Karlovy Vary Film Festival to Celebrate 80th Anniversary With Art, Historic Films

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will celebrate its 80th anniversary and its 60th festival this July with an array of special programs and screenings, KVIFF organizers announced on Tuesday morning.

The festival, which takes place in a spa town 80 miles west of Prague in the Czech Republic, will rework outdoor spaces, exhibit historic photographs and screen key films from the entire history of the festival, which launched in August 1946 and is second only to the Venice Film Festival in longevity.

(KVIFF has taken place only 60 times in 80 years because of a stretch beginning in 1959 in which it was held every other year, with the Moscow International Film Festival taking place in alternate years.)

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