The 40th

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (, KVIFF) is an annual film festival held in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The Karlovy Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the world and has become Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern Eur ...

took place from 1 to 9 July 2005. The Crystal Globe was won by ''

My Nikifor ''My Nikifor'' () is a 2004 Polish drama film directed by Krzysztof Krauze. It is based on the life of Nikifor, a folk and naïve painter. Cast * Krystyna Feldman as Nikifor *Roman Gancarczyk as Marian Włosiński * Lucyna Malec as Hanna Wło ...

'', a Polish drama film directed by

Krzysztof Krauze Krzysztof Krauze (2 April 1953 – 24 December 2014) was a Polish film director, cinematographer and actor, best known for his thriller ''The Debt (1999 film), The Debt'' (1999).Marek Haltof]''Polish National Cinema'' Berghahn Books, 2002. Lif ...

. The second prize, the Special Jury Prize (Karlovy Vary IFF), Special Jury Prize was won by ''

What a Wonderful Place ''What a Wonderful Place'' ( - ''Eize Makom Nifla'') is a 2005 Israeli drama film directed by Eyal Halfon. It includes three seemingly unrelated storylines which intersect at the end, set in southern Tel Aviv, the Arabah and an unidentified Israe ...

'', an Israeli drama film directed by

Eyal Halfon Eyal (; ''lit.'' strength) is a kibbutz in the Central District of Israel. Located close to the Green line, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of . Geography Eyal is located in centra ...

. English film director and screenwriter

Michael Radford Michael James Radford (born 24 February 1946) is an English film director and screenwriter. He began his career as a documentary director and television comedy writer before transitioning into features in the early 1980s. His best-known credi ...

was the Grand Jury President of the festival.

Juries

The following people formed the juries of the festival:

Main competition *

, Grand Jury President (UK) *

Frédéric Fonteyne Frédéric Fonteyne (; born 9 January 1968) is a Belgian film director. He studied film at the Institut des arts de diffusion in Louvain-la-Neuve. His 2020 film '' Working Girls'' was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best International Fea ...

(Belgium) *

Ali MacGraw Elizabeth Alice MacGraw (born April 1, 1939) is an American actress. For her role in '' Goodbye, Columbus'' (1969) she won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer. She then starred in '' Love Story'' (1970), for which she was nominate ...

(USA) * Fernando Méndez - Laite Serrano (Spain) *

Kornél Mundruczó Kornél Mundruczó (; born 3 April 1975) is a Hungarian film and theatre director. His 2014 film '' White God'' won the Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. While '' Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project'' (2010) and '' Jupiter's Moon'' (2 ...

(Hungary) *

Ruba Nadda Ruba Nadda (born 6 December 1972) is a Canadian film director. She made several award-winning short films, including ''Lost Woman Story'', ''Interstate Love Story'', ''So Far Gone'' and ''Damascus Nights'' before writing and directing features ' ...

(Canada) * Zuzana Stivínová (Czech Republic)

Documentaries * David Fisher, Chairman (Israel) *

John Appel John George Appel (1859–1929) was an Australian politician, lawyer, and farmer. He served from 1908 to 1929 as a delegate for the electoral district of Albert and from 1909 to 1915 as the Secretary of Mine and Public Works and Home Secretar ...

(Netherlands) * Flavia de la Fuente (Argentina) * Jana Hádková (Czech Republic) * Ninos Fenec Mikelides (Greece)

East of the West * Andrej Plachov, Chairman (Russia) * Jannike Åhlund (Sweden) * Mira Erdevicki (UK) * Viera Langerová (Slovenia) * Roland Rust (Germany)

Official selection awards

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

'' (''Mój Nikifor'') by

(Poland) * Special Jury Prize (Karlovy Vary IFF), Special Jury Prize - ''

'' (''Eize makom nifla'') by

(Israel) * Best Director Award (Karlovy Vary IFF), Best Director Award -

for ''

'' (Poland) * Best Actress Award (Karlovy Vary IFF), Best Actress Award - Krystyna Feldman for ''

'' (Poland) * Best Actor Award (ex aequo): **

Luca Zingaretti Luca Zingaretti (; born 11 November 1961) is an Italian actor and film director, known for playing Salvo Montalbano in the '' Inspector Montalbano'' mystery series based on the character and novels created by Andrea Camilleri. Zingaretti is a ...

for '' Come into the Light'' (''Alla luce del sole'') (Italy) **

Uri Gavriel Uri Gavriel () is an Israeli theater, film and television actor. Winner of the Ophir Award and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2005 as Best Actor in film ''What a Wonderful Place''. In 2018, he appeared as Philip the Apostle in Helen ...

for ''

'' (''Eize makom nifla'') (Israel) * Special Jury Mention: ''

Noriko's Dinner Table is a 2005 Japanese psychological horror film written and directed by Sion Sono, a prequel to his 2002 low-budget film, independent horror film ''Suicide Club (film), Suicide Club''. ''Suicide Club'' concerns the mass suicide of fifty-four schoolg ...

'' (''Noriko no shokutaku'') by

Sion Sono is a Japanese filmmaker, author, and poet. Best known on the Film festival, festival circuit for the film ''Love Exposure'' (2008), he has been called "the most subversive filmmaker working in Japanese cinema today", a "Stakhanovite movement, ...

(Japan)

Other statutory awards

Other statutory awards that were conferred at the festival: * Best documentary film (over 30 min.) - Estamira by Marcos Prado (Brazil) ** Special mention - ''

Mad Hot Ballroom ''Mad Hot Ballroom'' is a 2005 American documentary film directed and co-produced by Marilyn Agrelo and written and co-produced by Amy Sewell, about a ballroom dance program in the New York City Department of Education, the New York City pu ...

'' by

Marilyn Agrelo Marilyn Agrelo is an American film director and producer. She directed and co-produced the 2005 documentary film ''Mad Hot Ballroom''. The documentary won several awards, including the Satellite Award for Best Documentary Film in 2005 and the Chr ...

* Best documentary film (under 30 min.) - Boža moj by Galina Adamovich (Belarus) * East of the West Award - '' Ragin'' by

Kirill Serebrennikov Kirill Semyonovich Serebrennikov (; born 7 September 1969) is a Russian stage and film director and theatre designer. Since 2012, he has been the artistic director of the Gogol Center in Moscow. He is one of Russia's leading theatre and cinem ...

(Russia / Austria) ** Special Mention - '' The Wedding'' (''Wesele'') by Wojtek Smarzowski (Poland) * Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema -

Robert Redford Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received numerous accolades such as an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1994, the ...

Liv Ullmann Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938) is a Norwegian actress and filmmaker. Recognised as one of the greatest European actresses of all time, Ullmann is known as the muse and frequent collaborator of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, whom she date ...

Sharon Stone Sharon Vonne Stone (born March 10, 1958) is an American actress and film producer. Known for primarily playing femmes fatales and women of mystery on film and television, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1990s. She is the ...

* Audience Award - ''

La vie avec mon père LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second most populous city in the United States of America. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music *La (musical note), or A, the sixth note *"L.A.", a song by Elliott Smit ...

'' by

Sébastien Rose Sébastien Rose (born June 30, 1969, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. His debut film, '' How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause (Comment ma mère accoucha de moi durant sa ménopause)'', won the Claude Jut ...

(Canada)

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 wor ...

International Critics Award: ''

Chinaman ''Chinaman'' () is an offensive term referring to a Chinese man or person, or widely a person native to geographical East Asia or of perceived East Asian ethnicity. The term is noted as having pejorative overtones by modern dictionaries. Its ...

'' (''Kinamand''), by

Henrik Ruben Genz Henrik Ruben Genz (born 7 November 1959 in Gram, Denmark) is a Danish film director. Before becoming involved with film, Genz attended Designskolen Kolding, where he studied graphic design,Hjort, Mette, Eva Jorholt, and Eva Novrup Redvall. ''The ...

(China / Denmark) *

Don Quixote , the full title being ''The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha'', is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, the novel is considered a founding work of Western literature and is of ...

Award: Noriko No Shokutaku (Japan), by

* Ecumenical Jury Award: ''Chinaman'' (''Kinamand''), by

(China / Denmark) * Young Czech Critics Award: '' The Butterflies Are Just a Step Behind'' (''Parvaneha mikonand''), by Mohammad Ebrahim Moaiery (Iran) * Czech TV Award (Independent Camera): '' Los muertos'', by

Lisandro Alonso Lisandro Alonso (born 2 June 1975) is an Argentine film director and screenwriter. He has directed six feature-length films and a short film since 2001 and is loosely associated with the ''New Argentine Cinema'' movement. His film '' La libertad ...

(Argentina)

References

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