Spanish actor Antonio Banderas and director will receive an International Film Festival Karlovy Vary an award that gives the president personally, Jiri Bartoska, organizers announced today.
In Prague. Actor malagueño visit the 44th edition of the famous film festival, which this year takes place from 3 to July 11 in the Bohemian Forest to receive the Festival President's Award.
This award is given to actors, directors and producers who have made crucial contributions to the development of film, not only in their countries of origin but around the world.
In the case of Banderas, recognizing his long career as an actor, his work as producer, which began in 1999 with "The White River Kid," and his work as director. His debut as director in 1999 with the black comedy "Crazy in Alabama" and presented in Karlovy Vary their second, "The Way of the English", awarded in Berlin (2007) with the "European Cinemas Label Award.
The Festival President's Award at Karlovy Vary was established last year, the edition that was delivered to the actors Danny Glover, Christopher Lee and Armin Mueller-Stahl. Another of the prizes awarded this Festival, the Crystal Globe, will be in this edition for the French actress Isabelle Huppert for his contribution to world cinema, and U.S. John Malkovich, twice Oscar nominee ( "Places in the Heart" and "In the line of fire").
As for the official competition, will have fourteen feature films, including the world premieres "Angel at Sea", the Belgian Frédéric Dumont, and "Applause", the Danish Martin Pieter Zandvliet. They are also among the candidates for the Crystal Globe for "black sheep" of Mexican Humberto Hinojosa "Wolfy" by Vasili Sigarev, one of the promising young Russian cinema, and "Villa Amalia," the French Benoit Jacquot.
This section also works South Korea, Iran, Hungary, USA, Croatia, Slovakia, Poland, Italy, France and Germany. In the documentary competition section, with ten feature films and six shorts included the Spanish "Anas: film india, Enric Miró, and the Mexican" Those who are left, "Juan Carlos Rulfo. In this edition of the Karlovy Vary festival will also premiere the latest work of Milos Forman, a film adaptation of the comedy comic "A well-paid trip.