Many of the films in the main competition are about and made by young people. “This year, we are excited to present the youngest competition lineup in the KVIFF’s recent history, the average age of the filmmaker in the main festival section is 39 years old,” says KVIFF’s artistic director Karel Och.
The lineup includes seven world and six international premieres. The 50th Karlovy Vary film festival is supported by the Czech Ministry of Culture and the Karlovy Vary Region.
Complete List of films - official competition:
Antonia (Italy, Greece)
Directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino
Babai (Germany, Kosovo, Macedonia, France)
Directed by Visar Morina
Bob and the Trees (USA)
Directed by Diego Ongaro
Box (France, Germany, Romania)
Directed by Florin Şerban
Produced by Fantascope
Coproduced by Augenschein Filmproduktion in Germany
Supported by Romanian National Centre for Cinema and Eurimages
The Sound of Trees (Canada)
Directed by François Péloquin
Czerwony Pająk / The Red Spider (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic)
Directed by Marcin Koszałka
Produced by MD4, Sokol Kollar and Fog’n’Desire Films
Supported by Polish Film Institute, Krakow Film Fund, Czech Film Fund and Slovak Audiovisual Fund
Domácí péče / Home Care (Czech Republic, Slovak Republic)
Directed by Slávek Horák
Produced by Tvorba Films
Coproduced by Fog’n’Desire Films, Czech Television, Sokol Kollar, HBO Czech Republic
Supported by Czech Film Fund, Slovak Audiovisual Fund
Gold Coast (Denmark)
Directed by Daniel Dencik
Heil (Germany)
Directed by Dietrich Brüggemann
Jeder der fällt hat Flügel / Those Who Fall Have Wings (Austria)
Directed by Peter Brunner
Kobry a užovky / The Snake Brothers (Czech Republic)
Directed by Jan Prušinovský
Produced by Czech Television, RWE Česká Republika
Supported by Czech Film Fund
The Magic Mountain (Romania, France, Poland)
Directed by Anca Damian
Produced by Aparte Film
Coproduced by Filmograf and Arizona Productions
Supported by Romanian National Film Center and the Polish Film Institute
Song of Songs (Ukraine)
Directed by Eva Neymann
Complete List of films - East of the West Competition:
A szerdai gyerek / The Wednesday Child (Hungary, Germany)
Directed by Lili Horváth
Cesta do Říma / Journey to Rome (Czech Republic, Poland)
Directed by Tomasz Mielnik
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Supported by Czech Television
Chemia / Chemo (Poland)
Directed by Bartek Prokopowicz
Produced by Filmokracja
Supported by the Polish Film Institute
Krom / Chromium (Albania)
Directed by: Bujar Alimani
Lumea e a mea / The World Is Mine (Romania)
Directed by Nicolae Constantin Tanase
Produced by Libra Film, deFilm
Między nami dobrze jest / No Matter How Hard We Tried (Poland)
Directed by Grzegorz Jarzyna
Produced by TR Warszawa
Prach / Dust of the Ground (Czech Republic)
Directed by Vít Zapletal
Produced by FAMU
Coproduced by Czech Television, Barrandov Studios, Produkce Radim Prochazka
Sarmaşık / Ivy (Turkey)
Directed by Tolga Karaçelik
Sutak / Heavenly Nomadic ( Kirghizia)
Directed by Mirlan Abdykalykov
Tetarti 4:45 / Wednesday 4:45 (Greece, Germany)
Directed by Alexis Alexiou
Ti mene nosiš / You Carry Me (Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro)
Directed by Ivona Juka
Produced by 4 Film
Coproduced by Vertigo/Emotionfilm, Sloan Film Production
Supported by Croatian Audiovisual Center, Eurimages, Slovenian Film Center, FS Viba Film
Zero ( Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany)
Directed by Gyula Nemes
Produced by: Katapult Film, Endorfilm, 42 Film
Supported by: State Cinematography Fund, Hungarian National Film Fund