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Karlovy Vary 2022

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62 articles available in total starting from 16/11/2021. Last article published on 22/11/2022.

Review: Fools

Review: Fools

Polish director Tomasz Wasilewski returns with another film about a difficult love, featuring remarkable technical prowess but a problematic structure  

12/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Proxima

Sonja Orlewicz-Zakrzewska and Magdalena Sztorc • Director and producer of Dolphin

Interview: Sonja Orlewicz-Zakrzewska and Magdalena Sztorc • Director and producer of Dolphin

"Dolphin is about a couple facing a very unusual gender twist, and the struggle the female character has with the process of creation and accepting herself"

We talked to the director-producer team behind the winner of the connecting cottbus Award in KVIFF Eastern Promises to find out more about their intimate dramedy with hints of the surreal  

12/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | KVIFF Eastern Promises

Sophie Vuković and Eliza Jones • Director and producer of My Best Friend’s Baby

Interview: Sophie Vuković and Eliza Jones • Director and producer of My Best Friend’s Baby

"Our film tries to portray the complexities of friendship, especially for those people who do not comply with the norm in terms of their relationship, their sexuality or parenthood"

The duo behind the winner of the KVIFF & MIDPOINT Development Award in KVIFF Eastern Promises break down their film, which revolves around the different possible ways of starting a family  

12/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | KVIFF Eastern Promises

Tizian Büchi • Director of Like an Island

Interview: Tizian Büchi • Director of Like an Island

"Fiction and imagination are also part of reality, and as a member of the audience, I like to have the opportunity to build my own story"

We sat down with the director to discuss his fable - part documentary, part fiction and tinged with magical realism - which subtly questions our surveillance society  

11/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Special Screenings

Matt Sarnecki • Director of The Killing of a Journalist

Interview: Matt Sarnecki • Director of The Killing of a Journalist

"Thanks to the clear evidence, this case is a blueprint for how corruption works throughout the region, but maybe also around the world"

The director unpicks his investigative documentary that tackles the 2018 murder of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová  

11/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Special Screenings

Adéla Komrzý and Tomás Bojar • Directors of Art Talent Show

Interview: Adéla Komrzý and Tomás Bojar • Directors of Art Talent Show

"Maybe the Western, liberal, individualistic way of thinking has gone too far, and we’re too obsessed with the personal side of things"

The directors talk us through their Proxima Grand Prix winner, which was filmed over the course of one week during the entrance exams for the Prague Academy of Arts  

11/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Proxima

Review: And Then There Was Love…

Review: And Then There Was Love…

Šimon Holý’s sophomore feature is a quirky, melancholic comedy about two generations struggling to understand each other  

11/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Proxima

Review: BANGER.

Review: BANGER.

Adam Sedlák’s drug tragicomedy evokes Trainspotting as a young dealer races against the clock to raise €5,000  

11/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Special Screenings

Review: Borders of Love

Review: Borders of Love

Things get messy in Tomasz Wiński’s Crystal Globe Competition entry, about a couple who want more and somehow end up with less  

11/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Summer with Hope by Sadaf Foroughi wins the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary

Summer with Hope by Sadaf Foroughi wins the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary

Czech films by the youngest generation, such as The Word and Art Talent Show, also took centre stage and received accolades from the international juries  

11/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Awards

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