59th Berlin International Film Festival
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The 59th Berlin International Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival , also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978...

was held from 5 February to 15 February 2009. The opening film of this year's festival was Tom Tykwer
Tom Tykwer
Tom Tykwer is a German film director, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run , Heaven , Perfume: The Story of a Murderer , and The International ....

’s The International
The International (film)
The International is a 2009 thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer. The film follows an Interpol agent and an American attorney who investigate corruption within the IBBC, a fictional merchant bank based in Luxembourg. It serves organized crime and corrupt governments as a banker and as an arms...

, screened out of competition. This year's jury president was actress Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton
Katherine Mathilda "Tilda" Swinton is a British actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films. She has appeared in a number of films including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Burn After Reading, The Beach, We Need to Talk About Kevin and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her...

 of the United Kingdom.

This year's Berlin International Film Festival's admission is reported to be among the highest in years, and it also set a record for ticket sales, with some 270,000 tickets sold by the halfway mark. This compares to 240,000 sold for the entire festival at last year's festival. The final ticket tally after the film festival ended, will be the largest in the festival’s 59-year history.

Jury

  • Tilda Swinton
    Tilda Swinton
    Katherine Mathilda "Tilda" Swinton is a British actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films. She has appeared in a number of films including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Burn After Reading, The Beach, We Need to Talk About Kevin and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her...

     (United Kingdom) - jury president
  • Isabel Coixet
    Isabel Coixet
    Isabel Coixet is a Spanish film director.She received an M.A. in history from the University of Barcelona...

     (Spain)
  • Gaston Kaboré
    Gaston Kaboré
    Gaston Kaboré is a Burkinabé film director and an important figure in Burkina Faso's film industry. He has won awards for his films Wend Kuuni and Buud Yam.-Biography:Kaboré was born in 1951 in Bobo-Dioulasso in Upper Volta....

     (Burkina Faso)
  • Henning Mankell
    Henning Mankell
    Henning Mankell is a Swedish crime writer, children's author, leftist activist and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most famous creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander.-Life and career:...

     (Sweden)
  • Christoph Schlingensief
    Christoph Schlingensief
    Christoph Maria Schlingensief was a German film and theatre director, actor, artist, and author. Starting as an independent underground filmmaker, Schlingensief later began staging productions for theatres and festivals, which often were accompanied by public controversies...

    (Germany) Schlingensief died of lung cancer on August 21, 2010 in Berlin, Germany at age 49.
  • Wayne Wang
    Wayne Wang
    Wayne Wang is a Chinese American film director.-Biography:Wang was born and raised in Hong Kong, and named after his father's favorite movie star, John Wayne...

     (USA)
  • Alice Waters
    Alice Waters
    Alice Louise Waters is an American chef, restaurateur, activist, and author. She is the owner of Chez Panisse, a Berkeley, California restaurant famous for its organic, locally-grown ingredients and for pioneering California cuisine.Waters opened the restaurant in 1971. It has consistently ranked...

     (USA)

In competition

The following films were selected in competition for the Golden Bear award:
  • Alle Anderen by Maren Ade
    Maren Ade
    Maren Ade is a German film director, screenwriter and producer.Ade studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich. Her gruadation film, The Forest for the Trees, premiered at the 2003 Hof Film Festival, and went on to win the Special Jury Prize for World Cinema at the 2005 Sundance...

     (Germany
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

    )
  • Cheri
    Cheri (film)
    Chéri is a 2009 drama film directed by Stephen Frears. Starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Friend, it is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by French author Colette...

     by Stephen Frears
    Stephen Frears
    Stephen Arthur Frears is an English film director.-Early life:Frears was born in Leicester, England to Ruth M., a social worker, and Dr Russell E. Frears, a general practitioner and accountant. He did not find out that his mother was Jewish until he was in his late 20s...

     (United Kingdom
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

    )
  • Darbareye Elly (About Elly) by Asghar Farhadi
    Asghar Farhadi
    -Career:Asghar Farhadi is a graduate of Theatre, with a BA in Dramatic Arts and MA in Stage Direction from Tehran University and Tarbiat Modarres University. Farhadi made short 8mm and 16mm films in Isfahan branch of Iranian Young Cinema Society before moving on to writing plays and screenplays for...

     (Iran
    Iran
    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

    )
  • Gigante
    Giant (2009 film)
    Giant is a 2009 comedy film, written and directed by Adrían Biniez, an Uruguayan film director living in Argentina.-Plot:Jara is a security guard at a supermarket who falls in love with Julia , a cleaning worker from the night shift. Jara is about 30 years old, solitary, quiet and big...

     by Adrián Biniez (Uruguay
    Uruguay
    Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

    , Germany
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

    , Argentina
    Argentina
    Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

    )
  • Happy Tears
    Happy Tears (film)
    Happy Tears is an American independent comedy-drama film by Mitchell Lichtenstein. It stars Parker Posey, Demi Moore, Rip Torn, Sebastian Roché and Ellen Barkin...

     by Mitchell Lichtenstein
    Mitchell Lichtenstein
    Mitchell Wilson Lichtenstein is an openly gay American actor, writer, producer and director.Lichtenstein studied acting at Bennington College in Vermont....

     (United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

    )
  • In the Electric Mist
    In the Electric Mist
    In the Electric Mist is a 2009 Franco-American drama/mystical film based on the novel In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke...

     by Bertrand Tavernier
    Bertrand Tavernier
    Bertrand Tavernier is a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.-Life and career:Tavernier was born in Lyon, the son of Geneviève and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, several years president of the French PEN club. Tavernier wanted to become a filmmaker since the age of thirteen...

     (United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

    )
  • Katalin Varga
    Katalin Varga (film)
    Katalin Varga is a 2009 film directed by Peter Strickland.The directorial debut of Peter Strickland, he used the money from a bequest from his uncle to fund the project. Filmed over several years in a Hungarian-speaking part of the Romanian region of Transylvania, Strickland completed the project...

     by Peter Strickland (Romania
    Romania
    Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

    , United Kingdom
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

    , Hungary
    Hungary
    Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

    )
  • Little Soldier
    Little Soldier
    Little Soldier was the head chief of the Yankton Sioux. He was a member of a delegation that signed a treaty with the United States government on June 22, 1825. He signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868. He also took part in the Battle of Little Bighorn....

     by Annette K. Olesen (Denmark
    Denmark
    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

    )
  • Mei Lanfang (Forever Enthralled) by Chen Kaige
    Chen Kaige
    Chen Kaige is a Chinese film director and a leading figure of the fifth generation of Chinese cinema. His films are known for their visual flair and epic storytelling.-Early life:...

     (China)
  • The Messenger
    The Messenger (2009 film)
    The Messenger is a 2009 war drama film starring Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Steve Buscemi, Jena Malone, and Samantha Morton. It is the directorial debut of Oren Moverman, who also wrote the screenplay with Alessandro Camon....

     by Oren Moverman
    Oren Moverman
    Oren Moverman is an Israeli filmmaker, screenwriter, and former journalist based in New York City.Moverman was the screenwriter and associate producer of Jesus' Son, a 2000 Lion’s Gate/Alliance Release...

     (United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

    )
  • London River
    London River
    London River is a 2009 British drama film, written and produced by Franco-Algerian film director Rachid Bouchareb. Starring Brenda Blethyn and Sotigui Kouyaté, it centres on the journey of a Muslim man and a Christian woman as they search for their respective children following the London bombings...

     by Rachid Bouchareb
    Rachid Bouchareb
    Rachid Bouchareb is a French film director of Algerian descent.From 1977 to 1983, he worked as an assistant director for France’s state television production company, Société française de production . Subsequetly, he worked for broadcasters TF1 and Antenne 2...

     (Algeria
    Algeria
    Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

    , France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

    , United Kingdom
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

    )
  • Mammoth by Lukas Moodysson
    Lukas Moodysson
    - External links :*...

     (Sweden
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

    , Germany
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

    , Denmark
    Denmark
    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

    )
  • My One and Only
    My One and Only (film)
    My One and Only is a 2009 comedy film loosely based on a story about George Hamilton's early life on the road with his mother and brother, featuring anecdotes that Hamilton had told to Merv Griffin. Griffin pitched the idea for the script, and had shepherded the project from idea to production,...

     by Richard Loncraine
    Richard Loncraine
    Richard Loncraine is a British film and television director.Loncraine received early training in the features department of the BBC, including a season directing items for Tomorrow's World...

     (United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

    )
  • Rage
    Rage (2009 film)
    Rage is a 2009 film written and directed by Sally Potter starring Jude Law and Judi Dench. The filmmakers said that the film created a new genre in filmmaking, called naked cinema.-Press releases:...

     by Sally Potter
    Sally Potter
    Charlotte Sally Potter is an English film director and screenwriter.-Career:Having left school at sixteen to become a filmmaker, Potter joined the London Film-Makers' Co-op and started making experimental short films, including Jerk and Play...

     (United Kingdom
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

    , United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

    )
  • Ricky
    Ricky (2009 film)
    Ricky is a 2009 French fantasy film directed by François Ozon about a human baby who develops a set of functional wings, and how the parents cope with the child's abnormality.-Cast:*Alexandra Lamy as Katie*Sergi López as Paco*Mélusine Mayance as Lisa...

     by François Ozon
    François Ozon
    François Ozon is a French film director and screenwriter and whose films are usually characterized by sharp satirical wit and a freewheeling view on human sexuality....

     (France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

    , Italy
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

    )
  • Sturm
    Sturm
    Sturm may refer to:In persons:* Sturm , surname * Saint Sturm, 8th-century monkIn food:* Federweisser, known as Sturm in Austria, wine in the fermentation stage* Sturm Foods, an American dry grocery manufacturer...

     (Storm) by Hans-Christian Schmid
    Hans-Christian Schmid
    Hans-Christian Schmid is a German film director and screenwriter.-Life and work:Hans-Christian Schmid has collaborated with Michael Gutmann on several of his the film that he has directed. Gutmann wrote screenplays for 23 - Nichts ist so wie es scheint , and Crazy...

     (Germany
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

    , Denmark
    Denmark
    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

    )
  • Tatarak
    Sweet Rush (film)
    Sweet Rush is a 2009 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda.- Cast :* Krystyna Janda – Marta / Actress* Paweł Szajda – Boguś K.* Jan Englert – Doctor* Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak – Friend* Julia Pietrucha – Halinka...

     (Sweet Rush) by Andrzej Wajda
    Andrzej Wajda
    Andrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...

     (Poland
    Poland
    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

    )
  • La Teta Asustada (The Milk of Sorrow) by Claudia Llosa
    Claudia Llosa
    Claudia Llosa is a Peruvian film director, writer and producer.- Life and career :She was born in Lima, studied in Newton College and received a degree in communication studies in the University of Lima. She is the niece of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa and the film director Luis Llosa....

     (Peru
    Peru
    Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

    )

Out of competition screening

  • Deutschland ‘09 - 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation Germany - compilation film by Fatih Akin
    Fatih Akin
    Fatih Akın is a German film director, screenwriter and producer of Turkish descent.- Personal life :Akın was born in 1973 in Hamburg to parents of Turkish ethnicity...

    , Tom Tykwer
    Tom Tykwer
    Tom Tykwer is a German film director, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run , Heaven , Perfume: The Story of a Murderer , and The International ....

    , Wolfgang Becker
    Wolfgang Becker
    Wolfgang Becker is a German film director and writer. He is best known to the international audience for his work Good Bye Lenin! .-Biography:...

    , Sylke Enders, Dominik Graf, Romuald Karmakar
    Romuald Karmakar
    Romuald Karmakar is a German film director and screenwriter. He was born in Wiesbaden as the son of an Indian father and a French mother. From 1977 to 1982 he lived in Athens. He won several awards, including the Bavarian Film Award for Best Screenplay...

    , Nicolette Krebitz
    Nicolette Krebitz
    Nicolette Krebitz is a director, actress, model and singer. She is often credited as "Coco" in her creative works.-Life and work:Nicolette Krebitz made her film debut at age eleven...

    , Isabelle Stever, Hans Steinbichler, Hans Weingartner
    Hans Weingartner
    Hans Weingartner is an Austrian author, director and producer of films. He attended the Austrian Association of Cinematography and earned a diploma as a camera assistant. Later, he did a postgraduate at the Academy of Media Arts KHM in Cologne, Germany...

    , Christoph Hochhäusler
    Christoph Hochhäusler
    Christoph Hochhäusler is a German film director and screenwriter. His film Falscher Bekenner was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival...

    , Dani Levy
    Dani Levy
    Dani Levy is a film maker, theatrical director and actor.-Work:Dani Levy's films include RobbyKallePaul, I Was on Mars, Meschugge, Du mich auch and Väter. Väter starred Christiane Paul...

     and Angela Schanelec (Germany)
  • Eden à l'ouest (Eden Is West) by Costa-Gavras
    Costa-Gavras
    Costa-Gavras, is a Greek filmmaker, who lives and works in France, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller, Z...

     (France/Greece/Italy)
  • The Dust of Time
    The Dust of Time
    The Dust of Time is a film by Theodoros Angelopoulos shown on 12 February 2009 at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival and well received by critics....

     by Theo Angelopoulos
    Theo Angelopoulos
    Theodoros Angelopoulos is a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.-Life:Angelopoulos studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, but after his military service went to Paris to attend the Sorbonne. He soon dropped out to study film at the IDHEC before returning...

     (Greece
    Greece
    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

    /Germany/Italy
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

    /Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    )
  • The International
    The International (film)
    The International is a 2009 thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer. The film follows an Interpol agent and an American attorney who investigate corruption within the IBBC, a fictional merchant bank based in Luxembourg. It serves organized crime and corrupt governments as a banker and as an arms...

     by Tom Tykwer
    Tom Tykwer
    Tom Tykwer is a German film director, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run , Heaven , Perfume: The Story of a Murderer , and The International ....

     (United States)
  • The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
    The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
    The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is a 2009 American drama film written and directed by Rebecca Miller. The screenplay is based on her novel of the same title. The film premiered on February 9, 2009, at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival and was shown at the Sydney Film Festival and the...

     by Rebecca Miller
    Rebecca Miller
    Rebecca Augusta Miller is an American film director, screenwriter and actress, most known for her films Personal Velocity: Three Portraits , The Ballad of Jack and Rose, and Angela,and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee all of which she wrote and directed.-Life and career:Born in Roxbury,...

     (United States)
  • The Reader by Stephen Daldry
    Stephen Daldry
    Stephen David Daldry, CBE is an English theatre and film director and producer, as well as a three-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning director.-Early years:...

     (United Kingdom/Germany)
  • Notorious
    Notorious (2009 film)
    Notorious is a 2009 American biographical film about the life of iconic hip hop star The Notorious B.I.G. who is played by Jamal Woolard. The film co-stars Angela Bassett as his mother Voletta Wallace, Derek Luke as Sean Combs, and Anthony Mackie as Tupac Shakur...

     by George Tillman Jr. (United States) (International Premiere)

Silver Bears

  • Jury Grand Prix (Grand Prize of the Jury): Adrián Biniez for Gigante
    Giant (2009 film)
    Giant is a 2009 comedy film, written and directed by Adrían Biniez, an Uruguayan film director living in Argentina.-Plot:Jara is a security guard at a supermarket who falls in love with Julia , a cleaning worker from the night shift. Jara is about 30 years old, solitary, quiet and big...

     and Maren Ade
    Maren Ade
    Maren Ade is a German film director, screenwriter and producer.Ade studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich. Her gruadation film, The Forest for the Trees, premiered at the 2003 Hof Film Festival, and went on to win the Special Jury Prize for World Cinema at the 2005 Sundance...

     for Alle Anderen
  • Best Director: Asghar Farhadi
    Asghar Farhadi
    -Career:Asghar Farhadi is a graduate of Theatre, with a BA in Dramatic Arts and MA in Stage Direction from Tehran University and Tarbiat Modarres University. Farhadi made short 8mm and 16mm films in Isfahan branch of Iranian Young Cinema Society before moving on to writing plays and screenplays for...

     for Darbereye Elly
    About Elly
    About Elly is a 2009 Iranian film directed by Asghar Farhadi. It is the fourth film by Farhadi. The film is about the relationship among some middle class families in Iran....

  • Best Actor: Sotigui Kouyaté
    Sotigui Kouyaté
    Sotigui Kouyaté was one of the first Burkinabé actors. He was the father of film director Dani Kouyatéand was a member of the Mandinka ethnic group....

     for London River
    London River
    London River is a 2009 British drama film, written and produced by Franco-Algerian film director Rachid Bouchareb. Starring Brenda Blethyn and Sotigui Kouyaté, it centres on the journey of a Muslim man and a Christian woman as they search for their respective children following the London bombings...

  • Best Actress: Birgit Minichmayr
    Birgit Minichmayr
    Birgit Minichmayr is an Austrian actress and singer born in Linz, Austria. Birgit Minichmayr studied drama at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna.-Career:...

     for Alle Anderen
  • Best Script: Oren Movermann and Alessandro Camon
    Alessandro Camon
    Alessandro Camon is a writer and film producer.Born in Padua, Italy, he currently lives in Los Angeles, California. Camon is a graduate of the University of Padua, School of Philosophy, and received a Masters in Film from UCLA in Los Angeles, California....

     for The Messenger
    The Messenger (2009 film)
    The Messenger is a 2009 war drama film starring Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Steve Buscemi, Jena Malone, and Samantha Morton. It is the directorial debut of Oren Moverman, who also wrote the screenplay with Alessandro Camon....

  • Outstanding Artistic Performance: Gabor Erdély and Támas Székely for Katalin Varga
  • Alfred Bauer Prize: Andrzej Wajda
    Andrzej Wajda
    Andrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...

     for Tatarak
    Sweet Rush (film)
    Sweet Rush is a 2009 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda.- Cast :* Krystyna Janda – Marta / Actress* Paweł Szajda – Boguś K.* Jan Englert – Doctor* Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak – Friend* Julia Pietrucha – Halinka...

     and Adrián Biniez for Gigante

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