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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Departures</title>
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		<title>Asian Film Awards 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian Film Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Departures]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Forever Enthralled]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hayao Miyazaki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Woo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ponyo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Still Walking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Good the Bad and the Weird]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo Sonata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tulpan]]></category>

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2009 Asian Film Awards
2009 Asian Film Award nominations: Jan. 21, 2009
2009 Asian Film Award winners: March 23, 2009
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
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In Kyoshi Kurosawa&#8217;s best Asian Film Award winner Tokyo Sonata, a middle-class worker (Teruyuki Kagawa) loses his job (it&#8217;s outsourced to China), but can&#8217;t get himself to tell his family about his predicament. Slowly, however, both his ruse and the family itself begin to disintegrate.
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Best Film
Forever Enthralled, China
The Good, the Bad, the Weird, South Korea
Ponyo on the Cliff, Japan
The Rainbow Troops, Indonesia
Red Cliff, China
* Tokyo Sonata, The Netherlands / Japan / Hong Kong
Best Director
FENG Xiao-gang, If You Are the One, China
KIM Jee-woon, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, South Korea
* KOREEDA Hirokazu, Still Walking, Japan
Brillante MENDOZA, Service, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palm Springs Film Festival Awards 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/palm-springs-film-festival-awards-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Departures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hooked]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martina Gusman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natar Ungalaaq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palm Springs Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revanche]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman]]></category>

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2009 Palm Springs Film Festival Awards
 2009 Palm Springs Film Festival: January 6-19, 2008
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Departures by Yojiro Takita
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AUDIENCE  AWARDS
Best Narrative Feature: Departures (Japan) directed by Yojiro Takita
Best Documentary Feature: Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman (USA) directed by Eric Bricker
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CRITICS AWARDS (foreign-language films submitted for the 2009 Academy Awards)
FIPRESCI Prize: Revanche, directed by Götz Spielmann
FIPRESCI Award for Best Actor: Natar Ungalaaq, The Necessities of Life (Canada) directed by Benoît Pilon
FIPRESCI Award for Best Actress: Martina Gusman, Lion&#8217;s Den (Argentina) directed by Pablo Trapero
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New Voices / New Visions Award:  Hooked (Romania/France) directed by Adrian Sitaru
Special Jury Mention: Rain (Bahamas), directed by Maria Govan
John Schlesinger Award for Outstanding First Feature (Narrative or Documentary): Amin Matalqa for Captain Abu Raed (Jordan/USA)
Bridging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2009: Best Foreign-Language Film Semi-Finalists</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2009-best-foreign-language-film-semi-finalists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2009 Oscar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academy Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Departures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Language Film Category]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gomorrah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Let the Right One In]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revanche]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Necessities of Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wide acclaim and a handful of top European Film  Awards didn&#8217;t help Matteo Garrone&#8217;s Gomorrah land a spot in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8216; list of best foreign-language film semi-finalists.
And in case you&#8217;re looking for  Let the Right One In among the nine films still in the running, you won&#8217;t find it there. Although  the Swedish vampire drama was chosen the best foreign-language film of the year by numerous US-based critics&#8217; groups, it was ineligible for the Oscars simply because each country can submit only one film per year: Sweden&#8217;s choice for 2008 was Jan Troell&#8217;s Everlasting Moments. 
The nine semi-finalists &#8212; out of 65 (accepted) foreign-language film submissions &#8212;  are (listed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montreal World Film Festival Awards 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Departures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erick Cañete]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Goran Markovic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Necessities of Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yojiro Takita]]></category>

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2008 Montreal World Film Festival Awards
2008 Montreal World Film Festival (Montreal Festival des Films du Monde): Aug. 21-Sept. 1, 2008
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In Yojiro Takita&#8217;s Departures &#8212; which beat well-received Canadian entry The Necessities of Life &#8212; a young (and indebted) Japanese cellist (Masahiro  Motoki) returns to his family home to look for  some real work. While there, he inadvertently &#8212; and more than a little reluctantly &#8212; becomes a well-paid &#34;corpse beautician,&#34; preparing the remains of the departed before they’re put in caskets.

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FEATURE FILMS
  Grand prix of the Americas:
OKURIBITO (DEPARTURES) by Yojiro Takita (Japan)
Special Grand Prix of the jury :
THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE (CE QU’IL FAUT POUR VIVRE) by Benoît Pilon (Canada)
Best Director :
THE TOUR (TURNEJA) by Goran Markovic [...]]]></description>
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