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• Garin Nugroho
• Indonesia
• 1990
• 100min

Garin’s debut feature is a glossy drama about a sexual triangle, much influenced by the early features of Godard and Truffaut. The three central characters are yuppies (‘young urba...

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• Garin Nugroho
• Indonesia
• 1998
• 35min

This essay film resembles groups of visual language which describe the community, the culture and the family of the director’s childhood. The filmmaker created the film to look lik...

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• Aria KUSUMADEWA
• Indonesia
• 2003
• 80min

Drum has lost almost everything. His mother died when he was three, and his father met with an accident when he was 17. He parlays his personal tragedy into a successful career as ...

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• Tintin WULIA
• Indonesia
• 2003
• 8min

This documentary is about Melburnia doors, which look as they sound. The film is an ensemble of 24 doors fearturing their owners' stories about them. It is an experiment in combini...

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• Hanung BRAMANTYO
• Indonesia
• 2003
• 10min

this is a story of young girl who is trapped in a confusing and stressful condition. She was forced to deci.de a matter of life and death of a baby she conceived. This film mostly ...

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• Faozan RIZAL
• Indonesia
• 2004
• 60min

In 1942, a Zero Sentoki crashes in Indonesia. Although the pilot, Yasujiro Yamada, survives the crash, he has never been found. Half a century later, in 2002, the grandson of the p...

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• Shinji ARAMAKI
• Japan
• 2004
• 103min

Based on the popular comic by Masamune Shirow, Apple Seed is the story of life after a devastating war in 2131 A.D. Deunan Knute, a female soldier is taken to Olympus. Accustomed...

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• Ming-chin TSAI
• Taiwan
• 2004
• 95min

During the Jin Dynasty, women were not permitted education. So Jo - a girl from a wealthy family - disguises herself as a man and heads out to school. There she meets Leon - a co...

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• Gangsar WASKITO
• Indonesia
• 2004
• 83min

After surviving a sea storm that destroyed his ship, Bumi must engage the efforts of others in the rebuilding of the Utopian Castle. The first help comes from a giant dragon, foll...

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• Toe Yuen
• Hong Kong
• 2004
• 78min

A housewife, forever short of money, Madame McBing looks after her son McDull, a daydreaming piglet. Hoping to anticipate problems that might arise from the uncertain political sit...