The 58th Karlovy Differ Worldwide Movie Pageant (June 28 – July 6) got here to an in depth this night with an awards ceremony that noticed Mark Cousins’ essay movie A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Issues win the primary prize within the pageant’s Crystal Globe competitors. Narrated by Tilda Swinton and — in Cousins’ acquainted, idiosyncratic model, exploring themes of gender, local weather change and creativity — the UK movie affords a artistic biography of Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004). Coming what most have been an in depth second to take the Jury Prize — and Finest Actress Award for its star, Helga Guren — was Norway’s acclaimed divorce drama Loveable, directed by Lilja Ingolfsdottir.
Additionally taking the stage tonight was Czech actor Ivan Trojan, already maybe the nation’s most garlanded performer, who obtained the Pageant President’s Award for Contribution to Czech Cinema. And following sizzling on the heels of Viggo Mortensen and Daniel Brühl, British actor Clive Owen accepted the third and final of the President’s Awards to be offered at this 12 months’s pageant.
The full listing of winners and juries are under:
CRYSTAL GLOBE COMPETITION
CRYSTAL GLOBE JURY
Christine Vachon, USA
Geoffrey Rush, Australia
Sjón, Iceland
Eliška Křenková, Czech Republic
Gábor Reisz, Hungary
GRAND PRIX – CRYSTAL GLOBE (25 000 USD)
The monetary award is shared equally by the director and producer of the award-winning movie.
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Issues
Directed by: Mark Cousins (United Kingdom, 2024)
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE (15 000 USD)
The monetary award is shared equally by the director and producer of the award-winning movie.
Loveable / Elskling
Directed by: Lilja Ingolfsdottir (Norway, 2024)
BEST DIRECTOR AWARD
Nelicia Low for the movie Pierce / Cì xīn qiè gŭ (Singapore / Taiwan / Poland, 2024)
BEST ACTRESS AWARD
Helga Guren for her position within the movie Loveable / Elskling (Norway, 2024)
BEST ACTOR AWARD
Ex-aequo to Ton Kas and Guido Pollemans for his or her position within the movie Three Days of Fish / Drie dagen vis (Netherlands, Belgium, 2024)
SPECIAL JURY MENTION
Xoftex
Directed by: Noaz Deshe (Germany / France, 2024)
Our Beautiful Pig Slaughter / Mord
Directed by: Adam Martinec (Czech Republic / Slovak Republic, 2024)
PRÁVO AUDIENCE AWARD
Waves / Vlny
Directed by: Jiří Mádl (Česká republika / Slovenská republika, 2024)
PROXIMA COMPETITION
PROXIMA JURY
Bianca Balbuena, Philippines
Wouter Jansen, Netherlands
Adéla Komrzý, Czech Republic
Mohamed Kordofani, Sudan
Daniela Michel, Mexico
PROXIMA GRAND PRIX (15 000 USD)
The monetary award is shared equally by the director and producer of the award-winning movie.
Stranger / Ju wai ren
Directed by: Zhengfan Yang (USA / China / Netherlands / Norway / France, 2024)
PROXIMA Particular Jury Prize (10 000 USD)
The monetary award is shared equally by the director and producer of the award-winning movie.
Night time Has Come / Vino la noche
Directed by: Paolo Tizón (Peru / Spain / Mexico, 2024)
SPECIAL MENTION
March to Might / Od marca do mája
Directed by: Martin Pavol Repka (Czech Republic, 2024)
FESTIVAL PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR CONTRIBUTION TO CZECH CINEMATOGRAPHY
Ivan Trojan, Czech Republic
FESTIVAL PRESIDENT’S AWARD
Viggo Mortensen, USA
Daniel Brühl, Germany / Spain
Clive Owen, United Kingdom
NON-STATUTORY AWARDS
THE ECUMENICAL JURY AWARD
Since 1994 the Ecumenical Jury has awarded movies from the Crystal Globe Competitors that show excessive creative high quality whereas questioning social, political moral, and non secular values. It promotes administrators who emphasize the seek for fact, justice, and hope in accordance with Christian Gospels.
THE ECUMENICAL JURY
Barbora Cihelková, Czech Republic
Guido Convents, Belgium
Viktor Kókai-Nagy, Hungary
GRAND PRIZE OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY
Loveable / Elskling
Directed by: Lilja Ingolfsdottir (Norway, 2024)
COMMENDATION OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY
Panopticon / Panoptikoni
Directed by: George Sikharulidze (Georgia/ France / Italy / Romania, 2024)
EUROPA CINEMA LABELS AWARD
Since 2003, the Europa Cinemas Label has been awarded to a European movie by a jury of Europa Cinemas community exhibitors at 5 European festivals. It goals to extend the promotion, circulation and exhibition lifespan of successful movies. The Europa Cinemas Label awards the very best European movie amongst these chosen for the Crystal Globe Competitors and the Proxima Competitors.
EUROPA CINEMA LABELS JURY
Sabine Hofmann, Austria
Alicia Nieto, Spain
Auksė Podolskytė, Lithuania
EUROPA CINEMA LABELS AWARD WINNER
Loveable / Elskling
Directed by: Lilja Ingolfsdottir (Norway, 2024)
FIPRESCI AWARD
The Worldwide Federation of Movie Critics Jury awards two FIPRESCI Prizes: to a movie from the Crystal Globe Competitors and a movie from the Proxima Competitors, for works that finest promote movie artwork and encourage new and younger cinema.
FIPRESCI JURY
Louise Dumas, France
Sonya Vseliubska, Ukraine
Thor Aaberg, Norway
Mihai Fulger, Romania
Mariam Schaghaghi, Germany
Štěpánka Zapata, Czech Republic
THE FIPRESCI AWARD FOR THE BEST FILM IN THE CRYSTAL GLOBE COMPETITION
Loveable / Elskling
Directed by: Lilja Ingolfsdottir (Norway, 2024)
THE FIPRESCI AWARD FOR THE BEST FILM IN THE PROXIMA COMPETITION
Night time Has Come / Vino la noche
Directed by: Paolo Tizón (Peru / Spain / Mexico, 2024)
KVIFF EASTERN PROMISES WINNERS: WORKS IN PROGRESS, WORKS IN DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE LAUNCH AND FIRST CUT+ WORKS IN PROGRESS AT KARLOVY VARY IFF 2024
KVIFF Japanese Guarantees 2024, the pageant’s movie market, showcased a complete of 39 movie tasks throughout 5 applications through the 58th Karlovy Differ IFF.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
WORKS IN PROGRESS JURY
Gabor Greiner, Germany / Hungary
Kyle Greenberg, USA
Başak Emre, Turkey
Works in Progress is a platform for characteristic and documentary movies within the post-production or late-production stage from Central and Japanese Europe, the Balkans, the previous Soviet Union, the Center East, and North Africa, which can premiere after the Karlovy Differ IFF. A complete of 12 tasks have been pitched. Two winners have been awarded a prize consisting of post-production companies – one visible post-production bundle from UPP and one sound post-production bundle from Soundsquare. Moreover, one venture was awarded 5,000 EUR for its additional improvement, sponsored by Barrandov Studio.
WORKS IN PROGRESS VISUAL POST-PRODUCTION AWARD (60,000 EUR)
Amedspor / Amedspor
Directed by: Rezan Yesilbas (Turkey)
WORKS IN PROGRESS SOUND POST-PRODUCTION AWARD (30,000 EUR)
Lover, Not a Fighter / Milovník, nie bojovník
Directed by: Martina Buchelová (Slovakia, Czech Republic)
WORKS IN PROGRESS AWARD (5,000 EUR)
Digital Girlfriends / Virtuální přítelkyně
Directed by: Barbora Chalupová (Czech Republic, Slovakia)
WORKS IN DEVELOPMENT: FEATURE LAUNCH & INTENSIVE QUEER
For this platform, KVIFF has partnered with the Midpoint Institute script and venture improvement program in addition to with the When East Meets West co-production market and Trieste Movie Pageant. Collectively they’ve showcased 9 tasks which have gone via improvement and mentoring throughout the Characteristic Launch program, and 4 tasks from the MIDPOINT – Intensive Queer programme, designed to foster variety in storytelling and supply essential help to filmmakers within the realm of queer narratives.
WORKS IN DEVELOPMENT MIDPOINT & KVIFF AWARD (10,000 EUR)
WORKS IN DEVELOPMENT MIDPOINT & KVIFF AWARD JURY
Danijel Hočevar, Slovenia
Christina Tynkevych, Ukraine
Arnaud Gourmelen, France
WORKS IN DEVELOPMENT MIDPOINT & KVIFF AWARD WINNER
Klára is Right here / Itt van Klára
Directed by: Dávid Csicskár (Hungary)
EURIMAGES CO-PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AWARD (20,000 EUR)
EURIMAGES CO-PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AWARD JURY
Paolo Ciccarelli, Italy
Claudia Bluemhuber, Germany / Switzerland
Ilinka Teodorescu, Romania
EURIMAGES CO-PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AWARD WINNER
Antonie / Antonie
Directed by: Rozálie Kohoutová (Czech Republic)
CONNECTING COTTBUS AWARD
CONNECTING COTTBUS AWARD JURY
Marjorie Bendeck, Germany / Republic of Honduras
Katharina Stumm, Germany
CONNECTING COTTBUS AWARD WINNER
Eli and Them / Eli a oni
Directed by: Petr Pylypčuk (Czech Republic)
ROTTERDAM LAB AWARD
ROTTERDAM LAB AWARD JURY
Alessia Acone, Netherlands / Italy
Martina Knoblochová, Czech Republic
WORKS IN DEVELOPMENT – KVIFF TALENTS
KVIFF Abilities is the pageant’s year-long programme created with the aim of looking for out and supporting proficient Czech and Slovak filmmakers and progressive audiovisual genres. It consists of two distinct sections – Characteristic Pool, devoted to characteristic movies, and Inventive Pool, which helps different audiovisual genres from collection via videoclips, gaming, and many others.
This 12 months, from over 150 submitted tasks, the KVIFF selectors selected 6 – three characteristic movie ideas and three collection ideas. The chosen creators and inventive groups offered their tasks through the Business Days. They will even obtain monetary help for scriptwriting, mentoring, the chance to create a proof-of-concept video, consultations with specialists, and for characteristic movie authors additionally artistic residency in Karlovy Differ this fall. The companions of the venture are ČEZ Basis and Voyo.
The chosen tasks are:
FEATURE POOL (120,000 CZK FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT)
Inbetween Worlds / Mezi světy
Directed by: Diana Cam Van Nguyen (Czech Republic, Slovakia)
Letters to the Future / Dopisy do budoucna
Directed by: Myro Klochko (Czech Republic)
Rusalka / Rusalka
Written by: Hana Neničková (Czech Republic)
CREATIVE POOL (50,000 CZK FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT)
Casting / Casting
Directed by: Terézia Halamová (Czech Republic)
Into the Countless Unknowns / Nekonečno nekonečen – Slaměná
Directed by: Veronika Jelšíková, Petr Vlček (Czech Republic)
Spectrum / Spektrum
Directed by: Igor Smitka (Czech Republic)
FIRST CUT+ WORKS IN PROGRESS
FIRST CUT+ WORKS IN PROGRESS JURY
Barbara Wurm, Germany
John Nein, USA
Lenka Tyrpáková, Czech Republic
First Minimize+ is a programme created for reinforcing the competitiveness and marketability of characteristic movies that beforehand participated in First Minimize Lab. The programme was launched in 2020 via shut cooperation with two dynamic and well-established movie business platforms: Trieste’s When East Meets West and Karlovy Differ IFF’s Japanese Guarantees Business Days. Annually, it promotes a portfolio of 16 fiction characteristic movies on the stage of post-production – eight of them have been offered right here in Karlovy Differ. The winner receives a money prize for additional manufacturing, sponsored by Tatino Movies and KVIFF.
FIRST CUT+ WORKS IN PROGRESS AWARD (5,000 EUR)
Numakage Public Swimming Pool / Numakage Shimin Pool
Directed by: Shingo Ota (Japan)
SPECIAL MENTION
Mayflies / Tiszavirágok
Directed by: Emílie Goldberg (Hungary, Slovakia)
