55th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Czech Republic, August 20 - August 28 2021

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The jury

Birgit Beumers (UK), Eirik Bull (Norway), Adéla Mrázová (Czech Republic)

Awarded films

The Exam by Shawkat Amin Korki
(Germany, Iraqi-Kurdistan, Qatar, 2021, 89 min)

Reports

Boiling Point by Eirik Bull
All Eyes on Karlovy Vary by Birgit Beumers
The Dilemmas of the Women by Adéla Mrázová

The critics of our jury focused – on the spot – on the “Crystal Globe Competition”. At this year’s edition, the FIPRRSCI prize is awarded in memory of Jan Foll (1951–2021), an unmistakable persona of Czech film criticism who inspired several generations of young journalists.