The 59th Worldwide Karlovy Differ Movie Competition handed by in a blur this week after enjoying host to a stream of largely uncontroversial visitors in comparison with earlier years. With appearances by Competition President’s Award winners Vicky Krieps, Dakota Johnson and Peter Sarsgaard, plus a particular cameo from Michael Douglas, it was left to Crystal Globe for Excellent Creative Contribution winner Stellan Skarsgård to generate headlines, which he did somewhat spectacularly by describing honored Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman as “manipulative” and “the one particular person I do know who cried when Hitler died”.
The lineup of this 12 months’s Crystal Globe Competitors was equally robust, a truth mirrored within the sharing out of the awards; all of the word-of-mouth titles appeared to win one thing, which isn’t all the time the case. That stated, the winner was one thing of a shock at a pageant the place the strongest movies featured feminine leads (Damaged Voices; Don’t Name Me Mama).
From Slovakian director Miro Remo, it tells the story of František and Ondřej Klišík, two eccentric siblings who’ve chosen to depart in their very own distinctive world. Commenting on their resolution, the jury referred to as it “A humorous valentine to the fading artwork of being true to your self”, including: “Miro Remo’s delightfully ingenious documentary is a portrait of bickering twin brothers who might reside a bizarre, off-grid life on their dilapidated farm however who, in a world as mad as ours, really is likely to be the sanest folks on earth.”
The full checklist of winners and juries are beneath…
CRYSTAL GLOBE COMPETITION
CRYSTAL GLOBE JURY
Nicolas Celis
Babak Jalali
Jessica Kiang
Jiří Mádl
Tuva Novotny
GRAND PRIX – CRYSTAL GLOBE (25,000 USD)
Higher Go Mad within the Wild
Directed by Miro Remo (Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2025)
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE (15,000 USD)
Bidad
Directed by Soheil Beiraghi (Iran, 2025)
BEST DIRECTOR AWARD – awarded ex-aequo
Vytautas Katkus for The Customer (Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, 2025)Nathan Ambrosioni for Out of Love (France, 2025)
BEST ACTRESS AWARD
Pia Tjelta for her position within the movie Don’t Name Me Mama
Directed by Nina Knag(Norway, 2025)
BEST ACTOR AWARD
Àlex Brendemühl for his position within the movie When a River Turns into the Sea
Directed by: Pere Vilà Barceló (Spain, 2025)
SPECIAL JURY MENTION
Kateřina Falbrová for Damaged Voices
Directed by Ondřej Provazník(Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2025)
PRAVO AUDIENCE AWARD
We’ve Received to Body It! (a dialog with Jiří Bartoška in July 2021)
Directed by Milan Kuchynka, Jakub Jurásek (Czech Republic, 2025)
PROXIMA COMPETITION
PROXIMA JURY
Yulia Evina Bhara
Noaz Deshe
Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias
Marissa Frobes
PROXIMA GRAND PRIX (15,000 USD)
Sand Metropolis
Directed by Mahde Hasan (Bangladesh, 2025)
PROXIMA Particular Jury Prize (10,000 USD)
Forensics
Directed by: Federico Atehortúa Arteaga (Colombia, 2025)
PROXIMA Particular Point out
Earlier than/After Directed by: Manoël Dupont (Belgium, 2025)
NON-STATUTORY AWARDS
THE ECUMENICAL JURY AWARD
THE ECUMENICAL JURY
Achim Forst
Rose Pacatte
Ida Tenglerová
GRAND PRIZE OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY
Rebuilding
Directed by Max Walker-Silverman (USA, 2025)
COMMENDATION OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY
Cinema Jazireh
Directed by Gözde Kural (Turkey, Iran, Bulgaria, Romania, 2025)
EUROPA CINEMAS LABEL AWARD
EUROPA CINEMAS LABEL JURY
Daniel Krátký
Slavomíra Macáková
Wouter Timmermans
EUROPA CINEMAS LABEL AWARD
Damaged Voices
Directed by Ondřej Provazník (Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2025)
FIPRESCI AWARD
FIPRESCI JURY
Helen Barlow
Ela Bittencourt
Bitopan Borborah
Patrick Fey
Lukáš Jirsa
Christos Skyllakos
THE FIPRESCI AWARD FOR THE BEST FILM IN THE CRYSTAL GLOBE COMPETITION
Out of Love
Directed by Nathan Ambrosioni (France, 2025)
THE FIPRESCI AWARD FOR THE BEST FILM IN THE PROXIMA COMPETITION
Earlier than/After
Directed by Manoël Dupont (Belgium, 2025)
KVIFF EASTERN PROMISES WINNERS
KVIFF & MIDPOINT DEVELOPMENT AWARD (10,000 EUR)
JURY
Danijel Hočevar
Martin Horyna
Egle Vertelyte
Historical past of Sickness
Directed by David Gašo (Croatia)
EURIMAGES CO-PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AWARD (20,000 EUR)
JURY
Josef Kullengård
Ilse Ronteltap
Zuzana Mistríková
Battalion Information
Directed by Ștefan Bîtu-Tudoran (Romania)
EURIMAGES SPECIAL CO-PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AWARD (20,000 EUR)
In Vacuo
Directed by Yelizaveta Smith (Ukraine, Germany)
CONNECTING COTTBUS AWARD
JURY
Marjorie BendeckKatharina StummRadioAmateur Directed by Tomasz Habowski (Poland)
ROTTERDAM LAB AWARD
JURY
Facundo Lema
WINNER
Ondřej Lukeš, producer of Stressed (Czech Republic)
MARCHÉ DU FILM PRODUCERS NETWORK AWARD
JURY
Yago Mateo
WINNERS
Michelle Brøndum Hauerbach, producer of Soyboy (Nice Britain)
Genovéva Petrovits, producer of Democracy: Work In Progress (Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany)
WORKS IN DEVELOPMENT – KVIFF TALENTS
FEATURE POOL (120,000 CZK for additional growth)
Anonymous
Directed and animated by Daria Kascheeva (Czech Republic)
Spirit Moose
Director: Tomáš Klein (Slovakia, Czech Republic)
Burnout
Director: Greta Stocklassa (Czech Republic)
CREATIVE POOL (50,000 CZK for additional growth)
Mould Directed and animated by Phillippe Kastner (Czech Republic)
Misplaced Boys
Directed by Dužan Duong (Czech Republic)
Remake
Director: Kateřina Letáková (Czech Republic)
A Siege
Director: István Kovács (Hungary)
