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INSIDE Official Selection: All about the 12 contenders English Section, page 2 Fest opener: Diagnosing The Big Sick English Section, page 3 New trailer: Josef Somr breaks the ice English Section, page 4 Photo: Petr Hloušek
The Crystal Globe winner and Hollywood’s go-to composer for epic tales never knows what will be a smash hit. TRANSLATING FEELINGS INTO MUSIC JAMES NEWTON HOWARD: DIGITAL COMPOSING WORKS BUT ORCHESTRAS ARE THE HOLY GRAIL by Veronika Bednářová something on the piano and say, “this is How does one “write music” for tor and it still can be a movie that just did- Hunger Games, became a global hit. the action, this is where the chariot comes film? n’t work. Then you have to just find How was it composing for her? A soundtrack maestro who has created in and the horses fall down and this is the More often than not I start writing be- something about the movie that you love, Spectacular! Who wouldn’t want to the music for 130 movies, James Newton love scene,” and then the director would fore I’ve seen the movie. I’ve read the that you can attach yourself to because look at Jennifer Lawrence all day? I loved Howard admits it may actually be 132. walk onto the stage and hear it being script, I’ve had conversations with the you have to finish it, you can’t quit. it. I’ve only met her once. I only met her He’s lost count. Among them are such played by a hundred musicians and would director and I get an impression of what Working with a director is a lot like for a minute in a restaurant in Los megahits as Hunger Games, Batman find it entirely unrecognizable and think the colors of the movie might be and a long-term relationship. It’s like a mar- Angeles. I think every composer has to Begins, I Am Legend, Blood Diamond, this isn’t what he thought he was going to what the tone of the movie might be. Is riage. If it’s for better or worse, some- have a crush on the leading lady a little Charlie Wilson’s War, Pretty Woman and get. And then there would be all kinds of it tragic or is it a love story with a posi- times it’s for better and sometimes it’s for bit. If you kind of fall in love with the King Kong. The eight-time Academy problems. So I think the technology is tive end to it? What is the story that worse. leading lady a tiny bit, then you’re going Award nominee will not only accept the a facilitator at the moment. I want to tell? to write beautiful music for her. So I think Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Is it often the case that the biggest that’s what I try and do. Contribution to World Cinema but will Is it easily abused? And then? hits are not what you’d consider your conduct the Czech National Symphony Now you don’t need to be a musician Then I just start improvising, really. most important work? The song from One Fine Day is so in- Orchestra performing his score from to take some samples and connect them I just start writing music before I see the My commercial sensibilities are some- credibly romantic. Where do you al- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in a computer and put a drum machine movie and I record it in a demo form. times way off. Because when I first saw ways find all that emotion? at the opening ceremony tonight. along with it and to an unsophisticated ear Once I get the movie, I take some of these Batman Begins, I thought it was not going I don’t know, I’m such a romantic. I love that can sound very impressive but it ac- demos and I start playing them against the to be a hit. I couldn’t imagine that people women, I love being in love. For a long You say a using a pen gives you hand tually has no content whatsoever. I really movie and some of them work really well would like it because it was so dark and time I think I used to write about love in cramps. Has modern technology love electronic music but the holy grail and some of them don’t. I keep the stuff then of course it was a gigantic hit. It’s a way as if I didn’t have love in my life and changed the way you work? for me is always the orchestra because that works and I kind of go on like a little very true that the things for instance that I imagined what it was like. Now I have Directors now have an expectation that you can’t fake it as an orchestra. You have inchworm. I’ve been nominated for, Academy a great love in my life so now I write about they can hear the entire score in a mock- human beings playing your notes. It’s not Awards, are not necessarily what I think that. But I feel like I have great sympathy up version or in a demo form before they a sample of some other collective that al- Does it ever happen that you com- are my best work. for other people’s feelings. And maybe have to commit to go onto a scoring stage. ready succeeded and you’re then borrow- pose music for a film you don’t like? that is the thing that I’m good at, that I’m For me that’s very helpful. Back in the old ing and using. I have faith that good mu- Yes. You can start off with a great The song “The Hanging Tree,” per- able to understand what people are feeling days, perhaps a composer would play sic will prevail. script, with a great cast, with great direc- formed by Jennifer Lawrence in The and translate it into music. z SEE YOU THERE EXPLAINER
KVIFF ARTISTIC KAREL OCH DIRECTOR OPENING NIGHT GOES HORRORSHOW The 52nd KVIFF This year marks I´ve been literally obsessed with the Liberami screens today at 1pm (Congress will be launched with another significant Italian documentary Liberami ever Hall), July 1 at 7:30pm (Husovka Theatre), a gala opening cere- benchmark, as it will since I watched its unfinished version July 4 at 1pm (Národní dům), and July 7 at mony in which the be the first time in the more than a year ago. This extraordi- 3:30pm (Small Hall). A Man of Integrity design, scenography ceremony’s history nary depiction of the world of exor- shows today at 4pm (Pupp), July 1 at and choreography it has featured the cism in contemporary Sicily is very in- 4:30pm (Lázně III), July 5 at 4pm (Pupp), will once again be accompaniment of tense, yet not without humor. Do not and July 7 at 12:30pm (Čas). z put together by team the Karlovy Vary leave before the final credits, unless of brothers Michal Symphony Orchestra. you do not want to hear Ryan and Šimon Caban. Caban cited the Gosling´s band performing the excep- For a festival devoted vast improvement of tional track “Lose Your Soul.” One of to film it is only nat- the orchestra since my favorite films from Cannes is ural that the opening 2015 under the A Man of Integrity by a renowned ceremony be particu- leadership of new Iranian master Mohammad Rasoulof, larly cinematic. chief conductor Jan who delivers his original take on the Michal Caban says Kučera, the reason classical story of a man against the cor- that they wanted to use the horror genre phere of a silent film. "But the most im- they are now part of the program. So rupt system, visually simply breathtak- for the first time and that they were portant thing is that it's a good show," go get your seat and get ready for a true ing. Miss at your own peril! (WT) aiming for the strong visual atmos- he says. cinematic spectacle. (MS) z strana 2 / page 2 FESTIVAL DAILY Friday, June 30, 2017
OFFICIAL SELECTION MAIN COMPETITION: NEW VOICES AND MORE DEBUTS
by Will Tizard needs some aspect that distin- guishes it and for us it’s always The main event at KVIFF, the been Central/Eastern European Official Selection race—perhaps countries. At the end of the day because it’s the most closely I’m really happy that the produc- watched section, often with the ers and filmmakers want to come power to establish a budding film- – or come back – to Karlovy Vary maker’s career—is composed of because they know most of the in- 12 films that reflect a host of fac- dustry and the journalists, along tors. with the audience, are coming to Established festivals feel an ob- see films from just this area.” ligation to help audiences discov- Other films capturing a strong er new talent but also to give them sense of place this year are: access to veteran directors whose Russia’s entry, Arrhythmia by work is already well-loved by au- Boris Khlebnikov; Romania’s diences, says KVIFF Artistic Breaking News by Iulia Rugină; Director Karel Och. the Israel-Germany co-production The number of films submitted, The Cakemaker by Ofir Raul traditionally in the hundreds, is Graizer; the Slovakia-Ukraine growing by leaps and bounds, he film The Line by Peter Bebjak; adds, with new directors’ work and Turkish entry More by Onur making up an ever-increasing Saylak. portion. Many Official Selection films, “I’m happy that half of the especially in this group, take on films are debuts,” says Och. contemporary social justice issues “We’ve been focusing for years and tensions fueled by the refugee now on supporting young, up- crisis among other hot-button and-coming filmmakers. It does- subjects – often with fresh per- n’t mean these are immature ef- Photo: KVIFF spectives from characters at eye- forts – these are very mature and Men Don’t Cry: No Balkanization in the Crystal Globe race. level we don’t often hear much accomplished works by first-time about. filmmakers.” genocide, Birds are Singing in time around. “We always save soldiers coming to terms with the Selection is strongly focused on This year’s Czech-Slovak en- Och is also happy to see the re- Kigali. one or two slots for very late in Balkan War. the former East Bloc, KVIFF try, Little Crusader by Václav turn of seasoned filmmakers, George Ovashvili, the Georgian the spring, mainly during the “It’s a film that has a lot of does try to bring in work from Kadrnka, features Karel Roden as such as Joanna Kos-Krauze, the director/writer whose moody film Cannes film festival in case we emotions,” says Och. “It has a lot around the world as much as pos- the knight Bořek in a visually rich Polish screenwriter and director set on shifting borderlands, Corn see someone and get a last-minute of anger in it; it shakes you as sible. adaptation of a Jaroslav Vrchlický who won the Crystal Globe, the Island, won the main KVIFF submission,” he says. a spectator immediately. It’s very “I wonder if I should be happy poem. festival’s main prize, in 2005 for prize in 2014, is also back with That benefitted the fest this deep, thoughtful, smart and so- or unhappy about it,” says Och, Two films from the West, My Nikifor with her husband Khibula, another feature that year with the discovery of Alen phisticated at the same time.” noting that just one competing France’s Corporate by Nicolas Krzysztof Krauze, a Polish cine- draws strongly on the rough, Drljević’s Men Don’t Cry, The film is also likely to gener- film has traveled from deep with- Silhol and US entry Keep the matographer and actor who died mountainous settings of his native a Bosnia-Herzegovina/Slovenia/ ate “a strong response” because it in Asia, Karma Takapa’s Ralang Change by Rachel Israel, both of cancer in 2014. Having fin- Georgia. Croatia/Germany co-production touches all the countries that once Road, the story of rough-and- weigh in on the ultimate price of ished their latest film on her According to Och, one useful featuring top actors from through- made a unified country, he adds. ready village life in India’s cynicism – and the choice to pri- own, she will be screening the strategy his team has adopted out the former Yugoslavia por- While the geographic spread of Sikkim province. oritize the appearance of success story based on the Rwandan over the years paid off well this traying the country’s one-time nations represented in the Official But, says Och, “Every festival over morality. z MYSTERY SPOTS ON THE TOWN IAN WILLOUGHBY, NCC AND RADIO PRAGUE JOURNALIST THE FEISTY GEYSER
by Kateřina Kadlecová famous but posed a great hazard – And now for the competition: along with fires in 1604 and 1759 Vřídlo is usually peaceful and quiet, Karlovy Vary has seen murder. and floods in 1582, 1821 and 1890 – as was beautifully described by the Fire. Deadly plagues and killers. to the construction and development 15th century Czech humanist And the spa itself at a certain point in the town. It used to be surround- Bohuslav Hasištejnský. If you are in its history did not cure, but rather ed by a respectful, even reverential the first person to come to the scalded, corroded and burned skins. circular area because buildings Festival Daily offices on the second Some of the town’s eeriest spots will erected nearby were not considered floor of the Thermal and recite the be the subject of our new regular safe. Any building that dared to go first two verses of his Ode to Vřídlo section including a contest for free up too close was shaken and occa- and tell us at which promenade and tickets to mystery movies. sionally swept away by the feral where exactly our readers can find it Vřídlo. Houses around the spring we will give you two tickets to Our first spot is Vřídlo, the largest were destroyed by explosions in a movie whose title shall remain thermal spring in town and, inciden- 1809, 1723, 1713 and certainly be- a mystery. tally, the most unnerving one. Its fore. After each blast, Vřídlo would Because who wouldn’t want to water may be beneficial in the treat- often disappear for days. As a result, see Terminator 2: Judgment Day ment of stomach, kidney, gall blad- local women in the 18th century had 3D on July 2 at midnight in the der and liver diseases, but – as our nowhere to do their washing and Thermal Small Hall? We certainly Photo: Petr Horník ancestors knew and we can happily blanch slaughtered livestock. would. the town’s glory days. My own first visit was The first recorded attempts at reg- The source of images and infor- Velkopopovická pivnice Orion $$ forget, thanks to modern technology during my first Vary in 2002, on the recommen- ulating the 73°C spring date back to mation for this section is Zmizelé Petřín 10 and special care – it often explodes, dation of a then elderly and now long-deceased the 1670s. Since then springs on the Karlovy Vary (Vanished Karlovy Open Mon-Sat noon – 10pm specifically when it gets clogged up Prague colleague; I always think of her when with aragonite, a crystal form of cal- right bank of the Teplá river have Vary), a book, long out of print, writ- How we discovered it is lost in the mists of I see the little golden elephant perched on the cium carbonate. Yes, this actually been brought under control and little ten by the Czech social and political time, but our team have been going at least once front of the building. happened. houses and promenades were built scientist Lukáš Novotný and pub- a year to the restaurant Velkopopovická pivnice Vřídlo made Karlovy Vary world around them. lished by Paseka. z Orion (pictured above) for ages and I can vouch for its relatively friendly service, great cold Bokovka $$$$ Kozel beer and superior Czech pub grub a la Divadlo Husovka, Husovo náměstí 2 roast duck. But perhaps the best thing about the Open Mon-Sun 11am – late place is that it’s such a long distance from the Bokovka is the Czech translation of the movie Thermal – it really is quite a hike – that an hour title Sideways and the Vary one is the pop-up sis- or two spent there invariably represents a high- ter establishment to a Prague wine bar and ly refreshing break from the constant buzz of the eatery of the same name. But alongside its ex- festival. Honestly, yours is likely to be the only cellent víno, Bokovka (co-launched by director table where anybody is wearing an orange lan- Jan Hřebejk) has for several years chiefly stood yard. out as the venue of many of KVIFF’s liveliest parties. After a long day in screening halls or Café Elefant $$$ clammy offices there is nothing better than join- Stará Louka 30 ing scores of other revelers in its yard space – Open Mon-Sun 10am – 8pm which boasts an old school, slightly rustic vibe This Viennese-style café has some old world – beneath the stars. z charm and serves passable cakes, coffee and ice cream. It’s located near the Pupp end of the $ – Inexpensive colonnade and has outdoor seating so is also $$ – Moderate a great place for a spot of people watching. They $$$ – Expensive Photo: Zmizelé Karlovy Vary repro Photo: Zmizelé Karlovy Vary say that the likes of Goethe, Beethoven and $$$$ – Very expensive Vřídlo in the course of time. Take a walk to see what the tamed spring looks like today. Empress Elisabeth of Austria enjoyed its fare in $$$$$ – If you have to ask...
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THE BIG SICK: A SMART, FUNNY DAILY RANT AND RELEVANT FEST OPENER CERISE HOWARD, FESTIVAL DAILY WRITER THROUGH by Will Tizard THE CZECH Laughs, tears and taking on one of the most hot-button issues in American society – LOOKING GLASS that’s all this year’s KVIFF opening film, The Big Sick, delivers. World peace will KVIFF regulars might scoff when have to wait for next summer, it seems. I mention I’ve been to Karlovy Vary But audiences aren’t likely to complain annually only since 2013, although much, if responses by the likes of Rolling I tend to get more kudos when Stone are to be believed (The Big Sick “isn't I mention I’m a Kiwi. But it’s when just the funniest romcom in ages… It is one I mention that I’m the co-founding of 2017's best films.”) Artistic Director of a Czech and Directed by Michael Showalter, it pre- Slovak Film Festival in Australia, miered at Sundance and was picked up by that people really look perplexed. ed Mezipatra, the fabulous Czech Amazon Studios in a splashy $12 million Well, let me offer a little explana- queer film festival, five times, vari- deal. Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes tory backstory. ously as a critic, juror, interviewee and ranked by Variety as one of 13 films of As a cinema studies student in and moderator, and have racked up the year that are contenders for an Oscar, the Melbourne in the early ‘90s, I was engagements with the Finále Plzeň, feature debut for “Silicon Valley” actor and blown away by the work of the bril- One World and FebioFest. standup comic Kumail Nanjiani must be do- liant Czech surrealist animator and This country’s film folk have been ing something right. Photo KVIFF filmmaker Jan Švankmajer. The un- kind to me. Two years ago, the ge- So thought producer Judd Apatow when Kumail Nanjiani’s breakout comedy overcomes both prejudice and cliches. settling and wholly original imagery nius who first piqued my interest in he first heard its love story, based on and sensibility in short films like Czech cinema and culture – Jan Nanjiani’s real-life encounter with Emily, the quite like Nanjiani’s story. “I thought it was ments that speak volumes about the experi- Jabberwocky and Dimensions of Švankmajer himself – kindly gave woman he would later marry – only after re- incredible – I’ve never heard of falling in ence of being Muslim in America these days. Dialogue transfixed me and filled me a personal guided tour of his stu- alizing she was his true love while she was in love with someone while they’re in a coma. Even the discussion of dating a white girl, me with romantic notions of what dios, where I saw countless marvels a medically induced coma. It was not only true and it was also so heart- as Nanjiani breaks the news to his brother in magical places Prague and the Czech of his and his late wife’s design, The film follows their fumbling relation- felt – and it was set in the world of standup a diner, prompts the comic to calm other cus- Republic might be. including sculptural works-in- ship as it rapidly runs head-on into her sud- comics, which has always fascinated me.” tomers with an “It’s OK – we hate terrorists.” Flash forward 15 years and, out of progress, some doubtless to grace his den, life-threatening illness and the dilemma Producer Barry Mendel was also So it goes when a Pakistani man raises his the blue, I receive an invitation, rep- long-awaited next feature film, of Nanjiani’s double life. awestruck. “Our jaws were just on the floor. voice in public. Even in Chicago. resenting Melbourne-based online Insects. And just last week I was Raised in a conservative Muslim family, We came out of the meeting and, even The film’s deft handling of xenophobia film journal Senses of Cinema, to at- gifted an interview with Václav where he’s expected to accept an arranged though Kumail wasn’t a big star yet, Judd and the general ignorance about Islam in the tend an animation festival in the Vorlíček, a real joy after presenting marriage, he finds he has to keep his standup and I both looked at each other and said ‘this States could hardly be more relevant – yet Czech Republic. I, who had never Who Wants to Kill Jessie? and Three comedy career quiet – and his love for Emily is an incredible story, we’ve got to do it.’” The Big Sick never devolves into lecturing – travelled outside of Australasia, was Hazelnuts for Cinderella to delight- secret. Telling his parents he’s planning on Mendel called the tale “gut-wrenching and even as it sends up Nanjiani’s floundering at- being summoned to the land of ed audiences in Melbourne last year. law school and keeping up the appearance of funny and challenging and beautiful, which tempts to build cultural bridges via his one- Švankmajer for an animation festi- Now, after attending four KVIFFs going off to pray seems to make everyone is everything we all want movies to be that man show side project that forces audiences val. How could I refuse? as a critic, FIPRESCI juror, festival happy, after all. they seldom are. I said I thought we’d be to endure charts showing Pakistan’s main ex- I was thrilled to attend AniFest in director on the lookout for the best Co-written with Nanjiani’s wife, journalist crazy not to throw ourselves into it and Judd ports (cotton and concrete) before Emily fi- the fairytale town of Třeboň in South new Czech and Slovak films, and as Emily Gordon, the tale blends reality, com- felt the same.” nally pushes him to reveal something more Bohemia in 2008 and a year later, an interviewee for Festival Daily, edy and incisive social statement with re- The relationship, Emily’s startling recov- personal on stage. I began writing a column in its daily I find myself writing for said publi- markable aplomb. ery, and Nanjiani’s touchingly painful strug- It’s your story people need to hear, she newspaper – shades of things to cation. Which, given all the above, Apatow has said he never heard anything gles as a comic are peppered with little mo- tells him. And she is right. z come. Since then, I have also attend- makes perfect sense. z
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by Cerise Howard whatever shenanigans were anyway. And did not a wise Artistic Director Karel Och and man once posit that “All the Last year’s official festival venerable Artistic Consultant world’s a stage. And all the poster images played with the Eva Zaoralová up to in the back men and women merely play- idea that KVIFF is one long seat of that limousine?). ers”? carnival of intrigue, with scan- Whereas this year several un- Hence, this year’s poster and dalous behaviour abounding known, presumably ordinary concept artwork has a variety and predatory paparazzi poised folk are hiding their visages, by of people masquerading, from to capture it all and splash it holding up photos of famous the shoulders up, as celebrated over front pages everywhere. faces in place of their own. thespians, ranging from icons Well, splash it on billboards If last year’s message seemed of the Czech silver screen and hoardings all around the less that the rich and famous (Rudolf Hrušínský, Olga country, anyway – and on at (and film festival impresarios) Schoberová, Jana Brejchová, least one important front page: have a right to anonymity and Petr Čepek and Aňa that of the catalog for the 51st privacy, a priceless luxury iron- Geislerová), via the timeless edition. ically enjoyed by the poor and cool of Jean-Paul Belmondo, to For 2017, the festival’s regu- ordinary (while suggesting Hollywood legends Harvey lar graphic design team at there’s fun to be had in main- Keitel and Danny DeVito. Studio Najbrt has adopted taining a prurient interest in And, of course, the great something of a twist to last celebrity misbehavior – for the John Malkovich features. After year’s approach. In 2016, to de- ordinary folk, and for the all, since Spike Jonze’s 1999 ny the dreaded paparazzi their celebrities), the message this film, it is he who has most ex- dream shot, a variety of gor- year seems more that anyone emplified the idea that others
Photo: KVIFF geous glamour pusses, includ- can actually be a star. Or at might like to inhabit the life – Josef Somr in a scene from this year’s trailer. ing familiar faces from the KV- least play at being one. indeed, inhabit the body – of IFF team, did their best to Which, it can be argued, is a famous star. For a little while, by Cerise Howard was established across the first their celebrity personas every bit obscure their features (and all that actors do for a living at least. z year’s four trailers. Two starred as much as the festival and its Throughout the festival, film legendary Czechoslovak New most prized trophy. screenings are preceded by one Wave directors, Miloš Forman This year will introduce a 14th of KVIFF’s beloved trademark and Věra Chytilová. The former trailer starring a doyen of the trailers – or “jingles” as they are used his Crystal Globe to pulver- Czech stage and screen, the 2012 often called in the Czech lands. ize some pills while the latter is laureate of the KVIFF Running one to two minutes seen taping an already damaged President’s Award, Josef Somr. apiece, these playful, black-and- globe back together, hoping that The shooting took place during white, short films are often cher- it might perch once more upon one day in the town of Mělník ished every bit as much as the its cobwebbed base. and in Prague. feature presentations which fol- Hollywood actors have also “It was quite last minute, just low them and it’s always a sur- starred from the get-go. In an- eleven days out from the festi- prise as to which one will be pro- other trailer from 2008, the val,” says Ivan Zachariáš, the di- jected ahead of any given Globe is unseen, with a hard- rector of this year’s trailer. When screening. boiled Harvey Keitel making it they finished shooting, Josef The current format and prem- clear to a bartender that he was Somr told him: “This will have ise of the trailers dates back to unimpressed to have had it been the last clapperboard of my the 43rd edition in 2008. In each dropped on his foot. Meanwhile, life,” implying he’s too old. trailer, the recipient of a Crystal in Danny DeVito’s clip the star “But I don’t believe it,” says Globe – KVIFF’s most presti- sleepily tips his prize over to si- Zachariáš. “Mr. Somr was fan- gious award, bestowed annually lence a hotel room’s bedside tastic, happy, in a great mood.” upon personalities deemed to phone. And very shortly we will all have made a great contribution to Since then an equal number of see, intermittently throughout world cinema, whether before international and Czech stars the fest, how Somr’s putative on- the camera or behind it – treats have been profiled, ranging from screen swansong will play out - their prize with comical, some- a spooked Helen Mirren and and whether that good mood he times destructive, irreverence, if a surly John Malkovich to a lech- had on set translates into further not outright disdain. erous Jiří Menzel and a bawdy gleeful mischief at the treasured This impish, mocking tone Zdeněk Svěrák, often sending up Crystal Globe’s expense. z
FACES THREE PICKS FOR TODAY BOYD VAN HOEIJ, FILM CRITIC, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
How can I not recommend COLUMBUS a film by Kogonada, a former film critic? This beautifully Director: Kogonada staged story of an unlikely pla- USA, 2017, 104min tonic friendship between June 30, 9am, Cinema B a Korean-American man (John Cho) in town for a medical emer- gency involving his father and an Modernist small-town marvel understated screenplay – though Boris Khlebnikov Pat Collins David Lowery American girl (Haley Lu that is Columbus, Indiana. This it has both – but something too Richardson) working at a univer- film’s secret weapon is not its rarely seen and discussed in sity library unfolds in the great actors or its intelligent yet films: architecture. The 52nd KVIFF kicks off to- to Find Them, which will be per- Carmen Gray, Barbara day with a slew of guests arriving formed by the Czech National Hollender, Guy Lodge, Dan for the festival's opening. Uma Symphony Orchestra. Actress Fainaru and Edna Fainaru. Irish Leonardo, a blind teenager, falls THE WAY HE LOOKS Thurman will take to the red car- Zuzana Kronerová is coming to director Pat Collins will arrive to in love with the new boy in school pet to accept the Festival introduce the screening of the show his film Song of Granite. in this lighthearted and touching Director: Daniel Ribeiro President’s Award and she will re- newly restored version of The Actor Sherwan Haji arrives to feature debut from Brazilian di- Brazil, 2014, 96min main in town to present a screen- Shop on Main Street as well as the represent Aki Kaurismäki's new rector Daniel Ribeiro. The film June 30, 4.30pm, Husovka Theatre ing of Kill Bill at the Outdoor Czech film Ice Mother, which is in film, The Other Side of Hope, in tackles Leonardo’s desire for in- Cinema on Sunday, July 2nd. the Czech Films 2016–2017 sec- the Horizons section. East of the dependence as part of his emanci- Casey Affleck will also grace the tion. Representing the main com- West greets director Edon pation as a teenager in refreshing- be gay and handicapped but the fullest, which very much in- red carpet to receive the KVIFF petition film Men Don't Cry is the Rizvanolli and cast members ly uncomplicated ways; he might Leonardo is there to live his life to cludes getting a cute boyfriend. President’s Award and will stay to director Alen Drljević, producer Jason de Ridder and Niki present the film A Ghost Story to- Jasmila Žbanić and five Verkaar from the film Unwanted gether with the film's director actors from the film: Ermin as well as actress Jana Plodková Guy de Maupassant’s first nov- A WOMAN’S LIFE David Lowery, also arriving to- Bravo, Sebastian Cavazza, from the Czech film Absence of el, upon which this film is based, day. Composer James Newton Emir Hadžihafizbegović, Boris Closeness and director Ilgar had the original subtitle The Director: Stéphane Brizé Howard will not only be a guest Isaković and Boris Ler. Director Najaf coming with his new Humble Truth, which is also France/Belgium, 2016, 119min at the opening ceremony to re- Boris Khlebnikov is coming to film Pomegranate Orchard. a perfect fit for Stéphane Brizé’s June 30, 7.30pm, Lázně III Cinema ceive the Crystal Globe for present Arrhythmia which is Documentary filmmakers in com- subtle period piece. This film’s Outstanding Artistic Contribution screened in the main competition, petition arriving today include almost-square Academy ratio to World Cinema, but will take too. Film critics who have select- Camilla Magid (Land of suggests visually how the life of many options. Actress Judith ences to empathize with her char- part in the gala itself, conducting ed work for the Six Close the Free) and Maryam the 19th century protagonist-al- Chemla, who plays the lead from acter even as she grows increas- a world premiere of the music Encounters section arriving today Goormaghtigh (Before Summer though the daughter of a baron-is the age of 20 to 47, is a master of ingly bitter about how life has from Fantastic Beasts and Where include Boyd van Hoeij, Ends). z boxed in and didn’t offer that quiet suggestion, helping audi- treated her. z
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