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55th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
The 55th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival took place from August 20 to August 28, 2021, in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. A total of 144 films were presented at the festival, including 29 world premieres, twelve international and two European premieres. Serbian-French-Luxembourgish-Bulgarian-Lithuanian co-produced film '' As Far as I Can Walk'' won the Crystal Globe. The festival paid tributes to Jan Svěrák and Martin Scorsese's The Film Foundation. Juries The following were appointed as the juries at the 55th edition: Crystal Globe Jury *Eva Mulvad (Denmark) *Marta Nieradkiewicz (Poland) *Christos Nikou (Greece) *Christoph Terhechte (Germany) FIPRESCI Jury *Birgit Beumers (United Kingdom) *Eirik Bull (Norway) *Adéla Mrázová (Czech Republic) East of the West *Alise Ģelze (Latvia) *Atanas Georgiev (North Macedonia) *Michal Hogenauer (Czech Republic) *Tonia Mishiali (Cyprus) *Ariel Schweitzer (France) The Ecumenical Jury *Pierre-Auguste Henry (France) *Angelika O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zátopek (film)
''Zátopek'' is a 2021 Czech biographical film about Emil Zátopek. It is directed by David Ondříček and stars Václav Neužil. It was selected as the Czech entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards. Plot Ron Clarke competes at 1968 Summer Olympics but fails to win any medal. Feeling disappointed that he might have lost his last chance to win an Olympics medal he starts to doubt his career and decides to meet Emil Zátopek whom he adores. The film is about their dialogue during which audience can learn retrospectively about Zátopek's sport career and his life. Cast * Václav Neužil as Emil Zátopek * Martha Issová as Dana Zátopková * as Josef Dostál * James Frecheville as Ron Clarke * Gabriel Andrews as Ron's Trainer * Sinead Phelps as Helen * Sean Brodeur as English Soldier * Anna Schmidtmajerová as Dana's friend * Filipp Mogilnitskiy as Soviet journalist * Roy McCrerey as English Commentator * Daniela Hirsh as Translator * Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Mulvad
Eva Mulvad (born 1972) is a Danish documentary film director. She graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2001. Eva is a director of documentaries for DR TV since 1997. In 2006 she received IDFA Silver Wolf Award and World Cinema Jury Prize at Sundance for ''Enemies of Happiness''. She also was a winner of the 2006 WIFT (Women in Film and TV) award for young film talents. In 2008 Malalai Joya and Eva received the International Human Rights Film Award at the Cinema for Peace Gala in Berlin. Filmography * ''The Colony (Kolonien)'' (2006) * ''Enemies of Happiness ''Enemies of Happiness'' is a 2006 documentary about the controversial Afghan politician and member of the Afghan Parliament Malalai Joya filmed by Danish director Eva Mulvad. The film team travelled with the then 28 years old Malalai Joya durin ... (Vores lykkes fjender)'' (2006) * ''The Good Life (Det gode liv)'' (2010) * ''A Modern Man'' (2017) TV series * ''Homo sapiens'' (1997) * ''Når vi skilles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali & Ava
''Ali & Ava'' is a 2021 British drama film written and directed by Clio Barnard. The film stars Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook in the lead roles. ''Ali & Ava'' had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the Directors Fortnight section on 11 July 2021 and was released in the United Kingdom on 4 March 2022. Synopsis The film is set in Bradford, a working-class, predominantly white housing estate of Holme Wood, noted in both reality around 2016 and in the film for racist anti-social behaviour towards taxi drivers. Ali, a man of Pakistani descent, lives with his soon-to-be ex-wife, Runa, who still mourns the loss of their unborn child. Ava lives in Holme Wood near her adult children, some of whom have children of their own. Ali and Ava meet one day at the school where Ava works when Ali drops off his tenant's daughter. A friendship, built on a mutual love of music, gradually develops between the two, and deepens into something more as the couple struggles to overco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadav Lapid
Nadav Lapid () is an Israeli screenwriter and film director. Film critics consider him to be among the most internationally acclaimed filmmakers from Israel. Biography Lapid was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a family of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. He is the son of writer and film editor , he studied philosophy at Tel Aviv University, moving to Paris after his military service in the Israel Defense Forces. He returned to Israel to pursue a degree at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem. Lapid is married to Naama Preis, an Israeli actress; they reside in Tel Aviv. Career Lapid's debut feature film ''Policeman'' won the Locarno Festival Special Jury Prize at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2011. His 2014 film '' The Kindergarten Teacher'' was featured in the 2014 International Critics' Week. Lapid was named as a member of the jury of the International Critics' Week section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. He became a recipient of the Chevalier des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahed's Knee
''Ahed's Knee'' ( he, הַבֶּרֶךְ, translit=Habereḵ, translation=The Knee) is a 2021 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Nadav Lapid. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. At Cannes, the film shared the Jury Prize with ''Memoria'' by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Cast * Avshalom Pollak as Y * Nur Fibak as Yahalom * Yoram Honig as the farmer * Yonathan Kugler as the young Y * Lidor Ederi as Narkis * Amit Shoshani as the fearful soldier * Yehonathan Vilozni as the sergeant * Naama Preis as the casting director * Ortal Solomon as Ahed 1 * Mili Eshet as Ahed 2 * Oded Menaster as Smotrich * Netta Roth as the young actor Release The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, it had its premiere on 7 July 2021 in the festival. It was also selected in 'Icon' section of 26th Busan International Film Festival and was screened in the festival in October 2021. It was invited in the Soul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roaring 20's (film)
''Roaring 20's'' (french: Années 20) is a 2021 French drama film directed by Elizabeth Vogler from a screenplay that she co-wrote with Joris Avodo, Noémie Schmidt and Francois Mark. It had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 12, 2021. Production In April 2021, it was announced that Films Boutique acquired the distribution rights to the film. The film was shot in one uninterrupted single sequence in Paris, France Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ... in mid 2020. References External links * * {{rottentomatoes, roaring_20s 2021 films 2021 drama films French drama films One-shot films 2020s English-language films 2020s French films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Němec
Jan Němec (12 July 1936 – 18 March 2016) was a Czech filmmaker whose most important work dates from the 1960s. Film historian Peter Hames has described him as the "enfant terrible of the Czech New Wave." Biography Němec's career as a filmmaker started in the late 1950s when he attended FAMU. At that time, Czechoslovakia was a communist state subservient to the USSR, and artistic and public expression was subject to censorship and government review. However, thanks largely to the failure of purely propagandist cinema in the early 1950s and the presence of important and powerful people such as Jan Procházka within the Czechoslovak film industry, the 1960s led to an internationally acknowledged creative surge in Czechoslovak film that became known as the Czech New Wave, in which Němec played a part. Professional For graduation, Němec adapted a short story by Arnošt Lustig based on the author's experience of the Holocaust. Němec would return to Lustig's writing to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Party And The Guests
''A Report on the Party and Guests'' ( cs, O slavnosti a hostech, also known in English as ''The Party and the Guests'') is a 1966 Czechoslovakian political satire film directed by Jan Němec. It was banned in Czechoslovakia from 1966 to 1968 for being an allegory of socialist regimes. After a short release during the Prague Spring, it was banned again, this time for twenty years. In 1974, director Jan Němec was forced to leave the country. The film was entered in the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was aborted owing to the events of May 1968 in France. Plot A group of four men and three women are having a picnic in a field. One of the women says they should get going so they will make it to a celebration on time, and the group cleans up and walks into the woods. A man emerges from the trees and, smiling, links arms with Karel, one of the picnickers. Several other men appear and forcibly direct the picnickers to a clearing. The group of men bring a table and chair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michaela Pavlátová
Michaela Pavlátová (born 27 February 1961) is a Czech animator, film director and teacher. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for ''Words, Words, Words'' (1991) and won the Short Film Golden Bear for ''Repete'' (1995). As a feminist experimental animator Michaela's work explores themes of sex, gender, philosophy and relationality. Beyond her independent work she worked as the art director for Wildbrain Inc. She currently teaches animation at the Academy of Performing Arts, film and TV School in Prague. Michaela has also taught at the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague, the Academy of Art College, Computer Arts Institute in San Francisco and at Harvard University in Prague. Education Michaela attended the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague Accolades ''Reci, Reci, Reci'' was nominated for the 1992 Academy Award for Best Animated Short. Her awards for the short animated film ''Repete'' include the Golden Bear, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levan Koguashvili
Levan Koguashvili ( ka, ლევან კოღუაშვილი; March 18, 1973) is a Georgian film director and screenwriter. He studied in Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography after graduating school. Biography Levan Koguashvili was born in 1973 in Tbilisi, Georgia. He began his studies at the State Institute of Film and Theatre in Tbilisi, and then worked as a journalist for independent television after civil war broke out in Georgia. He studied Film Directing at the Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow between 1994 and 1999. He Graduated from the Tisch School of Art's Graduate Film Program in New York City in 2006 and he made several short films and documentaries. His 2006 short film, The Debt, was an Official Selection of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, and his documentary, Women from Georgia, was selected for the Panorama section of the 2009 Sarajevo Film Festival. Levan lived in New York City where he made several short films and documenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Jury Prize (Karlovy Vary IFF)
The Special Jury Prize is one of the main awards of the Feature Film Competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( cs, Mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary) is a film festival held annually in July in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The Karlovy Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the world and has become .... It is the second highest award of the festival started since 1952; after the Crystal Globe. Special Jury Prize Winners ;1952-present References External links The official festival site / History {{Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Czech film awards Lists of films by award International film awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonja Tarokić
Sonja Tarokić (born 19 March 1983) is a Croatian film director and screenwriter. Born in Zagreb, Tarokić earned an MA in film directing from the University of Zagreb's Academy of Dramatic Art (ADU), and a BA in comparative literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FFZG). After making several short films throughout the early 2010s, her 2021 feature film debut, '' The Staffroom'', earned her the Golden Arena for Best Director at the 2022 Pula Film Festival Pula Film Festival ( hr, Pulski filmski festival) is an annual Croatian film festival, established in 1954. It is held in a Roman amphitheater known as the Pula Arena. Pula Film Festival is the oldest Croatian film festival and is usually held in .... References External links * 1988 births Living people People from Zagreb Croatian film directors Croatian women film directors Croatian screenwriters Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb alumni Faculty of Humanities and Social Scie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |