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• Chris Yoo
• U.S.
• 1997
• 26min

Like all eighth graders, Jennifer Lim just wants to fit in with the popular crowd at the Hutchison School in Memphis, Tennessee. So when she is invited to Becky Hightower′s - the m...

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• Naoe Gozu
• Japan
• 1997
• 106min

Rika, a quiet and well-behaved 28-year-old English teacher leads a comfortable life with her boyfriend Kengo. That is, until out of the blue, he confesses his love for another and ...

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• Li Shaohong
• China
• 1992
• 158min

Set against the backdrop of post-Tianamen Beijing, Family portrait is an intimate picture of modern day life in urban China. If Bloody Morning is still reminiscent of certain trait...

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• Santwana Bardoloi
• India
• 1996
• 94min

In the mid 1940s, the life of a Brahman widow was very difficult. This is the story of three such widows in an orthodox Brahmin family and the different ways each deals with social...

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• Kazama Shiori
• Japan
• 1994
• 114min

Three young half brothers, Ichitaro, Takeshi and Tsuguo, are moving from a traditional Japanese house near a river to the suburbs. With little experience living together as a happy...

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• Haneda Sumiko
• Japan
• 1987
• 84min

Hanada brings a camera into a public hospital for the senile in this documentary which warmly observes the patients, their families and a medical system which believes in "consent,...

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• Rakhshan Bani-etemad
• Iran
• 1997
• 95min

Rakhshan Bani-Eternad is not only the most acclaimed Iranian female filmmakers, but one of top directors of Iranian cinema. Her career began during the 1979 Revolution when her dee...

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• Marilou Diaz-Abaya
• Philippines
• 1996
• 120min

Quitting her striptease job in Manila, Milagros returns with her mother to the old town when her father dies. She takes on the obligations of her father, working as maid for the la...

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• Ning Ying
• China
• 1995
• 102min

On the Beat is a subtly subversive portrayal of the Beijing city of the nineties, a desolate landscape of imposing skyscrapers sprouting out of stretches of improverished houses. N...

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• Lee Suh-Goon
• Korea
• 1998
• 89min

To love and forget in the future is perhaps not important as this simple story is told with distanciation. A workaholic assassin leaves for China. A cartoonist at the same hotel fa...