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JURY

Charles Champlin, film critic (U.S.A) president
Leonardo de la Fuente, producer (France)
Chen Kaige, director (China)
Giuliana de Sio, actess (Italy)
Kim Soo-Yong, director (South Korea)
Jean-Claude Labrecque, director (Canada)
Helma Sanders-Brahms, director (Germany)

AWARDS: 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.

AWARDS: 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)

OTHER 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):
"North" (Nord) by Xavier Beauvois (France) (competition)
"The Death of Otrar" by Ardak Amirkoulov (U.S.S.R.) (out of competition)
"Plastic Jesus" by Lazar Stojanovic (Yugoslavia) (out of competition)

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)