News Festival tips for Tuesday, July 7th

Published: July 07, 2015| 08:00 AM

Tuesday brings KVIFF Talk with Lebanese filmmakers, The Snake Brothers competing for the Crystal Globe and Udo Kier introducing the film Zero.

Tuesday’s programme will start at 10.30 a.m. in the Vodafone Lounge in the hotel Thermal with KVIFF Talks with Lebanese directors and producers introducing their films in the section A Week of Lebanese Cinema.

Actors Kryštof and Matěj Hádek will sign autographs at the RWE stand on the Mill Colonnade at 2 pm. An hour later you can meet them for Tea at Three at the Czech Television House. The actors will, together with the director Jan Prušinovský and other cast members, introduce their film The Snake Brothers. This drama competes for the Crystal Globe and is being screened today in international premiere (at 5 pm at the Grand Hall ). Box, a co-production drama screened in Main Competition, is also having its world premiere today (8 pm at the Grand Hall).

Tuesday will see the international premiere of the Polish film No Matter How Hard We Tried (4 pm at the Karlovy Vary Theatre) and the world premiere of the Hungarian German drama The Wednesday Child (6.30 pm at the Karlovy Vary Theatre); both films are competing in the East of the West section. The German actor Udo Kier is returning to the festival today to introduce the world premiere of the film Zero (4 pm at the Karlovy Vary Theatre).

Do a good deed today and take part in the Joy and Life March leaving at 5.15 pm from the Breast Dome. The singer Dan Bárta will also support the Alliance of Women with Breast Cancer with his charity concert starting at 6.30 pm at the Finlandia tent.

At 2 pm Anton Klimov will introduce The Ascent, the masterpiece drama of his prematurely deceased mother Larisa Shepitko. Come see this story of partisans inspired by the Bible to the Grand Hall. Also on the programme: introduction and Q&A with Jan Těšitel, the director of the premiering Czech film David competing in the section Forum of Independents. And do not miss the international premiere of the British film I Am Belfast (18.30 Kino Čas)​ introduced by the director Mark Cousins, another filmmaker who enjoys returning to the festival, and other crew members.

And tonight at 9.30 pm the nonconformist Japanese director Sion Sono will finally reveal why he chose the film Babe as the film of his heart for his Six Close Encounters presentation. Click here for the complete list of Tuesday’s accompanying events.

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