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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival · 2022

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2022

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In addition to the features listed below, this section also contains a number of short films.

Programme

5 films · 1 review

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Atlantide

Daniele is a young man from Sant’Erasmo, an island on the edges of the Venice Lagoon, where he dreams of building a souped up motorboat with unfortunate consequences.

(Country: Italy, France, United States, Qatar; Year: 2021; Director: Yuri Ancarani; Stars: Daniele Barison, Bianka Berényi, Maila Dabalà, Alberto Tedesco)

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Five centuries ago, anatomist André Vésale opened up the human body to science for the first time in history. Today, De Humani Corporis Fabrica opens the human body to the cinema.

(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel)

Eami

An ethnographic docu-fiction hybrid that exposes the extent to which the original inhabitants of the Paraguayan primeval forests were dispossessed of their home.

(Country: Paraguay, US, Germany, Netherlands, Argentina, France, Mexico; Year: 2022; Director: Paz Encina; Writer: Paz Encina; Stars: Anel Picanerai, Curia Chiquejno Etacoro, Ducubaide Chiquenoi, Basui Picanerai Etacore, Lucas Etacori, Guesa Picanerai, Lazaro Dosapei Cutamijo)

The Great Movement (El Gran Movimiento)

Review preview for The Great Movement

The multi-layered emotional consideration of themes, in particular the clash of cultural traditions and modernity - the building up of the city mirroring the destruction of the people within it and the natural landscape - are resonant and engaging.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
Mystical portrait of the contemporary central South American cityscape and those who work within its bowels and environs.

(Country: Bolivia, France, Qatar, Switzerland; Year: 2021; Director: Kiro Russo; Writer: Kiro Russo; Stars: Francisa Arce de Aro, Israel Hurtado, Gustavo Milán Ticona, Julio César Ticona, Max Bautista Uchasara)

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The United States Of America

Every state gets its own representative shot, in alphabetical order – from Alabama to Wyoming. A portrait of the USA in 52 scenes.

(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: James Benning; Writer: James Benning)