2009 National Board of Review – Top Independent Films Winner
![Amreeka](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/amreeka-cherien-dabis-image.jpg)
Amreeka
A drama centered on the trials and tribulations of a proud Palestinian Christian immigrant single mother and her teenage son in small town Indiana.
![District 9](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/district-9-neill-blomkamp-image.jpg)
District 9
Violence ensues after an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth finds a kindred spirit in a government agent exposed to their biotechnology.
![Goodbye Solo](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/goodbye-solo-ramin-bahrani-image.jpg)
Goodbye Solo
Two men form an unlikely friendship that will change both of their lives forever.
![Humpday](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/humpday-lynn-shelton-image.jpg)
Humpday
Two guys take their bromance to another level when they participate in an art film project.
![In the Loop](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/in-the-loop-image.jpg)
In the Loop
A political satire about a group of skeptical American and British operatives attempting to prevent a war between two countries.
![Julia](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/julia-erick-zonca-image.jpg)
Julia
A woman tries to extort money, using a young boy as bait.
![Me and Orson Welles](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/me-and-orson-welles-richard-linklater-image.jpg)
Me and Orson Welles
In 1937, a teenager is cast in the Mercury Theatre production of “Julius Caesar”, directed by a young Orson Welles.
![Moon](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/moon-duncan-jones-image.jpg)
Moon
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet’s power problems
![Sugar](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sugar-image.jpg)
Sugar
Dominican baseball star Miguel “Sugar” Santos is recruited to play in the U.S. minor-leagues.
![Two Lovers](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/two-lovers-james-gray-image.jpg)
Two Lovers
A Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor.