From 13 July, the KVIFF.TV platform will offer viewers a curated selection of films featured at the 59th KVIFF.
Among the highlights are two new Czech documentaries: The Czech Film Project, which searches for the identity of Czech cinema through a survey format involving voices from the local film industry, and We’ve Got to Frame It! (a conversation with Jiří Bartoška in July 2021), the festival’s opening film and winner of the Právo Audience Award, which presents a light-hearted conversation with Jiří Bartoška. As part of the tribute to the late KVIFF president, the platform will also feature the audience favourite Tiger Theory.
Another standout is Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Cinematic Cut, which shows how the creators of the globally acclaimed RPG adapted their expansive game into a feature-length film. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the death of artist and musician Dežo Ursiny, whose 1997 philosophical film essay Time Is Running Out and the Water Is Rising will offer a contemplative reflection on human existence and mortality.
To honour Jiří Brožek, who received this year’s Festival President’s Award for his remarkable body of work spanning over 180 titles, KVIFF.TV is releasing Karel Kachyňa’s melancholic classic The Death of the Beautiful Deer, giving the audiences a chance to revisit or discover it for the first time. The film will be accompanied by another newly restored Czech classic Ecce homo Homolka. This trio of golden Czechoslovak films will be joined by Pavel Juráček’s unjustly overlooked Every Young Man, an ambivalent reflection on the fate of soldiers in the socialist army in the 1960s. The 1966 film was awarded the FIPRESCI Jury Award by the International Federation of Critics at KVIFF.
The selection concludes with Claude Lanzmann’s monumental documentary Shoah – an over nine-hour, layered account of the Holocaust and World War II. Completed in 1985, the film remains a timeless and deeply moving work. It was screened in Karlovy Vary this year on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of the war.
