The 42nd

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 ...

from June 29th to July 7th 2007. The Crystal Globe was won by ''

Jar City ''Jar City'', also known as ''Tainted Blood'' ('' Icelandic: Mýrin'', "The Bog") (), is a crime novel by Icelandic author Arnaldur Indriðason, first published in Iceland in 2000. It was the first in the Detective Erlendur series to be translat ...

'', an Icelandic police detective film directed by

Baltasar Kormákur Baltasar Kormákur Baltasarsson (born 27 February 1966) is an Icelandic actor, theater and film director, and film producer. He is best known for directing the films ''101 Reykjavík'', '' The Sea'', ''A Little Trip to Heaven'', '' Contraband'' ...

. The second prize, the Special Jury Prize was won by ''

Lucky Miles ''Lucky Miles'' is a 2007 Australian drama feature film based on several true stories involving people entering Western Australia by boat in order to seek asylum. Its director was Michael James Rowland and its producers were Jo Dyer and Lesley D ...

'', an Australian drama directed by

Michael James Rowland Michael James Rowland (born 15 January 1964) is an Australians, Australian film director. Early years Prior to his screen career, Rowland studied graphic design at the North Adelaide School of Art in South Australia and started his early worki ...

Bård Breien Bård Breien (born 28 November 1971) is a Norwegian film director. Debut - ''The Art of Negative Thinking'' Breien's first feature film as director was the 2007 movie ''The Art of Negative Thinking'', a dark comedy about adjusting to life in a w ...

was named Best Director. The Best Actress title went to

Elvira Mínguez Elvira Mínguez (born 23 July 1965) is a Spanish actress. Mínguez has appeared in such films as '' La cacatúa verde'' (1990), '' El carro de heno'' (1991), ''The Lucky Star'', ''Tapas'' (2005) and '' El desconocido'' (2015). Her television cre ...

, and Best Actor to Sergey Puskepalis.

Juries

The following people formed the juries of the festival:

Main competition *

Peter Bart Peter Benton Bart (born July 24, 1932) is an American journalist and film producer, writing a column for ''Deadline Hollywood'' since 2015. He is perhaps best known for his lengthy tenure (1989–2009) as the editor in chief of ''Variety'', an ...

, Grand Jury President (USA) *

Karl Baumgartner Karl Baumgartner (1949 – 18 March 2014) was a German film producer. He worked on more than 70 films between 1991 and 2014. Selected filmography * '' Life on a String'' (1991) * '' Underground'' (1995) * ''Dance of the Wind'' (1997) * ''Bl ...

(Germany) * Jean-Luc Bideau (Switzerland, France) *

Nandita Das Nandita Das (born 7 November 1969) is an Indian actress and director. She has acted in over 40 feature films in ten different languages. Das appeared in the films ''Fire'' (1996), ''Earth'' (1998), '' Bawandar'' (2000), '' Kannathil Muthamittal' ...

(India) *

Daniele Gaglianone Daniele Gaglianone is an Italian director. Biography Born in Ancona, Gaglianone has lived in Turin since the age of six. From 1989 to 2000 he realized a few shorts and documentary films. In 1998 he works as scenarist for the film '' Così ri ...

(Italy) *

Arsinée Khanjian Arsinée Khanjian (Western Armenian: Արսինէ Խանճեան, Eastern Armenian: Արսինե Խանջյան; born 6 September 1958) is an Armenian-Canadian actress and activist. She is widely known for her collaborations with her husband, fi ...

(Canada) *

David Ondříček David Ondříček (born 23 June 1969) is a Czech film director, screenwriter and producer. His 2012 film ''In the Shadow (2012 film), In the Shadow'' won nine Czech Lion Awards. Selected filmography External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ondri ...

(Czech Republic)

Documentaries * Dimitri Eipides, Chairman (Greece) * Anna Buccheti (Italy) * Anchalee Chaiworaporn (Thailand) * Manuel Grosso Galván (Spain) *

Marko Škop Marko Škop (born 1974 in Prešov, Slovakia) is a Slovak film director. He received degrees in journalism at Comenius University in Bratislava in 1996 and in film directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava in 2001. He gained his Ph ...

(Slovak Republic)

East of the West * Stefan Laudyn, Chairman (Poland) *

Andreas Horvath Andreas Horvath (born 25 August 1968) is an Austrian photographer and Film director, filmmaker. Career Andreas Horvath studied photography at the "Graphische Bundes- Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt" in Vienna (1990-1992) and film at the Multimedia Art ...

(Austria) * Marta Nováková (Czech Republic) * Alissa Simon (USA) *

Ivan Shvedoff Ivan Shvedoff (russian: Иван Шведов; born 21 September 1969) is a Russian actor. Biography Shvedoff was born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in the Russian SFSR. Shvedoff first started his acting career as a theater actor in the ...

(Russia)

Official selection awards

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

'' (''Mýrin'') by

(Iceland, Germany) * Special Jury Prize - ''

'' by

(Australia) * Best Director Award -

for ''

The Art of Negative Thinking ''The Art of Negative Thinking'' (Norwegian: ''Kunsten å tenke negativt'') is a 2006 Norwegian black comedy film directed and written by Bård Breien. The storyline revolves around a man (played by Fridtjov Såheim) who is adjusting to life in a ...

'' (''Kunsten å tenke negativt'') (Norway) *

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 ...

for ''

Pudor ''Modesty'' ( es, Pudor, links=no) is a 2007 Spanish drama film directed by David Ulloa and Tristán Ulloa, based on the novel by Santiago Roncagliolo. Its cast features Nancho Novo, Elvira Mínguez, Natalia Rodríguez Arroyo, Celso Bugallo, Caroli ...

'' (Spain) *

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 ...

- Sergey Puskepalis for '' Simple Things'' (''Prostyje vešči'') (Russia) * Special mention of the jury: **

Leonid Bronevoy Leonid Sergeyevich Bronevoy (russian: Леони́д Серге́евич Бронево́й; December 17, 1928 – December 9, 2017) was a Soviet and Russian actor. Though primarily a stage actor in the Lenkom Theatre, Bronevoy also made occasiona ...

for his role in '' Simple Things'' (''Prostyje vešči'') (Russia) ** Zdeněk Svěrák for the screenplay of ''

Empties ''Empties'' ( cs, Vratné lahve) is a 2007 film directed by Jan Svěrák and written by his father Zdeněk Svěrák, who also stars in the film. It was released first in the Czech Republic in March 2007. The film is a comedy from the same team w ...

'' (''Vratné lahve'') (Czech Republic, UK, Denmark)

Other statutory awards

Other statutory awards that were conferred at the festival: * Best documentary film (over 30 min) - '' Ztracená dovolená'' (en. ''Lost Holiday'') by

Lucie Králová Lucie Šlégrová, née Králová (born 10 February 1982 in Teplice, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech dancer, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Czech Republic as a 23-year-old in 2005. Biography Lucie Králová was born in the Czech R ...

(Czech Republic) ** Special mention - '' The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories'' (''Problemat s komarite i drugi istorii'') by

Andrey Paounov Andrey M Paounov (born 1974 bg, Андрей Паунов) is a Bulgarian writer and director best known for his documentary feature films. His debut ''Georgi and the Butterflies'' won the Award for Best Mid-Length Documentary (formerly: Silver Wo ...

(Bulgaria) * Best documentary film (under 30 min) - ''Artel'' by Sergey Loznitsa (Russia) ** Special mention - ''Theodore'' (''Teodors'') by

Laila Pakalnina Leila ( fa, لیلا, ar, ليلى, he, לילה) is a feminine given name primarily in the Semitic (Arabic, Hebrew) and Iranian languages. In Latin alphabet the name is commonly spelled in multiple ways, including Laela, Laelah, Laila, La ...

(Latvia) * East of the West Award - '' Armin'' by Ognjen Sviličić (Croatia, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina) ** Special Mention - '' The Class'' (''Klass'') by Ilmar Raag (Estonia) * Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema - Danny DeVito (USA), Břetislav Pojar (Czech Republic) * Audience Award - ''

'' (''Vratné lahve'') by

Jan Svěrák Jan Svěrák () (born 6 February 1965 in Žatec) is a Czech film director. He is the son of screenwriter and actor Zdeněk Svěrák. He studied documentary filmmaking at the FAMU. He and his films have received awards including the Academy Award, ...

(*Czech Republic, UK, Denmark)

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: '' Simple Things'' (''Prostyje vešči'') by Alexey Popogrebsky (Russia) * Don Quixote Award: ''

'' (''Mýrin'') by

(Iceland, Germany) * Ecumenical Jury Award: '' Simple Things'' (''Prostyje vešči'') by Alexey Popogrebsky (Russia) ** Special mention - '' Conversation with My Gardener'' (''Dialogue avec mon jardinier'') by Jean Becker (France) * Europa Cinemas Label - '' The Class'' (''Klass'') by Ilmar Raag (Estonia) * Czech TV Award - Independent Camera: ''

Pingpong Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

'' by Matthias Luthardt (Germany) * NETPAC Award: '' The Band’s Visit'' (''Bikur hatizmoret'') by Eran Kolirin (Israel, France)

References

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