1991

FEATURE FILMS

Grand Prix of the Americas / Best film:
« Salmonberries » by Percy Adlon (Germany)

Special Grand Prix of the Jury:
« North » (Nord) by Xavier Beauvois (France)

Best director:
« Volere Volare » by Maurizio Nichetti (Italy)

Best Actress:
Laura Dern in « Rambling Rose » by Martha Coolidge (U.S.A.)
Lee Huesuk in « Silver Stallion » by Chang Kil-Soo (South Korea)

Best Actor:
Francisco Rabal in « L’Homme qui a perdu son ombre » by Alain Tanner (Spain-Switzerland-France)

Best screenplay:
« Silver Stallion » by Chang Kil-Soo (South Korea), screenplay by Chang Kil-Soo and Cho Che-Hung

Best artistic contribution for photography:
« La Demoiselle sauvage » by Lea Pool (Canada-Switzerland), photography by Georges Dufaux
« Children of Nature » by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson (Iceland), photography by Ari Kristinsson.

SHORT FILMS

Best short film:
« Words, Words, Words » (Reci, reci, reci) by Michaela Pavlatova (Czechoslovakia)

Jury award for best short film:
« The Irises » by Suzanne Gervais and Jacques Giraldeau (Canada)

OTHE AWARDS

Montreal Award for best first feature film:
« La Mujer de Benjamin » by Carlos Carrera (Mexico)
« North » (Nord) by Xavier Beauvois (France)
Honorary mention to:
« Freud Leaving Home » by Suzanne Bier (Sweden-Denmark)

Air Canada Award for the most popular film of the Festival:
« Volere Volare » by Maurizio Nichetti (Italy)

Super Ecran Award for the Best Canadian film:
« La Demoiselle sauvage » by Lea Pool (Canada-Switzerland)

International Critics’ Award (FIPRESCI):
For films in competition:
« North » (Nord) by Xavier Beauvois (France)
For films out of competition:
« The Death of Otrar » by Ardak Amirkoulov (U.S.S.R.)
« Plastic Jesus » by Lazar Stojanovic (Yugoslavia)

Ecumenical Jury Award:
« War and Youth » by Tadashi Imai (Japan)
Mention of the ecumenical jury:
« Exiles » by Imre Gyongyossy, Barna Kabay, Katalin Petenyi )Hungary-Germany)