AFI FEST 2009 Awards
AFI FEST 2009 Awards
AFI FEST 2009: Hollywood/Santa Monica, Oct. 30-Nov. 7, 2009
Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank focuses on a working-class teenager (Katie Jarvis) frustrated that her mother has found a new beau (Michael Fassbender); Javier Rebollo’s Woman Without Piano is a dramatic portrait of 24 hours in the life of a Madrid housewife (Carmen Machi); and Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani’s Ajami (above) chronicles the day-to-day, anything-but-routine lives of several denizens of a tough neighborhood in Jaffa, where Muslims, Jews, and Christians are sworn to live in bloody disharmony.
NEW LIGHTS COMPETITION AWARD WINNER
FISH TANK DIR: Andrea Arnold UK
WOMAN WITHOUT PIANO (LA MUJER SIN PIANO) DIR: Javier Rebollo Spain/France
SPECIAL JURY MENTION
AJAMI DIR: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani Israel/Germany
AFI FEST 2009 NEW LIGHTS COMPETITION JURY MEMBERS
ANGELA BASSETT
JULIE DELPY
BILL KROHN
SERGIO WOLF
YONFAN
AFI FEST Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2009
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
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