News Highlights of the Festival Daily
Published: June 28, 2019| 10:16 AM
The first issue of the Festival Daily is packed with anticipation. In it you can read how to meet Julianne Moore and this year's other stars, what is in store for you at the inaugural concert, and who will be speaking at the popular KVIFF Talks. In addition we also recommend the interviews with Karel Och, Helena Třeštíková and Aleš Najbrt about how they created this year's visual design alongside Jakub Spurný.
Photo of the Day
The first screenings began this morning in the festival cinemas! Tomorrow you can go see, for example, the digitally restored The Cremator in the Grand Hall or the competition films Monsoon and The August Virgin. Tomorrow Julianne Moore and Bart Freundlich will present their film The Myth of the Fingerprints; also much anticipated is the KVIFF Talk in honour of Youssef Chahine.
Event of the Day
It is not an easy film, but there is a lot at stake in it. Julianne Moore will open the festival today with the new work After the Wedding, inspired by the eponymous drama by director Susanne Bier. It is quite a display, with a fascinating gender twist, writes Veronika Bednářová in the Festival Daily, with director (and Julianne Moore's husband) Bert Freundlich turning the tables and making the main characters female.
Sentence of the Day
"This year we want to show young Czech filmmakers the section Liberated with works made at the start of the 90s. Because if all you look at the debut work Let's All Sing Around, or say Smoke or The Flames of Royal Love, these are works you have to measure yourself against. Each of these films has its own particular poetic language. It could open up a broader debate about the current state of Czech film."
The festival's artistic director Karel Och extends an invitation to a selection of works made at the start of the 90s. Aside from the aforementioned films, the section Liberated will also screen the movies Time of the Servants, The Inheritance, It's Better to Be Wealthy and Healthy than Poor and Ill, and Requiem for a Maiden.