Afghanistan under the rule of the Taliban is the setting of Cinema Jazireh, Turkish filmmaker Gözde Kural’s second feature. She wrote, directed, and also edited, together with Bünyamin Bayansal, the film, which is world premiering in the Crystal Globe Competition of the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on Thursday evening. […]
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Polish writer and director Agnieszka Holland discussed her new biographical film Franz, about author Franz Kafka, at the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on Monday, saying the movie tries to uncover the “essence” of the novelist and explores themes that are still topical, including Kafka’s thoughts on the dangers of
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Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey, Black Mess, Suspiria) got feted at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on Saturday as the audience for one of her latest movies showered the Hollywood star with enthusiastic applause and love, and she received one of the Czech fest’s honors. On a summer-y and warm evening of day three
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If you haven’t followed the rise of Lithuanian cinema on the global film festival circuit in recent years, you may not know the name of young filmmaker and cinematographer Vytautas Katkus – yet. But when the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) recently unveiled that his feature directorial debut, The Visitor, would world premiere as part
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Humanity must work together or else, Peter Sarsgaard (Dead Man Walking, Boys Don’t Cry) told reporters during a Saturday roundtable interview conducted as part of the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), in which he also explained why he joined a “No Kings” protest on U.S. President Donald Trump’s birthday, and why he doesn’t believe in Elon
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Politics seems to be everywhere and everything these days, and Friday evening’s opening ceremony for the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) in the Czech Republic got a dose of it as honorees Peter Sarsgaard and Vicky Krieps used their acceptance speeches for comments on the United States’ role in the world and
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