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Same Same But Differentby Detlev Buck
Staring David Kross, Apinya Sakuljaroensuk
GERMANY / 2009 | | | SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT tells an unusual and moving love story. After finishing school Benjamin, a young German, goes on a long journey through Asia. In Phnom Penh he meets the Cambodian girl Sreykeo and instantly falls in love with her. It is only after their first night together that he discovers she works as a bargirl. Nevertheless he enjoys the time he spends with her in this mysterious country torn between modernity and belief in ancient spirits. Back in Germany he realizes that he wants to fight for his love and has to take responsibility for it. Against all odds he tries the impossible: To remain together with Sreykeo for always. | |  |
| The Sea Wall (2008) Directed by Rithy Panh
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Randal Douc
Indo-China, 1931. Confronted by the corruption of the land register agents who sold her a rice plantation that is flooded each year by sea water, destroying their crops, Mrs. Dufresne, the widow of a French civil servant, comes up with an ambitious project: to set up a seawall to keep the salt water out. To finance the construction, the former teacher encourages her 16-year-old daughter, Suzanne, to attract the son of a wealthy Chinese businessman. |  |
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Directed by Simon West Starring Angelina Jolie, Iain Glen, Daniel Craig, Jon Voight, Noah Taylor
Lara Croft was born into wealth and groomed at the most elite schools. She travels to dangerous and mysterious locales around the globe in search of rare, lost crypts and long-forgotten empires. She speaks numerous languages, is highly trained for combat and answers to no one, obeying only a desire for adventure. But now she must face her greatest challenge yet: to find two halves of an ancient artifact buried in space and time. To possess it means ultimate power for its possessor. But to get there, she must first take on a powerful and dangerous secret society. | |  |
City of Ghosts (2002)
Directed by Matt Dillon
Strarring Matt Dillon, James Caan, Natascha McElhone, Gérard Depardieu
A con man flees to Southeast Asia when an international scam he was involved in goes sour. Suspecting he's been double-crossed by his long-time mentor, he sets off to Cambodia for his promised cut. What he finds there is a mysterious and hostile environment where even the most polished criminal can end up on deadly ground. | 
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Holy Lola (2004)
Directed by Bertrand Tavernier Starring Isabelle Carré, Jacques Gamblin
"Holy Lola" is the story of a young couple, Pierre and Geraldine, and their desire for a child. This desire leads them on a journey of initiation to Cambodia, on the other side of the world.
A difficult and extraordinary adventure begins for them, one that takes them from orphanage to orphanage, brings them face to face with French and Cambodian authorities and awakens them to the reality of human trafficking. There are also the jealousies and mistrust of a small community of would-be adoptive parents, united by circumstance, to contend with. But these people also help and support each other. This quest leads Pierre and Geraldine to confront their fears and egotism. They break apart, grow close together again and are forever transformed by the experience.
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Two Brothers (2004)
Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
Starring Guy Pearce, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Oanh Nguyen, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu.
Set not so long ago in a distant land, the film follows the adventures of twin tiger cubs--one shy and gentle, the other bold and fierce--who are born among the temple ruins of an exotic jungle. However, on a fateful day, the brothers are separated by fate. The bold brother is sold off to a circus, where homesickness and living in a cage rob him of his spirit. Meanwhile, the shy cub becomes the beloved companion of the governor's lonely young son, until an accident forces the family to give him away to a man who resolves to break his gentle nature and turn him into a fighter for sport. When they are fully grown the brothers find themselves reunited--but as forced enemies, pitted against each other. | |  |
R Point (2004)
Directed by Su chang Kong
Starring Woo-seong Kam, Byung-ho Son, Tae-kyung Oh, Won-sang Park
During the Vietnam War, a South Korean army base begins receiving mysterious radio transmissions from a patrol that went missing six months earlier. A shell-shocked commanding officer (Woo-Sung Kam) and a ragtag military unit are sent into the desolate stretch of land known as R-Point to gather clues as to the whereabouts of the missing soldiers. What appeared to be a clear search and rescue mission turns into something far more terrifying than any battle.
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