Australian actor Rush will receive the festival’s Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema.QuillsDel Toro will be honoured with the KVIFF President’s Award, celebrating actors, directors, and producers who have made a fundamental contribution to the development of film and cinema.The homage will also include screenings of Del Toro’s 1995 international breakthrough film, for which he won an Oscar as well as a Golden Globe, BAFTA and Silver Bear at the Berlinale in 2001.
This year’s edition will showcase 160 feature-length and short films across 13 sections, with 34 films being presented in world premiere.The main jury for its Crystal Globe competition comprises Argentinian film producer Benjamin Domenech, German filmmaker Jan-Ole Gerster, Polish distributor and festival organiser Roman Gutek, international sales agent and producer Fiorella Moretti and Danish film editor and screenwriter Molly Malene Stensgaard.
The jury for its new Proxima competition, replacing the former East of the West contest, features Filipino producer Bianca Balbuena, Icelandic documentarist Yrsa Roca Fannberg, Czech music journalist, filmmaker and writer Pavel Klusák, US distributor Michael Rosenberg and Ukrainian film director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy