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This year's festival runs from July 3 to 11. Among the guests will be Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jesse Eisenberg. This page is currently a work in progress as we are inputting this year's films, so please check back later.
View Films by Strand:
- Afterhours
- Crystal Globe Competition
- Horizons
- Imagina
- Out Of The Past - KVIFF 60/80
- Proxima Competition
- Special Screenings
- Tributes
View previous years coverage of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival festival:
Karlovy Latest Reviews
The troubled young adult Andrej tries to get things back on track in his life. But love always turns things upside down.
Drama focusing on Thomas Mann's post-war life, as he and his daughter embark on a road-trip across Germany.
The actor and painter reflects on Vertigo and her life.
As advanced dementia erodes an older woman’s ability to communicate her inner life, her husband and daughter struggle to act in her best interests, navigating love and the fragile boundaries between care, protection and autonomy.
Historical drama set against a backdrop of Vichy France as a man strives to help France's renewal.
In Finnish forest, Saga and her husband Jon embark on a new chapter as parents. But Saga's joy is overshadowed by a chilling suspicion about their newborn, unbeknownst to Jon, causing a rift as she alone grapples with the disturbing truth.
Two women in a textile factory dream of intimacy and escape.
A group of French high-school students travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius. There, they are drawn into a dizzying descent.
A photographer takes snapshots of strangers, sharing them online as 'Rain Catcher' but he is unsettled when he spots a mysterious woman who is photographing him.
After years of saving money from the small bribes they collect, 60-year-old Marina and her husband Gosha from Bulgaria are preparing for their dream trip to St Petersburg to witness the White Nights. But when Russia invades Ukraine and the travel agency vanishes with all their savings, the couple’s dream collapses.
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