Iranian teen drama ‘Summer with Hope’ wins Karlovy Vary Film Festival

The story “Summer with Hope”, set in Iran, won first prize at the 56th Karlovy Vary International Tournament. Film Festival, beat the Crystal Globe jury with her story of young competitive swimmer Omid struggling to train for the perilous ocean competition.

Directed and written by Iranian-Canadian Sadaf Foroughi, the film is her second film in its second year and follows the 2017 teen drama Ava. The Karlovy Vary award is worth $25,000.

Friends’ quick and compelling Spanish study You Have to Come and See It by Jonas Tropa won a special jury prize and $15,000 for its satirical, philosophical depiction of a country picnic by the city-dwellers of Madrid.

Czech director Beata Barkanova won the Director’s Award for “The Word,” a Czech/Slovak/Polish co-production and her original story of a small-town notary – Martin Wenger, who also received an actor award – and his wife, Gabriela Mikulkova, who have stood up to political pressure. Under a repressive pre-1989 regime, at great personal cost.

Georgians Taki Mumladze and Maryam Khundadze have shared the Best Actress honor for their role as troubled young women dealing with claustrophobia and sexual frustration in Josep “Soso Blades” German/Georgian hack drama “A Room of My Own”.

The nine-day festival, arguably the most exciting in Central Europe, concluded Saturday night in the great hall of the brutal mound known as the Thermal Hotel, capping a week of 170 films shown in mostly crowded halls and the appearance of actors Jeffrey Rush and Benicio del Toro, Which wowed the crowds at an event that attracted more than 10,000 visitors.

The festival was signed with Rush and Del Toro on stage, the former honored with a contribution to world cinema Crystal Globe while the latter was awarded the Festival President Jiří Bartoška Award. Czech comedian Polek Bolivka has been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Právo Audience Award was awarded to Czech rock “PSH Neverending Story”, a free Štěpán FOK Vodrážka account of three champion Prague rappers, Orion, Vladimir 518 and Mike Travic, who represented Peneři strýčka Homeboye (Uncle Homeboy’s Hoboes), making waves in local clubs for decades. Concerts and headlines of the tabloids.

The Karlovy Vary Festival’s new Proxima competition – which evolved from the former East-West section, and opened the way for international independent filmmakers doing an outstanding job – honored the Czech document “Art Talent Show”, directed by Adéla Komrzý and Tomáš Bojar, chronicle of the competitive spirit of the art school, Her first prize is $15,000.

The film also won a FIPRESCI Award, as did the official choice movie “Borders of Love,” a Czech/Polish offbeat look at open relationships directed by Tomasz Vinsky.

“La Pietà,” a Spanish/Argentinean look at home life in hell directed by Eduardo Casanova, won a special Proxima Jury Prize and $10,000 while Croatian/Serbian family story from the ’80s set, “The Uncle,” directed by David Capac and Andrea Mardžić, had a special mention from the jury.

An Ecumenical Jury Prize awarded the watching document “A Provincial Hospital,” a Bulgarian/German production directed by Ilyan Meteev, Ivan Chertov and Zlatina Teneva, while the Europa Cinemas Label honors the Polish holiday controversy “Fucking Bornholm” by Anna Kaczyk.



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