Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

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41st International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary , 2006

The International Film Festival Karlovy Vary ( Czech Mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary , English short form KVIFF ) takes place every year in early July in the Bohemian spa town of Karlovy Vary instead. The KVIFF is one of the 13 A festivals , but is one of the smaller events in this group of the world's leading festivals. In terms of the number of tickets sold (around 130,000), it is somewhere between the somewhat larger Locarno Festival (147,000) and the smaller Warsaw Festival (108,000).

history

The Karlovy Vary Film Festival is one of the oldest film shows in the world. It celebrated its premiere in 1946, with a second venue in Marienbad in the first year . In the three following years, the festival took place exclusively in Marienbad, and from 1950 only in Karlovy Vary. The first prizes were awarded in 1948. Only the Venice Film Festival and the Moscow Film Festival , which were founded in the 1930s, can look back on a longer tradition. The Cannes Film Festival and the Locarno Festival were also held for the first time in 1946, but both a few weeks after the first Karlovy Vary Festival.

From 1958 to 1992 the Karlovy Vary Film Festival took place only every two years, alternating with the Moscow Film Festival. For this reason, the festival was only able to celebrate its 50th edition in 2015, although it had already existed for 69 years at the time. The 29th edition of the festival in 1994 saw major changes when it was held annually. Previously, the Czech Ministry of Culture, the City of Karlovy Vary and the local Grand-Hotel Pupp had set up a foundation for the festival, which hired the well-known Czech actor Jiří Bartoška as the festival's president. The festival experienced a further strengthening of staff in 1995 with the appointment of journalist Eva Zaoralová as program director. Since then, the festival has repeatedly attracted the attention of experts, and its competence in Eastern European cinema in particular is undisputed. The festival organizers also regularly managed to lure international stars to Karlovy Vary. The guests included Sharon Stone , Robert Redford , Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio . At the 48th edition of the festival in 2013, the Iranian dissident director Jafar Panahi was connected via Skype. Like the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and the 2013 Berlinale , at which Panahi's secretly shot films were shown, the Karlovy Vary Festival offered such a stage for the filmmaker who was under house arrest.

On January 1, 2011, the then 78-year-old Zaoralová resigned from her position as program director. His successor was Karel Och, who had programmed the documentary film competition and some of the festival's retrospectives ( Sam Peckinpah , Michael Powell , Emeric Pressburger ) since 2001 .

The main prize of the festival is the crystal globe (Křišýálový globe). The East of the West Award, which has been awarded exclusively to productions from Eastern Europe since 2005, has become the second most important prize at the festival in recent years.

In 2018 there was a cooperation between the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and the Hof International Film Festival for the first time .

In 2020 the festival was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

Award winners

East of the West Award: Ragin by the director Kirill Serebrennikow
East of the West Award: Monkeys in Winter (Maimuni prez zimata) by the director Milena Andonowa
Special Jury Prize: Lucky Miles from director Michael James Rowland
Best Director: Bård Breien - The Art of Negative Thinking
Best Actress: Elvira Mínguez - Pudor
Best Actor: Sergei Puskepalis - Simple Things
East of the West Award: Armin by the director Ognjen Sviličić
  • 2008 - Crystal globe : Terribly Happy (Frygtelig Lykkelig) by director Henrik Ruben Genz
Special prize of the jury: The Photograph by the director Nan T. Achnas
Best director: Captive
Best Actress: Martha Issová - Night Owls
Best Actor: Jiří Mádl - Night Owls
East of the West Award: Tulpan (Tjulpan) by the director Sergei Dworzewoi
  • 2009 - Crystal globe: Angel at Sea (Un ange à la mer) by the director Frédéric Dumont
Special Jury Prize: Twenty (Bist) by the director Abdolreza Kahani
Best director: Andreas Dresen - whiskey with vodka
Best Actress: Paprika Steen (Applause)
Best Actor: Olivier Gourmet (Angel at Sea) and Paul Giamatti (Cold Souls)
East of the West Award: Room and a Half (Poltory komnaty, ili Sentimentalnoje puteschestwije na rodinu) by the director Andrei Chrschanowski
  • 2010 - Crystal globe: The Mosquito Net (La mosquitera) by the director Agustí Vila
Special jury prize: Kooky (Kuky se vrací) by the director Jan Svěrák
Best director: Rajko Grlić - Just between us (Neka ostane medju nama)
Best Actress: Anaïs Demoustier - Sweet Evil (L'enfance du mal)
Best Actor: Mateusz Kościukiewicz and Filip Garbacz - Teresa of Cats (Matka Teresa od kotów)
East of the West Award: Aurora by director Cristi Puiu
Special jury prize: Gypsy (Cigán) by director Martin Šulík
Best director: Pascal Rabaté - Holidays by the Sea
Best Actress: Stine Fischer Christensen - Cracks in the Shell (The Invisible Woman)
Best Actor: David Morse - Collaborator
East of the West Award: Punk's Not Dead (Pankot ne e mrtov) by director Vladimir Blaževski
  • 2012 - Crystal globe: The Almost Man (Mer eller mindre mann) by director Martin Lund
Special Jury Prize: Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (Romanzo di una strage) by the director Marco Tullio Giordana
Best director: Rafaël Ouellet - Camion
Best actress: Leila Hatami - The Last Step (Peleh akhar)
Best Actor: Henrik Rafaelsen - The Almost Man (Mer eller mindre mann) and Eryk Lubos - To Kill a Beaver (Zabić bobra)
East of the West Award: House with a Turret (Dom s baschenkoi) by the director Jewa Nejman
Special Jury Prize: A Field in England by director Ben Wheatley
Best director: Jan Hřebejk - Honeymoon (Líbánky)
Best Actress: Amy Morton , Louisa Krause , Emily Meade and Margo Martindale - Bluebird
Best Actor: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson - XL
East of the West Award: Floating Skyscrapers (Płynące wieżowce) by director Tomasz Wasilewski
  • 2014 - Crystal globe : Corn Island (Simindis Kundzuli) by director George Ovashvili
Special jury award : Free Fall (Szabadesés) by directors Ferenc Pusztai and György Pálfi
Best director: György Pálfi - Free Fall (Szabadesés)
Best Actress: Elle Fanning - Low Down
Best Actor: Nahuel Pérez Biscayar - All Yours (Je suis à toi)
East of the West Award: Corrections Class (Klass Kompetenzsii) by the director Ivan I. Tverdovsky
  • 2015 - Crystal Globe: Bob and the Trees by director Diego Ongaro
Special prize of the jury: Everyone who falls has the wings of director Peter Brunner
Best director: Visar Morina - Babai
Best actress: Alena Mihulová - Home Care (Domácí péče)
Best Actor: Kryštof Hádek - The Snake Brothers (Kobry a užovky)
East of the West Award: The Wednesday Child (Szerdai gyerek) by the director Lili Horváth
  • 2016 - Crystal globe : It's Not the Time of My Life (Ernelláék Farkaséknál) by the director Szabolcs Hajdu
Special prize of the jury: Zoology (Zoologija) by the director Iwan Twerdowski
Best director: Damjan Kozole - Nightlife (Nočno življenje)
Best actress: Zuzana Mauréry - The Teacher (Učitelka)
Best Actor: Szabolcs Hajdu - It's Not the Time of My Life (Ernelláék Farkaséknál)
Honorable Mention: The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street (Vlk z Královských Vinohrad) by director Jan Němec
Honorable Mention: By the Rails (Dincolo de calea ferata) by the director Cătălin Mitulescu
East of the West Award: House of Others (Skhvisi sakhli) by director Rusudan Glurjidze
  • 2017 - Crystal globe : Little Crusader (Křižáček) by the director Václav Kadrnka
Special jury award : Men Don't Cry (Chlapi nepláčou) by director Alen Drljević
Best Director: Peter Bebjak - The Line (Čára)
Best Actress: Jowita Budnik and Eliane Umuhire - Birds Are Singing in Kigali (Ptáci zpívají v Kigali)
Best Actor: Alexander Yatsenko - Arrythmia (Arytmie)
Honorable Mention: Keep The Change (Drobné si nechte)
Honorable Mention: Voica Oltean for Breaking News
East of the West Award: How Viktor "the Garlic" took Alexey "the Stud" to the Nursing Home (Jak Víťa Česnek vezl Ljochu Vrtáka do důchoďáku) by the director Alexander Hant
Special Jury Prize: Sueño Florianópolis from Any Katz
Best director: Olmo Omerzu - Winter Flies
Best actress: Mercedes Morán - Sueño Florianópolis
Best Actor: Moshe Folkenflik - Geula
Honorable Mention: Jumpman (Подбросы) by the director Ivan Tverdowski
Honorable Mention: History of Love
East of the West Award: Suleiman Mountain by Elizaveta Stishova
East of West Competition - Special Jury Prize: Blossom Valley
Documentary Films Competition: Putin's Witnesses by Vitali Manski
Documentary Special Jury Prize: Walden
Právo Audience Award: Barry Levinson for Rain Man
Crystal ball for an outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema: Barry Levinson
  • 2019 - Crystal Globe: The Father by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov
Special prize of the jury: Lara by Jan-Ole Gerster
Best actress: Corinna Harfouch for Lara
Best Actor: Milan Ondrík for Let There Be Light
Best Director: Tim Mielants for Patrick
East of the West Award: The Bull by Boris Akopov
Honorable Mention: The August Virgin
Honorable Mention: Antonia Giesen for The Man of the Future
Special Jury Prize: My Thoughts are Silent by Antonio Lukich
Grand Prix for Best Documentary Film: Immortal by Ksenia Okhapkina
Documentary Special Jury Prize: Confucian Dream by Mijie Li
Právo Audience Award: Jiří Suchý - Tackling Life with Ease by Olga Sommerová
Crystal ball for an outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema: Julianne Moore and Patricia Clarkson
Festival President's Award: Vladimír Smutný

See also

Web links

Commons : Karlovy Vary International Film Festival  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Beyond Every Midlife Crisis" " , At: Süddeutsche.de , July 12, 2015
  2. ↑ Paul Katzenberger: "Jafar Panahi:" My heart is with you "" , At: Süddeutsche.de , July 8, 2013
  3. ^ Film festival in Karlovy Vary is canceled. In: radio.cz. April 28, 2020, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  4. ↑ List of award winners at kviff.com (English; accessed on July 11, 2011)
  5. ↑ List of award winners at kviff.com, July 7, 2012 (English; accessed July 10, 2012)
  6. ↑ List of the award winners at kviff.com
  7. ↑ List of the award winners at kviff.com
  8. ↑ Press release of the festival at kviff.com
  9. ↑ Press release of the festival at kviff.com
  10. ↑ Press release of the festival at kviff.com
  11. ^ Barbarians from Romania win the 53rd Karlovy Vary IFF . Retrieved July 10, 2018.
  12. ↑ The Crystal Globe went to Bulgarian Father. Retrieved July 8, 2019 .