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Karlovy Vary Unveils Competition Lineup & Jury Members Including ‘Roma’ Producer Nicolás Celis & Filmmaker Babak Jalali
It has announced 11 titles from its usual dozen, including Ondřej Provaznik’s Sbormistr (Broken Voices) and Hungarian title Jimmy Jaguar.
The documentary film Divia is a darkly immersive meditation which brings to light Russia’s unprecedented aggression on Ukrainian soil and its grievous impact on places that issue their indictments in silence: forests turned to ash, fields ravaged by explosions, flooded towns, or rusted hulks of military hardware in devastated regions, where life has faded away. Gabrielė Urbonaitė’s feature debut is a masterful, contemporary portrayal of the lives of millennials, who on the one hand are exposed to modernity, endless possibilities and Western Europe’s constant pressure to perform, while on the other they still carry the traumas of previous generations brought up in the Soviet Union, whose shadows are still alive in the face of current political events. Suddenly the scene freezes and, with fervour and anguish written on her face, his mother turns to us – witnesses to the dark chapters of the past century – to start telling the story: seven decades in the life of one uprooted family, beginning in 1948, when Zionist paramilitary organizations expelled more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes.
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