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Karlovy Vary Continues to Champion Challenging Voices By Guy Lodge Czech director Václav Kadrnka's "Little Crusader" may have been the first local production in 15 years to win the Crystal Globe for Best Film at Karlovy Vary this year, but in all other respects it's a typical success story from Read Full Story at Variety.com →

Czech-Slovak Film 'Little Crusader' Wins Top Prize at Karlovy Vary Film Festival By Will Tizard "Little Crusader," a Czech-Slovak medieval quest film by Vaclav Kadrnka, won the Crystal Globe for best film at the Czech Republic's Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Central and Eastern Europe's leading movie event, on Saturday. It is the f Read Full Story at Variety.com →

SOFA's Nikolaj Nikitin Strives to Strengthen Movie Biz Infrastructure in Central, Eastern Europe By Leo Barraclough Four years ago Nikolaj Nikitin launched his innovative training program the School of Film Agents (SOFA), which provides tutoring and mentoring for movie biz professionals outside the production sector. Next month, its latest edition o Read Full Story at Variety.com →

Czech Republic Attracts $156 Million in Foreign Production Revenue By Will Tizard The Czech Republic benefited from $156.2 million from foreign productions shooting in the country last year, slightly down for the first time since 2009. This year's productions include the just-wrapped movie "Ophelia," starring Daisy Read Full Story at Variety.com →

'The Cakemaker' Set for North American Roll-Out With Strand Releasing (EXCLUSIVE) By Elsa Keslassy Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Ofir Raul Graizer's melodrama "The Cakemaker," which world premiered in competition at Karlovy Vary. Sold by Berlin-based sales company Films Boutique, "The Cakemaker" marks th Read Full Story at Variety.com →

Script Development Key to Resurgence of Central, Eastern European Film Biz By Peter Caranicas In the beginning was the word. This sentence, which launches the Bible, also applies to the film world, where a good script is the underpinning of any successful project. At the Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival on Tuesday, the panel Th Read Full Story at Variety.com →

Jeremy Renner Keen to Work With Taylor Sheridan Again Following 'Wind River' By Will Tizard Jeremy Renner hopes to do more small-scale, personal films like "Wind River," he said at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, which screens the film ahead of honoring the actor on Saturday with the president's prize. He called the wildernes Read Full Story at Variety.com →

REVIEWS
Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'Monte' By Jessica Kiang It's a fable so ancient no one's quite sure who first devised it, but the Grimm Brothers wrote of a bird that comes to sharpen its beak on a mountain every hundred years. When the mountain has worn down to nothing, the story goes, that Read Full Story at Variety.com →

Karlovy Vary Review: 'The White World According to Daliborek' By Jessica Kiang In observing the rise of incoherent extremist right-wing ideologies across the Western world, it's often hard to know whether to laugh or cry. But here comes a hapless Czech neo-Nazi by the name of Dalibor K. who provides an answer: Do Read Full Story at Variety.com →

Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'The Line' By Alissa Simon “The Line” leaps to the top of its genre class with muscular direction from Slovak helmer Peter Bebjak, a genre-savvy screenplay by Peter Balko, unusual locations spectacularly captured, a propulsive score and impressive pe Read Full Story at Variety.com →

Karlovy Vary Review: 'Breaking News' By Jessica Kiang A compellingly well-made if minor addition to a major canon, Romanian director Iulia Rugină's "Breaking News" bears many of the impressive hallmarks of her nation's New Wave: emotional maturity; a restrained, naturalistic performance a Read Full Story at Variety.com →

Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'Little Crusader' By Guy Lodge An epic poem makes for echoingly sparse cinema — however vast the historical milieu — in "Little Crusader," a tight-lipped study in Medieval minimalism from talented Czech formalist Václav Kadrnka. Read Full Story at Variety.com →

Karlovy Vary Review: 'Falling' By Jessica Kiang There's no more fascinating image in cinema than the human face. But we've come a long way since French theorist Roland Barthes waxed lyrical about Garbo's "mask-like" visage. We've gazed into a lot of actors' eyes, drowned in a lot of Read Full Story at Variety.com →

Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'Corporate' By Guy Lodge "Fire" can be an oddly inappropriate verb for the act of terminating a person's employment: It implies a decision committed in heated fury, whereas frosty impersonality is so often closer to the mark. Read Full Story at Variety.com →

Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'Birds Are Singing in Kigali' By Guy Lodge In more ways than one, the persistent ache of loss permeates "Birds Are Singing in Kigali," a broken-surfaced, broken-hearted reflection on the Rwandan genocide that marks a heartfelt swansong for married Polish writer-directors Krzysz Read Full Story at Variety.com →

Film Review: 'Menashe' By Peter Debruge "Menashe" is a rarity among American indies: a foreign-language film set in the middle of urban New York City (technically, Borough Park, Brooklyn). Apart from a few lines of English, and a few more in Spanish, the vast majority of the Read Full Story at Variety.com →

Karlovy Vary Review: 'More' By Jessica Kiang The blue Aegean sparkles under blazingly sunny skies. The view from a promontory is of rocky cliffs rising from a curving, fertile, beach-fringed bay, and of a series of crags jutting up out of the water like stepping stones to a hopef Read Full Story at Variety.com →

Denis Cote: How to Get Ahead in the Independent Film World (EXCLUSIVE)

By Leo Barraclough

Canadian filmmaker Denis Cote has won multiple awards at top festivals, including Berlin with "Vic + Flo Saw a Bear" and Locarno for "Curling." This week he has been mentoring a group of student filmmakers at the Karlovy Vary Film Fest