60th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

3–11 July 2026 · Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic

118 films across 7 sections · 14 prizes

  • Opened with The Match
  • Closed with The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Next edition: July 2–10, 2027

Crystal Globe Competition

Fruit Gathering

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe:, – Aung Phyoe

Venues 1

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The festival's main hall. Its programme names the films, not the rooms.

The prizes

Crystal Globe Competition

Fruit Gathering Grand Prix – Crystal Globe:, – Aung Phyoe

Special Jury Prize

The Guest – Mads Mengel

Best Director Award

The Guest Mads Mengel –

Best Actress Award

A Happy Family Anna Schinz –

Best Actor Award

Pipes Ghassan Saad –

Awards for films in the Proxima Competition

PROXIMA Grand Prix

Lover, Not a Fighter – Martina Buchelová

PROXIMA Special Jury Mention

Incinerator – Shuntaro Uchida

Special Mention

33 Steps – Anna Domček, Šimon Domček

Proxima Best Director Award

A Whole Person Almost Efthimis Kosemund-Sanidis

Právo Audience Award

Bára – Diary of a Rockstar – Helena Třeštíková

Non-statutory awards

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

The Lion at My Back – Tonia Mishiali

Europa Cinemas Label Award

3 Weeks After (3 nedelje posle) – Miroslav Terzić

Only Beautiful Things to Look At FIPRESCI Award for Crystal Globe Competition:, (Prameň) – Ivan Ostrochovský

FIPRESCI Award for PROXIMA Competition

Petty Thieves (Zlodějíčci) – Mate Ugrin

Other awards

Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema: Crystal Globe

Dustin Hoffman

Juliette Binoche, French actress

Robert Richardson, American cinematographer

'Festival President's Award:

Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress and filmmaker

Jeffrey Wright, American actor

Jesse Eisenberg, American actor, playwright, and filmmaker

Magda Vášáryová, former Slovak actress and diplomat

Crystal Globe 12

Proxima Competition 12

Special Screenings 15

Horizons 48

Imagina 19

Out of the Past – KVIFF 60/80 4

Tributes 8