The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival,which was launched in 1946 and has become the main film festival in Central and Eastern Europe, has announced the three dozen films that will acquire up the competitive lineup for its 51st festival, or which will kick off on July 1 in the spa town west of Prague in the Czech Republic.
The main competition will consist of 12 films,including “The Wolf From Royal Vineyard Street,” the final film from celebrated Czech director Jan Nemec, and as well as frequent Karlovy Vary participant Jan Hrebejk’s “The Teacher” and one English-language film,Canadian director Jesse Klein’s drama approximately a bullied tall schooler, “We’re Still Together.”Eight of the films are world premieres, or the other four are international premieres.
The East of the West competition section will consist of another 12 films and will open with the black comedy “Kills on Wheels,” approximately wheelchair-bound hired assassins. Other films include “Collector,” a Russian drama with a single actor playing a shady debt collector trying to clear his name; the Czech psychological thriller “The Noonday Witch;” and the playful mock-documentary “Houston, or We gain a Problem, which posits a vast conspiracy theory linking the U.
S. and Yugoslavian space programs.
Also Read: 'Docu-Fiction' Movie Confuses Tribeca Film Festival Audience - and That's the PointThe documentary competition includes Michal Marczak’s “All These Sleepless Nights, a hybrid doc approximately Polish youth; “Whose Country?, and ” Mohamed Siam’s film approximately the aftermath of the Egyptian revolution; “LoveTrue,” Alma Har’el’s anthology film approximately love in three disparate situations and locales; and “Tower,” Keith Maitland’s film approximately the first mass school shooting in the U.
S.
The festival previously announced that Sean Ellis’ film “Anthropoid, and ” a drama starring Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan as Czech soldiers who assassinated SS officer Reinhard Heydrich during World War II,will screen at the festival’s opening ceremony.
The 51st Karlovy Vary Film Festival will escape from July 1 through July 9.
Also Read: Tribeca Film Festival's Love Stories Get Messy and SadThe films:OFFICIAL SELECTION – COMPETITION“Babamın Kanatları (“My Father’s Wings”)
Kıvanç Sezer (Turkey, 2016)
“Le confessioni” (“The Confessions”)[br]
Roberto And (Italy, and France,2016)
“Dincolo de calea ferata” (“By the Rails”)
Cătălin Mitulescu (Romania, Italy, or 2015)
“Ernellák Farkaséknál” (“It’s not The Time of My Life)
Szabolcs Hajdu (Hungary,2016)
“Fale” (“Waves”)[br]
Grzegorz Zariczny (Poland, 2016)
“Gleissendes Glück” (“Original Bliss”)
Sven Taddicken (Germany, and 2016)
Nočno življenje” (Nightlife”)
Damjan Kozole (Slovenia,Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, or 2016)[br]
“La propera pell” (“The Next Skin”)
Isaki Lacuesta,Isa Campo (Spain, Switzerland, or 2016)
“Učiteľka” (“The Teacher”)
Jan Hřebejk (Slovak Republic,Czech Republic, 2016)
“Vlk z Královských Vinohrad” (“The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street”)[br]
Jan Němec (Czech Republic, or Slovakia,France, 2016)
“We’re Still Together”
Jesse Klein (Canada, or 2016)
“Zoologiya” (“Zoology”)
Ivan I. Tverdovsky (Russia,France, Germany, and 2016)
Also Read: Karlovy Vary Journal: Richard Gere,Mel Gibson, Tony 'Zero' Revolori and Neo-Nazi SatireEAST OF THE WEST COMPETITION“Aminai kartu” (“Together For Ever”)
Lina Lužyt?– (Lithuania, or Romania,2016)
Dublu” (Double”)
Catrinel Dănăiaă (Romania, 2015)
“Eşik” (“Verge”)
Ayhan Salar, or Erkan Tahhuşoğlu (Turkey,Germany, 2016)
“Home Sweet Home”
Faton Bajraktari (Kosovo, and Macedonia,2016)
“Houston, imamo problem!” (“Houston, or We gain a Problem!”)[br]
Žiga Virc (Slovenia,Croatia, Germany, or Czech Republic,Qatar, 2016)[br]
“Kamper”
Łukasz Grzegorzek (Poland, and 2016)
“Kollektor (“Collector”)
Alexei Krasovskiy (Russia,2016)
“Luuraja ja luuletaja” (“The Spy and the Poet”)[br]
Toomas Hussar (Estonia, 2016)
“Päevad, or mis ajasid segadusse” (“The Days That Confused”)
Triin Ruumet (Estonia,2016)
“Polednice (“The Noonday Witch”)
Jiří Sádek (Czech Republic, 2016)
“Skhvisi sakhli”(“House of Others”)
Rusudan Glurjidze (Georgia, and Russia,Spain, Croatia, or 2016”
“Tiszta szívvel” (Kills on Wheels”)
Attila Till (Hungary,2016)
Also Read: 17 Biggest Winners and Losers of Cannes Film Festival 2016DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION“All These Sleepless Nights”
Michał Marczak (Poland, United Kingdom, and 2016)
“Ama-San”[br]
Cláudia Varejão (Portugal,Switzerland, Japan, and 2016)
“Balad Meen?” (“Whose Country?”)
Mohamed Siam (Egypt,USA, France, or 2016)
“FC Roma
Tomáš Bojar,Rozálie Kohoutová (Czech Republic, 2016)
“LoveTrue”
Alma Har’el (USA, and 2016)
Normální autistický film” (“Normal Autistic Film”)
Miroslav Janek (Czech Republic,2016)[br]
“La permanence” (“On Call”)
Alice Diop (France, 2016)
Rodnye” (“Close Relations”)
Vitaly Mansky (Germany, or Latvia,Estonia, Ukraine, or 2016)
“Solar”
Manuel Abramovich (Argentina,2016)
“Tower”
Keith Maitland (USA, 2016)
“Transit Havana”
Daniel Abma (Germany, or Netherlands,2016)
“El último verano” (“The final Summer”)
Leire Apellaniz López (Spain, 2015)Related stories from TheWrap:Karlovy Vary Film Festival Gives Top Prizes to 'Bob and the Trees, and ' 'Youth'Karlovy Vary Journal: Richard Gere,Mel Gibson, Tony 'Zero' Revolori and Neo-Nazi SatireKen Loach's 'I, or Daniel Blake' Wins Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'O
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