03/07/2003 - Central and Eastern European cinema’s most important event will run from 4-12 July with over 200 films screening and a special focus on local production

The 38th edition of the Czech Republic’s world famous Karlovy Vary International Film Festival opens tomorrow, 4 July, and will showcase some 200 films until 12 July. The eclectic line up includes fictional features, documentaries and shorts as well as round table discussions, meetings with and for young filmmakers with professionals of the Industry Office with their very own screening room for films made over the last four years.
This year’s president of the jury is Rock Demers and his team has the task of assigning the Grand Prix Crystal Globe to the best of the 16 films selected for competition. The largely European line up includes Slovenia’s Cruel Joys by Juraj Nvota and the Czech Republic’s Pupendo by Jan Hrebejk. Germany has two films: Rudolf Thome’s return to directing - Red and Blue, as well as Italy’s La finestra di fronte [+see also:
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interview: Ferzan Ozpetek
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IN COMPETITION

-Babusya by Lidia Bobrova (RU)
-Buddy by Morten Tyldum (NO)
-The Coast Guard by Kim Ki-duk (KO)
-The Cooler by Wayne Kramer (USA)
-Cruel Joys by Juraj Nvota (CZ)
-Pupendo by Jan Hrebejk (CZ)
- Dead Man´s Memories by Markus Heltschl (GE)
-Red and Blue by Rudolf Thome (GE)
-La finestra di fronte [+see also:
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interview: Ferzan Ozpetek
film profile] by Ferzan Ozpetek (IT/UK/TU/PT)
-Fear and Trembling [+see also:
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film profile] by Alain Corneau (FR/JP)
-Magnifico by Maryo J. Delos Reyes (PH)
-Old, New, Borrowed and Blue by Natasha Arthy (DK)
-Paradise Is Somewhere Else by Abdolrasoul Golbon (IR)
- Rose`s Songs by Andor Szilágyi (HU/IT)
-Song for a Raggy Boy by Aisling Walsh (EI/UK/DK/SP)
-The World Again by Nicos Cornilios (GR)

(Translated from Italian)