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In Competition:
The Guardian / Bekçi (Ali Özgentürk - Turkey, West Germany)
Dust (Marion Hänsel - Belgium, France)
Glissando (Mircea Daneliuc - Romania)
Family Without a Dinner Table / Shokutaku no nai ie (Masaki Kobayashi - Japan)
The Feather Fairy / Perinbaba (Juraj Jakubisko - Czechoslovakia, West Germany)
Forget Mozart / Vergeßt Mozart (Miloslav Luther - West Germany, Czechoslovakia)
Legend (Ridley Scott - United States)
Life Is Beautiful / Zivot je lep (Boro Draskovic - Yugoslavia)
The Lightship (Jerzy Skolimowski - United States)
Mother Ebe / Mamma Ebe (Carlo Lizzani - Italy)
No Man's Land (Alain Tanner - Switzerland, France, West Germany, United Kingdom)
Planet Parade / Парад планет (Vadim Abdrashitov - Soviet Union)
The Lost Paradise / Los paraísos perdidos (Basilio Martín Patino - Spain)
Tracks in the Snow / Pervola, sporen in de sneeuw (Orlow Seunke - Netherlands, Norway)
Police (Maurice Pialat - France)
Prizzi's Honor (John Huston - United States)
Requiem for a Spanish Peasant / Réquiem por un campesino español (Francesc Betriu - Spain)
The Satin Slipper / O Sapato de Cetim (Manoel de Oliveira - Portugal, France)
Stone Years / Petrina hronia (Pantelis Voulgaris - Greece)
The Tango of Our Childhood / Մեր մանկության տանգոն / Танго нашего детства (Albert Mkrtchyan - Soviet Union)
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel / Tangos, el exilio de Gardel (Fernando Solanas - Argentina, France)
Vagabond / Sans toit ni loi (Agnès Varda - France)
Woman of Wonders / La donna delle meraviglie (Alberto Bevilacqua - Italy)
Golden Lion:
Vagabond by Agnès Varda
Grand Special Jury Prize:
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel by Fernando Solanas
Special Jury Prize:
The Lightship by Jerzy Skolimowski
Silver Lion:
Dust by Marion Hänsel
Volpi Cup for Best Actor:
Gérard Depardieu for Police
Volpi Cup for Best Actress:
NOT ASSIGNED. (The jury deemed the best performances to be Sandrine Bonnaire (Vagabond) and Jane Birkin (Dust), but decided against awarding the prize as both films won major awards[6])
Volpi Cup Special mentions:
Sonja Savić for Life Is Beautiful
Galya Novents for The Tango of Our Childhood
Themis Bazaka for Stone Years