15/06/2018 - The Czech Republic’s largest film gathering is set to present an array of standout titles from the contemporary cinema landscape

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has disclosed the full line-up for its 2018 edition. Alongside the competition sections and the films set to be introduced out of competition (see the news), plus Barry Levinson’s movies (see the news), two series will be introduced as special events: there will be two episodes from the third season of In Treatment, starring Karel Roden, and the first episode of HBO’s psychological thriller miniseries Sharp Objects, based on Gillian Flynn’s debut novel.

In Horizons and Another View, the programmers have cooked up a selection of films that they consider to be standout contemporary titles. Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War [+see also:
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Q&A: Pawel Pawlikowski
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interview: Lukas Dhont
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interview: Alice Rohrwacher
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interview: Terry Gilliam
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interview: Ilya Stewart
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film profile] and Jafar Panahi’s 3 Faces. Other titles in Horizons include Alexey German Jr’s Dovlatov [+see also:
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interview: Milan Maric
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interview: Laura Bispuri
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interview: Guillaume Nicloux
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interview: Adina Pintilie
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interview: Lucrecia Martel
film profile]. Another View will treat visitors to Ísold Uggadóttir’s And Breathe Normally [+see also:
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interview: Ísold Uggadóttir
interview: Kristin Thora Haraldsdóttir
film profile], Ali Abbasi’s Border [+see also:
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interview: Ali Abbasi
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interview: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Sc…
film profile] by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s Fugue [+see also:
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interview: Agnieszka Smoczyńska
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interview: Babis Makridis
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The Imagina section offers edgier titles, such as Johann Lurf’s experimental feature ★, Louis Rizzo-Naudi’s Elegy, the cinematic diptych Endless Tail [+see also:
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film profile] by Željka Suková and Scott Barley’s Sleep Has Her House [+see also:
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film profile]. The domestic titles on show comprise Jan Švankmajer’s last feature, Insect [+see also:
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interview: Jan Švankmajer
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interview: Martin Šulík
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The full line-up is available here.

The 53^rd edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will run from 29 June-7 July 2018.