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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival · 2016

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2016

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Additional short films are included in this line-up.

Programme

9 films · 3 reviews

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Afternoon (Na ri xiawu)

Tsai Ming-Liang and his actor Lee Kang-sheng confess and put on stage a pièce in which attention and slowness are in tune with the rhythm of memory.

(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2015; Director: Tsai Ming-liang)

Bending To Earth

Experimental short involving aerial photography.

(Country: Germany, US; Year: 2015; Director: Rosa Barba) , Official site

Bring Me The Head Of Tim Horton

Making of documentary for Hyena Road.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2015; Director: Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin; Stars: Michael Kennedy)

Homo Sapiens

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What happened here? Where did all the people go? This question might be asked as much of the settings as of the story they create.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Remnants of buildings constructed - then left behind.

(Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland; Year: 2016; Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter; Writer: Nikolaus Geyrhalter)

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Invention

Anthology of films.

(Country: Canada, UK; Year: 2015; Director: Mark Lewis; Writer: Mark Lewis)

Lampedusa

Interlinked narratives shot on high definition and Super 8, based on past and present events.

(Country: Italy, France, US; Year: 2015; Director: Philip Cartelli, Mariangela Ciccarello; Writer: Mariangela Ciccarello; Stars: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Mariangela Ciccarello, Joris Lachaise, Carlo Signati) , Official site

Notes On Blindness

Review preview for Notes On Blindness

Hull's reflections touch on areas the sighted rarely stop to consider, such as the way that still photos are easier to remember than actual physical moments with loved ones.

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
Adaptation of John Hull's audio diary about the experience of losing his sight.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Pete Middleton, James Spinney; Writer: Pete Middleton, James Spinney; Stars: Rafe Beckley, Ellie Bindman, Anoushska Bruce, Celia Henebury, Stanley Pemberton-Warbrick, Lorelei Winterfrost)

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Sfumato

Experimental work.

(Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Christophe Bisson; Stars: Bernard Legay)