Dustin Hoffman, Juliette Binoche, and Jeffrey Wright to Be Honored with Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Awards

As usual, 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, including Dustin Hoffman, Juliette Binoche, and Jeffrey Wright. The festival is key in the year’s film circuit, nestled between Cannes and Venice.

KVIFF 60 will open with the Argentinian-Spanish documentary “The Match.” Directed by Juan Cabral and Santiago Franco, the film chronicles the memorable 1986 Football World Cup match between Argentina and England. “One of the most captivating movies at this year’s Cannes proves that certain iconic moments from sports history can touch the very essence of human existence,” says KVIFF’s Artistic Director Karel Och.

This anniversary edition of the festival will conclude with a screening of Noah Segan’s melancholy crime drama “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York” (October 16, Sony Pictures Classics), which broke out at Sundance. The film stars John Turturro as an old-school pickpocket who finds himself in a dangerous race against time through city streets.

At the opening ceremony the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema will be presented to renowned method actor, seven-time Oscar nominee, and two-time Oscar-winner Dustin Hoffman (“Rain Man,” “Kramer vs. Kramer”).

‘Tuner’Courtesy Everett Collection

This summer, Hoffman is starring opposite Leo Woodall in “Tuner” (Metascore: 75), which was directed by Academy Award-winning director Daniel Roher and debuted at the 2025 Telluride Film Festival. Hoffman’s upcoming memoir “Look at Me” will be published November 10 by Simon & Schuster imprint Simon Six. Also screening at KVIFF is Hoffman’s breakthrough film “The Graduate,” directed by Mike Nichols.

And on closing night, the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema will be presented to the Oscar (“The English Patient”), César (“Three Colours: Blue”), and European film Award (“Les Amants du Pont Neuf”) winner Juliette Binoche. Her Hollywood (and English-language) breakthrough came with 1988’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” directed by Philip Kaufman.

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In 2019, the European Film Academy honored her with its Achievement in World Cinema Award. The 2023 food romance “The Taste of Things” by director Tran Anh Hung, won a Best Director award at Cannes and was France’s submission for the Oscars. 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.

Aside from his notable collaborations with Scorsese and Stone, since 2003, Richardson has worked closely with Quentin Tarantino, with whom he shot “Kill Bill 1” (2003), “Kill Bill 2” (2004), “Inglourious Basterds” (2009), “Django Unchained” (2012), “The Hateful Eight” (2015), and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” (2019).

Robert Richardson has been a member of the American Society of Cinematographers since 1992, which honored him with its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.

Character actor Harvey Keitel enjoys KVIFF and returns for his third time. At the festival’s 39th edition in 2004, Keitel accepted a Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema. Eleven years later, he returned to Karlovy Vary to introduce Paolo Sorrentino’s “Youth,” in which he played one of the main roles. The film won the Právo Audience Award, which Keitel accepted in person. Over the decades Keitel has worked with many top directors in Hollywood, including Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Ridley Scott, Jane Campion, and Abel Ferrara, among others.

The festival will present “Mean Streets,” the screening of which will be attended by the actor in person.

This year’s annual set of KVIFF film trailers includes Keitel and Stellan Skarsgård. The short were directed by the long-term creative mind behind the festival trailers, Ivan Zachariáš. The trailer with Skarsgård will premiere at the opening ceremony of KVIFF 60.

As previously announced, the program will include the Crystal Globe and Proxima competitions, and Special Screenings: Classics, Future Frames: Generation NEXT of European Cinema, and the special edition of Out of the Past. The popular Horizons overview section is buttressed by the showcase of experimental films gathered under the Imagina section, and a selection of genre or “midnight” films in the Afterhours section. The festival will present more than 130 feature-length fiction and documentary films.

Horizons will feature 55 new films from the current festival season including Cannes, from the Palme d’Or-winning “Fjord” directed by Cristian Mungiu, to the latest works by Oscar-winning filmmakers Pawel Pawlikowski (“Fatherland”) and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (“All of a Sudden”). From Berlinale, audiences can look forward to the Golden Bear winner “Yellow Letters,” and a biopic about legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans.

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For the thirteenth time, Imagina will screen approximately twenty short and feature-length experimental films. The former Midnight Screenings section is again called Afterhours. These genre films include the Cannes feminist slasher “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” the energetic mockumentary about cultural icon Charli XCX, “The Moment,” and the South Korean zombie film “Colony.”