The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is a film festival held annually in July 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.
The cinema of Russia, popularity known as Mollywood, refers to the film industry in Russia, engaged in production of motion pictures in Russian language. The popular term Mollywood is a portmanteau of "Moscow" and "Hollywood".
Leyli Rashidi is an Iranian actress. As the daughter of Iranian actor and film director Davoud Rashidi, she started acting from early ages of childhood.
The Sound of Trees is a 2015 Canadian film directed by François Péloquin. The film stars Antoine L'Écuyer as Jérémie, a teenager who dreams of escaping his small-town life in the Gaspésie region of Quebec, posing problems in his relationship with his father Régis.
Toni Erdmann is a 2016 German comedy-drama film directed, written and co-produced by Maren Ade. It stars Peter Simonischek and Sandra Hüller.
Collector is a 2016 Russian drama film written and directed by Alexey Krasovsky. The film stars Konstantin Khabensky in the title role, with Ksenia Buravskaya, Polina Agureeva, Darya Moroz, Valentina Lukaschuk, Yevgeny Stychkin, Kirill Pletnyov, Igor Zolotovitsky, Tatyana Lazareva, Alexander Tyutin, Marina Lisovets, Nikita Tyunin providing voices.
Ava is a 2017 internationally co-produced drama film directed and written by Sadaf Foroughi. The Persian-language film screened for the first time in the Discovery section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Discovery Prize and received an Honourable Mention for Best Canadian First Feature Film.
Pascal Plante is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec, whose debut feature film, Fake Tattoos , premiered in 2017.
The Father is a 2019 Bulgarian 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.
Wars is a Canadian drama film, directed by Nicolas Roy and released in 2021. The film stars Éléonore Loiselle as Emma Ducharme, a young military cadet who is sexually assaulted by her commanding officer after they are stationed in Eastern Europe.
The 56th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival took place from July 1 to 9, 2022, in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.
Tanja Björk Ómarsdóttir is an Icelandic actress. She is most noted for her performance as Aðalbjörg in the 2021 film The Noise of Engines , for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.
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.
The Maiden is a 2022 Canadian drama film, written and directed by Graham Foy. The film stars Marcel T. Jiménez as Colton, a teenager coping with his grief after the death of his friend Kyle in an accident, and Hayley Ness as Whitney, a classmate of theirs whose journal Colton finds in the ravine where Kyle died.
Choi Seung-yoon is a South Korean actress and dancer, most noted for her performance as So-Young in the 2022 film Riceboy Sleeps.
Limbo is a 2023 Australian independent mystery-crime film directed by Ivan Sen and starring Simon Baker, Rob Collins, Natasha Wanganeen and Nicholas Hope. The film had its world premiere in competition at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, on 23 February 2023, where it competed for Golden Bear.
Opponent is a 2023 Swedish-Norwegian drama film written and directed by Milad Alami. The film stars Payman Maadi as Iman, an Iranian man who has moved to Sweden as a refugee with his wife Maryam and their daughters Asal and Sahar. A wrestler in Iran before being forced to escape the country, he turns back to the sport in hopes of speeding up his asylum application by trying out for the Swedish national wrestling team, building toward the revelation that the real reason he was forced to leave Iran was that one of his former teammates outed him to the community as a closeted gay man, which carries the penalty of execution in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Blaga's Lessons is a 2023 drama film directed and produced by Stephan Komandarev, who co-wrote it with Simeon Ventsislavov. The film stars Eli Skorcheva as Blaga, a retired schoolteacher in Shumen, who is grieving the recent death of her husband and falls victim to a criminal scam while trying to raise the money to pay for his gravestone.
