A staff member walks among empty seats inside a cinema before a broadcast of an opening ceremony, as the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival launches a nationwide programme to bring its films to cinemas around the country after cancelling its main events following the coronavirus disease outbreak in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, July 3, 2020.
A Czech film festival disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic unveiled a scaled-down programme of movies on Friday with an opening ceremony in an empty auditorium and a star-free red carpet. The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, central and eastern Europe’s leading movie extravaganza, announced in April it was cancelling its main events as the novel coronavirus shuttered cinemas and mass gatherings.
Restrictions have since eased, allowing the festival’s president, actor Jiri Bartoska, to unveil a list of 16 foreign and domestic films on Friday.He gave his speech in the festival’s main venue, with the red carpet laid out at the entrance but no guests around to walk on it this year. The event usually draws A-list celebrities, dozens of films and hundreds of fans to the screening rooms in the spa town of Karlovy Vary from June to July.“Each year at this moment, we present the Crystal Globe and this year it belongs to you, cinema managers and spectators,” Bartoska said in the speech that was recorded to be screened at the cinemas before each film.
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