Karlovy Fluctuate Worldwide Movie Competition introduced its winners on July 12 throughout its closing ceremony. Greater than 128,000 tickets had been offered for 465 screenings of 108 options, 23 documentaries, and 44 shorts. The pageant is essential within the yr’s movie circuit, nestled between Cannes and Venice.
The 59th outing, held from July 4-12, gave out its high honor, the Grand Prix — Crystal Globe, to director Miro Remo’s “Higher Go Mad within the Wild” from Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. The filmmakers — producers included — acquired $25,000.
“A humorous valentine to the fading artwork of being true to your self, Miro Remo’s delightfully ingenious documentary is a portrait of bickering twin brothers who could reside a bizarre, off-grid life on their dilapidated farm however who, in a world as mad as ours, truly may be the sanest individuals on earth,” the Crystal Globe jury, which consisted of Nicolas Celis, Babak Jalali, Jessica Kiang, Jiří Mádl, and Tuva Novotny, wrote in a press release that the movie. “Within the way of life it portrays but additionally within the filmmaking dangers it takes and the raucously loving brotherhood it admires, ‘Higher Go Mad within the Wild’ looks like a gulp of recent, woody air, or a fast dip in an out of doors pond, or a second of contemplation as a cow chews in your beard. Briefly, it looks like being free.”
A Particular Jury Prize, which got here with a $15,000 prize, was awarded to Iran’s “Bidad,” directed by Soheil Beiraghi. “Mirroring the bravery it takes to make such a movie in Iran, writer-director Soheil Beiraghi’s ‘Bidad’ is simply as brave in its continuously sudden narrative turns, because it careens by totally different style terrains as energetically because it rolls by the totally different suburbs of Tehran,” the jury wrote. “Morphing from social-injustice thriller into household melodrama right into a triumph-over-adversity arc, it’s most putting as a gonzo lovers-on-the-run romance, shot by with punk vitality and spiky character that ends on an ambivalent but optimistic word — as a result of the place there’s this a lot life, there’s hope.”
The Finest Director Awards went to Vytautas Katkus for “The Customer” from Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden, and Nathan Ambrosioni for “Out of Love” from France. Pia Tjelta gained Finest Actress for Norway’s “Don’t Name Me Mama,” directed by Nina Knag, whereas Àlex Brendemühl gained Finest Actor for Spain’s “When a River Turns into the Sea,” directed by Pere Vilà Barceló. Kateřina Falbrová’s position within the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic movie “Damaged Voices” was given a Particular Jury Point out.
The Právo Viewers Award was given to “We’ve Acquired to Body It! (a dialog with Jiří Bartoška in July 21),” directed by Milan Kuchynka and Jakub Jurásek from the Czech Republic.
For Karlovy Fluctuate’s Proxima competitors, the jury consisted of Yulia Evina Bhara, Noaz Deshe, Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias, and Marissa Frobes. The Proxima Grand Prix, value $15,000, was given to “Sand Metropolis” from Bangladesh, directed by Mahde Hasan. Wrote the jury, “A realm unknown, the place structure breathes and silence screams. Time drips sideways on this fractured hourglass, and coloration spills like reminiscence. In ‘Sand Metropolis,’ cinema turns into a trembling map of the unusual, deserted, and intimate on the fringe of sense.”
Additionally they awarded a Particular Jury Prize value $10,000 to Colombia’s “Forensics.” “For years, streaming giants have commodified Latin American tales of violence and have remodeled them into consumable drama,” their evaluation wrote. “Colombia and Mexico have grow to be epicenters in a cynical financial system constructed on ache, dying, and disappearance. That’s why we honor cinema that resists — small, imperfect, however courageous. Movies that decolonize the gaze and suggest new paradigms, as a result of the outdated ones justify colonial narratives and programs of exclusion, whose penalties are our bodies silenced, erased, and disappeared into the void of struggle — by no means to return. This award goes to a movie that carries ahead the custom of swimming in opposition to the present of globalized violence — with fact, with ethics, and above all, with poetry.”
The judges gave a particular menton to “Earlier than / After,” directed by Manoël Dupont from Belgium, writing, “Typically a movie comes alongside that surprises you — not with spectacle, however with honesty. ‘Earlier than / After’ is a kind of uncommon tales: easy, odd, and deeply human. What begins the dream of a hair transplant in Turkey turns into a young highway film and a fleeting love story with out labels. We have fun its heat, its humility with a voice that makes us snicker and really feel.”
The Crystal Globe for Excellent Inventive Contribution was given to storied Swedish star Stellan Skarsgård. Jiří Brožek gained the Competition President’s Award for Contribution to Czech Cinematography. Vicky Krieps, Dakota Johnson, and Peter Sarsgaard had been honored with the Competition President’s Award.
“This appears like Disneyland. It’s loopy right here. It’s so lovely,” Johnson instructed reporters final week. “And I simply couldn’t really feel extra grateful.”
The Ecumenical Jury Awards’ Grand Prize went to “Rebuilding,” United States, directed by Max Walker Silverman, and the jury’s Commendation went to “Cinema Jazireh,” Turkey, Iran, Bulgaria, and Romania, directed by Gözde Kural. The Europa Cinemas Label Award jury selected for its prize “Damaged Voices,” from the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic, directed by Ondřej Provazník.
The FIPRESCI Awards, which selected the very best movies in each the Crystal Globe and Proxima competitions, had been determined by Helen Barlow, Ela Bittencourt, Bitopan Borborah, Patrick Fey, Lukáš Jirsa, and Christos Skyllakos. This yr they selected “Out of Love,” directed by Nathan Ambrosioni from France, and “Earlier than/After,” from Belgium, directed by Manoël Dupont.
Different awards included the KVIFF Jap Guarantees winners, which awarded a Midpoint Growth Award to David Gašo’s “Historical past of Sickness” from Croatia. The Eurimages Co-Manufacturing Growth Awards went to “Battalion Data” from Romania and director Ștefan Bîtu-Tudoran and “In Vacuo,” from Ukraine/Germany and director Yelizaveta Smith.
The Connecting Cottbus Award went to Poland’s “RadioAmator,” directed by Tomasz Habowski. The Rotterdam Lab Award was given to “Stressed” producer Ondřej Lukeš of Czech Republic. The Marché du Movie Producers Community Award was given to “Soyboy” producer Michelle Brøndum Hauerbach of Nice Britain and producer Genovéva Petrovits for Hungary, Czech Republic, and Germany’s “Democracy: Work in Progress.”
KVIFF additionally picked six from a submitted 200 tasks — three movie and three tv collection ideas — for its Works in Growth packages, which gives Czech creators to get their tasks in entrance of pros. Winners included director/animator Daria Kascheeva for “Anonymous,” director Tomáš Klein for “Spirit Moose,” director Greta Stocklassa “Burnout,” director/animator Philippe Kastner for “Mould,” director Dužan Duong for “Misplaced Boys,” and director Kateřina Letáková for “Remake.” KVIFF additionally honored director István Kovács’ “A Siege” from Hungary, a presentation to a visitor venture from a Hungarian counterpart program.
The sixtieth Karlovy Fluctuate IFF is ready for July 3-11, 2026.
