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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival · 2014

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2014

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15 films · 2 reviews

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Action On The Strip

The 1960s are coming to an end but not, however, the wild parties or protests dominating LA’s Sunset Strip.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: John Warren)

Ancha Es Castilla / N'importe Quoi

Alegría is possessed by the devil but exorcism isn’t much help, and neither is her daddy who’d much rather hit the bar.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2013; Director: Sergio Caballero)

Atlas 1.0

Are we flying among the stars or watching the lights of the city from a rising airplane?

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2013; Director: Jakub Korselt)

Farewell (Abschied)

Joanna and Helene get together, and at first things seem as normal as an open bottle of wine and aimless conversation might suggest. Soon enough, however, the rising tension betokens the suppression of a secret.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2014; Director: Ludwig Wüst)

Glue

A drone surveys a man who is taking great care of and decorating a pig’s head.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2013; Director: Moritz Uebele)

It Has Already Been Ended Before You Can See The End

An exploration of the finite within a miniature universe.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2012; Director: Shigeo Arikawa)

Journey To The West (Xi You)

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A meditative miniature of hypnotic grace.

Rebecca Naughten · 4.5 out of 5
A slow-moving Buddhist monk acquires a follower on the streets of Marseille.

(Country: France, Taiwan; Year: 2014; Director: Tsai Ming-liang; Stars: Lee Kang-sheng, Denis Lavant)

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Joy Of Man's Desiring (Hitono Nozomino Yorokobiyo)

After an earthquake, Haruna and her little brother Sotha are taken in by relatives. Nobody has told the boy that his parents are dead, a fact that weighs heavily on Haruna.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2013; Director: Masakazu Sugita)

Lecture (Přednáška)

An experimental exploration of speech and error.

(Year: 2014; Director: Roman Štětina)

A Masque Of Madness (Notes On Film 06-B, Monologue 02)

Old movies reminisce about Boris Karloff's career.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2013; Director: Norbert Pfaffenbichler; Writer: Norbert Pfaffenbichler; Stars: Boris Karloff)

Optical Sound

Experimental short.

(Director: Elke Groen, Christian Neubacher)

Pierrot Lunaire

Review preview for Pierrot Lunaire

It has been described in places as "very funny" but it's closer to laughable.

Andrew Robertson · 1 out of 5
A transgender cabaret performer falls tragically in love with a young woman.

(Country: Germany, Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Bruce La Bruce; Writer: Albert Giraud, Otto Erich Hartleben, Bruce La Bruce; Stars: Susanne Sachße, Paulina Bachmann, Luizo Vega, Maria Ivanenko, Mehdi Berkouki, Boris Lisowski, Krishna Kumar Krishnan, Bruce La Bruce, Amit Elan, Premil Petrovic, Krassen Krastev, Adrian Pavlov, Emmanuelle Bernard, Thony Weiss, Miguel Pérez Iñesta)

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Return To Adriaport

Are beer and dumplings enough to make Czechoslovaks happy or would it take their own seaside resort to really perk them up?

(Year: 2014; Director: Adéla Babanová)

Substance

Impressionistic contemplation of the disaster in Fukushima, Japan.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Sebastian Mez)

Tongue Twister (Jazykolam)

Editing of a tongue-twister.

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2014; Director: Roman Stetina)