The 59th Berlin International Film Festival was held from 5 February to 15 February 2009. The opening film of the festival was Tom Tykwer’s The International, screened out of competition.
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The 59th Berlin International Film Festival was held from 5 February to 15 February 2009.
01 · What it is
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02 · Where & name
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JuriesThe following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:
Main CompetitionTilda Swinton, British actress - Jury President Isabel Coixet, Spanish filmmaker Gaston Kaboré, Burkinabé filmmaker Henning Mankell, Swedish writer Christoph Schlingensief, German playwright and director Wayne Wang,…
Best First Feature Award JuryHannah Herzsprung, German actress In-Ah Lee, German producer Rafi Pitts, Iranian director
International Short Film JuryKhavn De La Cruz, Filipino director, screenwriter and producer Arta Dobroshi, Kosovo actress Lars Henrik Gass, German director of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
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The 59th Berlin International Film Festival was held from 5 February to 15 February 2009. In local script on record, it is written Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 2009.
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The 59th Berlin International Film Festival was held from 5 February to 15 February 2009. The opening film of the festival was Tom Tykwer’s The International, screened out of competition. Costa-Gavras's Eden Is West served as the closing night film at the festival. The festival's jury president was the British actress Tilda Swinton.
The Golden Bear was awarded to Peruvian film The Milk of Sorrow directed by Claudia Llosa. The retrospective dedicated to the Golden Age of 70mm filmmaking from 1955 to 1970, titled 70mm – Bigger than Life was shown at the festival.
Admission for the festival was reported to be among the highest in years, and it also set a record for ticket sales, with some 270,000 tickets sold by the halfway mark, compared to 240,000 sold for the entire run of the festival the previous year. The final ticket tally was the largest in the festival's 59-year history. 1
Juries
The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: 1
Main Competition
Tilda Swinton, British actress - Jury President
Isabel Coixet, Spanish filmmaker
Gaston Kaboré, Burkinabé filmmaker
Henning Mankell, Swedish writer
Christoph Schlingensief, German playwright and director
Wayne Wang, Hong Kong director, screenwriter and producer
Alice Waters, American author 1
Best First Feature Award Jury
Hannah Herzsprung, German actress
In-Ah Lee, German producer
Rafi Pitts, Iranian director 1
International Short Film Jury
Khavn De La Cruz, Filipino director, screenwriter and producer
Arta Dobroshi, Kosovo actress
Lars Henrik Gass, German director of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 1
Main Competition
The following films were selected in competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards: 1
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59th Berlin International Film Festival is 2009 film festival edition, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2
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