Cinema fans queue up for advance tickets to Karlovy Vary film festival

Advance ticket sales for the 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival opened on Thursday. Hundreds of people were queuing for tickets on Thursday morning, with some having arrived at the festival box office as early as noon on Wednesday. Queues for the two ticket offices stretched back for hundreds of metres, according to the Czech News Agency.

The festival will be taking place from Friday 30 June to Saturday 8 July and will be offering 143 feature films and documentaries in its programme. This year's star guests include actors Russell Crowe, Ewan McGregor and Robin Wright.