Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

The 60th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival took place in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, from July 3 to 11, 2026. Juliette Binoche, Dustin Hoffman and Robert Richardson received Crystal Globes for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema. The Festival President’s Award went to Jesse Eisenberg, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Magda Vášáryová and Jeffrey Wright. KVIFF Promises awarded the EUR 20,000 Eurimages Co-production Development Award to Selamlik, directed by Jerry Carlsson, and the EUR 20,000 Eurimages Special Co-production Development Award to Reminiscence, directed by Anastasia Tykha. They Bloom at Dawn, directed by Angela Dimeska, received the EUR 10,000 MIDPOINT & KVIFF Development Award. Reminiscence also received the Connecting Cottbus Award. Producer Monika Matuszewska received the Rotterdam Lab Award for Confirmation. Producers Tomáš Hrubý, for Cowgirl, and Eva Váchová, for A Few Branches Off, received Marché du Film Producers Network Awards. KVIFF Talents supported six projects: Exposed, directed by Klára Tasovská; Until We Leave, written by Lucia Čižinská; Nera, directed by Ivana Vogrinc Vidali; the stop-motion feature Inhalatorium, directed by Bára Anna Stejskalová; the miniseries Burning Witches, written by Martina Babišová and Věra Starečková; and the miniseries K-Dream, directed by Adam Sedlák.