31st Moscow International Film Festival
# 31st Moscow International Film Festival

The 31st Moscow International Film Festival was held from 19 to 28 June 2009. The Golden George was awarded to the Russian film Pete on the Way to Heaven directed by Nikolai Dostal.

## Jury

* Pavel Lungin (Russia – President of the Jury)
* Shyam Benegal (India)
* Nick Powell (United Kingdom)
* Sergey Trimbach (Ukraine)
* Gulnara Dusmatova (Kazakhastan)

## Films in competition

The following films were selected for the main competition:

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| - | - | - | - |
| Bibi | Bibi | Hassan Yektapanah | Iran |
| Beauty | Beauty utusukushiimono | Toshio Gotō | Japan |
| The Miracle | Chudo | Aleksandr Proshkin | Russia |
| Five Days Without Nora | Cinco días sin Nora | Mariana Chenillo | Mexico |
| As God Commands | Come Dio сomanda | Gabriele Salvatores | Italy |
| Happy New Year | Happy New Year | Christoph Schaub | Switzerland |
| Today and the Other Days | Jeo nuk ui game | Wee An Choi | South Korea |
| Little Moscow | Mała Moskwa | Waldemar Krzystek | Poland |
| Mediator | Mediatori | Dito Tsintsadze | Georgia, Germany |
| Melody for a Barrel Organ | Melodiya dlya sharmanki | Kira Muratova | Ukraine |
| Burning Mooki | Mooki bo'era | Lina Chaplin, Slava Chaplin | Israel |
| Ward No. 6 | Palata No. 6 | Karen Shakhnazarov | Russia |
| Pete on the Way to Heaven | Petia po doroge v tsarstvie nebesnoye | Nikolai Dostal | Russia |
| Crayfish | Raci | Ivan Tscherkelov | Bulgaria |
| The Missing Person | The Missing Person | Noah Buschel | United States |
| Prank | Tréfa | Péter Gárdos | Hungary |
