04/06/2013 - Festival also announces Official Competitions

The 48^th edition of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival will begin with Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo [+see also:
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Also announced today were the films competing in the festival’s several competitions, with the Karlovy Vary Official Selection alone containing six world and seven international premieres. Films in the festival’s main competition include the Czech Republic’s own Jan Hřebejk, whose psychological thriller Innocence [+see also:
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Returnees to the festival also include Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze, who won at the 2005 KVIFF for the film My Nikifor [+see also:
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interview: Joanna Kos Krauze
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interview: Marteinn Thorsson and Ólafu…
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interview: Roberto Andò
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The East of the West Competition will open with Juraj Lehotský’s Miracle [+see also:
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The Documentary Films in Competition will include ten feature films and six shorts including the Czech Republic’s DK, by Bára Kopecká, a feature-length documentary about the life and death of radical architect David Kopecký.The Forum of Independents section will include Belgian/French co-production In the Name of the Son [+see also:
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