditions carefully before you accept any promotional welcome offer modified or distributed without the express prior written permission of the copyright holder Feature Films Database Southern Mediterranean films database Scriptwriters European Film Schools Production Companies Distributors International Sales Submit a Film Industry Reports Co-Production Podcast Online Screenwriting Training Course Guided Course for Feature Film Writing Script Analysis Analysis of the potential of your series Cineuropa's Training Catalogue Film Festival Photographs Newsletter Photogalleries EUFCN Location Award Euro Film Fest 27 Times Cinema GoCritic! Advertise on Cineuropa Logos and Banners KARLOVY VARY 2025 by Martin Kudláč 24/04/2025 - The festival’s industry strand intended for established filmmakers with fiction projects from Central Europe The 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) will pay tribute to US screen star John Garfield renowned for his contributions to method acting A retrospective will spotlight ten of his most memorable movies including eight screened from original 35 mm prints underscoring the thesp’s lasting influence on both film and acting techniques whose remarkable career remains a beacon of authenticity and dedication in cinema,” says Karel Och KVIFF’s artistic director and curator of the tribute which captured the very essence of realism on screen still resonates with today’s audiences and filmmakers alike.” The tribute includes films that showcase Garfield's versatile performances ranging from gritty crime dramas to wartime stories The retrospective will include titles such as Abraham Polonsky’s Force of Evil Robert Rossen’s Body and Soul (considered one of the greatest boxing films ever made) Tay Garnett’s The Postman Always Rings Twice and Michael Curtiz’s The Breaking Point The Future Frames – Generation NEXT of European Cinema programme (6-9 July), designed to support emerging European filmmakers, and organised by KVIFF and European Film Promotion, will continue its partnership with Allwyn offering young directors mentorship and networking opportunities The programme provides a platform for the next generation of filmmakers with participants showcasing their short and medium-length films and receiving expert guidance from industry professionals Danish director William Sehested Høeg won a month-long residency where UTA and Range Media Partners arranged one-on-one meetings with distributors producers and other professionals from the US film industry with whom Høeg was able to engage in consultation on his planned feature film alongside other projects As part of its ongoing commitment to preserving Czech cinema the festival will present the world premiere of the digitally restored 1969 film Ecce Homo Homolka by Jaroslav Papoušek The sarcastic portrayal of a multigenerational family has been called “the final film of the Czechoslovak New Wave” The festival regularly includes re-release premieres of films whose digital restoration has been made possible by Milada and Eduard Kučera in its official programme and as part of its special KVIFF Classics retrospectives KVIFF will also bestow the President’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Czech Cinema upon acclaimed editor Jiří Brožek recognising his extensive career that spans over 40 years and includes collaborations with leading Czech filmmakers such as Jiří Menzel Brožek is the absolute record holder in terms of the number of annual Czech Film and Television Academy awards for one profession across all categories as he has worked on more than 100 Czech films KVIFF will present The Death of the Beautiful Deer on which he collaborated with director Karel Kachyňa Selected projects will be showcased as part of the Industry Days at KVIFF 59 Filmmakers will also meet potential co-producers sales agents and other industry professionals Please subscribe to our newsletter to receive more stories like this directly in your inbox 06/05/2025Cannes 2025 – Marché du Film The Party’s Over! leads France TV Distribution’s Cannes slate 06/05/2025CPH:DOX 2025 – CPH:DOX Industry Europa Distribution explores the release of documentaries at CPH:DOX 05/05/2025Cannes 2025 – Marché du Film AFCI runs its second annual Global Film Commission Network Summit at Marché du Film 05/05/2025Cannes 2025 – Marché du Film Indie Sales presents a three-star line-up at Cannes 02/05/2025Cannes 2025 – Marché du Film Be For Films to sell Love Me Tender in Cannes 02/05/2025Cannes 2025/Sponsored Latvia set to shine bright at Cannes, led by Sergei Loznitsa’s competition entry Two Prosecutors Subscribe to our newsletter to receive the most important daily or weekly news on European cinema Crossing Europe 2025 Review: Callas, Darling Cannes 2025 Marché du Film CPH:DOX 2025 CPH:DOX Industry Cannes 2025 Marché du Film Festivals / Awards Czech Republic Czech Republic’s Anifilm goes sci-fi Distribution / Releases / Exhibitors Europe European Arthouse Cinema Day set to return on 23 November Cannes 2025 Marché du Film HOFF 2025 The Shadow and U Are the Universe win at Estonia’s Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival Crossing Europe 2025 Awards The New Year That Never Came and The Flats crowned at Crossing Europe Cannes 2025 Marché du Film Cannes 2025/Sponsored Las Palmas 2025 MECAS/Awards Manuel Muñoz Rivas and Joana Carro win awards at the eighth MECAS Market TrendsFOCUSA busy spring festival season awaits the European film industry. Cineuropa will continue to keep its readers up to date with the latest news and market insights, covering the buzziest events, including Cannes, Kraków, Karlovy Vary, Tribeca, Hot Docs, Annecy, Brussels, Munich and many others Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 06/05/2025Europa Distribution explores the release of documentaries at CPH:DOXThe network has held a case study workshop as part of its brand-new partnership with the Copenhagen-based festival Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 02/05/2025Slovak crime-thriller Černák becomes the highest-grossing film in domestic cinemasThe second film in the saga about a local mafia boss, directed by Jakub Króner, outgrossed its first part, which dominated Slovak cinemas last year Jaśmina Wójcik • Director of King Matt the First The Polish director discusses her approach to taking on a 1920s children’s literary classic in an unexpected way Želimir Žilnik • Director of Eighty Plus The Serbian director discusses his deep suspicion of ideologies in relation to his irresistibly charming latest feature, which follows a man whose life spans three political systems Paulina Jaroszewicz • Distribution and marketing manager, New Horizons Association Cineuropa sat down with the Polish distributor to discuss her company’s strategy as well as the connection between its distribution line-up and BNP Paribas New Horizons Festival’s programme Lorcan Finnegan • Director of The Surfer The Irish filmmaker discusses his mystery-thriller, how he created the character with Nicolas Cage and his approach to the use of colours in the film Privacy Policy The images used on this website have been provided by journalists and are believed to be free of rights if you are the owner of an image used on this website and believe that its use infringes on your copyright We will remove the image in question as soon as possible We have made reasonable efforts to ensure that all images used on this website are used legally and in accordance with copyright laws About us | Contact us | Logos and Banners Mission | Partners | Team | Donations | Terms and conditions Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb there are flashes of inspired cinema but on the whole a film that feels like it is missing a piece.” “Three years ago that hole was this small.” In Bruno Anković’s debut feature Celebration a film otherwise unclear about its message metaphors like this give an idea of what the director is getting at with this decades-spanning tale of a Croatian young man before and after World War II Showing the life of its protagonist at four different points in time Celebration is meant as a history lesson to warn us about Europe’s growing far-right extremism and fascism Unfortunately the film has to rely on its post-film explanation about Croatia’s war years to make clear what it is truly trying to say and leaves the audience still in the dark about how exactly the lead character made the ideological leap that causes him to have to hide in the woods after the war has ended though in younger incarnations played by Lars Štern and Jan Doležal) keeps an eye on a farm in the Croatian mountains from the edge of the woods She has been helping him to stay hidden for months but tries to convince him to surrender and downplay an unspecified incident involving her brother in a few months when things have calmed down As she leaves him and Mijo seeks shelter again in the woods where a dog has bitten one the local gendarmerie That includes the small mutt that Mijo found months earlier and furthermore insists that Mijo is the one to do it; he is to take the dog up the mountain and leave it tied to a tree as prey for the wolves that roam the mountain As he brings the dog to his final resting place and on the spur of the moment shows her his affection Young Mijo’s family has fallen on hard times Mijo follows his dad in secret as he heads to a neighbor to ask for help one encouraged by his own father: he will take Mijo’s ailing grandfather up the mountain and leave him there to die but he is spotted and taught a harsh life lesson There is going to be a celebration in town as the celebration is about the forming of the Independent State of Croatia “Finally we will be free,” he says First they will have to go up the mountain though to cross a pass and make their way into the next valley On their way up it becomes clear that Mijo and Drenka have grown ever closer to each other and the petulant and arrogant Rude feels like a third wheel But once they reach the next valley and cross its blooming fields a spring enters their steps as they join a column of people also heading to town to join in the festivities and fun and positivity after years of poverty lie ahead In 1941 Nazi Germany created the Independent State of Croatia a puppet state run by the fascist party Ustasha many of its soldiers fled into the mountains which comes late and in incomplete form through original footage from the time as well as the aforementioned post-film title cards that one realizes just why Mijo fled into the mountains At no point before that does Celebration indicate that he harbors any fascist tendencies A harsh life of poverty and hopelessness is painted in the scenes before 1941 and even in that particular time frame Mijo seems quite content with his life and the love by his side Celebration aims to be a warning that history is repeating itself and history has indeed proven that these factors form a good breeding ground for fascism but without seeing Mijo making that final step to a point where indeed he has to flee after the regime comes tumbling down the film is intellectually rather empty as Anković proves himself a capable and promising director who knows how to create atmosphere through image and is well equipped to turn some of his story’s concepts into visual metaphors the mountains that surround Mijo’s small village are characters of their own and it is no coincidence that in all three pre-fascism segments Mijo has to climb up while in the post-war segment he desperately wants to come down The ever-changing world juxtaposed with ideologies that have remained the same until our present day is another great way to visualize the larger ideas that this film has The problem is that these ideas don’t fully come to fruition in the character work as if we have to fill in those four crucial years in the development of the character ourselves Had we seen them fully realized Celebration could have been a great film; as it is there are flashes of inspired cinema but on the whole a film that feels like it is missing a piece This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page By 2024-11-05T13:30:00+00:00 the international sales arm of Magnolia Pictures has closed a raft of territory sales on AFM sales title Pierce winner of the best director award at Karlovy Vary for Nelicia Low Deals on the psychological thriller set in the world of competitive fencing have closed in France (Outplay) Remaining territories are under negotiation Giraffe Pictures will release in Singapore this week (November 7) and Coalition Point Culture Co will open the film in Taiwan on December 27 a young fencer who defies his mother’s wishes and reconnects with his estranged older brother Han (Tsao Yu-ning) who reappears after serving seven years in juvenile prison for killing an opponent during a fencing competition Jie questions whether he might be a violent sociopath Pierce received its North American premiere at New York Asian Film Festival and has played Busan and Rome It recently won the grand jury prize at La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival Jeremy Chua and Sam Chua Weishi of Pōtocol produced with Patrick Mao Huang and Evril Kuo of Flash Forward Entertainment Low grew up in Singapore and represented her country as a fencer for five years eventually retiring after the 2010 Asian Games to pursue her dream of becoming a filmmaker Magnify’s SVP of global sales Lorna Lee Torres and director of global sales Austin Kennedy negotiated the deals Bookmark this page to keep track of all the latest festival dates EXCLUSIVE: Eva Victor’s comedy drama world premiered at Sundance and will play at Cannes in Directors’ Fortnight Warner Bros’ A Minecraft Movie dominated the month with Gaumont’s Once Upon My Mother the top local film Golshifteh Farahani and Mélissa Boros star in Ducournau’s latest feature Bookmark this page and keep track of the latest film release dates in the UK & Ireland Screen International is the essential resource for the international film industry access to the Screen International archive and supplements including Stars of Tomorrow and World of Locations Site powered by Webvision Cloud The 2025 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will present its President’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Czech Cinema to veteran film editor Jiří Brožek recognizing a career that spans more than five decades and over a hundred productions The award will be handed out during the festival’s closing ceremony on July 6 Brožek, a nine-time Czech Lion winner, is widely considered one of the most influential editors in the country’s film history. Since graduating from Prague’s Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in 1973 he has left a defining mark on Czech cinema working with nearly every major director across multiple generations After joining Barrandov Studio, Brožek began his career as an assistant to editor Jiřina Lukešová, who recommended him to filmmakers Jiří Menzel and Jaroslav Papoušek His first independent editing credit came on Papoušek’s 1975 comedy Finally We Understand Each Other (Konečně si rozumíme) Brožek’s editing career took off during a golden period at Barrandov Among his most notable collaborations were his long-running partnerships with acclaimed Czech directors. With Menzel, Brožek edited classics such as Cutting It Short (Postřižiny), The Snowdrop Festival (Slavnosti sněženek), The End of Old Times (Konec starých časů), I Served the King of England and the Oscar-nominated My Sweet Little Village (Vesničko má středisková) He also worked extensively with Věra Chytilová on films including Story from a Housing Estate (Panelstory aneb Jak se rodí sídliště) and The Jester and the Queen (Šašek a královna) Brožek’s editing credits include many popular and critically acclaimed films from the 1980s and ’90s such as Ladislav Smoljak’s Jára Cimrman Lying spící) and Uncertain Season (Nejistá sezóna) and Karel Kachyňa’s The Death of the Beautiful Deer (Smrt krásných srnců)—which the festival will screen in tribute Following his departure from Barrandov Studio in the early 1990s Brožek continued to work with a younger generation of directors He earned Czech Lions for his work on Jaroslav Brabec’s Horror Story (Krvavý román) Vladimír Michálek’s Sekal Has to Die (Je třeba zabít Sekala) Vladimír Morávek’s Boredom in Brno (Nuda v Brně) and Martin Šulík’s The City of the Sun (Sluneční stát) Additional honors came for editing Václav Havel’s Leaving (Odcházení) and Tereza Nvotová’s Filthy (Špína) Brožek was also closely involved with the landmark documentary series The Golden Sixties a retrospective on the Czechoslovak New Wave created with director Šulík and historian Jan Lukeš “The important thing is the content of the film I am editing,” Brožek once remarked on his approach to editing “You have to listen and understand the message so that the audience can understand it as well It’s like football – we’re all on one team.” With his vast body of work, Brožek has shaped the rhythm and language of Czech cinema over multiple generations. The 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will pay tribute to his contributions with this year’s President’s Award and a special screening of one of his most celebrated films Lead Photo: Jiří Brožek courtesy Karlovy Vary International Film Festival © 2005-2023 The Prague Reporter. All rights reserved. Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb A new digital restoration of Ecce Homo Homolka, the 1969 satire from director Jaroslav Papoušek and a staple of Czech culture, will premiere at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival as part of the festival’s KVIFF Classics section The screening continues a long-running KVIFF tradition of presenting restored Czech and Czechoslovak films to new audiences A sarcastic look at the everyday life of a multi-generational family Ecce Homo Homolka has been called the last film of the Czech New Wave and reflects the shift in the country’s cinema after the emigration of key filmmakers in the aftermath of 1968 Director and screenwriter Papoušek had previously collaborated with Miloš Forman on Black Peter, Loves of a Blonde, and The Firemen’s Ball, and with Ivan Passer on Intimate Lighting and was the only one of the trio to remain in Czechoslovakia Ecce Homo Homolka shares the poetic realism and satirical tone of Papoušek’s earlier collaborations with Forman and Passer Ecce Homo Homolka has become a cultural touchstone in Czech cinema Many of its lines have entered everyday language and the Homolka family remains one of the most iconic portrayals of Czech domestic life on screen Papoušek followed the film with two sequels: Hogo Fogo Homolka in 1970 and Homolka and the Purse (Homolka a tobolka) in 1972 completing the loose Homolka family trilogy The new restoration was undertaken by UPP and Soundsquare in collaboration with the Czech National Film Archive and the State Fund for Cinema It was created from original camera and sound negatives housed at the National Film Archive As with previous digital restorations screened at the Karlovy Vary festival the project was made possible through the support of Milada and Eduard Kučera whose ongoing sponsorship has helped bring numerous classic Czech films back to life for modern audiences The screening of Ecce Homo Homolka at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival highlights KVIFF’s dual role in presenting contemporary international cinema while preserving and celebrating Czech film heritage This year’s edition of the festival will run from June 28 to July 6 The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival may be half a year away but a special two-day event will bring three of the biggest hits from this year’s festival circuit to the Czech spa town later this month Karlovy Vary will host the fourth edition of Variations on Nov a unique cultural event blending classical music with celebrated films from the international festival circuit This year’s event, curated by the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival team, will showcase three distinguished films by directors Pedro Almodóvar, Jesse Eisenberg, and Andrea Arnold Each film was highly lauded at major festivals in 2023 The screenings will take place in the historic and newly-renovated Imperial Baths providing a fittingly grand atmosphere for the films Variations will open on Saturday morning with Bird a poignant coming-of-age drama from British director Arnold with both both performances drawing widespread acclaim and awards-season buzz Later on Saturday, the program continues with The Room Next Door, debut English-language feature from Spanish auteur Almodóvar. Starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton the poignant drama explores the complexities of rekindled friendship between a writer and a war correspondent facing a terminal illness The Room Next Door won the top prize Golden Lion at the recent Venice Film Festival If you can’t make it to the screening in Karlovy Vary during Variations the film will also open wide across Czech cinemas from Nov 21 courtesy distributor Vertical Entertainment The final film on Saturday evening is A Real Pain, a comedic road movie by American actor-director Jesse Eisenberg. An audience favorite at Sundance, the film features Eisenberg himself alongside Kieran Culkin as two cousins visiting their grandmother’s Polish homeland only to encounter revelations about family history and identity Variations will feature a stellar musical lineup led by the Czech Philharmonic showcasing a repertoire exclusively crafted for the orchestra’s upcoming performance at Carnegie Hall Under the baton of chief conductor Semyon Bychkov the orchestra will perform compositions by Czech masters such as Leoš Janáček a gala concert at the Hotel Thermal on Saturday but tickets are still available for the Friday night concert at the same venue promising an equally remarkable performance Variations offers free concerts for the public Held at the former Municipal Savings Bank and the Thermal Spring Colonnade these concerts will feature works by Mozart providing accessible options for music lovers to enjoy selections from the classical canon in Karlovy Vary’s atmospheric settings For the full program and additional details, check out the official Variations website “Loveable” and “Three Days of Fish” also won at the Czech Republic fest Mark Cousins’ unconventional portrait of an artist “A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things” took top honors at this year’s Karlovy Vary Film Festival, snagging the fest’s iconic Crystal Globe alongside a cash prize of $25K to split by the Scottish-Irish filmmaker and his producing partners. Featuring the voice work of Tilda Swinton, the award-winning doc follows the life and career of artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, a lesser-known master of modern art whose outlook and output underwent a profound spiritual, aesthetic and ideological transformation once the painter had a moment of epiphany atop Switzerland’s Grindelwald glacier in 1949. The climbing expedition left Barns-Graham with a new set of obsessions and forms of expression – giving her life a new meaning. Before claiming the Jury Prize, Lilja Ingolfsdottir’s domestic drama “Loveable” also took acting honors for star Helga Guren as well as parallel awards from the Ecumenical Jury, the Europa Cinema Label, and The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), solidifying the Norwegian film as the clear breakout of this year’s festival. Sharing a producer with “The Worst Person in the World,” “Loveable” also tracks a later-in-life coming-of-age tale, only here focusing on a fortysomething mother-of-four reckoning with an unexpected breakup. Rounding out the prizes, “Three Days of Fish” stars Ton Kas and Guido Pollemans shared the best actor trophy, while Singapore-born Nelicia Low won best director for her film “Pierce.” The five jurors – among them Christine Vachon and Geoffrey Rush – also singled out Noaz Deshe’s “Xoftex” and Adam Martinec’s “Our Lovely Pig Slaughter” for special mentions, while the festival-goers exalted Jiří Mádl’ “Waves” with Právo Audience Award – a win that came with little shock given the unprecedented 34-minute standing ovation that greeted the film earlier this week. CRYSTAL GLOBE JURYChristine Vachon, USAGeoffrey Rush, AustraliaSjón, IcelandEliška Křenková, Czech RepublicGábor Reisz, Hungary GRAND PRIX – CRYSTAL GLOBE“A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things”Directed by: Mark CousinsUnited Kingdom, 2024 SPECIAL JURY PRIZE“Loveable”Directed by: Lilja IngolfsdottirNorway, 2024 BEST DIRECTOR AWARDNelicia Low for the film “Pierce”Singapore, Taiwan, Poland, 2024 BEST ACTRESS AWARDHelga Guren for her role in the film “Loveable”Norway, 2024 BEST ACTOR AWARDAward was awarded ex-aequo.Ton Kas and Guido Pollemans for their roles in the film “Three Days of Fish”Netherlands, Belgium, 2024 SPECIAL JURY MENTION“Xoftex” Directed by: Noaz DesheGermany, France, 2024 “Our Lovely Pig Slaughter”Directed by: Adam Martinec Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2024 PRÁVO AUDIENCE AWARD“Waves”Directed by: Jiří MádlCzech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2024 PROXIMA JURYBianca Balbuena, PhilippinesWouter Jansen, NetherlandsAdéla Komrzý, Czech RepublicMohamed Kordofani, SudanDaniela Michel, Mexico PROXIMA GRAND PRIX“Stranger”Directed by: Zhengfan YangUSA, China, Netherlands, Norway, France, 2024 PROXIMA SPECIAL JURY PRIZE“Night Has Come”Directed by: Paolo TizónPeru, Spain, Mexico, 2024 SPECIAL MENTION“March to May”Directed by: Martin Pavol RepkaCzech Republic, 2024 FESTIVAL PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR CONTRIBUTION TO CZECH CINEMATOGRAPHY Ivan Trojan, Czech Republic FESTIVAL PRESIDENT’S AWARDViggo Mortensen, USADaniel Brühl, Germany / SpainClive Owen, United Kingdom Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb, an Amazon company© 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc. The Independent's journalism is supported by our readers When you purchase through links on our site Keen to see more of the Czech Republic than just its romantic capital, Chris Wilson makes his way out to an ancient spa city to combine excitement and relaxation on a dual-destination break I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy notice A deluge of snow covered the Alpine huts and sparkling Christmas trees that adorned the Old Town Square. The Christmas markets were opening the next day dimly lit alleys and hidden gardens that offshoot the square had all been bustling with people enjoying a stroll or an al fresco eggnog for its fusion of architecture from between the 14th and 19th centuries giving it a particularly elegant cityscape that is made all the more entrancing when a dusting of white covers the russet roofs Read more: The best Christmas markets in Europe both of the markets and the country’s move away from Soviet rule during the 1989 Velvet Revolution almost 24-hour McDonalds hints at Czech opinion on that period of their history I continued west to see a light mist dimming the gas lamps on the Charles Bridge stood imposingly on the hill across the Vltava River Prague has an impressive but manageable list of major tourist attractions Dotted in between there are art galleries and interesting museums – from the National Gallery (admission from £6) to the Museum of Communism (£13 for adult admission) – and a proliferation of affordable drinking holes such as Municipal House or the original city gate towers that serve as an entrance to the Old Town Prague Boats’ lunch cruise and buffet package is a relaxing way to spend a couple of hours while enjoying great views and Czech food; for something a little different visit Spa Beerland to bathe in hops and pour yourself pints for an hour Read more: This German city is described as ‘Florence on the Elbe’ – but does it live up to the claim? By now, I know that the Czech capital is a city with equal amounts of entertainment, intrigue and romance. It’s a brilliant introduction to the country; an affordable, elegant capital that has preserved vital slivers of the country’s history while adapting to the demands of modern life for both locals and tourists But I suspect it may offer a diluted version of Czech culture – something more palatable to tourists who may prefer a pizza over a goulash And Karlovy Vary goes some way to confirming my suspicions It’s a world away from the City of a Hundred Spires; this ‘city of a hundred springs’ is a place where centuries-old traditions appear in the modern day branches of Czech culture are on display around every corner and there’s not a fast-food chain or branded coffee shop in sight Although relatively unknown in the UK, this is one of Europe’s premier spa towns Its thermal springs are famous for their supposed healing qualities to reinvent itself as a modern tourist destination in its own right Read more: The sweaty sauna ritual in Estonia that ended up being an empowering girls’ weekend away bisected by a gently flowing river and surrounded by hills littered with towering trees the presence of which has made the leafless trees appear strikingly full The white landscape blends with the sandstone colonnades and pastel tones of the various Art Nouveau buildings and for a view of it all you can take a funicular ride up to the Diana Observation Tower Next to the tower lies a hunting lodge-style restaurant serving typical Czech cuisine; it’s somewhat similar to that of the UK or Germany Think roast duck with potato-bread dumplings or pikeperch in white wine This is a place where Czech people are sent to recover from various maladies, though recreational spa activities aren’t frowned upon, as I discovered in the pools of the Spa Hotel Thermal It’s quite soothing to wade between the different temperatures of its outdoor pools while the snow gently falls and the view of the town from eight storeys high makes you wonder how it all looked during its 18th-century heyday I ponder how I’ve been able to take in the enthralling capital while also discovering the past (and present) of somewhere that my family and friends had never even heard of These are the possible merits of a dual-destination holiday succinctly summed up in a podcast by The Independent’s travel correspondent who – when asked about the ideal duration for a city break – suggested “48 hours plus” to “immerse yourself in a great city” before going somewhere nearby to “get an extra dimension” You might find your extra dimension in the Catalan counterculture of Barcelona or the chateaux of the Loire Valley it could be hidden among the faded grandeur of a once-great spa town British Airways flies to Prague from London Heathrow (price from £46 each way) and London City airport (price from £81 each way) buses run into central Prague in as little as 15 minutes Book a stay at the Andaz Prague for a location that’s within easy walking distance of all of the main sights It is part of Hyatt’s luxurious ‘Andaz’ line contemporary luxury and a dash of local culture – in this case Read more: Why you should visit Cesky Krumlov, a sustainable Prague-in-miniature Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies {"adUnitPath":"71347885/_main_independent/in_travel/in_europe/image/gallery_mpu_sb","autoGallery":true,"disableAds":false,"gallery":[{"data":{"title":"iStock-538406495.jpg","description":"Bank of the Tepla river in Karlovy Vary","caption":"A Prague city break pairs nicely with a visit to Karlovy Vary come winter A Prague city break pairs nicely with a visit to Karlovy Vary come winter Chris Wilson makes his way out to an ancient spa city to combine excitement and relaxation on a dual-destination break By 2024-06-27T14:00:00+01:00 The programme of the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival befitting its reputation as a platform for both fresh discoveries and world cinema highights.  The Crystal Globe competition has the world premiere of UK director Mark Cousins’ A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things a documentary portrait of UK painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham.  Also in competiton is Beata Parkanova’s Czech-Slovak title Tiny Lights which follows a family break up as perceived by a child Parkanova won the best director award at Karlovy Vary in 2022 for Word.  Rising Norwegian writer director Lilja Ingolfsdottir’s Loveable is also in the running for a Crystal Globe The drama is about a mother who must come to terms with herself when her husband asks for a divorce Loveable won best Nordic project at the Finnish Film Affair 2023 for works by young filmmakers and experienced auteurs has Berlinale Forum regular Burak Çevik’s Nothing In Its Place which focuses on one of Turkey’s most bloody political massacres Casting his eye over this year’s programme, artistic director Karel Och is naturally reluctant to pick out individual highlights from the 200 or so films playing he alights on Noaz Deshe’s “very bold” German French co-production Xoftex set in a Greek refugee camp where asylum seekers pass the time by making satirical sketches and preparations for a zombie horror flick Xoftex is difficult to define in terms of genre But it’s “one of those films which I always search for that grab you by the shoulders and shakes you up - films which are strongly artistic their story is deeply rooted in our contemporary reality” Och also picks out Karlovy Vary’s retrospective programme ’The Wish to Be a Red Indian: Kafka and Cinema’, featuring adaptations and films inspired by Franz Kafka to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of the acclaimed Prague-born writer Heading the retrospective are two films by Steven Soderbergh: his 1991 noir mystery Kafka It also includes Orson Welles’s The Trial (1962) as well as Martin Scorsese’s After Hours (1985) who he describes as “one of the undisputable masters of contemporary cinema” is coming to the festival to introduce his films Other guests this year include Viggo Mortensen Actor-director Mortensen’s second outing as a director plays as the opening film of this year’s festival One of the big challenges facing Karlovy Vary is its position in the calendar between Cannes and Venice making it tough to secure prestige arthouse titles Even securing films that have already played at festivals is tricky Och says he was disappointed not to be able to programme a number of Cannes premieres which have been held back for awards season campaigning but he reckons such movies “suffer when they are not shown to audiences” for four or five months before awards season campaigning starts in earnest Och has been a programmer with Karlovy Vary since 2001 and took over as artistic director in 2011 He says one of the highlights this year has been working with new members of the six-strong programming team Vojtěch Kočárník and Petra Vočadlová have both joined while Natalia Kozáková returned from maternity leave “It doesn’t mean I haven’t enjoyed working with the previous team but it was a challenge that I appreciated,” says Och and it was something which led to completely different types of conversations to find a new definition of how to discuss films with your team is how festivals like Karlovy Vary should respond to contentious political issues such as the Israel-Hamas war through to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine The fallout from the Israel/Hamas conflict has spilt over into film festivals such as Berlin and the International Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) since the Hamas attacks on October 7 Festivals are platforms for sharing and discussing opinions “My opinion is that certain things should be allowed to happen so that people can have a conversation about them…a film festival is a platform Karlovy Vary “knows where it stands” on the invasion of Ukraine calling it a “very clear situation” – namely Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine for the Czech people supporting their Ukrainian neighbours Och says the festival will have “a few moments that will support this” stance including a special screening of Real from Ukrainian filmmaker and soldier Oleg Sentsov “It is really like 90 minutes spent in the trenches of the battlefield You could not get any closer to how a soldier feels is being attacked.” Och hopes  Sentsov will be able to make it to the world premiere of the film Discussion about the impact of AI is also important who – somewhat counter-intuitively – says he “loves” that The Last Screenwriter was banned It’s an extreme reaction to some something extreme going on [It would be worse if] everybody accepted it without a discussion or without an extreme recreation….now we’re talking about it That’s the only thing that can save us – that we can have a discussion about it.” Karlovy Vary runs from June 28-July 6.  Company’s latest foray into genre will open theatrically on October 10 The updating list includes titles’ sales agents and key deals The Barcelona producer’s credits include Carlos Marqués-Marcet’s They Will Be Dust Warner Bros./Legendary video game smash passed $720m at the global box office through April 20 By 2024-07-03T16:50:00+01:00 Two estranged brothers reconnect through fencing in this sharp Taiwan-set ’sophisticated genre piece’ Source: Potocol / Flash Forward Entertainment Brotherly love is the focus of Singaporean filmmaker Nelicia Low’s Taipei-set debut feature Pierce, in which estranged siblings are reunited after years apart That may sound like the premise for a heart-warming drama but Low is burrowing into darker territory: the elder brother is a recently released juvenile offender who may very well be a violent sociopath while the younger has a worrying tendency to idealise their childhood But what gives Pierce an unnerving frisson is the brothers’ mutual enthusiasm for fencing which results in some literally pointed encounters With its intricate clashing of sabres and emphasis on rigorous strategy this lightning-fast sport proves to be an incisive metaphor for how they come to anticipate one another’s moves even when their entanglement goes beyond the mat The pressing physical and mental dynamics of the combat sport are truly brought to the fore Playing in the Crystal Globe Competition at Karlovy Vary Pierce tells a gripping story in a coolly stylish fashion and should make its mark on the festival circuit without breaking a sweat This is a classy package which comes with considerable art-house cachet: the credits of its various producers include Pham Thien An’s Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell (2023) and Amanda Nell Eu’s Tiger Stripes (2023) while sound designer Tu Duu-chih is renowned for his collaborations with such luminaries as Hou Hsiao-hsien and Wong Kar-wai is the narratively fleet yet psychologically layered screenplay from Low (herself a former national fencer) which ensures that Pierce plays as a sophisticated genre piece Further engagements at prominent events are likely to follow as is keen interest from leading specialty distributors and high-end streamers Young fencer Jie (Liu Hsiu-fu) aspires to follow in the footsteps of older brother Han (Tsao Yu-ning) – albeit not too closely Han was a three-time national champion who killed an opponent with a broken blade Forbidden from visiting Han by their mother Ai Ling (Ding Ning) Jie holds fond memories of his brother regardless of her insistence that he was always a bad apple When Han is granted early release after seven years But it’s a masked Han who makes the initial overture by sneaking into Jie’s fencing class for a duel Han is playing mentor by honing Jie’s fencing skills and advising him on how to romance sensitive teammate Hui (Rosen) who has tried to move on from the shame of Han’s conviction and also the loss of her husband to cancer She makes a living as a nightclub singer and has attracted a charming suitor in fellow widower Zhuang (Lin Tsu-Heng) the story she has crafted to explain Han’s absence may not hold water now he is back on the streets of Taipei Pierce is the second family-themed psychological thriller of the year to feature competitive junior fencing following Lin Jianjie’s Brief History Of A Family but here the pressing physical and mental dynamics of the combat sport are truly brought to the fore After ingeniously fusing a plethora of techniques to create a donkey’s perspective in Jerzy Skolimowski’s experimental head-scratcher EO (2022) cinematographer Michal Dymek operates in classical mode here The fencing matches are captured through fluidly elegant pans which underline how especially confident opponents set the tempo and emphasise the power that Han exerts over Jie Dymek’s closer coverage is precisely cut by Low and Eric Mendelsohn to convey the force of lunges and instil the paranoia that can stem from not knowing who is behind the other mask Many of the duels evince a heightened realism that is enhanced by Tu’s rattling sound design and Piotr Kurek’s discordant score and finds space for compassionate character moments without lessening the slow-burn tension These include Jie’s tentative courtship of Hui and the efforts made by Ai Ling to draw a line between past and present which are movingly etched by an excellent Ding Low also shows how emotions are strongly shaped by subjective recollection A scene in which the cheerfully intoxicated brothers bound through rainswept streets to Neil Sedaka’s evergreen ’Oh Carol’ while being juxtaposed with a flashback to their younger selves has an ironic sting since it recaptures a childhood that may not have been so joyous haunting flashbacks to a significant incident are presented in a grainy palette that suggests memory is unreliable – or even maleable a compellingly impassive Tsao nails Han’s manipulative streak – as well as with his brother he also knows just what buttons to press when dealing with his case worker or in social situations it’s Jie who embodies the central conflict of fantasy vs reality as he engages in a high stakes inner duel: is Han the innocent supportive brother that he has always wanted or does he pose a threat to society Wholly emphatic newcomer Liu does well to portray how Jie is wracked with doubt especially as matters come the boil at the national fencing tournament The manner in which Low ultimately resolves Jie’s dilemma constitutes a shocking turn which may seem to come out of left field but is entirely consistent with the film’s complex psychology International sales: Magnify, international@magpictures.com Florence Pugh takes centre stage for this mighty tussle in a post-Avengers world Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong reunite to tell their own story Pleasingly complex murder mystery opened the Hong Kong International Film Festival By 2024-07-06T18:09:00 while divorce drama ‘Loveable’ wins five prizes SIGN IN if you have an account Access premium content Subscribe today If you have an account you can SIGN IN now The 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival a non-specialized festival with two competitive categories took place from June 28th to July 6th 2024 It was organized by Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary with Jiří Bartoška as the president of the festival Kryštof Mucha as the executive director and Petr Lintimer as the head of production Click Here for Statements from European Film Organisations The Film New Europe (FNE) Association is the networking platform for film professionals in the CEE/SEE/Baltics region The webportal and FNE newswire was chosen as the MAIN TOOL to achieve the network’s objectives of the sharing of know how visibility of regional cultural diversity and finally the VOICE of the region FNE’s objectives include VISIBILITY for the region and AUDIENCES for films by providing a special focus on the region By 2024-06-19T10:41:00 Nicole Holofcener and Michel Franco also among guests at Czech festival By 2024-07-02T17:30:00 Winners come from festival’s works in progress and development programmes It’s Not Me begins with a modest “I don’t know” as a riposte to a proposed riddle Carax thus reveals cinema’s ability to comment on the collective through the hyper-specific minutia that comprise an individual as well as the unreliability of representation he all but fends the portrait of other filmmakers off the screen as in a sequence where Carax makes an account of still images of Roman Polanski before returning to a more immediately recognizable exercise in self-portraiture Suggesting the infinity of sides to any account of a man’s life and perhaps the complicity of all men by virtue of sharing a gender Polanski is described as both a “survivor of the Krakow ghetto” and one who “sodomized a little girl.” The genesis of Carax’s project is image-centric in that the Centre Pompidou asked the filmmaker to respond to the question: “Where are you at Leos Carax?” The exhibition ended up never taking place but the answer in the shape of a film emerged anyway It’s Not Me begins with a modest “I don’t know” as a riposte to the proposed riddle uttered through Carax’s hoarse and disaffected voice This not knowing becomes the empty space to be filled with the philosophical speculations that are so central to the essay film as a genre a self-portrait that performs doubt as the purveyor of an unstable which Carax mimics with text-book precision as the one who’s simply supposed to wonder The surprising thing about It’s Not Me is its orthodoxy by the well-established coordinates of the cinematic essay as an increasingly sedimented style from the intimate act of self-analysis rendered public to the citational fabric that sustains the fragments together into a found footage-like menagerie Also crucial to this tapestry is an unabashed devotion to the written word through subtitles Carax’s attempts at queering such a certified copy are timid a mischievous self-censoring where certain words are bleeped out from the narration and unwarranted colorizing filters that are randomly applied to certain images The most noteworthy sequences here aren’t those in which images are pulled from the gems of silent cinema or Carax’s own films (from Boy Meets Girl to Holy Motors) but rather the less immediately recognizable references that are presented to us forcing the viewer to search for possible associations or simply revel in the associative flow of images Take the shot of a pan frying about a dozen eggs which recalls the work of another legendary filmmaker’s foray into shorter film formats: Abbas Kiarostami’s one-minute piece from 1995 “Dinner for One,” whose narrative consists of one long take of an egg frying while we hear the voice of Isabelle Huppert leaving a message on someone’s answering machine That brief shot in It’s Not Me is only the first in a short series of surprisingly touching images featuring an egg The film’s most haunting moment is one that also articulates one of the essay film’s most prominent features: its ability to capture the spirit of an epoch through the hyper-subjective musings of an individual. In the middle of the film, Carax asks the defining question for contemporary cinema, as images from F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise flash by: of the man from the countryside played by George O’Brien walking toward his encounter with Margaret Livingston’s vampiric woman from the city Carax retires the narrator’s voice to pose the question in writing across the screen which is worth stating it in its entirety: when grips pushed the camera on its heavy cart to follow a man one had the feeling that GOD was following the man with his heavy eyes if a boy follows his girlfriend with his cellphone camera The question is so rife with drama that to have a human voice perform it The words on the screen ironically embody the type of subtitling social media videos employ in order to be watched in silence as the user scrolls The fact that the same technique can yield mindless content and such haunting gravitas points to the contradictions of Carax’s interrogation It’s Not Me has no interest in answering its own questions the kind that Carax associates with the divine is an intimate co-authorship between maker and viewer not some ready-made gift from one to the other screening in the Proxima competition program at Karlovy Vary embodies some of the things that Carax mourns with his haunting question about the consequences of our banalization of images Soundouss (Oumaima Barid) and Jafaar (Youness Beyej) be the agents of their generation’s non-visceral relationship to visual production one where the crafting of a moving image is a matter of snapping surfaces instead of a means of giving voice to profound feelings it’s not over digital distractions that Soundouss and Jafaar queer best friends from Casablanca vacationing in the resort town of Cabo Negro ancestral tomb-washing and salt-spreading rituals and dancing with strangers to hits from the 1980s (such as Rose Laurens’s infectious “Quand tu pars”) Taïa’s second feature after 2013’s Salvation Army wrestles with his novels’ usual suspects: abandonment the endless lament following parental death and the imbrication between sex and violence Soundouss and Jafaar arrive at the summer rental and await for Jafaar’s lover an American who supposedly rented the place Cabo Negro offers no shortage of opportunity for sex and even love One such opportunity presents itself in a Frenchman Mounir is looking for his grandmother’s tomb while Jaffaar is washing his father’s tomb that these guardians of memory become entranced by each other’s gazes the colonizer as the one who makes promises that he cannot keep is predictably ready to respond to Europe calling than to the possibilities of North African queer love Soundouss and Jafaar eventually resort to sex work in order to buy groceries and make their summery escape last a little longer The body in Taïa’s work is there to be bartered but it also has a knack for finding affection even in the most pragmatic A sequence in Salvation Army of the child protagonist embracing his so-called abuser finds its correlative in Cabo Negro when Jafaar caresses his client’s salt-and-pepper hair not unlike one would rub a lamp in order to make a farfetched wish The encounter is meant to simply guarantee the maintenance of Jaffar and Soundouss’s getwaway but Taïa captures the yearning of the sexual aftermath as an inevitable these are things that Jaffar and Soundouss will only find in each other They’re linked by the apathy of the world (“Nobody loves me,” Soundouss tells Jaffar at one point) in a joint quest for a life where desire can be lived without shame and without annihilating emotional dependence for the sake of preemptive self-protection How beautiful and rare when a boy and a girl get to relate to each other without hierarchies of distinction the one who looks and the one who’s looked at Maybe the impossibility for “the gaze of the gods” to arise “if a boy follows his girlfriend with his cellphone camera” that Carax grieves in It’s Not Me isn’t in the technology itself or the generalized zombie-fication of the image-making process Maybe it’s in the blindness of old discourses about images that could only see the maker-muse dyad in the heterosexual couple in its most traditional form: a boy running after a girl in the myopia of a bourgeois gaze for which scrappy means would never measure up to its standards of mastery The Karlovy Vary Film Festival runs from June 28—July 6 Diego Semerene is an assistant professor of queer and transgender media at the University of Amsterdam document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id" "adb3ea81a0694f930d5bc68979df50b2" );document.getElementById("facec42938").setAttribute( "id" Steven Soderbergh and Nicole Holofcener will also attend the Czech festival Clive Owen and Daniel Brühl will receive the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival President’s Award at the 58th annual festival Mortensen will receive his award at the festival’s opening ceremony and Owen will be honored at the closing ceremony “The Dead Don’t Hurt,” which he wrote Owen’s 2004 film “Closer,” directed by Mike Nichols and Brühl’s 2021 directorial debut “Next Door” will also screen Steven Soderbergh will attend the festival to present two of his films 1991’s “Kafka” and the re-edit he did of that movie three decades later Kneff,” as part of the Karlovy Vary Franz Kafka retrospective The Wish to Be a Red Indian: Kafka and Cinema Fellow American filmmaker Nicole Holofcener will be on hand in the Czech city to introduce three films from her oeuvre (“Please Give,” “Enough Said,” “You Hurt My Feelings”) to screen “Memory,” starring Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard Italy’s Daniele Luchetti and the United States’ Ti West will debut their latest works As previously announced, Christine Vachon and Geoffrey Rush are on this year’s Karlovy Vary jury THE spa city of Karlovy Vary, in the Czech Republic, traditionally popular with Russian visitors, is famous for its thermal springs and colonnades. Recently, however, it has gained increasing attention from the Russian Orthodox Church as Czech officials continue to enforce one of Europe’s strictest sanction regimes against Russia has changed ownership from the Russian Orthodox Church to the Hungarian diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church because of fears that its property assets might be frozen He had been appointed as Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary in 2022 he was also granted Hungarian (and therefore EU) citizenship A previous Russian Orthodox representative in Karlovy Vary was stripped of his honorary citizenship last month by the local council the Czech government enacted broad sanctions against Russia He was the first person to be added to the Sanctions Act adopted in 2023 Transferring the property to the ownership by the Church’s Hungarian diocese is an attempt by the Moscow Patriarchate to secure its ownership by relying on the friendly relationship between the Hungarian Prime Minister Hungary has consistently upheld its stance regarding Patriarch Kirill described the EU’s most recent proposal for sanctioning the Patriarch as “crazy idea” Mr Szijjártó said that sanctioning church leaders was unproductive Hungary pressured EU representatives to remove Kirill’s name from a list of Russians to be sanctioned saying that Hungary stood for “fundamental principles of religious freedom” Nicholas Reed Langen examines the Supreme Court ruling on gender We are a partnership of six diverse and welcoming congregations in the northern districts of Milton Keynes offering a rich tapestry of worshipping traditions – Anglican The churches of the Lyth and Winster Valleys in the South Lakes are looking for a new Vicar To join our adventure with God in a vibrant single parish benefice in north-east Somerset organised and welcoming individual who is a member of the Church of England run jointly by Sarum College and The Church Times tickets available This online seminar, run jointly by Modern Church and The Church Times discusses the theology underpinning the drive for growth tickets available Non-subscribers can read four articles for free each month actor and director Viggo Mortensen poses with the Golden Globe award received during the opening ceremony of the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary An international film festival in the western Czech spa of Karlovy Vary has kicked off with an honor for U.S who was nominated three times for the Academy Award as the best actor received the Festival President’s Award at Friday’s opening ceremony and present the second movie he directed “The Dead Don’t Hurt.” (Slavomir Kubes/CTK via AP) FILE - Viggo Mortensen attends the premiere of “The Dead Don’t Hurt” during the Toronto International Film Festival will receive the Festival President’s Award at Friday’s June 28 2024 opening ceremony and present the second movie he directed “The Dead Don’t Hurt.” (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP PRAGUE (AP) — An international film festival in the western Czech resort city of Karlovy Vary is kicking off with an honor for U.S a three-time nominee for the Academy Award for best actor is slated to receive the Festival President’s Award at Friday’s opening ceremony and present the second movie he directed Oscar-winning director and producer Steve Soderbergh “Kafka” and “Mr Kneff,” in a retrospective called “The Wish to Be a Red Indian: Kafka and Cinema.” The retrospective will feature movie adaptations of books by Franz Kafka to mark the 100th anniversary since the author’s death The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival runs through July 6 which includes Australian Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush KARLOVY VARY 2024 Proxima by Mariana Hristova 27/06/2024 - Pavel G Vesnakov’s fiction feature attempts to speak about Bulgarian society as a whole but from the point of view of one young man “I want to explore the stillness of memory and the muteness of a hidden childhood trauma Kaloyan's return to his father's flat is a pilgrimage to a shrine of memory a confrontation with the past that is as vivid as it is elusive The furniture remains in the same place where it was left years ago and the photographs still hang on the walls Yet the warmth of those objects has long faded and now they only evoke a distant echo of familiarity,” Vesnakov elaborates celebrated its world premiere with physical screenings at the 42nd Cairo International Film Festival and won the Best Actor Award Windless was produced by Bulgaria’s Red Carpet and co-produced by Italy’s dispàrte. 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