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Six selected directors include Michaël R. Roskam [pictured], Kim Ki-duk and Sion Sono.

Six international directors who share a history with the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 3-11) are to present one of their favourite films at the 50th edition of the festival in the Czech spa town.

The special section, titled Six Close Encounters, will include contributions from directors Mark Cousins, Kim Ki-duk, Sergei Loznitsa, Luis Miñarro, Michael R. Roskam and Sion Sono.

Each will select and personally present a favourite film that played a fundamental role in defining their own styles on filmmaking.

“It is extremely important to us that we maintain long-term relationships with filmmakers whose work we follow continuously, often from the beginning of their careers, which in many cases were launched at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival,” says Kviff artistic director Karel Och.

Mark Cousins: A Moment of Innocence (Nun va Goldoon, 1996), Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Kim Ki-duk:...

Agustí Vila's "The Mosquito Net" topped the juried prizes of the 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which concluded this weekend in the Czech mountain town. Starring Geraldine Chaplin as a woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease, the Spanish film won the fest's Grand Prix, the Crystal Globe, which comes with a $30,000 Usd prize shared between director Vila and producer Luis Minarro. The film additionally won the Don Quijote Prize, given ...

Geraldine Chaplin in Agustí Vila‘s The Mosquito Net (top); Jan Sverac‘s Kooky (bottom) Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2010: The Mosquito Net Wins Top Prize Competition Of Full-length Feature Films Grand Jury Ron Yerxa – President of the Jury, USA Mirjana Karanovi?, Serbia Lee Chang-dong, South Korea Lola Mayo, Spain Alexei Popogrebsky, Russia Bohdan Sláma, Czech Republic David Stratton, Australia Grand Prix – Crystal Globe (30,000 Usd) The financial award is shared equally by the director and producer of the award-winning film. The Mosquito Net (La mosquitera), Spain, 2010 Director: Agustí Vila Special Jury Prize (20,000 Usd) The financial award is shared equally by the director and producer of the award-winning film. Kooky (Kuky se vrací), Czech Republic, Denmark, 2010 Director: Jan Sv?rák Best Director Award Just Between Us (Neka ostane medju nama), Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, 2010 Director: Rajko Grli? Best Actress Award Anaïs Demoustier for her role in the film Sweet Evil [...]...

The Mosquito Net‘s producer Luis Miñarro and director Agustí Vila (top); Best Actor co-winner Mateusz Kosciukiewicz Agustí Vila‘s psychological family drama La Mosquitera / The Mosquito Net won the Crystal Globe at the 2010 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, held in the Czech spa city. [Karlovy Vary 2010 list of winners.] Starring Geraldine Chaplin, Emma Suárez, Eduard Fernández, Marcos Franz, and Alex Batilori, The Mosquito Net chronicles the travails of a well-to-do family whose members suffer from an inability to communicate with one another. In a non-speaking role, Geraldine Chaplin plays the family matriarch suffering from Alzheimer’s. On the Karlovy Vary site, Chaplin is quoted as saying that Vila’s The Mosquito Net screenplay was one of "the three best scripts I have ever read." The Special Jury Prize went to Jan Sverac‘s fantasy tale Kooky, a Czech-Danish co-production in which a stuffed bear (that’s Kooky) attempts to return to his rightful owner...