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Ray
  • Goutam Ghose
  • India
  • 1999
  • 100 min

A portrait of the world-renowned filmmaker, Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), hailed as the god of the Indian cinema. Ray was born in Calcutta in 1921, and raised in an atmosphere that was...

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Shadows
  • Raymond Red
  • Philippines
  • 2000
  • 12 min

The film touches on the subject of the widening gap between the rich and poor, the powerful and the insignificant, representative of the overall situation in the Philippines today....

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Sons
  • Royston Tan
  • Singapore
  • 2000
  • 10 min

This film seeks to give a pictorial view of a father, after his passing from life, seeking to reach out to his son. His lamentations of his incapability to identity with his son a...

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So Far Distance
  • Ali Mohammad Ghasemi
  • Iran
  • 1999
  • 11 min

In the middle of the road, a camel is being hoarded away on a truck. As it gazes in awe at the wonders of the city, it is unaware of its final destination, that being the butcher′s...

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Stories About Love
  • Abdul Nizam,CheeK,James Toh
  • Singapore
  • 2000
  • 100 min

The love of contemporary people is too complicated to express with traditional language. People set off to find the right ones in order to escape from their loneliness, however, fi...

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The Dragon’s Island
  • Gani Kistauov,Kim Daeseung
  • Kazakhstan
  • 1998
  • 26′ 30"

Animated cartoon film The Dragon’s Island is a result of a transformation of classical Japanese literature(Akutagawa Ryunoske ‘The Twilight of Life’) into a graphically unique film...

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The Land of Wandering Souls
  • Rithy Panh
  • Cambodia
  • 1999
  • 98 min

There was a nation-wide construction project in Cambodia in 1999. As a cable line was constructed from the border of Thailand to Vietnam through Cambodia, Cambodia entered the Info...

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The Vehicle with the Soul of the Man
  • Balaka Ghosh
  • INDIA
  • 1999
  • 20min

Kedarnath, located in the Himalayas, is a sacred place for the Hindus. Here there are coolies who carry pilgrims physically incapable of climbing to the top of the mountain. Their ...

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The White
  • Katsuyuki Hirano
  • Japan
  • 1999
  • 118 min

This film, made by one man alone, is the story of one man crossing the coldest region in Japan in the middle of a freezing cold winter. Beginning with the loose rhythm of jazz, The...

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Unchain
  • Toshiaki Toyoda
  • Japan
  • 2000
  • 98 min

Kaji Toshiro nicknamed himself ‘Unchain’ after the Ray Charles song "Unchain my Heart." He became a pro boxer in 1988 and had just seven bouts (one draw, no wins) before nerve para...

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Busan Office 3rd Floor, BIFF HILL, Busan Cinema Center, 120, Suyeonggangbyeon-daero, Haeundae-gu, Busan 48058, Korea
Seoul Office #1601, GARDEN TOWER, 84, Yulgok-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03131, Korea