Cinequest 18 Films by Category
For more information on Cinequest Film Festival 18 Feature, Documentary, and Short Juries, please click here.
- Opening Night: Eden Court
- Closing Night: Take
- Maverick Narrative Competition
- The world is your oyster as our 2008 Competition is unleashed?awarding films with the distinction of Best Feature Documentary, Best Short Narrative, Best Short Animated Film, Best Short Documentary, Best Student Film, Best Feature Narrative and Maverick Spirit Award. Cinequest is also honored that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has elected to recognize the Cinequest Film Festival as a qualifying festival in the Short Films category for the annual Academy Awards®. Recipients of the Best Short Narrative and Best Short Animation Awards will qualify for consideration for an Academy Award®. (Jury Info)
- Anywhere USA
The Art of Travel
A Better Life
Bitter Sweetheart
Disfigured
El Camino
The Eternal City
Gone with the Woman
It's Better If Gabriela Doesn't Die
A Perfect Match
Ruby Blue
Superheroes
Three Priests
A Time to Die
The Village Barbershop - Maverick Documentary Competition
- (Jury Info)
Autism: The Musical
Born Without (Nacido Sin)
Critical Condition
D-Tour: A Tenacious Documentary
Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father
This Dust of Words
Echoes of Home
Family Inc.
Les Paul - Chasing Sound
Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood
Sputnik Mania
The Truth? (¿La Verdad?) - Short Film Competition
- (Jury Info)
Program 1: Pas de Duex
Program 2: Temptations
Program 3: Forward, Backward, Sideways
Program 4: Signals, Noise and Silence
Program 5: Rescue Me
Program 6: What was Lost
Program 7: Life Lesson
Student Film Competition - Special Presentations
- Amongst the superb international program of Maverick artistry that Cinequest presents, we always find some very special films and artists that captivate and inspire us. It is an honor for us to present these exceptional events that add an incredible topping to the week-long event. One thing is for sure, though; they are all exciting discoveries that add to the experience you can only get at Cinequest.
- 48 Hour Film Presentation
All About Dad
Beaufort
Becoming John Ford
Half Empty
I Think We're Alone Now
Karl Rove, I Love You
The Night of the White Pants
Oceania
Quincy Coleman: It's All in the Song
The Take
Cinequest Vuze Audience Favorite Winners
Young People Fucking
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Global Landscapes
- This year?s dazzling Global Landscapes program offers a collection of artistic achievements that span the globe, and we proudly present here these unique visions, cultures and creeds. Demonstrating a depth of imagination and variety of subject matter that can only be explored by diversity, this showcase offers views from some of the new voices investigating fresh themes in unique ways. Global Landscapes is always an extraordinary group of films, spotlighting cultures whose influence has a significant global impact on the changing face of cinema.
- Breaking the Surface (Auftauchen)
Butterflies (Pirret)
Dot.Com
Emelet
The Emigre
Empties
Fear(s) of the Dark
Hope
Iska's Journey
Konyec
Little Girl Blue
Mars & Venus
Preserve (Rezerwat)
The Substitute
The Trap
Treseta - Latino Film Showcase
- The Aerial (La Antena)
A Better Life - in competition
Born Without (Nacido Sin) - in competition
Enlightened Blood
It's Better If Gabriela Doesn't Die - in competition
Once Upon a Time Maria
Opera
The Silence Before Bach - Asian Film Showcase
- Amal
The Case
Family Inc. - in competition
Getting Home
The Mourning Forest
Unfinished Girl - New Visions
- New Visions pays homage to the director whose film best reflects the future of filmmaking. Previous winners of the New Visions Award have gone on to garner more awards, receive distribution and ?wow? audiences around the globe after their Cinequest premiere?continuing to prove their artistry through creative, stimulating and mind-altering films that exhibit the new dimension of cinema.
- AFR
Around the Bay
Commit
The End
Glory Boy Days
Goodbye Baby
The Metrosexual
On the Doll
The Reject
Shelter Me (Riparo)
Sherman's Way
The Sinking of Santa Isabel
Speed Dating
Suspension
Who is K.K. Downey?
Young, Single Angry