Karlovy Vary To Fete Viggo Mortensen, Clive Owen & Daniel Brühl While Nicole Holofcener & Steven Soderbergh Set To Present Films At Fest

Viggo Mortensen, Clive Owen, and Daniel Brühl will each receive Karlovy Vary’s Honorary Presidents Award during this year’s edition, which runs from June 28 to July 6.

Mortensen will receive the award at the festival’s opening ceremony before a screening of his latest directorial effort The Dead Don’t Hurt. The pic is Mortensen’s second outing as director and will serve as the festival’s opening film. As with his debut, he wrote the screenplay, acted as director and producer, composed the music, and performed one of the lead roles.

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Owen and Brühl will receive their honors later during the festival. To celebrate their honors Owen will show his 2004 film Closer while Brühl will screen his directorial debut Next Door.

Veteran filmmaker Steven Soderbergh will also be in town to present two of his films, Kafka and Mr. Kneff, which are being shown as part of the festival’s Kafka retrospective, The Wish to Be a Red Indian: Kafka and Cinema. Elsewhere, Nicole Holofcener will travel to Karlovy Vary to screen three of her films, Please Give, Enough Said, and 2023’s You Hurt My Feelings. Mexico-born filmmaker Michel Franco will screen his 2023 drama Memory, starring Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard. And Ti West will be in Karlovy Vary to introduce MaXXXine, the final instalment in his X trilogy, produced by A24.

Away from this year’s Karlovy Vary features, the festival also announced today that Benicio del Toro will serve as the main protagonist of the 2024 festival trailer. Each year the festival produces a satirical ‘festival trailer’ that is screened during the opening ceremony. This year’s trailer was written and directed by long-time creator of KVIFF trailers Ivan Zachariáš.

“We filmed with Benicio del Toro in May in Berlin, where he took time out for us while shooting Wes Anderson’s new film. His first response was: ‘It’s a great idea, but we have to be quick.” said Zachariáš. “Benicio was a pro. He immediately understood what I wanted from him, and so we got most of the shots in one go. We were prepared in advance, we marked all the camera positions and lenses before the shoot, and in the end, Benicio himself was surprised at how we managed it all.”

British band Kosheen will perform as part of the opening concert of the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The concert will be free for the public.

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