The Czech monsoon season has been on for weeks now causing floods in many parts of the country. You may want to make sure that the event you are planning to visit has not been washed down by big water unless you are going to Karlovy Vary to watch films. The town's annual international film festival opens on Friday, offering more than 220 feature films from around the world, many of them are world premieres and all of them are indoor screenings. The Open Eyes section will present movies from the Cannes festival, including Lars von Trier's Antichrist and Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces. The winner of this year's Cinéfoundation student section of the Cannes festival, Bába, from the Czech director Zuzana Špidlová, is also included in the programme, as are selected Czech films from 2008 and 2009 shown with English subtitles. On... [read full story]
