The 39th annual Giffoni Film Festival, dubbed Italy's biggest youth film festival, was held in the coastal town of Salerno between July 12-25, 2009. Thirty features and 42 shorts were screened in competition, in addition to dozens of special screenings and events.
Among this year's award winners were Caroline Link's A Year Ago in Winter, Breno Silveira's Once Upon a Time in Rio, David Lee Miller's My Suicide, and Jesper Waldvogel Rasmussen's See You.
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Giffoni Film Festival artistic director Claudio Gubitosi; Naomi Watts; Liev Schreiber
Alba Rohrwacher
Christina Ricci
Filippo Timi
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