1. Departures (Okuribito) - Yojiro Takita
2. All Around Us (Gururi no Koto) - Ryosuke Hashiguchi
3. United Red Army - Koji Wakamatsu
4. Tokyo Sonata - Kiyoshi Kurosawa
5. Still Walking (Aruitemo, Aruitemo) - Hirokazu Kore-eda
6. Children of the Dark (Yami no Kodomotachi) - Junji Sakamoto
7. Kabei: My Mother - Yoji Yamada
8. Climber's High - Masato Harada
9. Kiss (Seppun) - Kunitoshi Manda
10. After School - Kenji Uchida
Additional awards
Best Director: Yojiro Takita (Departures)
Best Screenplay: Kundo Koyama (Departures)
Best Actor: Masahiro Motoki (Departures)
Best Actress: Kyoko Koizumi (Tokyo Sonata)
Best Supporting Actor: Masato Sakai (After School)
Best Supporting Actress: Kirin Kiki (Still Walking)
Best New Actor: Kai Inowaki (Tokyo Sonata)
Best New Actress: Haruna Amari (Kodomo no Kodomo)
Best Foreign Film Director: Sidney Lumet, Sean Penn
Best Cultural Film: Aa Manmo Kaitakudan
第59屆柏林電影節 Prizes of the FIPRESCI
Juries The juries of the Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique (FIPRESCI), the international film critics association, view films from the Competition programme and the Panorama and Forum sections. They award a prize for the best film in each of these sections. The three FIPRESCI juries at the Berlinale 2009 are as follows: Borislav Andjelic (jury president), Mihai Chirilov, Sergi Sanchez (Competition); Richard Cline, Nils Saeveras, Andreas Becker (Panorama); Margit Tönson, Gulnara Abikeyeva, Enrico Bosten (Forum)
Forum Ai no mukidashi (Love Exposure) 愛のむきだし
Director: Sono Sion 園子溫
Caligari Film Prize
A three-person jury awards the Caligari Film Prize to a film in the Forum. The prize is sponsored by the "German Federal Association of Communal Film Work" and “filmdienst” magazine. The winning film is honoured with 4,000 Euros, half of which is given to the director, the other half is meant to fund distribution. The 2009 jury: Rüdiger Suchsland, Veit Geldner, Timothy Simms.
The Caligari Film Prize 2009 goes to
Ai no mukidashi (Love Exposure) 愛のむきだし
by Sono Sion 園子溫