For regular and first-time visitors, we’ve put together a summary of everything that’s new at the festival this year.
You will almost certainly have noticed that our website recently got a makeover. We are sure you’ll appreciate the more user-friendly and easy-to-navigate design.
After twentyfour years, the festival award from the Moser glassworks is changing in size. The Globes have shed 1.8 kg in weight, are 7.5 cm shorter, and the crystal ball is 2.4 cm smaller in diameter. The new statuette is 34.5 cm tall and weighs 2.6 kg.
The festival’s official coffee is Caffè Vergnano. You’ll find the Caffè Vergnano Lounge, open daily from 9am to 9pm, near KVIFF.TV Park. Here, you can get coffees and other drinks, or attend coffee workshops and contests.
This year, Dvořák Park will be graced not by stalls but by a new café from Rodinné domy Rýmařov, operated by festival partner Progresus.
The Public Interest Bar moves from the Imperial Baths to the Hotel Tosca.
The existing outlets with festival merch – in front of the Hotel Thermal and on the hotel’s ground floor – have been joined by a shop located in the former Municipal Savings Bank (Sparkasse) on Divadelní náměstí. It is open every day from 10am to 8pm.
New this year, professional child-minding services are provided by Bestnanny. In view of limited availability, please reserve dates and times as soon as possible.
In addition to the three traditional rental stations at the Hotel Thermal, the Grandhotel Pupp, and the tent city, this year we’ve added a fourth bicycle rental station next to the footbridge on Divadelní náměstí.
The Jakub Voráček Foundation has helped people with multiple sclerosis for more than nine years. You’ll find the foundation’s tent, “Kluka Puka,” on Divadelní náměstí, where it is open every day from 10am. You can support the foundation by purchasing a gift item or even by engaging in exercise – by renting a Specialized bicycle, free for the first hour (there is a fee for each additional commenced hour; more information HERE).
As in past years, Campari has prepared a special drink, the Negroni KVIFF 58 – an entirely new mix made especially for the festival’s 58th edition. Get it at the Campari Lounge in KVIFF.TV Park.
This year, we have added two new forms of accreditation, Press Light and Industry Light, which offer cheaper forms of accreditation (with fewer benefits) for journalists and filmmakers. Also new this year, we have added an industry accreditation location and transportation counter on Carlsbad Plaza next to the Imperial Baths.
On the occasion of receiving a KVIFF President’s Award, actor Ivan Trojan will appear in a special performance of Frogs, to be held at the Karlovy Vary Municipal Theatre on 3 July at 10pm. Playwright Petr Zelenka (who will also direct) wrote the play for Trojan’s sixtieth birthday. You can meet Ivan Trojan in person at a KVIFF Talk in KVIFF.TV Park on 4 July at 2:30pm.
The special exhibition Stars by Tono Stano presents well-known as well as previously unseen photographs of important guests of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The exhibition can be seen on the first floor of the former Municipal Savings Bank starting 30 June 2024, daily from 10am to 8pm. Admission is free for holders of festival accreditation or Festival Passes.
First-hand brews throughout the year.
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