{"id":2776,"date":"2026-06-30T10:06:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:06:59","slug":"a-qualified-plumber-colombia-and-more-karlovy-vary-has-lined-up-several-firsts-for-its-60th-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2776","title":{"rendered":"A Qualified Plumber, Colombia and More: Karlovy Vary Has Lined Up Several Firsts for Its 60th Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tYou are never too old to experience a first! Even if you are the world\u2019s second-oldest film festival, behind the Venice Film Festival.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe\u00a0Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) celebrates its 60th edition in its 80th year from July 3 through July 11 this year, and it will do so with Hollywood stars in attendance and new film discoveries. The Czech festival has, over the decades, hosted all sorts of movies and celebrities. <\/p>\n

\n\tBut it will nonetheless get to revel in some debuts and firsts during its 2026 double anniversary edition beyond all its film premieres.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere is a quick look at the first-evers set for KVIFF 2026.<\/p>\n

\nFirst Film From Myanmar<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tBurmese writer-director Aung Phyoe\u00a0is bringing the first-ever KVIFF film from Myanmar to this year\u2019s competition lineup. His feature debut is entitled Fruit Gathering<\/em> (Thit-thee Khu<\/em>).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe cinematographer for the movie is\u00a0Thaiddhi, with\u00a0Emily Swe handling editing. The cast includes Nandar Myat Aung, Nandar Myint Lwin, Thida Soe Khant, Tin Tin Ei and Min Nyo. KVIFF promises an exploration of \u201chow women\u2019s desires survive in a country where intimacy and love between women remain socially unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is described as life in contemporary Myanmar seen through the eyes of two young women, which the fest said \u201ccan look quite oppressive.\u201d They work at a textile factory in Yangon, the largest city in the country. \u201cThey face exhausting work, social repression and economic uncertainty,\u201d reads a synopsis. \u201cAlthough the grueling pace of everyday life stifles opportunities for human connection, both women continue to dream of intimacy and escape. When they grow closer, they set in motion the previously silenced fibers of their own emotions.\u201d <\/p>\n

\nFirst Colombian Film<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tWriters-directors\u2019 Esteban Hoyos Garc\u00eda and Juan Miguel Gelacio Ram\u00edrez\u2019s Five Years, Four Months<\/em> (Cinco a\u00f1os, cuatro meses<\/em>), a co-production between Colombia and the U.S., world premieres in KVIFF\u2019s competition program, marking the first Colombian movie at the Czech festival.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNot only did Martha lose her oldest son, but to this day, she doesn\u2019t know what happened to him or his remains,\u201d reads a synopsis on the KVIFF website. \u201cAfter years of searching in vain, she meets Sandra, who offers her one more possibility, perhaps her last hope: to set out for a remote place where the line between the living and the dead is blurred. The directorial duo \u2026 gives voice to Colombian women who, after their children\u2019s disappearance, took the search into their own hands. The film\u2019s subdued, focused narrative calls attention to one of the most painful consequences of the country\u2019s long-lasting armed conflict while portraying the search for peace and reconciliation in a place that has never witnessed a farewell.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe film, whose cast includes Jenny Nava and Carmi\u00f1a Mart\u00ednez, features cinematography by Paula Moreno Vergara, with editing by Gelacio Ram\u00edrez. Patra Spanou Film is handling sales.<\/p>\n

\nA Plumber on the Proxima Competition Jury<\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition to its Crystal Globe competition, KVIFF also programs the Proxima competition, which is now in its fifth year, to provide a space for \u201cbold works by young filmmakers and renowned auteurs alike\u201d from around the globe. It replaced the East of the West competition, which was established in the 1990s with the goal of helping filmmakers from the former Eastern Bloc.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong the Proxma jurors this year is Jakub Felcman, whom a KVIFF bio describes as \u201ca Czech screenwriter, festival organizer, film critic, creative producer, director, and qualified plumber.\u201d As a script editor, he collaborated on films by Jan N\u011bmec, Petr V\u00e1clav, Radu Jude, and Corneliu Porumboiu. <\/p>\n

But has the jury for Proxima, or any other KVIFF competition, for that matter, ever included a qualified plumber? Not that anyone at the festival can remember. \u201cI am not aware of any trained craftsmen being on the jury before,\u201d festival artistic director Karel Och tells THR<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019m sure there have been a lot of people who could do things manually, both men and women, but I\u2019m not sure about any trained plumbers. Jakub is an incredibly interesting person, and we\u2019re happy he will join us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nFirst Swiss Competition Film<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tSwitzerland has been represented at KVIFF before. But no movie from the country has ever screened in its competition \u2013 until this year.<\/p>\n

\nA Happy Family<\/em> comes courtesy of director Jan-Erick Mack, who has previously made shorts and TV series Wilder\u00a0<\/em>and Davos 1917<\/em>. He co-wrote the script with Anna Schinz, Nikita Afanasjew and Eva Kienholz. Schinz also stars, along with Michael Neuenschwander, Julia Jentsch, Alireza Bayram, Bettina Stucky and Martina Apostolova. Benjamin Fueter edited the film, using cinematography by Yunus Roy Imer.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is another film exploring challenging themes and topics. \u201cNiki works two jobs, but the little money she earns is barely enough to cover the living expenses for her and her two young children,\u201d reads a synopsis on the festival website. \u201cOne day, when the children are left unsupervised, they accidentally set the kitchen on fire, and so the Swiss authorities place them with a foster family on the other side of the country. Though forbidden from contacting her children, Niki decides to track them down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first Swiss film in the main KVIFF competition actually closes the circle in a sense for the festival and its long history. \u201cThis is a year of looking back with our two anniversaries, and at the first festival in August 1946, our colleagues actually screened 14 films in 14 days, and one of them was Swiss,\u201d Och tells THR<\/em>. That was Leopold Lindtberg\u2019s refugee drama The Last Chance<\/em> (Die Letzte Chance<\/em>), which then went on to screen at Cannes, where it won the Grand Prix. \u201cI\u2019m really happy about this connection of a Swiss film at the first edition of the festival, and a Swiss film in competition now, 80 years later.\u201d<\/p>\n

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