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Shadows Festival Shadows @ Venice
66th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica
2 - 12 SEPTEMBER 2009
VFF site
Opening: BAARIA
Closing: CHENGDU, I LOVE YOU
2 0 0 9   A W A R D S ...

Golden Lion: LEBANON
Grand Jury Prize: SOUL KITCHEN
Leoncino d'Oro:
CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY
Queer Lion: A SINGLE MAN
Silver Lion: Shirin Neshat
(WOMEN WITHOUT MEN)
Actor: Colin Firth (A SINGLE MAN)
Actress: Ksenia Rappoport
(LA DOPPIA ORA)
Screenplay: Todd Solondz
(LIFE DURING WARTIME)
Lion of the Future:
Pepe Diokno (ENGKWENTRO)
Mastroianni Prize: Jasmine Trinka (IL GRANDE SOGNO)
Tech Award: Sylvie Olive
(MR NOBODY)
Horizons Prize: ENGKWENTRO
Horizons Doc: 1428
Fipresci Prize: LOURDES
Fipresci Horizons/Critics' Week Prize: ADRIFT
Label Europa Award:
THE LAST DAYS OF EMMA BLANK
Controcampo Prize: COSMONAUTA
Venice Days Prize:
THE LAST DAYS OF EMMA BLANK
Digital Award: METROPIA
3D Award: THE HOLE
Special Lion: Ang Lee


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F I L M S   I N C L U D E
1428 (Du, Chn)
36 VUES DU PIC SAINT LOUP (Rivette, Fr)
ACCIDENT (Cheang, Chn)
ADRIFT (Bui, Vie)
L'AMORE E BASTA (Consiglio, It)
THE APE (Ganslandt, Swe)
ARMANDO TESTA: POVERO MA MODERNO (Corsicato, It)
BAARIA (Tornatore, It)
THE BAD LIEUTENANT - PORT OF CALL: NEW ORLEANS (Herzog, US)
BARKING WATER (Harjo, US)
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS (Jayasundara, Sri)
BROOKLYN'S FINEST (Fuqua, US)
BURIED SECRETS (Amari, Tun)
CAFE NOIR (Jung, Kor)
CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY (Moore, US)
CHENGDU, I LOVE YOU (Chan/Cui, Chn)
IL COLORE DELLE PAROLE (Puccioni, It)
IL COMPLEANNO (Filiberti, It)
COSMONAUTA (Nicchiarelli, It)
COW (Hu, Chn)
CRAWFISHLIKE (Demichev, Rus)
CRUSH (Buslov/German/et al, Rus)
LA DANSE: LE BALLET DE L'OPERA DE PARIS (Wiseman, US)
DELHI-6 (Omprakash, Ind)
DESERTO ROSA: LUIGI GHIRRI (Sgarbi, It)
DET ENDA RATIONELLA (Bergmark, Swe)
DEV D (Kashyap, Ind)
DIECI INVERNI (Mieli, It)
DOMINANCE (Chiha, Fr)
LA DOPPIA ORA (Capotondi, It)
ENGKWENTRO (Diokno, Ph)
FACES OF SEOUL (Kim, Kor)
FOXES (Fornay, Cz)
FRANCESCA (Paunescu, Rom)
FRANCIA (Caetano, Arg)
GIUSEPPE DE SANTIS (Lizzani, It)
GOOD MORNING AMAN (Noce, It)
IL GRANDE SOGNO (Placido, It)
GREAT DIRECTORS (Ismailos, US)
GULAAL (Kashyap, Ind)
HARRAGAS (Allouache, Alg)
THE HOLE (Dante, US)
HOLLYWOOD SUL TEVERE (Spagnoli, It)
LA HORDE (Dahan/Rocher, Fr)
HUGO EN AFRIQUE (Knuchel, Swi)
I TRAVEL BECAUSE I HAVE TO (Gomes/Ainouz, Br)
THE INFORMANT! (Soderbergh, US)
INSOLACAO (Hirsch/Thomas, Br)
IO SONO L'AMORE (Guadagnino, It)
JUDGE (Liu, Chn)
LEBANON (Maoz, Isr)
LIFE DURING WARTIME (Solondz, US)
LO SPAZIO BIANCO (Comencini, It)
LOURDES (Hausner, Aut)
THE MAN'S WOMAN AND OTHER STORIES (Dutta, Ind)
THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS (Heslov, US)
METROPIA (Saleh, Swe)
MR NOBODY (Van Dormael, Fr)
NAPOLI NAPOLI NAPOLI (Ferrara, It)
NEGLI OCCHI (Del Grosso/Anzellotti, It)
LE OMBRE ROSSE (Maselli, It)
ONCE UPON A TIME PROLETARIAN: 12 TALES OF A COUNTRY (Guo, Chn)
THE ONE ALL ALONE (Scheffer, Ned)
ONE-ZERO (Zekri, Egy)
L'ORO DI CUBA (Montaldo, It)
PARAISO (Galvez, Per)
PEPPERMINTA (Rist, Swi)
PERSECUTION (Chereau, Fr)
IL PICCOLO (Zaccaro, It)
POETI (D'angelo, It)
THE POTHOLE (Karim, Irn)
PRINCE OF TEARS (Yonfan, Tai)
PROVE PER UNA TRAGEDIA SICILIANA (Paska/Turturro, It)
READING BOOK OF BLOCKADE (Sokurov, Rus)
[REC] 2 (Balaguero/Plaza, Sp)
REPO CHICK (Cox, US)
THE ROAD (Hillcoat, US)
SCHEHERAZADE, TELL ME A STORY (Nasrallah, Egy)
SILENT VOICE (Fehner, Fr)
A SINGLE MAN (Ford, US)
SOUL KITCHEN (Akin, Ger)
SOUTH OF THE BORDER (Stone, US)
SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD (Romero, US)
TEHRAN (Homayoun, Irn)
TENDER PARASITES (Becker/Schwabe, Ger)
TETSUO THE BULLET MAN (Tsukamoto, Jpn)
THE TRAVELLER (Maher, Egy)
TOTO (Schreiner, Aut)
TRIS DI DONNE & ABITI NUZIALI (Terracciano, It)
VALHALLA RISING (Refn, Den)
VIA DELLA CROCE (Nono, It)
VIDEOCRACY (Gandini, Swe)
VILLALOBOS (Karmakar, Ger)
VITTORIO D (Canale/Morri, It)
WHITE MATERIAL (Denis, Fr)
WOMEN WITHOUT MEN (Neshat, Ger)
YONA YONA PENGUIN (Rintaro, Jpn)
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