Karlovy Vary reveals competition lineup

Iranian director Nima Eqlima will bring the film ‘Amir’, about “a generation whose private lives are determined more by the rules of society than by their own will” to this year’s Karlovy Vary film festival in the Czech Republic.

This is while Kyrgyz-russian entry ‘Suleiman Mountain’ by Elizaveta Stishova is a road-movie comedy-drama weighing in on healing fractured family bonds.

Ten world premieres will be among the 12 films competing for the Crystal Globe at Central and Eastern Europe’s premier film festival, Karlovy Vary, organizers have announced.

Official Selection titles will include leading Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude’s ‘I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians’, an exploration of nationality and national trauma; Argentine Ana Katz’s family drama ‘Sueno Florianopolis’; and Canadian filmmaker Sebastien Pilote’s ‘The Fireflies Are Gone’ — the story of a rebellious teen relationship, Variety wrote.

A standout performance by Caleb Landry Jones dominates Peter Brunner’s dark Austro-american drama ‘To the Night’, while two filmmakers returning to Karlovy Vary present “noticeably more poetic new films”: Russia’s Ivan Tverdovsky (‘Zoology’) will screen ‘Jumpman’, while Israeli director Joseph Madmony brings his third premiere to west Bohemia, the drama ‘Redemption’, co-directed by cinematographer Boaz Y. Yakov.

Czech Republic-based filmmaker Olmo Omerzu will screen a road movie centered on boyhood friendship, ‘Winter Flies’, while debut filmmaker Adam Sedlak