Opening evening on the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival usually lures a prime expertise to just accept the KVIFF President’s Award, on this case Viggo Mortensen, the writer-director-star of his sophomore movie, western “The Dead Don’t Hurt,” co-starring Vicky Krieps, which can open within the Czech Republic on July 4.
Every 12 months KVIFF presents a brand new quick movie on the opening evening ceremony, to function a trailer of types for the pageant. The fundamental protagonist is Oscar-winning actor and producer Benicio del Toro (“Traffic”), recipient of the KVIFF President’s Award in 2022. The quick movie was written and directed by long-time creator of KVIFF trailers Ivan Zachariáš. Del Toro took time without work whereas taking pictures Wes Anderson’s new movie in Berlin to work with Zachariáš, who collaborated on the trailer with cinematographer Jan Velický and editor Filip Malásek, and composed the music.
“We are glad that Benicio del Toro could join the friends of KVIFF who have supported the festival by appearing in our trailer. He thus joins the likes of Casey Affleck, Miloš Forman, Jude Law, Mel Gibson, and Helen Mirren, who have all performed in festival trailers,” mentioned KVIFF’s Executive Director Kryštof Mucha. “It’s not always easy in terms of organization, but the result is a unique series of trailers featuring world-famous personalities that has no equal at any other international festival.”
This 12 months’s 58th KVIFF may also host Oscar-winning director and producer Steven Soderbergh (“Traffic”), who will current two of his movies, “Kafka,” filmed in Prague, starring Jeremy Irons, and “Mr. Kneff,” his 20-minutes shorter re-edited model of the 1991 movie, partly colorized with a brand new soundtrack, that are being proven as a part of the pageant’s “Kafka” retrospective, The Wish to Be a Red Indian: Kafka and Cinema.
British actor Clive Owen can be a particular visitor of this 12 months’s pageant, and can settle for his KVIFF President’s Award on the closing ceremony, the place his movie “Closer” can be proven. Also nabbing a President’s Award is German actor, director, producer, and a number of European Film Award-winner Daniel Brühl (“Inglourious Basterds”), who will current his directorial debut “Next Door.”
The Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director Nicole Holofcener (author of “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”) will attend KVIFF to introduce three movies from her award-winning profession, “Please Give” (2010), stars Oliver Platt and Holofcener’s common collaborator Catherine Keener; romantic comedy “Enough Said” (2013), starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini; and marriage comedy “You Hurt My Feelings” (2023), additionally starring Louis-Dreyfuss.
Also attending with their newest movies are Michel Franco (“Memory”), Juho Kuosmanen (three quick movies “The SIlent Trilogy”), Sergei Loznitsa (documentary “The Invasion”), Rúnar Rúnarsson (Cannes entry “When the Light Breaks”), Daniele Luchetti (“Trust”) and Ti West (A24’s “MaXXXine,” the ultimate instalment in his X trilogy).
European Film Promotion and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will provide an prolonged business programme for the ten individuals chosen for EFP Future Frames. This 12 months’s mentor, Mexico’s Michel Franco, will maintain an unique grasp class on July 2. The program gives a complete expertise for rising filmmakers; after two intensive on-line assembly and pitching days, the individuals will participate in an in depth on-site business programme from June 30 to July 2 at KVIFF, together with unique conferences with the pageant programming workforce and particular person conferences with 4 representatives from UTA and Range Media Partners. They may also subsequently choose one Future Frames director for a scholarship and research journey to Los Angeles. In an unique grasp class, Franco will concentrate on considered one of his early movies, 2012 Cannes entry “After Lucia,” and discover it with the ten rising administrators.
The 2024 Future Frames Selection
Austria: Matthias Krepp | “Strangers in the Night”
Belgium: Marthe Peters | “Baldilocks”
Czech Republic: Marie-Magdalena Kochová | “3 MWh”
Denmark: William Sehested Høeg | “The Complaint”
Germany: Hilke Rönnfeldt | “A Study of Empathy”
Iceland: Anna Maria Joakimsdottir-Hutri | “Who Stands Up for Alvar”
Italy: Emanuela Muzzupappa | “Love’s Servant”
Romania: Bogdan Alecsandru | “If I Float”
Slovakia: Katarína Gramatová | “A Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places”
Spain: Lucía G. Romero | “Cura Sana”
A novel exhibition of images by Czech-Slovak photographer Tono Stano presents well-known in addition to beforehand unseen images of essential KVIFF friends taken over a few years. Some of the well-known folks captured in Stano’s images embody Morgan Freeman, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe, Jude Law, Woody Harrelson, John Malkovich, Scarlett Johansson, and Sharon Stone, amongst others. The exhibition can be open to the general public at some stage in the movie pageant on the Sparkasse Gallery in Karlovy Vary (Divadelní 243/1).
