This year’s special guest of the 55th Karlovy Vary IFF will be British actor and winner of two Oscars, the European Film Awards, and more than forty other commendations Sir...

Dir.: Yrsa Roca Fannberg; Documentary with Ulfare Eyjolfsson, Oddny Snjolang Bordardottir; Iceland 2019, 78 min. Icelandic writer/director Yrsa Roca Fannberg follows Salome with this thematically related story set in the Icelandic...

Dir: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Vlachanov | Bulgaria Drama 87' The Father is the third collaboration for Bulgarian auteurs Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov. This superbly scripted psychological drama follows in the...

Dir.: Karolis Kaupinis; Cast: Aleksas Kozanavicius, Vaidotas Martinaitis, Valentinas Masalskis, Roberta Samuolytie, Roberta Sirgedaite, Egle Gabrenaite; Lithuania 2019, 97 min. In this striking arthouse debut from Karolis Kaupinis, a Lithuanian geologist...

Dir/Wri: Zeina Durra | Cast: Andrea Riseborough, Janie Aziz, Michael Landers | Drama, 85' A war zone doctor's inner turmoil gradually surfaces in this serene second feature from British director Zeina...

Dir.: Gregory Monro; Documentary with Stanley Kubrick, Michel Ciment, Malcolm McDowell; France/USA 2020, 72 min. Seasoned documentarian Gregory Monro (Michel Legrand: Let the Music play) unpacks more gems, this time the...

Dir.: Abdulmohsen Aldhabaan; Cast: Mousaed Khaled, Fahad Alghurariy, Osama Alqess, Abduallah Alfahad; Saudi-Arabia 2019, 74 min. Times are changing in Riyadh. Abdulmohsen Aldhabaan’s realist portrait of father and son conflict serves...

Dir.: Damjan Kozole; Cast: Ursa Menart, Liza Marijina, Jurij Drevensek, Peter Musevski; Republic of Macedonia/Serbia/Slovenia; 105 min. Another tightly controlled and intriguing drama from veteran documentarian Damjan Kozole, who won best director...

Dir.: Felipe Rios Fuente; Cast: Antonia Giesen, Jose Soza, Maria Alche, Roberto Farias; Chile 2019, 96 min. Director/co-writer Felipe Rios Fuente’s debut feature is beautiful to look at, but based on...