The 31st Moscow International Film Festival was held from 19 to 28 June 2009. The Golden George was awarded to the Russian film Pete on the Way to Heaven directed by Nikolai Dostal.
Jury Pavel Lungin (Russia – President of the Jury) Shyam Benegal (India) Nick Powell (United Kingdom) Sergey Trimbach (Ukraine) Gulnara Dusmatova (Kazakhstan)
Films in competition The following films were selected for the main competition:
English title Original title Director(s) Production country Bibi Bibi Hassan Yektapanah Iran Beauty Beauty utusukushiimono Toshio Gotō Japan The Miracle Chudo Aleksandr Proshkin Russia Five Days Without Nora Cinco días sin Nora Mariana Chenillo Mexico As God Commands Come Dio сomanda Gabriele Salvatores Italy Happy New Year Happy New Year Christoph Schaub Switzerland Today and the Other Days Jeo nuk ui game Wee An Choi South Korea Little Moscow Mała Moskwa Waldemar Krzystek Poland Mediator Mediatori Dito Tsintsadze Georgia, Germany Melody for a Barrel Organ Melodiya dlya sharmanki Kira Muratova Ukraine Burning Mooki Mooki bo'era Lina Chaplin, Slava Chaplin Israel Ward No. 6 Palata No. 6 Karen Shakhnazarov Russia Pete on the Way to Heaven Petia po doroge v tsarstvie nebesnoye Nikolai Dostal Russia Crayfish Raci Ivan Tscherkelov Bulgaria The Missing Person The Missing Person Noah Buschel United States Prank Tréfa Péter Gárdos Hungary
References
External links Moscow International Film Festival: 2009 at Internet Movie Database