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I Don`t Want to Sleep Alone
  • TSAI Mingliang
  • Taiwan,Austria,France
  • 2006
  • 115min

The work of Tsai Ming0liang is becoming more and more minimalist while the symbolism becomes more and more profound. In [I Don`t Want to Sleep Alone], he explores the minds of thre...

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Illusion
  • Paolo Lutz Villaluna,Ellen Ramos
  • the Philippines
  • 2005
  • 116min

[Illusion] is a melodrama with eroticism and retro touches. Set in the late 1950s, the film shows retro touches in every aspect including dramatic structure, music, and performance...

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Kabul Express
  • Kabir KHAN
  • India
  • 2006
  • 106min

[Kabul Express] pictures forty eight hours of two journalists, who cover Afghanistan and meet various people after 9.11. The movie deals with harsh reality, yet is a comedy. Kabir ...

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Kamli
  • Kanala N.T. Sastry
  • India
  • 2006
  • 70min

Through its critical perspective on serious poverty and preference ideology in current India, [Kamli] also puts an ethnographic eye on the Tribal Lambada, a nomadic tribe that has ...

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Life Is All about Friends
  • Murali NAIR
  • India,UK,France
  • 2006
  • 92min

[Life Is All About Friends], a project invited by PPP of 1999`s PIFF, is the first film of director Murali Nair`s new trilogy. Through the eyes of a child named Unni, the film capt...

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Love Story
  • Kelvin Tong
  • Singapore,Hong Kong China
  • 2006
  • 95min

Even though [Love Story] is a familiar title, the love story that this film ls is far different from what we usually get. The film tries hard to keep up with the main character`s f...

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New Currents

Luxury Car
  • Chao WANG
  • China,France
  • 2006
  • 88min

A new brilliant film from the director of [the Orphan of Anyang and Night and Day.] An elderly country schoolteacher comes to the big city of Wuhan in search of his only son. His d...

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Mainline
  • Rakhshan Bani-etemad,Mohsen ABDOLVAHAB
  • Iran
  • 2006
  • 80min

[Mainline], a tragic story of mother and daughter co-directed by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab, is a road movie dealing with serious social issues like drug addiction,...

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Memories of Matsuko
  • Nakasima Tetsuya
  • Japan
  • 2006
  • 129min

A young man, Shou, leads a life of no significance until one day he is asked by his father to clean up the dead aunt`s house. As he empties her trash-filled flat, he finds himself ...

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Men at Work
  • Mani Haghighi
  • Iran
  • 2006
  • 75min

The second feature film of Mani Hagigi. It is a sophisticated comedy based on an idea took from from iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami. This film describes the men′s struggle with th...

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Busan Office 3rd Floor, BIFF HILL, Busan Cinema Center, 120, Suyeonggangbyeon-daero, Haeundae-gu, Busan 48058, Korea
Seoul Office #1601, GARDEN TOWER, 84, Yulgok-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03131, Korea