Ethan Hawke to Be Feted at Karlovy Vary Film Festival

Will Tizard ContributorThe 55th edition of the Karlovy Vary Intl.

KARLOVY VARY, Czech Republic (Reuters) - Stars returned to the Czech town of Karlovy Vary for its annual film festival for the first time in over two years on Friday, as central and eastern Europe's leading film industry event got back into action after a COVID hiatus. The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival opened with two-time Oscar winner Michael Caine walking the red carpet.

th festival in the picturesque spa town 80 miles west of Prague — “like half a jubilee,” he said. It’s also the first in more than two years, with last year’s festival canceled because of the pandemic and this year’s delayed from early July date to late August out of caution.The spread of the Delta variant made the August 20-28 dates tricky as well, but the feeling as the festival launched was less one of caution than of celebration.

Alissa Simon Film CriticFuture Frames is a next generation showcase comprised of short works by students and recent graduates of European film schools, curated by the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in cooperation with European Film Promotion. The selected directors and their films will be introduced to on-site festival audiences from Aug.

Alissa Simon Film CriticAfter winning Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s Crystal Globe for best director in 2018 for “Winter Flies,” the Slovenian-born Czech director Olmo Omerzu returns to its competition with the world premiere of his fourth feature “Bird Atlas.” It is co-written with his “Winter Flies” collaborator Petr Pýcha.

Alissa Simon Film CriticCompeting for the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary Film Festival, director-writer Sonja Tarokić’s impressive debut drama “The Staffroom” tackles the psychology of the workplace as experienced by idealistic, new primary school counselor Anamarija (Marina Redžepović).

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorVariety has been given exclusive access to the trailer for “Wars” (Guerres), which plays in the main competition at Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Sales on the film are being handled by Be For Films.The Canadian film, based on a screenplay by Cynthia Tremblay, centers on 20-year-old Emma, who decides to join the army, following in her father’s footsteps.

coronavirus pandemic.The 55th edition of the festival will honor Oscar-winning British actor Michael Caine for his outstanding contribution to world cinema at its start on Friday night.Caine won two Academy Awards for best supporting roles in “Hannah and Her Sisters” in 1987 and “The Cider House Rules” in 2000.He will also present “Best Sellers” (2021), a comedy in which he stars, at the festival.Organizers will also honor U.S.

While the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival prides itself on showcasing choice European fare to global cinephiles, the last six years has seen the festival build its industry strand into one of the most attractive places in Central Europe to source regional talent.

It is said that with age comes wisdom and that adage feels strikingly true when it comes to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The prominent Central European event is the one of the world’s oldest film festivals, founded in July 1946, a month before Locarno launched its first festival and few months before the Cannes Film Festival unveiled its first edition in September that same year.

Usually, when there’s casting underway for a Marvel movie, it’s a big to-do, there’s a long list, there’s a short list, there’s a big list of names in the trades and the back and forth can go on for months. Not so with “Moon Knight,” a new, upcoming Marvel limited series for Disney+ that is expected to hit sometime in 2022, starring Oscar Issac as the underground superhero and Ethan Hawke as the unnamed bad guy.

Some indie stalwarts have been around for so long; you’re kind of surprised when you realize they haven’t worked with another indie veteran. Such is kind of the case with actor Ethan Hawke and indie filmmaker Abel Ferrara.

Ethan Hawke is sharing some behind-the-scenes secrets about how he was cast in Moon Knight!

Gravitas Ventures has acquired U.S. rights to The Gig Is Up, Shannon Walsh’s feature documentary that explores the real costs of the controversial gig economy through the lives of workers from around the world for companies including Uber, Amazon and Deliveroo. The deal comes after London-based sales outfit Dogwoof acquired world rights at the European Film Market. Gravitas will now release the film October 8 in theaters and on-demand.

It was recently announced that Ethan Hawke was joining Marvel’s upcoming Disney+ TV series “Moon Knight”, in which Oscar Isaac will play the titular superhero.

Will Thorne Staff WriterAbel Ferrara has made a career as one of the industry’s leading provocateurs.While his latest film, “Zeros and Ones,” may not shock quite like “Driller Killer” or “Ms .45,” it still stands out for being very deliberately set during the pandemic.“Zeros and Ones” stars Ethan Hawke as an American soldier stationed in Rome, caught in the midst of an apocalyptic siege, wandering empty streets that feel eerily familiar.

Lockdown affected us all in peculiar ways, and given that veteran provocateur Abel Ferrara was pretty damn peculiar, to begin with, it’s no surprise that “Zeros And Ones” — a fiction that makes use of the non-fictional pandemic in ways both fascinating and frustrating — should turn out to be such a conundrum, equal parts confounding and intriguing, repellent and rewarding.

on the KVIFF website.The festival also announced that access to all screenings and festival venues will require a covid-safe wristband that confirms the wearer is either fully vaccinated, recovered from COVID-19 within the last 180 days or recently tested negative in a valid PCR or antigen test. The wristbands will be color-coded to display their effective dates.The festival will take place from Aug.

This year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Aug 20 -28) will honor actors Johnny Depp and Michael Caine, and director Jan Sverak.

Spain’s San Sebastian International Film Festival made the controversial decision to honour Johnny Depp with its Donostia Award.