Slovak director Ivan Ostrochovský is planning an American remake of “Only Beautiful Things to Look At.” Her latest drama, premiering at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, is set in the 1980s and follows a doctor (Aňa Geislerová) who begins to question the forced sterilization of Romani women in the former Czechoslovakia. “This was happening all
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
Cypriot filmmaker Tonia Mishiali tackles immigration, patriarchy and the strength of women in “The Lion at My Back,” screening in the Crystal Globe competition at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. The film follows the bond that grows between Senegalese immigrant Mariama (Sokhna Diallo) and Stella (Elena Kallinikou), a woman working at an immigration center in
Switzerland remains one of the richest countries in the world. But there are cracks in its foundation, maintains director Jan-Eric Mack. “During the pandemic, we started to see people queuing for food. It was an unusual sight in Switzerland, where you don’t see so much poverty on the streets. But these numbers are increasing,” he
Momentous events such as the sale of the family home, a young man coming clean with his family or the staging of a drag performance in a small town would seem like perfect ingredients for an intensely dramatic film full of conflict. But in his fourth feature “Czech Girl,” which premieres in the Crystal Globe
