STELLAN SKARSGÅRD TO RECEIVE THE CRYSTAL GLOBE FOR OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD CINEMA AT KVIFF
Swedish film and theater actor Stellan Skarsgård, recipient of a Golden Globe award, will return to Karlovy Vary for the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where he will be presented the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema.
Skarsgård will personally present his ne...
This year, KVIFF is expanding its range to include new trends combining various areas of the audiovisual industry. To this end, the festival’s Special Screenings section will show the world premiere of a cinematic cut of Warhorse Studios’ internationally successful video game – Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Cinematic Cut.
"We are honored to be working together with world leaders in their field on this unique project, whic...
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is proud to screen a newly restored version of Miloš Forman’s cinematic landmark One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest as part of this year’s “Out of the Past” section. The 1975 classic, which swept the Oscars and earned dozens of international awards, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Michael Douglas, one of the film’s producers and recipient of the Academy Award for Best Picture, will persona...
"The 59th Karlovy Vary IFF’s Official Selection offers an exciting display of the diversity of contemporary arthouse cinema. Answering exclusively to their artistic integrity, the filmmakers who have accepted the invitation to premiere their brand new works in Karlovy Vary fearlessly protect the right to challenge expectations, to disrupt stereotypes and to win over hearts and minds with equal intensity. Disregarding budgetary constraints, these filmmakers from countries such ...
EFP (European Film Promotion) and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) are pleased to announce that the Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvilli will serve as this year’s mentor for EFP FUTURE FRAMES – Generation NEXT of European Cinema. Acclaimed Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland is contributing a keynote speech.
In an exclusive masterclass, the award-winning director Dea Kulumbegashvilli will give the young filmmakers an insight into her professional journey fr...
We are excited to share the first details about the upcoming 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 4–July 12, 2025).
The Life and Times of John Garfield
The 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will feature an exclusive tribute to 1940s American screen star John Garfield.
“We are excited to remember the exceptional but somewhat forgotten career of ...
EWAN McGREGOR WILL RECEIVE THE FESTIVAL PRESIDENT'S AWARD
This year’s 57th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival welcomes as its guest Scottish actor, director, and producer Ewan McGregor. This winner of a Golden Globe, an Emmy, two European Film Awards, and numerous other awards will be on hand to receive a Festival President´s Award and to present his new film You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder, in which he appears alongside his daughter Clara, who will als...
Oscar-winning Swedish actress and producer Alicia Vikander will be a guest at the opening ceremony of the 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where she will be presented the KVIFF President’s Award.
Vikander began her artistic career during her childhood years, training as a ballet dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm. Alicia appeared in a number of stage productions and Swedish TV series, Andra Avenyn, before being cast in her breakthrough debut film ro...
FIREBRAND TO OPEN THE 57th KARLOVY VARY IFF
The 57th Karlovy Vary IFF will open with the British historical drama Firebrand, starring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law. Firebrand is directed by Karim Aïnouz from a screenplay by Henrietta Ashworth and Jessica Ashworth, based on the novel Queen's Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle.
Firebrand premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, where it was selected to compete for Palme d'Or.
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The KVIFF President’s Award will be presented to actress Daniela Kolářová at the closing ceremony of the festival’s 57th edition. Daniela Kolářová is one of the most distinctive Czech actors of the past several decades.
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The visuals for this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival have once again been designed by Studio Najbrt, specifically by Jakub Spurný and Aleš Najbrt.
Commenting on their design, Spurný and Najbrt say, “After last year’s illustrated poster, the visuals for the 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival have been composed using four colored lines that act out an experimental game with legibility and motion inv...
Another Birth. Iranian Cinema, Here and Now
The 57th KVIFF celebrates independent Iranian cinema with a selection of singular works made in the past four years. Collectively these works offer an insightful testimony of the burning creativity of Iran's artists in face of the challenging reality. Nine mostly young filmmakers – urgent, unheard, voices – who palpably bear a spiritual connection to the previous generations of their country's greats, tac...
A towering figure of post-war Japanese cinema is the subject of the 57th Karlovy Vary International Festival’s forthcoming tribute program. Long neglected in most of the Western world, the zany films of Japanese filmmaker Yasuzo Masumura (1924 – 1986) have been gaining traction over the past decade, attracting new devotees and forcing critics and academics to reassess his ascribed position within the Japanese New Wave. Two decades after his work began to circulate across in Eu...
"Summer with Hope" Director Sadaf Foroughi, Film Crew Saman Majdvafaei, Producer Kiarash Anvari and Actress Leili Rashidi
The 56th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, a non-specialized festival with two competitive categories, took place from July 1st to July 9th this year. It was organized by Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary, a.s., with Jiří Bartoška as the president of the festival and Karel Och as its artistic director. The 57th Karlovy Vary IFF...
Works in Progress, Works in Development – Feature Launch, First Cut+ Works in Progress, Odesa International Film Festival WIP Selection
KVIFF Eastern Promises, the festival's Industry section, has the exciting mission of bridging the gap between talented filmmakers and their potential partners, festivals and audiences. “This year brought us back to live pitching sessions after two pandemic years, and we were delighted to see the return of both our industry audience and the well-...
The Oscar-winning actors Geoffrey Rush and Benicio Del Toro will be feted at the upcoming edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which will take place between July 1–July 9. Both the actors will receive the awards at the festival's closing ceremony. “We are honored and delighted that two extraordinary actors we have been deeply admiring for many years accepted our invitation to come to Karlovy Vary,” said KVIFF's president Jiří Bartoška....
This year’s Karlovy Vary festival will welcome American actor, screenwriter, and director Liev Schreiber eighteen years after his last appearance.
In 2004, Schreiber was in town along with actor Elijah Wood to introduce the Czech-filmed Everything is Illuminated (2005). This adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s story of a young American looking for his roots in Ukraine was Schreiber’s directorial debut. In 2005, the film won the Laterna Magica Prize and a Bio...
Superheroes will be the opening film of the 56th Karlovy Vary IFF
A romantic film that briefly introduces us to the carousel of joys and fears of a couple brought together by chance. Or was it fate? Comic book illustrator Anna and theoretical physicist Marco are a pair of congenial Superheroes who, like so many other people, have decided to live together. After all, dealing with shared problems sometimes requires truly superhuman strength. Every relationship has its crises and its idylli...
Jérome Paillard with Bruno Chatelin (FILMFESTIVALS.COM) and Jon Gosier (FILMHEDGE) on his Cannes tribute
This year’s edition of Karlovy Vary IFF will pay tribute to Jérôme Paillard, the long-time executive director of Marché du Film. Paillard joined Marché in 1995 and significantly expanded its global scale. He is the founder of the Cinando.com database and Ventana Sur, the most important market for audiovisual content in Latin America, which ...
The selection features 33 films from 5 continents screening across 3 sections Thirty-three films comprise the eclectic lineup for the 56th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), the programming team led by the artistic director Karel Och has revealed today. The selection includes twenty-seven world premieres, three international premieres, and three European premieres, covering five continents. In addition to Crystal Globe Competition and Special Screenings section, KVIFF’s ne...
Due to the full-scale war that Russia is waging against Ukraine, part of the 13th Odesa International Film Festival will take place at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The festival will host a presentation of Ukrainian Works in Progress projects, which is part of the professional section of the OIFF Film Industry Office. The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will take place from July 1-9. In Karlovy Vary, the program will be known as OIFF WIP Select...
At the festival’s 56th edition, the KVIFF President’s Award for outstanding figures in Czech cinema will go to actor, playwright, screenwriter, and director BOLESLAV POLÍVKA.
Bolek Polívka first came to audiences’ attention as a distinctive and inimitable theater actor and co-founder of Brno’s legendary Goose on a String theater. The plays that he directed and starred in (Am and Ea, Pezza versus Čorba, Pépe, The Castaway, The Final Trap, T...
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is extending its activities into the realm of film distribution with an ambition to span the entire CEE region. By strengthening its online presence via the KVIFF.TV platform and acquiring the established Aerofilms distribution company, the organizers hope to make use of the festival’s potential throughout the year and beyond the borders of the Karlovy Vary city and region.
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This year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is being held while respecting all the hygienic and anti-Covid regulations in effect during the festival. The festival’s motto this year is: To the cinema with just a wristband. All admission to cinemas and festival venues will require a valid covid-safe wristband confirming infection-free status. Besides serving to ensure health and safety, the wristband is also a friendly accessory. With your wristband, you are sure to be IN.
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WINNERS OF KVIFF EASTERN PROMISES 2021
Works in Progress, Works in Development – Feature Launch and First Cut+
KVIFF Eastern Promises, the festival's Industry section, has the exciting mission of being a bridge between talented filmmakers and their potential partners, festivals and audiences. A total of 29 film projects were screened within the 3 programs (Works in Progress, Works in Development – Feature Launch and First Cut+) dedicated to feature films...
