Lavanderos’ “Las cosas como son” Earns Karlovy Vary Film Festival Award

Fernando Lavanderos’ latest project has earned critical acclaim in Czechoslovakia.

The 39-year-old Chilean filmmaker’s Las cosas como son has won the Independent Camera Award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Las cosas como son

The 2012 Spanish-language drama/thriller centers on an antisocial man who rents rooms to foreigners and lives vicariously through them. But when a 23-year-old Nordic girl arrives one day and brings meaning to his life, he tries to woo her. But  just when he thinks he’s been successful at winning her love, he discovers that she’s hiding something, awakening his worst fears.

Las cosas como son had previously won the Latin American competition at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.

During the film festival, John Travolta, Oliver Stone and Theodor Pištěk received the Crystal Globe Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema.

Here’s a look at the full list of 2013 Karlovy Vary winners:

GRAND PRIX CRYSTAL GLOBE
Le grand cahier / A nagy füzet
Directed by: János Szász
Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, 2013

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
A Field in England
Directed by: Ben Wheatley
United Kingdom, 2013

BEST DIRECTOR AWARD
Jan Hřebejk
Honeymoon / Líbánky
Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2013

BEST ACTRESS AWARD
Amy Morton
Bluebird
Directed by: Lance Edmands
USA, Sweden, 2012

Louisa Krause
Bluebird 
Directed by: Lance Edmands
USA, Sweden, 2012

Emily Meade
Bluebird 
Directed by: Lance Edmands
USA, Sweden, 2012

Margo Martindale
Bluebird 
Directed by: Lance Edmands
USA, Sweden, 2012

BEST ACTOR AWARD
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
XL
Directed by: Marteinn Þórsson
Iceland, 2013

SPECIAL MENTION
Papusza
Directed by: Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze
Poland, 2013

EAST OF THE WEST – FILMS IN COMPETITION

EAST OF THE WEST AWARD
Floating Skyscrapers / Płynące wieżowce 
Directed by: Tomasz Wasilewski
Poland, 2013

SPECIAL MENTION
Miracle / Zázrak
Directed by: Juraj Lehotský
Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, 2013

DOCUMENTARY FILMS IN COMPETITION

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM OVER 30 MINUTES LONG
Pipeline / Truba 
Directed by: Vitaly Manskiy
Russia, Germany, Czech Republic, 2013

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM UNDER 30 MINUTES LONG
Beach Boy
Directed by: Emil Langballe
United Kingdom, 2013

SPECIAL MENTION
The Manor 
Directed by: Shawney Cohen
Canada, 2013

INDEPENDENT CAMERA AWARD
Things the Way They Are / Las cosas como son
Directed by: Fernando Lavanderos
Chile, 2012

AUDIENCE AWARD
Revival
Directed by: Alice Nellis
Czech Republic, 2013

CRYSTAL GLOBE FOR OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD CINEMA
Theodor Pištěk
Czech Republic

Oliver Stone
USA

John Travolta
USA

FESTIVAL PRESIDENT´S AWARD
Vojtěch Jasný
Czech Republic

AWARD OF INTERNATIONAL FILM CRITICS (FIPRESCI)

Shame / Styd
Directed by: Yusup Razykov
Russia, 2013

THE ECUMENICAL JURY AWARD
Bluebird 
Directed by: Lance Edmands
USA, Sweden, 2012

Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean (FEDEORA)
FEDEORA AWARD
Velvet Terrorists / Zamatoví teroristi
Directed by: Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarčík, Peter Kerekes
Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, Croatia, 2013

EUROPA CINEMAS LABEL AWARD
Le grand cahier / A nagy füzet
Directed by: János Szász
Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, 2013

AWARD OF 10,000 EUROS IN SERVICES FOR THE MOST PROMISING PROJECT
Blind dates / Brma Paemnebi
Directed by: Levan Koguashvili
Georgia