During our 2006 Festival we are proud to present this exciting line-up of movies.
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Be With Me
Directed by Eric Khoo
Singapore, 2005. Cantonese, English, Hokkien, Mandarin.
Be With Me is a tapestry of three stories woven around the themes of love, hope, and destiny. Although the main characters come from different backgrounds and lead different lives, they all long to be with their loved one.
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Buffalo Boy
Directed by Minh Nguyen-Vo
USA 2005. Vietnamese.
A teenager coming of age in Vietnam in the '40s is faced with new challenges and troubling news as he asserts his independence in this drama. Kim (Le The Lu) is a 15-year-old living in a rural area where a six-month rainy season causes frequent flooding, threatening the lives of the water buffalo which are crucial to the livelihood of the farmers.
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Drifters (Er Di)
Directed by Wang Xiaoshuai
China, 2004. Mandarin.
A loafer returns to his Chinese birthplace after being thrown out of the US – again – this time for impregnating his boss's daughter.
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GIE
Directed by Riri Riza
Indonesia, 2005. Bahasa Indonesia.
Based on a true character. GIE is a central yet unknown political activist/writer in the 60's. The darkest era of Indonesian history. His life is a clash between a high drama of political events, and small world of friendship and romance.
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Howl's Moving Castle ( Hauru no ugoku shiro)
(Animation)
Directed Hayao Miyazaki
Japan 2004. Japanese.
A love story between an 18-year-old girl named Sofî, cursed by a witch into an old woman's body, and a magician named Hauru. Under the curse, Sofî sets out to seek her fortune, which takes her to Hauru's strange moving castle.
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Rang De Basanti
Directed by Rakeysh Mehra
India 2006, Hindi.
A young, London based filmmaker chances upon the diaries of her grandfather, who served in the British police force in India during the freedom struggle. Excited about these memoirs, she makes plans to shoot a film on the Indian revolutionaries mentioned in the diaries.
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Saving Face
Directed by Alice Wu
USA 2005. English, Mandarin, Shanghainese.
Saving Face is the charming story of a young woman's complicated life and her pursuit of love amid the chaos. Wil (Michelle Krusiec) is a 28-year-old overworked medical resident living in Manhattan with no social life.
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Sentenced Home
Directors: David Grabias, Nicole Newnham
Genre: Documentary; 76 minutes
USA 2005. English, Khmer with English Subtitles
Like many young Cambodian Americans who arrived here as refugees in the ‘80s, Loeun Lun, Manny Uch, and Kim Ho Ma hoped for the best. Little did they know that their destinies, guided by youthful mistakes and the unforeseeable events of 9/11, would decades later bring them full- circle:from birth in Cambodia to an unwilling return.
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Sepet
Directed By Yasmin Ahmad
Malaysia, 2004. Malay.
19-year old Ah Loong is in charge of a stall selling pirated VCDs. Quite content to carry on being the Romeo of the slums, Ah Loong's life takes a sudden turn one day when a Malay schoolgirl, Orked, arrives at his stall. Love blossoms between Orked and Ah Loong, although there are social and racial pressures that stand in their way.
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The Blossoming Of Maximo Oliveros
Directed by Auraeus Solito
Philippines, 2005, Tagalog.
In “BLOSSOMING,” the purity of love is pitted against the squalor and corruption found in the slums of Manila. Gay, pre-teen Maxi serves as “mother” to his all-male family of small-time criminals.
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The Catch
Directed by DJ Chen.
Taiwan 2006. Mandarin.
Rumor has it that legendary Alpha is planning the greatest comeback ever! He is the Godfather of fraud, yet no one has actually seen him. With the rumor of his return spreading, law enforcement assigns their best men to investigate the case.
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The Cave of The Yellow Dog
Directed by Byambasuren Davaa
Mongolia 2006. Mongolian.
Nansal (6), the oldest daughter of a Mongolian nomad family finds a small dog one day while out in the fields. When she brings him home, her father is afraid he could bring bad luck and demands that she immediately get rid of him.
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Welcome to Dongmakgol
Directed by Kwang-Hyun Park
Korea 2005. Korean.
This is the big one. A massive blockbuster that garnered incredible word of mouth and ran for almost three months in Korea, WELCOME TO DONGMAKOL was Korea's number two movie of the year, selling twice as many tickets as KING KONG and more than HARRY POTTER and MR. AND MRS. SMITH combined.
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“My Beautiful Rambutan Tree in Tanjung Rambutan”
(A moment of anger, a lifetime of nurture)
A Short Film
Written and Directed by
U-Wei Bin Haji Saari
Malaysia, 2006. Malay.
Atan and Tina are brother and sister in a loving, comfortable home. They play and squabble as siblings often do, so their parents have no qualms leaving the two children behind at home one evening while they attend a wedding.
But what starts out as a lighthearted "slice of life" tale turns into a chilling yet bittersweet account of sibling love.
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