2009 (13th) Fantasia Film Festival
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Profile
- Film Festival: Fantasia Film Festival
- Edition: 13th
- Period: July 9-29, 2009
- Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Awards
Jury Prizes
- Best Feature Film: Breathless - Ik-jun Yang
- Jury Special Prize: Love Exposure - Sion Sono
- Best Male Performance: Ik-jun Yang (Breathless)
- Best Female Performance: Hikari Mitsushima (Love Exposure)
- Best Director: David Russo (The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle)
- Best Screenplay: Nicholas Alberny & Jean Mach (8th Wonderland)
- Best Cinematography: Hideho Urata (The Clone Returns Home)
- Technical prize: Ip Man
- Special mention for best Direction of Child Actors: Tom Shankland (The Children)
- ÉCRAN FANTASTIQUE Award Paco and the Magical Picture Book
Audience Awards
- Best Asian Film
- Gold: Love Exposure (Japan) – Sion Sono
- Silver: Ip Man (Hong Kong) – Wilson Yip
- Bronze: Thirst (South Korea) – Chan-wook Park
- Best International Film
- Gold: 8th Wonderland (France) – Nicolas Alberny, Jean Mach
- Silver: Embodiment of Evil (Brazil) / Must Love Death (Germany)
- Bronze: Black (France) – Pierre Laffargue
- Best Quebec Film
- Gold: Sans Dessein – Caroline Labrèche, Steeve Léonard
- Silver: The Ante – Max Perrier
- Bronze: Crawler – Sv Bell
- Best Animated Film
- Hells (Japan) – Yoshiki Yamakawa
- Guru Prize for Most Energetic Film of the Festival
- Gold: Yatterman (Japan) – Takashi Miike
- Silver: Ip Man (HK) – Wilson Yip
- Bronze: Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl (Japan) / Fireball (Thailand)
- Most Innovative Film (Short or Feature)
- Gold: Love Exposure (Japan) – Sion Sono
- Silver: 8th Wonderland (France) – Nicolas Alberny, Jean Mach
- Bronze: Genius Party Beyond (Japan) / Must Love Death (Germany)
Film Listings
| Title | Director | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Japan | Canadian Premiere |
| 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Japan | Canadian Premiere |
| 8th Wonderland | various | France | |
| ' QUELLE HEURE LE TRAIN POUR NULLE PART | Robin Aubert | Quebec | |
| Alien Trespass | R.W. Goodwin | USA | |
| Antique | Kyu-dong Min | South korea | Canadian Premiere |
| Arcanum | Sanjay F. Sharma | Quebec | |
| Battle League Horumo | Katsuhide Motoki | Japan | North American Premiere |
| Best Worst Movie | Michael Paul Stephenson | USA | |
| Black | Pierre Laffargue | France | |
| Blood River | Adam Mason | England | |
| Blue Film Woman | Kan Mukai | Japan | |
| Bonbons rouges | JeF Grenier | Quebec | |
| Book of Blood | John Harrison | England | |
| Breathless | Ik-jun Yang | South Korea | Canadian Premiere |
| Bringing Godzilla Down to Size... | Norman England | USA | |
| Canary | Alejandro Adams | USA | |
| Carnior présente: Trailer | Quebec | ||
| Celluloid Experiments | International | ||
| Combat Shock (Director's Cut) | Buddy Giovinazzo | USA | |
| Coweb | Xin Xin Xiong | Hong Kong | Canadian Premiere |
| Crawler | Sv Bell | Canada | |
| Crazy Racer | Hao Ning | China | North American Premiere |
| Crime or Punishment?!? | Keralino Sandorovich | Japan | North American Premiere |
| Crush and Blush | Kyoung-mi Lee | South Korea | Canadian Premiere |
| Cryptic | various | USA | |
| Cul-de-$ac | various | Quebec | |
| Cyborg She | Jae-young Kwak | Japan | Canadian Premiere |
| Daytime Drinking | Yeong-seok No | South Korea | Montreal Premiere |
| Dead Snow | Tommy Wirkola | Norway | |
| Deadgirl | various | USA | |
| DJ XL5's Razzle Dazzle Zappin' Party | DJ XL5 | International | |
| Dread | Anthony DiBlasi | USA | |
| Dream | Kim Ki-duk | South Korea | Canadian Premiere |
| Edison and Leo | Neil Burns | Canada | |
| Embodiment of Evil | Jos' Mojica Marins | Brazil | |
| Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers | Tomoki Kyoda | Japan | North American Premiere |
| Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone | various | Japan | Canadian Premiere |
| Evil Spirit ; VIY | Jin-sung Park | South Korea | North American Premiere |
| Fine, Totally Fine | Yosuke Fujita | Japan | Canadian Premiere |
| Fireball | Thanakorn Pongsuwan | Thailand | North American Premiere |
| Genius Party Beyond | various | Japan | Montreal Premiere |
| Go Go 70s | Choi Ho | South Korea | Canadian Premiere |
| Grace | Paul Solet | USA | |
| Graphic Sexual Horror | various | USA | |
| GS Wonderland | Ryuichi Honda | Japan | Canadian Premiere |
| Gushing Prayer | Masao Adachi | Japan | |
| Hard Revenge, Milly | Takanori Tsujimoto | Japan | Canadian Premiere |
| Hard Revenge, Milly: Bloody Battle | Takanori Tsujimoto | Japan | Canadian Premiere |
| Hells | Yoshiki Yamakawa | Japan | North American Premiere |
| House | Nobuhiko Obayashi | Japan | |
| House Of The Devil | Ti West | USA | |
| I Sell the Dead | Glenn McQuaid | USA | |
| Infestation | Kyle Rankin | USA | |
| Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino | USA | |
| Instant Swamp | Satoshi Miki | Japan | North American Premiere |
| Ip Man | Wilson Yip | Hong Kong | Canadian Preimere |
| K-20: The Fiend With Twenty Faces | Shimako Sato | Japan | Canadian Premiere |
| Kaifeck Murder | Esther Gronenborn | Germany | |
| L'or blanc | Jonathan Levert | Quebec | |
| La bille de pandore | Nicolas de la Sablonni're | Quebec | |
| La marque | Jonathan Barbe | Quebec | |
| La possibilit' d'une 'le | Michel Houellebecq | France | |
| Lala Pipo: A Lot of People | Lalapipo | Masayuki Miyano | Japan | Canadian Premiere |
| Lascars | various | France | |
| Le Renne Blanc | Erik Blomberg | Finland | |
| Left Bank | Pieter Van Hees | Belgium | |
| Legendary Assassin | various | Hong Kong | North American Premiere |
| Lesbian Vampire Killers | Phil Claydon | England | |
| Life is Hot in Cracktown | Buddy Giovinazzo | USA | |
| Love Exposure | Sion Sono | Japan | Canadian Premiere |
| MW | Hitoshi Iwamoto | Japan | North American Premiere |
| Mothra | Ishiro Honda | Japan | |
| Must Love Death | Andreas Schaap | Germany | |
| Mutants | David Morley | France | |
| My Dear Enemy | Yoon-ki Lee | South Korea | Canadian Premiere |
| Neighbor | Robert Masciantonio | USA | |
| Nightmare Detective 2 | Shinya Tsukamoto | Japan | Canadian Premiere |
| Orochi - Blood | Orochi | Norio Tsuruta | Japan | |
| Orphan | Jaume Collet-Serra | USA | |
| Outer Limits of Animation | International | ||
| Paco and the Magical Picture Book | Tetsuya Nakashima | Japan | Canadian Premiere |
| Playing Columbine | Danny Ledonne | USA | |
| Portrait of a Beauty | Yun-su Jeon | South Korea | Canadian Premiere |
| Power Kids | Krissanapong Rachata | Thailand | North American Premiere |
| Present Fighter | various | Quebec | |
| Private Eye | Dae-min Park | South Korea | International Premiere |
| Queens of Langkasuka | Nonzee Nimibutr | Thailand | North American Premiere |
| Recon 2023: The Gauda Prime Conspiracy | Christian Viel | Quebec | |
| Reel Zombies | various | Canada | |
| Rough Cut | Jang Hun | South Korea | Canadian Premiere |
| Samurai Princess | Kengo Kaji | Japan | Canadian Premiere |
| Sans dessein | various | Quebec | |
| Secret Hot Spring Resort: Starfish at Night | Mamoru Watanabe | Japan 1970 | |
| Slam-Bang | Mark Lebenon | South Africa | |
| Small Gauge Trauma | International | ||
| Smash Cut | Lee Demarbre | Canada | |
| Spare | Seong-han Lee | South Korea | Canadian Premiere |
| Stoic | Uwe Boll | USA | |
| Sweet Karma | Andrew Thomas Hunt | Canada | |
| Tactical Unit - Comrades in Arms | Wing-cheong Law | Hong Kong | Canadian Premiere |
| Temps mort | Eric Piccoli | Quebec | |
| Terribly Happy | Henrik Ruben Genz | Denmark | |
| The Ante | Max Perrier | Canada | |
| The Canyon | Richard Harrah | USA | |
| The Chaser | Hong-jin Na | South Korea | Canadian Premiere |
| The Children | Tom Shankland | England | |
| The Clone Returns Home | Kanji Nakajima | Japan | Canadian Premiere |
| The Divine Weapon | Yu-jin Kim | South Korea | Canadian Premiere |
| The Eclipse | Conor McPherson | Ireland | |
| The Horseman | Steven Kastrissios | Australia | |
| The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle | David Russo | USA | |
| The Warlords | Peter Chan | Hong Kong | Canadian Premire |
| The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia | Julian Nitzberg | USA | |
| Thirst | Chan-wook Park | South Korea | North American Premiere |
| Tokyo Onlypic | various | Japan | North American Premiere |
| Trick 'r Treat | Michael Dougherty | USA | |
| Troll 2 | Claudio Fragasso | Italy | |
| Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl | various | Japan | |
| White Lightnin' | Dominic Murphy | England | |
| Evil Spirit ; VIY | Jin-seong Park | South Korea | |
| Yakuza Eiga: Une histoire secr'te du cin'ma japonais | Yves Montmayeur | France | |
| Yariman | Rei Sakamoto | Japan | |
| Yatterman | Takashi Miike | Japan | Canadian Premiee |
| Yesterday | Rob Grant | Canada | |
| You Might As Well Live | Simon Ennis | Canada |
