Miro Remo’s hybrid doc “Higher Go Mad within the Wild” picked up Karlovy Differ Movie 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 found them due to Aleš Palán’s ebook. “I contacted Aleš straight away, and he introduced me into their world,” he stated. “I fell in love with them and with their surroundings. I used to be fascinated by all the things magical and enchantingly uncommon.” 

Jurors Nicolas Celis, Babak Jalali, Jessica Kiang, Jiří Mádl and Tuva Novotny referred to as it “a humorous valentine to the fading artwork of being true to your self” and a “delightfully creative documentary.” Regardless of residing on a dilapidated farm, “in a world as mad as ours, [they] really is perhaps the sanest individuals on earth.” 

They added: “ ‘Higher Go Mad within the Wild’ seems like a gulp of recent, woody air, or a fast dip in an out of doors pond, or a second of contemplation as a cow chews in your beard. In brief, it seems like being free.”

Selection’s Man Lodge shared the love for the movie, calling it a “poignant, everlasting imprint of lives largely lived far exterior the gaze of society and the authorities.”

“If I knew it might be such an enormous occasion, I might put on a bowtie. That is the largest award I’ve ever acquired,” enthused Remo. 

The Particular Jury Prize went to Iranian drama “Bidad” by Soheil Beiraghi, who requested the viewers to applaud for the Iranian ladies “for not being afraid and educating him how to not be afraid.” 

“Morphing from social-injustice thriller into household melodrama right into a triumph-over-adversity arc, it’s most putting as a gonzo lovers-on-the-run romance, shot by means of with punk vitality and spiky character that ends on an ambivalent but optimistic word — as a result of the place there’s this a lot life, there’s hope,” stated the jury. 

Beiraghi, whose group was unable to hitch him on the fest, advised Selection: “I want to face by my work. I want to indicate I’ve management over my actions. However after the competition? I don’t know what’s going to occur. We now have no management over that.” 

Within the movie, he reveals wannabe singer who, uninterested in being silenced, begins acting on the streets. The competition waited earlier than saying the movie, making an attempt to guard the crew.  

“I’ve nothing however this movie. That’s why I’m attending the competition, regardless of the result and regardless of the danger. And about the remainder… I’ll give it some thought later. Iran is my house. I’m going to return, as a result of nobody has the fitting to banish us from our houses.”

In an attention-grabbing twist, the very best director award went to 2 helmers for his or her “spectacular directorial statements”: Vytautas Katkus for light dramedy “The Customer” and Nathan Ambrosioni for “Out of Love,” that includes Camille Cottin as a girl immediately compelled to handle her sisters’ kids after her disappearance. 

Finest actress award was given to Norway’s Pia Tjelta for her fearless flip in Nina Knag’s “Don’t Name Me Mama,” a few mature girl beginning an affair with a younger refugee. 

“You’ve touched me on a such a deep degree. I’m sorry, I didn’t imply to cry – I’m drained. However you’ve gotten modified my life simply by the way you stroll by means of life. I love you a lot,” stated Tjelta to her director. 

“It’s a searing portrait of ego, fragility and the lies we inform ourselves concerning the type of individuals we’re, which is carried so calmly and but so convincingly, on her shoulders,” stated the jury. In addition they observed Àlex Brendemühl, solid as a father of a sufferer of sexual assault in “When a River Turns into the Sea” by Pere Vilà Barceló.

The Catalan director needed to underline that sexual violence additionally “profoundly impacts the fathers, brothers and companions of many ladies” and present the type of masculinity “that’s not poisonous, however compassionate.” 

“Her father, regardless of not having that emotional schooling, chooses to look immediately at his daughter and keep by her facet. His presence is quiet, however for me, that’s a strong gesture. Males additionally should be part of the wrestle for equality and that begins with caring for the individuals we love. This is a matter that ought to have an effect on all of us, no matter gender,” he stated. 

Particular Jury Point out was additionally given to newcomer Kateřina Falbrová for her function in well-received “Damaged Voices” by Ondřej Provazník, impressed by the surprising real-life case of abuse that went on for many years. 

“Who would have thought that the little woman who confirmed up at casting can be standing right here now?,” she stated, including: “I actually hope individuals my age will see the movie.”

Within the Proxima Competitors, jurors Yulia Evina Bhara, Noaz Deshe, Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias and Marissa Frobes opted for “Sand Metropolis” by Mahde Hasan – additionally given $15,000 – the place “cinema turns into a trembling map of the unusual, deserted, and intimate on the fringe of sense.”

“Forensics” by Federico Atehortúa Arteaga and “Earlier than/After” by Manoël Dupont had been additionally observed, incomes Proxima Particular Jury Prize and Particular Point out respectively. 

Lastly, acclaimed actor Stellan Skarsgård – who made headlines talking out towards Ingmar Bergman – was awarded the Crystal Globe for Excellent Inventive Contribution to World Cinema. Skarsgård additionally offered “Sentimental Worth” on the occasion.

“Cease it – I’m not useless but,” he deadpanned because the standing ovation went on. 

“I needed to thank my dad and mom who slept collectively one night time in 1951 with out being married. They weren’t too fussy about it, so thanks mama and papa. And thanks to the remainder of my household. A few of them are right here, a few of them are all around the world. There are fairly a couple of of them,” he joked, calling the fest a “lovely, improbable tribute to filmmaking. It’s preserving it alive even in these onerous instances.”

Pageant President’s Award for Contribution to Czech Cinematography went to editor Jiří Brožek, who remembered the late Jiří Bartoška.

“I needed to thank Bartoška for this award, which he organized for me,” he joked. 

The ceremony’s host, Czech actor and TV presenter Marek Eben, famous that regardless of Bartoška’s passing, it wasn’t a “unhappy competition.” Fairly the alternative. 

“It wasn’t unhappy exactly due to Jiří. All of us had reminiscences to share about him, and they’re charming. You’d see two individuals sitting at a desk, laughing, and they’re recalling a useless man. When individuals speak about you and it places a smile on their face, that’s a present. That might be sufficient for me,” he stated, quoting the occasion’s upkeep man. 

“He stated: ‘I’m going to overlook him. He had such a stupendous approach of telling us to bugger off.’ It’s an ideal instance of how vulgarity can grow to be tender and touching.”

The 59th Karlovy Differ Movie Pageant was attended by 9,949 accredited guests. A complete of 175 movies had been screened, together with 108 function fiction movies, 23 function documentaries and 44 quick movies; 36 movies acquired their world premiere.

Full record of awards:

Crystal Globe Competitors

GRAND PRIX – Crystal Globe 

“Higher Go Mad within the Wild” (“Raději zešílet v divočině”)

Czech Republic, Slovak Republic

Directed by: Miro Remo

Particular Jury Prize

Iran

“Bidad”

Directed by: Soheil Beiraghi

Finest Director Award – ex-aequo

Vytautas Katkus for “The Customer” (“Svečias”)

Lithuania, Norway, Sweden

Nathan Ambrosioni for “Out of Love” (“Les Enfants vont bien”)

France

Finest Actress Award

Pia Tjelta for “Don’t Name Me Mama” (“Se meg”)

Norway

Directed by: Nina Knag

Finest Actor Award

Àlex Brendemühl for “When a River Turns into the Sea” (“Quan un riu esdevé el mar”)

Directed by: Pere Vilà Barceló

Spain

Particular Jury Point out

Kateřina Falbrová for the function in “Damaged Voices” (“Sbormistr”)

Directed by: Ondřej Provazník

Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2025

Právo Viewers Award

“We’ve Acquired to Body 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 Particular Jury Prize 

“Forensics” (“Forenses”)

Colombia

Directed by: Federico Atehortúa Arteaga

Particular Point out 

“Earlier than/After” (“Avant/Après”)

Belgium

Directed by: Manoël Dupont

Crystal Globe for Excellent Inventive 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

“Damaged Voices”

FIPRESCI Award

The FIPRESCI award for the very best movie within the Crystal Globe Competitors

“Out of Love” 

The FIPRESCI award for the very best movie within the Proxima Competitors

“Earlier than / After”