The 56^th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (1-9 July 2022) has unveiled its competition sections. Thirteen of the official selection titles are directed by returning filmmakers. “From among the 1,500 films that were submitted this year, we have chosen 33 brand-new works of cinema that offer an accurate reflection of our taste – a taste derived from a belief in a meaningful edginess and the championing of new means of cinematic expression that, nonetheless, do not stand in opposition to the audience’s receptiveness or inclinations,” says the festival’s artistic director, Karel Och. The line-up revealed so far entails 27 world, three international and three European premieres of movies from five continents. Nine films across the three sections unveiled are helmed by debuting directors.

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Two domestic filmmakers will bow in the Crystal Globe Competition: a variety of non-monogamous forms of intimacy will be explored in Tomasz Wiński’s debut, Borders of Love [+lire aussi :
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interview : Beata Parkanová
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interview : Kristina Buožytė et Bruno …
fiche film]; Christos Passalis will world-premiere his melancholic love story Silence 6-9 [+lire aussi :
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interview : Christos Passalis
fiche film]; the directorial collective consisting of Ilian Metev, Ivan Chertov and Zlatina Teneva is bringing along an observational documentary on the antiquated Bulgarian healthcare system, A Provincial Hospital [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ilian Metev, Ivan Chertov …
fiche film]; and the acerbic Polish comedy Fucking Bornholm [+lire aussi :
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interview : Anna Kazejak
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The upcoming edition of KVIFF is set to inaugurate its new Proxima competition section (see the news). This replaces the East of the West Competition, which had primarily been focused on Central and Eastern European cinema. The festival organisers call the new competition “an inclusive space for pictures by young filmmakers and renowned auteurs alike, presenting bold works that defy categorisation”, with no geographical restrictions and “open to filmmakers from around the world”. Proxima will welcome rising domestic talent Šimon Holý, who debuted at the festival last year with Mirrors in the Dark [+lire aussi :
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interview : Šimon Holý
fiche film], which continues with the thematic thread of existential traumas seen from a female perspective. Polish director Tomas Wasilewski will unveil his latest work, the unsettling family drama Fools [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], while Andreas Horvath will offer a look into a zoo during lockdown in the aptly titled Zoo Lock Down, and David Kapac and Andrija Mardešić’s effort The Uncle promises a Hanekenian spin on a visit from an uncle in late-1980s Yugoslavia. Proxima will also introduce the latest work by Adéla Komrzý, who also presented her previous, highly acclaimed documentary Intensive Life Unit [+lire aussi :
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The Special Screenings section will offer more of a local flavour, introducing the sophomore feature by emerging talent Adam Sedlák, (following his debut, Domestique [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Magdalena Lauritsch will focus on the Earth in 2096 as it runs out of oxygen, while Goran Stolevski will bow with a horror film based on Macedonian mythology and folklore, You Won’t Be Alone [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], and Swiss filmmaker Tizian Büchi’s magical-realist observational documentary Like an Island [+lire aussi :
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interview : Tizian Büchi
fiche film] will have its international premiere in the Special Screenings sidebar.

KVIFF will also be honouring its long-time artistic director Eva Zaoralová, who passed away in March 2022, with an exhibition of photographs documenting “her relationship to cinema, her activities during the management of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and her unique relationship with the festival’s president, Jiří Bartoška”, while also screening the film that significantly influenced her future career, Federico Fellini’s La Strada.

Here is the full line-up of the competition sections:

Crystal Globe Competition

America [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ofir Raul Grazier
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A Room of My Own [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze et Ta…
fiche film] – Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze (Georgia/Germany)
A Provincial Hospital [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] – Ilian Metev, Ivan Chertov, Zlatina Teneva (Bulgaria/Germany)
Fucking Bornholm [+lire aussi :
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interview : Anna Kazejak
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Borders of Love [+lire aussi :
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interview : Tomasz Wiński
fiche film] - Tomasz Wiński (Czech Republic/Poland)
Silence 6-9 [+lire aussi :
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interview : Christos Passalis
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The Ordinaries [+lire aussi :
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interview : Sophie Linnenbaum
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The Word [+lire aussi :
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interview : Beata Parkanová
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Summer with Hope – Sadaf Foroughi (Canada/Iran)
You Have to Come and See It [+lire aussi :
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interview : Jonás Trueba
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A Far Shore – Masaaki Kudo (Japan)
Vesper [+lire aussi :
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interview : Kristina Buožytė et Bruno …
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Proxima Competition

And Then There Was Love… [+lire aussi :
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interview : Šimon Holý
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Horseplay – Marco Berger (Argentina)
In Broad Daylight – Emmanuel Tardif (Canada)
Like a Fish on the Moon – Dornaz Hajiha (Iran)
Fools [+lire aussi :
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interview : Tomasz Wasilewski
fiche film] – Tomasz Wasilewski (Poland/Romania/Germany)
Another Spring [+lire aussi :
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interview : Mladen Kovačević
fiche film] - Mladen Kovačević (Serbia/Qatar)
Pietá [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] – Eduardo Casanova (Spain/Argentina)
Ramona [+lire aussi :
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interview : Andrea Bagney
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The Uncle [+lire aussi :
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interview : Andrija Mardešić et David …
fiche film] - David Kapac, Andrija Mardešić (Croatia/Serbia)
Tinnitus – Gregorio Graziosi (Brazil)
Art Talent Show [+lire aussi :
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interview : Adéla Komrzý et Tomás Bojar
fiche film] – Tomáš Bojar, Adéla Komrzý (Czech Republic)
Zoo Lock Down [+lire aussi :
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interview : Andreas Horvath
fiche film] – Andreas Horvath (Austria)

Special Screenings

BANGER. [+lire aussi :
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interview : Adam Sedlák
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June Zero – Jake Paltrow (USA/Israel)
The Killing of a Journalist [+lire aussi :
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interview : Matt Sarnecki
fiche film] - Matt Sarnecki (Denmark/USA/Czech Republic)
My Father, The Prince [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Lukas Sturm, Lila Schwarzenberg (Austria/Czech Republic)
PSH Neverending Story – Štěpán FOK Vodrážka (Czech Republic)
Rubikon – Magdalena Lauritsch (Austria)
Big Opening – Miroslav Krobot (Czech Republic)
You Won’t Be Alone [+lire aussi :
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Like an Island [+lire aussi :
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interview : Tizian Büchi
fiche film] - Tizian Büchi (Switzerland)