As if the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) wanted extra star energy for the double anniversary of its 60th edition in its eightieth yr, it has lined up Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick and Harvey Keitel to affix the listing of celebrities in attendance on the Czech movie fest this yr.
The daring names had been unveiled on Tuesday together with Dustin Hoffman, Juliette Binoche and legendary cinematographer Robert Richardson, who will obtain this yr’s Crystal Globes for excellent inventive contributions to world cinema, plus Jeffrey Wright, who shall be honored with KVIFF’s President’s Award.
For its newest version, which runs July 3-11, the Czech cinema celebration beforehand unveiled Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jesse Eisenberg as President’s Award honorees.
Harvey Keitel, courtesy of KVIFF
“Renowned American actor Harvey Keitel will make his third appearance at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival,” organizers stated on Tuesday. “At the festival’s 39th edition in 2004, Keitel was awarded a Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema. Eleven years later, he returned to Karlovy Vary in order 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.”
On the event of Keitel’s go to to KVIFF 2026, the pageant will current Imply Streets, the screening of which the star will attend.
The anniversary version of the Czech fest can even develop into a particular household affair. “Actress, producer, and director Kyra Sedgwick and actor, director, producer, and musician Kevin Bacon, together with [children] Travis and Sosie Bacon, will present the film Family Movie,” organizers unveiled. The horror-comedy co-directed by Bacon and Sedgwick and starring their kids had its world premiere on the 2026 SXSW Movie Pageant.
Kyra Sedgwick, courtesy of John Russo
Sedgwick is an Emmy Award- and a Golden Globe-winning actress, producer and director “whose film and television work has captured and defined the zeitgeist,” KVIFF highlighted.
It lauded Bacon as “one of the foremost actors whose talent for balancing starring roles with powerful supporting characters in film, television and on stage has allowed him to build a varied and critically acclaimed body of work.”
KVIFF on Tuesday additionally unveiled its opening and shutting movies for this yr’s version. It is going to open with the Argentinian-Spanish documentary The Match, directed by Juan Cabral and Santiago Franco, which chronicles the 1986 soccer World Cup match between Argentina and England, which is notorious for Diego Maradona’s “Hand of God” aim. “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,” stated KVIFF inventive director Karel Och.
KVIFF’s double anniversary version will wrap up with Noah Segan’s crime drama The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, starring John Turturro, which had its world premiere at Sundance.
