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The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s Industry Days strand, which runs July 5-July 8, 2026, is expanding pinch a number of caller initiatives, including a caller book adjustment program.
The caller associated project, dubbed Book-To-Screen, will coming producers pinch up to 10 book titles from Central and Eastern Europe suitable for movie aliases bid adaptation. The caller inaugural is launched pinch Frankfurter Buchmesse, Svět Knihy and Moravian Library successful Brno pinch support of nan PPF Foundation. The semipermanent extremity is to create a marketplace for movie authorities of adaptations of literate useful from nan region and fortify practice betwixt nan movie and book industries.
With continued support from nan PPF Foundation, nan movie manufacture programme is structuring astir 2 complementary strands – Cinematic Focus and Screen Focus. Under nan caller structure, its show level KVIFF Eastern Promises is group broadening its world scope and is rebranding arsenic KVIFF Promises. The platform, which has been responsible for introducing projects to producers, distributors, festivals and income agents, is now dropping its location nickname and focusing connected projects from each complete nan globe.
This twelvemonth will besides spot nan summation of a strand dubbed “From True Crime Ethics to Alternative Distribution”, which will attraction connected a bid of presentations, sheet discussions and workshops crossed nan morals of existent crime stories, replacement movie distribution and innovative approaches to storytelling and backstage equity financing of projects. There will besides beryllium a position of presently disposable AI tools.
KVIFF will besides host, for nan first time, a gathering of nan Board of nan European Film Academy, which annually awards nan European Film Awards.
On July 9, nan International Casting Directors Association (ICDA) is group to coming its yearly Semiramis Award for Excellence successful Casting. The grant recognizes outstanding accomplishment successful casting and honors nan imaginative publication casting board make to nan occurrence of movie and television. Alongside this, ICDA will big a dedicated bid of panels and masterclasses exploring nan trade and effect of casting successful modern filmmaking.
Additionally, KVIFF Industry Days will big nan U.S. Department of State’s Global Media Makers Residency, a focused programme for 14-20 indie producers from nan Czech Republic and Slovakia. It’s held successful collaboration pinch U.S. embassies successful Bratislava and Prague, and Film Independent, nan L.A.-based non-profit statement supporting indie filmmakers. Designed arsenic an intensive, hands-on residency, nan programme will research caller approaches to backstage financing and tie inspiration from nan U.S. movie industry.
The show is besides continuing its business pinch Oneplay, which will support a scope of panels, masterclasses and presentations successful its Screen Focus sessions.
Finally, its KVIFF Talents programme is group to support six audiovisual useful successful nan conception stage, which will person improvement funding, mentoring from manufacture experts and nan opportunity to transportation their projects. Three features will beryllium presented successful its Feature Pool section: Exposed, from head Klára Tasovská; Nera from head Ivana Vogrinc Vidali; and Lucia Čižinská’s Until We Leave. Two fabrication bid and 1 animated movie will beryllium presented successful its Creative Pool section: series Burning Witches, written by Martina Babišová and Věra Starečková; animation The Inhalatorium from Bára Anna Stejskalová; and series K-Dream from head Adam Sedlák.
KVIFF runs July 3-11, 2026.
