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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival · 2021

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2021

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5 films · 1 review

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Come Here

The infamous Death Railway winds its way through western Thailand and on into Burma. Four friends in their mid-twenties set off on a trip into the jungle where tens of thousands of lives were extinguished during World War II; the dense vegetation in this place also harbours other secrets.

(Country: Thailand; Year: 2021; Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong; Writer: Anocha Suwichakornpong; Stars: Sirat Intarachote, Waywiree Ittianunkul, Apinya Sakuljaroensuk, Sirat Intarachote, Waywiree Ittianunkul, Apinya Sakuljaroensuk)

Days (Rizi)

Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.

(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2020; Director: Tsai Ming-liang; Stars: Lee Kang-sheng, Anong Houngheuangsy)

Last And First Men

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Jóhann Jóhannsson has created something that successfully captures the spirit of the book whilst feeling like a memorial to humanity.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
Loosely based on the 1930 Olaf Stapledon novel of the same name, Tilda Swinton voices a human from its 18th distinct evolution from some two billion years in the future (the Last Men), reaching back to the First Men (us) for help, as the end of time approaches.

(Country: Iceland; Year: 2017; Director: Jóhann Jóhannsson; Writer: Olaf Stapledon, Jóhann Jóhannsson, José Enrique Macián; Stars: Tilda Swinton, Tilda Swinton)

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Rock Bottom Riser

Essay film that traverses geology, ethnography and astronomy.

(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Fern Silva; Writer: Fern Silva)

Taste (Vi)

A Nigerian man creates a primal world with four middle-aged women but their utopia can't last forever.

(Country: Vietnam, Singapore, France, Thailand, Germany, Taiwan; Year: 2021; Director: Le Bao; Writer: Le Bao; Stars: Olegunleko Ezekiel Gbenga, Thi Minh Nga Khuong, Thi Dung Le, Thi Cam Xuan Nguyen, Thi Tham Thin Vu)