Montreal's Fantasia Festival has come to an end and the jury prizes have been announced. And it is quite safe to say that Korean indie Breathless had a rather good day, winning both Best Feature and a Best Actor nod for writer-director-actor Yang Ik-June. Here's the complete list of winners:

Jury Prizes – Feature Films

Best Feature Film: BREATHLESS - Yang Ik-june
Jury Special Prize: LOVE EXPOSURE - Sion Sono
Best Male Performance: YANG IK-JUNE (Breathless)
Best Female Performance: HIKARI MITSUSHIMA (Love Exposure)
Best Director: DAVID RUSSO (The Immaculate Conception of Little
Dizzle)
Best Screenplay: NICOLAS ALBERNY & JEAN MACH (8th Wonderland)
Best Cinematography: HIDEHO URATA (The Clone Returns home)
Technical prize: IP MAN
Special mention for best Direction of Child Actors: TOM SHANKLAND (The
Children)

Jury Prizes – First features

Best First Feature: WHITE LIGHTNIN’ – Dominic Murphy
Special mention: Debut performance of actor ELINE KUPPENS (Left Bank)

Jury Prizes – International Short Films

Best Live-Action Short Film: HOLD YOUR FIRE – Wes Benscoter
Best Animated Short: THE CONTROL MASTER – Run Wrake

Jury Prizes – Quebec Short Films

Best Short Film: LES OUTILS - Simon Laganière
Best Director: KAGAMIKO - Mathieu Arsenault
Best Screenplay: UN COURT SANS TITRE - Alexandre Gibault
Best Performance: PIERRE-LUC LAFONTAINE, (Déraciné -Pierre-Antoine Fournier)
Special Jury Prize: FANTASME - Izabel Grondin (also for her body of work)

Jury Prizes – DIY Short Films

Best DIY Short Film: PANORAMA: SEEKING VOÏVOD - Jean-Marc E Roy
Best DIY Screenplay: CHERS PARENTS - Sébastien Godron
Special Jury Prize: MASSACRATOR - Pierre Ayotte and SIMONAC - Sylvain Lavigne

SÉQUENCES Award
This year’s SEQUENCES award goes to ROUGH CUT from South Korea’s Jang Hun for it’s fascinating and intelligent screenplay and its perfect mix of film d'auteur and action movie.

ÉCRAN FANTASTIQUE Award

The Écran Fantastique award has been bestowed upon Tetsuya Nakashima’s PACO AND THE MAGIC BOOK.

This choice was due to a veritable slew of merits among which its masterful narrative that can bring the audience from absolute craziness to deep and powerful sorrow in the blink of an eye, a wonderful discourse between the imaginary and its representation on screen and a dedication to entertaining its audience all the while exploring a serious and important subject. Ayaka Wilson (Paco) gave an impressive performance as the young title character and veteran Kôji Yakusho (Onuki) is flawless as usual.
The Écran Fantastique Award consists of a 4-page full colour article to be published in an upcoming edition (with special mention of the honorary prize received during the festival) as well as free publicity for the film when it comes out in theatres in France.