Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

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.

The Dead Don’t Hurt

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Jun 29, 2024 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary 2024 |

Viggo Mortensen’s tender and offbeat drama, The Dead Don’t Hurt, is led by a magnetic Vicky Krieps and cultivates something beautiful amongst the arid plains and rocky outcroppings of the old west.

Banzo

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Jun 28, 2024 | Festivals, 2026 Oscars, Karlovy Vary 2024 |

In the setting of a Portuguese plantation on Principe in the early 20th century, Margarida Cardoso crafts a haunting and unsettling portrait of colonial destruction in the form of Banzo.

I’m Not Everything I Want to Be

Posted by Carmen Gray | Jun 28, 2024 | Festivals, Featured, Karlovy Vary 2024 |

An enthralling doc on Czech photographer Libuse Jarcovjakova, whose candid, diaristic images show a communist Prague on the margins, and life on her own terms.

Norah

Posted by Adham Youssef | May 29, 2024 | Cannes 2024, Festivals |

Tawfik Alzaidi’s classically narrated, slow-burn drama ‘Norah’ is a tribute to art and artists in socially conservative societies like 1990s Saudi Arabia.

Tag: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

The Hungarian Dressmaker

The Dead Don’t Hurt

Banzo

I’m Not Everything I Want to Be

Norah