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• GUO Xiaolu
• China
• 2009
• 76min

[Once Upon a Time Proletarian] shows the present state of China through twelve platforms ? an old farmer, a middle aged waitress, a car washer, a weapons dealer, fish store owners,...

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• CUI Zi′en
• China
• 2009
• 118min

This documentary reviews and summarizes the development of homosexuality as an issue in the past thirty years in China. We interviewed thirty prominent figures in the LGBT communit...

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• ANG Aik Heng
• Singapore
• 2009
• 61min

Lee Chong Ngak (70) has cancer while his daughter, Ellen Lee, volunteers at a hospice. She videotapes her dad’s last days documenting his wishes so the son cannot stir up troubles....

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• Tahereh HASSANZADEH
• Iran
• 2009
• 44min

The opening scene starts with piece of Chador fabric flapping in the wind. Iranian women trapped under the Chador and virginity issue that traps Iranian women once again is a painf...

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• Harutyun KHACHATRYAN
• Armenia,Netherlands
• 2009
• 82min

Told from the point of view of a rescued buffalo, [Border] is the story of a small town trying to find itself after the Armenian-Azeri conflict. The buffalo’s reception by the othe...

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• Jose PADILHA
• Brazil
• 2009
• 110min

United Nations statistics indicate that almost one-sixth of the world’s population suffers from chronic hunger, a concept often misrepresented or manipulated in the media. Jose Pad...

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• CHO Sung-hyung
• Germany
• 2009
• 99min

Returning to the country of their birth, three Korean women, all with German husbands after thirty years abroad, discover their homeland is no longer their home. Retreating to the ...

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• Michel Orion SCOTT
• United States
• 2009
• 94min

A child with autism is often a source of tension for a family. Traveling from town to town and healer to healer across Mongolia over two years, the Isaacsons find comfort for an au...

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• N.C. HEIKIN
• United States,Korea,France
• 2009
• 75min

[Kimjongilia], a flower known to be bred to celebrate North Korean leader Kim Jong Il′s 46th birthday,is used here ironically as the title of the film, in contrast to the stories t...

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• Mira BURT-WINTONICK,Peter WINTONICK
• Canada
• 2009
• 82min

How does each of us watch movies and media? And how does that change from generation to generation? In a humorous, eye-opening documentary that spans the globe, the filmmaking fath...