Scaled-down film festival opens in empty auditorium
A film festival without the audience
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
kicked off in a near-empty auditorium
Location: Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
due to lockdown restrictions
The festival’s president still gave a speech
to the scaled-back audience
and the red carpet was abandoned
It was worlds away from last year's event
Date: June 28, 2019
which had hundreds of screaming fans
Organizers say the full festival will return
by 2021