History

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Ulysses` Gaze
  • Theo ANGELOPOULOS
  • Greece
  • 2004
  • 176min

Tuming to The Odyssey for inspiration, Angelopoulos crafts a film about the burden of memory each of us carries with us. A Greek-American filmmaker identified only as A, returns to...

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Voyage to Cythera
  • Theo ANGELOPOULOS
  • Greece
  • 2004
  • 137min

Once again Angelopoulos turns to Greek myth as a foundation, and makes it relate to contemporary Greece. An old man retums from a 32-year Soviet exile, a symbol of the country′s le...

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A Very Slow Breakfast
  • Edwin
  • Indonesia
  • 2004
  • 6min

A Very Slow breakfast is about individuality and the loss of family values. An attempt to redefine the meaning of family in the changing realm of modernity.

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The City Bus
  • Lulu RATNA
  • Indonesia
  • 2004
  • 21min

The capital of indonesia is Jakarta, and it is the third most polluted city in the world - as well as one of the most populous. As such, the city is abligated to provide enough pub...

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Dapupu Project
  • Wahyu ADITYA
  • Indonesia
  • 2004
  • 3min

International Premiere

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Dear My Daughter
  • Willliam CHRISTIAN
  • Indonesia
  • 2004
  • 4min

Sita is a 14- years-old girl who lives in an isolated house with an old woman, known to her as her mother. With no friend in the area, Sita talks to the flowers on her windowsil. O...

International Premiere

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The Gathering
  • Nia DINATA
  • Indonesia
  • 2004
  • 129min

The lives of several upper class, thirty-something Jakartans are boldly revealed for the first time in Indonesian cinema. The film follows the career and social life of three life-...

International Premiere

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Kuldesak
  • Mira Lesmana,Nan T. Achnas,Rizal Mantovani,Riri RIZA
  • Indonesia
  • 2004
  • 120min

Kuldesak focuses on four young inhabitants of Jakarta in the 1990s. They all have dreams, but sometimes life forces them to make radical choices. Aksan, in need of money to fund hi...

International Premiere

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Leaf on a Pillow
  • Garin Nugroho
  • Indonesia
  • 2004
  • 82min

A group of illiterate, homeless kids battle for survival on the streets of Yogyakarta; their lives are mired in violence, crime and glue-sniffing. The one person who cares for them...

International Premiere

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Letter to An Angel
  • Garin Nugroho
  • Indonesia
  • 2004
  • 118min

Set on the island of Sumba (between Bali and Timor) with dialogue partly in the local dialect, this centres on the nine-year-old boy Lewa, whose life changes when an ad-man shootin...

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