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KVIFF 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival<\/b>
\n29 June 2018 \u2013 7 July 2018
\nKarlovy Vary, Czech Republic
\nKVIFF website<\/a><\/p>\n

Electric Sheep<\/em> will be returning to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival this year and the programme of its 53rd edition looks as exciting and promising as ever.<\/p>\n

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One of the oldest and most renowned film festivals in the world, KVIFF has long established itself as ‘window to the West’ and the <\/em>platform for new Eastern and Central European cinema. Fittingly, the Official Selection is composed of twelve films led by Romanian master Radu Jude, who is presenting his new film I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians<\/em><\/strong>, along with two films by Slovenian directors: Olmo Omerzu\u2019s boyhood friendship road movie Winter Flies<\/em><\/strong> and History of Love<\/em><\/strong>, an anapestic take on young femininity from Sonja Prosenc. We also look forward to The Fireflies Are Gone<\/em><\/strong>, an awkward coming-of-age romance by Canadian filmmaker S\u00e9bastien Pilote, the new family drama by Argentinian director Ana Katz, Sue\u00f1o Florian\u00f3polis<\/em><\/strong>, Austro-American drama To the Night<\/em><\/strong> and Jumpman<\/em><\/strong>, the new film by Russian director Ivan Tverdovsky (Zoology<\/em><\/a>). Also included in this year’s competition line-up are four films from debut directors: Adam Sedl\u00e1k\u2019s psychological drama Domestique<\/em><\/strong>, along with the comedy Panic Attack<\/em><\/strong> by polish director Pawe\u0142 Ma\u015blona, Brothers<\/em><\/strong> by Turkish filmmaker \u00d6m\u00fcr Atay, and Miriam Lies<\/em><\/strong>, a complex tale of adolescence directed by Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada.<\/p>\n

Worth of note is also the strong female presence in this year\u2019s East of the West competition. All in all, seven of the twelve films are directed by women, opening with Belarusian director Darya Zhuk\u2019s dynamic debut Crystal Swan<\/em><\/strong> and including Czech director Beata Parkanov\u00e1\u2019s debut Moments<\/em><\/strong>, Ewa Bukowska\u2019s psychological drama 53 Wars<\/em><\/strong> and Via Carpatia<\/em><\/strong>, an intimate, independent road movie by Polish director Klara Kocha\u0144ska and co-directed by Kasper Bajon. The Czech Republic\u2019s Tomas Pavlicek will screen his new comedy Bear with Us<\/em><\/strong>, while Iran\u2019s Nima Eghlima is bringing Amir<\/em><\/strong>, about ‘a generation whose private lives are determined more by the rules of society than by their own will.’ Other highlights in this section include Hungarian director L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Csuja\u2019s Blossom Valley<\/em><\/strong> and Volcano<\/em><\/strong> by Roman Bondarchuk, a portrait of an ill-prepared protagonist who has become lost on the steppe.<\/p>\n

However, despite it\u2019s always strong feature film line-up, KVIFF is also a place for discovery when it comes to the latest works in documentary filmmaking. Of the twelve films shown in the documentary competition, eight are world premieres. Among them, previous KVIFF winner Vitaly Mansky weaves together personal memories with the presidential career of the Russian president in Putin’s Witnesses<\/em><\/strong>, while director-duo Marouan Omara and Johanna Domke take a look at the depopulated Egyptian resort Sharm El Sheikh in Dream Away<\/em><\/strong>, and Krist\u012bne Briede and Audrius Stonys contribute a contemplative documentary essay called Bridges of Time<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

With so much to see and discover, we will be spoilt for choice!<\/p>\n

Pamela Jahn<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Tickets are on sale now. For more information about the programme and how to book tickets visit the KVIFF website<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 53rd edition of the KVIFF looks as exciting and promising as ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[278],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-4003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festivals","tag-kviff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMSoh-12z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2711,"url":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/events\/2014\/07\/karlovy-vary-international-film-festival-2014-preview\/","url_meta":{"origin":4003,"position":0},"title":"Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2014 Preview","author":"Virginie Selavy","date":"July 4, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The 49th edition of the Czech festival includes an Elio Petri retrospective and special guests William Friedkin and Peter Strickland.","rel":"","context":"In "Check it out"","block_context":{"text":"Check it out","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/events\/category\/check-it-out\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"KVIFF 2014","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/KVIFF-2014-594x384.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/KVIFF-2014-594x384.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/KVIFF-2014-594x384.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3101,"url":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/events\/2015\/07\/karlovy-vary-international-film-festival-2015\/","url_meta":{"origin":4003,"position":1},"title":"Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2015 Review","author":"Pam Jahn","date":"July 12, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The KVIFF turned 50 this year, but it showed no signs of ageing. 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