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A State of Mind
  • Daniel GORDON
  • UK
  • 2004
  • 93min

Several years ago, British filmmaker Daniel Gordon and his crew were granted permission to film in North Korea while making the 2002 documentary The Game of Their Lives. That film ...

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Checkpoint
  • Yoav SHAMIR
  • Israel
  • 2004
  • 80min

The West Bank and Gaza Strip have been under Israeli Military authority since 1967. Since then, over three million Palestinians have been living under Israeli occupation. When trav...

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The Continuation
  • Galina ADAMOVICH
  • Belarus
  • 2004
  • 14min

Motherhood ensures the propagation of the human race, and so it is celebrated in a series of archival images in The Continuation. Mothers, families, children, old, young, urban and...

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Hiding Behind the Camera part 2
  • Carl Johan de GEER
  • Sweden
  • 2004
  • 76min

Director Carl Johan De Geer grew up in an upper class home with his grandparents, his parens Iiving in another country altogether. As a teenager, he left his affluent home behind a...

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Best of the Wurst
  • Grace LEE
  • Germany
  • 2004
  • 22min

This documentary chronicles a Korean American woman′s discovery of Berlin through its ultimate street foodt currywurst-a strange fusion of sausage, tomato ketchup and curry powder....

International Premiere

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Hamel`s Horizon
  • Jan H. de HARTOG
  • Netherlands
  • 2004
  • 52min

Thirteen years after being trapped in the southern part of Korea, a group of sailors returned home, and one of them wrote a joumal about the events. It is one of the earliest known...

International Premiere

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The Bus
  • Laila PAKALNIŊA
  • Estonia
  • 2004
  • 60min

At one time in the not too distant past, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia were parts of one Ountry, Now, they are four - each with its own money and independent borders. On it...

International Premiere

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Dreamland
  • Laila PAKALNIŊA
  • Latvia
  • 2004
  • 36min

It is a place teeming with life. Mammals, birds, reptiles and insects interconnect in a unique and athenworldly ecosystem. But it is not the Amazon rainforest or any of our oceans....

World Premiere

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Chinese Restaurants: Three Continents
  • Cheuk C. Kwan
  • Canada
  • 2004
  • 80min

Wherever you are, McDonald′s and Chinese restaurants are easy to find. While the McDonald′ s hamburgers with its standard taste represents itself as the symbol of food capitalism, ...

World Premiere

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Cigarettes and Coffee
  • Cristi PUIU
  • Romania
  • 2004
  • 13min

Mr. Tomescu gets off a bus in front of Graceland restaurant in downtown Bucharest. He goes in and meets his son, Vlad. Mr. Tomescu is seeking Vlad′s help and advice on finding a ne...

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