Open AccessKarlovy Vary 2005
Author(s) -
Ron Holloway
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
kinema
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2562-5764
pISSN - 1192-6252
DOI - 10.15353/kinema.vi.1095
Subject(s) - film festival , czech , dozen , history , geography , art history , demography , sociology , philosophy , linguistics , arithmetic , mathematics
KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2005 "Life Begins at Forty!" ran the trailer for this year's 40th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (1-9 July 2005). But, as some asked, was this really the 40th anniversary? Since the festival was officially founded in the summer of 1946 - thus making it older than Cannes, founded in September of 1946 - then KVIFF should rightly be 59 years old, in contrast to the 58th anniversary celebrated by Cannes last May. There are two bumps in the road, however. First of all, the Czech event was programmed in the neighbouring spa of Marienbad for its first three years, not in Karlovy Vary at all. Secondly, beginning in 1958 and lasting until 1994, Karlovy Vary was forced by a FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Associations) recommendation to alternate annually with Moscow. This festival carousel went on until 1994, when both Karlovy Vary...