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Her Mother- SATO Yoshinori
- Japan
- 2016
- 95min
Maybe it is possible for a victim to forgive a perpetrator. But would it be possible for both of them to understand each other? Sato Yoshinori’s Her Mother tells the story o...
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The Donor- Qiwu ZANG
- China
- 2016
- 105min
The Donor describes the dark side of modern Chinese society by telling a story where the good will to protect a family brings about tragedy after all. Yang Ba is not able to...
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Knife in the Clear Water- WANG Xuebo
- China
- 2016
- 93min
Wang Xuebo’s debut feature film focuses on the mutual understanding between a man and a cow. In a mountain village in Ningxia, China, where the Hui people live, old man Majishan’s ...
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White Ant- CHU Hsien-Che
- Taiwan
- 2016
- 95min
The debut feature film by Chu Hsien-Che, who made several documentaries, White Ant is a psychological drama that tells a story about sexual fetishism. Bai Yide is a young ma...
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Parting- Navid MAHMOUDI
- Iran,Afghanistan
- 2016
- 78min
Having moved from Afghanistan to Iran with his family at the age of six, Parting is Navid Mahmoudi’s debut feature film, which explores the ongoing tragedy of illegal immigr...
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Burning Birds- Sanjeewa PUSHPAKUMARA
- France,SriLanka,Netherlands,Qatar
- 2016
- 84min
Set in a small northern Sri Lankan village in 1989, Burning Birds is a film critical of society. Director Sanjieewa Pushpakumara considers this society in which social viole...
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Lady of the Lake- Haobam PABAN KUMAR
- India
- 2016
- 71min
A small village by a lake. Citing pollution, the government incinerates the shanties that the destitute have long called home. People watch in despair as their homes burn. Among th...
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Someone to Talk to- LIU Yulin
- China,Hong Kong,China
- 2016
- 108min
A portrait of modern people who have forgotten how to converse, Someone to Talk to is Liu Yulin’s feature film debut and was based on the book of the same title by Liu Zheny...
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In Between Seasons- LEE Dong-eun
- Korea
- 2016
- 115min
Meekyung lives apart from her husband and raises Soohyun, her high school-aged son. One day, Soohyun brings home his friend Yongjoon to stay. A few years later, after completing hi...
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A Billion Colour Story- Padmakumar NARASIMHAMURTHY
- India
- 2016
- 115min
A film that questions the idea of “filmmaking” in a chaotic age, an age of division and conflict in Indian society. To Hari, born to a Muslim father and a Hindu mother, India is an...