2009 (13th) Fantasia Film Festival

Profile

Film Festival: Fantasia Film Festival
Edition: 13th
Period: July 9-29, 2009
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Awards

Jury Prizes

Best Feature Film: Breathless - Ik-jun Yang
Jury Special Prize: Love Exposure - Sion Sono
Best Male Performance: Ik-jun Yang (Breathless)
Best Female Performance: Hikari Mitsushima (Love Exposure)
Best Director: David Russo (The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle)
Best Screenplay: Nicholas Alberny & Jean Mach (8th Wonderland)
Best Cinematography: Hideho Urata (The Clone Returns Home)
Technical prize: Ip Man
Special mention for best Direction of Child Actors: Tom Shankland (The Children)
ÉCRAN FANTASTIQUE Award Paco and the Magical Picture Book

Audience Awards

Best Asian Film

Gold: Love Exposure (Japan) – Sion Sono
Silver: Ip Man (Hong Kong) – Wilson Yip
Bronze: Thirst (South Korea) – Chan-wook Park

Best International Film

Gold: 8th Wonderland (France) – Nicolas Alberny, Jean Mach
Silver: Embodiment of Evil (Brazil) / Must Love Death (Germany)
Bronze: Black (France) – Pierre Laffargue

Best Quebec Film

Gold: Sans Dessein – Caroline Labrèche, Steeve Léonard
Silver: The Ante – Max Perrier
Bronze: Crawler – Sv Bell

Best Animated Film

Hells (Japan) – Yoshiki Yamakawa

Guru Prize for Most Energetic Film of the Festival

Gold: Yatterman (Japan) – Takashi Miike
Silver: Ip Man (HK) – Wilson Yip
Bronze: Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl (Japan) / Fireball (Thailand)

Most Innovative Film (Short or Feature)

Gold: Love Exposure (Japan) – Sion Sono
Silver: 8th Wonderland (France) – Nicolas Alberny, Jean Mach
Bronze: Genius Party Beyond (Japan) / Must Love Death (Germany)

Film Listings


Title	Director	Country
20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End	Yukihiko Tsutsumi	Japan	Canadian Premiere
20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope	Yukihiko Tsutsumi	Japan	Canadian Premiere
8th Wonderland	various	France
' QUELLE HEURE LE TRAIN POUR NULLE PART	Robin Aubert	Quebec
Alien Trespass	R.W. Goodwin	USA
Antique	Kyu-dong Min	South korea	Canadian Premiere
Arcanum	Sanjay F. Sharma	Quebec
Battle League Horumo	Katsuhide Motoki	Japan	North American Premiere
Best Worst Movie	Michael Paul Stephenson	USA
Black	Pierre Laffargue	France
Blood River	Adam Mason	England
Blue Film Woman	Kan Mukai	Japan
Bonbons rouges	JeF Grenier	Quebec
Book of Blood	John Harrison	England
Breathless	Ik-jun Yang	South Korea	Canadian Premiere
Bringing Godzilla Down to Size...	Norman England	USA
Canary	Alejandro Adams	USA
Carnior présente: Trailer		Quebec
Celluloid Experiments		International
Combat Shock (Director's Cut)	Buddy Giovinazzo	USA
Coweb	Xin Xin Xiong	Hong Kong	Canadian Premiere
Crawler	Sv Bell	Canada
Crazy Racer	Ning Hao	China	North American Premiere
Crime or Punishment?!?	Keralino Sandorovich	Japan	North American Premiere
Crush and Blush	Kyoung-mi Lee	South Korea	Canadian Premiere
Cryptic	various	USA
Cul-de-$ac	various	Quebec
Cyborg She	Jae-young Kwak	Japan	Canadian Premiere
Daytime Drinking	Yeong-seok No	South Korea	Montreal Premiere
Dead Snow	Tommy Wirkola	Norway
Deadgirl	various	USA
DJ XL5's Razzle Dazzle Zappin' Party	DJ XL5	International
Dread	Anthony DiBlasi	USA
Dream	Kim Ki-duk	South Korea	Canadian Premiere
Edison and Leo	Neil Burns	Canada
Embodiment of Evil	Jos' Mojica Marins	Brazil
Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers	Tomoki Kyoda	Japan	North American Premiere
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone	various	Japan	Canadian Premiere
Evil Spirit ; VIY	Jin-sung Park	South Korea	North American Premiere
Fine, Totally Fine	Yosuke Fujita	Japan	Canadian Premiere
Fireball	Thanakorn Pongsuwan	Thailand	North American Premiere
Genius Party Beyond	various	Japan	Montreal Premiere
Go Go 70s	Choi Ho	South Korea	Canadian Premiere
Grace	Paul Solet	USA
Graphic Sexual Horror	various	USA
GS Wonderland	Ryuichi Honda	Japan	Canadian Premiere
Gushing Prayer	Masao Adachi	Japan
Hard Revenge, Milly	Takanori Tsujimoto	Japan	Canadian Premiere
Hard Revenge, Milly: Bloody Battle	Takanori Tsujimoto	Japan	Canadian Premiere
Hells	Yoshiki Yamakawa	Japan	North American Premiere
House	Nobuhiko Obayashi	Japan
House Of The Devil	Ti West	USA
I Sell the Dead	Glenn McQuaid	USA
Infestation	Kyle Rankin	USA
Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino	USA
Instant Swamp	Satoshi Miki	Japan	North American Premiere
Ip Man	Wilson Yip	Hong Kong	Canadian Preimere
K-20: Legend of the Mask	Shimako Sato	Japan	Canadian Premiere
Kaifeck Murder	Esther Gronenborn	Germany
L'or blanc	Jonathan Levert	Quebec
La bille de pandore	Nicolas de la Sablonni're	Quebec
La marque	Jonathan Barbe	Quebec
La possibilit' d'une 'le	Michel Houellebecq	France
Lala Pipo: A Lot of People \| Lalapipo	Masayuki Miyano	Japan	Canadian Premiere
Lascars	various	France
Le Renne Blanc	Erik Blomberg	Finland
Left Bank	Pieter Van Hees	Belgium
Legendary Assassin	various	Hong Kong	North American Premiere
Lesbian Vampire Killers	Phil Claydon	England
Life is Hot in Cracktown	Buddy Giovinazzo	USA
Love Exposure	Sion Sono	Japan	Canadian Premiere
MW	Hitoshi Iwamoto	Japan	North American Premiere
Mothra	Ishiro Honda	Japan
Must Love Death	Andreas Schaap	Germany
Mutants	David Morley	France
My Dear Enemy	Lee Yoon-Ki	South Korea	Canadian Premiere
Neighbor	Robert Masciantonio	USA
Nightmare Detective 2	Shinya Tsukamoto	Japan	Canadian Premiere
Orochi - Blood \| Orochi	Norio Tsuruta	Japan
Orphan	Jaume Collet-Serra	USA
Outer Limits of Animation		International
Paco and the Magical Picture Book	Tetsuya Nakashima	Japan	Canadian Premiere
Playing Columbine	Danny Ledonne	USA
Portrait of a Beauty	Yun-su Jeon	South Korea	Canadian Premiere
Power Kids	Krissanapong Rachata	Thailand	North American Premiere
Present Fighter	various	Quebec
Private Eye	Dae-min Park	South Korea	International Premiere
Queens of Langkasuka	Nonzee Nimibutr	Thailand	North American Premiere
Recon 2023: The Gauda Prime Conspiracy	Christian Viel	Quebec
Reel Zombies	various	Canada
Rough Cut	Jang Hun	South Korea	Canadian Premiere
Samurai Princess	Kengo Kaji	Japan	Canadian Premiere
Sans dessein	various	Quebec
Secret Hot Spring Resort: Starfish at Night	Mamoru Watanabe	Japan 1970
Slam-Bang	Mark Lebenon	South Africa
Small Gauge Trauma		International
Smash Cut	Lee Demarbre	Canada
Spare	Lee Seong-Han	South Korea	Canadian Premiere
Stoic	Uwe Boll	USA
Sweet Karma	Andrew Thomas Hunt	Canada
Tactical Unit - Comrades in Arms	Wing-cheong Law	Hong Kong	Canadian Premiere
Temps mort	Eric Piccoli	Quebec
Terribly Happy	Henrik Ruben Genz	Denmark
The Ante	Max Perrier	Canada
The Canyon	Richard Harrah	USA
The Chaser	Hong-jin Na	South Korea	Canadian Premiere
The Children	Tom Shankland	England
The Clone Returns Home	Kanji Nakajima	Japan	Canadian Premiere
The Divine Weapon	Yu-jin Kim	South Korea	Canadian Premiere
The Eclipse	Conor McPherson	Ireland
The Horseman	Steven Kastrissios	Australia
The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle	David Russo	USA
The Warlords	Peter Chan	Hong Kong	Canadian Premire
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia	Julian Nitzberg	USA
Thirst	Chan-wook Park	South Korea	North American Premiere
Tokyo Onlypic	various	Japan	North American Premiere
Trick 'r Treat	Michael Dougherty	USA
Troll 2	Claudio Fragasso	Italy
Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl	various	Japan
White Lightnin'	Dominic Murphy	England
Evil Spirit ; VIY	Jin-seong Park	South Korea
Yakuza Eiga: Une histoire secr'te du cin'ma japonais	Yves Montmayeur	France
Yariman	Rei Sakamoto	Japan
Yatterman	Takashi Miike	Japan	Canadian Premiee
Yesterday	Rob Grant	Canada
You Might As Well Live	Simon Ennis	Canada