Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Celebration

Posted by Carmen Gray | Jul 1, 2024 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary 2024 |

Full of atmospheric gloom, Bruno Ankovic’s powerful, decades-spanning feature debut shows how wartime violence and desperation seep through a Croatian village like a contagion.

Windless

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Jul 1, 2024 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary 2024 |

A son returns to Bulgaria from abroad to settle the affairs of his estranged father in Windless, a confined drama about confronting the past and the act of memorial.

Lapilli

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Jun 30, 2024 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary 2024 |

Overcome with grief at the sudden loss of her grandparents, filmmaker Paula Durinova’s expressive documentary Lapilli finds solace in the geological formations of the Aral Sea.

Panopticon

Posted by Carmen Gray | Jun 30, 2024 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary 2024 |

George Sikharulidze’s debut on masculinity and identity in today’s Georgia is an unusual coming-of-age drama alive with ideas and a bold political imagination.

The Hungarian Dressmaker

Posted by Carmen Gray | Jun 29, 2024 | Festivals, Featured, International Oscars 2025, Karlovy Vary 2024 |

A Hungarian dressmaker does what she can to survive and resist the power abuses of the ‘40s Slovak State fascist militia in Iveta Grofova’s dark, evocative drama.

Tag: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Celebration

Windless

Lapilli

Panopticon

The Hungarian Dressmaker