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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival · 2015

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2015

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17 films · 1 review

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Am I Dreaming Of Others, Or Are Others Dreaming Of Me?

Experimental short.

(Year: 2014; Director: Shigeo Arikawa)

Back Track

Twenty-five old movies, three men under the spell of one woman, and 3-D.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2015; Director: Virgil Widrich; Writer: Virgil Widrich)

The Forbidden Room

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What is quite wonderful in all this flowing and "fade, fade, fade," fading is that the characters and their stories belong to no one specifically. They belong to a cinematic spirit world and maybe nobody even wanted them.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2015; Director: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson; Writer: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Robert Kotyk, John Ashbery, Kim Morgan; Stars: Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Louis Negin, Udo Kier, Gregory Hlady, Mathieu Amalric, Noel Burton, Geraldine Chaplin, Paul Ahmarani, Caroline Dhavernas, Jacques Nolot, Slimane Dazi, Maria de Medeiros, Charlotte Rampling, Victor Andrés Trelles Turgeon)

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Lost Case (Ztracený případ)

This compilation film employes scenes from the cult series Columbo to create an new story.

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

Lucifer

An angel falling from heaven to hell unexpectedly lands in a Mexican village where his presence affects the villagers in surprising ways.

(Country: Belgium; Year: 2014; Director: Gust Van Den Berghe; Writer: Gust Van Den Berghe; Stars: María Acosta, Jeronimo Soto Bravo, Norma Pablo, Gabino Rodríguez)

Natural History

A somewhat different kind of excursion to Vienna’s Museum of Natural History that doesn’t urge us to view the exhibits with a sense of wonder

(Country: Austria; Year: 2014; Director: James Benning; Writer: James Benning)

Nipomo

Music video for Czech band Dva.

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2015; Director: Marek Partyš)

The Old Jewish Cemetery

Story of the first Jewish cemetery in Riga, opened in 1725.

(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2015; Director: Sergei Loznitsa)

Orgy Of The Devil And Other Forbidden Tapes Of Ivan Cardoso (O bacanal do diabo e outras fitas proibidas de Ivan Cardoso)

Compilation film about Cardoso's career.

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2013; Director: Ivan Cardoso)

Ov

Foggy memories of a French nightclub from the mid-20th century; glitchy stuttering electronic music by Lanuk, 2014.

(Country: Hungary, Czech Republic; Year: 2014; Director: Martin Blažíček)

A Purpose

Father Murphy video.

(Year: 2015; Director: Luca Dipierro)

San Siro

Study of the Milan stadium.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2014; Director: Yuri Ancarani; Writer: Yuri Ancarani)

Sleeping District

Silent film about the empty apartments of Moscow’s enormous prefab housing complexes.

(Country: Denmark; Year: 2014; Director: Tinne Zenner)

The

Abstract horror.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2015; Director: Dieter Kovacic, Billy Roisz)

Things

Each season of the year ushers in a different mood, the nature of which leading British experimenter Ben Rivers investigates in his latest, highly personal film.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Ben Rivers)

Twelve Tales Told

3D deconstruction of film introductions.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2014; Director: Johann Lurf)

Vanishing Circuit (Shoushitsusuru Kairo)

This dreamlike movie, created under the influence of Chris Marker’s film La jetée (1962).

(Country: Japan; Year: 2014; Director: Shunsuke Hasegawa)