A DEMON, PERUVIAN TIME Travel and the “Czechoslovak Tom Jones”: Eight Offbeat Films in Karlovy Vary

AS is Tradition, Central Europe’s Biggest Cinema Fest and Party Will Feature Regional and International Films, with Kvifff Will Once Again Presentation Some Edgy, Yes, Even Outrige.

Here is Thr‘S Look at the More Unusual and Offbeat Films That Kviff Will Unspool for Cinests, Tastemakers and Industry ITSIDERS AT ITS 2025 EDITION, RUNNING JULY 4-12.

The “Czechoslovak Tom Jones”
Duchoň
Special Screenings Section

‘Duchoň’ CourTesy of Kviff

Czardas of Two Hearts, In the Slovak Valleys an I love you – Those are the Titles of the Some Hits that Made Pop Singer Karol Duchoň Into a Household Name More Than Four Decades Ago. Now, The Younger Generations in the Czech Republic and Slovakia are Discovering the Legacy of the Man Nicknamed the “Czechoslovak Tom Jones.”

Peter Bebjak (The line, Nineties) Presents A Cinematical Portrait of the Singer at Kviff that is Based on a Stage Play by Jiří Havelka and Róbert Called The Earth Remembers (Zem Pamätá). The Festival Website Teases That You Can Expect “Subtle Irony.”

All in All, We Get The Feeling That “It’s Not Unusual” May Not Be the Song to Describe this One.

A demon called jimmy jaguar, or jagu
Jimmy Jaguar
Crystal Globe Competition Section

‘Jimmy jaguar’ CourTesy of Kviff

“Jimmy Jaguar, Aka Jagu, Is A Demon Who Drifts from Soul to Soul, Awakening Something Dark Within. His Hosts Become Vessels of Revenge.”

SO reads the ominous synopsis of the Hungarian Film Written and Directed by Bener Fliegauf. Wait, There’s More, Account to the Festival Website: “Who do their victims, Chosen with no Clear Pattern, All Seem to Share the Same Ereie Trait?” They are alive Only Because “It Is Against the Law to Kill of Them.”

The Film Is Set in the “Vast, UnFORGIVING PLAINS OF HUNGARY, WHERE SLICE Hangs Heavy and Secrets Sleep Beneath the soil. Listen Closel Past.

‘The anatomy of the horses’ CourTesy of Kviff

How’s this for a cinematic Teaser with a twist? “Defeated in combat, ángel returns home to his village in a remhote part of the Peruvian Andes. Where he arrives, However, He Finds the Place has havetely changed.

In this co-reproduction Between Spain, Peru, Colombia, and France, Director Daniel Vidal Toche, Who Co-Wrote The Movie with Ignacio Vuelta, Distests of The Page. WHETHER THERE IS STILL A PLACE FOR REVOLATIONY Thinking. Ángel is joined in his quest by eustaquia, A Girl Searching for Her Sister.

IT Sounds Like Audiences Can Expect A Hell of A Ride, Both In Terms of Presentation and Story. With cinematography by angello fabini, The anatomy of the horses “Takes the Viewer on a visual and intellectual stimulating journey through the Space-Time Continuum, “Kviff Promises.

Eccentric twins
Better Go Mad in the Wild
Crystal Globe Competition Section

‘BETTER GO MAD IN THE WILD’ CourTesy of Kviff

Writer-Director Miro Remo’s Latest Loosely Develops a Theme Explored in the Book of the Same Name by Aleš Palán and Jan Šibík Life in A Single Place, “Access to Kviff.

In what Sounds Like an Absurdist Ride Outside the Norms of Society, It Tells The Story of Twins Franthysek and Ondřej Klišík, Who Have Decided To Just That, Far A. “Crazy Eccentrics or Charismatic, Pussesed Storytelers?” Asks The Festival Website.

EITHER WAY, “IN THEIR GENUINE BUCOLIC ENCANTMENT, SYA OF US ALL The CHANCE TO DISTILL OUR SOURCE OF INSPIRATION, TOSE OF US WHO WHO CONOMETIMES TIRE OF CONFORMIST ADHERENCENCE TO ORDER.”

‘Trepanation’ CourTesy of Kviff

A Syria, Germany, France Co-Production Getting the Kviff Spotlight is One of the Longst Films at this Year’s Fest, Clocking in at 222 Minutes.

And it is likely to cause debate, as far as it are Summary Suggests. “Germany, September 2014. A Syrian Refuge Camp have opened on the Outskirts of Berlin. Visual Artist and Filmmacher Ammar Al-Beik Has He have to film, docment and rebel against the conditions of life in exile, and also against the establized rules of docmentaries and features. And the Entire Dispound Into a Universe with Its Own Laws. Film History, Too. ”

Al-Beik Didn’t Just Direct the Film-He’s Also Credited with the Cinematography, Sound, Editing and Art Direction. But his story is Shared by Many Oters. Says The Kviff Website About The Film: “The Singular Cinematographic Form is Flanked with Memorable Individuals Who, Like Exile Ammar Al-Beik

‘Kingdom Come: Delivertance II’ Promo Shot CourTesy of – Kviff/Warhorse Studios

“IT’s The YEAR 1403, and the Bohemian Kingdom is in Chaos. While Roaming Marauders Sow Fear and Terror Through A Kingdom Without a Clear Ruer, Henry of Skalitz Seneks. Synopsis. “As An Ally of the Rightful King, He Is Sent to AccomPANY SIR HANS CAPON ON A DIPLOMATIC MISSION. After they are brutally attacked, However, Henry And Hans Undergo ate. Their Friendship to the Ultimate Test. ”

Forbidden Love
DON’T CALL ME MAMA
Crystal Global Competition Section

‘DON’T CALL ME MAMA’ CourTesy of Kviff

Fireworks Sound Likely. Or, as kviff puts it more philosophical: “A DRAMA About Forbidden Love, DON’T CALL ME MAMA Confronts ITS PROTAGONISTS WITH A MORAL TEST WHILE PROVOCATIVELY EXPLORING HOW DEPORISY CAN MASQUERADE as Generosity. ”

The Wim Wenders-Inpired Czech Movie Project
The Czech Film Project
Special Screenings Section

‘The Czech Film Project’ CourTesy of Kviff

If You Are Looking for A Blast From The Past with A LOCAL TWIST OR ARE CURRUS HOW WIM WIMDers Keeps Inspiration Czech Creatives, This Project From Directors Marek and Novt.

“At the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders Invited Several of His Esteated Colleagues to a Hotel Room, WHERE HE FILMED Their Reflections on the Future of Film. “This Exclusive Documentary Survey, Room 666Inspired Two Czech Producers to English in a Similar of Underting in Collaboration with the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Durying Last Year’s Festival, They Thus Invited AROUND 30 Czech or Czech-Based Filmmakers from All Generations and Asked Them ‘What Makes Czech Film Czech?’ ” ‘

The Result is in and Ready for It World Premiere. The Fest Teases “An Exciting Mosaic Not Just of Views and Opinions, But Also Of Mannerisms and Personalities.”