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Main Competition:
Akaler Shandhaney / আকালের সন্ধানে (Mrinal Sen - India)
The Boat Is Full / Das Boot ist voll (Markus Imhoof - Switzerland)
Children's Island / Barnens ö (Kay Pollak - Sweden)
Come Back Swallow / 燕归来 (Jinggong Fu - China)
Deprisa, deprisa (Carlos Saura - Spain)
Der Neger Erwin (Herbert Achternbusch - West Germany)
Fever / Gorączka (Agnieszka Holland - Poland)
Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven (Jean-Jacques Andrien - Belgium)
Head On (Michael Grant - Canada)
History of the World in Three Minutes Flat (Michael Mills - Canada)
Il minestrone (Sergio Citti - Italy)
The Inventor / Der Erfinder (Kurt Gloor - Switzerland)
Köszönöm, megvagyunk (László Lugossy - Hungary)
Kudrat / कुदरत (Chetan Anand - India)
Luang Ta / หลวงตา (Permphol Cheyaroon - Thailand)
Maravillas (Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón - Spain)
Milka - A Film About Taboos / Milka - elokuva tabuista (Rauni Mollberg - Finland)
On Land, at Sea and in the Air / Ter land, ter zee en in de lucht (Paul Driessen - Netherlands)
La provinciale (Claude Goretta - Switzerland)
Tribute (Bob Clark - Canada)
The Truck / Камионът (Christo Christov - Bulgaria)
Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky / Двадцать шесть дней из жизни Достоевского (Aleksandr Zarkhi - Soviet Union)
Zigeunerweisen / ツィゴイネルワイゼン (Seijun Suzuki - Japan)
Vrijdag (Hugo Claus - Belgium)
Golden Bear:
Deprisa, Deprisa by Carlos Saura
Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize:
kaler Sandhane by Mrinal Sen
Silver Bear for Best Actor:
Anatoly Solonitsyn for Dvadtsat shest dney iz zhizni Dostoevskogo
Jack Lemmon for Tribute
Silver Bear for Best Actress:
Barbara Grabowska for Gorączka
Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement:
Markus Imhoof for Das Boot ist voll
Honourable Mention:
Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven
Tsigoineruwaizen