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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival · 2014

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2014

Documentary Films - Competition

Programme

16 films · 1 review

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Autofocus

A caustic satire on mass tourism.

(Country: Croatia; Year: 2013; Director: Boris Poljak)

Cloudy Times (El Tiempo Nublado)

Review preview for Cloudy Times

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

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
An intensely personal consideration of how we care for our parents in old age.

(Country: Switzerland, Paraguay; Year: 2014; Director: Arami Ullón)

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Comeback

A prison inmate tries to reeducate himself in the hope of one day returning to society.

(Country: Slovak Republic; Year: 2014; Director: Miro Remo)

Fishtail

Follow the cowboys of Montana’s Fishtail Basin Ranch as they survive another calving season.

(Year: 2014; Director: Andrew Renzi; Stars: Harry Dean Stanton)

Into The Clouds We Gaze (K Oblakům K oblakům vzhlížíme)

Days in the life of a man whose best friend is his car.

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2014; Director: Martin Dušek)

Istanbul United

A look at how mass political demonstrations in Turkey brough together fans of rival football teams Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe and Beşiktaş.

(Country: Germany, Czech Republic, Turkey, Switzerland; Year: 2014; Director: Olli Waldhauer, Farid Eslam)

Lean A Ladder Against Heaven (Opri zebrík o nebe)

At his presbytery below the Tatra Mountains, Marian Kuffa readily takes care of more than 200 people in need.

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2014; Director: Jana Sevciková)

The Queen (La Reina)

In order to prepare for the prestigious role of parade queen, 11-year-old Memi must undergo seemingly endless hours of dressing and makeup. All that’s left is to burden her little head with a spectacular crown.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2013; Director: Manuel Abramovich)

Solitary Plains

12 year old James doesn’t go to school and gradually resigns himself to a bleak future amid massive oil refineries.

(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: J. Christian Jensen)

Steadiness (Sitzfleisch)

A documentary road movie, about an absence of love and objectivity, unfolding on a family trip from Vienna to the northern cape of Norway.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2014; Director: Lisa Weber)

Tal R: The Virgin

A documentary portrait of the artist Tal R.

(Country: Denmark; Year: 2013; Director: Daniel Dencik)

The Term (Srok)

An examination of the political situation and protest movements in Russia.

(Country: Russia, Estonia; Year: 2014; Director: Pavel Kostomarov, Alexander Rastorguev, Alexey Pivovarov)

The Train To Moscow: A Journey To Utopia (Il Treno Va A Mosca)

The end of an era as seen through the eyes of one member of a group of young Italian communists travelling to Moscow in 1957 to take part in the World Festival of Socialist Youth.

(Country: Italy, UK; Year: 2013; Director: Federico Ferrone, Michele Manzolini)

Waiting for August

A grim atemporality has infiltrated the lives of seven Romanian siblings. Their mother has gone to work in Italy, and the responsibility for caring for the household is placed entirely with 15-year-old Georgiana.

(Country: Belgium; Year: 2014; Director: Teodora Ana Mihai)

The Water And The Wall (Le Mur Et L'Eau)

A sensitive discussion between Luc Dardenne and 11-year-old Bradley, who was greatly moved after seeing the The Kid with a Bike.

(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2014; Director: Alice Fargier)

Wild Boar

Man, ever obsessed by the desire to control nature, decided to rescue the Netherlandish wild boar population, only to find the revitalised and rapidly expanding species outside his front door.

(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2013; Director: Willem Baptist)