History

From 4^th to 13^th Sep­tem­ber 2009.
The Fes­ti­val opened with an excep­tion­al con­cert by Julia Migenes. This year’s guest of hon­our was Har­ri­son Ford, emblem­at­ic of Amer­i­can cin­e­ma and loy­al friend of the Deauville Fes­ti­val. The Ren­dez-vous was with actor Andy Gar­cia, to whom the Fes­ti­val also paid trib­ute, along­side Robin Wright (Robin Wright Penn at the time), the ZAZ trio (David Zuck­er – Jim Abra­hams – Jer­ry Zuck­er) and Robert Aldrich. In order to rein­force its iden­ti­ty, and fol­low­ing the pre­sen­ta­tion in com­pe­ti­tion of Lee Daniels’ Pre­cious – greet­ed with enthu­si­asm by the pub­lic and which won the 2009 Jury Prize – the Fes­ti­val adopt­ed a sub-title for the future, in Eng­lish: “A PRECIOUS moment for all cin­e­ma lovers”.