According to Centercinemapress, citing Hollywood Reporter, last night (Saturday night) at the closing ceremony of Karlovy Vary Festival 2024, the winners of this course were honored with a crystal ball
In this ceremony, “Suddenly Looking at Deeper Things”, a documentary by Mark Cousins ​​about the Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barnes-Graham and her neurological problems, made with the voice of Tilda Swinton as the narrator of the artist’s daily diary, won the title of the Grand Prize, the Crystal Ball of the Karlovy Film Festival. Vari took it as his own
This documentary is an exploration over the Grindelwald glacier in Switzerland in 1949, which changed the artistic vision of Wilhelmina Barnes Graham, a British modernist painter. The crystal ball for the best film comes with a $25,000 prize. When accepting this award, Mark Cousins ​​said that he never expected such an honor in a million years
At the closing ceremony of the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Norwegian family drama “Lovely” directed by Lilia Ingolfsdóttir was also honored with the Special Jury Prize, which comes with a $15,000 check. While accepting this award, the director said that this film came from his heart and also from his wife who was the cameraman of this film and stayed at home to take care of their children and with whom he went through the crisis that the film was based on a few years ago. , he thanked. This film received 5 festival awards and left a new record in this field
The audience award of the festival went to “Waves” by Jiri Medel, which is a drama about the role of the international news bureau of Radio Czechoslovakia before and after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact soldiers in 1968
Nelicia Low received the best director award for the movie “Pierce”. This movie is about a young man who is released from juvenile prison after being imprisoned for 7 years for killing his opponent in a fencing match
Best actor awards were also given to Helga Goren for her role in “Lovely” and Guido Polmans and Tan Kass for their role in the father-son drama “Three Days of Fish”
This year’s jury was made up of Christian Vachon, Geoffrey Rush, Hungarian director Gabor Reyes, Icelandic poet, novelist and screenwriter Sejon, and Czech actress Eliška Krenkova
Last year, “Lessons from Belga” directed by Stefan Komandarov, a joint production of Bulgaria and Germany, won the top prize of the festival
The winner of Proxima’s third competition, which focuses on daring works by young filmmakers and established authors, was Zhengfan Yang’s Stranger, an exploration of loneliness, isolation and identity. The award was accompanied by a $15,000 check. The documentary “The Night Has Come” by Paulo Tizon, about the elite soldiers of the Peruvian army, also received the Proxima Special Jury Prize worth $10,000
The jury’s special commendations included “xoftex” by Noaz Desche and “Our Lovely Pig Slaughter” by Adam Martinek in the main competitive section, as well as “March to May” by Martin Pavel Repka in the Proxima section
“Lovely” also won the Label European Cinemas Award to win the title of the best European film. The film also received the Grand Jury Prize
At the closing ceremony, the “President” award of the festival was also awarded to the British actor Clive Owen. Veteran Czech actor Ivan Trojan was another actor who received the same award
This year, the 58th edition of the Karlovy Vary Festival, which is known as the biggest celebration of Central European cinema, began with the presentation of an honorary award to Viggo Mortensen and the screening of the Western Way film “The Dead Don’t Hurt”, and last night after awarding the award to Owen, He ended his work with the screening of “Nails”, a drama by Christos Niko starring Jesse Buckley and Riz Ahmed as the closing film