2015

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Berlusconi thunders down the home stretch… A down-on-his-luck harness racer, Bjarte Lem, gets entangled with the wrong crowd in this madcap Norwegian comedy. Previously, a star in his field, but now a little older, he turns to fixing race odds in order to pay back his wife's enormous debt to a pair of shady Finnish loan sharks. Hilarity ensues when he hires a pair of blockheads to do his dirty work. Their plan goes awry when the prizewinning horse is kidnapped.

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A powerful look at the lives and dreams of boxing’s heaviest hitters, including Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, and Bernard Hopkins. Director Bert Marcus brilliantly examines what it means to pursue the American Dream through boxing. Long considered "the poor man's sport," boxing has a long-standing tradition of giving kids in the roughest neighborhoods opportunities to re-channel their aggression and give them a place to go, other than the streets. But in the ring come new struggles, for which many are ill-equipped to handle, and many succumb to the pressure.

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Songs, dance numbers and a road to stardom. A quirky musical where no one thinks twice before breaking out in a song, Booze Boys & Brownies is an exuberant and endearingly frank portrait of a heroine with whom you can't help but fall in love. Ambitious, sassy, and a die-hard sentimental creature, young actress Vivian (writer-director Veronica Mannion) has no qualms admitting she would prefer a musical comedy to life.

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Norwegian Wood - isn’t it good? It's the sixties in Oslo, and four friends are teetering between adolescence and adulthood as only teenage boys can. They fancy themselves to be the Fab Four, though their band, the Snafus, has yet to master a single song. For these boys, listening to the new Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album is like "listening to God say 'let there be light' on day one." They navigate the treacherous shoals of young love and early adulthood to the innocent beat of early Rock 'n Roll, against the backdrop of the nascent global anti-war movement.

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All the wealth she could desire, no life she wants to live. Foibles and eccentricities of a closely knit, stifling upper class community get a sensual and witty treatment in this wildly imaginative and extravagant gem of a story. Moira, a young and wealthy Dominican woman, is forced to halt her studies in America and return home to her family and the elite and suffocating society of their small town. It seems everyone is a hater and a gossiper here; Moira's conservative family controls her every step.

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For 25 years, Cinequest has chosen visions that spark fire and greatly inspire. Cinequest 25 opens with spectacular energy, spotlighting a story that not only touched the entire Bay Area, but also one that inspired millions. Who would have thought a 5-year-old boy who fought leukemia would transform a city and a nation for a day? No one. Not his family. Not his friends. Not the thousands of volunteers who came from near and far to help make his wish come true.

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Demons, meet the socially awkward. 

With the awkward teen sensibility of Superbad, three high school friends, hoping to rid themselves of their uncool social status, set out to make a horror film starring the dreamy, popular girl at school. Things go wrong when the process leaves their lead actress possessed by a demon instead. 

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Bad City is on the edge of falling into the hands of a madman, you dig? 

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After the plague, an empty world where you make your own rules. Astraea, a quickly maturing teenager with clairvoyant visions, and her adult brother Matthew are traversing a lifeless continent after a plague has wiped out humanity. Car-by-abandoned- car, house-by-empty-house, they inch towards Nova Scotia in search of their family, who Astraea believes have survived. Their progress is interrupted by the discovery of fellow survivors James and Callie. Should the siblings push on, trusting Astraea's visions, or stay to make a new life with the flesh and blood before their eyes?

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A fearless outsider’s quest for love in the digital age. Quirky and inspiring, David Matthews sticks out like a sore thumb in suburban America. Having searched for love longer than many of us have been alive, David's spent the past twenty years posting personal ads on telephone poles. But, these aren't typical fliers. Included are David's own humorous poems and personal information that may be just a little too much sharing. David's always known he was different, but he wasn't diagnosed with Asperger's until he was forty-one.