This system director of the Karlovy Differ pageant, Karel Och, offered the primary movies that may compete for the favor of the viewers or judges. Amongst them is an interesting Indian movie from the foothills of the Himalayas, a Taiwanese drama regarding sports activities fencing or a “hyper-documentary perception into the truth of struggle”, the movie Actual by director Oleh Sentsov.
“Whether it is in his energy, he’ll come to Karlovy Differ,” mentioned Karel Och to Sentsov, “it is dependent upon the choice of his commanding officer.” The filmmaker and activist, who was imprisoned by the Kremlin, actively participates within the combating as a lieutenant within the Ukrainian military. His movie Actual tells the story of one of many conditions that Sentsov skilled within the struggle. This can be a recording of the evacuation motion of a part of the filmmaker’s unit, which was essentially sophisticated by the shortage of ammunition and constant Russian hearth.
Eight Czech movies may even be proven in Differ, two of that are in the principle competitors. Beata Parkanová’s movie Světýlka will compete for the Crystal Globe. For her earlier movie, Slovo, Parkanová z Varů took house the award for steering, and actor Martin Finger then obtained the award for finest male efficiency. Parkan’s new movie tells a couple of disintegrating household from the attitude of a little bit woman. The second Czech movie in the principle competitors shall be director Adam Martinec’s function debut, Mord, which additionally offers with relationships in a close-knit group of household and environment, towards the backdrop of a village killer.
Different Czech representatives on the pageant embrace Jiří Havelka’s new movie The Gardener’s 12 months or the historic movie Waves directed by Jiří Mádl. “One of the vital nice surprises this 12 months. The leap that Mádl created from his earlier movies is cardinal,” Karel Och instructed Vln. The documentary I am nonetheless not who I need to be directed by Klára Tasovská regarding photographer Libuša Jarcovjáková, which aroused enthusiasm on the Berlinale, can be elevating nice expectations. Among the many documentaries, there’s additionally the function debut of Marie-Magdalena Kochová The Different, the movie Tatabojs.doc concerning the legendary band directed by Marek Najbrt, or a visible probe into post-war structure Structure 58–89.
The KVIFF organizing group additionally introduced the members of the juries. Australian actor Geoffrey Rush, Icelandic author and screenwriter Sjón, actress Eliška Křenková and Hungarian filmmaker Gábor Reisz will meet in the principle one.
The organizers of the pageant have already said that actor Ivan Trojan will obtain the President’s Award for excellent contribution to cinematography. This system may even embrace a bit of movies devoted to the work of Franz Kafka.