The last day of the Karlovy Vary international film festival has come to an end and soon its glamour will fade into the night.
As many as 126,808 tickets were sold to screenings of 207 films, accompanied by 767 filmmakers and film professionals. Almost 600 journalists from all over the world came to report on the daily festival rush.
Awards have been announced during the closing ceremony with the Spanish film about a family in crisis by Augustí Vila La Mosquitera (The Mosquito Net) taking the Grand Prix – Crystal Globe award as the best film in the main competition, an award handed to the filmmakers by Nikita Mikhalkov awarded the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema and the Special Jury Award going to Kuky se vrací (Kooky), a Jan Svěrák film not only for children, that caused a sensation during the festival when the director launched a competition among the audience that searched for the puppet toy Kooky hidden every day in a different place in the spa town.
Rajko Grlić with his comedy Neka ostane medju nama (Just Between Us) won as the best director. The Best Actress award went to the young Anaïs Demoustier for her role as 15-year-old girl who imposes upon an older married couple in L’enfance du mal (Sweet Evil) and both leading actors of the Polish drama Matka Teresa od kotów (Mother Teresa of Cats) Mateusz Kościukiewicz and Filip Garbacz won as best actors.
The jury’s special mention award went to the Russian film Drugoje nebo (Another Sky) and Iran’s Chiz-haie hast keh nemidani (There Are Things You Don’t Know) simultaneously.
Mikael Wiström and Alberto Herskovits film Familia won as the best documentary over 30 minutes.
The audience award of the Czech daily Právo, decided by 67,070 viewers went to the Danish comedy Oldboys by Nikolaj Steen.
The festival may be over but if you haven’t seen all the films you wanted to or didn’t make it to the festival at all, you can catch a lot of them including the winning picture in Prague cinemas Světozor, Aero, and Atlas. Films such as Single Man, Mr. Nobody, Heaven, Hell, Heartbreaker, Submarino, Four Lions, and Serious Man have already been bought for Czech distribution, so you can look forward to see them in a theatre near you.
And as the awarded artists and lucky Kooky winners take home their prizes, the rest of us can look forward to the festival next year that will take place in the western Bohemian spa town again from 1 to 9 July, 2011.
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