40th Karlovy Vary
International Film Festival

40th year of the festival was held on
July 1 - 9, 2005

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Festival in Numbers

12 112

Accredited visitors

8 473

Festival Pas

361

Filmmakers

968

Film Industry Professionals

569

Journalists

142 506

Tickets Sold

517

Screenings

278

Feature-length Fiction Films

World Premieres

International Premieres

European Premieres

Awarded Guests

Robert Redford

Giant of international film Robert Redford received the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema. For the occasion of such an important filmmaker’s presence at the festival, five films that he directed or starred in were screened. The festival opened with the legendary 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Liv Ullmann

Star of European film, Ingmar Bergman’s young muse, author and UNICEF ambassador. Liv Ullmann accepted the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema.

Awarded films and filmmakers

Films awarded by the main jury of the festival, of which they were members in the year 2005 Michael Radford, Frédéric Fonteyne, Ali MacGraw, Fernando Méndez-Leite Serrano, Kornél Mundruczó, Ruba Nadda, Zuzana Stívínová

Grand Prix - Crystal Globe

My Nikifor (Mój Nikifor)