# Special Jury Prize (Karlovy Vary IFF)

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 | Country |
| 2022 | You Have to Come and See It | Tenéis que venir a verla | Jonás Trueba | Spain |
| 2018 | Florianópolis Dream | Sueño Florianópolis | Ana Katz | Argentina, Brasil, France |
| 2017 | Men Don’t Cry | Muškarci ne plaču | Alen Drljević | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia, Germany |
| 2016 | Zoology | Zoologiya | Ivan I. Tverdovskiy | Russia, France, Germany |
| 2015 | Those Who Fall Have Wings | Jeder der fällt hat Flügel | Peter Brunner | Austria |
| 2014 | Free Fall | Szabadesés | György Pálfi | Hungary, France, South Korea |
| 2013 | A Field in England | A Field in England | Ben Wheatley | United Kingdom |
| 2012 | Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy | Romanzo di una strage | Marco Tullio Giordana | Italy |
| 2011 | Gypsy | Cigán | Martin Šulík | Slovak Republic, Czech Republic |
| 2010 | Kooky | Kooky | Jan Svěrák | Czech Republic, Denmark |
| 2009 | Twenty | Bist | Abdolreza Kahani | Iran |
| 2008 | The Photograph | The Photograph | Nan Achnas | Indonesia, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden |
| 2007 | Lucky Miles | Lucky Miles | Michael James Rowland | Australia |
| 2006 | Christmas Tree Upside Down (ex aequo) | Obarnata elha | Ivan Cherkelov, Vassil Zhivkov | Bulgaria, Germany |
| 2006 | Beauty in Trouble (ex aequo) | Kráska v nesnázích | Jan Hřebejk | Czech Republic |
| 2005 | What a Wonderful Place | Eize makom nifla | Eyal Halfon | Israel |
| 2004 | Here | Tu | Zrinko Ogresta | Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 2003 | Babusya | Babusja | Lidija Bobrovová | Russia, France |
| 2002 | Nowhere in Africa | Nirgendwo in Afrika | Caroline Link | Germany |
| 2001 | Hi, Tereska | Cześć Tereska | Robert Gliński | Poland |
| 2000 | The Big Animal (ex aequo) | Duze zwirze | Jerzy Stuhr | Poland |
| 2000 | Peppermint Candy (ex aequo) | Bakha satang | Lee Chang-dong | South Korea |
| 1999 | Show Me Love | Fucking Åmål | Lukas Moodysson | Sweden |
| 1998 | Full Moon | Den polnoluniya | Karen Šachnazarov | Russia |
| 1997 | The Good Life | La buena vida | David Trueba | Spain |
| 1996 | Svatá Klára | Clara Hakadusha | Ari Folman, Ori Sivan | Israel |
| 1995 | The Garden | Záhrada | Martin Šulík | Slovakia, Czech Republic |
| 1994 | Faust (ex aequo) | Lekce Faust | Jan Švankmajer | Czech Republic |
| 1994 | The Case of Bronek Pekosinski (ex aequo) | Przypadek Pekosińskiego | Grzegorz Królikiewicz | Poland |
| 1992 | Once Upon a Time, Cinema | Nassereddin shah, actor-e cinema | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Iran |
| 1990 | Was It Us? | Byli jsme to my? | Antonín Máša | Czechoslovakia |
| 1988 | Pathfinder | Veiviseren | Nils Gaup | Norway |
| 1978 | The Marginal Ones | Oka Oori Katha | Mrinal Sen | India |
| 1982-1986 - 2nd award conferred as "Grand Special Prize" |||||
| 1986 | Tanner | Der schwarze Tanner | Xavier Koller | Switzerland |
| 1984 | End of the Lonely Farm Berhof | Zánik samoty Berhof | Jiří Svoboda | Czechoslovakia, Poland |
| 1984 | El mil usos | El mil usos | Roberto G. Rivera | Mexico |
| 1982 | The Assistant | Pomocník | Zoroslav Záhon | Czechoslovakia |