Rotterdam Film Festival Awards 2009

2009 Rotterdam Film Festival Awards
2009 Rotterdam Film Festival: Jan. 21-Feb. 1, 2009
 

Be Calm and Count to Seven (top photo), Ramtin Lavafipour’s feature-film début, chronicles the day-to-day struggles of a family in Iran’s southern islands whose chief source of income is smuggling. In Yang Ik-June’s Breathless (middle photo), a nasty extortionist (Yang himself) has his life drastically altered after meeting a determined schoolgirl. In Mahmut Fazil Coskun’s Istanbul-set Wrong Rosary (lower photo), a muezzin (the person who leads the call to the mosque’s Friday service) falls in love with his neighbor, who happens to be a Catholic nurse.
 

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by Massimo David | January 31, 2009   
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