Stellan Skarsgård, Vicky Krieps & Dakota Johnson Among Names Set For Karlovy Vary
Stellan Skarsgård will be handed the festival's Crystal Globe award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema. Skarsgård will also screen his latest feature, Sentimental Value, directed by Joachim Trier. Skarsgård previously was a guest of the festival in 2002, when he presented director István Szabó's film Taking Sides.
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Vicky Krieps will receive the festival's President's Award and screen her latest film, Love Me Tender, directed by Anna Cazenave Cambet, which also debuted at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
Dakota Johnson will also receive a President's Award and screen her summer rom-com The Materialists, directed by Celine Song. Peter Sarsgaard will get a President's Award and screen his seminal 2003 journalism drama Shattered Glass.
Today, Karlovy Vary also added a 12th film to its competition lineup. The Iranian film Bidad will screen at the festival. The festival said the film was kept secret to protect the film's delegation, including director Soheil Beiraghi, who will present the world premiere in Karlovy Vary. The film follows the young singer Seti, who refuses to accept the fact that women in Iran are not allowed to perform in public. In defiance of her country's religious laws, she decides to sing in the street. Her performances quickly gain in popularity, and Seti becomes a star for a young generation that no longer wants to be oppressed by the regime.
Elsewhere, British filmmaker Mark Jenkin will screen his new short film I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash. The film will play in the festival's Imagina section.
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