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INSIDE Official Selection: The Teacher, The Next Skin English Section, page 2 Amazon’s Ted Hope returns to KVIFF English Section, page 3 East of the West, and actress Adriana Urgate English Section, page 4 Photo: Milan Malíček

Ged Doherty says he got into the film business to make films about important subjects, and finds that the industry still has a lot to learn MAKING A FILM IS A MINOR MIRACLE GED DOHERTY, CO-FOUNDER OF RAINDOG FILMS WITH , ON THE FILM AND MUSIC BUSINESSES

Michael Stein whoever it might be – and then I got into where all the money is spent on the mar- more about. In the case of Eye in the Sky, your projects helped attract others to the music business for 30 years. I wanted keting leading up to the opening weekend it was drone warfare, because there was your future projects? After 30 years in music, Manchester na- to go into something completely different of that film, and often a lot of films won’t still very little in the news about drones Oh, very much so! We’ve never an- tive Ged Doherty was looking for a new but also something involving a team. I en- be in the theater in three weeks’ time. To then. In the case of our second film, nounced our company. We’ve never done challenge. So he called up longtime friend joy putting teams together, and to me that spend all that money to get only a small Loving, about an interracial relationship, any interviews. This is the first interview Colin Firth and they decided to start a pro- was exactly the same. You need to find percentage of the audience who can actu- it’s also more than ever a very timely sub- I’ve ever done. We like to let our work duction company, now called Raindog a good script then put the right team ally see it at that time, then the only op- ject in the world about relationships be- speak for ourselves. And we think that by Films. Their first film was the British around it; that’s what I enjoy doing. tion if it’s not available on Amazon or tween human beings who just happen to choosing the right projects and putting the thriller Eye in the Sky (2015) starring Netflix, iTunes, or whatever the platform have a different color of skin. right talent around it that will attract the about military personnel What are the big differences between may be, then the person has to wait four right talent – writers, directors, actors – facing legal, ethical, and political dilem- the film and music businesses? months to see it. They can’t remember Is it hard to balance the social aspect and it seems to be working. z mas presented by modern drone warfare Well, that’s an excellent question. How anything about it. Then you have to mar- with making commercial films? against terrorists, and civilians endangered honest do you want me to be? (laughs) ket it all over again. It’s a lost opportuni- To run a business, you mean? (laughs) by it. In his first interview since entering The difference obviously is the scale and ty. I’d rather pay to see a movie right Yes, it’s extremely challenging. And film, he talks about Raindog’s mission, speed of things. Film is so unbelievably when it comes out. In the music business, we’ve been extremely fortunate. We’ve how the biz should learn from the music slow. In music, you and I could be in a bar you’d get a song on the radio and you had very good partners, a German-Swiss KVIFF TALKS industry’s mistakes, and the minor mira- tonight and find a band.... and six months couldn’t buy it for eight weeks because it company called Silver Reel is supporting cle of a finished film. after finding them, you’re starting to build was all about advanced promotion, [so] us to make the sort of films we want to an audience, to build awareness. In film, you’d drive your consumers to piracy. make and in establishing a plan. And now CHARLIE KAUFMAN You started out in the music business. you’d have had two meetings in those six Now as soon as you hear music on the ra- we’re trying to figure out how to take that Why did you get into film? months. I also think the film industry has dio you can buy it – stream it, download to the next chapter. But, yes, it is a chal- Oscar-winning screenwriter and di- I was in the music business from the age learned absolutely nothing from [the dec- it, whatever. In the film business, you lenge. How any film ever gets made is rector Charlie Kaufman known for com- of 16 when I was playing in bands. I was imation of] the music business. can’t. a miracle, because something can go plex stories such as Being John a drummer, but by the time I was 18 I re- wrong at any minute. So I’ve nothing but Malkovich, Adaptation, and Eternal alized I was terrible – but I love music, so What is the film biz doing wrong? Did you and Colin Firth create respect for anybody who’s ever put a film Sunshine of the Spotless Mind will sit I became a promoter. This was when punk The audience wants their content when Raindog Films to make a particular together. It’s a minor miracle. down with the audience today at 2pm exploded in 1977, so I booked all the big they want it, from the device they want it, kind of film? at Vodafone Lounge. Scott Feinberg of punk bands of the day – Siouxsie And The now. They don’t want to wait four or five We wanted to make films about a sub- Have Raindog’s social priorities and The Hollywood Reporter is hosting the Banshees, The Damned, The Adverts, months. It seems to me there’s a model ject or matter that people should know all the talent you’ve already brought to KVIFF Talk. z SEE YOU THERE EXPLAINER

DIRECTOR CLOSE RELATIONS, HIDDEN FACES EXPOSE ANTI-SELFIE THEME VITALY MANSKY UNDER THE SUN In sharp contrast to the posters of last idea of Hollywood celebrities attending I’m recommending two films linked to the year’s KVIFF, which had smiling film KVIFF, but she also designed graphics documentary genre: the first one, Zoology, is fans posing for full-on portraits, the inspired by newspapers and magazines a fiction film entirely. Its author, Ivan theme chosen by Studio Najbrt for this from the ’60s and ’70s. It was their col- I. Tverdovsky, began as a documentary film- year is celebrities trying to hide their league Michal Nanoru who insisted that maker, and I even was his opponent for his dis- faces from the pesky paparazzi. the celebs’ faces remain hidden. sertation. He won the main prize at Artdocfest. The “anti-selfie” theme is in fact a di- In all, hundreds of photos were taken, His docs are provocative, so perhaps the provo- rect comment on how we document our out of which around 40 were selected cation of reality has become too tight a space for own lives in the digital age as well as together with festival president Jiří him, so he resorted to provocative inventions. those of luminaries.“We live in an era Bartoška, whose most important criteri- The other is The Land of the Enlightened by where a lot happens just for the sake of walking, snacking... We want to bring on was authenticity. Pieter-Jan De Pue. He spent seven years in the cameras,” studio head Aleš Najbrt the god-like celebrities to our level as Najbrt, who has worked for KVIFF Afghanistan and made up a fictional story, says. they flee through the backdoor or shop on festival visuals since 1995, didn’t re- which he placed into the documentary world. “It’s normal to turn the cameras on in their sweatpants, so that we feel clos- veal the names of the glitterati appear- The film is about an army of children who want ourselves and ask not just our family er to them as we publish our own shop- ing in the posters, but he did admit that to take down Kabul and build a happier world – circles but also the vast unknown public ping photos,” he says. they are connected to the festival and this only happens in fiction films, while this is for their approval. We’re the stylists of Zuzana Lednická, the creator of the don’t need camera exposure to get a documentary. (HG) z our own media events: running, dog- design, has returned to the recurring recognition. (HG) z strana 2 / page 2 FESTIVAL DAILY Monday, July 4, 2016

OFFICIAL SELECTION OFFICIAL SELECTION THE NEXT SKIN – THE RETURN THE TEACHER – HIGH STAKES DRAMA OF THE QUESTIONABLE SON IN A COMMUNIST-ERA CLASSROOM Photo: KVIFF Photo: KVIFF Sergei López and Àlex Monner face off in an unconventional reunion Jan Hřebejk’s classroom drama pits families against petty corruption

Michael Stein The creative duo of Laceusta Next Skin would ultimately ex- Brian Kenety though she’s a Communist offi- fight over which path to take. and Campos begin writing their plore. cial, it’s not the parents’ loyalty to “Our boy will pay!,” she responds. When a teenage boy is brought screenplay in 2005 for actress “Some of the subjects which The year is 1983. The setting, the party she’s interested in but “He’ll have a f**ked-up life, back to his mother after having Emma Suárez (who also feature’s fascinated us before are still in the Slovak capital. The atmos- rather what possible use they can working factory shifts!”) disappeared from home in in Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta, the film: the self-deception, the phere, a mix of complacency and be to her – the widow of a soldier, Though specific to a time and Spain’s Pyrenees mountains eight screening in KVIFF’s Horizons uncertain family ties, the need to fear. as she constantly reminds anyone place, the story is a universal por- years earlier, instead of warm section), knowing that she would be unconditionally loved, the The Teacher is the latest drama who will listen, bravely trying to trayal of what Václav Havel called feelings and closure there is sus- play Ana, the desolate mother fragility upon which the identity by director Jan Hřebejk and make it on her own. “the power of the powerless.” The picion, self-doubt, hostility and who had lost her son. and the wish to become another screenwriting partner Petr Concerned about the school exchanges between the bold and a sense that delving into the past Like the character Ana, person is based,” say the film- Jarchovský to portrays indignities performance of their children, sheepish parents make for a kind is more dangerous than you think. though, they too were missing makers; what changed was the and injustices endured by every- most parents succumb to the pres- of high courtroom drama – in- Yet The Next Skin, directed and the son that would be the center- idea of making a film not “of top- day people during the so-called sure Mrs. Drazděchová puts on spired by true events – although scripted by Isaki Laceusta and Isa piece of their film. “We needed ics but of characters.” “normalization” period; in those them to do “little favors” for her, Mrs. Drazděchová’s crimes are Campos, also displays the slow- eight years to pass by so that the To pull this off, it helps to have uncertain years that followed the from doing her shopping to clean- clear, it is the victims (children and growing and strong attachment child, Àlex Monner, had grown first-rate actors on board. Besides attempt to introduce “socialism ing her apartment (which is done parents alike) most at risk of pun- between mother and son that in- and could embody our protago- the outstanding performances by with a human face,” which came by her students). In return, she ishment. creasingly puts into the back- nist. Curiously, the same eight Suárez and Monner, there is the to be known as the Prague Spring, might tell a parent which chapter “All adults and most children ground the question of whether or years that in fiction this character remarkable and ruthless acting of civil society was brutally crushed her son should study ahead of a have experienced the feeling not Gabriel (Àlex Monner) is the had been missing,” the scribes Sergi López as Gabriel’s uncle, by the invading Warsaw Pact. pop quiz. But should they deny where something that might ben- boy who disappeared. say in the film’s production who is sure that the boy died Early on we meet the seeming- her, their children’s grades get efit you now might also be the The fact that Gabriel, now 17, notes. eight years earlier and that this ly compassionate school teacher, progressively worse. wrong thing to do,” Hřebejk says, is himself suffering from amne- What could be looked at as an teenage prodigal son is an im- Mrs. Drazděchová (played by the Three families, however, take or “that following your con- sia and might really not know the inconvenient delay in getting postor. Whatever the truth, superb Slovak actress Zuzana a stand and convene a clandestine science or moral code may be dif- truth adds to the complexity and a story onto the screen turned out Gabriel’s search for identity and Mauréry), as she takes attendance meeting with the sympathetic ficult or very disadvantageous.” suspense of this compelling dra- to provide unexpected benefits struggle is compelling in its own on the first day of class. She asks principal to voice their grievances. Apart from Mauréry and ma. It is the turmoil that his ap- as the two filmmakers’ life expe- right. Another ally, as for adding each student not only to introduce (“I won’t be blackmailed or kiss Havelka, Hřebejk cast lesser pearance causes in this tight-knit riences in the meantime – mak- to the drama of the film, was the themselves but to tell her what anyone’s ass,” one father (Martin known but highly convincing ac- town that is the true engine of ing other films, having children, forbidding winter landscape, ex- their parents do for work, all the Havelka), already blacklisted by tors; the lack of overly familiar The Next Skin, a work which was family life – gave them added in- quisitely photographed by cine- while taking copious notes. the Communist party, tells his faces only adds to The Teacher’s a long time in the making. sight into the issues that The matographer Diego Dussuel. z Viewers soon realize that, al- wife (Éva Bandor) during a bitter powerful naturalism. z EVENTS CRITIC’S CHOICE CATHY MEILS, EDITOR, FILM NEW EUROPE Apart from the KVIFF Talk with where there are 8 films in post-pro- in Europe (starting at 5:30pm, Charlie Kaufman at 2pm, keep an duction and 8 films seeking buyers; Hotel Thermal, Industry Pool). eye out for Jean Reno, who is in an open panel on the current trends Film and theatre director/play- town today to receive the Festival of European film education For a change of artform, check LOST IN MUNICH President’s Award ahead of the (10am–12 pm, Barrandov Studio’s out the open-air theatre perform- wright Petr Zelenka solidifies screening of Leon in the Thermal’s Villa), and a discussion panel on ance every day under Chebský his place as one of the smartest Director: Petr Zelenka Grand Hall at 10:30pm. benefits stemming from produc- most, starting at 8pm. An exhibit and most original Czech film- Czech Republic, 2015, 105min Industry events today include: ing in the Czech Republic (11am, commemorating 80 years of the makers with Lost in Munich. July 5, 11:30am, Cinema B the Works in Progress presenta- Industry Pool) as well as an intro- Zlín studios starts at 5pm at the KV This film within a film is richly tion (from 1:30pm, Congress Hall), duction of training opportunities Art Gallery. z layered with history as well as social commentary and wrapped up in a dry comedy about film- Lost in La Mancha, but the film a must-see for fans of the Czech making. And the star is a parrot. is so much more than just New Wave and Velvet Wave The title references the classic a clever mockumentary. It’s alike.

Estonia has been capturing the THE DAYS THAT CONFUSED world’s attention and winning audiences at home, so of course Director: Triin Ruumet I want to see the new box office Estonia, 2016, 105min hit by debuting director Triin July 4, 6:30pm, KV Municipal Ruumet, The Days That Theatre Confused. Add to that the story of self-discovery during the 1990s, the years when Estonia Karlovy Vary is presenting the section, giving us the first op- was re-discovering itself after international premiere within the portunity to see the first feature winning its independence. East of the West – Competition film by a rising star.

I love the Another View section, and with a cast that features two THE LURE mermaids, The Lure is definitely Director: Agnieszka Smoczyńska luring me in. The film has won Poland, 2015, 92min a slew of awards and is a favorite July 4, 9:30, Čas Cinema on the film festival circuit this year. In short, two mermaids meet a rock band on a beach, become back-up dancers and strippers, and the 1980’s disco era. Part vampire Andersen, part Euromusical, and indulge a taste for human blood in thriller, part Hans Christian 100 percent Another View. z

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MY KV HOPE FOR AMAZON FACES (AND NEW INDIE Věra Křesadlová actress and artist FILM PLATFORMS) You said the role of Štěpa in A key figure in non- Ivan Passer’s Intimate Lighting was your favorite. Why? Hollywood film production The shooting was very pleasant. for two decades, Ted Hope We shot in summer in a small now heads the retail giant house in Mirotice village and it all Amazon’s venture into origi- felt like cozy family time. Ivan is nal arthouse productions and a very laid-back guy. Bambas (mu- acquisitions. sician Karel Blažek) and I took Hope spoke to film industry long walks and had long talks and folk at the Grandhotel Pupp had a lot of fun – we also partially on Sunday, offering off-the- Jean Reno Felix van Groeningen record insights into his vision improvised some of the scenes like Photo: Milan Malíček the one where I meet the local sim- for discovering new voices in Věra Křesadlová remembers the fil- indie film. pleton Franta. He was actually a re- ming of Intimate Lighting al resident from the village. As Head of Production for You also worked at the Václav Amazon Original Movies, a You were married to Miloš Havel cultural residence in the division that’s part of Amazon Forman for 35 years and you’re 1990s, correct? Studios, he produces and ac- the mother of theatre artists and We actually used to live close to quires up to 12 films a year for Ted Hope actors Petr and Matěj Forman. the Havels; Miloš and Václav were theatrical release, according to Do you have fond memories of friends. I remember when Václav the company. Four to eight try – and by indie filmmakers, KVIFF? stopped for coffee once just after he weeks after these films screen who often struggle to recoup I was here before during the fes- was released from prison. So, years in cinemas, they get an early much of their investment un- tival with Miloš. We stayed at Jan later, just when I was leaving distribution window online as der the system as it has oper- Roháč’ house and played golf. I re- Semafor theatre after 26 years and video on demand on Amazon ated up to now. member when Miloš wanted to was looking for a job, I met Václav Prime Instant Video. Hope, who for years has Olmo Omerzu Catrinel Dănăiaţă park in front of the Grandhotel in a restaurant and asked him if he The practice breaks new championed new ways for Pupp but was kicked out by the se- had any job for me. He called me ground; until now, the film in- non-Hollywood filmmakers to Today, a cavalry of directors Horizons films along with films curity who didn’t know who he a week later with a job offer! He dustry has preferred delaying survive and thrive, is an inter- is coming to KVIFF to intro- by Henrik Ruben Genz was back then. and Olga were really nice. Together, online releases until a given esting choice for forging new duce new works to the public. (Tordenskjold & Kold) and we helped him choose suits for his film has been in cinemas for practices and systems. Before The Official Selection – Pieter-Jan De Pue (The Land Apart from acting, you also travels abroad. At first, he didn’t much longer – although since taking on his role at Amazon Competition section will wel- of the Enlightened), who are al- create lamps with the Tiffany de- have many and actually got a few as 2006 more and more inde- last year, he left his position as come Romanian director so arriving. Slovenian filmmak- sign. How did that come about? presents and named them after the pendent films with limited CEO of Fandor, and he was Cătălin Mitulescu and his dra- er and FAMU film school alum I saw the lamps when I was in people he got them from – so he theatrical release have been also founder of Good ma By the Rails, and the East of Olmo Omerzu will introduce the USA with Miloš for the first had a Bush suit, a Forman suit… available for VOD on the Machine Productions. The the West – Competition section his Family Film. Vatche time. I wanted to buy one on 5th same day. company was behind a host of Catrinel Dănăiaţă (Double), Boulghourjian will offer his Avenue but we didn’t have money Is there a role you’d like to By committing to produc- critically acclaimed films, in- Jiří Sádek (Noonday Witch), film Tramontane in the Another then. Later, I tried to design and play? ing original films and buying cluding Edward Burns’ The Rusudan Glurjidze (House of View sidebar, and director make them myself – I bought the Well, I have been cast as some- the work of daring new film- Brothers McMullen, and Hope Others), and Toomas Hussar Christophe Bisson is bringing glass in Germany very early on. one’s mother and grandmother makers at events such as the has producing credits for The (The Spy and the Poet). Director Sfumato to screen in the First I made glasses, then I tried lately but I’d really like to play in Sundance festival, Amazon is Ice Storm and 21 Grams. Felix van Groeningen, curator Imagina section. and tried and collected designs and a historical film; perhaps an taking on giants like Netflix. Hope has also won more of Future Frames section, is also Also coming is special KV- now I’ve actually made quite a lot empresses with a nice gown The competition is being Sundance jury prizes than any bringing his new film, Belgica, IFF guest Jean Reno (Léon: of them. (laughs). (HG/ZV) z closely watched by the indus- other producer. (WT) z which you can find among the The Professional). (HG) z

Discover Official the 2016 The European Parliament is pleased to unveil the 2016 LUX Film Prize Official Selection, Selection a remarkable and diverse cocktail of European cinema. Three of the ten films will be subtitled into the 24 languages of the European Union and will travel across 28 countries during the LUX Film Days. The European Parliament´s LUX Film Prize brings films from Europe to Europe.

À PEINE J’OUVRE LES YEUX A SYRIAN LOVE STORY CARTAS DA GUERRA KRIGEN L’AVENIR Leyla Bouzid Sean McAllister Ivo M Ferreira Tobias Lindholm Mia Hansen-Løve France, Tunisia, Belgium, U.A.E United Kingdom Portugal Denmark France, Germany

LA PAZZA GIOIA MA VIE DE COURGETTE SIERANEVADA SUNTAN TONI ERDMANN Paolo Virzi Claude Barras Cristi Puiu Argyris Papadimitropoulos Maren Ade Italy, France Switzerland, France Romania, France Greece, Germany Germany, Austria, Romania

LUX OF EUROPEAN FILMS PRIZE IN 24 LANGUAGES TRAVELLING ACROSS .EU 28 EU COUNTRIES

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Šimon Šafránek your work; he thinks you did comfortable but you are not right, a great job and now we can tell you you are like a false comfortable Adriana Ugarte, 31, has been ap- that it’s the latest film of Pedro person. Because you are not look- pearing in Spanish films since the Almodóvar.’ I was very, very ing for something absolutely age of 16. Now she’s in the title thankful not to know the identity at naked. I think that’s the way Pedro role of Julieta, Pedro Almodóvar’s the beginning because that would works, absolutely naked, in rela- tale of a headstrong young woman make me very, very nervous... tion with everything. with her fair share of luck and loss. The first time I saw him face to Ugarte says she had wanted to act face, I realized he wasn’t only a ge- How did you become an ac- since the age of 5 and it the craft nius but also a very good human tress? Was it a dream of yours? has become “my lifelong addic- being. He is a very special person I needed to be an actress since tion.” who can feel how you feel in each I was five. I remember I was always moment, like a magician. He can crying and telling my parents, ‘I How did you get to work with see you before you can. want to be an actress, just a little Almodóvar, director of such role, please, wherever, I don’t masterpieces as All About My How was the shoot? Was there mind.’ My parents always laughed Mother? any improvisation? and told me: you’re tired, go to bed. It was like a present, like a sur- No improvisation. Fortunately, Tomorrow you are going to see prise, but the process I remember we had a lot of rehearsals and things differently. ‘No, I’m not was like the classic process. They a very big process of make-up and tired!’ I wanted the same thing day called me to make a casting. I went hairdressing because the most im- by day. When I was 16, we were but I didn’t know the identity of the portant thing was that Emma good students and normally, our director. So I didn’t know it was Suárez and me, we were the same parents gave us little presents when a film of Pedro Almodóvar. I just person, the same woman. Because our results were great, and I re- knew it was one of the most impor- everybody knows who we are, member I asked for a course of the- tant directors in my country. But I think to try to pretend that we are ater. There I met the first director the casting directors, they couldn’t the same, it’s impossible, but it was I’d work with in a short film, play-

tell me the identity. It was like a se- very important to have logic in the Photo: Petr Hloušek ing a girl with schizophrenia. It was cret. make-up, in our eyes, in our con- Adriana Ugarte, who plays the title role in Pedro Almodóvar’s new drama Julieta, says he’s a genius my first real contact with the fantas- So I went to my casting, I did it. crete and special blond hair. tic, crazy and free world of creation I tried to realize who the director Because the blond hair, like every- I had not the keys but some notes the role, you are wrong because So it’s always about changing and creativity. It was the first expe- was. The script was very like dra- thing in Pedro’s world, is infinite... of the role and I started to feel sure, you have to work each minute and the approach to the character? rience of my lifelong addiction. ma and I couldn’t find like spaces not completely, but a little bit sure. you have nothing. So I think it’s Yeah – to be more flexible and of crazy comedy, originally of What was the biggest adven- And when we started the shooting, like a lesson that Pedro gave to me to build a very complex character. Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta is Pedro. So I didn’t know who it ture for you? I realized I had nothing. Because that you have to jump into Adriana I think if you start working with screening within KVIFF’s Horizons was... I went to my second casting All of the experience, I guess. one thing is rehearsal, and another and forget all knowledge you had a role and you have prejudices; you section on July 5 at 10pm (Pupp and at the end I remember they told I remember that I really enjoyed thing is the shooting... So when before of drama or theater or how are not free and you are not ab- Cinema) and on July 8 at 1pm me, ‘Well, he’s very happy with the rehearsals. I thought maybe you think you have something of to build a role or a character. solutely comfortable – or you are (Národní dům Cinema). z EAST OF THE WEST: BLACK HUMOR, TURBULENT TIMES

Michael Stein Central and Eastern European films are known for their black hu- mor, dark intensity, forays into some of their nations’ histories more turbulent eras and a surrealist edge often less common in feature films from other parts of the world. KVIFF’s East of the West sec- tion has all these characteristics and more – with works featuring a group of assassins in wheel- chairs, secret agents, Cold War conspiracy at the highest level, and a fear-inspiring witch – but also Photo: KVIFF films of everyday struggles and Photo: KVIFF alienation. Among the sections 12 Attila Till’s Kills on Wheels has assassins in wheelchairs, played by people with disabilities Rusudan Glurjidze’s House of Others is having its world premiere at KVIFF films are some bold and daring de- buts, as well as innovative works got the possibility to be on screen,” son ends up being far from the joy- Konstantin Khabenskiy starring as Toomas Hussar’s The Spy and the The Double an architect finds by more practiced directors. he says. ous occasion one would expect. the ruthless debt collector finds the Poet. His 2012 debut feature that the life he should be happy Hungary’s Kills on Wheels is Questions of truth abound in He is compelled to remain dead in tables turned on him and the clock Mushrooming was a hit on the fes- with isn’t enough. In another de- a film that has benefitted from the Slovenian director Žiga Virc’s the eyes of the world. The film re- ticking in his bid to bail himself tival circuit, and his new film’s but by Polish director Łukasz experience and expertise backing Houston, We Have a Problem!, flects the stifling atmosphere of out of trouble. genre-bending black comedy and Grzegorzek, Kamper, world pre- it up. Its producer, Judit Stalter, which debuted earlier this year at postwar Kosovo by remaining en- The echoes of war are tragically spy story appears set to conquer miering at KVIFF, it’s the diffi- was the executive producer of the Tribeca Film Festival. Did Tito tirely within the confines of and beautifully rendered in another audiences with similar resolve. culties of relationships that are Academy-Award winner Son of really sell the Yugoslav space pro- Agron’s home during his self-im- debut feature, that of Georgian di- Another Estonian film and an- put under the microscope. Also Saul while the 2008 debut feature gram to the US for a whopping $3 posed imprisonment. rector Rusudan Glurjidze’s House other of life’s turning points comes having its world premiere here is of the director Attila Till, Panic, al- billion, including the 26 aerospace Confinement and a painful of Others. The film will have its to the screen in Triin Ruumet’s de- Lithuanian helmer Lina Lužytė’s so received extensive festival play. engineers developing it? Virc sense of endless waiting is also the world premiere at KVIFF and is but feature The Days That feature debut Together For Ever, Kills on Wheels portrays a group shows one of the kidnapped engi- plight of the main character’s in marked above all by its stunning Confused, which follows the lives about a family that is a locus of of disabled people who have be- neers meeting his daughter for the the Turkish film Verge, co-directed cinematography, courtesy of of Allar and his friends in the discontent and miscommunica- come hired assassins while forging first time, the conflicts between by Ayhan Salar and Erkan Spanish Director of Photography small-town late ’90s Estonia, tion. a strong yet highly risky bond of Tito and JFK that immediately Tahhuşoğlu in their feature debut Gorka Gómez Andreu. The film is drinking and recklessly wasting The horror genre, meanwhile, friendship. To make the film, Till preceded the latter’s assassination and seeing its world premiere at set after the civil war between away their lives until an accident is a departure not only for this says he watched every film made on the grassy knoll, and shows KVIFF. The film is shot and acted Georgia and Abkhazia, as the win- forces Allar to reconsider where section but for contemporary over the last 10 years dealing with Slovenian social theorist Slavoj with an atmospheric, understated ning side moves into the vacated he's headed. Vividly shot without Czech film in general. With his people confined to wheelchairs. Žižek venting his thoughts on the melancholy as it moves back and houses of those forced to leave. But prettifying the characters’ lives, feature debut The Noonday “In my case, I just wanted to avoid whole affair. forth between the present and past. a fresh start turns out to be less eas- the film captures the essence of Witch, Czech director Jiří Sádek one thing: not to create another The Kosovar director Faton The Russian director Alexei ily gained than expected and war a generation. has modernized a classic work of film with actors about disabled Bajraktari’s debut feature Home Krasovskiy also took confinement continues on even after the fighting Relationships and personal dis- Czech literature and crafted a film people without involving real Sweet Home recounts the story of as a challenge and decided to has stopped. satisfaction are the themes around that plays with the boundaries be- handicapped people in the project. a soldier, Agron, thought to have make his dark thriller Collector Another form of war will see the which a number of films in this tween the world of phantoms and In this film real disabled people been killed in the Kosovo conflict with a single actor in a single of- screen in another KVIFF world section are based. In Romanian the imaginations which give rise are in the main roles. Finally, they whose homecoming as prodigal fice location throughout the film. premiere in Estonian director debut helmer Catrinel Dănăiaţă’s to them. z DAILIES 1 2 3

1/ KVIFF Artistic Director Karel Och (far left), with actress Magdalena Cielecka, sales agent Jan Naszewski, actress Julia Kijowska, director Tomasz Wasilewski, actress Marta Nieradkiewicz, and KVIFF Programer Lenka Tyrpáková

2/ Alexandre Pajon of the French Institute in Prague at the Lux Film Prize official selection ceremony, with participant Roumiana Vasileva Zlateva from Bulgaria

3/ Crystal Globe winner Willem Dafoe shares Photo: KVIFF Photo: Petr Hloušek

a moment of levity with the press Photo: KVIFF

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