Karel Och, artistic director of Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, has unveiled a lineup of almost 40 titles in the main program, premiering at the 60th edition of the event in the Czech spa town at the beginning of July.
Och said, “One of the defining characteristics of the films in this year’s main program is the directors’ impressive effort to comprehend the diversity and complexity of the world through firsthand confrontation, and through a relentless search for the relationship between the artistic and the political, the intimate and the societal.”
CRYSTAL GLOBE COMPETITION“3 nedelje posle” (3 Weeks After)Director: Miroslav TerzićSerbia, Bulgaria, 2026, 94 min, world premiereA group of high school students set off for a class trip to Bulgaria. When their bus breaks down, they find themselves stranded in an old hotel near the mountains. The atmosphere grows tense when the quiet and withdrawn Zoza decides to talk about his best friend’s recent suicide. Why did Andrij choose to end his life? And wouldn’t it have been better if Zoza hadn’t brought it up? Like his previous outings, Serbian director Miroslav Terzić’s third film is characterized by an overwhelming, meticulously crafted sense of tension. “3 Weeks After” takes us into the vulnerable world of adolescents, where innocence is mixed with cruelty. It also exposes the mechanisms of bullying in a society that closes its eyes at decisive moments when looking away is the last thing we should do.
