Tag: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Victor Fraga - 08-07-2024

For the first time, DMovies' editor Victor Fraga attends the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the last one of the large European festivals on his list; these are the winners, our dirty picks, and impressions [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 07-07-2024

Very sad disease kills plantation labourers in Africa, in this extremely sombre allegory of Portuguese colonialism - from the Crystal Globe Competition of the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 07-07-2024

Big-city woman escapes to the idyllic Himalayas in order to recover from a physical and also from a psychological wound - Indian drama premieres at the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 06-07-2024

Two young Moroccans experience homosexual love and prostitution, in this delicate tale of oppression and liberation - from the 58th edition of Karlovy Vary [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 06-07-2024

Ultranationalists bust left wing pacifist cell, in the real-life story set in Turkey during the late 1970s - from the Proxima Competition of the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victoria Luxford - 05-07-2024

We are invited to view the trials of a family through the eyes of their youngest member - Beata Parkanová’s inventive, thoughtful drama is in the Crystal Globe Competition of the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 05-07-2024

DMovies's editor Victor Fraga interviews Irish director Mark Cousins at Karlovy Vary, where he showcases his latest creation at the Crystal Globe Competition; they talk about the relationship between painting and the moving image, playing films backwards, neurodiversity as a catalyst for creativity, tattoos, the new UK PM, Palestine, and more [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 04-07-2024

Quiet and exuberant arthouse film ruminates on the sensory bond between humans and animals - from the 58th edition of Karlovy Vary [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 03-07-2024

Two brothers fence for their dignity, in this strange tale of fraternal loyalty and queer love - in the Official Competition of the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 03-07-2024

Maria's perfect, happy marriage begins to collapse for no apparent reason, in this this humanistic Norwegian drama - in the Official Competition of the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 03-07-2024

People find catharsis and oppression within the walls of their hotel room, uuin this mysterious episodic drama from China - at the 58th edition of Karlovy Vary [Read More...]

Victoria Luxford - 01-07-2024

Swiss filmmaker Daniel Zimmermann spins us in circles in this self-describedyy "essay with images" - from the 58th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [Read More...]

Susanne Gottlieb - 01-07-2024

Memories resurface and hell breaks loose when a man returns to his Bulgarian hometown to in order sell his late father’s flat - from the 58th edition of Karlovy Vary [Read More...]

Joshua Polanski - 27-05-2024

Dirty gem from India bludgeons the beauty standards of both Bollywood and Hollywood, while refreshingly allowing women to find pleasure in sex - from the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Eoghan Lyng - 19-05-2024

In this dazzlingly inventive African drama, three women are reunited under grief and love - Rungano Nyoni showcases her latest creation at the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Eoghan Lyng - 17-05-2024

A bereaved son must make some hard-earned cash, and sees cheese as his answer - from Tallinn [Read More...]

Eoghan Lyng - 16-05-2024

In his cinematic dissertation of grief, Rúnar Rúnarsson focuses his attention on two young women shedding tears for the same person each in their own way - humbling Icelandic drama shows at the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 16-02-2024

Wacky American indie sets out to create a modern-day, metalinguistic Beauty and the Beast with real facial disfigurement as a device, and a brilliant Adam Pearson - in cinemas on Friday, October 4th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 23-09-2023

Riz Ahmed and Jessie Buckley star in this excruciatingly painful romcom about two [Read More...]