Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
The International Film Festival Karlovy Vary (Czech: Mezinárodní Filmový festival Karlovy Vary, English short form: KVIFF ) takes place annually in early July in the Bohemian spa town of Karlovy Vary instead. The KVIFF one of the 13 festivals in the A category, however, belongs in this group, the world's leading festivals to the smaller events: Based on the number of tickets sold (about 130,000 ), it lies between the slightly larger Festival of Locarno ( 147,000 ) and the smaller Warsaw Festival ( 108,000 ).
History
The Karlovy Vary Film Festival is the oldest film shows in the world. Its premiere is celebrated in 1946, where there was a second venue in the first year with Marienbad. In the three following years, the festival took place exclusively at Marienbad, in 1950 then only in Carlsbad. The first prizes were awarded in 1948. This look just the Film Festival of Venice and the Moscow Film Festival, which were already established in the 1930s, back on a long tradition. The Film Festival of Cannes and the Festival of Locarno were also organized for the first time in 1946, but in both cases, some weeks after the first Karlovy Vary festival.
From 1958 to 1992, the Film Festival Karlovy Vary was only every two years - alternating with the Moscow Film Festival - takes place. Eventually to major changes occurred in the 29th edition of the festival in 1994 - since then has been converted to an annual discharge rhythm. Previously, the Czech Ministry of Culture, the city of Carlsbad and the local Grand Hotel Pupp had established a foundation for the festival, which hired the famous Czech actor Jiří Bartoška as president of the festival. Another personal strengthening learned the festival in 1995 with the appointment of journalist Eva Zaoralová to the program director. Since then the festival in professional circles has repeatedly drawn attention to itself, especially the competence of Eastern European cinema is considered to be high. The festival organizers succeeded since then also regularly to attract international stars to Karlovy Vary. Among the guests of the festival included, for example, Sharon Stone, Robert Redford, Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio. In the 48th edition of the Festival of Iranian dissident director Jafar Panahi was in 2013 switched via Skype. As the film festival in Cannes 2011 and the Berlinale 2013, where secretly turned Panahi's films to see, were the Karlovy Vary festival, which is under house arrest filmmaker offered as a stage.
As of January 1, 2011, at that time 78 -year-old Zaoralová gave their posts from the program director. As the successor Karel Och was determined, who had programmed since 2001 the documentary competition of the festival and some retrospectives ( Sam Peckinpah, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger ).
Main prize of the festival is the Crystal Globe ( Kristalovy globe). The East of the West Award, only productions from Eastern Europe to be awarded the since 2005, has become in recent years become the second major award at the festival.
Award winners
- 2005 - Crystal Globe: Krzysztof Krauze - My Nikifor
- 2006 - Crystal Globe: Laurie Collyer - Sherry Baby
- 2007 - Crystal Globe: Baltasar Kormákur - Jar City
- 2009 - Crystal Globe: Frédéric Dumont - Angel at Sea ( Un ange à la mer )
- 2010 - Crystal Globe: Agustí Vila - The Mosquito Net ( La mosquitera )
- 2011 - Crystal Globe: Joseph Madmony - Restoration
- 2012 - Crystal Globe: Martin Lund - The Almost Man ( Mer eller mindre man )
- 2013 - Crystal Globe: János Szász - ( füzet nagy A) The Notebook