Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jesse Eisenberg will receive Karlovy Vary’s honorary President’s Award during this year’s festival, which runs from July 3 to July 11.
Gyllenhaal will be handed the award at the festival’s opening ceremony. She will also screen The Bride! as part of the celebrations. Eisenberg will receive his award later in the festival, and he will present The Double, directed by Richard Ayoade. Eisenberg stars in the film alongside Mia Wasikowska.
“Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jesse Eisenberg are distinguished by a certain ‘trans-Atlantic’ sensitivity,” Karlovy Vary Artistic Director Karel Och said in a statement.
“Their
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