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BBC FOUR WORLD CINEMA SEASON
Broadcast in 2008
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the World Cinema Awards, in January 2008, BBC Four showed a season of films nominated in previous years.
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 | | GOOD BYE LENIN!
Wolfgang Becker, Germany, 2003
Saturday 19 January 9pm-10.55pm
A blackly comic German satire about a fully-fledged Communist Party supporter who doesn't realise the Cold War is over, because she fell into a coma just before the wall came down.
 Film review on BBC Collective
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Pedro Almódovar, Spain, 2004
Saturday 19 January 10.55pm-12.35am
The Spanish master's touching story of film-making, gender reversal and childhood abuse.
Review and Director Interview
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Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 2001
Saturday 26 January 8pm-10pm
In this charming animated film, ten-year-old Chihiro's parents are turned into pigs after helping themselves to food at an untended restaurant. Chihiro has to find a way to break the spell.
Film review on BBC Movies
Plot summary on IMDb
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Sylvain Chomet, France, 2001
Saturday 26 January 10.10pm-11.25pm
The first ever winner of the World Cinema Award tells the tale of Champion who is kidnapped during the Tour de France by the French mafia and whisked across the Atlantic to the city of Belleville. It will be preceded by a 10-minute chat with Jonathan Ross and the 2004 jury: Bjork, Mike Figgis, Robert Carlyle and Alex Cox.
Film review on BBC Four
Read an interview with director Sylvain Chomet
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Agnès Jaoui, France/Italy, 2004
Saturday 2 February 10.10pm-11.55pm
Sophisticated French comedy-drama about an overweight, insecure young choral singer and her overbearing father.
Film review on BBC Movies
Interview with the director
User comments on IMDb
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