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The 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, a non-specialized festival with two competitive categories, took place from June 30th to July 8th. It was organized by Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary, a.s., with Jiří Bartoška as the president of the festival, Karel Och as its artistic director, Kryštof Mucha as the executive director and Petr Lintimer as the head of production.
The 58th Karlovy Vary IFF will be held from June 28th to July 6th 2024.
On July 8th, the festival’s juries presented awards for the best films at the closing ceremony of the 57th Karlovy Vary IFF.
CRYSTAL GLOBE COMPETITION
GRAND PRIX – CRYSTAL GLOBE (25 000 USD)
The financial award is shared equally by the director and producer of the award-winning film.
Blaga’s Lessons / Urotcite na Blaga
Directed by: Stephan Komandarev
Bulgaria, Germany, 2023
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE (15 000 USD)
The financial award is shared equally by the director and producer of the award-winning film.
Empty Nets / Toorhaye khali
Directed by: Behrooz Karamizade
Germany, Iran, 2023
BEST DIRECTOR AWARD
Babak Jalali for the film Fremont
USA, 2023
BEST ACTRESS AWARD
Eli Skorcheva for her role in the film Blaga’s Lessons / Urotcite na Blaga
BEST ACTOR AWARD
Herbert Nordrum for his role in the film The Hypnosis / Hypnosen
SPECIAL JURY MENTION
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano
Directed by: Cyril Aris
Germany, Lebanon, 2023
PRÁVO AUDIENCE AWARD
The Edge of the Blade / Une affaire d’honneur
Directed by: Vincent Perez
France, 2023
PROXIMA COMPETITION
PROXIMA GRAND PRIX (15 000 USD)
The financial award is shared equally by the director and producer of the award-winning film.
Birth
Directed by: Yoo Ji-young
South Korea, 2022
PROXIMA SPECIAL JURY PRIZE (10 000 USD)
The financial award is shared equally by the director and producer of the award-winning film.
Guras
Directed by: Saurav Rai
India, Nepal, 2023
SPECIAL JURY MENTION
Brutal Heat / Brutální vedro
Directed by: Albert Hospodářský
Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2023
CRYSTAL GLOBE FOR OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD CINEMA
Russell Crowe, New Zealand
FESTIVAL PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR CONTRIBUTION TO CZECH CINEMATOGRAPHY
Daniela Kolářová, Czech Republic
Daniela Kolářová, the star of films such as Empties, Summer with a Cowboy and the comedy Ball Lightning, received the KVIFF President’s Award at the closing ceremony.
“I spent my youth from the age of four to eighteen in Karlovy Vary and I have fond memories of the town. All I would say is that I am grateful that Hotel Pupp is called Pupp again. When we had dance lessons here, it was called Hotel Moscow,” said the favourite Czech actress.
FESTIVAL PRESIDENT’S AWARD
Alicia Vikander, Sweden
Ewan McGregor, United Kingdom
Robin Wright, USA
Actress Robin Wright received the KVIFF President’s Award at the closing ceremony.
“This prize is special because it is not for just one particular performance. I counted it in my spirit – and those forty acting years flew by like four years. To have such a job and to love it is a rare thing,“ thought the film Princess Bride, the love of Forrest Gump or the cold Mrs. Underwood from the House of Cards series in her thank-you speech.
NON-STATUTORY AWARDS
GRAND PRIZE OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY
Blaga’s Lessons / Urotcite na Blaga
Directed by: Stephan Komandarev
Bulgaria, Germany, 2023
COMMENDATION OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY
Citizen Saint / Mokalake Tsmindani
Directed by: Tinatin Kajrishvili
Georgia, France, Bulgaria, 2023
EUROPA CINEMAS LABEL AWARD
The Hypnosis / Hypnosen
Directed by: Ernst De Geer
Sweden, Norway, France, 2023
FIPRESCI JURY
The FIPRESCI award for the best film in the Crystal Globe Competition
The Hypnosis / Hypnosen
Directed by: Ernst De Geer
Sweden, Norway, France, 2023
The FIPRESCI award for the best film in the Proxima Competition
Imago
Directed by: Olga Chajdas
Poland, Netherlands, Czech Republic, 2023
Winners of KVIFF Eastern Promises
KVIFF Eastern Promises, the festival’s Industry section and film market, has the exciting mission of bridging the gap between talented filmmakers and their potential partners, festivals and audiences. “Just like every year, we’ve tried to curate a nice mix of projects from around the regions, a solid mix of documentary and feature films, and we now hope that they’ll be able to find new partners to complete their films and start on the festival circuit.“ Hugo Rosák, the Head of the KVIFF Film Industry Office, commented.
A total of 27 film projects were screened within the festival’s three established programs: Works in Progress, Works in Development – Feature Launch, and First Cut+, competing for awards with a total value of 115,000 EUR.
Works in Progress Post-production Development Award
I’m Not Everything I Want To Be (directed by Klára Tasovská, produced by Lukáš Kokeš, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria)
Works in Progress TRT Award
Tasty (directed by Egle Vertelyte, produced by Lukas Trimonis, Lithuania, Estonia)
Works in Progress Karlovy Vary IFF Award
Bikechess (directed by Assel Aushakimova, produced by Antoine Simkine, Almagul Tleukhanova, Christian Fredrik Martin, Kazakhstan, France, Norway)
Works in Development Award
Flight from Kabul (directed by Sahraa Karimi, produced by Wanda Adamik Hrycova, Slovakia)
Connecting Cottbus Award
Excavators (directed by Argyro Nicolaou, produced by Constantinos Nikiforou and Minos Papas, Cyprus)
Rotterdam Lab Award
Tomáš Pertold, producer of the film God Break Down The Door (Czech Republic)
TRT First Cut+ Award
Allen Sunshine (directed by Harley Chamandy, produced by Chantal Chamandy, Canada, USA)
KVIFF Eastern Promises, Karlovy Vary IFF’s industry platform, strives to help discover promising talent from the regions of Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East, revealing it to over 1,300 distributors, sales agents, producers and festival programmers who attend the festival each year. Both European and non-European local distributors and major international sales reps rely on Karlovy Vary when searching for new movies. International sales companies introduce their films to both distributors and journalists from around the world. The Industry Days programme comprises a number of workshops, panels and presentations or networking opportunities. The primary focus on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East makes it possible for key European and American industry players to discover fresh new projects in various stages of development and production. More about the KVIFF Eastern Promises mission and activities can be found here.
RECAP:
There were a total of 445 film screenings and total of 123 517 tickets were sold. A total of 185 films were screened, including 116 feature fiction films, 28 feature documentaries and 41 short films. 36 films received their world premiere, while 11 had their international premiere and 5 their European premiere. 188 screenings were personally presented by delegations of filmmakers. 93 Press & Industry screenings were held.
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