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\t\t\t\t\tHarvey Keitel, courtesy of KVIFF<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n\t\u201cRenowned American actor Harvey Keitel will make his third appearance at the Karlovy Vary International<\/a> Film Festival,\u201d organizers said on Tuesday. \u201cAt the festival\u2019s 39th edition in 2004, Keitel was awarded a Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema. Eleven years later, he returned to Karlovy Vary\u00a0in order to\u00a0introduce Paolo Sorrentino\u2019s\u00a0Youth, in which he played one of the main roles. The film won the\u00a0Pr\u00e1vo\u00a0Audience Award, which Keitel accepted in person.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tOn the occasion of Keitel\u2019s visit to KVIFF 2026<\/a>, the festival will present Mean Streets, the screening of which the star will attend.<\/p>\n \n\tThe anniversary edition of the Czech fest will also become a special family affair. \u201cActress, producer, and director Kyra Sedgwick and actor, director, producer, and musician Kevin Bacon<\/a>, together with [children] Travis and Sosie Bacon, will present the film\u00a0Family Movie,\u201d organizers unveiled. The horror-comedy co-directed by Bacon and Sedgwick and starring their children had its world premiere at the 2026 SXSW Film Festival.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tKyra Sedgwick, courtesy of John Russo<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n\tSedgwick\u00a0is an Emmy Award- and a Golden Globe-winning\u00a0actress,\u00a0producer\u00a0and director \u201cwhose film and television work has captured and defined the zeitgeist,\u201d KVIFF highlighted. <\/p>\n \n\tIt lauded Bacon\u00a0as \u201cone of the foremost actors whose talent for balancing starring roles with powerful supporting characters in film,\u00a0television\u00a0and on stage has allowed him to build a varied and critically acclaimed body of work.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tKVIFF on Tuesday also unveiled its opening and closing films for this year\u2019s edition. It will open with the Argentinian-Spanish documentary The Match, directed by Juan Cabral and Santiago Franco, which chronicles the 1986 soccer World Cup match between Argentina and England, which is infamous for Diego Maradona\u2019s \u201cHand of God\u201d goal. \u201cOne of the most captivating movies at this year\u2019s Cannes proves that certain iconic moments from sports history can touch the very essence of human existence,\u201d said KVIFF artistic director Karel Och.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n