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The Time of Yellow Grass- Mayram Yussupova
- Tajikistan
- 1991
- 70 min
The inhabitants of a far-away mountain village are tired of troubles and problems in their lives but somebody, may it be God, had sent them the last ordeal for their salvation. In ...
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Last Holiday- Amir Karakulov
- Kazakhstan
- 1996
- 65 min
In 1979, when the Republic of Kazakhstan was still a part of the Soviet Union, suppressed rage and the loneliness fill Almaty. On the last day of classes, three high school student...
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Testing Democracy- Mohsen MAKHMALBAF
- Iran
- 2000
- 40 min
Mohsen Makhmalbaf′s cinematic vision is that a film should escape the privilege of class. This 40-minute video reflects this notion. Working with Shahaboddin Farokh-Yar, who helped...
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The Day My Aunt was Ill- Hana MAKHMALBAF
- Iran
- 1998
- 26 min
For children, a camera can be a toy. The Day My Aunt Was Ill was initiated as a children′s play but was completed as a film with the help of their father and brother. Despite its t...
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The Day I Became a Woman- Marzieh MESHKINI
- Iran,Italy
- 2000
- 80 min
The Day | Became a Woman is a ′compressed file′ containing the social reality that women in Iran face. This feature is comprised of three segments, beginning with the perspective o...
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The Adopted Son- Aktan Abdykalykov
- Kyrgyzstan,France
- 1998
- 81min
Since his days of making short films, filmmaker, Aktan Abdykalykov has preferred autobiographical tales as his main subject. His experience as an adolescent takes a significant pla...
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The Aroma of Desires- Sergey Shugarev
- Turkmenistan
- 1996
- 74 min
The events take place in Turkmenistan, the former Soviet republic, now an independent state in Central Asia. The main character of the film is a young man who loves cinema. He forg...
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The Burnt Soul- Lora Stepanskaya,Bayram Abdullaev
- Turkmenistan
- 1996
- 80 min
Sadyk, an old man, wakes with a premonition about death. It makes him remember his long life, and these reminiscences are the sequences of the story. The moment when life comes to ...
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The Place on the Tricorne- Ermek Shinarbaev
- Kazakhstan
- 1993
- 82 min
In a small apartment somewhere in Almaty, two 20-years old boys puff on grass. A radio is playing; thin white smoke spirals toward the ceiling; tramways rattle by outside. The two ...
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Bang-Ja and Hyang-Dan- Lee Hyung-Pyo
- Korea
- 1972
- 89 min
This is a 70′s adaptation of Choon-Hyang that centers around two sidekicks, Bang-Ja and Hyang-Dan. Popular comedy actors from that period provide social-satire in an implicit manne...