The Biennale di Venezia has appointed the international juries of the Horizons section and the Luigi De Laurentiis award for a debut feature at the 83rd Venice Film Festival. French director, actress and screenwriter Valérie Donzelli will preside over the Horizons jury. She will be joined by American film distributor Peter Becker, Hong Kong American
In “Fruit Gathering,” director and writer Aung Phyoe consciously avoided exploring the “social” impact of the relationship between two repressed women, creating a sense of alienation but also deep intimacy. The film, which premieres at the Karlovy Vary festival as part of the Crystal Globe competition and is co-produced by Myanmar, the Czech Republic and
Julio started strong. Following Taylor Swift’s wedding extravaganza in New York City, the cast of “The Odyssey” dazzled at the film’s premieres in London and Paris. The first reactions only increase the enthusiasm, and the movie-going public is eagerly waiting for the film to hit theaters. On July 7, Dwayne Johnson premiered his live-action adaptation
Yashasvi Juyal did not make his way in cinema. He shot his way out. “We never went down the release route from development,” says the Indian filmmaker about “The Ink Stained Hand and the Missing Thumb,” his debut feature, which premieres in the Proxima Competition in Karlovy Vary. “We filmed the movie and then started
When Miroslav Terzić was writing his new film in 2023, titled “3 Weeks Later,” a mass shooting occurred in a Serbian school, the country where the director was born. “It was terrible when you realize that what you are writing about is happening somewhere right now; it’s not a movie, it’s real life,” Terzić says.
Acclaimed Bulgarian director duo Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov return to the Karlovy Vary Film Festival competition with “Black Money for White Nights.” They won the Crystal Globe in 2019 with ‘The Father’, which represented Bulgaria in the race for the Oscar for Foreign Language Film. An indictment of the corruption and moral decay of
