Moscow Film Festival Awards 2009

2009 Moscow Film Festival Awards

2009 Moscow Film Festival: June 19-28, 2009

Set in a small town in the early 1950s, Nikolai Dostal's Pete on the Way to Heaven revolves around a (somewhat mentally impaired) young man who pretends he's the local traffic inspector much to the amusement of his fellow denizens. Things become serious when an inmate escapes from the local reformatory.

Golden Saint George for best film: Pete on the Way to Heaven / Petya po doroge v tsarstvie nebesnoe directed by Nikolai Dostal (Russia)

Special jury award: Alexander Proshkin for Miracle / Chudo

Best direction: Mariana Chenillo (Five Days Without Nora, Mexico)

Best actor: Vladimir Ilyin (Ward # 6, directed by Karen Shakhnazarov, Russia)

Best actress: Elena Kostyuk (Melody for the Barrel Organ directed by Kira Muratova, Ukraine)

Perspectives competition award: Conflict Zone by Vano Burduli (Georgia)

Award for the contribution into the international cinematography: Rezo Chkheidze (Georgia)

"I Believe" award (Stanislavsky acting award): Oleg Yankovsky (Russia)

FIPRESCI jury award: Melody for the Barrel Organ directed by Kira Muratova (Ukraine)

People's Choice award: The Little Moscow directed by Waldemar Krzystek (Poland)

Russian film critics award: As God Commands (Como Dio comanda) directed by Gabriele Salvatores (Italy)

Russian film critics' Special Mention: The Missing Person directed by Noah Buschel (USA)

Russian film critics' Perspectives award: Event directed by Andrey Eshpay (Russia)

Russian Cinema Clubs Federation award to the best film in Competition: Melody for the Barrel Organ directed by Kira Muratova (Ukraine)

Russian Cinema Clubs Federation award to the best film in Russian program: Mad Help directed by Boris Hlebnikov

Kommersant publishing house award: First Squad: the Moment of Truth (Faasuto sukuwaddo) directed by Yoshiharu Ashino (Japan, Russia, Canada)

Special Award: Japanese film expert Kadzuo Yamada