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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival · 2014

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2014

Official Selection - Competition

Programme

12 films · 5 reviews

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Adventure (Priklyuchenie)

A loose adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s White Nights.

(Country: Kazakhstan, France; Year: 2014; Director: Nariman Turebayev)

All Yours (Je Suis A Toi)

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Lambert laces this potentially volatile concoction with plenty of humour.

Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
Lucas arrives in Belgium to visit local bakery owner Henry, who has fallen in love with him via the internet. Their ideas about living together, however, differ greatly.

(Country: Belgium, Canada; Year: 2014; Director: David Lambert; Stars: Nahuel Pérez Biscayar, Jean-Michel Balthazar, Monia Chokri)

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Corn Island (Simindis Kundzuli)

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Ovashvili tells the story with spare dialogue and absorbing attention to detail.

Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
An old peasant and his innocent 16-year-old granddaughter sow corn on an island in the middle of the Inguri River dividing Georgia from Abkhazia.

(Country: Georgia, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan; Year: 2014; Director: George Ovashvili; Writer: Roelof Jan Minneboo, George Ovashvili, Nugzar Shataidze; Stars: Ilyas Salman, Mariam Buturishvili, Irakli Samushia, Tamer Levent)

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Fair Play

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The atmosphere of the drab Czechoslovakia at the time has been captured with uncompromising realism.

Richard Mowe · 3.5 out of 5
Teenage Anna’s background may be altogether unsuitable for the communist regime, but her talent as a sprinter will help her into the state-run doping program regardless.

(Country: Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Andrea Sedláčková; Stars: Judit Bárdos, Anna Geislerová, Eva Josefíková, Roman Luknár, Roman Zach)

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Free Fall (Szabadesés)

An old woman flies past six floors after jumping from the roof of her apartment block. Six stories on the poor state of humanity.

(Country: Hungary, France, South Korea; Year: 2014; Director: György Pálfi)

Low Down

Based on Amy Jo Albany's memoir, Low Down explores her heart-wrenching journey to adulthood while being raised by her father, bebop pianist Joe Albany, as he teeters between incarceration and addiction in the urban decay and waning bohemia of Hollywood in the 1970s.

(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Jeff Preiss; Writer: Amy Albany, Topper Lilien, Amy Albany, Amy Albany, Amy Albany, Topper Lilien; Stars: Lena Headey, Taryn Manning, Elle Fanning, Peter Dinklage, Burn Gorman, Glenn Close, John Hawkes, Caleb Landry Jones, Tim Daly, Flea, Eddie Rouse, Ronnie Rodriguez, Mark Casimir Dyniewicz, Linda Wang, Juliet Tondowski)

Nowhere In Moravia (Díra U Hanušovic)

When not serving regulars at a pub in the middle of a sleepy northern Moravian village, thirtysomething Maruna spends time with hesitant Jura and naïve outsider Olin – or fighting with her imperious mother.

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2014; Director: Miroslav Krobot)

Paris Of The North (París Norðursins)

The tale of a recovering alcoholic, his largely estranged father, and their incompatible cohabitation.

(Country: Iceland, France, Denmark; Year: 2014; Director: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson)

Patchwork Family (Du Goudron Et Des Plumes)

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Rabaté is strong on seeking out the irony in middle class mores.

Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
A salesman finds his sharp practice comes back to haunt him.

(Country: France, Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Pascal Rabaté; Stars: Sami Bouajila, Isabelle Carré, Talina Boyaci, Daniel Prevost, Zinedine Soualem, and Gustave Kervern)

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Rocks In My Pockets

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It is funny and serious by turns... full of striking and humorous images.

Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
An animated film exploring living with illness.

(Country: US, Latvia; Year: 2014; Director: Signe Baumane; Writer: Signe Baumane; Stars: Signe Baumane)

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La Tirisia

When two village women become pregnant by the same man, every available choice seems to lead to sorrow.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2014; Director: Jorge Pérez Solano)

Welkome Home

A former model, a carpet salesman who dreams of acting, a trans woman and a pensioner try to build new lives in New York City.

(Country: Russia; Year: 2014; Director: Angelina Nikonova)