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• Belgium,France
• 2003
• 100m

The small Belgian town of Genappe revolves around its sugar factory. Rotting beets in the town′s surrounding drainage system attracts migratory birds. The quiet routine of Blanche′s family is upset when her young son disappears. W...

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• Russia
• 2003
• 96m

Australia has Muriel; the U.K., Bridget Jones. Now Russia has a charming, marriage-obsessed heroine of its own. Lilly is a 30-something zaftig redhead from the provinces. She toils long hours in a poultry slaughterhouse and cares ...

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• China
• 2003
• 95min

Sall busy as a cinematographer, Yu Lik-wai has finally completed his second feature as director, a tremulous, dystopian fantasy in some ways reminiscent of the Iranian allegories made under the Shah. A future East Asia is ruled by...

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• Korea
• 2003
• 98m

So-jung, a bright, young freelance photographer, is about to leave for America with her caring boyfriend Ji-seok. A crisis comes upon her when she learns that she is gradually losing her eyesight due to a pigmentary degeneration o...

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• Japan
• 2003
• 108m

The Akechi family looks like a middle-class family. A typical family portrait is featured at the beginning, when daughter Tomoko prepares breakfast. However, as the story progresses, we begin to look deeper into the dark side of t...

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• United States,Iceland
• 2003
• 82m

Frustrated by life in a small lcelandic town dominated by a fish factory, Svavva makes a decision to move to Reykjavik. Svavva′s boyfriend Aggi and her subdued sister Hildur are not convinced of the wisdom of such a move. Accordin...

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• Spain,France
• 2003
• 130m

Whose story is this? Does it belong to an aggravated talking parrot, who witnessed the sudden death of his aging owner Madame Catherine and her subsequent secret burial by Eric the town mechanic?Or could the story be told through ...

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• Austria
• 2003
• 74m

The struggle for existence, to earn a living, to subsist, to survive... The film unfolds in the realm of work: in strawberry fields, in factories, in offices, in cars, on the street. The protagonists are Ewa, an illegal immigrant ...