The 54th Karlovy Vary IFF 2019 was attended by 12 521 accredited visitors. Of that number 10 363 had Festival Passes, 395 were filmmakers, 1158 film professionals, and 605 journalists. There were a total of 497 film screenings and total of 139 271 tickets were sold. A total of 177 films were shown: 156 feature films and 29 documentary films. 34 films received their world premiere, while 8 had their international premiere and 6 their European premiere. 206 screenings were personally presented by delegations of filmmakers. 97 Press & Industry screenings were held.
1 315 producers, sales representatives, film buyers, distributors, film festival programmers, film institution representatives and other film professionals were accredited for the 54th Karlovy Vary IFF. 730 of the industry professionals came from abroad. 281 film buyers and distributors and 180 film festival programmers came to select new movies as well as nearly 40 works in progress presented at the festival.
The 55th Karlovy Vary IFF will be held from July 3rd to July 11th 2020.
