Bady Minck was invited to this year's Mostra di Venezia. As a member of the Orizzonti Jury she will rate 18 feature films and 6 documentaries. Orizzonti is the festival's section for unconventional, cutting-edge contributions: trend-setting films which open new horizons in style and technique.

Gina Kim, Marco Müller, Gianfranco Rosi, Bady Minck, Garin Nugruho
 
Besides Bady Minck the jury consists of Gina Kim from Korea, Garin Nugruho Riyanto from Indonesia and Italy's Gianfranco Rosi. The jury's chairman is spanish director Pere Portabella.

The jury awarded as follows:
- the Orizzonti Prize to Engkwentro by Pepe Diokno (Philippines)
- the Orizzonti Prize for Best documentary to 1428 by DU Haibin (China)
- a Special Mention to Aadmi ki aurat aur anya kahaniya (The Man’s Woman and Other Stories) by Amit Dutta (India)

Engkwentro was also awarded the Lion of the Future - Luigi De Laurentiis-award for the best debut feature. The price comes with 100.000 USD, which has to be divided between the director and producer.

In a manifesto the Orizzonti-jury demanded to open up the festival for new formats.

The 66. Venice film festival took place from 2. till 12. September 2009.

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BM, J. Wernicke, G. Nugruho, Kyung & Gina Kim------Orizzonti Jury 2009

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Gianfranco Rosi, Gina Kim freezing screening----------Marie-Pierre Duhamel, P. Moretti, Fatih Akin

---Ganael Dumreicher, Tilda Swinton-------------- ------Bady Minck, Pipilotti Rist--