Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

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  The Wonders

  Review preview for The Wonders

  Wisdom is quiet and the future a mystery

  Nothing will be the same at the end of this summer for Gelsomina and her three younger sisters.
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  Li'l Quinquin

  Review preview for Li'l Quinquin

  Dumont - for all the outlandishness of the film in other aspects - prioritises a messy realism over straightforward likeability in relation to his protagonists.

  A blackly comic murder mystery develops in a small town in northern France.
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  The Tribe

  Review preview for The Tribe

  Slaboshpytskiy goes to show, first through Anna and then the actions of Sergey that some transactions can hold a lot more - and worse - than we have bargained for.

  A deaf teenager runs into gang trouble at a boarding school.
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  Cloudy Times

  Review preview for Cloudy Times

  What makes Ullón's film stand out is the poignancy of its personal journey.

  An intensely personal consideration of how we care for our parents in old age.
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  '71

  Review preview for '71

  Burke is interested in people not politics, keeping the focus on the sudden outbreaks of inhumanity and humanity in the madness, expertly crafting his thriller from the swirling fog of war.

  A young British soldier is accidentally left behind by his unit on the deadly streets of Belfast in 1971.
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  Jauja

  Review preview for Jauja

  Stunningly shot by cinematographer Timo Salminen, who illuminated landscapes as if they were Eckersberg paintings, the film is framed in 4:3 aspect ratio, creating the sense that there's always something just out of sight.

  A dad and daughter's odyssey into a desert.
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  Black Coal, Thin Ice

  Review preview for Black Coal, Thin Ice

  A painstakingly deliberate neo-noir, heavy on atmosphere and taking its time to build.

  A detective falls in love with a woman linked to the murder victims of his current investigation.
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  Maidan

  Review preview for Maidan

  Purely observational though it is, this is a film that becomes devastating in its intensity.

  A documentary about the unrest in Ukraine in 2013 and 2014.
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  Love Is Strange

  Review preview for Love Is Strange

  Courageous and uncompromising

  The consequences of a gay marriage on family and friends.
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  Memphis

  Review preview for Memphis

  It's always difficult to tell a story about nothing happening, and director Tim Sutton is not entirely successful in doing so here.

  A musician strives to find inspiration in a city with an overwhelming history.

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Features

• Confessions, part 2
  John Michael McDonagh, Brendan Gleeson, Chris O'Dowd and Joyce Carol Oates on Calvary.
• Confessions, part 1
  Kelly Reilly on the women of Calvary.
• Flower power
  Michel Gondry and Audrey Tautou contemplate the strangeness of Mood Indigo.
• Friedkin takes a swipe in Karlovy Vary
  Director on studios, opium for the masses, and The Exorcist
• The sweet smell of success
  Anonymous Content Producer / Partner Michael Sugar gives the lowdown in Karlovy Vary.
• Behind the scenes of Boyhood
  At the New York première with Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Richard Linklater and Joel Grey.
• Fanny - the femme fatale
  New Wave icon Ardant on why she never looks back
• Piercing vision
  The unpredictable engines of Bong Joon-ho.
• Snow business
  John Hurt on Snowpiercer and his long career.
• Being human
  Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Valeria Golino discuss Human Capital.
• Capital idea
  Paolo Virzì on costume, Truffaut, Sinatra and Human Capital.
• Riding high
  Of Horses and Men director Benedikt Erlingsson talks sagas, mankind and Mitty.

News

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  Karlovy Vary honours controversial star.
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  Special honour at Karlovy Vary
• Man versus Nature at Karlovy Vary
  Czech festival unveils line-up.