JB
Jiří Bartoška
festival president
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is the largest film festival in the Czech Republic and the most prestigious such festival in Central and Eastern Europe. It is one of the oldest A-list film festivals (i.e., non-specialized festivals with a competition for feature-length fiction films), a category it shares with the festivals in Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno, San Sebastian, Montreal, Shanghai, and Tokyo. Among filmmakers, buyers, distributors, sales agents, and journalists, KVIFF is considered the most important event in Central and Eastern Europe.
Every year, the festival presents some 200 films from around the world (more than a third of which are world or European premieres), and regularly hosts famous and important filmmakers. The Karlovy Vary Festival is intended for both film professionals and the general public and offers visitors a carefully designed programme, excellent facilities, and a broad range of other services.
KVIFF Eastern Promises, the festival's industry section, strives to discover promising and talented filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, and North Africa, and to connect them with the more than 1,300 distributors, sales agents, producers, and festival programmers attending the festival.
Contact
Panská 1
Praha 1 110 00
Czech Republic
Team members
KM
Kryštof Mucha
executive director
KO
Karel Och
artistic director
UD
Uljana Donátová
PR coordinator
Hugo Rosák
Head of Film Industry Office
