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A Window on Asian Cinema
Ploy- Pen-ek RATANARUANG
- Thailand
- 2007
- 107min
This film by Pen-ek Ratanaruang drew the most attention this year among Thai films, and it was also a PPP project of 2006. Wit and his wife Dang return to Thailand after 7 years an...
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Raised from Dust- Xiao’er GAN
- China
- 2007
- 102min
A 2005 PPP project, this film captures the lives of Christian farmers in China. Common housewife and Christian, Xiao-Li must provide for her husband, ill with pneumoconiosis, and h...
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Sad Vacation- Aoyama Shinji
- Japan
- 2006
- 136min
In this film, Shinji Aoyama, the director with his own authentic color, and ASANO Tadanobu, a truly prominent actor, meet again. As in Helpless and Eureka, Shinji Aoyama explores h...
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Slingshot- Brillante MENDOZA
- Philippines
- 2007
- 90min
Brillante Mendoza, a central figure in Filipino films, catches, in documentary style, a lower class life of theft and pick-pocketing during Holy Week and the election. Hand-held sh...
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Solos- Lume Kan,LOO ZiHan
- Singapore
- 2007
- 78min
Yearning for relationship and communication is an issue characters struggle with in this film yet there isn’t a single word of dialogue being spoken. It is hard to imagine thinking...
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The Most Distant Course- Jing Jie Lin
- Taiwan
- 2007
- 113min
It is a road movie about people finding their true selves and overcoming heartaches through the medium of sound. Xiao Tang sends a tape of nature’s sounds he recorded himself to a ...
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The Photograph- Nan T. Achnas
- Indonesia
- 2007
- 94min
This PPP project of 2001 took 6 years to complete. Sita who sings at a Karaoke bar also works as a prostitute to send money to her daughter in her hometown. Looking for a new place...
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The Rebirth- KOBAYASHI Masahiro
- Japan
- 2007
- 102min
The Rebirth is a story of despair and renewal by director Masahiro Kobayashi based on a true murder case in Japan. A young girl gets stabbed to death by her classmate. The mother o...
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The Sun Also Rises- JIANG Wen
- China,Hong Kong
- 2007
- 116min
Life is full of riddles we cannot solve. Movies, at times, give us a better understanding of life by showing causal relations in life that are unknown to the characters - from an o...
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The Unseeable- Wisit Sasanatieng
- Thailand
- 2006
- 97min
With his feature debut, Tears of the Black Tiger, rising Thai director Wisit Sasanatieng was said to have created the "Tom yam gung Western". His next film, Citizen Dog, displayed ...