Welcome To Karlovy Vary

More Coachella than Cannes, dozens of festival-goers wait outside the screening rooms of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s headquarters in the Thermal Hotel.  While technically they are waiting to get into a film, the patrons - most of them teenage or twentysomething backpackers from the Czech Republic and surrounding countries - can often be seen using the downtime to sleep, eat, drink beer, smoke cigarettes, shave, or make out.