The Karlovy Vary Film Festival has revealed its 2025 official selection, highlighting 25 world premieres and tributes to Czech and U.S. cinema.
Jiří Mádl’s Waves, about the Prague Spring and Czechoslovak Radio, premieres in France trimmed by 15 minutes and retitled Radio Prague – Waves of the Revolt.
“We were prepared for any outcome tonight, and this one is a great result,” writer-director Jiří Mádl told reporters after his victory at the Czech Republic’s version of the Oscars.
The Czech film beat out stiff competition that included Oscar nominees The Seed of the Sacred Fig, I’m Still Here, and The Girl with the Needle
Among the 29 titles competing across 24 categories, Czech Oscar submission Waves (Vlny), directed by Jiří Mádl, leads the pack with 14 nominations.
The Czech film, a smash hit at the local box office, will see theatrical release in more European territories as it builds momentum for awards season recognition.
Director Jiří Mádl’s historical drama, now playing in Czech cinemas, will compete for a nomination at the 97th annual Academy Awards next spring.
The true story of how Czechoslovak Radio broadcast through the 1968 Warsaw Pact Invasion is recounted in this handsomely-mounted drama from Jiří Mádl.
Czech director Jan Němec recounts his life story – with a good dash of fiction – in his autobiographical final film
She was the Czech version of Marlene Dietrich, but this campy Third Reich melodrama doesn’t do her justice
Lousy Bastards skirts around the premise of Susanne Bier’s film so openly that you wonder if it is an unofficial remake
The Magical Duvet is cloying, overstuffed, and oppressively cute, but you’d have to be a cynic to hate F.A. Brabec’s candy-colored musical
Báthory is a wandering, plotless film that seems content to run down a laundry list of events in the life of the titular countess
Tomáš Vorel’s Gympl is a compelling and resonant look at the generation gap in contemporary Czech society