The Karlovy Fluctuate Worldwide Movie Competition’s Business Workplace has unveiled movies chosen for this 12 months’s new KVIFF Central Stage showcase. The 14 initiatives from 8 totally different Central European international locations, that are at varied levels of growth and in search of co-production and financing alternatives, embody initiatives from established filmmakers reminiscent of Andreas Horvath, Nader Saeivar and László Csuja.
The initiatives might be showcased at KVIFF via interactive conversations in regards to the filmmakers’ profession paths and co-production prospects throughout taking part international locations. Moreover, the initiatives will acquire entry to unique post-production benefits via a partnership with studios UPP and Soundsquare, whereas additionally being eligible for the €20,000 Eurimages Co-Manufacturing Improvement Award.
Movies that meet the standards for the Czech Audiovisual Fund’s 35% digital manufacturing incentive will safe a further 15% direct discount on complete audio-visual post-production companies from each studios
“We launched this new format to handle a notable hole within the Central European movie panorama,” mentioned Hugo Rosák, the Head of KVIFF Business Workplace. “Whereas rising filmmakers usually obtain substantial help, mid-career filmmakers sometimes have fewer alternatives for visibility and financing, regardless of their equally compelling initiatives. We had been lucky to collaborate carefully with Central European movie institutes, who helped us establish filmmakers at the moment engaged on extremely anticipated initiatives that genuinely replicate the established voices already resonating with audiences.”
One other not too long ago established showcase, KVIFF Abilities, targeted on in search of out and supporting Czech and Slovak filmmakers and progressive audiovisual genres, might be joined by a visitor mission by Hungarian filmmaker István Kovács, who will pitch the feature-length model of his Pupil Academy Award-winning quick movie A Siege (Ostrom) in Karlovy Fluctuate.
The Czech & Slovak initiatives within the making characteristic Masaryk: The Coup, a standalone sequel to A Outstanding Affected person by Julius Ševčík, which premiered at Berlinale and received 12 Czech Lion Awards. In the meantime, Michal Hogenauer and Šimon Holý, who’ve each featured in KVIFF’s East Meets West or Proxima competitions, will current their new initiatives Across the Fireplace and First Dates, that are each in growth. Slovak director Marko Škop, whose earlier movies have been awarded at KVIFF and Toronto, will current Láska, his new characteristic at the moment in post-production.
The KVIFF Central Stage showcase will happen at 1:30 pm on Tuesday, July 8, on the Business Essential Stage within the KVIFF Business Hub in Kaiserbad.
Right here’s the complete listing:
KVIFF Central Stage
The Lime Works (Austria)
Director, Scriptwriter, Producer: Andreas Horvath
Masaryk: The Coup (Czech Republic, Poland, Slovak Republic)
Director: Julius Ševčík
Scriptwriter: Julius Ševčík, Petr Kolečko
Producer: Vanessa Biermannová, Rudolf Biermann
Across the Fireplace (Czech Republic, Netherlands, Slovak Republic)
Director, Scriptwriter: Michal Hogenauer
Producer: Marek Novák
First Dates (Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Poland)
Director, Scriptwriter: Šimon Holý
Producer: Marek Novák
Hijamat (Germany, Turkey)
Director, Scriptwriter: Nader Saeivar
Producer: Stated Nur Akkus, Tatiana Tsyganova, Emre Oskay
Some Good Information (Hungary, Romania)
Director: László Csuja
Scriptwriter: Éva Zabezsinszkij, László Csuja
Producer: Anna Szijártó
Democracy Work In Progress (Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany)
Director, Scriptwriter: Mihály Schwechtje
Producer: Genovéva Petrovits
Starska (Poland)
Director, Scriptwriter: Piotr Adamski
Producer: Anna Gawlita, Marta Szymanowska
Voracious (Poland)
Director, Scriptwriter: Jagoda Szelc (primarily based on novel by Malgorzata Lebda)
Producer: Joanna Szymańska
Láska (Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, Croatia)
Director: Marko Škop
Scriptwriter: Zuzana Liová, Marko Škop
Producer: Marko Škop, Ján Meliš, Alice Zárubová Tabery, Marina Andree Škop
Purgatory (Slovenia, Austria)
Director: Žiga Virc
Scriptwriter: Iza Strehar
Producer: Žiga Virc, Iza Strehar
The Happiest Day (Slovenia, Norway, Italy)
Director, Scriptwriter: Sonja Prosenc
Producer: Rok Sečen
Vacuum (Ukraine)
Director, Scriptwriter: Yelizaveta Smith
Producer: Eugene Rachkovsky
Making-of (Ukraine, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic)
Director, Scriptwriter: Ivan Tymchenko
Producer: Svitlana Soloviova, Alžběta Janáčková
The KVIFF Central Stage showcase is introduced in partnership with Czech Movie Heart, German Movies, Polish Movie Institute, Slovenian Movie Centre, Slovak Movie Institute, Soundsquare, Ukrainian Institute and UPP.
Supporting Unbiased Hungarian Abilities
Along with the 2 Hungarian initiatives taking part within the KVIFF Central Stage, KVIFF Abilities will highlight István Kovács’ A Siege, a feature-length rework of his eponymous quick movie that received him the Pupil Academy Award in 2018. KVIFF Abilities, a program devoted to supporting proficient creators from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, affords a presentation alternative to at least one visitor mission chosen as one of many two finest from a Hungarian program that serves because the counterpart to KVIFF Abilities: Cine-Collegium Budapest, an impartial movie funding initiative launched below the umbrella of the Budapest Worldwide Movie Competition. Its important purpose is to help free and impartial Hungarian cinema via community-based funding, with out counting on state subsidies.
“The Cine-Collegium Budapest Basis can not resolve the disaster of the ravenous Hungarian movie trade, nevertheless it affords a sort of escape route — a final probability for a devoted creator to appreciate their movie mission via private initiative and self-sacrificing work,” mentioned the founders of the Budapest Worldwide Movie Competition and Cine-Collegium Budapest. “The unprecedented skilled solidarity behind this system throughout the Hungarian movie neighborhood additionally proves that many not solely see the scenario equally however really feel a way of duty as nicely; they’ve provided their very own cash, skilled assets, and labor as a result of they firmly consider in free filmmaking and in the way forward for Hungarian tradition. We hope that, 12 months after 12 months, we can help increasingly proficient creators and movie initiatives.”
The KVIFF Abilities showcase will happen at 4:30 pm on Monday, July 7, on the Business Essential Stage. Examine the complete listing of the KVIFF Abilities 2025 Artistic Pool & Function
In complete, this 12 months’s KVIFF Japanese Guarantees will highlight 40 promising movie and sequence within the making: 14 characteristic movies in KVIFF Central Stage, 9 therapies in Works in Improvement – Function Launch and 5 in Works in Improvement – Focus Queer, 3+1 characteristic movie and three sequence initiatives in KVIFF Abilities and 5 authentic sequence initiatives in Pop Up Collection Incubator.
