2009 Adelaide Film Festival

The 4th Adelaide Film Festival took place in Adelaide, Australia, from 19 February to 1 March 2009. Katrina Sedgwick was again Festival Director. Jan Chapman received the 2009 Don Dunstan Award 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 directed by Sarah Watt and closed with Easy Virtue directed by Stephan Elliott. 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.

Jury
The following people were selected for the In Competition Jury:


 * Laurence Kardish, Canadian, Senior Film Curator at MoMA (President)
 * J.M. Coetzee, South African writer
 * Jo Dyer, Australian film producer
 * Bill Gosden, director of the New Zealand International Film Festival
 * Naomi Kawase, Japanese film director
 * Hannah McGill, Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival
 * David Stratton, 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 was won by the South Korean film Treeless Mountain, directed and written by So Yong Kim.
 * The Natuzzi International Award for Best Feature Film

The Audience Award for Best Feature was won by Samson & Delilah.
 * Audience Award

The Audience Award for Best Documentary was won by Kiran Bedi.

The Audience Award for Best Short was won by The Cat Piano.

The Don Dunstan Award was won by Jan Chapman.
 * Don Dunstan Award