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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival · 2018

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2018

Imagina

In addition to the features below, a number of short films are screening

Programme

8 films · 1 review

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11 x 14

Avant garde film composed of single-shot sequences.

(Country: US, Canada; Year: 1977; Director: James Benning; Writer: James Benning; Stars: Serafina Bathrick, Ted Brady, Barbara Frankel, Rick Goodwin, Bette Gordon, Michael S O'Brien)

Black Mother

Jamaica-set documentary.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Khalik Allah)

Caniba

Review preview for Caniba

The directors' intentions remain obscure; as always, one feels that by watching their work one is becoming a part of the experiment.

Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
A film that reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalistic desire in human history and culture through the prism of one Japanese man, Issei Sagawa, and his unsettling relationship with his brother.

(Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel; Stars: Issei Sagawa, Jun Sagawa)

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Endless Tail (Beskrajni rep)

A boy and girl wandering alone through lush terrain undergo a journey to real and imagined landscapes.

(Country: Croatia; Year: 2018; Director: Željka Suková)

The Green Fog

Compiles bits from 98 films and 3 TV shows set in San Francisco and re-imagines a post-modern version of Hitchcock’s classic Vertigo.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin)

Reflections In The Dust

Drama about an ageing clown and his daughter.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2018; Director: Luke Sullivan; Writer: Luke Sullivan; Stars: Robin Royce Queree, Sarah Houbolt, Robin Royce Queree, Sarah Houbolt)

Sleep Has Her House

Cinematic nocturne.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Scott Barley; Writer: Scott Barley)

Star (★)

Poetic essay featuring images of the universe from 550 different feature films.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2017; Director: Johann Lurf)