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• MORI Tatsuya
• Japan
• 2001
• 131min

The gas terror inflicted on innocent citizens by the Aum Shinrikyo (a religious cult) has been called the single biggest religion-related crime in Japan. But the members of Aum Shi...

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• Abbas KIAROSTAMI
• Iran
• 2001
• 84min

Abbas Kiarostami receives a fax from an international organization asking him to direct a film about thousands of children orphaned in Africa. He accepts the offer, and heads to Af...

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• Dayyán Eng
• Hong Kong,China
• 2001
• 11min

On the outskirts of a small town, a bus driver and her passengers encounter highway robbers. The robbers take the female bus driver in an attempt to rape her, but the passengers do...

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• Cheng ER
• China
• 2001
• 30min

A tired and dejected protagonist, short of the money needed for his mother′s hospital fees and in the middle of a relationship crisis with his girlfriend, discovers a bag full of m...

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• Ishii Sogo
• Japan
• 2001
• 55min

Shot in black and white with digital 5.1CH by Sogo Ishii-with visual images and rock music pounding through the course of its 55 minutes-may well be called "cyber exciting battle m...

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• Viper Kwai Bun
• Hong Kong
• 2001
• 4min 30sec

A urinal in a dirty public toilet was treated rudely by all the users. One day, the urinal discovers that the female toilet is much cleaner, like a paradise. He decides to leave hi...

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• Maziar Bahari
• Iran
• 2001
• 50min

This film is about Iran′s fascination with football and the adulation of their football heroes on and off the pitch. The film presents a witty yet comprehensive panorama of Iranian...

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• Hsiao Chu-Chen
• Taiwan
• 2001
• 90min

There have been many stories about the revolution of 1949 and subsequent changes in China. However, most of these ′stories′ fail to escape the trappings of an ideological viewpoint...

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• Royston Tan
• Singapore
• 2001
• 7min

Hock Hiap Leong is a short film that pays tribute to a 55-year-old coffee shop that has been an incessant inspiration to many people on Armenian Street. On 31 March 2...

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• Kawase Naomi
• Japan
• 2001
• 50min

It is hard to accept something ′as it is,′ or as a whole. This is because of people′s inclination for selectivity; we give an object a meaning by selecting bits and pieces of it ac...