Woody Allen won a lifetime achievement prize at the festival
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Iraq war film Turtles Can Fly - about a village awaiting the US invasion - has won the top prize at Spain's San Sebastian Film Festival.
The film by director Bahman Ghobadi tells the story of villagers told by a mutilated boy that war is getting near.
The best actor and actress awards went to the stars of Brothers, a Danish tale based around the Afghanistan war.
Best screenplay went to Omagh, by Peter Travis, based on the 1998 bombing of a town of Omagh in Northern Ireland.
The British-Irish film follows the story of one family whose lives were torn apart by the death of a son in the bombing, which killed 29 people.
Backed by Channel 4 and Ireland's RTE, it is written by Paul Greengrass and Guy Hibbert.
Best director was won by China's Xi Jinglei for Letter From An Unknown Woman, about a man in the late 1940s who learns he has a child from a romance with a woman he does not remember.
The San Sebastian festival ended on Saturday after nine days of films, which included the world premiere of Woody Allen's new film Melinda and Melinda.
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