Overview
- The 60th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival opened Friday with Dustin Hoffman receiving the Crystal Globe for outstanding artistic contribution and Maggie Gyllenhaal honored with the festival’s President’s Award.
- Hoffman watched a career showreel, gave an emotional speech and will present a special screening of Mike Nichols’s The Graduate during his retrospective.
- The festival’s opening-night screening was the 1986 World Cup documentary The Match by Juan Cabral and Santiago Franco, followed by a townwide music show and a planned 1,300‑drone display over Karlovy Vary.
- A grand jury is considering 12 films for the top prize, the Crystal Globe, with competition screenings and deliberations scheduled through the festival’s July 3–11 run.
- Robert Richardson will introduce his documentary portrait, several retrospectives are underway, and the festival’s mix of premieres and honors aims to spotlight established figures while promoting new films from Central Europe and beyond.