MONTREAL — For its biting, sexually charged satire of middle-class suburban values, Canine, from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, picked up the $15,000 Quebecor Louvre d’Or prize at Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinéma, which wrapped its 38th edition on Sunday night.

”Despite the economic crisis, this year’s festival drew record participation from film and multimedia industry professionals,” said festival director Nicolas Girard Deltruc.

The jury for the International Section, which included TIFF’s Cameron Bailey and Quebec auteur filmmaker Kim Nguyen (Truffe), awarded its best feature prize to Peruvian director Claudia Llosa’s Fausta: La teta asustada. Magaly Solier also picked up a prize for her starring role in the film, which follows the life of a servant girl adrift in Lima.

A special mention was awarded to Chao Gan’s The Red Race — a startling documentary about the brutality of child gymnastics training in China. The Daniel Langlois Innovation Award went to Turkey’s Should I Really Do It (Ismail Necmi).

A number of homegrown flicks were also honored by the Focus section jury: the Cinémathèque québécoise Grand Prize ($1,500 cash plus $3,500 in services) went to Quebec feature Nuages sur la ville by Simon Galiero. Sherry White’s Crackie received an honorable mention.

The $5,000 short film prize went to Danse Macabre by Quebec’s Pedro Pires. A special mention went to La vie commence by Émile Proulx-Cloutier.