The 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 29 - July 7) closed today with its annual awards ceremony.
Radu Jude’s latest film “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” won the Grand Prix - Crystal Globe, whilst Robert Pattinson and Barry Levinson also collected awards.
Scroll down for full list of winners
“Barbarians” was selected by grand jury comprising Mark Cousins, Zrinka Cvitešić, Marta Donzelli, Zdeněk Holý and Nanouk Leopold. The Crystal Globe comes with $25,000 prize money.
The film is sold internationally by Beta Cinema, and is a Hi Film production (Romania), co-produced with endorfilm (Czech Republic), Les Films d’ici (France), Klas Film (Bulgaria), Komplizen Film (Germany) and ZDF/ARTE (Germany).
The cast includes Ioana Iacob, Alex Bogdan, Alexandru Dabija and Ilinca Manolache.
According to organisers, the festival was attended by 13,080 accredited visitors, slightly down on last year. Of that number 10,857 had Festival Passes, 403 were filmmakers, 1190 film professionals, and 630 journalists.
35 films received their world premiere, while eight had their international premiere and seven their European premiere.
On the industry side, 1373 film buyers, sellers, distributors, film festival programmers, representatives of film institutions, and other industry professionals were accredited for the festival. 545 accredited film professionals came from abroad. 265 film buyers and distributors and 183 festival programmers chose from the new films and Works in Progress.
The 54th Karlovy Vary Film Festival will be held from June 28 to July 6, 2019.
Full list of winners
GRAND PRIX – CRYSTAL GLOBE ($25,000)
“I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” / „Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari”
Directed by: Radu Jude
Romania, Czech Republic, France, Bulgaria, Germany, 2018
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE ($15,000)
Sueño Florianópolis / Sueño Florianópolis
Directed by: Ana Katz
Argentina, Brasil, France, 2018
BEST DIRECTOR AWARD
Olmo Omerzu for the film Winter Flies / Všechno bude
Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland, Slovakia, 2018
BEST ACTRESS AWARD
Mercedes Morán for her role in the film Sueño Florianópolis / Sueño Florianópolis
Directed by: Ana Katz
Argentina, Brasil, France, 2018
BEST ACTOR AWARD
Moshe Folkenflik for his role in the film Redemption / Geula
Directed by: Joseph Madmony, Boaz Yehonatan Yacov
Israel, 2018
SPECIAL JURY MENTION
Jumpman / Podbrosy
Directed by: Ivan I. Tverdovskiy
Russia, Lithuania, Ireland, France, 2018
SPECIAL JURY MENTION
History of Love / Zgodovina ljubezni
Directed by: Sonja Prosenc
Slovenia, Italy, Norway, 2018
EAST OF THE WEST – COMPETITION
EAST OF THE WEST GRAND PRIX ($15,000)
Suleiman Mountain / Suleiman gora
Directed by: Elizaveta Stishova
Kyrgyzstan, Russia, 2017
EAST OF THE WEST SPECIAL JURY PRIZE ($10,000)
Blossom Valley / Virágvölgy
Directed by: László Csuja
Hungary, 2018
DOCUMENTARY FILMS – COMPETITION
GRAND PRIX FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM ($5,000)
Putin’s Witnesses / Svideteli Putina
Directed by: Vitaly Mansky
Latvia, Switzerland, Czech Republic, 2018
DOCUMENTARY SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
Walden / Walden
Directed by: Daniel Zimmermann
Switzerland, Austria 2018
PRÁVO AUDIENCE AWARD
Rain Man / Rain Man
Directed by: Barry Levinson
USA, 1988
CRYSTAL GLOBE FOR OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD CINEMA
Tim Robbins, USA
CRYSTAL GLOBE FOR OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD CINEMA
Barry Levinson, USA
FESTIVAL PRESIDENT’S AWARD
Robert Pattinson, United Kingdom
FESTIVAL PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR CONTRIBUTION TO CZECH CINEMATOGRAPHY
Jaromír Hanzlík, Czech Republic
NON-STATUTORY AWARDS
AWARD OF INTERNATIONAL FILM CRITICS (FIPRESCI)
Sueño Florianópolis / Sueño Florianópolis
Directed by: Ana Katz
Argentina, Brasil, France, 2018
THE ECUMENICAL JURY AWARD
Redemption / Geula
Directed by: Joseph Madmony, Boaz Yehonatan Yacov
Israel, 2018
Commendations
Winter Flies / Všechno bude
Directed by: Olmo Omerzu
Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland, Slovakia, 2018
Miriam Lies / Miriam miente
Directed by: Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada
Dominican Republic, Spain 2018
FEDEORA AWARD
Awarded by the Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean (FEDEORA) to the best film from the East of the West – Competition.
Suleiman Mountain / Suleiman gora
Directed by: Elizaveta Stishova
Kyrgyzstan, Russia, 2017
EUROPA CINEMAS LABEL AWARD
For the best European film in the Official Selection - Competition and in the East of the West - Competition.
“I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” / „Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari”
Directed by: Radu Jude
Romania, Czech Republic, France, Bulgaria, Germany, 2018
WORKS IN PROGRESS, DOCS IN PROGRESS AND EURIMAGES LAB PROJECT AWARD
WORKS IN PROGRESS (€100,000)
All This Victory / All This Victory
Director: Ahmad Ghossein
Producer: Georges Schoucair, Myriam Sassine, Marie-Pierre Macia, Claire Gadéa, Fabian Massah
Lebanon, France, Germany
DOCS IN PROGRESS (€5,000)
The Projectionist / The Projectionist
Director: Yuriy Shylov
Producer: Gennady Kofman, Olha Beskhmelnytsina, Dirk Simon, Miroslaw Dembinski
Ukraine, Germany, Poland
A Special Mention was awarded to the Polish project Little Poland by Matej Bobrik
EURIMAGES LAB PROJECT AWARD (€50,000)
Normal / Normal
Director: Adele Tulli
Producer: Valeria Adilardi, Laura Romano, Luca Ricciardi
Italy, Sweden
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