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The Czech Republic's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has defended its decision to invite a Russian film to its 56th edition, in spite of promises that it would not welcome Russia state-backed films due to the war in Ukraine. Russian directors Natasha Merlulova and Aleksey Chupov's drama Captain Volkonogov Esca…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can unveil a first-look trailer for rising Japanese director Masaaki Kudo's new feature A Far Shore ahead of its world premiere in the main competition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, running July 1-9. The timely contemporary tale taps into themes of gender inequality and female…

This year's 55th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has been postponed from early July to August 20-28, 2021. Organizers cited the ongoing pandemic situation in Czech Republic as the motivating factor for the move. “Moving the festival's dates back by seven weeks will offer the best chance of…

EXCLUSIVE: Organizers of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Central and Eastern Europe’s leading film event, have told us they don’t intend to move off their usual July dates despite the new overlap with Cannes. The Cannes Film Festival this week moved off its traditional May dates to July 6-17. Popular Czech festival…

The popular Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is the latest summer event to cancel due to the coronavirus pandemic. The 55th edition of the Czech event was due to be held July 3 – 11. The festival said the cancellation was necessary “in view of the Czech government's ongoing coronavirus measures and the…

The 54th Karlovy Vary Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled the first titled in its 2019 lineup, featuring 10 world premieres in its competition section including the Hong Khaou’s drama Monsoon starring Crazy Rich Asians‘ Henry Golding and the lone U.S. feature, Martha Stephens’ black-and-white drama To the Stars starring…