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Karlovy Vary festival East of the West competition Vogelfrei

Daria Abolina Czech Republic 2008-07-07

The Latvian film Vogelfrei is the sole omnibus film competing in the East of the West section at the Karlovy Vary film festival, a joint effort from four of Latvia's…

France tops Czech box office

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2008-07-07

French family film Asterix at the Olympic Games led the Czech box office for the first five months of 2008, according to results from Czech distributors. The remaing seven slots…

Documentaries in post-production draw strong interest at Karlovy Vary

Cathy Meils Czech Republic 2008-07-07

The fourth edition of Docu Talents from the East at the Karlovy Vary film festival on July 7 attracted over 70 buyers, distributors, festival representatives, journalists and film industry professionals…

Works in Progress draws overflow crowd

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2008-07-06

Robust industry interest boosted attendance at the Karlovy Vary film festival (KVIFF.com) East of the West Works in Progress 2008 presentations. Producers from 26 films showed clips to a standing…

Works in Progress draws overflow crowd

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2008-07-06

Robust industry interest boosted attendance at the Karlovy Vary film festival (KVIFF.com) East of the West Works in Progress 2008 presentations. Producers from 26 films showed clips to a standing…

Poland pushes hits and works in progress at Karlovy Vary

Katarzyna Grynienko Czech Republic 2008-07-03

The programme of this year's edition of the Karlovy Vary IFF festival lists four Polish titles, but that is not the only way that Poland will be represented at the…

Karlovy Vary film festival East of the West competition Muzika

Jana Kadlecova Czech Republic 2008-07-03

Muzika (Music), actor-director Juraj Nvota's Slovak/German film about the joys and travails of musicians and music lovers, will be screened on July 7 and 8 in competition at the Karlovy…

Beauty in Trouble expands US release

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2008-07-02

Beauty in Trouble, from director/writer team of Jan Hrebejek and Petr Jarchovsky, has gone into its third week of screenings in the U.S.

Karlovy Vary film festival East of the West competition Mao Tse Tung

Pavlina Jeleva Czech Republic 2008-07-02

A rare Albanian entry joins the East of the West competition line-up: Besnik Bisha's ironic take on the era of totalitarian leader Enver Hoxha, Mao Tse Tung. Following years of…

Karlovy Vary film festival East of the West competition I Was Here

Martin Aadamsoo Czech Republic 2008-07-01

The second feature by Estonian director Rene Vilbre, I Was Here is continuing the recent wave of Estonian cinema on the international arena with the world premiere in Karlovy Vary's…

Karlovy Vary film festival East of the West competition Of Parents and Children

Irena Zemanova Czech Republic 2008-07-01

Multi-awarded Czech director Vladimír Michalek creates a bitter-sweet comedy from a seemingly banal situation, where father and son go on a walk together through the magical urban landscape of Prague.

Karlovy Vary film festival East of the West competition The Class

Laszlo Kriston Czech Republic 2008-06-30

The beginning of the €1 million budgeted (HUF250 million) Hungarian-German movie, The Class (Tablo) dates back to 1998, when the Hungarian-born, formerly New York-based Gabor Dettre first applied to the…

Karlovy Vary film festival East of the West competition Tulpan

Katarzyna Grynienko Czech Republic 2008-06-29

Will Tulpan repeat the success from Cannes in Karlovy Vary? The winner of this year's Un Certain Regard section in Cannes, Tulpan, directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy, joins the East to…

Ivo Trajkov appointed Honorary Ambassador of Culture

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2008-06-29

Film director Ivo Trajkov received the title Honorary Ambassador of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia by Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. The ceremony in Prague came just in time…

Karlovy Vary film festival East of the West competition Seamstresses

Pavlina Jeleva Czech Republic 2008-06-29

Accomplished as a fiction author and theatre director, Ludmil Todorov once again proved himself one of Bulgaria's leading film directors with his realistic take on unemployment through the female point…

Karlovy Vary film festival East of the West competition Time to Die

Katarzyna Grynienko Czech Republic 2008-06-26

Renowned Polish director Dorota Kedzierzawska competes in the Karlovy Vary film festival's East of the West section with Time to die, one of the most awarded Polish films of the…

Karlovy Vary film festival East of the West competition film The Collectress

Aukse Kancereviciute Czech Republic 2008-06-26

Lithuanian director Kristina Buozyte's debut film and film school graduation project, The Collectress, makes its international premiere in the East of the West competition at the 43th International Karlovy Vary…

Karlovy Vary film festival East of the West competition film Boogie

Anca Paduraru Czech Republic 2008-06-25

Romanian director Radu Muntean's third feature film, Boogie (2008), competes in the East of the West section of the Karlovy Vary international film festival, following its selection for the Quinzaine…

Karlovy Vary IFF chooses 15 films for East of the West competition

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2008-06-24

Once again, aficionados of East and Central European film will journey to the Cinema Lazne III at the Karlovy Vary film festival to catch up on some of the most…

Karlovy Vary Chooses 14 Competition Films

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2008-06-23

European films dominate the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival competition. Of the 14 films selected, 12 are European films or co-productions. The Czech Republic and France are represented by two…