The opening and closing films of Karlovy Vary 2022 have been introduced

Charso Press: “Superheroes” by Paolo Genovese has been selected as the opening film of Karlovy Vary International Festival 2022 to start this event on July 1st, and meanwhile George Miller’s “3 Thousand Years of Regret” will end this festival on July 9th.

“Superheroes” is a romantic film that focuses on the joys and fears of a couple who met by chance. The film follows a timeline and accurately portrays the type of relationship at the beginning of dating and 10 years later.

In the movie “3 Thousand Years of Longing”, a professor played by Tilda Swinton goes to Istanbul to give a speech at a conference, but by buying an antique lamp in the market, he frees a genie played by Idris Elba to make 3 wishes in the style of oriental legends. fulfill him.

The film, which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is George Miller’s first film since 2015’s post-apocalyptic Mad Max: Fury Road.

This year, Karlovy Vary will be the special host of American actor, screenwriter and director Liev Schreiber to honor his 18 years of activity. In 2004, Schreiber was present at this festival to introduce the film “Everything is clear” as his first directorial experience. This film won an award from the Venice Film Festival.

Karlovy Vary also honors Jérôme Pilar, long-time executive director of the Marche de Cannes, who stepped down a few weeks ago after 27 years at the helm of the Cannes Film Festival, having worked with the department since 1995. A film called “Flood” from 1993 produced by Pilar will also be screened at the festival.

This festival is also aware of the addition of 3 new films to this year’s festival program.

This year, the film “On the Sky, Under the Water” by Darnaz Hajiha, which is to be broadcast under the title “Like a Fish on the Moon”, will be screened in the Proxima competition section. This year, Proxima has replaced the East-West competition of the Karlovy Vary festival, which was reserved for films from Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkan countries, and now filmmakers from all over the world are allowed to participate in this competitive section.

Also, “Summer with Hope” by Sadaf Foroughi, as a joint production of Iranian and Canadian cinema, will compete in the main competition section to win the crystal ball for the best film of Karlovy Vary. “Zalava” directed by Arslan Amiri will be screened in the midnight screenings section and the documentary “Jumeh Meet Robinson” by Mitra Farahani and a joint production of France, Switzerland, Iran and Lebanon will also be shown in the “out of the past” section of this film event.

Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2022 will be held in the Czech Republic from July 1 to 9 (July 10 to 18).