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• Kabir BHATIA
• Malaysia
• 2007
• 112min

Cinta is an omnibus film that consists of love stories of 5 couples who either occupy the same space or affect the lives of one another directly although they don’t know each other...

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• Darioush Mehrjui
• Iran
• 2007
• 120min

Dariush Mehrjui observes the life of a middle class middle-aged intellectual in Iranian society through Hamoun. He has made compromises in his dreams as a young man such as love, c...

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• Edward Yang
• Taiwan
• 2007
• 106min

Regarded as the inaugural work of the “Taiwanese New Cinema,” In Our Time is an anthology in four sections showing the passage of life, with each section surrounding a lead in prim...

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• Darioush Mehrjui
• Iran
• 2007
• 102min

One day, the happy life of a childless couple is disturbed by the mother of the husband. With her strict belief that children are the standard to measure one’s happiness, she insis...

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• Edward Yang
• Taiwan
• 2007
• 121min

In Mahjong, Taipei is not only a rapidly emerging city where young people are wasting their youth; it is also a playground which multinational interest groups wish to reap their sh...

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• Darioush Mehrjui
• Iran
• 2007
• 107min

Mehrjui who meditates on Iranian culture and society through film questions the meaning of life and means to salvage oneself through a young, drug-addicted musician, Ali. He is a s...

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• Edward YANG
• Taiwan
• 2007
• 110min

Taipei Story is a pairing of the masters with Yang at the helm and HOU Hsiao-Hsien as his leading man, playing a former youth national baseball team member, but relegated to guardi...

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• Edward Yang
• Taiwan
• 2007
• 109min

A girl tries to evade police arrest by jumping from a window. A young passerby comes to her assistance. Afterwards, this young man blows up a series of the girl’s headshots, remind...

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• Edward Yang
• Taiwan
• 2007
• 166min

Yang’s debut feature is also Christopher Doyle’s debut as feature film cinematographer. Jia-Li’s (Sylvia Chang) husband has disappeared, a hint at a beach suggests that he was drow...

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• Darioush Mehrjui
• Iran
• 2007
• 100min

The Cow is a classic Iranian film not widely known to the world and it is an outstanding work without any flaws. The story begins with a unique setting not found in other films and...