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DUMPLINGS
Hong Kong, 2004, 91’, 35 mm

Director: Fruit Chan
Producer: Peter Ho-Sun Chan
Script: Lilian Lee
Cinematography: Christopher Doyle
Edition: Fruit Chan, Tin
Sam-Fat, Chan Ki-Hop
Music: Chan Kwong-wing
Cast: Bai Ling, Miriam
Yeung, Pauline Lau, Tony Ka-fai Leung, Meme, Miki Yeung, Wong So-fun, Peter Wong, Wong Sumyeung,
Wu Wai-man.

No woman can resist to the temptation of potential rejuvenated,
although this quest may turn in to an endless nightmare. But Qing, a
former actress who switched her wishes of fame for marrying a rich man, can alow herself to anything in order to get what she wants.
She uses all of her power to get to the mysterious chef Mei, to obtain
her famous specialty dumplings. Qing is no gourmet, she only dies to
get back her youth and beauty, and Mei’s dumplings claim to deliver
the goods. Mei serves desperate rich women like Qing, she understands a woman’s need and she can fulfill a woman’s desire.

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THE TASTE OF TEA
Japón, 2004, 142’, Video

Director: Katsuhito Ishii
Producer: Kazuto Takida, Katzutoshi Wadakura
Script: Katsuhito Ishii
Cinematography: Kosuke Matushima
Edition: Katsuhito Ishii
Music: Little Tempo
Cast: Tadanobu Asano,
Maya Banno, Takahiro Sato,
Satomi Tezuka, Tomokazu Miura, Tomoko Nakajima

The Haruno are a very particular Japanese family living in a little town outside Tokyo. Some of he familymembers are dedicated to the art of animated movies. Through each one of the family members, a very singular and charming family portrait is made, showing the years passing by and the people involved in their lives.

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THE FAMILY THAT EATS SOIL
Filipinas, 2005, 75’, Video

Director: Khavn de la Cruz
Producer: Khavn de la Cruz
Script: Khavn de la Cruz
Cinematography: Albert Banzon
Edition: Sunshine Matutina
Music: Lionel Valdellon
Cast: Carlo Catap, Hamid
Eton, Elizabeth Marin, Gil
Mendoza, Hazel Magno, Edward Vitto, Gigi Duque, Christian Guzman, Jocelyn Sibayan, Khavn, Flortecante Dayao, Ariel Mamburan,
Jaymar Valenciano, Cris
Villanueva, Kristine Kintana, Maricel Gajasan, Oblax Balignasay, Adonis De La Cruz, Tasyo Caubalejo, Eric Jose Pancho, Joy Domingo

Three times a day, a surreally dysfunctional family is partaking of
their usual feast: soil.
But while they pretend to enjoy their meals, there are intercutted scenes of individual family members with their own nightmarish storylines.

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THE LAST COMMUNIST
Documdental, Malasia/Holanda, 2006, 90’, Video

Director: Amir Muhammad
Producer: Amir Muhammad
Script: Amir Muhammad
Cinematography: Albert Hue
Edition: Azharr Rudin
Music: Hardesh Singh

Its premise seems impossible, rash at best: recounting a history of
seventy years in Malaysia through the places and moments in the life of the elusive Chin Peng, without overlooking British control, Chinese influence, Japanese occupation, Thai exile or the grapefruits from Ipoh. In The Last Communist he draws up a manifest stating that cinema is still in swaddling clothes. Interviews, drawings, life stories, police reports, young and old, scholars and revolutionaries and terrible historic events retold through some amazing songs –as if Muhammad were a Brechtian pop film-maker– breathe life into a film with an overwhelming cinematic imagination.

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