Tag: Lara

  • Karlovy Vary Film Festival reveals 2019 winners

    Karlovy Vary Film Festival reveals 2019 winners

    Winners include Bulgarian-Greek comedy ‘The Father’ and Jan-Ole Gerster’s ‘Lara’.Bulgarian-Greek comedy The Father won the Grand Prix – Crystal Globe at the 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 28 – July 6), which closed yesterday with its annual awards ceremony.Scroll down for full list of winnersDirected by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, The Father…

  • How Karlovy Vary Fest Maintains Its Cultural Relevance 30 Years After Velvet Revolution

    How Karlovy Vary Fest Maintains Its Cultural Relevance 30 Years After Velvet Revolution

    In the middle of the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary stands a massive Brutalist building, the Hotel Thermal, which has housed the Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival since the late ’70s.It is here in the Thermal, on one of Europe’s biggest screens, where I have seen movies that rival those debuting at Cannes six…