Students and graduates of European film schools have been selected for a new programme from European Film Promotion (EFP), Future Frames: Ten New Filmmakers To Follow. With the KVIFF’s support, the EFP will introduce ten directors and their films to the professional and viewing audience. The screenings and accompanying program will take place on July 6 and 7.
In spite of the directors being at the beginning of their careers, some of their films have already been included in the programmes of major festivals. The forceful family drama from Austria Everything Will Be Okay (dir. Patrick Vollrath) will get its premiere in the International Critics' Week at the festival in Cannes, the poetic Greek short Washingtonia (dir. Konstanina Kotzamani) was in competition at the Berlinale and the ambiguously dark Swedish film All We Share (dir. Jerry Carlson) won over the audiences at the festival in Locarno. The winner of the Magnesia Award for best student film in 2011, Ondřej Hudeček, will present the premiere of his short film Peacock, an inventive and chillingly funny look at the young life of a classic figure of realist drama, Ladislav Stroupežnický.
History is revisited both in The Border, in which director Mátyás Szabó pays tribute to the classics of Hungarian cinema, and in the Belgian film Perdition County (dir. Raphaël Crombez ), a sombre vision of society at the start of the 20th century. Swiss director Moïra Pitteloudová looks at the dilemma of second-generation immigrants in her film The Offer, the Norwegian film Bird Hearts (dir. Halfdan Ullman Tøndel) wittily dissects the problem of a young couple facing an unexpected crisis. The Green Line (dir. Martina Buchelová) from Slovakia is a tender commentary on the trials of a lonely mother, and Irish director James Fitzgerald depicts the situation of an eternal slacker with no future in his Skunky Dog.
The Karlovy Vary Festival Endowment Fund
KVIFF has also established The Karlovy Vary Festival Endowment Fund, the goal of which is to support master's degree students in the directing programme at FAMU and help implement their projects. The festival will provide a scholarship for selected FAMU students who already have an approved plan for their graduation film.
