Karlovy Vary Film Festival Articles

Ján Mizigár, Martin Sulik Ján Mizigár received a Special Mention Award at the 46th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for his performance as an adolescent confronted with difficult issues in Martin Sulik's Gypsy. The Czech-Slovak coming-of-age drama also won the Special Jury Prize, the European Cinemas Label Award, and the International Federation of Film Societies Don Quixote Prize. The synopsis below is from the Karlovy [...]

Judi Dench Yossi Madmoni's Israeli family drama Restoration, in which two brothers fight for the affection of both their father and the wife of one of the brothers, won the Crystal Award (worth $30,000) at the 2011 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. [Full list of Karlovy Vary winners.] Earlier this year, Restoration took home the Screenwriting – World Cinema Dramatic Award at Sundance. Written by [...]

Henry David, Sasson Gabai, Sarah Adler in Yossi Madmoni's Restoration Judi Dench, John Turturro, Goran Bregovic: Karlovy Vary 2011 Honorees Grand Prix – Crystal Globe Restoration / Boker Tov, Adon Fidelman Directed by: Yossi Madmoni Israel, 2010 Special Jury Prize Gypsy / Cigán Director: Martin Šulík Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, 2011 Best Director Award Pascal Rabaté for the film Holidays by the Sea France, 2011 [...]

  Jirí Krizan, a Czech screenwriter whose family was persecuted by Czechoslovakia's Communist rulers, died of a heart attack on Wednesday, Oct. 13, in the village of Branky. Krizan was 68. Krizan (born Oct. 26, 1941) wrote about two dozen screenplays, among them Shadows of a Hot Summer, which shared the Best Film Award at the 1978 Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and Je treba zabít [...]