The 4th Adelaide Film Festival took place in

Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...

, Australia, from 19 February to 1 March 2009.

Katrina Sedgwick Katrina Anne-Marie Sedgwick (born 27 December 1967) is the CEO and director of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.Official Program
2009 Adelaide Film Festival

Jan Chapman Jan Chapman (born 28 March 1950) is an Australian film producer. Films produced by Chapman include '' The Last Days of Chez Nous'' (1992), ''The Piano'' (1993), '' Love Serenade'' (1996), '' Holy Smoke!'' (1999), and ''Lantana'' (2001). While ...

received the 2009 Don Dunstan AwardAdelaide Film Festival
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(10 February 2009) ''Jan Chapman to receive Don Dunstan Award''. Retrieved 8 February 2015. The poster this year depicts the iconic film festival eye character concept that was so successful in 2007. The festival opened with ''

My Year Without Sex ''My Year Without Sex'' is an Australian drama film written and directed by Sarah Watt, opening the 2009 Adelaide Film Festival and given wider release in May 2009. Set in Altona (suburban Melbourne), it is about a 30-something couple, Ross an ...

'' directed by

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and closed with '' Easy Virtue'' directed by

Stephan Elliott Stephan Elliott (born 27 August 1964) is an Australian film director and screenwriter. His best-known film internationally is ''The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert'' (1994). Career Elliott began his career as an assistant director ...

. The festival presented 23 world premieres, 62 Australian premieres, 38 Australian films, 9 new Australian features from established and emerging filmmakers, and 143 films from over 49 countries. The Natuzzi International Award for Best Feature Film was won by the South Korean film '' Treeless Mountain'', directed and written by

So Yong Kim So Yong Kim (born 1968) is a Korean American independent filmmaker. She has made four feature films: ''In Between Days'', '' Treeless Mountain'', '' For Ellen'', and '' Lovesong''. So Yong Kim is a recipient of the New York Foundation’s Video A ...

.Media Release, 2 March 2009
, 2009 Adelaide Film Festival
(03 March 2009) ''Treeless Mountain wins award at Adelaide Film Festival''. Retrieved 8 February 2015.2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival
''The 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival wrapped on Sunday night after 11 exciting days''. Retrieved 8 February 2015.

Competition

Jury

The following people were selected for the In Competition Jury:
(11 December 2008) ''J.M. Coetzee is AFF's Natuzzi juror''. Retrieved 8 February 2015. * Laurence Kardish, Canadian, Senior Film Curator at MoMA (President) * J.M. Coetzee, South African writer *

Jo Dyer Jo Dyer (born 1969) is an Australian theatre and film producer, and director of Adelaide Writers' Week from 2019 to 2022. She is known for the films ''Lucky Miles'' (2007) and '' Girl Asleep'' (2015). In 2021 she was involved in a legal case r ...

, Australian film producer * Bill Gosden, director of the New Zealand International Film Festival *

Naomi Kawase is a Japanese film director. She was also known as , with her former husband's surname. Many of her works have been documentaries, including ''Embracing'', about her search for the father who abandoned her as a child, and ''Katatsumori'', about ...

, Japanese film director * Hannah McGill, Artistic Director of the

Edinburgh International Film Festival The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is a film festival that runs for two weeks in June each year. Established in 1947, it is the world's oldest continually running film festival. EIFF presents both UK and international films (all ti ...

David Stratton David James Stratton (born 10 September 1939) is an English-Australian award-winning film critic, as both a journalist and interviewer, film historian and lecturer and television personality and producer. Life and career Born in Trowbridge, ...

, English-Australian film critic

In Competition

The following films were selected for the In Competition section:

Awards

;The Natuzzi International Award for Best Feature Film The Natuzzi International Award for Best Feature Film was won by the South Korean film '' Treeless Mountain'', directed and written by

. ;Audience Award The Audience Award for Best Feature was won by '' Samson & Delilah''. The Audience Award for Best Documentary was won by ''

Kiran Bedi Kiran Bedi (born 9 June 1949) is an Indian social activist, former-tennis player who became the first woman in India to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972 and was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry from ...

''. The Audience Award for Best Short was won by '' The Cat Piano''. ;Don Dunstan Award The Don Dunstan Award was won by

References

External links

Official Website
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