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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
16
World Premieres
27
International Premieres
7
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)
Special Jury Prize
What a Wonderful Place (Eize makom nifla)
Best Director
Krzysztof Krauze for the film My Nikifor (Mój Nikifor)
Best Actress
Krystyna Feldman for her role in the film My Nikifor (Mój Nikifor)
Best Actor - ex-aequo
Luca Zingaretti for his role in the film Come into the Light (Alla luce del sole)
Best Actor - ex-aequo
Uri Gavriel for his role in the film What a Wonderful Place (Eize makom nifla)
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