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Peter Kerekes' 'Censor' Wins Karlovy Vary's Works in Progress Contest

By Leo Barraclough

"Censor," directed and produced by Peter Kerekes, and written by Ivan Ostrochovsky, has won the 14th edition of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival's Works in Progress competition, which is open to projects from Central and Eastern Europe,


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Karlovy Vary: Films Boutique Kicks Off Sales on 'The Cakemaker,' 'Los Perros' (EXCLUSIVE)

By John Hopewell

Berlin-based Films Boutique, a sales company that is belying its moniker with breakouts such as "Divines" and "On Body and Soul," has kicked off sales on Karlovy Vary Film Festival competition entry "The Cakemaker" and "Los Perros," wh


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Karlovy Vary: Kazakh Emir Baigazin Back to French Arizona for 'The River' (EXCLUSIVE)

By John Hopewell

Kazakh director Emir Baigazin, who burst onto the big fest scene with 2013 debut "Harmony Lessons," is reuniting with its producer, Guillaume de Seille's Paris-based Arizona Films, for "The River." The third feature in Baigazin's Asian


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Film Republic Picks Up Karlovy Vary Competition Title 'The Line' (EXCLUSIVE)

By Leo Barraclough

London-based sales agency Film Republic has picked up the international rights, excluding Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Ukraine, to the Slovak-Ukrainian coproduction "The Line," which has its world premiere in the competition select


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Ken Loach: Europe Should Welcome Refugees, Not Send Them Back

By Will Tizard

In accepting their Crystal Globes at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival on Monday for the remarkable collaboration that produced a dozen films over 21 years, screenwriter Paul Laverty joked that he's not sure how much director Ken Loach ha


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Casey Affleck on Working with Director David Lowery, Rooney Mara on 'A Ghost Story'

By Will Tizard

The creative team behind "A Ghost Story," which received its European premiere at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival this week, has developed a sympatico relationship they intend to return to again, says Oscar-winning actor Casey Affleck,


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Uma Thurman Explains How 'Kill Bill' Role Empowers Women

By Leo Barraclough

Uma Thurman is best known for Quentin Tarantino movies "Pulp Fiction" and "Kill Bill," and during an onstage interview at Karlovy Vary Film Festival on Sunday she spoke of the positive impact the latter film has had on women. "Women wo


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European Digital Initiatives Offer New Paths for Distributing Indie Films

By Peter Caranicas

Hope springs eternal among independent film and documentary producers, and several new European initiatives for distributing their work – all wholly or in part supported by Creative Europe, the European Commission's cultural and


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Movie Artisans Take a Bow at Karlovy Vary Film Festival

By Leo Barraclough

On Sunday Variety, in partnership with the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Barrandov Studio and Czech Anglo Prods., paid tribute to the craft experts whose contribution to movie-making is sometimes over-looked. At a panel discussion at the


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REVIEWS

Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'The Cakemaker'

By Guy Lodge

Pastry dough is far from the only thing that requires — and duly receives — delicate handling in "The Cakemaker."


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Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'Khibula'

By Guy Lodge

George Ovashvili's film takes an unusually, imprecisely poetic approach to historical fact as it recounts the last months in the life of former Georgian president Zviad Gamsakhurdia.


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Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'Arrhythmia'

By Jessica Kiang

A "Blue Valentine"-meets-"ER"-style drama title more remarkable for its lightness of touch than for its social comment or despairing self-examination.


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Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'Requiem for Mrs. J'

By Guy Lodge

A Sahara-dry comedy of abject depression in Serbian suburbia that could play from certain angles as an entirely stern affair.


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Film Review: 'Jeune femme' (Montparnasse Bienvenüe)

By Peter Debruge

In the final shot of "Jeune femme," a brittle yet unbreakable young lady named Julia stares directly into the camera, peering out through two differently colored eyes, one brilliant green, the other hazel. You don't come across such an


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Film Review: 'Fortunata'

By Jay Weissberg

Jasmine Trinca delivers an over-sized, nervy performance but the material is so flawed that it’s hard to truly say whether it’s exceptional acting.


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Film Review: 'In the Fade'

By Jay Weissberg

The excellent first quarter gives way to a standard-issue though handsome legal drama with several stock characters and a script guided by the presumed requirements of mainstream cinema.


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Film Review: Robert Pattinson in 'Good Time'

By Guy Lodge

Those already acquainted with the young oeuvre of Benny and Josh Safdie — the multitasking fraternal auteur duo with a joint eye to the social fringes of New York City — may see the title of their third narrative feature as


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Film Review: 'The Beguiled'

By Owen Gleiberman

Don Siegel's 1971 Civil War drama "The Beguiled," starring Clint Eastwood as a wounded Union soldier hiding out at a girls' boarding school in rural Mississippi, is a quintessential film of the early '70s — and by that, I don't m


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Love Story 'Keep the Change' Challenges Misconceptions About Autism

By Ed Meza

Rachel Israel makes her feature film debut with "Keep the Change," a very different kind of romantic comedy about an unlikely couple. Israel, who serves as an adjunct professor of film at Rhode Island School of Design, spoke to Var


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Rwandan Genocide Film 'Kigali' Warns Against Fearing the 'Other'

By Ed Meza

With "Birds Are Singing in Kigali," Polish directors Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze not only draw parallels between the horrors of war in Rwanda and Poland, but also explore the often violent natural order of the world. Speakin


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Karlovy Vary: Director Ofir Raul Graizer on 'The Cakemaker,' Escaping Button-Holing, and the Beauty of the Zoom

By Emiliano Granada

First features sometimes offer hidden gems beneath as-yet-unpolished language. Not so "The Cakemaker." Even a brief conversation with its director suggests that this is a thoroughly crafted and thought-through debut melding near-docume


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Sofia Coppola: Do Audiences Still Want to Look Through Her Gaze?

By Owen Gleiberman

Is Sofia Coppola ever going to take it to the next level? The answer may be no, and that could be fine. I consider myself a Coppola fan (though I didn't care much for "The Beguiled"), and part of me thinks that she's in the perfect pla


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