The 60th Karlovy Vary IFF will be held from July 3rd to July 11th 2026.
On July 12th 2025, the festival’s juries presented awards for the best films at the closing ceremony of the 59th Karlovy Vary IFF.
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CRYSTAL GLOBE COMPETITION
Crystal Globe Jury:
Nicolas Celis
Babak Jalali
Jessica Kiang
Jiří Mádl
Tuva Novotny
GRAND PRIX – CRYSTAL GLOBE (25 000 USD)
The financial award is shared equally by the director and producers of the award-winning film.
Better Go Mad in the Wild / Raději zešílet v divočině
Directed by: Miro Remo
Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2025
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE (15 000 USD)
The financial award is shared equally by the director and producer of the award-winning film.
Bidad
Directed by: Soheil Beiraghi
Iran, 2025
BEST DIRECTOR AWARD – EX-AEQUO
Vytautas Katkus for the film The Visitor / Svečias
Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, 2025
Nathan Ambrosioni for the film Out of Love / Les Enfants vont bien
France, 2025
BEST ACTRESS AWARD
Pia Tjelta for the role in the film Don't Call Me Mama / Se meg
Directed by: Nina Knag
Norway, 2025
BEST ACTOR AWARD
Àlex Brendemühl for the role in the film When a River Becomes the Sea / Quan un riu esdevé el mar
Directed by: Pere Vilà Barceló
Spain, 2025
SPECIAL JURY MENTION
Kateřina Falbrová for the role in the film Broken Voices / Sbormistr
Directed by: Ondřej Provazník
Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2025
PRÁVO AUDIENCE AWARD
We've Got to Frame It! (a conversation with Jiří Bartoška in July 2021) / Musíme to zarámovat! (rozhovor s Jiřím Bartoškou v červenci 2021)
Directed by: Milan Kuchynka, Jakub Jurásek
Czech Republic, 2025
PROXIMA COMPETITION
Proxima Jury:
Yulia Evina Bhara
Noaz Deshe
Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias
Marissa Frobes
PROXIMA GRAND PRIX (15 000 USD)
The financial award is shared equally by the director and producers of the award-winning film.
Sand City / Balur Nogorite
Directed by: Mahde Hasan
Bangladesh, 2025
PROXIMA JURY PRIZE (10 000 USD)
SPECIAL MENTION
The financial award is shared equally by the director and producer of the award-winning film.
Forensics / Forenses
Directed by: Federico Atehortúa Arteaga
Colombia, 2025
Before / After / Avant / Après
Directed by: Manoël Dupont
Belgium, 2025
CRYSTAL GLOBE FOR OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD CINEMA
Stellan Skarsgård, Sweden
FESTIVAL PRESIDENT'S AWARD FOR CONTRIBUTION TO CZECH CINEMATOGRAPHY
Jiří Brožek, Czech Republic
FESTIVAL PRESIDENT'S AWARD
Vicky Krieps, Luxembourg / Germany
Dakota Johnson, United States of America
Peter Sarsgaard, United States of America
NON-STATUTORY AWARDS
THE ECUMENICAL JURY AWARD
The Ecumenical Jury:
Achim Forst
Rose Pacatte
Ida Tenglerová
GRAND PRIZE OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY
Rebuilding
Directed by: Max Walker-Silverman
USA, 2025
COMMENDATION OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY
Cinema Jazireh
Directed by: Gözde Kural
Turkey, Iran, Bulgaria, Romania, 2025
EUROPA CINEMAS LABEL AWARD
Europa Cinemas Label Jury
Daniel Krátký
Slavomíra Macáková
Wouter Timmermans
Sbormistr / Broken Voices
Directed by: Ondřej Provazník
Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2025
FIPRESCI AWARD
Fipresci Jury
Helen Barlow
Ela Bittencourt
Bitopan Borborah
Patrick Fey
Lukáš Jirsa
Christos Skyllakos
The FIPRESCI award for the best film in the Crystal Globe Competition
Out of Love / Les Enfants vont bien
Directed by: Nathan Ambrosioni
France, 2025
The FIPRESCI award for the best film in the Proxima Competition
Before / After / Avant / Après
Directed by: Manoël Dupont
Belgium, 2025
STATISTICS OF THE 59TH KARLOVY VARY IFF
The 59th Karlovy Vary IFF 2025 was attended by 9 949 accredited visitors. Of that number 7 926 had Festival Passes, 411 were filmmakers, 1 055 accredited film professionals, and 557 journalists.
There were a total of 465 film screenings and total of 128 133 tickets were sold. A total of 175 films were screened, including 108 feature fiction films, 23 feature documentaries and 44 short films. 36 films received their world premiere, while 5 had their international premiere and 5 their European premiere. 156 screenings were personally presented by delegations of filmmakers. 89 Press & Industry screenings were held.
A total of 1055 film producers, film buyers, film sellers, distributors, film festival programmers, representatives of film institutions, and other film professionals were accredited. 494 accredited film professionals came to the festival from abroad.
A total of 40 films and projects in development or production across 5 platforms were showcased to a total of 103 buyers and distributors and 115 film festival programmers.
