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Xiao WuBy far the most interesting film from China this year, Xiao Wu starts out looking like an exercise in grungy social realism but gradually reveals itself to be something much more s...
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The Weight of CottonKishunsah is an elderly man who decides to divide his property among his sons when conflicts escalate within his extended family. Kishunsah goes to live with the youngest son, Rams...
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The Tree of LifeUsing documentary-style footage, The Tree of Life is a poetic tale which takes place in the Talesh mountain region of northern Iran. Director Farhad Mehranfar, a veteran of numerou...
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The Making of SteelZhouqing, who quit school to help his poor household meets Juhlai, a train conducter in a boiler room at the cargo train station, and they become fast friends. One day Zhouqing get...
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Who Is RunningHollywood′s Back to the Future and Buddhist reincarnation theory meet each other in this film about overcoming the irreversibility of time. A common theme in film, it is interestin...
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Too many ways to be No1Too Many Ways To be No.1 explores how a decision made at any one moment in a person′s life can change its entire course. The film′s two-part structure presents separate situations ...
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After Life"How surprising is the fact that my existence can be a part of somebody else′s happiness?" This is director Kore-Eda Hirokazu′s question to the audience in this story about ′remini...
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IkinaiNine lugubrious men meet on a tour bus outside Naha Airport in Okinawa, joining a tour organiser, a guide and a driver, all of them dead serious. All with debts they cannot pay, th...
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Paradise SeaSet on a small island near Kyushu, Japan, Paradise Sea begins with an encounter between Shinji, a member of a traveling dance troupe, and an old man who has spent a lifetime buildi...
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Yellow FlowerWhat does it mean to break the rules in these times? When does speed come to a halt? Where do taboo and violation branch out? This film explores these questions through the words o...