TORONTO - Amat Escalante's brutal Mexican drug war drama Heli on Saturday was named the best international feature at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal.
The Canadian festival gave its top jury prize, the Louve d'Or, to Mexico's foreign-language Oscar submission, which earlier won the best director prize at Cannes, followed by a raft of other festival trophies.
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In the same category, the Montreal jury gave a special jury prize to Simon Gross and Nana Ekvtimishvili's In Bloom, a coming-of-age drama set during Georgia's civil war.
And the best actor/actress award at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema went to Samantha Castillo for her star-turn in Bad Hair (Pelo Malo), Venezuelan writer-director Mariana Rondon's drama about a preteen boy whose obsession with his hair causes friction with his widowed mother.
The Montreal festival is to wrap Sunday after screening 273 films from 47 countries.
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