News Summary

• This year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the 60th (July 3-11, 2026), will lure a raft of cinema greats to the storied Czech Republic vacation spa.
• At the opening ceremony the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema will be presented to method actor Dustin Hoffman.
• The 2023 food romance “The Taste of Things” by director Tran Anh Hung, won a Best Director award at Cannes.
• In March 2024, Juliette Binoche was elected president of the European Film Academy, making her only the second woman in history to hold that post.