2013

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Six people. Three stories. One truth. The marriage of socialite Kathryn (Rhoda Griffis, The Blind Side) and her politician husband (Ric Reitz, Flight) is falling apart.
Six people. Three stories. One truth. The marriage of socialite Kathryn (Rhoda Griffis, The Blind Side) and her politician husband (Ric Reitz, Flight) is falling apart. They each struggle to keep…
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A daughter's struggles to keep her parents together, despite her father's illness, all while moving out of her childhood home. Plays with the feature film Solace
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At some point, we all grapple with the role of family in our lives. This year, for the Student Shorts Program, filmmakers consider family.
Today is the Chinese New Year's Eve. Fang Wei, a student who is preparing for the Entrance Exam, is afraid of attending the Family Reunion Dinner, and being asked by all family members about his…
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FULL-TIME MINISTRY is a character portrait about a devout Christian man who, by day, struggles to keep his religious faith out of the public high school classroom where he teaches; by night, he is an…
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Based on true events, Tule Lake is story of perseverance, shown from the perspective of a Japanese American internee during World War II. Held in the Tule Lake segregation camp with her family, a…
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Sweating and out of breath, over-weight Michael arrives late for his 7 year-old nephew's birthday pool-party. Almost 30 now, Michael is still struggling to become independent of his older domineering…
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The meaning of family in American society today has come a long way since its ideals were molded into the concept of the nuclear family. Part of Shorts Program 8: Student Shorts
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Re-developers are destroying the Dharavi slum. Its one million residents struggle to keep their hopes and dreams alive. Part of Shorts Program 8: Student Shorts
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Alone and bored with his life indoors, a young boy ventures outdoors to his favorite swimming hole, only to find it already occupied. A showdown ensues, but is the outcome worth it? Part of Short…
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Cole is home for the holidays, and now they're over. A humorous look at the trials and tribulations of returning to the family home.
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When a young engineer returns to her rural Chinese village to share the solar technology that she's been developing, she must first win over her long-neglected father. Bound by love, they have to…
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Siaki, an elderly Samoan man struggles to come to terms with the lifelong shame of having an incomplete traditional tattoo when he is confronted with the shame of his sight. As Siaki's vision…
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Brother is a humanoid robot who has one job to build, but fails in creating successful pieces. Once his emotions get in the way of creating something, he realizes that maybe it was just the thing he…
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Time and space make up a setting, but can also conduct a spark in the characters on set. From Calcutta's chaotic streets to an Australian lake; from an interrogation room to a shrink's office.
Calcutta Taxi is set in the grimy backdrop of a city going through a political crisis, unraveling the story of three lives that coincide and affect each other. Each one having lost and found some…
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Alex is about to find out just how far he's willing to go to fulfill his life long dream of time travel. All that stands in his way is a big stack of cash, a little self respect, and his best friend…
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Two youths, eager to make a quick buck, accept a job from a nightclub owner to kidnap the girlfriend of a famous football players. In a turn of mistaken identity, the kidnapped girl convinces our…
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Stan, a mild-mannered gay man, has been called into the Department of Immigration to account for his marriage to a Canadian drag queen. It's not going well. Having recently won the right to marry his…
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Ten year old Ana longs for a friend but her odd attempts to connect freak other kids out. Retreating into the bush for another day of lone exploring, she comes across a stranger intent on drowning a…
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He's a sexual savior. Hero to the women that society forgot. But when Cliff unexpectadly meets the girl of his dreams, he may be the one that needs to be saved.
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A doorman at a Dublin city hotel spends many happy years opening his beloved door for the hotel residents. One day, much to his horror, he discovers that his job and happiness may be under threat.
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Boop Beep is a handcrafted love story about a lonely little cardboard box that tries to win the hear of the girlbot next door. It's a homemade film, which attempts to eschew perfection in favor of…
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There is no better way to be inspired than hearing people speak their minds and hearts. These seven films will explore peoples' different views of art, meditation, life, and death.
Jessica is a transsexual who is working as a prostitute in the red-light district of Bangkok. She is faced with the toughest choice of her life. To follow her boyfriend abroad and start a new life,…
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Dennis Harris and Wendy Christensen have been creating taxidermy since they were children. Today Dennis owns his own shop where he creates suspension taxidermy and Wendy works in a museum maintaining…
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Delusional people build, row, and race boats made solely of cardboard and duck tape in an insane effort to recapture the American dream. Part of Shorts Program 6: Docu-Nation
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Unwilling to let pinball die at the hand of video games, master screen printer and craftsman Wade Krause reinvents and restores everything pinball. Wade collaborates with pop artists like Dirty Donny…
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Death can be feared, sensationalized, romanticized... but it cannot be ignored. Other than birth, it is the single most universal and transformative event in our lives. However each of us meets our…
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Everyone has secrets - some big, some small. Through a series of personal, intimate and random street interviews, Ending in Six Minutes explores the innermost secrets of everyday people interviewed…
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In Hanford is visual artist Chris Mars's fantastic exploration of real incidents in Hanford, Washington, where the local environment was poisoned as a result of cold war era nuclear arms manufacture…
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Crisalida, which means cocoon of an incubating butterfly, is the name of an 86-year-old woman who watches the world through her bedroom window. Over the course of a Sunday in her small Cuban town,…
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This animation describes a girl's story who was taken to Java island as a comfort woman. Chung Seo-woon, the real victim of World War, narrates her story with her real voice. Part of Shorts Program…
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The masterful minds of these shorts toy with our sanity, thrilling and warping our minds as we wonder what is the real truth.
Tim Collin's life is slowly spiraling out of control and comes to it's breaking point in the eye of a South Florida hurricane. He seeks shelter from the massive force in an abandoned motel and just…
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As an infirm young woman sits at a quiet diner conter, her surroundings become increasinly unstable. The ensuing chaos, as her world literally turns upside down, triggers an ominous sequence of…
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Released from the hospital into her aunt's care, a woman tries to recuperate from abdominal surgery at an idyllic coastal home. One morning her surgical wound comes to life and becomes a ravenous maw…
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After being mugged by Freud and Jung, brilliant scientist Doktor Fang creates a machine to prove his own theory about the nature of dreams. But on his return from the patent office he discovers his…
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When Adam wakes up in a childhood memory, he figures he must be dreaming. But as his girlfriend, Hannah, leads him deeper into his subconscious, he begins to realize the truth.
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The near future. Reclusive billionaire Morgan Nash spends his days tending to his dying catatonic wife Amy, until a eccentric scientist offers him a chance to relive his life and love all over again…
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Cinequest is proud to present Animated Worlds, a showcase of ingenious animations from around the world. There's everything from creatures scampering about, to images of dire decay, to creative fusions of imagination by world-class animators.
The whimsical journey of a mysterious vending machine dwelling creature who explores the shadowy corners of Tokyo after dark. Part of Shorts Program 4: Animated Worlds
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The growth and depth of friendship shared between two slightly homophobic priests. Part of Shorts Program 4: Animated Worlds
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In Bydlo, which means cattle in Polish, Patrick Bouchard reinterprets the symphonic movement of the same name from Modest Petrovich Mussorgskys opus Pictures at an Exhibition. Part of Shorts…
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Marcel survives the bird flu, alcohol, sleeping pills and his son Max. Though blinded in one eye, he remains the King of Tervuren. Greek tragedy as acted out by Belgian roosters. Part of Shorts…
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This is the story of a boy unlike other boys who dreams of finding his place in the world. He will have to face up to his personal demons and overcome his fears to find at last the way to the light…
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Marvin was born with a hole in his head, he wasn't born stupid, he wasn't born dead... Part of Shorts Program 4: Animated Worlds
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For the first time in Canadian history, 15 of Canada's most award-winning and celebrated independent animators have come together to create a collaborative animated film using only 4x6 inch yellow…
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A young artist sits on the sidewalk, struggling to make a living. She sells drawings to passersby. A businessman who recognises her talents offers her a paying job. The prospect seems inviting but…
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For sixteen years cicadas live underground. They emerge for one glorious night to live out their lives in hope of finding happiness and maybe... love. Part of Shorts Program 4: Animated Worlds
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Old Angel once hurt his wings. He came to the forest to mend his wings among the colossal trees. His wings have healed, but he's been here for a long, long time. So long that he's forgotten how it…
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Sleight of Hand. A set of techniques used by someone to manipulate objects secretly to deceive. This is a stop-motion film about illusions. A Man yearns to know his place in the world and how he fits…
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All desert slug GUS NITROUS wants is to find some precious water. But a wrong turn into the EXOIDS-occupied city of Los Angeles sets him off on a high-speed desert car chase that culminates into an…
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Escaping a life of sadness and adversity, a young Korean boy moves to American and learns that even though life is full of hard knocks, the time does come when it's safe to answer the door. Part of…
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The spirits of the Oceanic realm dance and frolic on a South Seas beach. Can you hear their song? Found footage, video of Tiki objects d'art, and stage-of-the-art digital composing are combined to…
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Life demands tough decisions. Should we offer a hand to help? Should we let a relationship go? Should we risk ourselves for another?
Johnny loves Star Wars. Matter of fact, Johnny loves just about any move he can get his hands on. On a summer afternoon, he kicks back with the Empire while his older sister Karen is left to babysit…
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When Steve's new GPS suddenly asks for help, he follows her instructions from sunny suburbia into the depths of an abandoned warehouse to a mysterious door. What lies beyond transforms Steve's life…
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Overachiever Annie and slacker Henry encounter an unusual office visitor while working late at their office one night. Part of Shorts Program 3: Choice and Effect
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After being checked by the police, a young father of Arabic origin fails to explain the situation to his son -- unaware that the most inexplicable happenings of this night are yet to come. Part of…
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At the end of what she hopes to be her last day of work, a young gas station attendant named Abigail attempts to leave town permanently. Fragmented details of her life unravel, as she treks across…
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On the eve of the creation of Pakistan in 1947, the British rulers of the Indian subcontinent prepare to depart the region amidst waves of ethnic violence. Shorts Program 3: Choice and Effect
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Hark is about a man who is confronted with a moral dilemma to save his own life or risk the life of another. The characters in Hark are ordinary people making choices to survive. The story draws…
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A young couple driving on an isolated road knocks over a pedestrian. Their first reaction to assist the man is rapidly rejected because the two lovers have reasons to hide their affair. The girl…
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Shorts Program 2

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The most frustrating search is one for meaning. We find what we do not seek, overlook what we search for, and feel every emotion along the way.
Since mommy died in a car accident, daddy is crying all the time. And I move with 'Wheelchair', my wheelchair. But I can fix everything : I have a time machine. So, I will save mommy in the past and…
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A short film about the love affair between a mystical woman and the Moon. The Moon leaves everything he knows to be with her, but soon learns that what he wants isn't always what he's meant to have…
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Salote, an airport cleaner starts another long night shift. She keeps her head down, does her job and gleans her survival from what others leave behind. No one would usually spare her a second glance…
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A small schoolboy accidentally offends the biggest kid of his class. Our hero will have to face his fears and insecurities, as well as the pressure of his peers, who demand a fateful encounter…
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The young Elias builds his own, alone, unarmed, made from scavenged parts collected in landfills in their region. With this bike he will embark on the long journey to the capital, and engage in the…
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A short, children's comedy about Izzy, a 10 year old girl attending Mass a her local church who encounters an awkward situation with Pete, a 10 year old boy with a cold. Part of Shorts Program 2:…
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A father spends one last day with his daughter in a rundown French coastal town when he dubiously comes across a large amount of money. Part of Shorts Program 2: Looking For Something New
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Getting dumped always hurts. Even more so when your boyfriend sends his fourteen-year-old brother to break the news. Part of Shorts Program 2: Looking For Something New
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Shorts Program 1

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Not every war is fought on a battle field or even between nations. These stories show the pains of fighting our demons, painful pasts, failing bodies, and held prejudices - and some actual wars as well.
Set against the dramatic landscape of contemporary Afghanistan and the national sport of Buzkashi - a brutal game of horse polo played with a dead goat - Buzkashi Boys tells the compelling coming of…
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War. Kosovo 1999. Adem finds himself in situation that he has to choose: to save his son or his brother's son. Part of Shorts Program 1: The Battles We Fought
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Knowing that cancer will soon be tearing them apart, a little girl and her mother try to make sure of the remaining time to live life to the fullest. Part of Shorts Program 1: The Battles We Fought
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At the beginning of 1991, after the Romanian Revolution, an old barber meets by chance his former torturer who came in for a shave. Quickly, the parts are inverted though the client refuses to…
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A penitentiary parlor. A mother and her son meet for the first time since the young rebel took part in a bloody robbery. Part of Shorts Program 1: The Battles We Fought
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Two people. A train station. An unattended Briefcase. Prejudice versus Preservation. In the war on terror, will suspicion and fear win out? Part of Short Program 1: The Battles We Fought
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For a group of German soldiers trapped in no man's land at the end of WWII, a remote shack in the countryside with a sniper in it stands between them and survival. But none of the soldiers can guess…
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Running Wild

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A colorful cowboy/poet tries to save the wild horses of the West. Adventurous and romantic stories about The American West are a thing of the past... until one meets Dayton O. Hyde. From World War II to Berkeley to cattle drives and rodeos.
A colorful cowboy/poet tries to save the wild horses of the West. Adventurous and romantic stories about The American West are a thing of the past--until one meets Dayton O. Hyde. From World War II…
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The world's rough at any age, but a kind word can make it just a bit softer. Plays before the feature film Running Wild: The Life Of Dayton O. Hyde
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