Eugenie Jansen's Calimucho was awarded the "Lambertz Euregio Filmpreis" at the Made in Europe Film Festival taking place in Aachen and Maastricht.

The documentary festival Cinéma du Réel (Paris) features three Forum films in its international competition selection: Mental, Rachel and Defamation.

The main prize for best feature at the 2009 Big Pond International Filmfestival in Adelaide was awarded to Treeless Mountain by So Yong Kim.

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A selection of films from this year's Forum and Forum expanded programs will be shown again at Kino Arsenal in the next two weeks.

The "Tagesspiegel" Readers' Jury has awarded the 3000 Euro prize for the best film in the Forum to Hayat var by Reha Erdem.

Barbara Hammer's short film A Horse is not a Metaphor from the Forum expanded program has won the 3000 Euro Teddy Short Film prize.

The independent juries at this year's Berlinale have awarded prizes to 4 further films from the Forum program: Treeless Mountain, Cea mai fericită fată din lume (The Happiest Girl in the World), The Day After and Doctor Ma's Country Clinic.

Sono Sion's nearly four hour film Love Exposure has won both this year's Caligari Prize and the FIPRESCI Film Critics' Prize.

Due to the great interest in Thomas Heise's Material, there will be another chance to see the film in an additional screening on Saturday, 14th February, at 11.00 am. Tickets are on sale now at the Berlinale box office; accredited guests may also attend.