Tag: karlovyvaryinternationalfilmfestival2025

Slovak director Peter Bebjak discusses the making of a stylized music biopic that reimagines the rise and fall of Slovak pop legend Karol Duchoň and blending retro aesthetics with modern storytelling.

Lithuanian director Gabrielė Urbonaitė delivers a quietly introspective study of personal dissonance shaped by post-Soviet space, intergenerational memory, and the subtle fractures beneath a seemingly stable life in her feature debut.

Charlie Shackleton reflects on the collapse of a true crime project and the creative detour it inspired, offering international film professionals a compelling insight into the evolving ethics, form, and industry pressures shaping contemporary nonfiction cinema.

Michel Franco reflects on his creative process, recurring themes of power and revenge, and why he believes cinema must never shy away from discomfort or contradiction.

Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier delivers a layered inter-generational family drama that explores how memory, art, and unresolved grief shape the emotional architecture of a fractured home.

Icelandic auteur Hlynur Pálmason composes a lyrical and slightly surreal portrait of domestic life in quiet dissolution.

Lithuanian filmmaker Vytautas Katkus extends the formal and thematic concerns of his earlier short films into a quietly observational study of dislocation, memory, and the impermanence of belonging in his feature debut.

Oliver Laxe's desert rave road movie fuses Tarkovsky with 'Mad Max,' channeling enlightenment in shockwaves.

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi delivers a political revenge thriller infused with absurdist comedy in his latest work, using the framework of post-authoritarian reckoning to examine the moral ambiguities of justice, memory, and collective trauma.

Michael Angelo Covino directs and co-stars with Kyle Marvin, Adria Arjona, and Dakota Johnson in a marital comedy skewed through a bromedy (and vice versa).

Hungarian auteur Bence Fliegauf discusses the chaotic genesis, hybrid form, and metaphysical undercurrents of his experimental, no-budget pseudo-documentary.

Vytautas Katkus reflects on his transition from cinematographer to director, the collaborative roots of his filmmaking process, and how improvisation became a core method long before the camera ever rolled.

Director Mstyslav Chernov reflects on the ethical, storytelling, and aesthetic challenges of documenting war from within a Ukrainian platoon, offering insight into the filmmaking choices behind his visceral new documentary.