59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Cristal Globe competition winner: Out of Love by Nathan Ambrosioni. Motivation: “The 25-year-old writer-director shows his remarkable skill in working not only with adult actors but with children in examining fragile family relationships”.

Proxima Competition: “We award the Fipresci prize to Manoel Dupont’s Before / After for its unfeigned exploration of a relationship as fractured and ambiguous as the cinematic travelogue that captures it. Through its hybrid aesthetics, the filmmaker grants the narrative an openness to question how the real interferes with fiction, and to prod the notion of character in cinema as knowable. The film depicts the homoerotic bond with humor and tenderness, while also placing its Western protagonists in the context of orientalism and socioeconomic privilege”.

Crystal Globe competition jury

FIPRESCI celebrates 100th anniversary:

A special screening of the past FIPRESCI award winner, Every Young Man by Pavel Juraček (1965, Czechoslovakia), was presented in Out of the Past section by the head of the Czech branch Martin Horyna and vice president Elena Rubashevska.

Credit: FILM SERVIS FESTIVAL KARLOVY VARY

Find the results of the Critics’ Poll here.