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59th Berlin International Film Festival 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 immigrant drama "Eden Is West" served as the closing night film at the festival. The festival's jury president was actress Tilda Swinton of the United Kingdom.
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The International (2009 film) The International is a 2009 German–American political thriller drama film directed by Tom Tykwer. The film follows an Interpol agent and an American district attorney who investigate corruption within the IBBC, a fictional merchant bank based in Luxembourg. It serves organized crime and corrupt governments as a banker and as an arms broker. The bank's ruthless managers assassinate potential threats including their own employees.
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2009 Bergen International Film Festival The 2009 Bergen International Film Festival was arranged in Bergen, Norway 21st-28 October 2009, and was the 10th edition of the festival.
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The Girl on the Train (2009 film) The Girl on the Train (French: "La fille du RER" ) is a 2009 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Emilie Dequenne, Catherine Deneuve and Michel Blanc. The plot centers on an aimless girl who lies about being the victim of a hate crime.
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64th Berlin International Film Festival The 64th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 6 to 16 February 2014. Wes Anderson's film "The Grand Budapest Hotel" opened the festival. British film director Ken Loach was presented with the Honorary Golden Bear. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Chinese film "Black Coal, Thin Ice" directed by Diao Yinan, which also served as closing film.
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Berlin (TV series) Berlin is a 2009 documentary series co-developed by the BBC and the Open University. Written and presented by Matt Frei, the series has three 60-minute episodes, each dealing with a different aspect of the history of Germany's capital city.
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2009 Shanghai International Film Festival The 2009 Shanghai International Film Festival is the 12th such festival devoted to international cinema to be held in Shanghai, China. It was held from June 13-21, 2009.
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Inglourious Basterds Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Til Schweiger, and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells the fictional alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's political leadership, one planned by Shosanna Dreyfus (Laurent), a young French Jewish cinema proprietor, and the other by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt). Christoph Waltz co-stars as Hans Landa, an SS colonel tracking down Raine's group and who has a connection to Shosanna's past. The film's title was inspired by Italian director Enzo G. Castellari's macaroni combat film, "The Inglorious Bastards" (1978).
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The Time That Remains The Time That Remains is a 2009 semi-biographical drama film written and directed by Palestinian director Elia Suleiman. The film stars Ali Suliman, Elia Suleiman, Saleh Bakri and Samar Qudha Tanus. It gives an account of the creation of the Israeli state from 1948 to the present. Suleiman participated in the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, as his new film competed in the official selection category. "The Time That Remains" was also screened at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. In November 2009, the film won the Jury Grand Prize (with About Elly) at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. The film won the Critics Prize of the Argentinian Film Critics Association at Mar del Plata International Film Festival.
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The Front Line (2009 film) The Front Line (Italian: "La prima linea" ) is a 2009 Italian crime-drama film written and directed by Renato De Maria. It is based on the memoirs of the Prima Linea terrorist Sergio Segio.
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Hierro (film) Hierro is a 2009 psychological thriller directed by Gabe Ibáñez and starring Elena Anaya, Kaiet Rodríguez, Bea Segura, and Andrés Herrera.
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The Open Door (film) The Open Door is a 2008 Australian horror/thriller film, directed by Doc Duhame and starring Catherine Munden, Sarah Christine Smith, and Ryan Doom. Munden's character finds her vengeful wishes toward people coming true.
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Iron Cross (film) Justice/Vengeance (also known as Iron Cross in the United States) is a 2009 British thriller film. The film was written and directed by British film director Joshua Newton. It stars Roy Scheider, in his final film after he died in February 2008 before his filming was completed. The film was shot in 2007, production completed in 2008, had a preview showing in 2009, premiered at the 26th Boston Film Festival in 2010, and had a limited release in 2011.
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Shahada (film) Shahada is a 2010 German drama film directed by Burhan Qurbani. It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. The film narrates the fates of three German-born Muslims in Berlin that collide as they struggle to find middle ground between faith and modern life in contemporary Western society.
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1st Berlin International Film Festival The 1st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 6 to 17 June 1951. The opening film was Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca". At this very first Berlin Festival, the Golden Bear award was introduced, and it was awarded to the best film in each of five categories: drama, comedy, crime or adventure, music film, and documentary. This system disappeared already the following year, partly because films that year were voted on by the audience.
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66th Berlin International Film Festival The 66th Berlin International Film Festival was held from 11 to 21 February 2016, with American actress Meryl Streep as the President of the Jury. The Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement was presented to German cinematographer Michael Ballhaus. "Hail, Caesar!", directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, was selected to open the festival. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Italian documentary "Fire at Sea", directed by Gianfranco Rosi, which also serves as closing night film.
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Ten Dead Men Ten Dead Men is a 2008 thriller film and the follow-up to the cult independent film "Left for Dead". Produced by the same company, (Modern Life?) "Ten Dead Men" features many of the same actors as its predecessor. "Ten Dead Men" was directed by Ross Boyask and produced by Phil Hobden. The film released in UK, France, Indonesia and Japan.
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Don McKay (film) Don McKay is a 2009 independent drama thriller film written and directed by Jake Goldberger and starring Thomas Haden Church and Elisabeth Shue. It premiered at the 8th Annual Tribeca Film Festival in April 2009 and received a limited release on April 2, 2010.
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The Fourth Kind The Fourth Kind is a 2009 American science fiction horror film directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi and featuring a cast of Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Corey Johnson, Will Patton, Charlotte Milchard, Mia Mckenna-Bruce, Yulian Vergov, and Olatunde Osunsanmi. The title is derived from the expansion of J. Allen Hynek's classification of close encounters with aliens, in which the fourth kind denotes alien abductions.
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London Film Critics Circle Awards 2009 The 30th London Film Critics Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2009, were announced by the London Film Critics Circle on 18 February 2010.
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Tomorrow at Dawn Tomorrow at Dawn (French: "Demain dès l'aube" ) is a 2009 French drama film directed by Denis Dercourt. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
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28th Berlin International Film Festival The 28th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 22 February to 5 March 1978. The festival opened with "Opening Night" by John Cassavetes and closed with Steven Spielberg's out of competition film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". This was the first year the festival was held in February.