Karlovy Vary Film Festival Awards 2006
2006 Karlovy Vary Film Festival Awards
Laurie Collyer’s Sherrybaby, the story of a woman who returns home after spending three years in jail, has won the Crystal Globe for Best Film at the 41st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Maggie Gyllenhaal was chosen Best Actress for playing Sherrybaby’s former convict, while Andrzej Hudziak won the Best Actor award for his role as a geeky writer in the Polish social drama Pare osób, maly czas / Several People, Little Time.
Several other Central European films were represented in the list of Karlovy Vary winners, including the two Best Film runners-up, Special Jury Prize winners Obarnata elha / Christmas Tree Upside Down, a German-Bulgarian co-production directed by Ivan Cherkelov and Vassil Zhivkov, and Jan Hrebejk’s Czech comedy-drama Kráska v nesnázích / Beauty in Trouble, about a woman (Anna Geislerová) torn between two men.
Joachim Trier won as Best Director for Reprise, a Norwegian film about two writer wannabes – one of them becomes successful and goes nuts, the other one continues to struggle but maintains his sanity.
Crystal Globe for Best Film: Sherrybaby by Laurie Collyer (US)
Special Jury Prize (ex aequo): Obarnata elha / Christmas Tree Upside Down by Ivan Cherkelov and Vassil Zhivkov (Bulgaria / Germany) and Kráska v nesnázích / Beauty in Trouble by Jan Hrebejk (Czech Republic)
Best Director: Joachim Trier for Reprise (Norway)
Best Actor: Andrzej Hudziak for Pare osób, maly czas / Several People, Little Time (Poland)
Best Actress: Maggie Gyllenhaal for Sherrybaby (US)
Special Mention: L’Enfant d’une autre / This Girl Is Mine by Virginie Wagon (France)
Best Documentary (longer than 30 minutes) (ex aequo): Life in Loops (A Megacities RMX) by Timo Novotny (Austria) and En el hoyo / In the Pit by Juan Carlos Rulfo (Mexico)
Special Mention: Iné svety / Other Worlds by Marko Škop (Slovakia / Czech Republic)
Best Documentary (shorter than 30 minutes): Views of a Retired Night Porter by Andreas Horvath (Austria)
East of the West Award: Maimuni prez zimata / Monkeys in Winter by Milena Andonova (Bulgaria / Germany)
Special Mention (ex aequo): Fehér tenyér / White Palms
by Szabolcs Hajdu (Hungary) and Sutra ujutru / Tomorrow Morning by Oleg Novkovic (Serbia)
Award for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema: Andy Garcia, US; Robert K. Shaye, US; Jan Nemec, Czech Republic
FIPRESCI Prize: Valkoinen Kaupunki / Frozen City by Aku Louhimies (Finland)
Audience Award: Iné svety / Other Worlds by Marko Škop (Slovakia / Czech Republic)
The Ecumenical Jury Award: El destino / Destiny by Miguel Pereira (Argentina / Spain)
Special Mention: Shab Bekheir Farmandeh / Goodbye Life by Ensieh Shah-Hosseini (Iran)
Don Quijote Prize (I.F.F.S. – International Federation of Film Societies): Reprise by Joachim Trier (Norway)
Special Mention: Valkoinen Kaupunki / Frozen City by Aku Louhimies (Finland)
Europa Cinemas Label: Valkoinen Kaupunki / Frozen City by Aku Louhimies (Finland)
Czech Television Award – Independent Camera: Play by Alicia Scherson (Chile / Argentina / France)
Grand Jury: Goran Paskaljevic, President of the Jury, Serbia; Bent Hamer, Norway; Liela Hatami, Iran; Coleman Hough, US; Laurence Kardish, Canada; Juliusz Machulski, Poland; Karel Roden, Czech Republic
Documentary Jury: Fabrizio Grosoli – chairman, Italy; Jana Boková, Argentina, Czech Republic; Tine Fischer, Denmark; arek Hovorka, Czech Republic; Guntis Trekteris, Latvia
East of the West Jury: Gulnara Abikeyeva – chairwoman, Kazakhstan; Stefan Kitanov, Bulgaria; Michaela Pavlátová, Czech Republic; Ray Privett, US; Svetlana Sikora, Germany
FIPRESCI Jury: Atilla Dorsay – chairman, Turkey; Jan Foll, Czech Republic; Marita Nyrhinen, Finland; Fawzi Soliman, Egypt; Christina Stojanova, Canada
Ecumenical Jury: Elena Jecu Dulgheru, Romania; Jan Eliáš, Czech Republic; Jos Horemans, Belgium; Julia Laggner, Austria; Miloš Rejchrt, Czech Republic; Kai Voigtländer, Germany
I.F.F.S. Jury: Michal Durícek, Czech Republic; Marianne Körver, Estonia; Joe McMahon, Ireland
Europa Cinemas Label Jury: Ivo Andrle, Czech Republic; Kirsten Dalgaard, Denmark; Katrin Rajasaare, Estonia; Thomas Settje, Germany
Independent Camera Jury: David G. Filipi, USA; Michael Málek, Czech Republic; Rui Pereira, Portugal
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Just a small note about Reprise – it is indeed about two writer wannabes, but it is more tragic and less simplistic than you state it; in fact it is the successful writer who goes “nuts” (as you so aptly put it), while the unsuccessful writer keeps on struggling to get by…
Boyd,
Thanks for the correction. I misread the synopsis on the Karlovy Vary Fest site.
And absolutely, I know the movie is more complex than my glib synopsis. I was trying to be both brief *and* funny…
By the way, I love your site. Thanks again for writing.