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What Time is it There?
A touching film about a watch vendor in Tapei who meets the woman of his dreams, who is about to leave for Paris. To maintain a connection with her, he tries to set every watch he sees to Paris time.
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Turtles Can Fly
Orphaned children struggle to survive in a refugee camp on the Iraq-Turkey border in the run up to the Iraq war in this stark drama.
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The Man Without A Past
The second installation of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland Trilogy," this touching and amusing film portrays a man who must start his life anew when he is brutally mugged and loses his memory.
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The Iron Ladies (Satree lek)
The Iron Ladies tells the true story of a Thai male volleyball team that won the national championships in 1996 with a team consisting mostly of gay men, drag queens, transsexuals and one straight guy.
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The Five Obstructions
Lars von Trier, true to form, has a bizarre way of showing his regard for mentor Jørgen Leth whose 1967 short film "The Perfect Human," he claims to have seen 20 times. Von Trier challenges Leth to remake the film following an increasingly difficult set of "obstructions".
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Ten
Ten sequences examine the emotional lives of women at significant junctures.
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Sophie Scholl
A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.
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Songs From The Second Floor
Framed as a sort of dream-like plotless assortment of vignettes and scenes, we drift through the life of one man in particular, Kalle (Nordh), a heavyset middle-age man whose life is crumbling around him, as the world also seems to be at the brink of a chaotic disruption of logic.
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Ring 2
The Ring 2 sequel further complicates the urban myth of the original tale, adding a chilling back-story concerning the origins of Sadako, the long-haired, bug-eyed living dead girl.
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Ring 1 (Ringu)
A mysterious video kills whoever views it, unless that viewer can solve its mystery.
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Osama
Inspired by a true story, Osama centres upon three generations of women who are deeply affected by the advent of the Taliban's rule in their land.
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Lovely Rita
A recent triumph at Cannes, where it was heralded as the European Discovery of the Year, Jessica Hausner's first feature develops her preoccupation with the themes of loneliness and indifference.
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La Ciénaga
Lucrecia Martel's La Ciénaga is a veritable Chekhov tragicomedy about provincial life.
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Kitchen Stories
Bent Hamer's charming tale of an unlikely friendship between a solitary old man and the supposedly neutral scientific observer sent to record the domestic details of his life.
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Kandahar
Mohsen Makhmalbaf's extraordinary odyssey and insight into life behind the veil before September 11th. A revelatory film with a sense of surreal and unexpected humour.
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Iraq In Fragments
Pushing beyond the form and frame of conventional documentaries, director James Longley creates a view of modern-day Iraq that, while familiar, couldn't be further from what we see on the news - this is filmmaking rather than reporting.
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In This World
In This World is an intimate, yet hard-hitting, response to the asylum controversy. It follows two Afghan teenagers as they escape from the Shamshatoo refugee camp in Pakistan, along the smugglers' route known as The Silk Road.
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This Film Is Not Yet Rated
This Film Is Not Yet Rated is a documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Kirby Dick and producer Eddie Schmidt - a breakthrough investigation into the MPAA film ratings system and its profound effect on American culture.
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Favela Rising
Favela Rising is an explosive and inspirational documentary about Rio de Janeiro's most violent favela (shantytown) and the revolutionary vision of a man who against all odds rises to enhance his community.
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Derrida
This award-winning documentary gives an intimate portrait of the brilliant, controversial philosopher and intellectual French icon Jacques Derrida, whose theories have deeply influenced the studies of literature, philosophy, ethics, architecture and law.
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Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Zacharias Kunuk's Atanarjuat is a sprawling three-hour epic that recounts the primal struggles of the Igloolik people. Preserved and passed down orally for generations, this legend is set in the Arctic Circle of the first millennium and celebrates fast runner Atanarjuat's (Natar Ungallaq) rise from honoured tribesman to cultural liberator.
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All About Lily Chou Chou
An electrified tale of teen alienation within Japan's pervasive pop/cyber culture.
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Abouna (Our Father)
Set in writer-director's Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's homeland, Chad, Abouna is the story of two young brothers' search for their father.