The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) has completed the lineup of its 60th edition in its 80th year, on Thursday unveiling the program of its popular Horizons section, which is once again chock-full of festival circuit favorites of the past year, including recent Cannes winners, and the genre movies unspooling in Afterhours, formerly known as Midnight Screenings.
Overall, the Czech festival will present more than 130 feature-length fiction and documentary films.
The Afterhours selection will this year include the likes of Jane Schoenbrun’s feminist slasher Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Aidan Zamiri’s mockumentary The Moment about Charli XCX, the South Korean zombie film Colony from director Yeon Sang-ho, and the animated satire Jim Queen from Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen about a gay influencer who contracts a virus that makes people straight.
Meanwhile, KVIFF’s Horizons section will this year feature 55 films. “Karlovy Vary audiences will have the chance to see, for example, the Palme d’Or-winning and gripping drama Fjord directed by Cristian Mungiu, the latest works by Oscar-winning filmmakers, Fatherland by Pawel Pawlikowski and All of a Sudden by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, the winner of the prestigious Un Certain Regard section Everytime, as well as distinctive auteur films from Nepal, Rwanda, and Costa Rica,” KVIFF said. “From the Berlinale, audiences can look forward to Yellow Letters, awarded the Golden Bear, and a melancholic biopic about legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans. Films from Venice and the Sundance festival, which this year was held in Park City for the last time, will also maintain their traditional presence.” KVIFF organizers also touted a number of “returning” filmmakers, whose previous works premiered at the Karlovy Vary festival in one of its competition sections, will present their newest movies at the Czech fest this year. For example, Cyril Aris will bring A Sad and Beautiful World, while Visar Morina will present Shame and Money, and Andrius Blaževičius will introduce his latest How to Divorce During the War.
