Benicio Del Toro is about to Czech things out…

The 45-year-old Puerto Rican actor and producer will be honored alongside Geoffrey Rush  with career awards at the 56th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), running July 1-9 against the backdrop of the picturesque Czech Republic spa town.

Del Toro will be honored with the KVIFF President’s Award, celebrating actors, directors, and producers who have made a fundamental contribution to the development of film and cinema.

The homage will also include screenings of Del Toro’s 1995 international breakthrough film The Usual Suspects and Traffic, for which he won an Oscar as well as a Golden Globe, BAFTA and Silver Bear at the Berlinale in 2001.

Australian actor Rush will receive the festival’s Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema.

Rush and Del Toro will receive their awards during the closing night ceremony.

“We are honored and delighted that two extraordinary actors we have been deeply

admiring for many years accepted our invitation to come to Karlovy Vary,” said KVIFF’s president Jiří Bartoška.

This year’s edition will showcase 160 feature-length and short films across 13 sections, with 34 films being presented in world premiere.

In other KVIFF news, the festival also unveiled the members of all its key juries.

The main jury for its Crystal Globe competition comprises Argentinian film producer Benjamin Domenech, German filmmaker Jan-Ole Gerster, Polish distributor and festival organizer Roman Gutek, international sales agent and producer Fiorella Moretti and Danish film editor and screenwriter Molly Malene Stensgaard.

The jury for its new Proxima competition, replacing the former East of the West contest, features Filipino producer Bianca Balbuena, Icelandic documentarist Yrsa Roca Fannberg, Czech music journalist, filmmaker and writer Pavel Klusák, US distributor Michael Rosenberg and Ukrainian film director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy 

KVIFF Juries List In Full:

Crystal Globe Jury
Benjamin Domenech
Jan-Ole Gerster
Roman Gutek
Fiorella Moretti
Molly Malene Stensgaard 

Proxima Jury
Bianca Balbuena
Yrsa Roca Fannberg
Pavel Klusák
Michael Rosenberg
Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy 

FIPRESCI Jury
Nada Azhari Gilllon
Britt Sørensen
Adam Kruk
Gulnara Abikeyeva
Rasha Hosny
Marek Čermák 

Ecumenical Jury
Annette Gjerde Hansen
Veronika Lišková
Théo Péporté

Europa Cinemas Label Jury
Edit Csenki
Leena Närekangas
Kis Rauff