Special Jury Prize (Karlovy Vary IFF)

The Special Jury Prize is one of the main awards of the Feature Film Competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. It is the second highest award of the festival started since 1952; after the Crystal Globe.[1]

## Special Jury Prize winners

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1952–present
Year | Film | Original Title | Director | Country

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2025 | Injustice | Bidad | Soheil Beiraghi | Iran
2023 | Empty Nets | Toorhaye khali | Behrooz Karamizade | Germany, Iran
2022[2] | You Have to Come and See It | Tenéis que venir a verla | Jonás Trueba | Spain
2018[3] | Florianópolis Dream | Sueño Florianópolis | Ana Katz | Argentina, Brasil, France
2017[4] | Men Don’t Cry | Muškarci ne plaču | Alen Drljević | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia, Germany
2016[5] | Zoology | Zoologiya | Ivan I. Tverdovskiy | Russia, France, Germany
2015[6] | Those Who Fall Have Wings[7] | Jeder der fällt hat Flügel | Peter Brunner | Austria
2014[8] | Free Fall | Szabadesés | György Pálfi | Hungary, France, South Korea
2013[9] | A Field in England | Ben Wheatley | United Kingdom
2012[10] | Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy | Romanzo di una strage | Marco Tullio Giordana | Italy
2011[11] | Gypsy | Cigán | Martin Šulík | Slovak Republic, Czech Republic
2010[12] | Kooky | Jan Svěrák | Czech Republic, Denmark
2009[13] | Twenty[14] | Bist | Abdolreza Kahani | Iran
2008[15] | The Photograph | Nan Achnas | Indonesia, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden
2007[16] | Lucky Miles | Michael James Rowland | Australia
2006[17] | Christmas Tree Upside Down[18] (ex aequo) | Obarnata elha | Ivan Cherkelov, Vassil Zhivkov | Bulgaria, Germany
Beauty in Trouble (ex aequo) | Kráska v nesnázích | Jan Hřebejk | Czech Republic
2005[19] | What a Wonderful Place | Eize makom nifla | Eyal Halfon | Israel
2004[20] | Here | Tu | Zrinko Ogresta | Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2003[21] | Babusya[22] | Babusja | Lidija Bobrovová | Russia, France
2002[23] | Nowhere in Africa | Nirgendwo in Afrika | Caroline Link | Germany
2001[24] | Hi, Tereska[25] | Cześć Tereska | Robert Gliński | Poland
2000[26] | The Big Animal (ex aequo) | Duze zwirze | Jerzy Stuhr | Poland
Peppermint Candy (ex aequo) | Bakha satang | Lee Chang-dong | South Korea
1999[27] | Show Me Love | Fucking Åmål | Lukas Moodysson | Sweden
1998[28] | Full Moon | Den polnoluniya | Karen Šachnazarov | Russia
1997[29] | The Good Life | La buena vida | David Trueba | Spain
1996[30] | Svatá Klára | Clara Hakadusha | Ari Folman, Ori Sivan | Israel
1995[31] | The Garden | Záhrada | Martin Šulík | Slovakia, Czech Republic
1994[32] | Faust (ex aequo) | Lekce Faust | Jan Švankmajer | Czech Republic
The Case of Bronek Pekosinski (ex aequo) | Przypadek Pekosińskiego | Grzegorz Królikiewicz | Poland
1992[33] | Once Upon a Time, Cinema | Nassereddin shah, actor-e cinema | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Iran
1990[34] | Was It Us? | Byli jsme to my? | Antonín Máša | Czechoslovakia
1988[35] | Pathfinder | Veiviseren | Nils Gaup | Norway
1978[36] | The Marginal Ones | Oka Oori Katha | Mrinal Sen | India
1982-1986 - 2nd award conferred as "Grand Special Prize"
1986[37] | Tanner | Der schwarze Tanner | Xavier Koller | Switzerland
1984[38] | End of the Lonely Farm Berhof | Zánik samoty Berhof | Jiří Svoboda | Czechoslovakia, Poland
El mil usos | Roberto G. Rivera | Mexico
1982[39] | The Assistant | Pomocník | Zoroslav Záhon | Czechoslovakia

## References

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1. ^ "Awards for films in the Official Selection". Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
2. ^ Dalton, Ben (9 July 2022). "Iranian drama 'Summer With Hope' wins top Karlovy Vary prize". ScreenDaily.
3. ^ 2018 awards at the official site
4. ^ 2017 awards at the official site
5. ^ 2016 awards at the official site
6. ^ 2015 awards at the official site
7. ^ Those Who Fall Have Wings on IMDb
8. ^ 2014 awards at the official site
9. ^ 2013 awards at the official site
10. ^ 2012 awards at the official site
11. ^ 2011 awards at the official site
12. ^ 2010 awards at the official site
13. ^ 2009 awards at the official site
14. ^ Twenty on IMDb
15. ^ 2008 awards at the official site
16. ^ 2007 awards at the official site
17. ^ 2006 awards at the official site
18. ^ Christmas Tree Upside Down on IMDb
19. ^ 2005 awards at the official site
20. ^ 2004 awards at the official site
21. ^ 2003 awards at the official site
22. ^ Babusya on IMDb
23. ^ 2002 awards at the official site
24. ^ 2001 awards at the official site
25. ^ Hi, Tereska on IMDb
26. ^ 2000 awards at the official site
27. ^ 1999 awards at the official site
28. ^ 1998 awards at the official site
29. ^ 1997 awards at the official site
30. ^ 1996 awards at the official site
31. ^ 1995 awards at the official site
32. ^ 1994 awards at the official site
33. ^ 1992 awards at the official site
34. ^ 1990 awards at the official site
35. ^ 1988 awards at the official site
36. ^ 1978 awards imdb
37. ^ 1986 awards at the official site
38. ^ 1984 awards at the official site
39. ^ 1982 awards at the official site

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