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• CUI Zi′en
• China
• 2004
• 86min

A naked Martian visits Earth. Xiao Bo brings him home so that they can learn from and about each other. The lessons start with basics (the land, the water), but before you know it ...

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• KIM Daeseung
• China
• 2005
• 89min

[Withered in a Blooming Season] picks up many of Cui`s key ideas and dramatic motifs but presents them in a fresh context, making this very different from the earlier films: you co...

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• Gustave KERVERN,Benoît DELÉPINE
• France
• 2006
• 83min

Avida starts with a picador who ends up in a suicide attempt. This episode is followed by that of a deaf-mute and two drug addicts that try to kidnap a female millionaire`s dog, bu...

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• Benoît JACQUOT
• France
• 2006
• 82min

On her birthday, Jeanne, an actress, hears a secret from her mother about how she met her father on a trip to India, and that he is a Hindu Untouchable. Jeanne takes a role that sh...

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• Amir NADERI
• Iran
• 1997
• 99min

The letters of the title stand for the New York avenues that make up the city`s famous Alphabet City neighborhood ? home for drug addicts and angry young discontents. On these dila...

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• Bum-Jin JOE
• Korea
• 2006
• 90min

Human feces have become the sole source of energy in a city where nature has dried up and died. In order to accumulate this valuable resource, the government distributes “HARD,” wh...

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• Koichi Chigira
• Japan
• 2006
• 111min

Eleven-year-old Wataru has an absent father and a mother hospitalized for attempted suicide. Determined to change his destiny, he enters a magic gateway to another world called Vis...

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• Laurent ACHARD
• France,Belgium
• 2006
• 95min

Martin, an 11-year-old boy, lives in a rural French village with his disturbed family. His sick mother prefers stays in her own room avoiding her sons, and his brother falls into a...

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• Mamoru Hosoda
• Japan
• 2006
• 98min

A girl became capable of traveling to the past. How will she change her confusing present life of recklessness and fear? Tsutsui Yasutaka`s original short story of [The Girl Who Le...

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• Amir NADERI
• Iran
• 1974
• 75min

Abdullah gets a prized position from his father a harmonica. Now all the boys in the village paying Abdullah money, or bribing him with food or sweets - the boys pay for the abilit...