49th Cannes Film Festival

The jury

David Stratton (Australia), Claude Beylie (France), Tereza Brdecková (Czech Republic), Atilla Dorsay (Turkey), Angelika Kettelhack (Germany), Mikaela Kindblom (Sweden), Magda Mihailescu (Romania), Hide Murakawa (Japan), Yevgeniya Tirdatova (Russia), Bruno Torri (Italy), Tomas Perez Turrent (Mexico), Philippe J. Maarek (France)

Awarded films

• Prisoner of the Mountains by Sergey Bodrov
  (Russia/ Kazakhstan, 1996, 99 mins)
• Secrets & Lies by Mike Leigh
  (France/ UK, 1996, 142 mins)
• The Ferry by Laila Pakalnina
  (Latvia, 1996, 16 mins)
• The Mail by Laila Pakalnina
  (Latvia, 1996, 20 mins)