The Karlovy Vary festival has announced Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jesse Eisenberg as recipients of its President’s Award for this year’s anniversary festival.
KVIFF has announced its 2026 Crystal Globe and Proxima competition selections, featuring 24 world premieres from filmmakers across five continents.
Scenes of a family drifting toward separation in rural Iceland are wistfully captured in The Love That Remains, which premiered at last year’s Cannes Film
The Karlovy Vary festival will showcase a restored Věra Chytilová film as part of its anniversary program celebrating Czech cinema heritage.
Slovak actress Magda Vášáryová will be honored at the 2026 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which marks its 60th edition and 80 years since its founding.
The Karlovy Vary festival will present 20 films tied to its history as part of a special anniversary edition of its retrospective section.
This feature-length panic attack approaches parenting struggles with the unnerved intensity of Uncut Gems and features striking direction from Mary Bronstein.
The 2026 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival reflects on its past while introducing new exhibitions, programming, and design elements.
This gentle story of life in American west feels deeply authentic with its stark location filming in rural Colorado, and deeply resonates thanks to Josh O’Connor’s tender performance in the lead.
Beyond its striking visuals and pulsating soundtrack, Sirât is a meditation on the human condition: what drives us to go on as our world collapses around us.
This fresh, funny, and wildly over-the-top screwball romance is bursting at the seams with inventive filmmaking techniques, and carries the invigorating spirit of American independent cinema from the 1970s and 1990s.
Materialists covers some similar thematic territory as director Celine Song’s previous film, the wonderful Past Lives, but in a much more simplistic, and far less emotionally resonant, fashion.
This diverting black comedy is cut from the same cloth, and serves as a career-launching showcase for debut writer-director and star Eva Victor.
This affectionate portrait of the journey of immigrants in the Czech Republic has a raw authenticity and genuine nostalgia for a very particular time and place.
This stark parable about the bureaucracy of terror, and the terror of bureaucracy, feels distressingly relevant to the state of contemporary politics.
A serial killer employs sharks as his weapon of choice in Dangerous Animals, which played in the midnight movie section of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Exiled Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi captures life in Gaza through intimate video calls with Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna.
Inspired by the infamous real-life Bambini di Praga case that made headlines back in 2004, this fictionalized account dedicates focus to a single victim, but relays a frightening account of how predators subversively operate in plain sight to rob children of their innocence.
The Czech-Slovak documentary from director Miro Remo takes home the Crystal Globe at the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which wrapped today.
At Karlovy Vary, Czech officials weigh film tariff threats, rising incentive wars, and a new levy on streamers amid growing international competition.
Dakota Johnson received the KVIFF President’s Award while presenting two new films and discussing her next steps as director and producer.
Veteran actor Michael Douglas confirmed he’s stepping away from acting during a July 5 appearance at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Iranian crew behind Bidad, premiering at the Karlovy Vary film fest on July 9, have reportedly been sentenced over themes defying Iran’s ban on women singing in public.
KVIFF pays tribute to longtime president Jiří Bartoška with a documentary, screenings, and a photo exhibition during its 59th edition.