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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival · 2016

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2016

Documentary Films - Competition

Programme

12 films · 2 reviews

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All These Sleepless Nights

What does it mean to be truly awake in a world that seems satisfied to be asleep? Kris and Michal push their experiences of life and love to a breaking point as they restlessly roam the streets of Warsaw in search for answers.

(Country: UK, Poland; Year: 2015; Director: Michal Marczak)

Ama-San

Traditional pearl hunters set out to sea each day to dive down several metres below the surface in search of shellfish, octopuses, sea urchins and lobsters.

(Country: Portugal, Switzerland, Japan; Year: 2016; Director: Cláudia Varejão)

Close Relations ( Rodnye)

A documentarian who became Russian because he was living in Moscow when the Soviet Union broke down examines his relationship with his Ukrainian family and the complex relationship between the two countries.

(Country: Germany, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine; Year: 2016; Director: Vitaly Mansky)

FC Roma

When a new football team consisting primarily of Romany players, made it into the lowest Czech football league, most of their opponents decided to boycott them. This documentary follows their attempts to win people over.

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Tomáš Bojar, Rozálie Kohoutová)

The Last Summer (El último Verano)

Miguel Ángel, an itinerant projectionist who fell in love with celluloid in his young days, witnessed the arrival of digital film projection and is slowly coming to terms with the fact that, for his small business, the coming summer season may be his last.

(Country: Spain; Year: 1993; Director: Leire Apellaniz López; Stars: Miguel Angel)

LoveTrue

From an Alaskan strip club, a Hawaiian island, and the streets of NYC — revelatory stories emerge about a deeper definition of love. S

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Alma Har'el; Stars: TerriAnn Peters)

Normal Autistic Film (Normální Autistický Film)

Review preview for Normal Autistic Film

Miroslav Janek's latest documentary aims to immerse us in the lives and views of those who are autistic, shifting the perspective so that the film becomes as much about the way they view the neurotypical as the other way around.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
A personal perspective on autism as a different way of looking at the world rather than a medical problem.

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Miroslav Janek)

On Call (La Permanence)

A documentary about a suburban Parisian doctor’s office where free consulting services are offered to immigrants from around the world.

(Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Alice Diop)

Solar

When ten-year-old Flavio Cabobianco published a New Age book with his brother in 1991, it became a nationwide sensation. Now the child prodigy is an adult and sees himself very differently.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2016; Director: Manuel Abramovich; Stars: Flavio Cabobianco)

Tower

Review preview for Tower

Maitland keeps his balance superbly and ensures that this telling has the force it needs.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
A rotoscope reconstruction of the first mediatised school massacre in the United States.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Keith Maitland; Stars: Violett Beane, Louie Arnette, Blair Jackson, Monty Muir, Chris Doubek, Reece Everett Ryan, Josephine McAdam, Aldo Ordoñez, Vicky Illk, John Fitch, Karen Davidson, Jeremy Brown, Séamus Bolivar-Ochoa, Cole Bresnehen, Timothy Lucas)

Transit Havana

A documentary about three trans women awaiting surgery from a European specialist as part of a special medical programme of support.

(Country: Germany, Netherlands, Cuba; Year: 2016; Director: Daniel Abma)

Whose Country?

A documentary about the disappointment felt by many Egyptians following the revolution on 2011, featuring candid interviews with members of the security service.

(Country: Egypt, US, France; Year: 2016; Director: Mohamed Siam)