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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival · 2023

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2023

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In addition to the films below there are a number of short films also screening.

Programme

6 films · 2 reviews

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After Work

Review preview for After Work

There is a lot going on here, but Gandini offers a breezy and thought-provoking ride

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A consideration of the changing landscape of work and our attitudes towards it.

(Country: Sweden; Year: 2023; Director: Erik Gandini)

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Allensworth

A year in a town called Allensworth.

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

Being In A Place: A Portrait Of Margaret Tait

Portrait of the Scots filmmaker.

(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Luke Fowler)

Here

Stefan, a Romanian construction worker living in Brussels, is about to move back home. He cooks up a big pot of soup as a goodbye gift for friends and family. Just then, he meets a Belgian-Chinese doctoral student who specialises in mosses.

(Country: Belgium; Year: 2023; Director: Bas Devos; Stars: Stefan Gota, Liyo Gong)

Human Flowers Of Flesh

Review preview for Human Flowers Of Flesh

Human Flowers Of Flesh is a film of spaces merging, physically in image, in thought, and of the senses.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
Ida and her crew travel across the Mediterranean’s land and seascapes, lured by the mystique of the French Foreign Legion.

(Country: France, Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Helena Wittmann; Writer: Helena Wittmann; Stars: Angeliki Papoulia, Denis Lavant, Mauro Soares, Ingo Martens, Steffen Danek, Vladimir Vulevic, Ferhat Mouhali, Gustavo de Mattos Jahn, Nina Villanova)

Full review See: Helena Wittmann in conversation on Human Flowers Of Flesh, Denis Lavant, Marguerite Duras, and Friedrich Glauser

Mammalia

Thirty-nine-year-old Camil embarks on a dreamlike trip where the banal and the surreal merge.

(Country: Romania, Poland, Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Sebastian Mihăilescu; Writer: Andrei Epure, Sebastian Mihăilescu; Stars: István Téglás, Mălina Manovici. Denisa Nicolae, Steliana Bălăcianu, Rolando Matsangos, Mirela Crețan, Andreea Gheorghe)