A celebratory Karlovy Fluctuate Worldwide Movie Competition revealed its competitors lineups on Tuesday. The sixtieth version, which can commemorate the 80-year anniversary of the competition’s founding, encompasses a dozen world premieres competing for the Crystal Globe and one other dozen movies bowing in Proxima–together with cinema hailing from Colombia and Myanmar.
The Czech fest, positioned in a picturesque spa city simply outdoors of Prague, additionally unveiled competitors juries, together with Pulitzer Prize winner and The New Yorker movie critic Justin Chang and two-time Oscar nominee Eskil Vogt (“The Worst Particular person within the World” and “Sentimental Worth“). KVIFF runs July 3-11.
A number of the main highlights of the Crystal Globe competitors this 12 months begins with Bulgarian filmmaker Petar Valchanov’s “Black Cash for White Nights.” The director’s latest movie—he beforehand co-helmed the Maria Bakalova-starrer “Triumph”—issues an aged couple whose desires of touring to St. Petersburg to witness the White Nights are upended by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “3 Weeks After” by Serbian director Miroslav Terzić additionally has ties to Bulgaria: It follows a bunch of scholars touring to the nation whose adolescent angst floods to the floor when their bus breaks down.
Colombia additionally makes an look on the competition with Esteban Hoyos García and Juan Miguel Gelacio Ramírez’s “5 Years, 4 Months,” an aching work a couple of mom making one final bid to seek out the stays of her lengthy lacking son. Becoming a member of Colombia is Chile, with Valeria Sarmiento’s “Behind the Rain.” Sarmiento, the esteemed editor behind “Metropolis of Pirates” and “Mysteries of Lisbon,” arrives with a movie a couple of psychology graduate coming house to Valdivia solely to find a younger lady’s physique. The unearthing shakes open traumatic childhood recollections.
Aung Phyoe’s “Fruit Gathering,” which comes from Myanmar, expands the fest’s attain. It issues two younger girls employed at a textile manufacturing facility in Yangon the place they face exploitation, social repression, and financial disparity. A romance based mostly in quiet rhythms, it might be certainly one of extra festivals premiering within the resplendent Czech city.
The Proxima competitors, a vertical of the competition that grants area to rising auteurs, is led by an equally geographically eclectic array of movies. Indian director Yashasvi Juyal arrives with probably the most evocatively titled movie: “The Ink-Stained Hand and the Lacking Thumb.” The image follows two males working in damaged down toll cubicles in the hunt for an more and more uncommon type of happiness.
Alex Bertha’s “After Nature” is a Mexico-set story a couple of man returning to the countryside to be a stonemason. The plot abstract to Bertha’s movie describes it as, “An evocatively advised story of a silent man whose enigmatic nature stems from the darkish aspect of humanity and from his contact with the sacred, the movie strikes alongside the boundary between the bodily and the non secular.” Conversely, Japanese Shuntaro Uchida’s “Incinerator,” an adaptation of Kaori Ekuni’s brief story, payments itself as a ruminative coming of age story about studying about mortality and household relationships.
Accompanying these competitors films are particular screenings, together with Maryam Ataei and Hossein Keshavarz’s defiant Tehran-set Sundance political stunner “The Pal’s Home is Right here” and “The Story of Documentary Movie – Nineteen Eighties” from former Crystal Globe winner Mark Cousins. His epic chronicling of the historical past of documentary is cut up into sixteen one-hour elements: the part, which centered on the Nineteen Seventies, premiered at this most up-to-date Cannes. The second half, concerning the Nineteen Eighties, bows at KVIFF.
Together with these movies, are additionally eleven different works ranging in subjects from a portrait of three-time Oscar profitable cinematographer Robert Richardson referred to as “Robert Richardson: The White Satan” to an adaptation of Thomas Mann’s The Holy Sinner named “Gregorius, the Chosen One.” It’s additionally value noting once more that KVIFF will characteristic a wealth of retrospectives: “A Matter of Life and Dying,” “Kes,” Río Escondido,” and extra.
Under are the competitors titles and juries.
Crystal Globe Competitors
3 nedelje posle / 3 Weeks After
Director: Miroslav Terzić
Serbia, Bulgaria, 2026, 94 min, World premiere
Cherni pari za beli noshti / Black Cash for White Nights
Director: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov
Bulgaria, Greece, 2025, 94 min, World premiere
Chica Checa
Director: Šimon Holý
Czech Republic, France, Slovak Republic, 2026, 96 min, World premiere
Cinco años, cuatro meses / 5 Years, 4 Months
Director: Esteban Hoyos García, Juan Miguel Gelacio Ramírez
Colombia, USA, 2025, 83 min, World premiere
Detrás de la lluvia / Behind the Rain
Director: Valeria Sarmiento
Chile, 2026, 97 min, World premiere
Gæsten / The Visitor
Director: Mads Mengel
Denmark, 2026, 99 min, World premiere
A Joyful Household
Director: Jan-Eric Mack
Switzerland, 2026, 120 min, World premiere
Hijamat
Director: Nader Saeivar
Germany, 2026, 103 min, World premiere
The Lion at My Again
Director: Tonia Mishiali
Cyprus, Luxembourg, Greece, 2026, 106 min, World premiere
Pipes
Director: Karim Kassem
Lebanon, 2025, 112 min, World premiere
Prameň / Solely Lovely Issues to Look At
Director: Ivan Ostrochovský
Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, Hungary, 2026, 90 min, World premiere
Thit-thee Khu / Fruit Gathering
Director: Aung Phyoe
Myanmar, France, Czech Republic, 2026, 97 min, World premiere
Proxima Competitors
33 krokov / 33 Steps
Director: Anna Domček, Šimon Domček
Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, 2026, 71 min, World premiere
Camionero / Truck Driver
Director: Francisco Marise
Spain, Argentina, 2026, 84 min, World premiere
Contra la Naturaleza / Towards Nature
Director: Axel Bertha
Mexico, 2026, 86 min, World premiere
Enas olokliros anthropos schedon / A Complete Particular person Nearly
Director: Efthimis Kosemund-Sanidis
Greece, Bulgaria, Germany, Cyprus, Romania, 2025, 111 min, World premiere
Homo Sive Natura
Director: Giovanni C. Lorusso
Italy, 2026, 115 min, World premiere
The Ink-Stained Hand and the Lacking Thumb
Director: Yashasvi Juyal
India, 2026, 120 min, World premiere
Mein Freund der Pornostar / My Pal the Porn Star
Director: Rosa Friedrich
Austria, 2026, 94 min, World premiere
Milovník, nie bojovník / Lover, Not a Fighter
Director: Martina Buchelová
Slovak Republic, 2026, 108 min, World premiere
Paris Paris
Director: Isabelle Tollenaere
Belgium, 2026, 78 min, World premiere
Rain Catcher
Director: Michele Fiascaris
Italy, United Kingdom, 2026, 109 min, World premiere
Shokyakuro / Incinerator
Director: Shuntaro Uchida
Japan, 2026, 97 min, World premiere
Sitni lopovi / Petty Thieves
Director: Mate Ugrin
Croatia, Germany, France, 2026, 106 min, World premiere
Particular Screenings
Bára Basiková / Bára – Diary of a Rockstar
Director: Helena Třeštíková
Czech Republic, 2026, 97 min, World premiere
Dvě deci tuše / A Pint of Ink
Director: Ester Geislerová
Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2026, 83 min, World premiere
Kdyby se holubi proměnili ve zlato / If Pigeons Turned to Gold
Director: Pepa Lubojacki
Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2026, 110 min
Khaneh doost injast / The Pal’s Home is Right here
Director: Maryam Ataei, Hossein Keshavarz
Iran, USA, 2025, 96 min, Worldwide premiere
Studying To Breathe Underwater
Director: Rebekah Fortune
United Kingdom, Netherlands, Eire, 2026, 95 min, World premiere
Město otců / Metropolis of Fathers
Director: Zdeněk Tyc
Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Poland, 2026, 100 min, World premiere
Mistryně / Every thing As It Ought to Be
Director: Bohdan Karásek
Czech Republic, 2026, 101 min, World premiere
Morten
Director: Ivan Pavljutskov
Estonia, Lithuania, 2026, 101 min, World premiere
Robert Richardson: The White Satan
Director: Jana Hojdová
Czech Republic, USA, 2026, 105 min, World premiere
The Story of Documentary Movie – Nineteen Eighties
Director: Mark Cousins
United Kingdom, 2026, 120 min, World premiere
To Die to Reside
Director: Yuliia Hontaruk
Ukraine, Latvia, Slovak Republic, 2026, 116 min, World premiere
Vyvolený / Gregorius, the Chosen One
Director: Tomasz Mielnik
Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, 2026, 90 min, World premiere
Zpráva professional Minervu 2 / A Report for Minerva 2
Director: Miroslav Krobot, Lubomír Smékal
Czech Republic, 2026, 69 min, World premiere
Crystal Globe Jury
Justin Chang
Justin Chang is a movie critic at The New Yorker and NPR’s “Contemporary Air”. He received the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for criticism for his writing on the Los Angeles Occasions, the place he spent eight years as a critic. Beforehand, he was the chief movie critic at Selection. Chang serves as chair of the Nationwide Society of Movie Critics and secretary of the Los Angeles Movie Critics Affiliation, and is a member of the New York Movie Competition choice committee. He teaches on the Annenberg Faculty for Communication and Journalism on the College of Southern California.
Amanda Nell Eu
Amanda Nell Eu is a filmmaker based mostly in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her debut characteristic movie Tiger Stripes was the Grand Prize winner of Semaine de la Critique within the 2023 Cannes Movie Competition. The movie was additionally the official Malaysian submission for the Academy Awards in 2023. Amanda graduated from the London Movie Faculty with an MA in Filmmaking and is an alumna of Berlinale Abilities, Tokyo Abilities and Locarno Filmmakers Academy. She has additionally served as a jury member at numerous movie festivals and mentored movie workshops internationally.
Pavel Rejholec
Pavel Rejholec is a Czech sound designer, producer, composer, and educator. He graduated from the Division of Sound Design at FAMU, the place he has been head of the division since 2011. All through his profession, he has labored as a sound designer on greater than fifty Czech and worldwide characteristic movies. Since 2003, he has served because the managing director of the Soundsquare studio. He has received eight Czech Lion Awards for Finest Sound, for example, for the movies Zátopek or The Painted Fowl. As a dubbing supervisor, he collaborated with Lucasfilm on Star Wars: Episode II and Star Wars: Episode III. He’s a member of the Movement Image Sound Editors and serves on the board of the Czech Movie and Tv Academy.
Nadia Turincev
Nadia Turincev was born in Moscow, grew up in Paris and studied cultural anthropology. She began off within the film business aged 16, making sandwiches for Marcello Mastroianni. In 2007, she co-founded Rouge Worldwide, producing 25+ movies (Repair ME, Mimosas, Uncooked, Oscar-nominated The Insult and Faces Locations). In 2019 she left Rouge and created Straightforward Riders Movies (Mariupolis 2, Crossing, Solely Rebels Win) with Omar El Kadi. She just lately opened her solo firm Sento Movies to supply “unrealizable” movies.
Eskil Vogt
Eskil Vogt is a two-time Oscar-nominated Norwegian filmmaker. His directing debut Blind (2014) premiered on the Sundance FF the place it received the Screenwriting Award. His sophomore effort, The Innocents (2021), premiered on the Cannes FF earlier than happening to win greater than 20 worldwide awards. Eskil additionally collaborates carefully with Joachim Trier, co-writing all of Trier’s options since Reprise (2006), together with Oslo, August thirty first (2011), The Worst Particular person within the World (2021) and Sentimental Worth (2025). Vogt is a directing graduate from La Fémis, the French nationwide movie faculty.
Proxima Jury
Estrella Araiza
Estrella Araiza is the Normal Director of the Guadalajara Worldwide Movie Competition (FICG) and Cineteca UDG, the place she has centered on strengthening the presence of Mexican and Latin American cinema throughout each establishments. Her skilled profession contains expertise as Director of Trade and Market at FICG, in addition to work as a gross sales agent, educational, and movie distributor in Mexico. She started her profession in worldwide movie distribution in 2005, and in 2012 based her personal firm, Vendo Cine. Since 2018, she has overseen FICG’s particular tasks, together with the acclaimed exhibition Guillermo del Toro: At Dwelling with My Monsters in Guadalajara.
Dirk Decker
Dirk Decker is a producer and co-founder of Hamburg-based Tamtam Movie. By Tamtam, he works with rising abilities and helps distinctive auteur cinema throughout fiction and documentary. His productions have premiered at main worldwide festivals. Current titles embrace Rain Fell on the Nothing New (Karlovy Fluctuate 2025), Brief Summer time (Venice 2025, Lion of the Future) and Trial of Hein (Berlinale 2026, Teddy Jury Award).
Jakub Felcman
Jakub Felcman is a Czech screenwriter, competition organizer, movie critic, inventive producer, director, and certified plumber. He studied movie on the College of Arts, Charles College, and FAMU, revealed interviews and movie analyses (for Cinepur), programmed movie festivals, and co-founded two of them (Ostrava Kamera Oko, Marienbad). As a script editor he collaborated on movies by Jan Němec, Petr Václav, Radu Jude, and Corneliu Porumboiu. Cinemas have screened a number of movies that he co-wrote or produced (akin to A Night time Too Younger, A Sure Type of Silence, and The Wolf from Royal Winery Avenue).
Devika Girish
Devika Girish is editor at Movie Remark journal and a Talks programmer on the New York Movie Competition. Her writing additionally seems in The New York Occasions, The New York Evaluate of Books, The Nation, The New Republic, Sight & Sound, The Criterion Assortment, and others, and she or he has programmed collection and festivals for the Criterion Channel, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Movie at Lincoln Heart, the Mumbai Movie Competition, the Berlin Critics’ Week, and extra. Devika has been invited to juries at CPH:DOX, the Locarno Movie Competition, SEMINCI, and Visions du Réel.
Marija Kavtaradze
Marija Kavtaradze is a Lithuanian director and screenwriter. Graduating from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in 2014, she made her characteristic debut with Summer time Survivors in 2018, which premiered on the Toronto IFF, adopted by Sluggish (2023), which earned her a Directing Award on the Sundance Movie Competition and had its European premiere at KVIFF in 2023. Marija works as a screenwriter on shorts and have movies, together with The Customer (dir. Vytautas Katkus, KVIFF 2025), Runner (dir. Andrius Blaževičius, KVIFF 2021), the animated TV collection BFF for teenagers, and others.
