Photo: Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary
The Karlovy Vary film festival is currently in full swing in the West Bohemian spa town. As every year, the region’s biggest cinema event offers extremely broad fare, from main competition films to fascinating documentaries – and all sorts of titles in between.
We Were Never Modern by Matěj Chlupáček has been one of the most anticipated films at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
The main Crystal Globe competition picture is set in a Baťa style industry town in Slovakia – and also features a very modern theme, as the director explained to the festival’s KVIFF.TV.
“The whole idea for the film came from screenwriter Miro Šifra, who found a book on forensic medicine by a professor Hájek from the ‘30s, where a full 100 pages were devoted to hermaphroditism – or intersex as we call it today. We were really intrigued by the fact that today’s big taboo topic was, at that time, written about so extensively. It was then partly forgotten. From the ‘40s until the 21st century, we pretended these things don’t exist, and we are only discovering them now.”
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Author: Ian Willoughby