The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The Karlovy Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the world and has become Central and Eastern Europe's leading film event.
Crystal Globe is the main award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, first given in the Czech Republic city of Karlovy Vary in 1948.
Ali Mosaffa is an Iranian actor and filmmaker.
Mark Cousins is an English-born, Northern Irish director and writer. A prolific documentarian, among his best-known works is the 15-hour 2011 documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey.
Amir El-Masry is an Egyptian-British actor. He won a Scottish BAFTA for his performance in the film Limbo (2020) and was nominated for a British Independent Film Award. He was named a 2020 BAFTA Breakthrough Brit and a 2021 Screen International Star of Tomorrow.
Rory Fleck Byrne is an Irish actor and composer, known for Vampire Academy (2014), Harlots, The Foreigner and This Is Going to Hurt (2022).
Mogul Mowgli is a 2020 drama film directed by Bassam Tariq, and written by Tariq and Riz Ahmed. It stars Ahmed and features Aiysha Hart, Alyy Khan, Sudha Bhuchar, Nabhaan Rizwan, and Anjana Vasan. It tells the story of a British-Pakistani rapper who is struck down by a disease.
Monsoon is a 2019 British drama film, written and directed by Hong Khaou and produced by Tracy O'Riordan. It stars Henry Golding, Parker Sawyers, David Tran and Molly Harris.
Mawaan Rizwan is a Pakistani-born British actor and comedian who began his career as a YouTuber. He created and starred in the BBC Three comedy Juice (2023). He won a British Academy Television Award for his performance, in addition to receiving writing nominations.
Limbo is a 2020 British comedy-drama film, directed by Ben Sharrock. The film centres on four asylum seekers who are staying on a remote island in Scotland, and taking cultural awareness classes, while awaiting the processing of their refugee claims.
The Father is a 2019 Bulgarian-Greek comedy-drama film directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov. The film premiered at the 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival where it won the Crystal Globe award for best film. It was selected as the Bulgarian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Nabhaan Rizwan is a British actor known for crime drama Informer, his supporting roles in The Accident and 1917, and the miniseries Station Eleven. More recently, he portrays Dionysus in the 2024 series Kaos.
You Have to Come and See It is a 2022 Spanish film written and directed by Jonás Trueba. It stars Itsaso Arana, Vito Sanz, Francesco Carril and Irene Escolar.
Ramona is a 2022 Spanish independent comedy film written and directed by Andrea Bagney in her feature film directorial debut which stars Lourdes Hernández as the title character alongside Bruno Lastra and Francesco Carril. It is primarily shot in black and white.
The Echo is a 2023 Mexican-German docufiction film directed by Tatiana Huezo. The film, which also includes fictional elements, portrays the children of an isolated village "El Echo", in the Mexican highlands. The film is co-produced by Germany, and was selected to receive its world premiere in the Encounters section of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, on 17 February 2023. On December 7, it appeared in the eligible list for consideration of Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film for the 96th Academy Awards.
Dope Girls is an upcoming six-part historical drama television series based on the nonfiction book Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground (1992) by Marek Kohn, developed by Bad Wolf in association with Sony Pictures Television for BBC One.
Club Zero is a 2023 dark comedy thriller film, directed and produced by Jessica Hausner, from a screenplay by Hausner and Géraldine Bajard. It stars Mia Wasikowska, Mathieu Demy, Elsa Zylberstein, Amir El-Masry and Sidse Babett Knudsen. The film was an international co-production between companies in Austria, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Denmark.
The Girls Are Alright is a 2023 Spanish drama film written and directed by Itsaso Arana in her directorial debut film. It stars Arana, Bárbara Lennie, Irene Escolar, Itziar Manero, and Helena Ezquerro.
Omen is a 2023 drama film written and directed by Belgian-Congolese director Baloji. Starring Marc Zinga, Lucie Debay and Eliane Umuhire, it premiered at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section on 23 May 2023, where it won the New Voice Prize.
Assaf Amir is an Israeli filmmaker and television and film producer, former chairman of The Israeli Producers Association and the current chairman of The Israeli Academy of Film and Television.
