2009 TOP TWENTY (world premieres only)

1. Phantoms of Nabua (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand / Germany / U.K.) [s]

2. A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand / Germany / U.K.) [v/s]

3. Wednesday Morning Two A.M. (Lewis Klahr, U.S.) [v/s]

4. Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (Daïchi Saïto, Canada) [s]

5. Let Each One Go Where He May (Ben Russell, U.S. / Suriname)

6. Cinematographie (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria) [s]

7. Night Mayor (Guy Maddin, Canada) [s]

8. Oxhide II (Liu Jiayin, China) [v]

9. Coraline (Henry Selick, U.S.)

10. Dialogues (Owen Land, U.S.) [v]

11. The White Meadows (Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran)

12. Duplicity (Tony Gilroy, U.S.)

13. Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal / France / Spain) [m]

14. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, U.S. / U.K.)

15. Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)

16. Symbol (Hitoshi Matsumoto, Japan)

17. The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, Spain / U.S. / Japan)

18. Sutro (Jeanne Liotta, U.S.) [s]

19. Polytechnique (Denis Villeneuve, Canada)

20. Canary (Alejandro Adams, U.S.)

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2009 TOP TEN RELEASES (POLL-ELIGIBLE)

1. Hunger (Steve McQueen, U.K. / Ireland)

2. Jerichow (Christian Petzold, Germany)

3. Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina / France / The Netherlands / Germany / Spain)

4. Import Export (Ulrich Seidl, Austria)

5. Coraline (Henry Selick, U.S.)

6. Duplicity (Tony Gilroy, U.S.)

7. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, U.S. / U.K.)

8. Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)

9. The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, Spain / U.S. / Japan)

10. Lake Tahoe (Fernando Eimbcke, Mexico)