46th Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival

The jury

Jan Aghed (Sweden), Annemieke Hendriks (Netherlands), Tadeusz Sobolewski (Poland), Caliman Calin Nicolae (Romania), Günter H. Jekubzik (Germany)

Awarded films

• Love Is as Strong as Death by Andrej Nekrasov
  (Russia, 1997, 98 mins)
• Orbis Pictus by Martin Sulik
  (Slovakia, 1997, 107 mins)