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• Sung Whan Kim
• Korea
• 2008
• 11min

Passengers ride the last bus to Shindorim with a very exhausted driver on a cold winter night…This film captures the everyday things that arise inside a set time and place in tactf...

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• Liz CHAE
• United States
• 2008
• 19min

Generations of Jeju Island women have taken up the mantle of becoming sea divers. In months with one of the few remaining tribes, director Chae documents the impact that diving has...

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• Joanna Vasquez Arong
• China,Thailand,Philippines
• 2008
• 30min

‘Yugong Yishan’ is an old Chinese fable that Chairman Mao used in order to break down imperialism and feudalism. It is also a club where young musicians perform, situated near Beij...

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• CHOI Jeong Yoel
• Korea
• 2008
• 10min

A mother’s everyday nagging is relentless. But when she passes away and the only thing left in her son’s arms is a smiling picture of her. The camera captures the moment when the ...

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• Kim Jun-Hyun
• KOREA
• 2008
• 24min

Min-suk witnessed a friend’s death when he was young. He thinks he may have pushed the friend and tries to recover the truth through hypnotherapy. Then one day, a young woman commi...

Wide Angle

• Jin
• France
• 2008
• 73min

If I, we the world and the universe transform indefinitely, right now I am probably the 300th incarnation of myself- Jin In production notes, documentary filmmaker Jin refers to a...

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• Thomas Grube
• Germany,China,Korea,Japan,Taiwan
• 2008
• 108min

Conductor Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker are the subjects of this documentary about the quest for musical harmony and perfection. The famed orchestra’s tour of Asia i...

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• Wang Yiren
• China
• 2008
• 164min

A story of a special commune in Jilin Province, China. This commune is for physically or mentally challenged people, born in their condition due to the polluted water source. Prese...

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• Pan Jianlin
• China
• 2008
• 92min

A tragic disaster usually reveals the soundness of the infrastructure system in the society where it happens, like the Sichuan earthquake in China in May of 2008. Hundreds of child...

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• Haolun Shu
• China
• 2008
• 20min

Xiaoli lives in a crowded public housing complex in Shanghai in the late 1980s. His neighbor is the attractive Lanmi, who is married to a sailor who is never around. As Xiaoli get...