ROMANIAN TIFF AND CZECH KARLOVY VARY HEAT UP THE FESTIVAL SUMMER
It’s Film Festival Season in South East Europe!
The busy festival summer kicks off this weekend with the 24th annual Transilvania International Film Festival in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, followed in July by the 59th festival in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, and the 72nd Pula Film Festival in Croatia.
Next in August are Locarno (the 78th edition) and Sarajevo (the 31st), the largest regional festival in South East Europe.
And there’s more to explore on the festival circuit! Packed programs with an increasing number of sidebars, industry platforms and special cultural events offer festivalgoers plenty to choose from.
Whether you’re a film industry insider or a tourist, European festival summer is welcoming to all guests. Enjoy!
TIFF Romania – https://tiff.ro/en
Karlovy Vary – https://www.kviff.com/en/homepage
Pula – https://pulafilmfestival.hr/?lang=en
Locarno – https://www.locarnofestival.ch/home.html
Sarajevo – https://www.sff.ba/en
“Greek Apricots” at Future Frames in Karlovy Vary
Short film by Slovenian director Jan Krevatin, “Greek Apricots” – which L.A. audiences saw at SEEfest in May, is part of European Film Promotion’s program Future Frames at the upcoming Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, July 4 – 12.
The film portrays a couple brought together by their shared Macedonian roots on a quiet summer night, and features renowned N. Macedonian actress Labina Mitevska (“Before the rain,” “I am from Titov Veles”). Congrats to the young filmmaker!
…and a few books to read on long summer nights…
Maya Ombasic, from Bosnia and Herzegovina and based in Quebec, Canada, whose breakout debut “Mostarghia” established her on the international literary scene, has several books in print albeit mostly in French.
“Lejla” (Dans les murs) features a woman traveling to Trieste, a city she’s fascinated by since childhood, and a city that encapsulates the unique milieu of Central/East and Southeast Europe.
And More:
Andrey Kurkov, Ukrainian author whose novel “The Silver Bone,” translated by Boris Dralyuk, was on the 2024 International Booker Prize longlist.
Georgi Gospodinov: The Bulgarian author, who won the 2023 International Booker Prize with “Time Shelter,” translated by Angela Rodel.
Jenny Erpenbeck, a German author from the former East Germany, won the 2024 International Booker Prize for “Kairos,” translated by Michael Hofmann. This novel is set in the final years of communist East Germany.
“This Way to Paradise – Dancing on the tables,” a book about life in Greece, by lifelong Philhellene (and a supporter of SEEfest since its early days,) Willard Manus.
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