14 Sep 1996
Swallowtail Butterfly
The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.
Problemski Hotel
The cross-frontier migrant's life 'within the system' - an endless, featureless, futureless round of queues - becomes even bleaker in December. Bipul doesn't want to admit it, but the arrival of Lidia, a Russian girl makes a difference. Hope? Surely not! A future? Get real! December is also the ninth month of Martina's pregnancy. But, just when the situation seems hopeless, help is at hand. A Christmas story.
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Tarek Halaby Bipul
Gökhan Girginol Mahsun
Lydia Indjova Martina
Marijke Pinoy 
Evgenia Brendes Lidia
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