Eva Zaoralová stepping down as artistic director of Karlovy Vary film festival

Eva Zaoralová is stepping down as artistic director of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Dr Zaoralová, who recently turned 78, is a renowned film critic and expert on Italian and French cinema, and played a large role in turning around the then flagging festival after her appointment in the mid 1990s. She is being replaced by Karel Och, who has up to now been Karlovy Vary’s programme director.

Author: Ian Willoughby