The 36th

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( cs, Mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary) is a film festival held annually in July in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The Karlovy Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the world and has become ...

took place from 5 to 14 July 2001. The Crystal Globe was won by ''

Amélie ''Amélie'' (also known as ''Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain''; ; en, The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain, italic=yes) is a 2001 French-language romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume L ...

'', a French romantic comedy film directed by

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Jean-Pierre Jeunet (; born 3 September 1953) is a French film director, producer and screenwriter. His films combine fantasy, realism and science fiction to create idealized realities or to give relevance to mundane situations. Debuting as a di ...

. The second prize, the Special Jury Prize was won by '' Hi, Tereska'', a Polish drama film directed by

Robert Gliński Robert Ignacy Gliński (born 17 April 1952 in Warsaw) is a Polish film director and screenwriter. A graduate of the National Film School in Łódź. He won the Golden Lions at the Gdynia Film Festival in 1992 with his film '' Wszystko, co najw ...

. Polish film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter

Krzysztof Zanussi Krzysztof Pius Zanussi (born 17 June 1939) is a Polish film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is ...

was the president of the jury.

Juries

The following people formed the juries of the festival:

Main competition *

, Jury President (Poland) * Lissy Bellaiche (Denmark) *

Labina Mitevska Labina Mitevska ( mk, Лабина Митевска) (born 1975 in Skopje, Socialist Republic of Macedonia, Yugoslavia) is a Macedonian actress. Career Mitevska began her acting career aged 19 after studying in Skopje, Denmark, and the Unive ...

(Republic of Macedonia) *

Marie-José Nat Marie-José Benhalassa (22 April 1940 – 10 October 2019), known professionally as Marie-José Nat, was a French actress. Among her notable works in cinema were the sequel films '' Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc'' and '' Anatomy ...

(France) * Malti Sahai (India) * Lee Hall (UK) *

Jan Hřebejk Jan Hřebejk (; born 27 June 1967) is a Czechs, Czech film director and actor. Life and career Born in Prague, Hřebejk graduated from high school in 1987 and continued his studies at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in ...

(Czech Republic) *

Jafar Panahi Jafar Panâhi ( fa, جعفر پناهی, ; born 11 July 1960) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film editor, commonly associated with the Iranian New Wave film movement. After several years of making short films and working as an ass ...

(Iran)

Documentaries * Erika Gregor, president (Germany) * Olga Sommerová (Czech Republic) * Viktor Kossakovskij (Russia) * Bijidar Manov (Bulgaria) * Miroljub Vučkovič (Jugoslavia)

Official selection awards

The following feature films and people received the official selection awards: * Crystal Globe (Grand Prix) - ''

'' (''Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain'') by

(France, Germany) * Special Jury Prize - '' Hi, Tereska'' (''Cześć Tereska'') by

(Poland) * Best Director Award -

Ibolya Fekete Ibolya Fekete, (; born 23 January 1951 in Pásztó), is a Hungarians, Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Biography After completing her studies of Hungarian and Russian literature and linguistics at the Lajos Kossuth University in Debrec ...

for '' Chico'' (Hungary) *

Best Actress Award Best Actress is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organisations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actresses in a film, television series, television film or play. The first Best Actress award ...

Viveka Seldahl Viveka Kristina Seldahl (15 March 1944 – 3 November 2001) was a Swedish actress. Born in Överammer, Jämtland, she was partner with the Swedish actor Sven Wollter from 1971 to 2001, they have the son Karl Seldahl. Besides doing television s ...

for her role in ''

A Song for Martin ''A Song for Martin'' ( sv, En sång för Martin) is a 2001 Swedish drama film directed by Danish Bille August and starring Sven Wollter and Viveka Seldahl. Based on the 1994 autobiographic novel ''Boken om E'' (The Book about E) by Swedish autho ...

'' (''En sång för Martin'') (Sweden) *

Best Actor Award Best Actor is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actors in a film, television series, television film or play. The term most often refers to the ...

Sven Wollter Sven Justus Fredrik Wollter (11 January 1934 – 10 November 2020) was a Swedish actor, writer, and political activist. Wollter is one of the most renowned Swedish actors, he was awarded Best Swedish actor twice. In his native country, he becam ...

for his role in ''

'' (''En sång för Martin'') (Sweden) * Special Jury Mention - ''The Unfinished Song'' (''Qateh-ye natamam'') by

Maziar Miri Maziar Miri (born 1974 in Tehran) is an Iranian filmmaker. Maziar Miri graduated in editing, and started his career with making documentaries about Iran. He made his first short film in 1996, and worked for several years in the editing departme ...

(Iran) & '' Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening'' (''Perfume de violetas, nadie te oye'') by Marisa Sistach (Mexico)

Other statutory awards

Other statutory awards that were conferred at the festival: * Best documentary film (over 30 min.) - ''Lives'' (''Vies'') by

Alain Cavalier Alain Cavalier (; born 14 September 1931) is a French film director. Biography Cavalier was born in Vendôme, Loir-et-Cher and studied film at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. He won several awards, including the César Awar ...

(France) ** Special Jury Mentions - ''Women at the Turn of the Century (Trapped)'' by

Helena Třeštíková Helena Třeštíková is a Czech documentary film director, member of the European Film Academy, and briefly the Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as B ...

(Czech Republic) & Pavel Kostomarov for cinematography in ''Poselenije'' by

Sergei Loznitsa Sergei Vladimirovich Loznitsa ( be, Сяргей Уладзіміравіч Лазніца, russian: Сергей Владимирович Лозница, uk, Сергій Володимирович Лозниця; born 5 September 1964) is a Uk ...

* Best documentary film (under 30 min.) - ''Noodle Soup'' (''Pho'') by Uyen Luu (Vietnam, UK) * Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema -

Ben Kingsley Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor. He has received various accolades throughout his career spanning five decades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Grammy Award, and two ...

(UK),

Otakar Várva Otakar is a masculine Czech given name of Germanic origin (cf. Audovacar). Notable people with the name include: *Otakar Batlička (1895–1942), Czech adventurer, journalist, ham radio operator, member of Czech Nazi resistance group in World War ...

(Czech Republic) * Award of the

Karlovy Vary District Karlovy Vary District or Carlsbad District ( cs, okres Karlovy Vary) is a district ('' okres'') within the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. Its administrative center is Karlovy Vary. List of municipalities Abertamy - Andělská Hora - ...

(France) * Award of the Town of

Karlovy Vary Karlovy Vary (; german: Karlsbad, formerly also spelled ''Carlsbad'' in English) is a spa town, spa city in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 46,000 inhabitants. It lies on the confluence of the rivers Ohře and Teplá. ...

Bigas Luna José Juan Bigas Luna (19 March 1946 – 5 April 2013) was a Spanish film director, designer and artist. His films are typically characterised by a strong emphasis on the erotic, often related to food, something for which he admitted a strong ...

(Spain) * Audience Award - ''

Shrek ''Shrek'' is a 2001 American computer-animated comedy film loosely based on the 1990 book of the same name by William Steig. It is the first installment in the ''Shrek'' franchise. The film was directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenso ...

'' by

Andrew Adamson Andrew Ralph Adamson (born 1 December 1966) is a New Zealand film director, producer, and screenwriter based in Los Angeles, where he directed the Academy Award-winning animated films ''Shrek'' and ''Shrek 2''. He was director, executive prod ...

Vicky Jenson Victoria "Vicky" Jenson (born March 4, 1960) is an American film director of both live-action and animated films. Retrieved April 9, 2014. She has directed projects for DreamWorks Animation, including ''Shrek'', the first film to win an Academy ...

(USA)

Non-statutory awards

The following non-statutory awards were conferred at the festival: *

FIPRESCI The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI, short for Fédération Internationale de la PRESse CInématographique) is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world fo ...

International Critics Award: '' Hi, Tereska'' (''Cześć Tereska'') by

(Poland) * FICC - The Don Quixote Prize: '' Hi, Tereska'' (''Cześć Tereska'') by

(Poland) ** Special Mention: '' Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening'' (''Perfume de violetas, nadie te oye'') by Marisa Sistach (Mexico) * Ecumenical Jury Award: '' Chico'' by Ibolya Fekete (Hungary) ** Special Mention: '' Ghost World'' by

Terry Zwigoff Terry Zwigoff (born May 18, 1949) is an American filmmaker whose work often deals with misfits, antiheroes, and themes of alienation. He first garnered attention for his work in documentary filmmaking with ''Louie Bluie'' (1985) and '' Crumb'' (1 ...

(USA, UK) * Philip Morris Film Award: ''A Place in the World'' (''Mesto na zemle'') by Artour Aristakisian (Russia) * NETPAC Award: ''

Under the Skin of the City ''Under the Skin of the City'' ( fa, زیر پوست شهر, ''Zir-e poost-e shahr''), also released as ''Under the City's Skin'', is a 2001 Iranian drama film directed by Rakhshan Bani-E'temad. It was entered into the 23rd Moscow International ...

'' (''Zir-e poost-e shahr'') Rakhshan Bani-E'temad (Iran) ** Special Mention: ''Firefly Dreams'' (''Ichiban utsukushî natsu'') by John Williams (Japan)''Firefly Dreams'' on IMDb
/ref> * Best Student Film: ''Nelásky'' (''Unhappy'') by Tomáš Bařina (Czech Republic) ** Special Mention: ''The Devouring Eyes'' by Syllas Tzoumerkas (Greece)

References

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