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This year's festival runs from July 3 to 11. Among the guests will be Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jesse Eisenberg. This page is currently a work in progress as we are inputting this year's films, so please check back later.
View Films by Strand:
- Afterhours
- Crystal Globe Competition
- Horizons
- Imagina
- Out Of The Past - KVIFF 60/80
- Proxima Competition
- Special Screenings
- Tributes
View previous years coverage of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival festival:
Karlovy Latest Reviews
As advanced dementia erodes an older woman’s ability to communicate her inner life, her husband and daughter struggle to act in her best interests, navigating love and the fragile boundaries between care, protection and autonomy.
Historical drama set against a backdrop of Vichy France as a man strives to help France's renewal.
In Finnish forest, Saga and her husband Jon embark on a new chapter as parents. But Saga's joy is overshadowed by a chilling suspicion about their newborn, unbeknownst to Jon, causing a rift as she alone grapples with the disturbing truth.
Two women in a textile factory dream of intimacy and escape.
A group of French high-school students travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius. There, they are drawn into a dizzying descent.
A photographer takes snapshots of strangers, sharing them online as 'Rain Catcher' but he is unsettled when he spots a mysterious woman who is photographing him.
After years of saving money from the small bribes they collect, 60-year-old Marina and her husband Gosha from Bulgaria are preparing for their dream trip to St Petersburg to witness the White Nights. But when Russia invades Ukraine and the travel agency vanishes with all their savings, the couple’s dream collapses.
A dedicated surgeon whose private life is under strain because of the demands of her work finds things beginning to shift when a novelist comes to observe her work for a book.
New parents Karl and Emilie are looking forward to a weekend break where they plan to announce their baby's name. The day before the celebration, Karl's estranged mother shows up.
A mother finds her life turned upside down after a fire leads to her children being put in foster care and becomes determined to track them down.
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