page_title: 59th Berlin International Film Festival
section_title: Jury
hierarchical_section_title: 59th Berlin International Film Festival / Jury
caption_attribution_description: British actress and last year president of the jury Tilda Swinton arriving at the opening of the 60th Berlin International Film Festival
context_page_description: The 59th Berlin International Film Festival was held from 5 February to 15 February 2009. The opening film of the festival was Tom Tykwer’s The International, screened out of competition. Costa-Gavras's immigrant drama Eden Is West served as the closing night film at the festival. The festival's jury president was actress Tilda Swinton of the United Kingdom.
  The Golden Bear was awarded to Peruvian film La Teta Asustada directed by Claudia Llosa. The retrospective dedicated to the Golden Age of 70mm filmmaking from 1955 to 1970, titled 70 mm – Bigger than Life was shown at the festival.
  Admission for the festival was reported to be among the highest in years, and it also set a record for ticket sales, with some 270,000 tickets sold by the halfway mark, compared to 240,000 sold for the entire run of the festival the previous year. The final ticket tally was the largest in the festival’s 59-year history.
context_section_description: The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:
  International jury
  Tilda Swinton, actress (United Kingdom) - Jury President
  Isabel Coixet, director and screenwriter (Spain)
  Gaston Kaboré, director (Burkina Faso)
  Henning Mankell, writer (Sweden)
  Christoph Schlingensief, playwright and director (Germany)
  Wayne Wang, director, screenwriter and producer (Hong Kong)
  Alice Waters (United States)
  Best First Feature Award Jury
  Hannah Herzsprung, actress (Germany)
  In-Ah Lee, producer (Germany)
  Rafi Pitts, director (Iran)
  International Short Film Jury
  Khavn De La Cruz, director, screenwriter and producer (Philippines)
  Arta Dobroshi, actress (Kosovo)
  Lars Henrik Gass, director of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany)
caption: Tilda Swinton, Jury President
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