2009 Adelaide Film Festival
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| Opening film | My Year Without Sex |
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| Closing film | Easy Virtue |
| Location | Adelaide, Australia |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Awards | International Award for Best Feature Film (Treeless Mountain) Don Dunstan Award (Jan Chapman) |
| Directors | Katrina Sedgwick |
| No. of films | 13 (In Competition) |
| Festival date | 19 February – 1 March 2009 |
| Website | adelaidefilmfestival |
The 4th Adelaide Film Festival took place in Adelaide, Australia, from 19 February to 1 March 2009. Katrina Sedgwick was again Festival Director.[1] Jan Chapman received the 2009 Don Dunstan Award[2][3] The poster this year depicts the iconic film festival eye character concept that was so successful in 2007.[4]
The festival opened with My Year Without Sex directed by Sarah Watt[5] and closed with Easy Virtue directed by Stephan Elliott.[1][6] The festival presented 23 world premieres, 62 Australian premieres, 38 Australian films, 9 new Australian features from established and emerging filmmakers, and 143 films from over 49 countries.[7] The Natuzzi International Award for Best Feature Film was won by the South Korean film Treeless Mountain, directed and written by So Yong Kim.[8][9][10]
Jury
The following people were selected for the In Competition Jury:[1][11]
- Laurence Kardish, Canadian, Senior Film Curator at MoMA (President)
- J. M. Coetzee, South African writer
- Jo Dyer, Australian film producer
- Bill Gosden, director of the New Zealand International Film Festival
- Naomi Kawase, Japanese film director
- Hannah McGill, artistic director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival
- David Stratton, English-Australian film critic
In Competition
The following films were selected for the In Competition section:[1]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country/countries |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Christmas Tale | Un conte de Noël | Arnaud Desplechin | France |
| All Around Us | Gururi no koto? | Ryōsuke Hashiguchi | Japan |
| Dean Spanley | Dean Spanley | Toa Fraser | UK/New Zealand |
| Gomorrah | Gomorra | Matteo Garrone | Italy |
| Jalainur | Zha lai nuo er | Ye Chao | China |
| Kisses | Kisses | Lance Daly | Ireland/Sweden |
| My Tehran for Sale | تهران من، حراج | Granaz Moussavi | Australia/Iran |
| My Year Without Sex | My Year Without Sex | Sarah Watt | Australia |
| Stella | Stella | Sylvie Verheyde | France |
| The Sky, the Earth and the Rain | El cielo, la tierra y la lluvia | José Luis Torres Leiva | Chile/France/ Germany |
| Teza | Teza | Haile Gerima | Ethiopia/Germany/ France |
| Treeless Mountain | Namueopneun San | So Yong Kim | USA/South Korea |
| Zift | Dzift | Javor Gardev | Bulgaria |