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13-07-2025
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Karlovy Vary Reveals 2025 Festival Winners, with Films from Iran, Czech Republic, and More
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival announced its winners on July 12 during its closing ceremony. More than 128,000 tickets were sold for 465 screenings of 108 features, 23 documentaries, and 44 shorts. The festival is key in the year's film circuit, nestled between Cannes and Venice. The 59th outing, held from July 4-12, gave out its top honor, the Grand Prix — Crystal Globe, to director Miro Remo's 'Better Go Mad in the Wild' from Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. The filmmakers — producers included — received $25,000. More from IndieWire 'Practical Magic 2' - Everything We Know So Far James Gunn Cast Bradley Cooper for 'Superman' Cameo Because He 'Could Walk in the Footsteps' of Brando 'A funny valentine to the fading art of being true to yourself, 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 Crystal Globe jury, which consisted of Nicolas Celis, Babak Jalali, Jessica Kiang, Jiří Mádl, and Tuva Novotny, wrote in a statement that the film. 'In the lifestyle it portrays but also in the filmmaking risks it takes and the raucously loving brotherhood it admires, 'Better Go Mad in the Wild' feels like a gulp of fresh, woody air, or a quick dip in an outdoor pond, or a moment of contemplation as a cow chews on your beard. In short, it feels like being free.' A Special Jury Prize, which came with a $15,000 prize, was awarded to Iran's 'Bidad,' directed by Soheil Beiraghi. 'Mirroring the bravery it takes to make such a film in Iran, writer-director Soheil Beiraghi's 'Bidad' is just as courageous in its constantly unexpected narrative turns, as it careens through different genre terrains as energetically as it rolls through the different suburbs of Tehran,' the jury wrote. 'Morphing from social-injustice thriller into family melodrama into a triumph-over-adversity arc, it is most striking as a gonzo lovers-on-the-run romance, shot through with punk energy and spiky personality that ends on an ambivalent yet optimistic note — because where there's this much life, there's hope.' The Best Director Awards went to Vytautas Katkus for 'The Visitor' from Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden, and Nathan Ambrosioni for 'Out of Love' from France. Pia Tjelta won Best Actress for Norway's 'Don't Call Me Mama,' directed by Nina Knag, while Àlex Brendemühl won Best Actor for Spain's 'When a River Becomes the Sea,' directed by Pere Vilà Barceló. Kateřina Falbrová's role in the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic film 'Broken Voices' was given a Special Jury Mention. The Právo Audience Award was given to 'We've Got to Frame It! (a conversation with Jiří Bartoška in July 21),' directed by Milan Kuchynka and Jakub Jurásek from the Czech Republic. For Karlovy Vary's Proxima competition, the jury consisted of Yulia Evina Bhara, Noaz Deshe, Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias, and Marissa Frobes. The Proxima Grand Prix, worth $15,000, was given to 'Sand City' from Bangladesh, directed by Mahde Hasan. Wrote the jury, 'A realm unknown, where architecture breathes and silence screams. Time drips sideways in this fractured hourglass, and color spills like memory. In 'Sand City,' cinema becomes a trembling map of the strange, abandoned, and intimate at the edge of sense.' They also awarded a Special Jury Prize worth $10,000 to Colombia's 'Forensics.' 'For years, streaming giants have commodified Latin American stories of violence and have transformed them into consumable drama,' their assessment wrote. 'Colombia and Mexico have become epicenters in a cynical economy built on pain, death, and disappearance. That's why we honor cinema that resists — small, imperfect, but brave. Films that decolonize the gaze and propose new paradigms, because the old ones justify colonial narratives and systems of exclusion, whose consequences are bodies silenced, erased, and disappeared into the void of war — never to return. This award goes to a film that carries forward the tradition of swimming against the current of globalized violence — with truth, with ethics, and above all, with poetry.' The judges gave a special menton to 'Before / After,' directed by Manoël Dupont from Belgium, writing, 'Sometimes a film comes along that surprises you — not with spectacle, but with honesty. 'Before / After' is one of those rare stories: simple, odd, and deeply human. What begins the dream of a hair transplant in Turkey becomes a tender road movie and a fleeting love story without labels. We celebrate its warmth, its humility with a voice that makes us laugh and feel.' The Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution was given to storied Swedish star Stellan Skarsgård. Jiří Brožek won the Festival President's Award for Contribution to Czech Cinematography. Vicky Krieps, Dakota Johnson, and Peter Sarsgaard were honored with the Festival President's Award. 'This looks like Disneyland. It's crazy here. It's so beautiful,' Johnson told reporters last week. 'And I just couldn't feel more 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 chose for its prize 'Broken Voices,' from the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic, directed by Ondřej Provazník. The FIPRESCI Awards, which chose the best films in both the Crystal Globe and Proxima competitions, were decided by Helen Barlow, Ela Bittencourt, Bitopan Borborah, Patrick Fey, Lukáš Jirsa, and Christos Skyllakos. This year they chose 'Out of Love,' directed by Nathan Ambrosioni from France, and 'Before/After,' from Belgium, directed by Manoël Dupont. Other awards included the KVIFF Eastern Promises winners, which awarded a Midpoint Development Award to David Gašo's 'History of Illness' from Croatia. The Eurimages Co-Production Development Awards went to 'Battalion Records' 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 'Restless' producer Ondřej Lukeš of Czech Republic. The Marché du Film Producers Network Award was given to 'Soyboy' producer Michelle Brøndum Hauerbach of Great Britain and producer Genovéva Petrovits for Hungary, Czech Republic, and Germany's 'Democracy: Work in Progress.' KVIFF also picked six from a submitted 200 projects — three film and three television series concepts — for its Works in Development programs, which provides Czech creators to get their projects in front of professionals. Winners included director/animator Daria Kascheeva for 'Nameless,' director Tomáš Klein for 'Spirit Moose,' director Greta Stocklassa 'Burnout,' director/animator Philippe Kastner for 'Mould,' director Dužan Duong for 'Lost Boys,' and director Kateřina Letáková for 'Remake.' KVIFF also honored director István Kovács' 'A Siege' from Hungary, a presentation to a guest project from a Hungarian counterpart program. The 60th Karlovy Vary IFF is set for July 3-11, 2026. Best of IndieWire Guillermo del Toro's Favorite Movies: 56 Films the Director Wants You to See 'Song of the South': 14 Things to Know About Disney's Most Controversial Movie Nicolas Winding Refn's Favorite Films: 37 Movies the Director Wants You to See
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12-07-2025
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‘Better Go Mad in the Wild,' ‘Bidad,' ‘Sand City,' ‘Forensics' Win Karlovy Vary Festival Awards
Miro Remo's Better Go Mad in the Wild won the Grand Prix – Crystal Globe, the top award, at the closing ceremony of the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on Saturday, where Stellan Skarsgård was also honored with the KVIFF Crystal Globe Award for his 'outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema.' The Special Jury Prize went to Iranian filmmaker Soheil Beiraghi's fourth feature, Bidad (Outcry), whose announcement the fest had held back to ensure the safety of its creators. This year's jury, consisting of Nicolas Celis, Babak Jalali, Jessica Kiang, Jiří Mádl, and Tuva Novotny, lauded the 'delightfully inventive documentary' Better Go Mad as 'a funny valentine to the fading art of being true to yourself' and '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.' More from The Hollywood Reporter 'GEN_' Review: A Compassionate Portrait of an Italian Doctor Treating Trans Patients and Women Trying to Conceive 'The Salt Path' Fallout: Raynor Winn's Next Book Delayed as Publisher Supports "Distressed" Author Paramount+ Gives London a Chance to Live Like a Killer at Immersive Event 'Dexter: The Experience' Concluded the jury: 'In the lifestyle it portrays, but also in the filmmaking risks it takes and the raucously loving brotherhood it admires, Better Go Mad in the Wild feels like a gulp of fresh, woody air, or a quick dip in an outdoor pond, or a moment of contemplation as a cow chews on your beard. In short, it feels like being free.' Meanwhile, the jury called Bidad, about a Gen Z girl who sings in the streets despite rules that forbid that in Iran, 'as courageous in its constantly unexpected narrative turns, as it careens through different genre terrains as energetically as it rolls through the different suburbs of Tehran. It concluded: 'Morphing from social-injustice thriller into family melodrama into a triumph-over-adversity arc, it is most striking as a gonzo lovers-on-the-run romance, shot through with punk energy and spiky personality that ends on an ambivalent yet optimistic note — because where there's this much life, there's hope.' This year's best director award went to two films: Lithuanian cinematographer Vytautas Katkus' feature directorial debut The Visitor, a meditation on solitutde, as well as Nathan Ambrosioni's Out of Love, a reflection on family and co-existence. Lauding the 'deeply impressive directorial statements,' the jury said that Katkus 'truly exploits the creative freedom that a director perhaps only ever properly enjoys with their first film, displaying an uncompromised, idiosyncratic vision that is both dazzlingly precise in its detail and dreamily peculiar as whole.' It also noted that Ambrosioni 'demonstrates a maturity, compassion and polish far beyond his years in the moving and beautifully crafted Out of Love in which a rich yet understated presentation that allows the terrific all-ages acting ensemble to deliver intensely felt, empathetic performances.' In the acting categories, Pia Tjelta was honored with the best actress award for her role in the political relationship drama Don't Call Me Mama, Àlex Brendemühl won the best actor honor for his role in the rape drama When a River Becomes the Sea, and Kateřina Falbrová received a special jury mention for her role in the sexual abuse drama Broken Voices. And the Právo Audience Award winner ended up being the fest opening film, We've Got to Frame It! (A Conversation With Jiří Bartoška in July 2021), featuring insights and laughs courtesy of the long-term fest president who died recently. The fourth edition of Karlovy Vary's Proxima competition, which focuses on bold works by young filmmakers and renowned auteurs alike, revealed Bangladeshi director Mahde Hasan's Sand City, a movie about harsh life in a metropolis, as its winner, decided by the jury of Yulia Evina Bhara, Noaz Deshe, Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias, and Marissa Frobes. 'A realm unknown, where architecture breathes and silence screams,' it wrote. 'Time drips sideways in this fractured hourglass, and color spills like memory. In Sand City, cinema becomes a trembling map of the strange, abandoned, and intimate at the edge of sense.' Meanwhile, the Proxima Special Jury Prize was bestowed upon Federico Atehortúa Arteaga's Forensics, an experimental essay on missing persons. 'This award goes to a film that carries forward the tradition of swimming against the current of globalized violence — with truth, with ethics, and above all, with poetry,' the jury said. And Manoël Dupont's Before/After, which explores baldness and queer identity, received a special mention in the Proxima lineup. The non-statutory awards at KVIFF, namely the Europa Cinemas Label honor for the best European film at KVIFF 2025, the Fipresci Award, as well as the Grand Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, put a spotlight on three different movies. Rebuilding, directed by Max Walker-Silverman and starring Josh O'Connor, won the Ecumenical Jury's Grand Prize, while the jury gave a commendation to Cinema Jazireh, directed by Gözde Kural. The Europa Cinemas Label honor went to Broken Voices, and the Fipresci honor was awarded to Before/After. The 2025 edition of the Karlovy Vary fest, which has a reputation as Central Europe's largest cinema party, had opened with the presentation of KVIFF President's Awards to Peter Sarsgaard and Vicky Krieps, a film about late long-time KVIFF president Jiří Bartoška, and a concert by U.K. act La Roux. 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