1990

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)