Karlovy Vary

A Far Shore

Jul 12, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022, Spotlight

Japanese director Masaaki Kudo turns a compassionate eye on a 17-year-old nightclub hostess with a toddler, sent skidding toward prostitution in a heart-felt story set on Okinawa.

June Zero

Jul 12, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022

Director Jake Paltrow’s multi-character drama about the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, ‘June Zero’ is a bold but muddled patchwork.

My Love Affair With Marriage

Jul 11, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022

Signe Baumane’s animated feature is so brilliant in presenting a female perspective on love and marriage that you forgive its need to tell us the science behind romance.

In Broad Daylight

Jul 11, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022, Spotlight

Ambiguity abounds in Emmanuel Tardif’s elusive Québécois drama about a family’s self-imposed isolation after an unexpected event and the spreading fractures in their fragile status quo.

Pamfir

Jul 10, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Spotlight

Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s debut is a propulsive drama employing folkloric elements and mythic overtones in its portrayal of a man trying to navigate a provincial criminal underworld.

You Have to Come and See It

Jul 10, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022

Spanish director Jonas Trueba reunites his favorite actors for a 64-minute chamber piece, in a relaxed, engaging, free-wheeling exchange of moods and ideas between two 30-something couples.

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

Jul 8, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022

Director Nina Menkes attacks cinema’s long history of sexism, including some canonical male directors, in her timely and enjoyably polemical filmed lecture ‘Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power’.

The Trees

Jul 7, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Verdict Shorts

The nature of loss both personal and planetary become intertwined in Ramzi Bashour’s mordantly comic drama about a man returning home after his father’s death.

Summer with Hope

Jul 7, 2022 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022

Canadian-based filmmaker Sadaf Foroughi (‘Ava’, 2017) revisits the theme of teenage rebellion in middle-class Iran in a drama full of danger and nervous energy.

Rubikon

Jul 7, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022

Austrian director Magdalena Lauritsch’s sci-fi eco-disaster movie ‘Rubikon’ is an admirably ambitious but dramatically flawed debut.

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