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.
Special Jury Prize winners 1952–present
Year Film Original Title Director Country2026 The Guest Gæsten Mads Mengel Denmark2025 OutcryBidad Soheil Beiraghi Iran 2023Empty Nets Toorhaye khali Behrooz Karamizade Germany, Iran 2022 You Have to Come and See It Jonás Trueba Spain20182018 awards at the official siteFlorianópolis DreamSueño FlorianópolisAna KatzArgentina, Brasil, France 20172017 awards at the official site Men Don’t Cry Muškarci ne plaču Alen Drljević Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia, Germany 20162016 awards at the official site Zoology Zoologiya Ivan I. Tverdovskiy Russia, France, Germany 20152015 awards at the official site Those Who Fall Have WingsThose Who Fall Have Wings on IMDb Jeder der fällt hat Flügel Peter Brunner Austria 20142014 awards at the official site Free Fall Szabadesés György Pálfi Hungary, France, South Korea 20132013 awards at the official site A Field in England Ben Wheatley United Kingdom 20122012 awards at the official site Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy Romanzo di una strage Marco Tullio Giordana Italy 20112011 awards at the official site Gypsy Cigán Martin Šulík Slovak Republic, Czech Republic 20102010 awards at the official site Kooky Jan Svěrák Czech Republic, Denmark 20092009 awards at the official site TwentyTwenty on IMDb Bist Abdolreza Kahani Iran 20082008 awards at the official site The Photograph Nan Achnas Indonesia, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden 20072007 awards at the official site Lucky Miles Michael James Rowland Australia 20062006 awards at the official site Christmas Tree Upside DownChristmas Tree Upside Down on IMDb (ex aequo) Obarnata elha Ivan Cherkelov, Vassil Zhivkov Bulgaria, Germany Beauty in Trouble (ex aequo) Kráska v nesnázích Jan Hřebejk Czech Republic 20052005 awards at the official site What a Wonderful Place Eize makom nifla Eyal Halfon Israel 20042004 awards at the official site Here Tu Zrinko Ogresta Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina 20032003 awards at the official site BabusyaBabusya on IMDb Babusja Lidija Bobrovová Russia, France 20022002 awards at the official site Nowhere in Africa Nirgendwo in Afrika Caroline Link Germany 20012001 awards at the official site Hi, TereskaHi, Tereska on IMDb Cześć Tereska Robert Gliński Poland 20002000 awards at the official site The Big Animal (ex aequo) Duze zwirze Jerzy Stuhr Poland Peppermint Candy (ex aequo) Bakha satang Lee Chang-dong South Korea 19991999 awards at the official site Show Me Love Fucking Åmål Lukas Moodysson Sweden 19981998 awards at the official site Full Moon Den polnoluniya Karen Šachnazarov Russia 19971997 awards at the official site The Good Life La buena vida David Trueba Spain 19961996 awards at the official site Svatá Klára Clara Hakadusha Ari Folman, Ori Sivan Israel 19951995 awards at the official site The Garden Záhrada Martin Šulík Slovakia, Czech Republic 19941994 awards at the official site Faust (ex aequo) Lekce Faust Jan Švankmajer Czech Republic The Case of Bronek Pekosinski (ex aequo) Przypadek Pekosińskiego Grzegorz Królikiewicz Poland 19921992 awards at the official site Once Upon a Time, Cinema Nassereddin shah, actor-e cinema Mohsen Makhmalbaf Iran 19901990 awards at the official site Was It Us? Byli jsme to my? Antonín Máša Czechoslovakia 19881988 awards at the official site Pathfinder Veiviseren Nils Gaup Norway 19781978 awards imdb The Marginal Ones Oka Oori Katha Mrinal Sen India 1982-1986 - 2nd award conferred as "Grand Special Prize" 19861986 awards at the official site Tanner Der schwarze Tanner Xavier Koller Switzerland 19841984 awards at the official site End of the Lonely Farm Berhof Zánik samoty Berhof Jiří Svoboda Czechoslovakia, Poland El mil usos Roberto G. Rivera Mexico 19821982 awards at the official site The Assistant Pomocník Zoroslav Záhon Czechoslovakia
References
External links The official festival site / History