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Shadows Festival 63rd Edinburgh International Film Festival
17-28 JUNE 2009

The UK's largest and longest-running film fest

eiff site Opening night: AWAY WE GO
Closing night: ADAM
2008 awards...
British Feature: SOMERS TOWN
Documentary: ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Audience Award: MAN ON WIRE
British Performance: Robert Carlyle (SUMMER)
New Director: Marianna Palka (GOOD DICK)
Critical Consensus Award: LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
Rich's Best of the Fest 2009:
GARAPA
MARY AND MAX
THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE
FISH TANK
THE ATHLETE
BIG RIVER MAN
BIRDWATCHERS
THE HURT LOCKER
MOON
THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE
See also:
SHORT FILMS
and
EDINBURGH '08 ORPHANS
F I L M S   I N C L U D E

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35 SHOTS OF RUM (Denis, Fr)
ADAM (Mayer, US) - Closing Film
ADVENTURELAND (Mottola, US)
ALL THAT SHE WANTS (Cote, Can)
ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES (Caouette, et al, UK)
THE ARCHITECT (Weisse, Ger)
* THE ATHLETE (Frankel/Lakew, Eth)
* AWAY WE GO (Mendes, US) - Opening Film
BARABOO (Sweeney, US)
BE GOOD (Garcias, Fr, Den)
* BIG RIVER MAN (Maringouin, US, UK)
BIG THINGS (Devenport, UK)
* BIRDWATCHERS (Bechis, It)
* BLACK DYNAMITE (Sanders, US)
A BLOOMING BUSINESS (Van Zantvoort, Ned)
BOOGIE WOOGIE (Ward, UK)
BORIS RYZHY (Van der Horst, Ned)
A BOY CALLED DAD (Percival, UK)
BREATHLESS (Yang, Kor)
THE CALLING (Dunn, UK)
CAN GO THROUGH SKIN (Rots, Ned)
THE CRIMSON WING (Aeberhard/Ward, US)
CRYING WITH LAUGHTER (Molotnikov, UK)
DISTANZ (Sieben, Ger)
LE DONK (Meadows, UK)
* EASIER WITH PRACTICE (Alvarez, US)
ELKLAND (Hanefjord, Swe)
EXAM (Hazeldine, UK)
FEAR ME NOT (Levring, Den)
THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE (Bezancon, Fr)
THE FISH CHILD (Puenzo, Arg)
FISH TANK (Arnold, UK)
FOLLOW THE MASTER (Hulse, UK)
FRAGMENTS (Woods, US)
must see GARAPA (Padilha, Br)
GIALLO (Argento, UK)
THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE (Soderbergh, US)
GOODBYE, HOW ARE YOU? (Mitic, Serbia)
GULABI TALKIES (Kasaravalli, Ind)
HARMONY AND ME (Byington, US)
HIGH LIFE (Yates, Can)
HUMPDAY (Shelton, US)
THE HURT LOCKER (Bigelow, US)
ICE AGE 3: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS (Mayer, US) - Family Gala
I'M GONNA EXPLODE (Naranjo, Mex)
ISOLATION (Seomore/Bull, UK)
JALAINUR (Zhao, China)
JERICHOW (Petzold, Ger)
JERMAL (Bharwani/Makarim/Tresno, Ina)
KATALIN VARGA (Strickland, Rom)
* KICKS (Heymann, UK)
KING OF INDIA (Sinha, Ind)
THE LAST HEROES OF THE PENINSULA (Cravioto, Mex)
A LIGHT IN THE FOG (Rezaee, Irn)
* LITTLE SOLDIER (Olsen, Den)
LONG WEEKEND (Blanks, Aus)
MAD, SAD & BAD (Luthra, UK)
 THE MAID (Silva, Chile)
THE MAIDEN HEIST (Hewitt, US)
MASQUERADES (Salem, Alg)
* MARY AND MAX (Elliot, Aus)
MEMBERS OF THE FUNERAL (Baek, Kor)
MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT (Richet, Fr)
MESRINE: PUBLIC ENEMY NO 1 (Richet, Fr)
MILK - SUT (Kaplanoglu, Tur)
THE MISSING PERSON (Buschel, US)
MODERN LOVE IS AUTOMATIC (Clark, US)
MOON (Jones, UK)
MY LAST FIVE GIRLFRIENDS (Kemp, UK)
MY YEAR WITHOUT SEX (Watt, Aus)
NAKBA (Francos, Bel)
NO GREATER LOVE (Whyte, UK)
NO PUEDO VIVIR SIN TI (Tai, Tai)
NOLLYWOOD BABYLON (Addelman/Mallal, Can)
ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL (Eskikoy/Dogan, Tur)
THE ONE MAN VILLAGE (El Habre, Lebanon)
ONLY WHEN I DANCE (Finzi, UK)
OUTRAGE (Dick, US)
PAPER SOLDIER (German, Rus)
* PARDON MY FRENCH (Fillieres, Fr)
POMEGRANATES AND MYRRH (Najjar, Pal)
PONTYPOOL (McDonald, Can)
THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE (Miller, US)
ROMEO & JULIET VS THE LIVING DEAD (Denmark, US)
RUDO Y CURSI (Cuaron, Mex)
RULE #1 (Tong, Sin)
RUNNING IN TRAFFIC (Corlett, UK)
SALVAGE (Gough, UK)
SCRATCH (Rosa)
THE SECRET OF KELLS (Moore, Ire)
THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE (Cutler, US)
SERAPHINE (Provost, Fr)
SHIRIN (Kiarostami, Irn)
SIN NOMBRE (Fukanaga, Mex)
SPREAD (Mackenzie, US)
STELLA (Verheyde, Fr)
SURROGATE (Ezer, Isr)
TERRIBLY HAPPY (Genz, Den)
THANKS MAA (Kamal, Ind)
TINY JOYS (Balint, Hungary)
TONY (Johnson, UK)
TURN IT LOOSE (Siddons, UK)
UNMADE BEDS (Dos Santos, UK)
* VAN DIEMEN'S LAND (der Heide, Aus)
VINYAN (Du Welz, Fr)
WASTED (Paterson/Davids, UK)
WEST POINT (Rebouillon, Fr)
WHITE LIGHTNIN' (Murphy, UK)
WIDE OPEN SPACES (Hall, Ire)

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