Europeans big winners but main prize to US Sherrybaby
The 41st Karlovy Vary Film Festival ended Saturday with the official awards ceremony and a screening of closing film Confetti, which looks at three weddings without a funeral.
US independent film Sherrybaby won the coveted Best Film Crystal Globe for director Laurie Collyer as well as Best Actress honours for Maggie Gyllenhaal. Almost all other awards went to European productions.
The Best Director Award went to first time director Joachim Trier, for his playful yet melancholy Norwegian update of Jules and Jim, entitled Reprise, while the Best Actor Award went to Andrzej Hudziak for his role as real-life poet Miron Bialoszewski in the Polish drama Several People, Little Time (see news).
The jury, presided over by Serbian filmmaker Goran Paskaljević, also awarded the Special Jury Prize ex-aequo to Christmas Tree Upside Down from Bulgaria and the Jan Hrebejk’s Czech dramatic comedy Beauty in Trouble. A Special Jury Mention went to Virginie Wagon’s motherhood drama This Girl is Mine (L’enfant d’une autre).
The East of the West sidebar, a showcase of Eastern European film that constitutes a separate competition section with its own jury, crowned the powerful Bulgarian-German female triptych Monkeys in Winter by Milena Andonova as Best Film, reserving special mentions for White Palms [+see also:
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The FIPRESCI prize went to bleak Finnish divorce drama Frozen City, which also won a Special Mention from the FICC International Federation of Film Societies as well as the Europa Cinemas Label, which was given for the first time at Karlovy Vary. The main award of the FICC International Federation of Film Society went to Reprise.
List of awards:
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe ($20,000)
Sherrybaby by Laurie Collyer (US)
Special Jury Prize (ex-aequo)
Christmas Tree Upside Down (Obarnata elha) by Ivan Cherkelov and Vassil Zhivkov (Bulgaria, Germany)
Beauty in Trouble by Jan Hřebejk (Czech Republic)
Best Director
Joachim Trier for Reprise (Norway)
Best Actress
Maggie Gyllenhaal for Sherrybaby (US)
Best Actor
Andrzej Hudziak for Several People, Little Time (Poland)
Special mention
This Girl Is Mine by Virginie Wagon (France)
Best Documentary Film (ex-aequo)
Life in Loops (A Megacities RMX) by Timo Novotny (Austria)
In the Pit by Juan Carlos Rulfo (Mexico)
Documentary Film Special Mention
Other Worlds by Marko Škop (Slovakia/Czech Republic)
East of the West Award – Best Film (250,000 CZK)
Monkeys in Winter by Milena Andonova (Bulgaria, Germany)
East of the West Special Mention (ex-aequo)
White Palms by Szabolcs Hajdu (Hungary)
Tomorrow Morning by Oleg Novković (Serbia)
Awards for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema
Andy Garcia (US)
Robert K. Shaye (US)
Jan Němec (Czech Republic)
Audience Award
Other Worlds by Marko Škop (Slovakia/Czech Republic)
Award of the International Film Critics (FIPRESCI)
Frozen City by Aku Louhimies (Finland)
Don Quijote Prize (FICC – International Federation of Film Societies)
Reprise by Joachim Trier (Norway)
Don Quijote Special Mention
Frozen City by Aku Louhimies (Finland)
Ecumenical Jury Award
Destiny by Miguel Pereira (Argentina, Spain)
Ecumenical Special Mention
Goodbye Life by Ensieh Shah-Hosseini (Iran)
Europa Cinemas Label
Frozen City by Aku Louhimies (Finland)
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