This year’s 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will host actor-director Viggo Mortensen. At the festival’s opening ceremony, Mortensen will receive the Festival President’s Award and also present his film The Dead Don’t Hurt, which he wrote and directed.
TO BE PRESENTED TO VIGGO MORTENSEN
THE KARLOVY VARY FILM FESTIVAL WELCOMES DIRECTOR STEVEN SODERBERGH
This year’s 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will play host to Oscar-winning director and producer Steven Soderbergh. The internationally respected filmmaker will be in town to present two of his films, Kafka and Mr. Kneff, which are being shown as part of the festival’s Kafka retrospective, The Wish to Be a Red Indian: Kafka and Cinema.
Festival audiences will have the unique chance to see both films presented in person by their creator, who is known to only rarely accept invitations to such events.
ACTOR CLIVE OWEN TO RECEIVE KVIFF PRESIDENT'S AWARD
British actor Clive Owen, recipient of a Golden Globe, a BAFTA award, and a nomination for an Oscar, will be a special guest of this year’s festival. At the closing ceremony of the 58th KVIFF, Owen will be presented the KVIFF President’s Award.
On the occasion of Clive Owen receiving the KVIFF President’s Award, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will show the award-winning Closer, which was released twenty years ago.
DANIEL BRÜHL TO RECEIVE KVIFF PRESIDENT'S AWARD
Actor, director, producer, and multiple European Film Award-winner Daniel Brühl will be a guest of this year’s 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where he will also receive the KVIFF President’s Award.
On the occasion of receiving the KVIFF President’s Award, Daniel Brühl will present his directorial debut Next Door.
KVIFF'S TRIBUTE TO NICOLE HOLOFCENER, RENOWNED FILM DIRECTORS IN TOWN
The Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director Nicole Holofcener will attend KVIFF to introduce three films from her award-winning career, while Michel Franco, Juho Kuosmanen, Sergei Loznitsa, Rúnar Rúnarsson, Daniele Luchetti, and Ti West will present their latest films to Karlovy Vary audiences.
MICHEL FRANCO TO MENTOR PARTICIPANTS OF THIS YEAR’S FUTURE FRAMES PROGRAM
European Film Promotion and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival are delighted to offer an extended industry programme for the ten participants selected for EFP FUTURE FRAMES. This year’s mentor, award-winning Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco, will hold an exclusive master class on 2 July. Thanks to the renewed support of the multinational lottery operator Allwyn and collaboration with American talent agency UTA and Range Media Partners, the programme provides a comprehensive experience for the emerging filmmakers.
TRAILER FOR THIS YEAR'S KARLOVY VARY IFF TO STAR BENICIO DEL TORO
The main protagonist of the new trailer for the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is Oscar-winning actor and producer Benicio del Toro, recipient of the KVIFF President’s Award in 2022. The short film, which will have its premiere at the festival’s opening ceremony, was written and directed by long-time creator of KVIFF trailers Ivan Zachariáš.
58TH EDITION OF THE FESTIVAL TO OPEN WITH "THE DEAD DON'T HURT"
The multifaceted Viggo Mortensen not only stars in The Dead Don’t Hurt (2023) but also directed the film, wrote the screenplay, and composed the soundtrack.
BRITISH BAND KOSHEEN TO PERFORM AT THE OPENING CONCERT
On 28 June 2024, popular British band Kosheen will perform in front of the Hotel Thermal as part of the opening concert of the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The concert will be free for the public.
This year Kosheen and singer Sian Evans celebrate twenty-five years on the music scene. The band, which thanks to previous concerts in the Czech Republic has a strong fan base in the country, will perform the greatest hits from its repertoire.
STARS BY TONO STANO
This unique exhibition of photographs by Czech-Slovak photographer Tono Stano presents well-known as well as previously unseen photographs of important guests of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, taken over the course of many years. Some of the famous people captured in Stano’s photographs include Morgan Freeman, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe, Jude Law, Woody Harrelson, John Malkovich, Scarlett Johansson, and Sharon Stone, among others. The exhibition will be open to the public for the duration of the film festival at the Sparkasse Gallery in Karlovy Vary (Divadelní 243/1).
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