The 19th edition of the Pragueshorts international short film festival, organized under the banner of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, has its winners
The prize for best film in the International Competition went to Spanish director Àlex Lora’s Masterpiece, a suspenseful story about class differences and prejudices in contemporary society. Special Mention went to two films: Teenage Cowboy by Swiss documentarian Matteo Gariglio and Diamond Beauty by Hungarian director Anna Korom. The best film award in the National Competition went to the animated documentary I Died in Irpin, director Anastasiia Falileieva’s unflinchingly honest record of her memories of the first days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The National Competition jury presented two Special Mentions as well – for Ema Hůlková’s documentary Butterfly Girl and Tan-Lui’s Chan’s animated Keep Out. The winner in the festival’s experimental LABO section was the French film The Exploding Girl by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel; Special Mention went to Thailand’s Crazy Lotus, directed by Naween Noppakun. The winner of this year’s Audience Award is Hurikán by director Jan Saska. All the winning films will be screened on Sunday, 2 March, at 5pm at the Světozor cinema. Also that day, the festival will start showing selected films online at KVIFF.TV, where until 23 March subscribers can view more than fifty films from the festival program, including most of the winners. The online part of the festival is open to all subscribers of our video-on-demand platform; monthly subscriptions are available for CZK 179.
