The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the largest event of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe, has officially announced the films that will compete for its coveted Crystal Globe Award. The festival, which runs from June 29 to July 7, will host eight world premieres and four international premieres.
One of the films to be screened at the festival is Italian director Marco Tullio Giordana's (The Best of Youth) Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (Romanzo di una strage), about an unsolved terrorist attack in Milan in 1969.
Iranian director Ali Mosaffa will compete with his latest film, The Last Step, starring Leila Hatami of Oscar-winner A Separation.
Acclaimed Polish director Jan Jakub Kolski will compete with his new film, To Kill a Beaver (Zabić bobra), starring Eryk Lubos and Agnieszka Pawelkiewicz.
Also part of the official selection is Mexican director Lucia Carreras' Nos Vemos Papa (Nos vemos, papá). Carreras co-wrote the script for Cannes Camera d'Or winner Leap Year.
In Competition:
The Almost Man / Mer eller mindre mann, Martin Lund Boy Eating the Bird's Food / To agori troi to fagito tou pouliou, Ektoras Lygizos Camion / Camion, Rafaël Ouellet Hay Road / Estrada de Palha, Rodrigo Areias Kamihate Store / Kamihate shoten, Tatsuya Yamamoto La lapidation de Saint Etienne / La lapidation de Saint Etienne, Pere Vilá Barceló The Last Step / Peleh akhar, Ali Mosaffa Nos Vemos Papa / Nos vemos, papá, Lucia Carreras Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy / Romanzo di una strage, Marco Tullio Giordana Polski film / Polski film, Marek Najbrt To Kill a Beaver / Zabić bobra, Jan Jakub Kolski Your Beauty Is Worth Nothing... / Deine Schönheit ist nichts wert... , Hüseyin Tabak
East of the West - Films in Competition:
The Exam / A vizsga, Petér Bergendy Dear Betrayed Friends / Drága besúgott barátaim, Sára Cserhalmi Flower Buds / Poupata, Zdeněk Jiráský House with a Turret / Dom s bashenkoy, Eva Neymann Made in Ash / A do mesta A, Iveta Grófová Mushrooming / Seenelkäik, Toomas Hussar People Out There / Ljudi tam, Aik Karapetian Practical Guide to Belgrade With Singing and Crying / Praktični vodič kroz Beograd sa pevanjem i plakanjem, Bojan Vuletić Shameless / Bez wstydu, Filip Marczewski Somewhere in Palilula / Undeva la Palilula, Silviu Purcărete Yuma / Yuma, Piotr Mularuk
Documentary Films in Competition:
Barbers / Barbeiros, Luiz Ferraz, Guilherme Aguilar The Bella Vista / El Bella Vista, Alicia Cano For You Naked / För dig naken, Sara Broos Hard To Be God / Dur d'etre dieu, Pavel Kostomarov, Antoine Cattin I'm Leaving on Wednesday / I'm Leaving on Wednesday, Clara Bodén Kichot / Kichot, Jagoda Szelc The Little Team / L' equip petit, Roger Gómez, Dani Resines Our Days, Absolutely, Have to Be Enlightened / Nos jours, absolument, doivent etre illuminés, Jean-Gabriel Périot Polish Illusions / Polish Illusions, Jacob Dammas, Helge Renner Private Universe / Soukromý vesmír, Helena Třetíková The Queen of Versailles / The Queen of Versailles, Lauren Greenfield Sofia's Last Ambulance / Poslednata lineika na Sofia, Ilian Metev A Story for the Modlins / A Story for the Modlins, Sergio Oksman This Ain't California / This Ain't California, Marten Persiel Trains of Thoughts / Trains of Thoughts, Timo Novotny
Forum of Independents:
Death of a Man in the Balkans / Smrt čoveka na Balkanu, Miroslav Momčilović Fair Sex / Les manèges humains, Martin Laroche In a Bedroom / W sypialni, Tomasz Wasilewski Inside / Vast, Rolf van Eijk Leave Me Like You Found Me / Leave Me Like You Found Me, Adele Romanski Love Me Not / Love Me Not, Gilitte Pik Chi Leung The Miscreants / Les Mécréants, Mohcine Besri Noor / Noor, Cagla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti Noseland / Noseland, Aleksey Igudesman Oh Boy! / Oh Boy!, Jan Ole Gerster Vacuum / Vacuum, Giorgio Cugno Wherever You Go / Lean She'at Nosaat, Rony Sasson
