MARIENBAD FILM FESTIVAL 2026

About the festival
The Marienbad Film Festival is an international film festival focusing on experimental works, fringe cinema, contemporary moving image and artistic and challenging films. It creates an opportunity for independent and experimental filmmakers and artists using the moving image to meet, but also aims to make more challenging films accessible to a wider audience. It brings guests and films of international significance and introduces the audience to important works from the present and history of world cinema that experiment in form and narrative.The festival is supported by the State Cinematography Fund, the Ministry of Culture, the Karlovy Vary Region, the town of Mariánské Lázně and the Czech-German Future Fund.