By Will Tizard - Variety - U.S.A.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
The Karlovy Vary Film Festival will highlight emerging directors making striking statements about the struggle for meaning and love, organizers said Tuesday, rolling out the list of 15 films competing for the Crystal Globe.
With 230 films, including 14 world preems and 39 European preems skedded for the fest, which takes over the sleepy West Bohemian spa town of Karlovy Vary for nine days, even more fans will be joining the usual pilgrimage to the cinemas of the communist-era Hotel Thermal.
The focus is far from star vehicles, said fest's Julieta Zacharova, calling the entrants "very strong filmmakers with very strong stories," many of which tend to turn on family relationships and "characters in search of happiness."
Among the competition films generating buzz are the Czech Republic's "Beauty in Trouble," a noirish love triangle penned by helmer Jan Hrebejk's longtime scribe Petr Jarchovsky; "Love Talk," set in a dream-like Los Angeles by Korean helmer Lee Yoon-Ki; "Destiny," Argentinean helmer Miguel Pereira's tale about a fugitive adopting a new identity; and "Transit," a Russian WWII flier tale by Alexander Rogozhkin.
The docu competition looks equally diverse, with nine entries in the over-30-minutes category with subjects ranging from Brazilian cattle callers to the siege of Leningrad, via Slovak Carpathian minorities.
The under-30-minute group, with 10 docs, explore Sufism in Pakistan, house selling in the shadow of Prague Castle and the 90-year-old Spanish expressionist Uwe Grumman.
Fest's guest list includes Matthew Barney, screening his art cycle "Cremaster"; Luc Besson, presenting "Angel-A"; and Terry Gilliam, unspooling "Tideland."
South Korea's Kim Ki-duk, a perennial fest fave, will open the event June 30 with the preem of his noncompeting film "Time," setting the tone for another preem, Brazilian Andrucha Waddington's "House of Sand."
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Sufism in Pakistan at Karlovy Vary Film Festival
By Will Tizard - Variety - U.S.A.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
The Karlovy Vary Film Festival will highlight emerging directors making striking statements about the struggle for meaning and love, organizers said Tuesday, rolling out the list of 15 films competing for the Crystal Globe.
With 230 films, including 14 world preems and 39 European preems skedded for the fest, which takes over the sleepy West Bohemian spa town of Karlovy Vary for nine days, even more fans will be joining the usual pilgrimage to the cinemas of the communist-era Hotel Thermal.
The focus is far from star vehicles, said fest's Julieta Zacharova, calling the entrants "very strong filmmakers with very strong stories," many of which tend to turn on family relationships and "characters in search of happiness."
Among the competition films generating buzz are the Czech Republic's "Beauty in Trouble," a noirish love triangle penned by helmer Jan Hrebejk's longtime scribe Petr Jarchovsky; "Love Talk," set in a dream-like Los Angeles by Korean helmer Lee Yoon-Ki; "Destiny," Argentinean helmer Miguel Pereira's tale about a fugitive adopting a new identity; and "Transit," a Russian WWII flier tale by Alexander Rogozhkin.
The docu competition looks equally diverse, with nine entries in the over-30-minutes category with subjects ranging from Brazilian cattle callers to the siege of Leningrad, via Slovak Carpathian minorities.
The under-30-minute group, with 10 docs, explore Sufism in Pakistan, house selling in the shadow of Prague Castle and the 90-year-old Spanish expressionist Uwe Grumman.
Fest's guest list includes Matthew Barney, screening his art cycle "Cremaster"; Luc Besson, presenting "Angel-A"; and Terry Gilliam, unspooling "Tideland."
South Korea's Kim Ki-duk, a perennial fest fave, will open the event June 30 with the preem of his noncompeting film "Time," setting the tone for another preem, Brazilian Andrucha Waddington's "House of Sand."
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
The Karlovy Vary Film Festival will highlight emerging directors making striking statements about the struggle for meaning and love, organizers said Tuesday, rolling out the list of 15 films competing for the Crystal Globe.
With 230 films, including 14 world preems and 39 European preems skedded for the fest, which takes over the sleepy West Bohemian spa town of Karlovy Vary for nine days, even more fans will be joining the usual pilgrimage to the cinemas of the communist-era Hotel Thermal.
The focus is far from star vehicles, said fest's Julieta Zacharova, calling the entrants "very strong filmmakers with very strong stories," many of which tend to turn on family relationships and "characters in search of happiness."
Among the competition films generating buzz are the Czech Republic's "Beauty in Trouble," a noirish love triangle penned by helmer Jan Hrebejk's longtime scribe Petr Jarchovsky; "Love Talk," set in a dream-like Los Angeles by Korean helmer Lee Yoon-Ki; "Destiny," Argentinean helmer Miguel Pereira's tale about a fugitive adopting a new identity; and "Transit," a Russian WWII flier tale by Alexander Rogozhkin.
The docu competition looks equally diverse, with nine entries in the over-30-minutes category with subjects ranging from Brazilian cattle callers to the siege of Leningrad, via Slovak Carpathian minorities.
The under-30-minute group, with 10 docs, explore Sufism in Pakistan, house selling in the shadow of Prague Castle and the 90-year-old Spanish expressionist Uwe Grumman.
Fest's guest list includes Matthew Barney, screening his art cycle "Cremaster"; Luc Besson, presenting "Angel-A"; and Terry Gilliam, unspooling "Tideland."
South Korea's Kim Ki-duk, a perennial fest fave, will open the event June 30 with the preem of his noncompeting film "Time," setting the tone for another preem, Brazilian Andrucha Waddington's "House of Sand."
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