Stephan Komandarev’s Blaga’s Lessons, a Bulgarian/German co-production, has been chosen as the winner of the top prize — the Crystal Globe, which comes with a $25,000 prize — of the 57th Karlovy Vary International ↗ Film Festival. The festival announced the winners during its closing ceremony on Saturday. The film’s star, Eli The Karlovy Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the world and has become Central and Eastern Europe's leading film event. Since 1948, the Grand Prize has been the Crystal Globe – although its form has often changed. As of the 35th Karlovy Vary IFF 2000 the Crystal Globe has taken on a new look: now the figure of a woman stands raising a The Best Director Award is one of main awards of the Feature Film Competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Since 1990, it is conferred on the best director. Best Director Award winners The film stars Eli Skorcheva as Blaga, a retired schoolteacher in Shumen, who is grieving the recent death of her husband and falls victim to a criminal scam while trying to raise the money to pay for his gravestone. Blaga's Lessons premiered at the 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where it won the Crystal Globe for Best Cavalli co-wrote the film Fremont along with the Iranian film director and producer, Babak Jalali. Fremont premiered in January 2023 at the Sundance Film Festival, and screened later in March at the SXSW Film Festival. It has been selected in Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Competition for its International premiere. The fest film market showcased 27 film projects across three programs to 942 film professionals including buyers, distributors and festival programmers. 57th Karlovy Vary Film Festival Winners Sadaf Foroughi’s Iran-set feature Summer With Hope has clinched the Grand Prix award in the main Crystal Globe Competition of the 56th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, running July 1-9. The main Karlovy Vary International Film Festival runs as a physical event from August 20-28. Winners list in full: Works in Progress Post-production Development Award Karlovy Vary Film Festival winners revealed. 2017-07-09T18:16:00Z By Andreas Wiseman. Czech title Little Crusader takes Crystal Globe; works in progress winners announced. Features Janos Szasz’s Le Grand Cahier walked away with the Crystal Globe at the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. This site uses cookies. By using this site you are agreeing to our privacy 31Y94.