KARLOVY VARY: Slovak/Czech documentary Better Go Mad in the Wild / Raději zešílet v divočině by Miro Remo won the Grand Prix - Crystal Globe in the main competition of the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (4 – 12 July 2025).

KARLOVY VARY: KVIFF Eastern Promises, the festival's Industry section and film market, has the rewarding mission of bridging the gap between talented filmmakers and their potential co-production partners, festivals and audiences.

This year for the tenth time FNE together with FIPRESCI is organising the ratings of all feature films in the main Crystal Globe competition, and the Proxima competition of the official Karlovy Vary International Film Festival programme by international critics attending the Festival.

VALLETTA: Russell Crowe made a surprise appearance to pick up Mediterreane Film Festival’s Malta Film Legend special award at the closing ceremony of the festival held in the iconic Fort Manoel on 29 June 2025. Malta Film Commissioner Johann Grech handed out the award to the star of Gladiator, which was shot on the island along with a host of other big international productions that have chosen Malta as their location.

CANNES: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne’s latest film Young Mothers screens in competition in Cannes this year and it is hard to think of anyone with a more successful Cannes track record than this Belgian directing duo.

CANNES: Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa takes us back to the dark days of the Stalinist purges in the Soviet Union for his historical drama Two Prosecutors that screens in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

CANNES: American director Kelly Reichardt’s film The Mastermind screens in competition in the final days of this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Known for her minimalist films that focus on American working-class characters often in small towns she brings her own brand of humour and sadness to the struggles of the everyday man.

CANNES: American filmmaker Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme screens in competition in Cannes this year. This is his fourth time in competition with Asteroid City (2023), The French Dispatch (2021), and Moonrise Kingdom, the film that opened the Festival de Cannes in 2012, all screening in competition in Cannes also. Clearly the Cannes selectors like his unique eccentric style.

CANNES: American director Richard Linklater’s docudrama Nouvelle Vague, which screens in competition in Cannes this year, is his homage to Jean-Luc Godard and the French New Wave.  Linklater is more frequently identified in Europe with the Berlin Film Festival with his acclaimed film trilogy starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013) all unspooling in Berlin, and in 2025 his film Blue Moon, which also starred Ethan Hawke. Although his Fast Food Nation (2006) did screen in competition in Cannes.

KARLOVY VARY: New films by Bence Fliegauf, Vytautas Katkus, Miro Remo and Ondřej Provazník will compete in the Crystal Globe Competition of the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (4 – 12 July 2025).