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• Charlotte LIM
• Malaysia
• 2008
• 26min

Nine-year-old Xiao Jiang lives with his grandfather on a rubber estate. His older sister,who works in the city, promises to take Xiao Jiang to the zoo to see the newborn tiger cubs...

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• Makota Sasa
• United States,Japan
• 2008
• 75min

With all eyes on China during the Olympic Games, the status of Tibet briefly surged to the fore despite declining support ‘in the face of a gold rush into the ascendant Chinese eco...

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• Caroline Suh
• United States
• 2008
• 80min

In a U.S. election year, any campaign documentary will draw attention, but only Caroline Suh’s Frontrunners offers a fresh perspective on political life and its genesis. Following ...

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• Bou Jeong Ju
• Korea
• 2008
• 21min

The main character is the chef of a Japanese restaurant he runs with his wife. The brusque man returns to the heart of a child on an outing with his granddaughter; he laughs, runs,...

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• Kiichi Tagawa
• Japan
• 2008
• 27min

Takeshi returns to his hometown to discover nothing has changed, including his feelings for his high school friend, Yuki. A misunderstanding left him with bitter memories and hear...

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• Mark V. Reyes
• Philippines,United States
• 2008
• 17min

In a dirty, decaying slum in the Philippines, a single mother decides to give her 10-year-old son up for adoption so that he can have a better life. But an innocent journey to the ...

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• Saino Kim
• Korea
• 2008
• 18min

A foreign backpacker meets a truck driver while hitchhiking. The driver drinks water non-stop and collects his urine in plastic bottles to substitute for gas. The backpacker and th...

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• David H Kim
• United States
• 2008
• 9min

In this parable of urban life in its in-between spaces, two strangers?one a sensitive second generation teen, the other a stubborn Korean immigrant who claims to have been struck b...

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• Kyungrok Chung
• Korea
• 2008
• 22min

2008 Kodak Short Film Production Fund In a distant city at the end of the earth called U-sa, there is a massive slaughterhouse led by a powerful owner who raises Minotaurs....

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• Kazuhiro Soda
• Japan,United States
• 2008
• 135min

Mental is a cinema-verite style documentary that captures the daily life of the patients, doctors, employees, volunteers, and helpers of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan...