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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

6 July – 12 July 2025

There's lots happening at the year's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, with some great titles from across Europe and the wider world, as well as the Crystal Globe awards.

The festival runs from 6 to 12 July.

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  • The Baltimorons
    Review preview for The Baltimorons

    The connection that forms between them feels more real because it’s so unlikely. Duplass, co-writing with Strassner, has the skill to pull it off, and both lead actors are up to the task.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Christmas Eve, a broken tooth, and just one dentist on call – thus begins the strange odyssey of the newly sober Cliff and the lonely Didi through the streets of Baltimore.
  • Splitsville
    Review preview for Splitsville

    It’s hard to care about a film when those involved don’t appear to have done so themselves.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    Splitsville picks up with Ashley asking for a divorce, watching as the good-natured Carey runs to his friends, Julie and Paul, for support. He’s shocked to discover that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage; that is, until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their relationships into chaos.
  • Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk
    Review preview for Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk

    The film doesn’t answer every common question that people have in this situation, but it does provide some context.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A glimpse of everyday reality for people living in Gaza in 2024.
  • All That's Left Of You
    Review preview for All That's Left Of You

    Dabis controls revelation with discipline, letting meaning accumulate rather than announcing itself, so that what finally emerges feels earned rather than engineered.

    Edin Custo · 4 out of 5
    After a Palestinian teen confronts Israeli soldiers at a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the series of events that led him to that fateful moment, starting with his grandfather’s forced displacement.
  • Straight Outta Space
    Review preview for Straight Outta Space

    It has its moments, and for the most part it’s warm-hearted and likeable enough to make up for the odd mis-step.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    Two street coaches in a bustling neighborhood face an unexpected crisis when locals transform into bizarre, slimy beings.
  • Two Prosecutors
    Review preview for Two Prosecutors

    Chillingly restrained and quietly devastating

    Stephen Dalton · 4 out of 5
    Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination... the desk of a newly appointed local prosecutor, who embarks on a quest for justice.
  • Kika
    Review preview for Kika

    So much is happening at once in Kika’s life that the viewer has a hard time grasping the supposedly long lasting emotional challenges she is facing.

    Alex Petrescu · 2.5 out of 5
    A grieving new mother, while struggling to make ends meet for her family, uncovers an unexpected passion within herself.
  • Sound Of Falling
    Review preview for Sound Of Falling

    The lives mirror each other, build on each other, contradict each other, haunt each other.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.
  • It Was Just an Accident
    Review preview for It Was Just an Accident

    The takes are usually long and static, but every cut and move is justified for the purpose of dramaturgy.

    Marko Stojiljkovic · 4 out of 5
    What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences.
  • 2000 Meters To Andriivka
    Review preview for 2000 Meters To Andriivka

    The smoke, the blasts, the spinning of ejecting shell casings, yells that become cries, the front-line as it becomes frantic.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation. But the farther they advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realise that this war may never end.

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