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A Window on Asian Cinema
Arimpara - A Story That Begins at the End- Murali NAIR
- India
- 2003
- 90min
Murali Nair, a master of satire, has created a completely new type of psychological horror film. The life of a rich landowner turns into a nightmare as a wart below his lips grows ...
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August Sun- Prasanna Vithanage
- SriLanka
- 2003
- 108min
From a history wracked by war comes three journeys of common people. August Sun is a film that captures war′s deadly impact on the individual. Several voyages travel on three axes:...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Bird Man Tale- Garin Nugroho
- Indonesia
- 2003
- 90min
On November 11, 2002, Theys Eluay, the leader of the national Assembly of Papua who had spent all his life fighting for separation from Indonesia, died. His death, full of mystery,...
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Blind Shaft- Yang LI
- China
- 2003
- 92min
From the 5th generation filmmakers to the recent Independent filmmakers, there has not been a film that portrays the darker side of Chinese society as severely as this one, in whic...
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Dance Like A Man- Pamela ROOKS
- India
- 2003
- 105min
Jairaj and Ratna, famous traditional dancers, are very worried about their daughter Lata′s upcoming debut and also her marriage. Lata′s fiance, Viswas, is a nice young man from a w...
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Darkness Bride- William KWOK
- Hong Kong
- 2003
- 104min
This is the newest film by William Kwok, whose In The Dumps was presented in ′Wide Angle′ in the 3rd PIFF. The film features a virgin killed by a rapist, dead virgins on trade for ...
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Deep Breath- Parviz SHAHBAZI
- Iran
- 2003
- 86min
A favorite subject of filmmakers is ′youth′, especially stories of young people struggling for love in their suffocating reality. Deep Breath, beginning with a scene of a body pull...
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Feeding Boys, Ayaya- Zien CUI
- China
- 2003
- 80min
What makes a boy want to sell his body? Cui Zi′en, the doyen of Queer Chinese Cinema, here turns away from relatively high-flown queer theory towards street-level realities. But it...
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Fu Bo- Ching po WONG,Kung lok LEE
- Hong Kong
- 2003
- 86min
The characters in Fu Bo witness the borderline between life and death everyday. The life of Uncle Fu, a coroner estranged from his wife and son, is more closely related to the dead...
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Goodbye Dragon-Inn- Mingliang Tsai
- Taiwan
- 2003
- 82min
Dealing with the two hours on the eve of a theater closing, the film can be seen as a hymn to old-style cinemas. The film begins with the last screening in an old 1000-seat theater...