CINEFETE (Firm)
1) Love
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To discover just how like us animals really are, animatronic spy creatures infiltrate the animal world to explore their complex emotions. Spy Pup makes friends with a wild dog pack to investigate their maternal love and has a dangerous encounter with lions and elephants. Baby Spy Crocs discover the devotion of a mother crocodile and take a ride inside her mouth as she carries her babies to water. Spy Egret and Spy Tortoise are nearly trampled by elephants...
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This film retraces the presence of the visionary poet Arthur Rimbaud in Charleville (Ardennes, France), his native town. Numerous documents, photos, letters, and drawings take us back on the trail of a fiendish young rebel in a very beautiful town and green countryside that he, however, hated (as numerous letters bear witness).
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Romanian Adrian Rusu and Israeli Amit Gilbao became bona fide stars when they found fame on the Channel 8 variety program It’s a Small World. In this episode, host Melissa Hyak enters their homes to find out more about the wacky duo: how do Amit and his Shanxi-born wife fight in different tongues? And how will Amit fare in a Sichuan kitchen?
7) Childhood
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A review of childhood, memories, feelings, and the dreams about the life to be built.
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This film is a discovery of the secrets and wonders of how living things fly, from the flying styles and patterns of the oldest flyer in the world—the dragonfly—to arguably the most beautiful insect flyer: the butterfly. We look into the bumblebee myth; is it true that bees, technically, cannot fly? Of course, we mustn't forget our feathered friends, from the expert flyer of all time, the eagle; to the poor flyer, the chicken; and to the no-flyer,...
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Nicki Lim may have a Chinese-sounding name, but she looks thoroughly European. The Swiss national has embraced all things Chinese...and Singaporean since she moved here two years ago. In this episode, Nicki goes on a gastronomical and cultural adventure with host Melissa Hyak—from tackling the thorny King of Fruits, to taking up the challenge of translating a karaoke classic (and belting it out, no less!), to mastering the art of Chinese finger...
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Facing a potential nuclear renaissance, this moving account explores the legacy of nuclear arms through the lives of four young women. First we meet Maki, granddaughter of a Hiroshima bombing survivor who strives to keep the memory of the horror alive. Evelyn is a young student; she is exiled from her home, the contaminated island of Rongelap. Maurea and Annie are young and impassioned activists; one lives in a country torn apart by nuclear colonization...
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In this episode, Melissa Hyak meets with personalities with the gift of gab! She takes part in a cooking-cum-debate competition against some of the best Chinese debaters in the land—in Mandarin of course. Next, she attempts to stay focused during a table-tennis showdown while slugging it out at a Chinese word game at the same time. Melissa also meets the former president of the Kowloon Club, himself a well-known lawyer with an interest in collecting...
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This documentary follows the life and times of geometer Donald Coxeter on his journey to the last geometry conference he would attend: to Budapest in the summer of 2002, when he was 95 years old. There Coxeter delivered the opening address, offering a new and elegant proof for a theorem about "four mutually tangent circles," a subject which finds application in data-mining technology. Coxeter is widely regarded as the man who kept geometry alive in...
15) Life Experiences
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Life’s obstacles and lessons learned that make us live our near and far destinies.
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The guanzi is said to be one of the toughest Chinese musical instruments to master. And Chinese ethnic dance is known to be one of the most elusive of performance art forms. This week, Melissa Hyak meets two shifu who teach her a thing or two about these hard-to-access Chinese arts.
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She is an award-winning Malay TV actress, but growing up, her first language was Mandarin. Presenter Melissa Hyak meets Sharon Ismail, and together they sample some interesting halal Chinese food, learn the disappearing art of making dough figurines, and even attempt to act in Mandarin.
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The Making of 6 Billion Others takes us behind the scenes of a most intriguing series. The idea of for this series came from Yann Arthus-Bertrand, an award-winning filmmaker who was filming Earth from Above in Mali. One day when the helicopter that he was filming from was out of commission, he tried to draw a portrait of contemporary humankind by asking questions about universal values. What is happiness, love, fear, success, family? What lessons...
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In this episode, Melissa Hyak meets Vanessa Shih, hailed as the most beautiful career diplomat from Taiwan. Melissa bravely takes Ms Shih on in a Chinese riddle competition during the Mid-Autumn Festival, with questions ranging from Song dynasty poems to local TV programs. How will Melissa fare against the former Taiwan government spokesperson in this challenge? The Representative of Taipei also invites Melissa to her home and prepares four seasonal...