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KARLOVY VARY 2011 Awards

Restoration wins Karlovy Vary

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The 46th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 1-9) closed on Saturday, with Joseph Madmony’s Restoration (photo) from Israel taking the top prize.

The Grand Prix, the Crystal Globe, was awarded by the Grand Jury, presided by István Szabó.

The Special Jury Prize went to the Slovak-Czech co-production Gypsy [+see also:
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by Martin Šulík. Gypsy also won a special mention for its star, the young non-professional actor Ján Mižigár, the Don Quijote Prize from the jury of the International Federation of Film Societies, and the Europa Cinemas Label Award.

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French director Pascal Rabaté received the Best Director Award for Holidays by the Sea [+see also:
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Danish-born Stine Fischer Christensen was dubbed Best Actress for her role in Christian Schwochow’s Crack in the Shell [+see also:
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. The film also won the Ecumenical Jury Award.

Best Actor Award went to David Morse for Martin Donovan’s Canada-US coproduction Collaborator, and the film also received the FIPRESCI Award.

Another special mention was given to Jocelin Pook for the music in Room 304 [+see also:
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by Birgitte Stærmose (Denmark/Croatia).

In the East of the West competition, the award went to the Macedonian-Serbian co-production Punk's Not Dead by Vladimir Blaževski. Victor Ginzburg’s Generation P (Russia/USA) received a special mention.

Eva Mulvad’s The Good Life (Denmark) won Best Documentary Film over 30 minutes, and Marcin Koszałka’s Declaration of Immortality (Poland) took best short documentary.

In the Forum of Independents section, Aaron Houston’s Sunflower Hour (Canada) got the Independent Camera Award.

NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film went to Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Once Upon a Time in Anatolia [+see also:
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(Turkey/Bosnia and Herzegovina).

Croatian documentary Marija’s Own by Željka Sukova won the newly established FEDEORA (Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean) Award.

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