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Ray Winstone and friends behaving very badly in this powerful drama of a wronged husband trying to regain his self-respect.
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A supremely sophisticated Iranian drama, where tragedy strikes a group of friends while they're at a getaway on the banks of the Caspian Sea.
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Set on Brazil's Buzios beaches in the early 1980s, the story of one girl's coming of age is a sophisticated, handsome melodrama of considerable class.
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Kore-eda's unexpected fantasy is both a charming love story and a fragile parable: an inflatable sex doll suddenly acquires a soul and starts to discover what 'life' really is.
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The robot boy from Metro City gets a CGI makeover in this updating of the anime classic.
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A dramatised account seen of the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists killed while covering Indonesia's military campaign in the border regions of East Timor.
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Old campaigners Claude Chabrol and Gérard Depardieu join forces at last with a playful cop thriller in the Maigret tradition.
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Not your everyday fairy tale: Catherine Breillat proposes a witty, surreal, typically provocative re-reading of the ultimate story of a bad marriage.
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The bizarrest of road movies from the Mighty Boosh team, full of invention and anarchic comedy.

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Actor Paul Giamatti stars as actor Paul Giamatti in this gentle existential comedy about an imagined international trafficking in human souls.
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A sensuous drama of obsession and misguided love set in a secluded girls' school in the 1930s.
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An insightful and beautifully filmed study of one of France's foremost cultural institutions from one of the world's finest documentary makers.
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At 100, legendary director Manoel de Oliveira gets better and better: this moral tale about love and folly is tart, concise and just about perfect.
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An audacious experiment in the hallucinatory power of cinema: non-linear and immersive.
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Mike Judge, the creator of Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill, once again mining the American workplace for a smart and intuitive comedy, replacing the white collar cubicles of his cult feature Office Space to focus on the trials of a blue collar boss.
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Young Tolly tries to unlock the secrets of his ancestral home and in doing so unsettles some of its spirits.
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Family secrets and political intrigue in this absorbing thriller set on the eve of the Second World War.
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Matt Damon shines as the USA's highest-ranking corporate whistle-blower in Steven Soderbergh's smart and funny new film.
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First-time director Samuel Maoz creates an unforgettable portrayal of the horrors of war with this autobiographical account of Israel's ill-fated 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
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A sequel of sorts to the director's Happiness, this is an emotionally resonant and darkly humorous portrait of modern life and love.
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Jarmusch's audacious latest is a poetic, allusive, visually stunning variation on the conventional hitman movie, with Isaach De Bankolé heading a thrilling cast.
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Winner of the Golden Bear at this year's Berlin Film Festival, Claudia Llosa's second feature focuses on a young Peruvian woman coming to terms with the death of her mother in a country whose recent history has been marked by bloody civil conflict.
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A quack herbalist and acupuncturist turns 'detective' to prove her son's innocence when he's charged with murder in Bong Joon-Ho's stunningly original account of maternal feelings in all their terrifying intensity.
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Bahman Ghobadi portrays Tehran as a city with a vibrant underground indie rock scene.
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Playing fast and loose with the boundaries between fiction and documentary, Charleyne Yi questions whether true love exists.
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The distinctive and deeply affecting story of an African American teenager's journey to leave her abusive background behind.
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Sensitively performed and beautifully filmed, Samson & Delilah marks the arrival of a significant, singular voice in world cinema.
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A 52 year old British college professor living in Los Angeles tries to find meaning in his life after the death of his long term boyfriend.
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A gently funny and goodhearted story about one young man's involvement in the landmark festival.
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The idiocies of daily life in a dictatorship are explored in this comic, ironic look at Romania under the Ceaucescu regime.
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An exploration of polygamy and sexual double standards in modern day Bamako, told in full blown melodramatic style.
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Elia Suleiman delivers his masterpiece with this sweeping, comic and ultimately heart-breaking account of sixty years of in the life of a Palestinian family.
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Bravura and fresh re-telling of the early life and rise to power of Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, seen through the eyes of his 'other wife'.
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Ondi Timoner's pacy and penetrating look at the impact of technology on our lives and our identities, told through the story of internet pioneer Josh Harris.
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A rich collection of previously unseen archive material deployed to great effect in Tom DiCillo's study of the rise of The Doors and self destruction of Jim Morrison.

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In Pictures | Day 16 of the Festival

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30 Oct 2009

Sight & Sound Young Journalist Winners

We tally the entries and present the winners.

29 Oct 2009

Awards Ceremony

We announce the winner of the Best Film award, plus we welcome our new BFI Fellows.

29 Oct 2009

In Pictures | Day 15 of the Festival

Behind the scenes at the Awards Ceremony.