Karlovy Vary Reveals Award Winners: ‘Blaga’s Lessons’ Takes Key Prizes
deadline.comThe 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 30 – July 8) came to a close this evening with an awards ceremony that bestowed two key prizes to contemporary Bulgarian drama Blaga’s Lessons (Urotcite Na Blaga) by director Stephan Komandarev.
The third film in the director’s trilogy about his country’s social ills focuses on an old woman duped by a telephone scam. Also among winners on the night were Vincent Perez’s The Edge of the Blade (Une Affaire D’honneur), which took home the audience award, and filmmaker Babak Jalali, who took home the best director prize for the film Fremont.
There were two prizes on the night for Ernst De Geer’s The Hypnosis (Hypnosen) while the top industry award of 90,000 euros went to Czech film I’m Not Everything I Want to Be (Ještě nejsem, kým chci být), which is currently in post.
As previously revealed, Russell Crowe receive a Crystal Globe for outstanding contribution to world cinema, and there were Festival President’s Awards for Alicia Vikander, Ewan McGregor and Robin Wright.
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