Overview
- Cineuropa published the full 60th Karlovy Vary programme on June 2, 2026, listing a 12‑film Crystal Globe Competition, a Proxima strand of world premieres and a wide Special Screenings section.
- The Crystal Globe selections focus on family rupture, historical trauma, migration and institutional pressure with world premieres from Central and Eastern Europe plus titles from Latin America and Asia.
- Ivan Ostrochovský’s Only Beautiful Things to Look At is among the competition entries and directly addresses state‑sanctioned sterilisation of Romany women in 1980s Czechoslovakia, reflecting the programme’s turn to lived trauma.
- Proxima continues to champion hybrid and experimental work with world premieres such as 33 Steps, Lover, Not a Fighter and Paris Paris that blur fiction and documentary forms.
- KVIFF is using its jubilee to raise public visibility with a photographic exhibition and a redesigned red carpet while reinforcing its role as the Czech Republic’s largest festival and a launchpad that can boost a film’s release trajectory.