The first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932 ; the other major and oldest film festivals of the world are: Cannes Film Festival ( 1946 ), Festival del film Locarno ( 1946 ), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( 1946 ), Edinburgh International Film Festival ( 1947 ), Melbourne International Film Festival ( 1951 ), Berlin International Film Festival ( 1951 ) and Toronto International Film Festival ( 1976 ).

* Competitive feature film: The festivals in Berlin, Cairo, Cannes, Goa, Karlovy Vary, Locarno, Mar del Plata, Montreal, Moscow, San Sebastián, Shanghai, Tokyo, Venice, and Warsaw are accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations ( FIAPF ) in the category of competitive feature films.

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival () is a film festival held annually in July in Karlovy Vary ( Carlsbad ), Czech Republic.

The Karlovy Vary Festival gained worldwide recognition over the past years and has become one of Europe's major film events.

The Karlovy Vary film festival is one of the oldest in the world.

The Karlovy Vary IFF first held an international film competition in 1948.

fr: Festival international du film de Karlovy Vary

The film, Nargis, and Khan received numerous awards and nominations, and Nargis won the Filmfare Best Actress Award and became the first Indian to receive the Best Actress award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

The film La finestra di fronte ( 2003 ) was particularly successful, winning the Best Film and Scholars Jury awards at the 2003 David di Donatello Awards, the Crystal Globe and Best Director awards at the 2003 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the 2003 Silver Ribbon for Best Original Story from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, the Festival Prize at the 2004 Foyle Film Festival, the Audience Award at the 2004 Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival, and the Canvas Audience Award at the 2004 Flanders International Film Festival.

Director Michael Apted was nominated for a Crystal Globe award for the film at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and screenwriter Dana Stevens was nominated for Best Motion Picture at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards.

Vláčil was awarded many film prizes like the Prize of the International Film Festival 1998 in Karlovy Vary or the Czech Lion Prize for his longstanding contribution to world film culture.

The film won a prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

It was also shown at film festivals in Helsinki, Toronto, Copenhagen, Zagreb, Karlovy Vary and the below venues and it will be shown in Warsaw, Vancouver and São Paulo.

The young Albanian director Eno Milkani ( His documentary " Edeni i braktisur "-script by Roland Gjoza, a " G & G FilmPro " production-participated in the 38th edition of Karlovy Vary film festival ) has written the script of his upcoming movie " Shenjtorja " ( The Saint ) based on Keko's " Dymbëdhjetë shenjtorë, një profet dhe disa njerëz " ( Twelve Saints, a Prophet and Some People ).

Streetheart ( Le coeur au poing ) is a 1998 film that was awarded the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1998.

Her best known film is Babusya which earned her a special jury prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2003.

A shortened version of the film won the Crystal Globe Grand Prix at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in Czechoslovakia in 1957.

The film was also selected for official screenings at the Toronto, London, Pusan, Hof, Vancouver, Hawaii, Taipei, Rotterdam, Jerusalem, Karlovy Vary and Oslo film festivals.

Brešan also won Best Director at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for the film in the same year.

Born in Karlsbad, Bohemia in Austria-Hungary ( present-day Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic ), Frank was taught by his father ( a proponent of Georg Ritter von Schönerer ’ s policies ) about nationalist agitation.

In the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival he won a prize as one the world ’ s ten most prominent film directors.

The projected union initially aroused great opposition: he did not consult with his father, who had been on vacation in Karlovy Vary and making arrangements to secure the hand of a German princess for his son, or his Prime Minister Dr. Vladan Đorđević, who was visiting the Paris Universal Exhibition at the time of the announcement.

Other international airports include Brno-Tuřany Airport, Karlovy Vary Airport, Ostrava Leos Janacek Airport, Pardubice Airport, and Kunovice Airport.

In 1999 he received the Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

The pre-war dream of many enthusiastic filmmakers materialized in 1946 when a non-competition festival of films from seven countries took place in Mariánské Lázně and Karlovy Vary.

After the first two years the festival moved permanently to Karlovy Vary.

The great social and political changes that took place after the Velvet Revolution in November 1989 pushed concerns about organizing the Karlovy Vary IFF to the background.

In 1994 the 29th Karlovy Vary IFF inaugurated an entirely new tradition.

The Karlovy Vary Film Festival Foundation was set up in 1993 co-created by the Ministry of Culture, The City of Karlovy Vary, and the Grand Hotel Pupp.

Since 1998 the organization of the festival has been carried out by Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary, a joint stock company.

The Karlovy Vary competition quickly found a place among other developing festivals and by 1956 FIAPF had already classified Karlovy Vary as a category A festival.

Given the creation of the Moscow IFF and the political decision to organize only one " A " festival for all socialist countries, Karlovy Vary was forced to alternate with Moscow between 1959 and 1993.

In 1997, he received the Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

It was shown at the Cannes Film Festival, the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, the Auckland Film Festival, the Austin Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival before going into limited release in the US.

In 1998, Douglas received the Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Prime Minister Vladimír Špidla declared a state of emergency in Prague, Bohemia, Plzeň and Karlovy Vary.

* Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic: Audience Award ; Don Quijote Award ; Special Prize of the Jury ; Crystal Globe Award nominee

* Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic ( formerly known by its German name Karlsbad, known as Carlsbad in English )

* Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic

The most famous spa towns in Czech Republic are Karlovy Vary, Teplice, Františkovy Lázně and Mariánské Lázně.

Proceedings of the 6th International ICCC / IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing held in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, 6-8 November, 2002, Verlag für Wissenschaft und Forschung Berlin, 2002, ISBN 3-89700-357-0, pages 27-37.

Cheb (; ), is a city in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic, with about 33, 000 inhabitants.

Leo Moser ( son of Ludwig Moser, founder of the Moser Glassworks in what is now Karlovy Vary, Bohemia, in the Czech Republic, not to be confused with Leo Moser, a mathematician ) investigated the use of praseodymium in glass coloration in the late 1920s.

Princess Michael of Kent was born on 15 January 1945, in Karlsbad, in the then-German-populated Sudetenland, now known as Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, near the family estates of her Austrian maternal grandmother, Princess Hedwig von Windisch-Graetz, just prior to the defeat and the end of Nazi Germany and of World War II in Europe, and the following expulsion of the German population later that year.

To the south it borders the Czech Republic ( the Karlovy Vary Region ).

Czech Airlines operate 32 monopoly routes from Prague Airport, including two domestic routes to Ostrava and Karlovy Vary, alongside with the feeding routes from Slovak city Košice.

It was first described in 1725 for an occurrence in the Krušné Hory Mountains ( Erzgebirge ), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia in what is now the Czech Republic.

Active tourist centres have grown up around many mineral water sites since ancient times, such as Hungary, Hisarya ( Bulgaria ), Bílina ( Czech Republic ), Vichy ( France ), Jermuk ( Armenia ), Yessentuki ( Russia ), Spa ( Belgium ), Krynica-Zdrój ( Poland ), Sulphur Baths ( Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia ), Bath ( England ), or Karlovy Vary ( Czech Republic ), Myrhorods ' ka ( Ukraine ).

Many spas had existed for centuries, such as Bardejov ( since the 13th century ) in Slovakia and Karlovy Vary in the Czech lands.

As a marketing device the village was in 1906 renamed Carlsbad Springs after the most fashionable aristocratic resort in central Europe ( now Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic ,) where King Edward VII regularly took holidays.

Pisoids are similar to ooids, but are larger than 2 mm in diameter, often considerably larger, as with the pisoids in the hot springs at Carlsbad ( Karlovy Vary ) in the Czech Republic.

Neighbouring districts are ( from the south clockwise ) Tirschenreuth, Bayreuth, Hof, and to the west the Czech Karlovy Vary Region.

Special " spa wafers " ( Czech: lázeňské oplatky, Slovak: kúpeľné oplátky ) are produced in the spa towns of the Czech Republic ( e. g. Karlovy Vary, Mariánské Lázně, etc.

To the east are the Czech districts of Plzeň and Karlovy Vary.

Born in Carlsbad, a town located in the Austrian Empire ( now Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic ), Loschmidt became professor of physical chemistry at the University of Vienna in 1868.

Karlovy Vary () is an administrative unit () of the Czech Republic, located in the westernmost part of its historical region of Bohemia.