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The Investigator, directed by Attila Gigor, was presented a Special Jury Mention, and the film was named the fourth-best by the audience at the festival.
The Investigator, which is Gigor's first feature film, won the Moziversum prize for best genre film at this year's Hungarian Film Festival. Gigor also took the prize for best screenplay and the film's star Zsolt Anger won the prize for best male lead. Anger co-stars in the film with Judit Rezes.
Gyula Nemes's Lost World, which shows the forced eviction of squatters in a run-down part of Budapest up for rehabilitation, won the prize for Best Documentary Film under 30 minutes long, and the European Cinemas Label prize went to Róbert Lakatos's Bahrtalo! (Good Luck!).
The Danish director Henrik Ruben Genz took home the top award at the festival for his film Terribly Happy.
Other Hungarian films on this year's Karlovy Vary programme were The Guest of Life - Csoma Legendarium, by director Tibor Szemző, Béla Tarr's latest film The Man from London, and Kornél Mundruczó's Delta, screened in the Open Eyes selection
A Czech-Hungarian-British-Slovak co-production based on the life of the mysterious Hungarian Countess Elisabeth Báthory by the Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko also premiered in Karlovy Vary.
