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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival


Genre: All genre

The major film festival of the Czech Republic, and an important film festival within central and eastern Europe, Karlovy Vary is one of the oldest festivals, and includes a competition for feature films. It screens 200 plus films to the general public and film professionals. The industry guest count is around 850 professionals annually.

 

Section

Competitive sections
  • Crystal Globe Competition (International competition)
  • Proxima Competition (new voices)

 

Non-competitive sections
  • Special Screenings (International and Czech films)
  • Horizons (contemporary films)
  • Imagina (distinctive approaches to narration and style)
  • Future Frames: Generation NEXT of European Cinema (Ten new directors)
  • Midnight Screenings (genre)
  • Out of the Past (originals and restorations)
  • Tributes, special focuses and retrospectives

Awards

2007 - Won - Lucky Miles - Special Jury Prize

1998 - Won - Sugar Factory, The - Don Quixote Award - Special Mention

1986 - Won - Street to Die, A - Crystal Globe Best Film

1984 - Won - Strikebound - Grand Prize (Crystal Globe)

Screenings

2025 - Lesbian Space Princess

2025 - Dangerous Animals

2023 - Limbo

2023 - Survival of Kindness, The

2022 - You Won't Be Alone

2022 - My Sister Liv

2022 - Three Thousand Years of Longing

2021 - Furnace, The

2020 - Furnace, The

2019 - Mystify: Michael Hutchence

2018 - Reflections in the Dust

2018 - Rover, The

2018 - Sweet Country

2017 - Hounds of Love

2015 - Babe

2015 - Partisan

2015 - Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead

2014 - Charlie's Country

2014 - Julian

2014 - Rover, The

2014 - Ruin

2013 - 100 Bloody Acres

2012 - Hail

2012 - Iron Sky

2011 - Mad Bastards

2010 - Dead End Drive-in

2010 - Deeper Than Yesterday

2010 - Long Weekend

2010 - Love, Lust & Lies

2010 - Man from Hong Kong, The

2010 - Not Quite Hollywood

2010 - Patrick

2010 - Razorback

2010 - Red Hill

2010 - Roadgames

2009 - Ground Beneath, The

2009 - Lessons from the Night

2009 - Samson & Delilah

2008 - Spider

2007 - Lucky Miles

2007 - Noise

2006 - Look Both Ways

2006 - Monster

2006 - Vermin

2005 - Jewboy

2005 - Into the Night

2004 - Somersault

2003 - Rabbit-Proof Fence

2003 - Beneath Clouds

2003 - Tracker, The

2003 - Black and White

2003 - Projectionist, The

2002 - Lantana

2002 - Harvey

2002 - Still Breathing

2001 - Stop

2001 - Goddess of 1967, The

2000 - Feeling Sexy

2000 - Cup, The

1998 - Four Minute Festival

1998 - Fetch

1998 - Sugar Factory, The

1997 - Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, The

1997 - Devil's Playground, The

1997 - Young Einstein

1997 - Cars That Ate Paris,The

1997 - Picnic at Hanging Rock

1997 - Last Wave, The

1997 - Lonely Hearts

1997 - Caddie

1997 - Last Days Of Chez Nous, The

1997 - Romper Stomper

1997 - Bad Boy Bubby

1997 - Breaker Morant

1997 - Sum Of Us, The

1997 - Swinger

1997 - Code Blue

1997 - Mr Ikegami's Flight

1997 - Angel Baby

1997 - Beat Manifesto, The

1997 - Shine

1997 - No Way to Forget

1997 - This Film is a Dog

1997 - Children of the Revolution

1996 - Sweetie

1995 - Speak Softly, Please, To Mrs Babajaga

1992 - Spotswood

1991 - Swimming

1991 - Horse With Stripes, A

1991 - Flight of the Bumble Bee

1991 - Azzadine

1991 - Give Us This Day Our Day In Bed

1991 - Chameleon

1990 - Georgia

1990 - Struck by Lightning

1990 - Horse With Stripes, A

1990 - Flight of the Bumble Bee

1990 - Swimming

1990 - Azzadine

1990 - Give Us This Day Our Day In Bed

1990 - Chameleon

1988 - Custody

1988 - Pursuit of Happiness, The

1986 - Street to Die, A

1984 - Strikebound

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