The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( cs, Mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary) is a

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held annually in July in Karlovy Vary,

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. The Karlovy Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the

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and has become Central and Eastern Europe's leading film event.

History

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The pre-war dream of many enthusiastic filmmakers materialized in 1946 when a non-competition festival of films from seven countries took place in

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and Karlovy Vary. Above all it was intended to screen the results of the recently nationalized

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. After the first two years the festival moved permanently to Karlovy Vary. The Karlovy Vary IFF first held an international film competition in 1948. Since 1951, an international jury has evaluated the films. The Karlovy Vary competition quickly found a place among other developing festivals and by 1956

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had already classified Karlovy Vary as a category A festival. Given the creation of the Moscow Film Festival and the political decision to organize only one "A" festival for all

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, Karlovy Vary was forced to alternate year by year with Moscow IFF between 1959 and 1993. The social and political changes that took place after the

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in November 1989 pushed concerns about organizing the Karlovy Vary IFF to the background. The program for 1990 was saved by the release of a collection of Czechoslovak films which had been locked up for years in a storage vault. And the appearance of a number of international guests such as Miloš Forman,

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and Robert De Niro helped as well. Future festivals were in doubt. Financial problems and a lack of interest on the part of the government, organizers and viewers almost ended the festival's long tradition in 1992. In 1994, the 29th Karlovy Vary IFF inaugurated an entirely new tradition. After nearly forty years of alternating with the Moscow IFF, the festival began once again to take place every year. The Karlovy Vary Film Festival Foundation was set up in 1993 co-created by the Ministry of Culture, The City of Karlovy Vary, and the Grand Hotel Pupp. Actor

Jiří Bartoška Jiří Bartoška (born 24 March 1947) is a Czech theatre, television, and film actor and president of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. His most notable film roles include performances in ''Sekal Has to Die'' (1998), ''All My Loved ...

was invited to be the festival's president, and Eva Zaoralová became program director in 1995. Since 1998, the organization of the festival has been carried out by Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary, a joint stock company. The 2020 edition was cancelled due to the

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; a shortened event was later scheduled for 18–21 November, which will not be counted as an official edition of the festival (being promoted as the 54th and-a-half edition). Due to the ongoing

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, portions of the

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will be hosted at KVIFF in July 2022.

Program

The main center of the festival is Hotel Thermal. The core of the program is the

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competition; in accordance with

regulations only those films which have not been shown in competition at any other international festivals can be included. The documentary competition is an important festival event. The extensive informative program features both distribution pre-premiers and films awarded at other festivals. But it also includes discoveries of artistic creations by independent directors, productions coming out of little known film industries, retrospectives, and an overview of Czech film output during the past year. For the tenth straight year the festival will present Variety Critics' Choice: new and interesting films of mainly European production selected by critics working at this prestigious magazine. Seminars focusing primarily on European film are another important part of the festival. Thousands of visitors and the great variety of films testify to the effectiveness of the program team with program director Eva Zaoralová at its head. Due to their valiant efforts many films will be purchased at the festival for wider distribution or, thanks to receiving a festival award, will attract the attention of major producers, distributors, and the media. The festival program has the following sections: * ''Official Selection - Competition'' – films never before shown in competition at any other international festival. * ''East of the West - Competition'' – films from the former socialist bloc. * ''Documentary Films - Competition'' – a competition divided into two parts:

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less than and longer than 30 minutes. * ''Horizons'' and ''Another View'' – a selection of the most remarkable contemporary films. * ''Imagina'' – films with an unconventional approach to narration and style, distinctive and radical visions of film language. * ''Out of the Past'' – classic, cult, rare and unfairly overlooked films, screened in their original and restored versions. * ''Future Frames: Generation NEXT of European Cinema'' – ten directors, an upcoming generation of young European filmmakers, present their student films. The project is organized in cooperation with European Film Promotion. * ''Midnight Screenings'' – a selection of the latest horror and action films, works that look at their genres in new, often humorous, ways. * ''Czech Films'' – a representative selection of current Czech films. * ''Tributes, special focuses and retrospectives''

Awards

Since 1948, the Grand Prize has been the Crystal Globe – although its form has often changed. As of the 35th Karlovy Vary IFF 2000 the Crystal Globe has taken on a new look: now the figure of a woman stands raising a crystal ball (artistic concept developed by Tono Stano, Aleš Najbrt, Michal Caban, and Šimon Caban). The Feature Film Competition is divided into the following main awards: * Grand Prix – Crystal Globe for best feature film ($25,000) * Special Jury Prize ($15,000) * Best Director Award * Best Actress Award * Best Actor Award The Documentary Competition is divided into the following main awards: * Best Documentary Film in the category for film lasting 30 minutes or less * Best Documentary Film in the category for film lasting above 30 minutes in length Each year, the festival also presents the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema.

Prominent foreign guests

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* 1946:

Nikolay Cherkasov Nikolay Konstantinovich Cherkasov (russian: Никола́й Константи́нович Черка́сов; 14 September 1966) was a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1947). Career He was born in Saint Petersburg (lat ...

Lyubov Orlova Lyubov Petrovna Orlova (russian: link=no, Любовь Петровна Орлова ; – 26 January 1975) was a Soviet and Russian actress, singer, dancer and People's Artist of the USSR (1950). Life and career She was born to a family o ...

Rita Hayworth Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918May 14, 1987) was an American actress, dancer and producer. She achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars, appearing in 61 films over 37 years. The press coined th ...

*1956:

Dev Anand Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand (26 September 1923 – 3 December 2011), better known as Dev Anand, was an Indian actor, writer, director and producer known for his work in Hindi cinema, through a career that spanned over six decades. He was ...

Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel Portolés (; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish-Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians, and directors to be one of the greatest and ...

Alberto Cavalcanti Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti (February 6, 1897 – August 23, 1982) was a Brazilian-born film director and producer. He was often credited under the single name "Cavalcanti". Early life Cavalcanti was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a ...

* 1960:

Waltraut Haas Waltraut Haas (born 9 June 1927) is an Austrian actress and singer. Born in Vienna, Haas grew up at Schloss Schönbrunn, where her mother was a restaurateur. Haas made her stage debut in Linz but was soon won over to the big screen. She achieved ...

Irina Skobtseva Irina Konstantinovna Skobtseva (russian: Ирина Константиновна Скобцева; 22 August 1927 – 20 October 2020) was a Soviet and Russian actress and second wife of Sergei Bondarchuk. Biography Irina Konstantinovna Skobtsev ...

Irina Petrescu Irina Carmen Petrescu (19 June 1941 – 19 March 2013) was a Romanian film actress. She appeared in 29 films between 1959 and 2010. She won the award for Best Actress at the 6th Moscow International Film Festival for her role in the 1969 fi ...

Mari Törőcsik Mari Törőcsik (born Marián Törőcsik; 23 November 1935 – 16 April 2021) was a Hungarian stage and film actress. She appeared in more than 170 films from 1956 to 2020. She won the award for Best Actress at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival ...

* 1962: Shirley MacLaine, Frank Capra,

Bernard Blier Bernard Blier (11 January 1916 – 29 March 1989) was a French character actor. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his father, a researcher at the Pasteur Institute, was posted at the time. Life and career His rotund features and ...

* 1964:

Claudia Cardinale Claude Joséphine Rose "Claudia" Cardinale (; born 15 April 1938) is an Italian actress. She has starred in some of the most iconic European films of the 1960s and 1970s, acting in Italian, French, and English. Born and raised in La Goulette, a ...

Henry Fonda Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American actor. He had a career that spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. He cultivated an everyman screen image in several films considered to be classics. Born and ra ...

, Richard Attenborough * 1966:

Olga Schoberová Olga Schoberová, also known as Olinka Bérová (born March 15, 1943), is a Czech-American actress. She acted in Czech, German, Italian, Austrian, Polish, English, and American movies. As "Olinka Berova", she appeared in ''The Vengeance of She'' ...

Brad Harris Bradford Harris (July 16, 1933 – November 7, 2017) was an American actor, stuntman, and executive producer. He appeared in a variety of roles in over 50 films, mostly in European productions. He was an inductee in the Stuntman's Hall of Fame ...

Ján Kadár Ján Kadár (1 April 1918 – 1 June 1979) was a Hungarian-born Slovak film writer and director of Jewish heritage. As a filmmaker, he worked in Czechoslovakia, the United States, and Canada. Most of his films were directed in tandem with Elm ...

* 1968:

Tony Curtis Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz; June 3, 1925September 29, 2010) was an American actor whose career spanned six decades, achieving the height of his popularity in the 1950s (Kansas Raiders, 1950) and early 1960s. He acted in more than 100 f ...

, Pierre Brice,

Raf Vallone The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's Air force, air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the World War I, First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal ...

* 1970:

Ken Loach Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936) is a British film director and screenwriter. His socially critical directing style and socialist ideals are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty ('' Poor Cow'', 1967), homelessn ...

* 1982:

Franco Nero Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born 23 November 1941), known professionally as Franco Nero, is an Italian actor, producer, and director. His breakthrough role was as the title character in the Spaghetti Western film '' Django'' (1966), ...

* 1984:

Monica Vitti Monica Vitti (born Maria Luisa Ceciarelli; 3 November 1931 – 2 February 2022) was an Italian actress who starred in several award-winning films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni during the 1960s. After working with Antonioni, Vitti changed fo ...

* 1986:

Giulietta Masina Giulia Anna "Giulietta" Masina (22 February 1921 – 23 March 1994) was an Italian film actress best known for her performances as Gelsomina in ''La Strada'' (1954) and Cabiria in ''Nights of Cabiria'' (1957), for which she won the Cannes Film F ...

* 1988:

Bernardo Bertolucci Bernardo Bertolucci (; 16 March 1941 – 26 November 2018) was an Italian film director and screenwriter with a career that spanned 50 years. Considered one of the greatest directors in Italian cinema, Bertolucci's work achieved international ...

* 1990: Miloš Forman, Robert De Niro,

, Maximilian Schell, Shirley Temple * 1992:

Coen brothers Joel Daniel Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957),State of Minnesota. ''Minnesota Birth Index, 1935–2002''. Minnesota Department of Health. collectively known as the Coen brothers (), are American film ...

Jason Connery Jason Joseph Connery (born 11 January 1963) is a British actor and director. He is the son of Sean Connery and Diane Cilento. On screen, he is best known for appearing in the third series of the ITV drama series ''Robin of Sherwood'' in 1986. H ...

, Aki Kaurismäki,

Agnieszka Holland Agnieszka Holland (born 28 November 1948) is a Polish film and television director and screenwriter, best known for her political contributions to Polish cinema. She began her career as assistant to directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda, ...

* 1994: Leonardo DiCaprio,

Max von Sydow Max von Sydow ( , ; born Carl Adolf von Sydow; 10 April 1929 – 8 March 2020) was a Swedish-French actor. He had a 70-year career in European and American cinema, television, and theatre, appearing in more than 150 films and several television ...

Philippe Noiret Philippe Noiret (; 1 October 1930 – 23 November 2006) was a French film actor. Life and career Noiret was born in Lille, France, the son of Lucy (Heirman) and Pierre Noiret, a clothing company representative. He was an indifferent student and ...

* 1995: Peter O'Toole, Fridrik Thór Fridriksson,

Mia Farrow Maria de Lourdes Villiers "Mia" Farrow ( ; born February 9, 1945) is an American actress. She first gained notice for her role as Allison MacKenzie in the television soap opera '' Peyton Place'' and gained further recognition for her subsequent ...

Mika Kaurismäki Mika Juhani Kaurismäki (; born 21 September 1955) is a Finnish film director. Biography Mika Kaurismäki is the elder brother of Aki Kaurismäki, and the father of Maria Kaurismäki, who graduated from Tampere School of Art and Media in 200 ...

Gina Lollobrigida Luigia "Gina" Lollobrigida (born 4 July 1927) is an Italian actress, photojournalist, and politician. She was one of the highest-profile European actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s, a period in which she was an international sex symbol. As o ...

* 1996:

Alan Alda Alan Alda (; born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo; January 28, 1936) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is best known for playing Captain Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce in the war come ...

Whoopi Goldberg Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg (), is an American actor, comedian, author, and television personality.Kuchwara, Michael (AP Drama Writer)"Whoopi Goldberg: A One-Woman Character Parade". ' ...

, Gregory Peck,

Ivan Passer Ivan Passer (10 July 1933 – 9 January 2020) was a Czech film director and screenwriter, best known for his involvement in the Czechoslovak New Wave and for directing American films such as ''Born to Win'' (1971), '' Cutter's Way'' (1981) and ...

Pierre Richard Pierre Richard (born Pierre-Richard Maurice Charles Léopold Defays; 16 August 1934) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for the roles of a clumsy daydreamer in comedy films. Pierre Richard is considered by many, such as ...

Frank Langella Frank A. Langella Jr. (; born January 1, 1938) is an American stage and film actor. He has won four Tony Awards: two for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in Peter Morgan's '' Frost/Nixon'' and as André in Flor ...

* 1997: Miloš Forman,

Salma Hayek Salma Hayek Pinault ( , ; born Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez; September 2, 1966) is a Mexican and American actress and film producer. She began her career in Mexico with starring roles in the telenovela ''Teresa'' (1989–1991) as well as the ...

Nikita Mikhalkov Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov (russian: Никита Сергеевич Михалков; born 21 October 1945) is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union. Mikhalkov is a three-time laureate of the ...

, Steve Buscemi * 1998:

Michael Douglas Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and film producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the A ...

Ornella Muti Ornella Muti (born Francesca Romana Rivelli; 9 March 1955) is an Italian actress. She made her film debut as Francesca Cimarosa in the 1970 film ''La moglie più bella.'' Early life Muti was born in Rome to a Neapolitan journalist father and ...

Saul Zaentz Saul Zaentz (; February 28, 1921January 3, 2014) was an American film producer and record company executive. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture three times and, in 1996, was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. Zaentz's film p ...

Terry Jones Terence Graham Parry Jones (1 February 1942 – 21 January 2020) was a Welsh comedian, director, historian, actor, writer and member of the Monty Python comedy team. After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in English, Jones and ...

* 1999:

Woody Harrelson Woodrow Tracy Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor and playwright. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, in addition to nominations for three Academy Award ...

Lukas Moodysson Karl Fredrik Lukas Moodysson (; born 17 January 1969) is a Swedish novelist, short story writer and film director. First coming to prominence as an ambitious poet in the 1980s, he had his big domestic and international breakthrough directing the ...

* 2000:

Edward Norton Edward Harrison Norton (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received numerous awards and nominations, including a Golden Globe Award and three Academy Award nominations. Born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised ...

, Fridrik Thór Fridriksson,

Eli Wallach Eli Herschel Wallach (; December 7, 1915 – June 24, 2014) was an American film, television, and stage actor from New York City. From his 1945 Broadway debut to his last film appearance, Wallach's entertainment career spanned 65 years. Origina ...

Heather Graham Heather Joan Graham (born January 29, 1970) is an American actress. After appearing in television commercials, her first starring role in a feature film came with the teen comedy '' License to Drive'' (1988), followed by the critically acclaime ...

, Alicia Silverstone * 2001:

Scarlett Johansson Scarlett Ingrid Johansson (; born November 22, 1984) is an American actress. The world's highest-paid actress in 2018 and 2019, she has featured multiple times on the ''Forbes'' Celebrity 100 list. ''Time'' magazine named her one of the 100 ...

Nastassja Kinski Nastassja Aglaia Kinski (; , ; born 24 January 1961) is a German actress and former model who has appeared in more than 60 films in Europe and the United States. Her worldwide breakthrough was with ''Stay as You Are'' (1978). She then came to gl ...

Oleg Taktarov Oleg Nikolaevich Taktarov (russian: Оле́г Никола́евич Такта́ров; born 26 August 1967) is a Russian actor and retired mixed martial artist. He was a practitioner of Sambo and Judo and competed in the Ultimate Fighting Cham ...

Thora Birch Thora Birch (born March 11, 1982) is an American actress and producer. She made her feature film debut in 1988 with a starring role in ''Purple People Eater'', for which she received a Young Artist Award for "Best Young Actress Under Nine Years ...

* 2002:

Kim Ki-duk Kim Ki-duk ( ; 20 December 196011 December 2020) was a South Korean film director and screenwriter, noted for his idiosyncratic art-house cinematic works. His films have received many distinctions in the festival circuit, rendering him one of ...

Keira Knightley Keira Christina Righton (; née Knightley, born 26 March 1985) is an English actress. Known for her work in both independent films and blockbusters, particularly period dramas, she has received several accolades, including nominations for ...

István Szabó István Szabó (; born 18 February 1938) is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director. Szabó is one of the most notable Hungarian filmmakers and one who has been best known outside the Hungarian-speaking world since the ...

Michael York Michael York OBE (born Michael Hugh Johnson; 27 March 1942) is an English film, television and stage actor. After performing on-stage with the Royal National Theatre, he had a breakthrough in films by playing Tybalt in Franco Zeffirelli's ''Ro ...

* 2003: Morgan Freeman, William Forsythe,

, Udo Kier, Zlatko Topčić * 2004: Elijah Wood, Roman Polanski, Jacqueline Bisset, John Cleese, Bernard Hill, Harvey Keitel, Albert Maysles * 2005: Sharon Stone, Robert Redford, Alexander Payne, Gael García Bernal, Liv Ullmann, Matt Dillon, Catherine Deneuve * 2006: Andy García, Terry Gilliam,

, Danny Trejo * 2007: Renée Zellweger, Danny DeVito, Elliot Page, Tom DiCillo, Cybill Shepherd * 2008: Robert De Niro, Les Blank, Kim Bodnia, Saffron Burrows, Danny Glover, John Sayles, Christopher Lee * 2009: Antonio Banderas, John Malkovich, Isabelle Huppert * 2010: Jude Law,

, Kevin McDonald, Scott Cooper (director), Scott Cooper, Zlatko Topčić, Adrian Grenier * 2011: John Malkovich, Judi Dench, John Turturro, Cary Fukunaga, Sasson Gabai, Remo Girone * 2012: Helen Mirren, Susan Sarandon, Richard Peña,

, Helena Třeštíková * 2013: John Travolta, Oliver Stone, F. Murray Abraham, Valeria Golino,

, Lou Castel, Jerry Schatzberg, Michel Gondry * 2014: Mel Gibson, Michael Pitt, Jake Hoffman (actor), Jake Hoffman,

, Fanny Ardant, Laura Dern, Mike Cahill (director), Mike Cahill, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey * 2015: Richard Gere, Harvey Keitel, George A. Romero, Jamie Dornan, Sean Ellis, Jena Malone, Ryan Fleck, Udo Kier, Ben Mendelsohn, Alba Rohrwacher * 2016: Jean Reno, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Kaufman, Sergi López (actor), Sergi López, Adriana Ugarte, Emma Suárez, Jamie Dornan, Toby Jones * 2017: Uma Thurman, Casey Affleck, Jeremy Renner, James Newton Howard,

* 2018: Tim Robbins, Robert Pattinson, Terry Gilliam, Taika Waititi, Anna Paquin, Barry Levinson * 2019: Julianne Moore, Casey Affleck, Patricia Clarkson, Billy Crudup * 2021: Johnny Depp, Ethan Hawke, Michael Caine * 2022: Geoffrey Rush, Benicio del Toro, Liev Schreiber

Crystal Globe Winners – Grand Prix

Susan Sarandon Crystal Globe World Cinema

* 2021 ''As Far as I Can Walk'' (Serbia) – director Stefan Arsenijević * 2019 ''The Father (2019 film), The Father'' (Bulgaria, Greece) – directors Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov * 2018 ''I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians'' (Romania) – director Radu Jude * 2017 ''Little Crusader'' (Czech Republic) – director Václav Kadrnka * 2016 ''It's Not the Time of My Life'' (Hungary) – director Szabolcs Hajdu * 2015 ''Bob and the Trees'' (USA, France) – director Diego Ongaro * 2014 ''Corn Island (film), Corn Island'' (Georgia) – director Giorgi Ovashvili * 2013 ''The Notebook (2013 Hungarian film), The Notebook'' (Hungary) – director János Szász * 2012 ''The Almost Man'' (Norway) – director Martin Lund * 2011 ''Restoration (2011 film), Restoration'' (Israel) – director Yossi (Joseph) Madmoni * 2010 ''The Mosquito Net'' (Spain) – director Agustí Vila * 2009 ''Angel at Sea'' (Belgium/Canada) – director Frédéric Dumont * 2008 ''Terribly Happy'' (Denmark) – director Henrik Ruben Genz * 2007 ''Jar City (film), Jar City'' (Iceland/Germany) – director Baltasar Kormákur * 2006 ''Sherrybaby'' (USA) – director Laurie Collyer * 2005 ''My Nikifor'' (Poland) – director Krzysztof Krauze * 2004 ''A Children's Story'' (Italy) – director Andrea Frazzi, Antonio Frazzi * 2003 ''Facing Windows'' (Italy, GB, Turkey, Portugal) – director Ferzan Özpetek * 2002 ''Year of the Devil, Year of The Devil'' (Czech Republic) – director Petr Zelenka (director), Petr Zelenka * 2001 ''Amélie'' (France) – director Jean-Pierre Jeunet * 2000 ''Me You Them'' (Brazil) – director Andrucha Waddington * 1999 ''Yana's Friends'' (Israel) – director Arik Kaplun * 1998 ''Streetheart (film), Streetheart'' (Canada) – director Charles Binamé * 1997 ''Ma vie en rose'' (Belgium, France, GB) – director Alain Berliner * 1996 ''Prisoner of the Mountains'' (Russia, Kazakhstan) – director Sergei Bodrov, Sergej Bodrov * 1995 ''The Ride (1994 film), The Ride'' (Czech republic) – director Jan Svěrák * 1994 ''My Soul Brother'' (Spain) – director Mariano Barroso * for older winners (... 1946) see Crystal Globe.

References

External links

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Festivary.cz - Unofficial website

Karlovy Vary - a film fan’s aqua vitae
- Czech.cz, The official Website of the Czech Republic
Radio Prague monitoring of Karlovy Vary festival 2009
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