A Belgian World Premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2025!
Young director Manoël Dupont’s debut feature film, "Before After", will have its world premiere at the prestigious Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2025!
Recognized as the most important film festival in the Czech Republic and one of the leading festivals in Central and Western Europe, Karlovy Vary is classified as an A-category festival. Each year, it showcases an international selection of approximately 200 fiction and documentary films across several competitive sections. The festival regularly welcomes renowned and influential filmmakers and attracts both industry professionals and the general public. Karlovy Vary is a key event for discovering emerging talent and celebrating auteur cinema.
Following the success of his first short film, Oil Oil Oil, which was selected for the International Competition at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and screened at numerous festivals worldwide, Manoël Dupont will now present his first feature-length film, Before After, in its world premiere at Karlovy Vary. The fiction short was produced by Les Films de la Récré and is internationally represented by Outplay Films. The film also received light production support from the Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel.
Jérémy meets Baptiste.
Their shared baldness takes them to Istanbul,
where clinics claim to reverse the course of time.
Amid shifting winds and silent unrest,
they search for meaning in a city not their own.
Day by day, a fragile bond forms, in the hope of change.
The festival will take place from Friday, July 4 to Saturday, July 12, 2025, in Karlovy Vary!
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