Karlovy Vary Lineup Includes World Premiere Of Jake Paltrow’s Adolf Eichmann Drama ‘June Zero’
deadline.comThe 56th Karlovy Vary Film Festival has unveiled its official selection, which comprises 33 films from five continents screening across three sections. Scroll down for full list.Artistic director Karel Och’s program includes twenty-seven world premieres, three international premieres, and three European premieres, covering five continents.Among the lineup are Jake Paltrow’s drama June Zero about the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann.
Shot on Super-16mm film in Israel and Ukraine, the film is produced by Miranda Bailey (God’s Country), David Silber (Incitement) and Oren Moverman (Bad Education).In addition to the Crystal Globe Competition and Special Screenings section, KVIFF’s new competition, Proxima (for young filmmakers and auteurs with films that defy categorization), will make its debut in this year’s edition.
Contrary to its preceding competition, East of the West, Proxima has no geographical restrictions and is open to filmmakers from around the world.The Czech festival will pay tribute to its longtime artistic director Eva Zaoralová with an exhibition of photographs documenting her lifelong relationship to cinema.
Zaoralová, who passed away this year, was a respected film critic, translator, teacher, and author.“From the 1,500 films that have been submitted this year, we have chosen 33 brand new works of cinema that offer the accurate reflection of our taste – a taste derived from a belief in a meaningful edginess and the championing of new means of cinematic expression that nonetheless do not stand in opposition to the audience’s receptiveness and inclinations,” Karel Och said.Below are the lineups with the festival’s synopses.Crystal Globe CompetitionAmerica / America / Amerika Director: Ofir Raul Graizer Israel,
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