50th Cannes Film Festival

The jury

Derek Malcolm (UK), Jan Aghed (Sweden), Peter van Bueren (The Netherlands), Michel Ciment (France), Ninos Feneck Mikelides (Greece), Jerzy Plazewski (Poland), Maurizio Porro (Italy), Angel Fernandez Santos (Spain), Alexis Grivas (Greece), Emanuel Levy (US), Philippe J. Maarek (France)

Awarded films

• The Sweet Hereafter by Atom Egoyan
  (Canada, 1997, 112 mins)
• Voyage to the Beginning of the World by Manoel de Oliveira
  (Portugal, 1997, 95 mins)