Director Ivan Passer

Director Ivan Passer passed away on Thursday. . “I got the opportunity to make a film that people could revisit once in a while, the same way as we revisit our relatives. They look the same, their behaviour is the same, but because we like them, we are coming to see them again and again,“ said director Ivan Passer at the festival in 2016, when he introduced the digitally restored version of his masterpiece Intimate Lighting. . We are honoured that Ivan Passer revisited KVIFF again and again and accepted the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema there in 2008. . .