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Karlovy Vary’s manufacture strand KVIFF Promises, has unveiled nan films selected for this year’s upcoming KVIFF Central Stage showcase arsenic good arsenic 8 books selected for its first version of Book-To-Screen astatine KVIFF, its caller inaugural for books searching for movie adjustment deals.
The 11 upcoming titles selected for KVIFF Central Stage, which is launched successful business pinch 8 nationalist movie institutes crossed nan region, see films from established filmmakers specified arsenic Nicolas Steiner, Antonio Lukich, Olga Chajdas and Cristina Groșan.
The films are seeking co-production, financing, sales, distribution and show premiere opportunities and will beryllium showcased during an interactive talk connected nan Film Industry Main Stage connected July 6. Participating projects will person entree to exclusive post-production advantages done business pinch studios specified arsenic UPP and Soundsquare and are eligible for nan €20,000 Eurimages Co-Production Development Award.
Titles this twelvemonth include: Flying Mountain from Swiss head Steiner; Ukrainian co-productions Screaming Girl from head Lukich and Noah from writer-director Marysia Nikitiuk; Czech film The Stones Are Rolling to Prague from Tomáš Hodan, astir nan preparations for nan Rolling Stones’ large performance successful Prague successful 1990; Czech comedy A Few Branches Off by Tomáš Pavlíček; Romanian-Hungarian head Groșan’s upcoming mob drama Lesdenzero; Polish helmer Olga Chajdas’s upcoming female roadworthy movie Tribe; German creator Sebastian Fritzsch’s Trainrider; Slovenian writer-director Goran Vojnović’s adjustment of his ain book Yugoslavia, My Fatherland; Slovak helmer’s Michal Blaško’s coming-of-age drama Cowgirl; and Austrian head Sebastian Brauneis’ boxing biography Hansi.
Book-To-Screen astatine KVIFF is simply a caller collaboration pinch nan Frankfurt Book Fair, Moravian Library successful Brno and Book World, supported by nan PPF Foundation. Inspired by nan successful Berlinale program, nan showcase will spotlight 8 books pinch beardown surface potential, written by authors from Central and Eastern Europe, a region that KVIFF Industry Head Hugo Rosák says is still underrepresented erstwhile it comes to IP improvement and nan systematic handling of literate rights.
Producers seeking caller worldly for movie and tv adaptations will person nan opportunity to observe these literate useful during an interactive talk show hosted by Niki Théron, Senior Manager International Projects and Film astatine nan Frankfurt Book Fair, connected July 7.
This year’s book action include: True Way Out, Patrik Banga’s memoir astir increasing up successful a Roma organization successful Prague’s Žižkov vicinity successful nan 1990s, which won nan Magneisa Litera grant for Best Debut successful 2023; Playing Wolf, a folk-horror from writer and literate clever clever Zuzana Říhová; Daniel Majling’s schematic novel The Zone; Moldovan writer Iulian Ciocan’s dystopian satire Queen of Hearts; Ieva Dumberytė’s Lithuanian-set surreal novel Aspic Bistro; humanities drama Cupid astatine nan Kremlin Wall from historiographer Aka Morchiladze; Polish title The River Odyssey of Kora from Willow Meadow, ah children’s book by Adam Robiński; and Sophia Andrukhovych’s Amadoka, which starts successful nan warfare successful nan Donbas.
The showcase will beryllium complemented by an IP-focused producers’ think-tank and networking session.
“Our semipermanent ambition pinch Book-to-Screen astatine KVIFF is to go a existent Central-Eastern European IP marketplace that helps create speech betwixt nan movie and publishing industries and create a much transparent situation for adjustment authorities successful nan region,” said Rosák successful a statement.
The 60th edition of nan Karlovy Vary International Film Festival takes spot July 3-11, 2026.
