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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival · 2025

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2025

Special Screenings

Programme

3 films · 2 reviews

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All That's Left Of You (Ally Baqi Mink)

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.

(Country: Cyprus, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Cherien Dabis; Writer: Cherien Dabis; Stars: Saleh Bakri, Cherien Dabis, Mohammad Bakri, Adam Bakri, Maria Zreik, Muhammad Abed Elrahman, Sanad Alkabareti, Salah El Din)

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Caravan (Karavan)

A woman and her mentally disabled son take an unexpected road trip.

(Country: Slovakia, Italy, Czechia; Year: 2025; Director: Zuzana Kirchnerová; Writer: Tomás Bojar, Zuzana Kirchnerová, Kristina Majova; Stars: Anna Geislerová, Jana Plodková, Mario Russo, Stefano Cenci, Giandomenico Cupaiuolo, Juliana Olhová, Lady Maru, Oscar de Summa, Lea Cirianni, Michele Abbondanza, David Vostrcil)

Dragonfly

Review preview for Dragonfly

The performances of double Oscar-nominated Blethyn and Riseborough provide hypnotic accounts of their characters as two vulnerable souls on the edge.

Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
When Colleen volunteers to care for her elderly neighbor Elsie, the two quickly bond. But beneath the pleasantries, motives start to be questioned leading to a devastating series of events.

(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Paul Andrew Williams; Writer: Paul Andrew Williams; Stars: Brenda Blethyn, Andrea Riseborough, Jason Watkins, Elliot Benn, Sandra Huggett, Lolly Jones, Dixie)

Full review See: 'Basically I write for me … and then see where the characters lead'