AWARDS - 1990 MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL
JURY
Shabana Azmi, actress (India) President
Damiano Daminani, director (Italy)
Rock Demers, producer (Canada)
Xie Fei, director (China)
Antonio Gimenez-Rico, réalisateur (Spain)
Peter Rainer, film critic (U.S.A.)
Pierre Rissient, director and script-writer (France)
AWARDS
Feature films:
Grand Prix of the Americas / Best film:
« Fallen from Heaven » (Caidos del cielo) by Francisco Lombardi (Peru-Spain)
Special Grand Prix of the Jury:
« Funeral Ceremony » (Smutecni Slavnost) by Zdenek Sirovy (Czechoslovakia)
« Landscape with a Woman » (Zena s krajolikom) by Ivica Matic (Yugoslavia)
Best director:
« Ballad of the Yellow River » by Teng Wenji (China)
Best Actress:
Natalia Goundareva in the film « Dog’s Feast » by Leonid Menaker (U.S.S.R.)
Best Actors:
Marcel Leboeuf in the film « Rafales » by André Mélançon (Canada)
Andres Pajares in the film « Ay, Carmela! » by Carlos Saura (Spain)
Best Screenplay:
« Princes in Exile » by Giles Walker (Canada), screenplay by Joe Wiesenfeld
Best Artistic Contribution:
« Mt. Aso’s Passions » by Kei Kumai (Japan)
« Waltzing Regitze » (Dansen med Regitze) by Kaspar Rostrup (Denmark)
Festival Award for Best Achievement in Cinema:
Claudia Cardinale on the occasion of the presentation of the film « Atto di dolore » by Pasquale Squitieri (Italy)
Festival Award:
Stanislas Govoroukhin for is contribution to the understanding of history on the occasion of the presentation of his film « This Is No Way to Live ».
Short films:
Best short film:
« Feelings of Mountains and Waters » by Te Wei (China)
Jury Award for short film:
« Overdose » by Francesco Ranieri Martinotti, Rocco Mortelliti, Fulvio Ottaviano (Italy)
Other Awards:
Montreal Awards for the Best first fiction feature film:
« Printemps perdu » by Alain Mazars (France)
« Time of the Servants » (Cas Sluhu) by Irena Pavlaskova (Czechoslovakia)
Air Canada Award for the most popular film of the Festival:
« An Imaginary Tale » by Marc-André Forcier (Canada)
International Critics’ Award (FIPRESCI):
For films in competition:
« Landscape with a woman » (Zena s krajolikom) by Ivica Matic (Yugoslavia)
For feature film out of competition:
« December Bride » by Thaddeus O’Sullivan (Ireland)
Ecumenical Jury Award:
« Landscape with a woman » (Zena s krajolikom) by Ivica Matic (Yugoslavia)
Special mention of the ecumenical jury:
« Princes in Exile » by Giles Walker (Canada)
