The full list of films being shown at the 2009 New Orleans Film Festival are:
Narrative Feature Competition
This year's 5 films were selected from 106 submissions. Films screening in Narrative Feature Competition are:
- Commings Farm
- Easter With Practice
- Make Out With Violence
- The Scenesters
- The Vicious Kind
Documentary Feature Competition
This year's six films were selected from 121 submissions. Films screening in Documentary Feature Competition are:
- Clarence John Laughlin: An Artist With a Camera (World Premiere)
- Comrades
- El Sistema
- No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
- Quest for Honor
- Speaking in Tongues
Louisiana Filmaker Competition
This year's competition features four films that are made by Louisiana residents. Films screening in Louisiana Filmmaker Competition are:
- Clarence John Laughlin: An Artist With a Camera (World Premiere)
- God's Architects
- I Ran Against Us
- Sun Dogs
Curated Films
Local premieres, sneak previews, and special screenings of films with distribution, currated by our Artistic Director, John Desplas. Films screening in Curated Films are:
- The Baader Meinhof Complex
- Best Worst Movie
- Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
- Bronson
- The Cove
- Dazed and Confused
- It Might Get Loud
- Me and Orson Welles
- Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Saphire
- Troll 2
- Tetro
- Thirst
- Visual Acoustics
- The Yes Men Fix the World
- The Young Victoria
Special Screenings
A section reserved for films that screen in a non-competitive capacity. Films screening in Special Screenings are:
- 45356
- Beauty of the Fight
- Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
- The Eyes of Me
- Her Name Was Steven
- Intangible Asset Number 82
- It Came From Kuchar
- Life is a Banquet
- My Son the Porographer
- Neshoba
- New Orleans Music Renaissance
- Sweethearts of the Rodeo
- Toe to Toe
- Typeface
- A Village Called Versailles
- Welcome to Academia
