The 59th International Karlovy Vary Film Festival passed by in a blur this week after playing host to a stream of largely uncontroversial guests compared to previous years. With appearances by Festival President’s Award winners Vicky Krieps, Dakota Johnson and Peter Sarsgaard, plus a special cameo from Michael Douglas, it was left to Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution winner Stellan Skarsgård to generate headlines, which he did rather spectacularly by describing venerated Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman as “manipulative” and “the only person I know who cried when Hitler died”.
The lineup of this year’s Crystal Globe Competition was similarly strong, a fact reflected in the sharing out of the awards; all the word-of-mouth titles seemed to win something, which isn’t always the case. That said, the winner was something of a surprise at a festival where the strongest films featured female leads (Broken Voices; Don’t Call Me Mama).
From Slovakian director Miro Remo, it tells the story of František and Ondřej Klišík, two eccentric siblings who have chosen to leave in their own unique world. Commenting on their decision, the jury called it “A funny valentine to the fading art of being true to yourself”, adding: “Miro Remo’s delightfully inventive documentary is a portrait of bickering twin brothers who may live a weird, off-grid life on their dilapidated farm but who, in a world as mad as ours, actually might be the sanest people on earth.”
The full list of winners and juries are below…
CRYSTAL GLOBE COMPETITION
CRYSTAL GLOBE JURY
Nicolas CelisBabak JalaliJessica KiangJiří MádlTuva Novotny
GRAND PRIX – CRYSTAL GLOBE (25,000 USD)
Better Go Mad in the WildDirected by Miro Remo (Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2025)
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE (15,000 USD)
BidadDirected by Soheil Beiraghi (Iran, 2025)
BEST DIRECTOR AWARD – awarded ex-aequo
Vytautas Katkus for The Visitor (Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, 2025)Nathan Ambrosioni for Out of Love (France, 2025)
BEST ACTRESS AWARD
Pia Tjelta for her role in the film Don’t Call Me MamaDirected by Nina Knag(Norway, 2025)
BEST ACTOR AWARD
Àlex Brendemühl for his role in the film When a River Becomes the SeaDirected by: Pere Vilà Barceló (Spain, 2025)
SPECIAL JURY MENTIONKateřina Falbrová for Broken Voices Directed by Ondřej Provazník(Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2025)
PRAVO AUDIENCE AWARDWe’ve Got to Frame It! (a conversation with Jiří Bartoška in July 2021)Directed by Milan Kuchynka, Jakub Jurásek (Czech Republic, 2025)
PROXIMA COMPETITION
PROXIMA JURY
Yulia Evina BharaNoaz DesheNelson Carlos De Los Santos AriasMarissa Frobes
PROXIMA GRAND PRIX (15,000 USD)
Sand CityDirected by Mahde Hasan (Bangladesh, 2025)
PROXIMA Special Jury Prize (10,000 USD)
ForensicsDirected by: Federico Atehortúa Arteaga (Colombia, 2025)
PROXIMA Special Mention
Before/After Directed by: Manoël Dupont (Belgium, 2025)
NON-STATUTORY AWARDSTHE ECUMENICAL JURY AWARD
THE ECUMENICAL JURY
Achim ForstRose PacatteIda Tenglerová
GRAND PRIZE OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY
RebuildingDirected by Max Walker-Silverman (USA, 2025)
COMMENDATION OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY
Cinema JazirehDirected by Gözde Kural (Turkey, Iran, Bulgaria, Romania, 2025)
EUROPA CINEMAS LABEL AWARD
EUROPA CINEMAS LABEL JURY
Daniel KrátkýSlavomíra MacákováWouter Timmermans
EUROPA CINEMAS LABEL AWARD
Broken VoicesDirected by Ondřej Provazník (Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2025)
FIPRESCI AWARD
FIPRESCI JURY
Helen BarlowEla BittencourtBitopan BorborahPatrick FeyLukáš JirsaChristos Skyllakos
THE FIPRESCI AWARD FOR THE BEST FILM IN THE CRYSTAL GLOBE COMPETITION
Out of LoveDirected by Nathan Ambrosioni (France, 2025)
THE FIPRESCI AWARD FOR THE BEST FILM IN THE PROXIMA COMPETITION
Before/AfterDirected by Manoël Dupont (Belgium, 2025)
KVIFF EASTERN PROMISES WINNERS
KVIFF & MIDPOINT DEVELOPMENT AWARD (10,000 EUR)
JURY Danijel HočevarMartin HorynaEgle Vertelyte
History of IllnessDirected by David Gašo (Croatia)
EURIMAGES CO-PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AWARD (20,000 EUR)
JURYJosef KullengårdIlse RonteltapZuzana Mistríková
Battalion RecordsDirected by Ștefan Bîtu-Tudoran (Romania)
EURIMAGES SPECIAL CO-PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AWARD (20,000 EUR)
In VacuoDirected by Yelizaveta Smith (Ukraine, Germany)
CONNECTING COTTBUS AWARD
JURYMarjorie BendeckKatharina StummRadioAmateur Directed by Tomasz Habowski (Poland)
ROTTERDAM LAB AWARD
JURY
Facundo Lema
WINNER
Ondřej Lukeš, producer of Restless (Czech Republic)
MARCHÉ DU FILM PRODUCERS NETWORK AWARD
JURY
Yago Mateo
WINNERS
Michelle Brøndum Hauerbach, producer of Soyboy (Great Britain)
Genovéva Petrovits, producer of Democracy: Work In Progress (Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany)
WORKS IN DEVELOPMENT – KVIFF TALENTS
FEATURE POOL (120,000 CZK for further development)
NamelessDirected and animated by Daria Kascheeva (Czech Republic)
Spirit MooseDirector: Tomáš Klein (Slovakia, Czech Republic)
BurnoutDirector: Greta Stocklassa (Czech Republic)
CREATIVE POOL (50,000 CZK for further development)
Mould Directed and animated by Phillippe Kastner (Czech Republic)
Lost BoysDirected by Dužan Duong (Czech Republic)
RemakeDirector: Kateřina Letáková (Czech Republic)
A SiegeDirector: István Kovács (Hungary)
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