2009 (38th) International Film Festival Rotterdam Contents 1 Profile 2 Awards 3 East Asian Feature Films @ 38th IFFR 3.1 Bright Future: VPRO Tiger Awards Competition 2009 3.2 Bright Future 3.3 Spectrum 3.4 Signals: Hungry Ghosts 3.5 Signals: Regained 2009 3.6 Signals: First Things First 2009 3.7 Signals: Peter Liechti 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" - Hou Hsiao-Hsien (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) Page Discussion View View source History
