2009 (38th) International Film Festival Rotterdam

Profile

• Film Festival: International Film Festival Rotterdam
• Edition: 38th
• Period: January 21-Feb. 1, 2009
• Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands

Awards

"Feature films awards"

• "VPRO Tiger Awards:" "Be Calm and Count to Seven" (Iran), "Breathless" (South Korea), "Wrong Rosary" (Turkey)
• "Dioraphte Award:" "Teza" (Ethiopia)
• "KPN Audience Award:" "Slumdog Millionaire" (UK)
• "MovieSquad Award:" "Slumdog Millionaire" (UK)
• "FIPRESCI Award:" "Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly" (Indonesia)
• "KNF Award:" "Tony Manero" (Chile/Brazil)
• "NETPAC Award:" "The Land" (China)

"Short films awards"

• "Tiger Awards for Short Film:" "A Necessary Music" (UK), "Despair" (Russia), "Bernadette" (UK)

"CineMart awards"

• "Prins Claus Film Fund Grant:" "Birdie" (Mongolia)
• "Arte France Cinéma Awards:" "Him" (USA)

East Asian Feature Films @ 38th IFFR

Bright Future: VPRO Tiger Awards Competition 2009

• "Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly" - Edwin (Indonesia) * European Premiere
• "Breathless" - Ik-jun Yang (South Korea) * International Premiere
• "The Dark Harbour" - Naito Takatsugu (Japan) * International Premiere
• "Floating in Memory" - Tao Peng (China)
• "No puedo vivir sin ti" - Leon Dai (Taiwan) * International Premiere

Bright Future

• "Agrarian Utopia" - Uruphong Raksasad (Thailand) * World Premiere
• "All My Failed Attempts" - Tan Chui Mui (Malaysia) * World Premiere
• "The Chaser" - Hong-jin Na (South Korea)
• "A Cheonggyecheon Dog" - Kyeong-muk Kim (South Korea) * International Premiere
• "Daytime Drinking" - Yeong-seok No (South Korea)
• "Er Dong" - Jin Yang (China) * European Premiere
• "Exhausted" - Kim Gok (South Korea) * European Premiere
• "Jalainur" - Ye Zhao (China) * European Premiere
• "German Rain" - Satoko Yokohama (Japan)
• "Goodbye" - Bunyo Kimura (Japan) * European Premiere
• "Hashi" - Sherman Ong (Japan/Malaysia/Singapore) * European Premiere
• "Jay" - Francis Xavier Pasion (Philippines)
• "Jermal" - Ravi L. Bharwani (Indonesia) * European Premiere
• "The Land" - Jia He (China) * International Premiere
• "Left Handed" - Laurence Thrush (Japan)
• "Looking for Cherry Blossoms" - Joe Odagiri (Japan) * World Premiere
• "Perfect Life" - Xiaobai Tang (Hong Kong)
• "Survival Song" - Guangyi Yu (China) * European Premiere
• "Tattoo" - Liren Wang (China) * World Premiere
• "Tokyo Onlypic - various (Japan) * International Premiere
• "Vermilion Souls" - Masaki Iwana (Japan)

Spectrum

• "12 Lotus" - Royston Tan (Singapore) * European Premiere
• "24 City" - Jia Zhangke (China)
• "Achilles and the Tortoise" - Takeshi Kitano (Japan)
• "Adela" - Adolfo Alix Jr. (Philippines) * European Premiere
• "Beautiful Crazy" - Chi Y. Lee (Taiwan)
• "Dada's Dance" - Yuan Zhang (China) * European Premiere
• "Good Cats" - Liang Ying (China)
• "Green Rocking Chair" - Roxlee (Philippines) * European Premiere
• "Kikoe" - Chikara Iwai (Japan) * World Premiere
• "Love in the Shadows" - various (South Korea) * International Premiere
• "Melancholia" - Lav Diaz (Philippines)
• "The Middle Mystery of Kristo Negro" - Khavn (Philippines) * World Premiere
• "My Magic" - Eric Khoo (Singapore)
• "Next Attraction" - Raya Martin (Philippines) * International Premiere
• "Nonko 36-sai" - Kazuyoshi Kumakiri (Japan) * International Premiere
• "Now Showing" - Raya Martin (Philippines)
• "River People" - Jianjun He (China) * European Premiere
• "Service" - Brillante Mendoza (Philippines)
• "Spyder" - Kiyomi Ishibashi (Japan)
• "Still Walking" - Hirokazu Koreeda (Japan)
• "This Area Is Under Quarantine" - Thunska Pansittivorakul (Thailand) * World Premiere
• "Tokyo Sonata" - Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)

Signals: Hungry Ghosts

• "4bia" - various (Thailand) * European Premiere
• "Altar" - Rico Maria Ilarde (Philippines)
• "The Anniversary Gift" - Paul Agusta (Indonesia) * European Premiere
• "Art of the Devil 3" - various (Thailand) * European Premiere
• "Beneath the Cogon" - Rico Maria Ilarde (Philippines)
• "Body 19 - Paween Purikitpanya (Thailand) (2007)
• "The Coffin" - Ekachai Uekrongtham (Thailand) * European Premiere
• "The Fatality" - various (Thailand/Taiwan) * International Premiere
• "Forbidden Door" - Joko Anwar (Indonesia) * International Premiere
• "Moon at the Bottom of the Well" - Vinh Son Nguyen (Vietnam) * European Premiere
• "My Love Yurie" - Eun-gi Ko (South Korea) * International Premiere
• "Nak" - Natthaphong Ratanachoksirikul (Thailand) * European Premiere
• "Nightmare Detective 2" - Shinya Tsukamoto (Japan)
• "The Pot" - Tae-gon Kim (South Korea) * International Premiere
• "Rule Number One" - Kelvin Tong (Hong Kong/Singapore) * European Premiere
• "The Screen at Kamchanod" - Songsak Mongkolthong (Thailand)
• "The Shaman" - Raditya Sidharta (Indonesia) * International Premiere
• "Susuk" - various (Malaysia)
• "Takut: Faces of Fear" - various (Indonesia) * International Premiere
• "Three Days of Darkness" - Khavn (Philippines)
• "Under the Tree" - Garin Nugroho (Indonesia)
• "When the Full Moon Rises" - Mamat Khalid (Malaysia)
• "Yes, I Can See Dead People" - Kwong-yiu Lee (Hong Kong) * European Premiere

Signals: Regained 2009

• "Blue Film Woman" - Hiroshi Mukai (Japan)
• "Gushing Prayer" - Masao Adachi (Japan)
• "The Housemaid" - Ki-young Kim]] (South Korea)
• "Kantata Takwa" - various (Indonesia) * European Premiere

Signals: First Things First 2009

• "The Adventure of Denchu Kozo" - Shinya Tsukamoto (Japan)
• "Cute Girl" - Hsiao-hsien Hou (Taiwan)
• "However..." - Hirokazu Koreeda (Japan)
• "Incoherence" - Joon-ho Bong (South Korea)

Signals: Peter Liechti

• "Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom" - Naomi Kawase (Japan)
• "My Village" - Wei Wang (China)