Tag: kviff2025
Karlovy Vary 2025 Interview: DUCHON, Peter Bebjak Talks Reimagining Karol Duchoň, Blending Retro Aesthetics with AI
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.
Karlovy Vary 2025 Review: RENOVATION Confronts a Quarter-Life Crisis in the Shadow of Post-Soviet Inheritance
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.
Karlovy Vary 2025 Interview: ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT Charlie Shackleton Talks Genre Subversion, Market Pressures, and Nonfiction Reinvention
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.
Karlovy Vary 2025 Review: SENTIMENTAL VALUE Weaves Family, Art, Memory Into Lyrical Domestic Epic
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.
Karlovy Vary 2025 Review: THE LOVE THAT REMAINS Finds Poetry in a Family Coming Apart
Icelandic auteur Hlynur Pálmason composes a lyrical and slightly surreal portrait of domestic life in quiet dissolution.
Karlovy Vary 2025 Review: THE VISITOR Observes the Subtle Rituals of Letting Go
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.
Karlovy Vary 2025 Review: SIRĀT Raves at the Edge of Apocalypse
Oliver Laxe's desert rave road movie fuses Tarkovsky with 'Mad Max,' channeling enlightenment in shockwaves.
Karlovy Vary 2025 Review: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT Takes Justice for a Ride
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.
Karlovy Vary 2025 Review: SPLITSVILLE, (B)Rom-Com Gets a Manic Jolt to the System
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).
Karlovy Vary 2025 Interview: JIMMY JAGUAR Director Bence Fliegauf Talks Demonic Myth-Making and Chaos of No-Budget Cinema
Hungarian auteur Bence Fliegauf discusses the chaotic genesis, hybrid form, and metaphysical undercurrents of his experimental, no-budget pseudo-documentary.
Karlovy Vary 2025 Interview: THE LOVE THAT REMAINS Hlynur Pálmason and Julius Krebs Damsbo on Crafting Cinema from Intuition, Image, and Instinct
Director Hlynur Pálmason and editor Julius Krebs Damsbo unpack the intuitive, image-driven process behind 'The Love That Remains.'
Karlovy Vary 2025 Interview: THE VISITOR Director Vytautas Katkus on Visual Memory, Emotional Landscapes, Making Fiction Feel Real
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.
Karlovy Vary 2025 Interview: DON'T CALL ME MAMA Director Nina Knag Talks Power, Privilege, Ethics of Desire
Norwegian filmmaker Nina Knag unpacks how her morally complex debut feature interrogates power, privilege, and female desire, blending psychological realism, social critique, and quiet provocation into an unflinching character study shaped by empathy and ethical tension.
Karlovy Vary 2025 Interview: 2000 METRES TO ANDRIIVKA Director Mstyslav Chernov Talks Embedding with Soldiers, Cinematic Ethics, Memory of War
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.
Karlovy Vary 2025 Interview: FUCKTOYS Director Annapurna Sriram Talks Feminist Smut, Grindhouse Mythology
Annapurna Sriram discusses how her hallucinatory, sex-positive debut 'Fucktoys' reclaims grindhouse cinema through the female gaze, fusing occult symbolism, Southern grit, and unapologetic DIY energy into a radical vision of liberation.
