Actors Stellan Skarsgård, Vicky Krieps, Dakota Johnson and Peter Sarsgaard will be honored at the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival taking place July 4 to 12, 2025. Stellan Skarsgård will be presented with the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema, and Vicky Krieps, Dakota Johnson along with Peter Sarsgaard will receive KVIFF President’s Awards.
Film and theater actor Stellan Skarsgård, recipient of a Golden Globe award, will be presented the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema, and will personally present his new film Sentimental Value, which won the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. It was the sixth film directed by Joachim Trier. The film tells the story of a house full of family memories, joys and conflict. Charismatic characters wander the house’s cold interior, while their complex destinies entwine in the overgrown garden. Can ancient grievances be forgiven? It’s a question echoing from room to room.
At the opening ceremony of the festival, the KVIFF President’s Award will be presented to actress Vicky Krieps. On the occasion of honoring Vicky Krieps, KVIFF will be showing the film Love Me Tender..
This year’s Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival included Love Me Tender directed by Anna Cazenave Cambet, and based on the book and story of Constance Debré. Krieps portrays Clémence, a former lawyer who navigates a custody battle over her son after coming out as a lesbian. Later this year she is set to appear alongside Cate Blanchett and Adam Driver as part of an all-star cast in Jim Jarmusch’s latest outing, Father, Mother, Sister, Brother.
Actor Peter Sarsgaard will also receive KVIFF President’s Award at the opening ceremony of the festival. In his honor, the festival will screen the 2003 journalism drama Shattered Glass.
Most recently, Sarsgaard stars in director Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5, which covers the events that took place during the 1972 Munich Olympics, where an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes. The film also stars John Magaro, Leonie Benesch, Ben Chaplin and is produced by Sean Penn.
Actress Dakota Johnson will receive the KVIFF President’s Award and present her two latest films –the romantic comedy Splitsville directed by Michael Angelo Covino, which she also produced under her TeaTime Pictures banner, and the comedy Materialists, directed by Celine Song, co-starring Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans. Dakota Johnson will receive the KVIFF President’s Award before the screening of Materialists.