Karlovy Vary IFF Reveals John Garfield Retrospective, Visual Identity, and More Details About Its Upcoming Edition

 

Visual Identity of the 59th Karlovy Vary IFF

 

Author: Zuzana Lednická, Collaboration: Aleš Najbrt, Photographer: Václav Jirásek

 

Zuzana Lednická highlighted the dominant symbolism of this year's visual identity: “The main motif for the visual identify of the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is a simple human gesture: an embrace. An ordinary yet powerful moment, a symbol of closeness, friendship, love, and forgiveness. Photographed with various people in various situations then and now. Is it film? Yes, but mainly it is life!”

 

 

 

 

KVIFF President's Award For Outstanding Contribution to Czech Cinema to Be Presented to Editor Jiří Brožek 

 

At the closing ceremony of this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the President’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Czech Cinema will be presented to editor Jiří Brožek.

 

 

Karlovy Vary IFF to Present Premiere of Digitally Restored Ecce Homo Homolka 

 

The long-running tradition of premiere screenings of digitally restored Czech and Czechoslovak films continues at KVIFF 59 with a screening of screenwriter and director Jaroslav Papoušek’s Ecce Homo Homolka.

 

This sarcastic 1969 comedy about the life of a multigenerational family has been called the final film of the Czechoslovak New Wave of the 1960s. Jaroslav Papoušek, who was originally active as a sculptor, artist, and cartoonist, worked as a screenwriter on Miloš Forman’s seminal films Black Peter, Loves of Blonde, and The Firemen’s Ball and Ivan Passer’s Intimate Lighting. After Forman and Passer went into exile, Papoušek was the last member of this exceptionally talented creative trio to remain on the domestic film scene. And although, in terms of genre, Ecce Homo Homolka belongs to the category of so-called folk comedies, it clearly follows on his work with Forman and Passer and the poetic style of their previous collaborative efforts.

 

 

Future Frames Continues Its Partnership with Allwyn and Collaboration with UTA and Range Media Partners

 

Since 2015, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and European Film Promotion have organized Future Frames – Generation NEXT of European Cinema, a program aimed at helping talented European directors launch their careers in the film industry. For three years, Future Frames has been able to offer expanded opportunities thanks to a partnership with Allwyn – a lottery-led entertainment company, and by collaborating with American talent agency UTA and Range Media Partners, which provide young filmmakers with valuable expert guidance and give them the chance to make important contacts.

 

Every year, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival programming team selects ten film school students and graduates who have been recommended for Future Frames by member organizations of European Film Promotion. The participating filmmakers show their short and medium-length films at the festival and participate in a mentoring program that includes training, networking, and promotion. This year’s Future Frames will take place from 6 to 9 July at the Hotel Thermal, which will once again host the creative and networking space that is the Allwyn Future Frames Lounge. Here, the participants will attend training sessions and one-on-one meetings with representatives from UTA and Range Media Partners, who will provide feedback on their work and then select one director to attend an Allwyn-sponsored residency in Los Angeles. Last year, this honor went to Danish director William Sehested Høeg. During his month-long residency, UTA and Range Media Partners arranged one-on-one meetings with distributors, producers, and other professionals from the U.S. film industry, with whom Høeg could consult his planned feature film and other projects.