Director Terry Gilliam will personally appear at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival to present his new film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which had its premiere at this year’s festival in Cannes.
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote faced many trials and tribulations and was many years in the making. Eighteen years ago, the original shoot starring Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort was halted after just six days.
The series of catastrophes that halted the project, which Gilliam ...
This year’s 53rd KVIFF will present a Crystal Globe for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema to actor, director, screenwriter, producer and musician Tim Robbins, who won an Oscar for best supporting actor for his performance in Mystic River (2003) and who was nominated for a best director Oscar for Dead Man Walking (1995).
Thanks to his family background, Tim Robbins had contact with the world of art from an early age. He began his acting career at theatres in New York, and af...
Last week at the Karlovy Vary IFF, the Center for Documentary Film presented the outcomes of its research analysing students’ theses focusing on documentary filmmaking. The CDF team has been working on several research projects and their first output is a detailed analysis mapping the interest of the upcoming generation of film critics, historians and filmmakers in documentary filmmaking, its various contemporary and traditional forms, methods of production, financing and distribution...
Last KVIFF TALK of 50th edition of the festival was a Q and A with American actor and winner of the 2004 award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema who was also one of the first figures of world cinema to agree to film one of the festival trailers.
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German actor with unique piercing blue eyes come back to Karlovy Vary after 12 years. Over his 30-year career Udo has worked with several brilliant directors: Paul Morrissey, Dario Argento, Gus Van Sant and he continues to work often with Lars von Trier.
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The 50th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has just drawn to a close with a glitzy awards ceremony at the Grand Hall of Thermal Hall. In a report, several of the winners give their reactions to picking up KVIFF’s prestigious Crystal Globe award. They include Diego Ongaro, the director of Best Film Bob and the Trees; Best Director Visar Morina (Babai); the director of East of the West winner Wednesday’s Child, Lili Horvath; Best Actor Kryštof Háde...
The 50. KVIFF had 12857 accredited participants, of whom:
Festival Pass: 10623
film makers: 547
film professionals: 1017
journalists: 670
135105 tickets have been sold, 488 screenings have taken place (and 199 introdution to the films).
From 223 festival films 35 films were shown as world, 26 as international and 12 as European premiere.
25short films and 40 doc...
Charming American feature film Bob and the Trees, where the main character, logger and rap fan Bob Tarasuk, plays himself, was awarded with the Crystal Globe at the 50th anniversary Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Tarasuk accepted the Festival Grand Prix in person, together with director Diego Ongaro.
“This really is a surprise. We had virtually no money to shoot the film so I had to invest my and my wife’s money, and I would like to thank everybody involved in ma...
Interview with Alba Sotorra, director of the film Game Over (Documentary Films - Competition)
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Interview with Jena Malone, actor and with Oren Moverman, director of the film Time Out of Mind (Official Selection - Out of Competition)
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Interview with Dietrich Brüggemann, director of the film Heil (Official Selection - Competition)
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Interview with George A. Romero in beautiful Karlovy Vary, master looks back at his career and gave a masterclass
"Why do you think The Night of the Living Dead so sucessfull?"
Looking back at the proliferation of zombie movies or parodies...do you ever think I have created a Monster?
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Richard Gere obviously enjoyed the presentation of Pretty Woman, he shot the audience with his cellphone and mentionned he would send the video to Julia Roberts to show her what she missed.
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The new co-production Anthropoid, the filming of which will begin in the next few weeks in the Czech Republic, will be introduced to journalists for the first time at this year’s Karlovy Vary IFF.
Director Sean Ellis selected actors Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy for the lead roles, parachutists Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík. One of the main female characters, Gabčík’s partner Liběna Fafková, will be played by Czech actress Anna Geislerová. Jamie ...
AWARD OF 10,000 EUROS IN SERVICES FOR PARK - THE MOST PROMISING PROJECT
15 projects selected out of 57 were presented at Karlovy Vary IFF’s Works in Progress 2015 on July 6. The international jury has selected the most promising project which will receive the award of 10,000 Euros in services from the event’s partner Barrandov Studios.
The award for the most promising project 2015 went to: PARK by Sofia Exarchou, Greece (director). The project was presented by: Sofia Ex...
The 50th Karlovy Vary IFF will take place between July 3 and 11, 2015. The jubilee anniversary of the festival will be a celebration of cinematography open to the general public.
The festival tradition stretches all the way back to 1946 when the first, non-competitive showcase of films was held in Karlovy Vary and Mariánské Lázně. The festival’s modern history began with the arrival of a team of organisers centred around Karlovy Vary IFF president Jiří Bart...
Richard Gere was honored with the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema. He introduces his latest film Time Out of Mind
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Ben Mendelsohn will attend KVIFF to present his newest film, the critically acclaimed Sundance darling MISSISSIPPI GRIND, from the directing duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, and co-starring Ryan Reynolds and Siena Miller. Mendelsohn is considered one of today’s best and most popular Australian actors. Since the mid-1980s, when he started out primarily in television series, he has gained a firm position not only in Australian film productions but has gradually – like his contemp...
Among the seven world and six international premieres, the festival will introduce new movies by Dietrich Brüggemann and Romanian filmmakers Anca Damian and Florin Şerban, as well as the feature debut of the rising star of Italian cinema Ferdinando Cito Filomarino.
“This year, we are excited to present the youngest competition line-up in the KVIFF’s recent history, the average age of the filmmaker in the main festival section is 39 years old,” says KVIFF’...
The celebrations around the 50th Karlovy Vary IFF will include an opportunity for festival audiences to encounter a special section entitled Six Close Encounters. For the programme, six international directors who share a history with the Karlovy Vary IFF present one of their favourite films.
“It is extremely important to us that we maintain long-term relationships with filmmakers whose work we follow continuously, often from the beginning of their careers, which in many cases wer...
Master Class with one of the top directors of the modern horror film. George A. Romero, creator of cult films beginning with the legendary Night of the Living Dead.
Master of cult zombie films George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead), who has already been announced as a guest at the 50th Karlovy Vary IFF, will be presenting a screening of his action sci-fi horror The Crazies (1973). The story follows the helpless inhabitants of a town paralysed by...
