Theme: The River and the Life on the River Number of participants: 161 Number of countries: 15 Number of entries: 399 Jury: Slobodan Novaković (president), Vera Vlajić, Dragoljub Milošević, Slobodan Ivkov, Stojadin Mirkulovski, Julijana Živković i Branko Najhold Awards: First: Slobodan Milić (Yugoslavia) Second: Stefan Despodov (Bulgaria) Third: Nikola Rudić (Yugoslavia) Special: Sergey Tunin (Russia) Special prize for the best colour cartoon: Nenad Milićević (Yugoslavia) Special prize for the complete of three cartoons: Luka Lagator (Yugoslavia) The award for the most involving cartoon of Zemun: Dragan Rumenčić (Yugoslavia) Opening ceremony: May 29th, 1997 Presented about 400 people Exhibition: Gallery "Pinki" May 29th - June 10th 1997 About 3.000 people visited the exhibition