MONTREAL — The big winner at Montreal’s 32nd World Film Festival, was Quebec director Benoît Pilon, who won a special Grand Jury Prize for Ce qu’il faut pour vivre (The Necessities of Life), the story of an Inuit man forced to come to Quebec City in the 1950s for tuberculosis treatment.

Written by director Bernard Émond, the story was also voted the most popular film in the festival, which wrapped on Monday night, and the most popular Canadian film.

In the short film category, first prize was awarded to the NFB production Le Noeud Cravate, by Quebec’s Jean-François Lévesque.

The Grand Prize of the Americas went to Yojiro Takita’s Okuribito, from Japan. Goran Markovic of Serbia was named best director for Turneja, and also captured the international film critics’ Fipresci Prize.

For her role in Ulla Wagner’s German film The Invention of the Curried Sausage Barbara Sukowa picked up a best actress award. Best actor was Eri Canete, of Teo’s Voyage, by Mexico’s Walter Doehner.

Two films picked up the best-screenplay prize: Xavi Puebla and Jesus Gil won for Spain’s Welcome to Farewell-Gutmann; and Japanese writers Riyoichi Kimizuka and Satoshi Suzuki won for Nobody to Watch Over Me.

Special awards were given earlier in the festival to recognize the lifetime contributions of famed U.S. producer Alan Ladd, Jr. and actor Tony Curtis, the Brooklyn-born star of classics including Some Like It Hot and Sweet Smell of Success.