2014

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What is the nature of art? What does it mean to be a man in today's world?
Part of Shorts Program 8: Student Shorts - The director is no fool; his imagination is the only place where he is a tough hero... But he wants to break free from this tame, dull life he is leading.…
Part of Shorts Program 8: Student Shorts - Carter attempts to divert his mind from the mystery that lies behind the closed door, but the cacophony of his surroundings only serve to drive him into…
Part of Shorts Program 8: Student Shorts - A young knight must face her worst nightmare: her first training bra.
Part of Shorts Program 8: Student Shorts - The offbeat tale of Bridget, an American woman who travels to the Irish countryside to track down her long-lost father while posing as a stranger. But,…
Part of Shorts Program 8: Student Shorts - Dede paints immense works on walls and fences; Natalie produces flowers and insects from parts of old cars and sprouts electrical wires at remote street…
Part of Shorts Program 8: Student Shorts - In Mexico, a cameraman is forced to record the horrific brutality of the Cartel, lest he be the one on the wrong side of the camera. The cameraman soon…
Part of Shorts Program 8: Student Shorts - Two Hawaiian men, who make their living selling newspapers on the side of the road, struggle to find their place in an increasingly modern Hawaii, while…
Part of Shorts Program 8: Student Shorts
Part of Shorts Program 8: Student Shorts
Part of Shorts Program 8: Student Shorts

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Explore the richness of life's experiences in worlds both familiar and foreign.
Part of Shorts Program 7: Wait For It - At the beginning of 1991, after the Romanian Revolution, an old barber meets by chance his former torturer who came in for a shave.
Part of Shorts Program 7: Wait For It: Adrift is a love letter to the fog of the San Francisco Bay Area. The film maker chased it for over two years to capture the magical interaction between the…
Part of Shorts Program 7: Wait For It - A film about greed and it's subsequent decay of a man's sanity and moral compass.
Part of Shorts Program 7: Wait For It - When Jack and Jill of Cardboard City are separated by Jill's untimely death, Jack goes on a journey to mend his (literally) broken heart.
Part of Shorts Program 7: Wait For It - My Father's Truck is a part coming-of-age part road film about 10-year-old Mai Vy as she skips school one day to help her father with his passenger truck for…
Part of Shorts Program 7: Wait For It - A thirty-something London couple, concerned that they're losing touch with the hip metropolitan scene, decide to drag themselves out to the latest fashionable…
Part of Shorts Program 7: Wait For It...

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Cinequest is proud to present DocuNation, our annual gathering of short documentary films from around the world.
Part of Shorts Program 6: DocuNation - In having lawns, are we giving in to societal expectations that have no real rationale, or do lawns have more meaning than we are typically willing to give them…
Part of Shorts Program 6: DocuNation - The sport of falconry in uncharted territory: the deserts of tribal Pakistan. A falconers' all-consuming love for his bird, and the falcon's wily, fierce prey:…
Part of Shorts Program 6: DocuNation - Margo Amer is a 51-year-old hospice nurse who has spent many years dealing with the physical, emotional and spiritual comfort of her terminally patients.…
Part of Shorts Program 6: DocuNation
Part of Shorts Program 6: DocuNation - A candid look into the world of Tattoo with international artists from Qu_bec, the USA and France who share in their own words, their experiences and vision…
Part of Shorts Program 6: DocuNation - Fabian Debora, A Life for Art tells the transformative story of East Los Angeles painter Fabian Debora and how a spiritual encounter with a near death…
Part of Shorts Program 6: DocuNation - For over 1,000 years, Icelandic law has made it illegal to import horses onto the island. For that reason, Icelandic horses are a pure breed, isolated by…

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Genre shorts explore worlds we've never encountered and the ramifications of what happens when we shift our view.
Part of Shorts Program 5: Shifted Realities
Part of Shorts Program 5: Shifted Realities
Part of Shorts Program 5: Shifted Realities - Sergey Krugov works at the Research Center for Personality Reconstruction. His job is to modify people's fates by changing their past. But can he make…
Part of Shorts Program 5: Shifted Realities - When an ambitious young physicist stumbles upon what appears to be time travel she becomes inextricably entwined with the life and work of the great…
Part of Shorts Program 5: Shifted Realities
Part of Shorts Program 5: Shifted Realities
Part of Shorts Program 5: Shifted Realities - A Conversation about Cheating with my Time-Traveling Future Self blends sci-fi, drama, comedy, and epiphanies. It follows Stan, a man with a hidden and…
Part of Shorts Program 5: Shifted Realities - A young man moves back in with his parents after college, only to discover that the monster - which tormented him as a child - is still in his bedroom.
Part of Shorts Program 5: Shifted Realities - Stranded in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, a man sets in motion an unlikely plan to protect the precious cargo he carries: his infant daughter.
Part of Shorts Program 5: Shifted Realities - Box explores the synthesis of real and digital space through projection-mapping on moving surfaces. The short film documents a live performance, captured…

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Enjoy animated wonders ranging from the hilarious to the soul stirring.
Part of Shorts Program 4: Animate Me - An adaptation of Walt Curtis's poem, The Time The Drunk Came To Town And Got Drunker Than A Skunk, or So He Thought.", about a Cowboy town that torments the…
Part of Shorts Program 4: Animate Me
Part of Shorts Program 4: Animate Me - Inspired by the handmade films of Stan Brakhage and others before him, the textures and colors of this piece were made by hand-coloring 16mm film. These…
Part of Shorts Program 4: Animate Me
Part of Shorts Program 4: Animate Me - Mr Hublot is a withdrawn, idiosyncratic character with OCD, scared of change and the outside world. Robot Pet's arrival turns his life upside down: he has to…
Part of Shorts Program 4: Animate Me
Part of Shorts Program 4: Animate Me - Friends 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 live in a world where there is no alphabet - only numbers. One day, they decide they want something different from their orderly, black…
Part of Shorts Program 4: Animate Me
Part of Shorts Program 4: Animate Me - Love in the Time of Advertising is an animated short film about a young man living inside of a billboard, charged with updating the advertisements. When a tear…
Part of Shorts Program 4: Animate Me - A black comedy exploring some of life's common fears: fear of the unknown, of failure, rejection and finally the fear of death. Narrated by George Takei.
Part of Shorts Program 4: Animate Me - Two loving couple are blessed with a newborn baby. Their new blessing changes everything, and the mother is taking the major load of baby duty. Until one day…
Part of Shorts Program 4: Animate Me
Part of Shorts Program 4: Animate Me
Part of Shorts Program 4: Animate Me

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Comedy comes in many forms, and Humor Me endeavors to show you a bit of all the ways!
Part of Shorts Program 3: Humor Me
Part of Shorts Program 3: Humor Me
Part of Shorts Program 3: Humor Me
Part of Shorts Program 3: Humor Me - Bowling Killers takes you on a journey to a universe halfway between Pulp Fiction and The Big Lebowski, with a hint of Belgian fantasy.
Part of Shorts Program 3: Humor Me - Jessica, a struggling actress, is as desperate for love as she is for a part in a local production of A Streetcar Named Desire. She meets Jim, a fellow actor, on…
Part of Shorts Program 3: Humor Me - Folks gather round to watch an intense competition, where people try and eat the hottest pepper known to mankind. There is no real reward, except bragging rights…
Part of Shorts Program 3: Humor Me
Part of Shorts Program 3: Humor Me

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A sexual awakening; a personal epiphany; a push for self-reliance: childhood is filled with challenges, but the lessons we learn can shape our lives forever.
Part of Shorts Program 2: On The Edge Of Adulthood - Through the eyes of a child, travel throughout the forest to discover its magic, its mysteries and its meetings...
Part of Shorts Program 2: On The Edge Of Adulthood
Part of Shorts Program 2: On The Edge Of Adulthood
Part of Shorts Program 2: On The Edge Of Adulthood - Having just turned thirteen, Leo sets himself a personal challenge and decides to jump off the highest diving board. As he waits his turn amongst…
Part of Shorts Program 2: On The Edge Of Adulthood - When six-year-old Australian girl Molly moves to New York with her parents, she misses home so much that she stops talking. But her father has a…
Part of Shorts Program 2: On The Edge Of Adulthood
Part of Shorts Program 2: On The Edge Of Adulthood
Part of Shorts Program 2: On The Edge Of Adulthood

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What do you do when faced with a conflict you've been avoiding all of your life?
Part of Shorts Program 1: States Of Mind - A crowd of people in Iran gather to watch the execution of a young girl. She cries and begs everyone for help. Horrified, people look way as she is about to…
Part of Shorts Program 1: States Of Mind
Part of Shorts Program 1: States Of Mind - A 7-year-old girl, Lingli, has been waiting two years for her mother to come home. When her family finally puts up the Door God on Chinese New Year, her…
Part of Shorts Program 1: States Of Mind - In this atmospheric, emotionally charged drama, two Londoners lose sleep but find each other.
Part of Shorts Program 1: States Of Mind - A woman and her driver, another man, a state of mind. A Contemporary love story set in Africa that explores cultural tensions surrounding desire.
Part of Shorts Program 1: States Of Mind - A couple in their late 20s plan to climb a mountain in Norway, but in this potentially deadly situation, where trust is an absolute necessity, the…

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Let's talk about sex, baby...
Let's talk about sex, baby...
Three Decades, Two Men, One Love of a Lifetime.

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Cinequest is proud to announce the addition of the World Premiere of writer/director Sean Hanish's powerful new drama, starring Minnie Driver (Good Will Hunting), Paul Adelstein (Private Practice), Alfred Molina (Frida), Connie Nielsen (Gladiator), Kathy Baker (Saving Mr. Banks), Andrea Anders (Better Off Ted) and Sarah Jones (Alcatraz).
Cinequest is proud to announce the addition of the World Premiere of writer/director Sean Hanish's powerful new drama, starring Minnie Driver (Good Will Hunting), Paul Adelstein (Private Practice),…
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