17/06/2022 - The largest Czech film gathering is gearing up to screen a raft of the buzziest Cannes titles from 1-9 July

The largest Czech film gathering, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF, 1-9 July), is bracing for its 56^th edition. After unveiling a raft of titles set to world-premiere in the competition sections and the Special Screenings section (see the news), the festival has now revealed its full line-up. Hot off the heels of the Cannes Film Festival, KVIFF is bringing several of the buzziest titles to be introduced as national premieres.

Alongside the Palme d’Or-winning Triangle of Sadness [+see also:
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interview: Hlynur Pálmason
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The KVIFF programmers have saved the more challenging oeuvres for the experimental Imagina section, which is set to introduce Yuri Ancarani’s docu-fiction Atlantide [+see also:
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film profile] to the domestic audience along with Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s human body-focused odyssey De humani corporis fabrica [+see also:
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film profile] and three world premieres of short films: Mauricio Sáenz-Cánovas’ Tiger, Tiger, Luca Dipierro’s The Cadence – A Tale of Paper and Cloth and Shazzula’s tribute to the aesthetics of early cinema, Partial Visions of Hell (Part IV). The latest zany work by cult director Quentin Dupieux, Smoking Causes Coughing [+see also:
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Alice Agneskirchner’s documentary Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors, focusing on 90-year-old film historian Ulrich Gregor and his wife Erika, will get an airing in the Out of the Past section, for classic and cult films. This sidebar will also feature the Czechoslovakian classics The Joke by Jaromil Jireš, Dušan Hanák’s lyrical documentary Pictures of the Old World and Rudolf Měšťák’s 1927 silent film The Prague Executioner. The latter movie will be screened from a restored 35mm copy, coloured in accordance with the original tinting and toning process, and will be accompanied by music from an ensemble headed up by musicologist and composer Vlastislav Matoušek. People Next Door, the section organised in cooperation with the non-profit Sirius Foundation, which programmes films addressing issues related to living with disabilities, will include Eric Lartigau’s The Bélier Family [+see also:
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interview: Teemu Nikki and Jani Pösö
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film profile] and Bartosz Blaschke’s Sonata [+see also:
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The 56^th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival runs from 1-9 July, and the complete line-up is available here.