While Covid cases begin to surge again in Hollywood, it’s a different story nearly 6,000 miles away as the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival kicked off with a bang on Friday night. The promi…
While Covid cases begin to surge again in Hollywood, it’s a different story nearly 6,000 miles away as theInternational Film Festival kicked off with a bang on Friday night.
It was a fitting opening for the cherished boutique festival, very much echoing the sentiments felt earlier this year in Cannes that international film festivals are ready to rise from the ashes of the pandemic. Festival president Jirí Bartoška opened the nine-day long event saying, “We are living in strange times, and by that, I mean the senseless and cruel war in Ukraine.”
He compared filmmakers to modern Hamlets trying to set right things in a world that seems so off-kilter. Bartoška made it very clear that this year’s Karlovy Vary festival would express “it’s full support of Ukrainian filmmakers,” and pointed to its Works-In-Progress platform for Ukraine’s Odesa Film Festival, which it’s hosting in the town for its Ukrainian friends.
He also went on to talk about the legacy of its legendary former artistic director Eva Zaoralová, who passed away in March at the age of 89, before playing a touching commemoriative video to the audience. The Czech journalist and film academic who led the reboot of KVIFF in 1994 will be celebrated at this year with an exhibition of photographs documenting her work.
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