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Opening Film
Three Times- Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- Taiwan
- 2005
- 135min
The opening film is HOU Hsiao Hsien’s final version of Three Times, which has been re-edited since its screening at the Cannes this year. Three Times introduces three exquisite tal...
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Be With Me- Eric KHOO
- Singapore
- 2005
- 90min
Be With Me is a tapestry of three stories woven around the themes of love, hope and destiny. In Meant to Be, an ageing shopkeeper grapples with loneliness, until one day, he chanc...
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Blue Cha Cha- Cheng WenTang
- Taiwan
- 2005
- 108min
Delicately and transparently depicting a wandering woman who’s unable to find a place to settle down,
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The Cave of the Yellow dog- Byambasuren DAVAA
- Mongolia,Germany
- 2005
- 90min
The Cave of the Yellow Dog is a story about a Mongolian family and their dog. Nonsal, the six-year-old daughter, brings home a dog she finds in a cave. But her father says she can′...
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Citizen Dog- Wisit Sasanatieng
- Thailand
- 2005
- 99min
Glittering with colorful expressions and cheerfulness, Citizn Dog tells a love story between a young man named Pod who comes to Bangkok from the countryside, and a genuine but sing...
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Dam Street- Yu Li
- China,France
- 2005
- 93min
2002 PPP Sixteen-year-old Xiao Yun lives in a small riverside town in China in 1983, where her deeply felt emotions can’t be articulated in the repressive social climate...
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Everlasting Regret- Stanley Kwan
- Hong Kong,China
- 2005
- 115min
2005 Venice Film Festival A beautiful lady is surrounded by four men who swear to give up everything for her because they love her?and she doesn’t choose to remain with...
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Fix- Nobutaka Yamaoka
- Japan
- 2005
- 106min
Fix exemplifies the fact that what it takes to make a good sci-fi film is not a huge budget, but a wildly creative imagination. Nanase is a slacker living at his girlfriend′s place...
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Full or Empty- Abolfazl Jalili
- Iran
- 2005
- 98min
Seventeen-year-old Navid Raisi leaves his small village to look for a job as a teacher of Persian Literature. Put on a waiting list for the next available fob at the Education Cent...
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GIE- Riri RIZA
- Indonesia
- 2005
- 147min
Gie is based on the life of Soe Hok Gie, a legendary figure in the time of sociopolitical turbulence in Indonesia during the 1950s and 1960s. A chronological biography covering Soe...