There’s no one way to experience the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and no singular type of attendee. Stroll into the Grandhotel Pupp, the 18th century luxury resort that serves as the main social hive, and you may clink glasses with Netflix execs, members of the HFPA and filmmakers of all stripes; venture into the dense forests that surround the Czech spa town and discover the ad hoc sites where hundreds of teens camp out for a week-long party.
Head into a theater, however, and you’ll see those many worlds meet.
Boasting 453 screenings spread across nine days, this year’s edition wrapped this past weekend, awarding its top prize to the brooding Canadian-Iranian drama “Summer With Hope” ahead of a closing night presentation of George Miller’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing” – rather perfectly encapsulating the festival’s joint promise.
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Head into a theater, however, and you’ll see those many worlds meet.
Boasting 453 screenings spread across nine days, this year’s edition wrapped this past weekend, awarding its top prize to the brooding Canadian-Iranian drama “Summer With Hope” ahead of a closing night presentation of George Miller’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing” – rather perfectly encapsulating the festival’s joint promise.
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‘Summer With Hope,’ ‘Word’ Win Top Prizes...
- 7/13/2022
- by Ben Croll
- The Wrap
A vivid, intimate drama about flatmates in Georgia, A Room Of My Own was a stand-out entry at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Directed by Ioseb ‘Soso’ Bliadze, its two leads were jointly awarded the Best Actress prize for their sparky and sensitive turns. Taki Mumladze — who also co-wrote the screenplay — stars as Tina, an introverted young woman who needs to rent a room from a stranger, for reasons that become increasingly clear, and fascinating, as the story continues.
Extroverted party girl Megi (Mariam Khundadze) is straight-talking and abrupt, initially seeing Tina merely as a route to the rent. The Covid pandemic is in full force in Tbilisi, with bars presumably shut, so Megi’s crew drop round regularly for drinks, smokes and lively banter before curfew. Tina is slowly drawn into this world, and eventually confides in Megi about her troubled past, creating a touching bond.
It’s a charming,...
Extroverted party girl Megi (Mariam Khundadze) is straight-talking and abrupt, initially seeing Tina merely as a route to the rent. The Covid pandemic is in full force in Tbilisi, with bars presumably shut, so Megi’s crew drop round regularly for drinks, smokes and lively banter before curfew. Tina is slowly drawn into this world, and eventually confides in Megi about her troubled past, creating a touching bond.
It’s a charming,...
- 7/11/2022
- by Anna Smith
- Deadline Film + TV
Czech title ‘Word’ takes best director for Beata Parkanova; ‘A Room Of My Own’ leads share best actress.
Sadaf Foroughi’s Canadian-Iranian drama Summer With Hope has won the Crystal Globe for best film at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff), which held its closing awards ceremony on Friday July 9.
Foroughi’s second feature is about a swimmer learning a new open water discipline, who develops a close alliance with his coach.
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Written and directed and produced by Foroughi, it is also produced by Kiarash Anvari and Christina Piovesan for Canada’s First Generation Films.
Sadaf Foroughi’s Canadian-Iranian drama Summer With Hope has won the Crystal Globe for best film at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff), which held its closing awards ceremony on Friday July 9.
Foroughi’s second feature is about a swimmer learning a new open water discipline, who develops a close alliance with his coach.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
Written and directed and produced by Foroughi, it is also produced by Kiarash Anvari and Christina Piovesan for Canada’s First Generation Films.
- 7/9/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
With eternal respect to Virginia Woolf, whose “A Room of One’s Own” clearly inspires the title of Ioseb ‘Soso’ Bliadze’s beautifully articulate miniature, even before a woman needs money and her own space to be able to pursue self-fulfillment, she needs to know she needs those things. Bliadze’s superbly performed, remarkably immersive Karlovy Vary competition entry is one such story of tentative, interior emancipation, described in the tiniest arcs of change: the width of a smile, the warmth of an embrace, the directness of a gaze. As such it is hardly cinema’s most tempestuous act of female empowerment, but the work of dismantling oppressive patriarchies, such as that which underpins modern-day Georgian society, needs both sledgehammers and subtler instruments.
The room in question is a poky box at the back of a narrow two-bedroom apartment in Tbilisi. The rent is 600 lari (about 200) per month, to be...
The room in question is a poky box at the back of a narrow two-bedroom apartment in Tbilisi. The rent is 600 lari (about 200) per month, to be...
- 7/6/2022
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Georgian filmmaking has been receiving a lot of favourable festival heat recently, with Dea Kulumbegashvili's Cannes-selected stark drama Beginning picking up the Fipresci prize in Toronto and Aleksandre Koberidze's shaggy dog charmer What Do We See When We Look At The Sky netting the same award in Berlin. Now Ioseb 'Soso' Bliadze has continued the awards stream with this tragicomic tale that offers sharp scrutiny of mother and son relationships - not to mention his motherland and its children - and which picked up the Fedeora critics prize in Karlovy Vary.
Teenager Nika (Iva Kimeridze) lives with his hot mess of a single mum Keti (Nutsa Kukhianidze) in a high-rise Tbilisi tower block. Keti is a hustler - introduced to us as she tries to sell face cream - and though the pair may not be quite living hand to mouth, she's no stranger to scrounging cash...
Teenager Nika (Iva Kimeridze) lives with his hot mess of a single mum Keti (Nutsa Kukhianidze) in a high-rise Tbilisi tower block. Keti is a hustler - introduced to us as she tries to sell face cream - and though the pair may not be quite living hand to mouth, she's no stranger to scrounging cash...
- 8/31/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Stefan Arsenijevic’s film received the Crystal Globe Grand Prix.
Serbian refugee drama As Far As I Can Walk scored five prizes including the main Grand Prix – Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival awards this evening.
Written and directed by Stefan Arsenijevic, the film also received the best actor award for Ibrahim Koma, and a special jury mention for Jelena Stankovic for cinematography, from the awards given out in the competition section.
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The film also received two non-statutory awards, from the ecumenical jury, and the Europa Cinemas Label award...
Serbian refugee drama As Far As I Can Walk scored five prizes including the main Grand Prix – Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival awards this evening.
Written and directed by Stefan Arsenijevic, the film also received the best actor award for Ibrahim Koma, and a special jury mention for Jelena Stankovic for cinematography, from the awards given out in the competition section.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
The film also received two non-statutory awards, from the ecumenical jury, and the Europa Cinemas Label award...
- 8/28/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The film debuted in the East of the West Competition on Saturday.
Nordic-based sales agency The Yellow Affair has acquired world rights to Georgian director Ioseb ‘Soso’ Bliadze’s debut feature Otar’s Death, which premiered in the East of the West Competition at Karlovy Vary on Saturday 21.
The film tells the story of a woman and her son who find themselves in a precarious situation when he kills an old man in a car accident. The victim’s family promises to refrain from pressing charges if he compensates their loss in cash; so the mother must raise a large...
Nordic-based sales agency The Yellow Affair has acquired world rights to Georgian director Ioseb ‘Soso’ Bliadze’s debut feature Otar’s Death, which premiered in the East of the West Competition at Karlovy Vary on Saturday 21.
The film tells the story of a woman and her son who find themselves in a precarious situation when he kills an old man in a car accident. The victim’s family promises to refrain from pressing charges if he compensates their loss in cash; so the mother must raise a large...
- 8/23/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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