46th Karlovy Vary IFF
July 1 - July 9, 2011
Grand Jury
István Szabó, president
Hungarian film director whose Mephisto won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He gained international recognition for Age of Illusions and Father, in which he probes the mood of his generation. After the worldwide success of Mephisto, he shot the equally well-received Colonel Redl and Hanussen, both of which screened in competition at Cannes. In the English- language movie Meeting Venus, Slovak actor Marián Labuda worked alongside American actress Glenn Close, and his latest picture, The Door, stars Helen Mirren. An occasional actor, Szabó appeared in Jiří Menzel’s I Served the King of England.
Vladimír Balko
Slovak film director. Graduated from the Prague School of Economics, and in film and TV journalism in Bratislava. In 1988-96 he worked for Slovak TV as an editor, script writer, director, and producer. He works with a number of production companies on a wide variety of TV programs. He cooperated on the documentary series Redline, Time for Teens, and Hope for Children with No Childhood. Another documentary, Seeking a Nanny, Password Agent Orange, received an award at the Academia Film Olomouc documentary festival. His feature debut Soul at Peace screened in competition at KVIFF 2009. He lectures on movie direction and the analysis of feature films.
Michel Ciment
French film critic and columnist. He has been a member of the editorial board of the noted French film magazine Positif since 1966. He is an associate professor emeritus in American studies at Paris Diderot University, and honorary president of FIPRESCI. He has written a number of books on various directors, including Stanley Kubrick, John Boorman, Francesco Rosi, and Fritz Lang, and he has also published interviews with Elia Kazan and Joseph Losey. He has co-authored four documentaries, on Billy Wilder, Kazan, Rosi, and on Kubrik’s A Clockwork Orange. He has sat on the juries of top festivals such as Cannes, Venice, and Berlin.
Michel Demopoulos
Film critic and festival organizer. After studying film, literature, and linguistics, he worked as a film and television critic. He served as editor and later director of the prestigious film magazine Synchronos Kinimatographos. He is the creator of The Other Stage, a documentary on the shooting of Theo Angelopoulos’ Traveling Players. From 1981 to 1991 he was director of acquisitions for the Greek public station ERT and programmer of the channel’s weekly movie club. He is the author of numerous film publications, and in 1991-2005 he was director of the Thessaloniki IFF.
Edna Fainaru
Israeli film journalist and festival consultant. She studied philosophy and theater at Tel Aviv University. She worked in radio, and top Israeli dailies published her interviews of leading filmmakers (Sydney Pollack, Bernardo Bertolucci, Martin Scorsese, and many others). Her articles regularly appear in Variety and Moving Pictures, and at present she is Israeli correspondent for Screen International. She and her husband Dan founded Israel’s lone film magazine, Cinematheque, and she has been its editor-in-chief since 1982. Festivals in Taormina, Istanbul, Copenhagen, and Geneva use her services as a consultant.
Sibel Kekilli
German actress. She shined in her first leading role, in Fatih Akin’s Head-On, which earned numerous prizes, including a Lola in Gold from the German Film Academy, while the director took the Golden Berlin Bear in 2004 and an EFA award. She is a sought-after actress in other countries as well, appearing in the Turkish film Homecoming and in American director Hal Hartley’s Fay Grim. In 2006 she personally accompanied to Karlovy Vary the German competition movie Winter Journey, in which she acted one of the leads. Last year she collected numerous awards for her performance in Feo Aladag’s drama When We Leave.
Pavel Strnad
Czech film producer. After graduating from the Czech University of Technology (ČVUT) he went on to study film production at FAMU. In 1985 he cofounded Negativ productions, which to date has cooperated on more than 30 features. Among his successes, Year of the Devil captured the Grand Prix – Crystal Globe at KVIFF in 2002, Something Like Happiness was the winner of San Sebastian in 2005, and René took Best Documentary at the European Film Awards in 2008. He coproduced Christophe Honoré’s latest film The Beloved, the gala closing film of this year’s Cannes festival. He is chairman of the Czech Audiovisual Producers’ Association.
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