And there are many nice ones amongst those, genre and non-genre, like:
"Bronson",
"4BIA",
"Nightmare Detective 2",
"Tokyo Sonata",
"The Wrestler",
"Rule #1",
"Slumdog Millionaire",
"Takut: Faces of Fear",
"Art of the Devil 3",
"De Usynlige (Troubled Water)"
"Stora Planid (The Higher Force)"...
Last year people steered me towards a title I had never heard of, and that was "Let The Right One In" which turned out to be hands down one of the best films of 2008. I can only hope to be as lucky this year.
Yet what do I spot in the line-up?
Rotterdam has scored the International premiere of Joko Anwar's "The Forbidden Door". Last year his "Kala: Dead Time" impressed me very much, so I am very stoked about seeing his newest.
IFFR 2009 has the first audience screening of Joko Anwar's THE FORBIDDEN DOOR outside of Indonesia