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JURY:

Marta Meszaros, director (Hungary) President
Smita Patil, actress (India)
Ted Allan, writer and script-writer (Canada)
Gabriel Arcand, actor (Canada)
Ciro Duran, director (Colombia)
Gilles Jacob, film critic, dir. of the Cannes Film Festival (France)
Slobodan Sijan, director (Yugoslavia)

AWARDS: Feature films:

Grand Prix of the Americas / Best film:
"El Norte" by Gregory Nava (U.S.A.)

Special jury awards:
"La Femme publique" by Andrzej Zulawski (France)
"Khandar" by Mrinal Sen (Inde)

Special jury award:
Katharine Hepburn for her interpretation in the film "The Ultimate Solution of Grace Quigley" and for her exceptional achievements in cinema.

Best actress:
Dorottya Udvaros in the film "Oh Bloody Life" by Peter Bacso (Hungary)

Best actor:
John Shea in the film "Windy City" by Armyan Bernstein (U.S.A.)

Jury award for a young cinematography:
" The Inheritors" (Die Herben) by Walter Bannert (Austria)

Jury award for best screenplay:
"The Balkan Spy" by Bozidar Nikolic and Dusan Kovacevic (Yugoslavia)

AWARDS: Short films:

Montreal grand prix:
"Every Day... Every Night" by Kathy Mueller (Australia)

Jury award:
"The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope" by Jan Svankmajer (Czechoslovakia)

OTHER AWARDS:

Carlsberg international press prize for the best Canadian feature film out of competition:
"La Femme de l'h�tel" by Lea Pool (Canada)

Air Canada award for the most popular film of the Festival:
"La Femme publique" by Andrzej Zulawski (France)