Miro Remo’s hybrid doc “Increased Go Mad inside the Wild” picked up Karlovy Differ Film Pageant’s Grand Prix on Saturday – and $25,000, shared by the director and the producers.
Following hermit twins František and Ondřej Klišík, the Slovak director first discovered them as a consequence of Aleš Palán’s book. “I contacted Aleš immediately, and he launched me into their world,” he said. “I fell in love with them and with their environment. I was fascinated by all of the issues magical and enchantingly unusual.”
Jurors Nicolas Celis, Babak Jalali, Jessica Kiang, Jiří Mádl and Tuva Novotny known as it “a humorous valentine to the fading paintings of being true to your self” and a “delightfully inventive documentary.” No matter residing on a dilapidated farm, “in a world as mad as ours, [they] actually is probably the sanest people on earth.”
They added: “ ‘Increased Go Mad inside the Wild’ looks as if a gulp of latest, woody air, or a quick dip in an outdoor pond, or a second of contemplation as a cow chews in your beard. Briefly, it looks as if being free.”
Choice’s Man Lodge shared the love for the film, calling it a “poignant, eternal imprint of lives largely lived far exterior the gaze of society and the authorities.”
“If I knew it is perhaps such an unlimited event, I’d placed on a bowtie. That’s the largest award I’ve ever acquired,” enthused Remo.
The Specific Jury Prize went to Iranian drama “Bidad” by Soheil Beiraghi, who requested the viewers to applaud for the Iranian girls “for not being afraid and educating him easy methods to not be afraid.”
“Morphing from social-injustice thriller into family melodrama proper right into a triumph-over-adversity arc, it’s most placing as a gonzo lovers-on-the-run romance, shot by the use of with punk vitality and spiky character that ends on an ambivalent however optimistic phrase — because of the place there’s this quite a bit life, there’s hope,” said the jury.
Beiraghi, whose group was unable to hitch him on the fest, suggested Choice: “I wish to face by my work. I wish to point out I’ve administration over my actions. Nonetheless after the competitors? I don’t know what’s going to happen. We now haven’t any administration over that.”
Inside the film, he reveals wannabe singer who, tired of being silenced, begins appearing on the streets. The competitors waited sooner than saying the film, attempting to protect the crew.
“I’ve nothing nonetheless this film. That’s why I’m attending the competitors, whatever the consequence and whatever the hazard. And concerning the the rest… I’ll give it some thought later. Iran is my home. I’m going to return, because of no person has the becoming to banish us from our homes.”
In an attention-grabbing twist, the perfect director award went to 2 helmers for his or her “spectacular directorial statements”: Vytautas Katkus for mild dramedy “The Buyer” and Nathan Ambrosioni for “Out of Love,” that features Camille Cottin as a lady instantly compelled to deal with her sisters’ youngsters after her disappearance.
Most interesting actress award was given to Norway’s Pia Tjelta for her fearless flip in Nina Knag’s “Don’t Identify Me Mama,” a number of mature lady starting an affair with a youthful refugee.
“You’ve touched me on a such a deep diploma. I’m sorry, I didn’t suggest to cry – I’m drained. Nonetheless you’ve gotten modified my life just by the best way you stroll by the use of life. I like you numerous,” said Tjelta to her director.
“It’s a searing portrait of ego, fragility and the lies we inform ourselves regarding the kind of people we’re, which is carried so calmly and however so convincingly, on her shoulders,” said the jury. As well as they noticed Àlex Brendemühl, stable as a father of a sufferer of sexual assault in “When a River Turns into the Sea” by Pere Vilà Barceló.
The Catalan director wanted to underline that sexual violence moreover “profoundly impacts the fathers, brothers and companions of many women” and current the kind of masculinity “that’s not toxic, nonetheless compassionate.”
“Her father, no matter not having that emotional education, chooses to look instantly at his daughter and hold by her aspect. His presence is quiet, nonetheless for me, that’s a powerful gesture. Males moreover must be a part of the wrestle for equality and that begins with caring for the people we love. This can be a matter that should affect all of us, regardless of gender,” he said.
Specific Jury Level out was moreover given to newcomer Kateřina Falbrová for her operate in well-received “Broken Voices” by Ondřej Provazník, impressed by the stunning real-life case of abuse that went on for a few years.
“Who would have thought that the little lady who confirmed up at casting could be standing proper right here now?,” she said, together with: “I truly hope people my age will see the film.”
Inside the Proxima Opponents, jurors Yulia Evina Bhara, Noaz Deshe, Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias and Marissa Frobes opted for “Sand Metropolis” by Mahde Hasan – moreover given $15,000 – the place “cinema turns right into a trembling map of the weird, abandoned, and intimate on the perimeter of sense.”
“Forensics” by Federico Atehortúa Arteaga and “Sooner than/After” by Manoël Dupont had been moreover noticed, incomes Proxima Specific Jury Prize and Specific Level out respectively.
Lastly, acclaimed actor Stellan Skarsgård – who made headlines speaking out in direction of Ingmar Bergman – was awarded the Crystal Globe for Wonderful Creative Contribution to World Cinema. Skarsgård moreover provided “Sentimental Price” on the event.
“Stop it – I’m not ineffective however,” he deadpanned as a result of the standing ovation went on.
“I wanted to thank my dad and mother who slept collectively one night time time in 1951 with out being married. They weren’t too fussy about it, so thanks mama and papa. And due to the rest of my family. A number of of them are proper right here, a number of of them are all world wide. There are pretty a few of them,” he joked, calling the fest a “pretty, inconceivable tribute to filmmaking. It’s preserving it alive even in these onerous situations.”
Pageant President’s Award for Contribution to Czech Cinematography went to editor Jiří Brožek, who remembered the late Jiří Bartoška.
“I wanted to thank Bartoška for this award, which he organized for me,” he joked.
The ceremony’s host, Czech actor and TV presenter Marek Eben, well-known that no matter Bartoška’s passing, it wasn’t a “sad competitors.” Pretty the choice.
“It wasn’t sad precisely as a consequence of Jiří. All of us had reminiscences to share about him, they usually’re charming. You’d see two people sitting at a desk, laughing, they usually’re recalling a ineffective man. When people talk about you and it locations a smile on their face, that’s a gift. That is perhaps enough for me,” he said, quoting the event’s repairs man.
“He said: ‘I’m going to miss him. He had such a stupendous strategy of telling us to bugger off.’ It’s an excellent occasion of how vulgarity can develop to be tender and touching.”
The 59th Karlovy Differ Film Pageant was attended by 9,949 accredited visitors. A whole of 175 films had been screened, along with 108 operate fiction films, 23 operate documentaries and 44 fast films; 36 films acquired their world premiere.
“Sand Metropolis”
Full file of awards:
Crystal Globe Opponents
GRAND PRIX – Crystal Globe
“Increased Go Mad inside the Wild” (“Raději zešílet v divočině”)
Czech Republic, Slovak Republic
Directed by: Miro Remo
Specific Jury Prize
Iran
“Bidad”
Directed by: Soheil Beiraghi
Most interesting Director Award – ex-aequo
Vytautas Katkus for “The Buyer” (“Svečias”)
Lithuania, Norway, Sweden
Nathan Ambrosioni for “Out of Love” (“Les Enfants vont bien”)
France
Most interesting Actress Award
Pia Tjelta for “Don’t Identify Me Mama” (“Se meg”)
Norway
Directed by: Nina Knag
Most interesting Actor Award
Àlex Brendemühl for “When a River Turns into the Sea” (“Quan un riu esdevé el mar”)
Directed by: Pere Vilà Barceló
Spain
Specific Jury Level out
Kateřina Falbrová for the operate in “Broken Voices” (“Sbormistr”)
Directed by: Ondřej Provazník
Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2025
Právo Viewers Award
“We’ve Acquired to Physique It!” (“Musíme to zarámovat!)
(a dialog with Jiří Bartoška in July 2021)
Directed by: Milan Kuchynka, Jakub Jurásek
Czech Republic
PROXIMA COMPETITION
Proxima Grand Prix
“Sand Metropolis” (“Balur Nogorite”)
Bangladesh
Directed by: Mahde Hasan
Proxima Specific Jury Prize
“Forensics” (“Forenses”)
Colombia
Directed by: Federico Atehortúa Arteaga
Specific Level out
“Sooner than/After” (“Avant/Après”)
Belgium
Directed by: Manoël Dupont
Crystal Globe for Wonderful Creative Contribution to World Cinema
Stellan Skarsgård
Pageant President’s Award for Contribution to Czech Cinematography
Jiří Brožek
Pageant President’s Award
Vicky Krieps
Dakota Johnson
Peter Sarsgaard
The Ecumenical Jury Award
Grand Prize
“Rebuilding”
USA
Directed by: Max Walker-Silverman
USA, 2025
Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury
“Cinema Jazireh”
Turkey, Iran, Bulgaria, Romania
Directed by: Gözde Kural
Europa Cinemas Label Award
“Broken Voices”
FIPRESCI Award
The FIPRESCI award for the perfect film inside the Crystal Globe Opponents
“Out of Love”
The FIPRESCI award for the perfect film inside the Proxima Opponents
“Sooner than / After”