Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2023

In addition to the films below there are a number of short films also screening.

View other Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Films by strand: Another Birth. Iranian Cinema Here and Now., Crystal Globe Competition, Horizons, Midnight Screenings, Proxima Competition, Special Screenings, Tribute to Yasuzo Masumura

Human Flowers Of Flesh Human Flowers Of Flesh
Human Flowers Of Flesh and After Work
After Work (Country: Sweden; Year: 2023; Director: Erik Gandini)
A consideration of the changing landscape of work and our attitudes towards it.
Allensworth (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: James Benning)
A year in a town called Allensworth.
Being In A Place: A Portrait Of Margaret Tait (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Luke Fowler)
Portrait of the Scots filmmaker.
Here (Country: Belgium; Year: 2023; Director: Bas Devos; Stars: Stefan Gota, Liyo Gong)
Stefan, a Romanian construction worker living in Brussels, is about to move back home. He cooks up a big pot of soup as a goodbye gift for friends and family. Just then, he meets a Belgian-Chinese doctoral student who specialises in mosses.
Human Flowers Of Flesh (Country: France, Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Helena Wittmann; Writer: Helena Wittmann; Stars: Angeliki Papoulia, Denis Lavant, Mauro Soares, Ingo Martens, Steffen Danek, Vladimir Vulevic, Ferhat Mouhali, Gustavo de Mattos Jahn, Nina Villanova)
Ida and her crew travel across the Mediterranean’s land and seascapes, lured by the mystique of the French Foreign Legion.
Mammalia (Country: Romania, Poland, Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Sebastian Mihăilescu; Writer: Andrei Epure, Sebastian Mihăilescu; Stars: István Téglás, Mălina Manovici. Denisa Nicolae, Steliana Bălăcianu, Rolando Matsangos, Mirela Crețan, Andreea Gheorghe)
Thirty-nine-year-old Camil embarks on a dreamlike trip where the banal and the surreal merge.
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