Special Screenings / The Story of Documentary Film - 1980s / United Kingdom 2026
The Karlovy Vary IFF’s nearly fifteen-year friendship with Mark Cousins, whose stunning film essays have impressed countless viewers over the years, is firmly rooted in a shared passion for the world of cinema and in the festival’s sincere admiration for this inimitable Northern Irish filmmaker, writer, curator, film critic and traveller. After what are now legendary series The Story of Film: An Odyssey and Women Make Film, the magnetic storyteller brings us another saga, this time devoted to documentary film. Of his sixteen hour-long chapters embracing the entire history of the tenth muse, Cousins selected for Karlovy Vary the part that centres on the 1980s, an era that was fundamental for our region from a socio-political perspective.
Karel Och
120 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Mark Cousins
/ Screenplay Mark Cousins
/ Dir. of Photography Mark Cousins
/ Sound Zoë Irvine
/ Editor Mark Cousins
/ Producer John Archer
/ Production Hopscotch Films
/ Sales Dogwoof
Mark Cousins. Selected filmography: The First Movie (2009, doc.), What Is This Film Called Love (2012, doc.), The Eyes of Orson Welles (2018, doc.), The March on Rome (Marcia su Roma, 2022, doc.), A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things (2024, doc.).
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