Karlovy Vary Festival Winners: “Summer With Hope” wins the Grand Prix

Characteristic of the Iranian team of Sadaf Foroughi summer with hope Karlovy Vary won the Grand Prize in the main Crystal Globe competition of the 56th International Film Festival, which will run from 1 to 9 July.

The social drama revolves around a young swimming champion whose close bond with his coach arouses resentment in those around him.

summer with hope It is the second film by Iranian-Canadian director Foroughi since then. Av Which debuted in Toronto in 2017, winning the Fipresci International Critics Award.

The KVIFF Grand Prix carries a cash prize of $ 25,000, which will be split equally between the director and producer. Kiarash Anwar’s First Generation Films, based in Toronto, is the executive producer of the film.

The jury of this year’s Crystal Globe competition included Argentine film producer Benjamin Domenech, German director Jan-Ole Gerster, Polish distributor and festival organizer Roman Gutek, international sales agent and producer Fiorella Moretti, and editor and Danish screenwriter Molly Male Stensgaard.

In other major competition awards, the $ 15,000 Special Jury Prize went to Spanish director Jonas Trueba. you have to come and seeThe 30-year-old follows two couples who discuss the essentials of life between Madrid and neighboring cities.

Czech director Beata Parkanova and actor Martin Finger won nominations for Best Director and Best Actor. word. Set in the events surrounding the Russian invasion of the Czech Republic in 1968, Tinjer plays a respectable small-town notary and family man who comes under pressure to join the local branch of the Communist Party against his will.

The Best Actress award was shared by Taki Mumladze and Mariam Khundadze in the drama about women’s empowerment by Georgian director Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze A. my room.

by Czech director Štěpán FOK Vodrážka PSH The Neverending StoryThree legendary rappers won audience awards at the height of middle age.

This year marked the inaugural edition of KVIFF’s new Proxima competition. Czech directorial duo Adela Komrzy and Tomas Bojar won the first prize of the $ 15,000 Proxima Grand Prix.

Proxima’s jury included Filipino producer Bianca Balbuena, Icelandic documentary director Irsa Roca Fanberg, Czech music journalist, director and writer Pavel Klusak, US distributor Michael Rosenberg and Ukrainian director Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi.

In other Próxima awards, Spanish actor and director Eduardo Casanova received the Special Jury Prize of $ 10,000. compassion Y uncle Croatian directors David Capacci and Andria Mardesic received a special title from the jury.

Three honorary awards were also presented at the closing ceremony of the KVIFF.

Australian actor Geoffrey Rush received the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema, Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro with the Festival President’s Award and veteran Czech actor Boleslav Polivka the Festival President’s Award for Contribution to Cinematography Czech.

Bail Prizes, a Bulgarian documentary film provincial hospital It won the world jury prize and the comedy-drama Camp Holiday by Polish director Anna Kazejak Bornholm was defeated won the Europa Cinema Label award.

The award for best Fipresci film in the Crystal and Proxima competitions went to Polish director Tomasz Wiński. the limits of love and a Czech observational documentary show of artistic talents Respectively.

This was the first large-scale edition of KVIFF since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The event saw the participation of 170 short and feature films and received 10,592 accredited guests.