GWFF award winner and coco projects in Karlovy Vary

With the Croatian-Serbian co-production THE UNCLE, the renowned A Film Festival in Karlovy Vary (1.-9.7.2022)  is screening a film by a FilmFestival Cottbus award winner:

Ivan Kelava, the Croatian producer of David Kapac's debut film, was awarded the GWFF funding prize for a talented film production student in 2014. One of the main roles in THE UNCLE is played by Serbian acting star Predrag Miki Manojlović. The film is running in the newly created Proxima competition.

No less than three films pitched as projects at connecting cottbus, the co-production market of FilmFestival Cottbus, in recent years are running in the main competition in Karlovy Vary, the Crystal Globe competition:

Tomasz Wiński's unusual love triangle story BORDERS OF LOVE (Czech Republic, Poland), which was presented at connecting cottbus under the working title IMAGES OF LOVE, Beata Parkanová's sensitive family saga THE WORD (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland) about a notary who falls under the wheels of "normalization" after the suppression of the Prague Spring, and the experimental dystopian eco-thriller VESPER (Lithuania, France, Belgium) by Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper.