2015
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A daughter refuses to give in. Based on the award-winning play and popular Israeli short story, this poignant family drama follows Rivka, 19-years-old and strong-willed, who struggles to follow the conservative lifestyle of her ultra-orthodox parents in Jerusalem. Determined to break free from her parents' rigid worldview, she runs away to a secular farming community in the desert. The decision pushes the two generations to confront the chasm between their stringent views of tradition and modernity.
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One night, beyond memory, stole away the life she knew. Marie works in the office of an auto repair shop. She enjoys the camaraderie of her (male) coworkers, and enjoys stepping out with them after work now and then. Although she fancies the occasional flirtation, she is faithful to her boyfriend Richard, with whom she lives comfortably on the outskirts of town. Antoine, the boss' son, an angry, gloomy man who keeps to himself, also works at the shop. One day, Marie and Antoine's paths cross unexpectedly, and the encounter irrevocably and tragically alters the course of Marie's life.
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Her fate hangs in the balance of his memory. Kathrine and Thomas arrive for a romantic weekend together on a remote island. Away from civilization, long-simmering tensions between them begin to erupt, and Thomas' sheen of gentility crumbles, revealing a psychopathic core that shocks Kathrine. When she accidentally pushes Thomas down a flight of stairs, he awakens with amnesia, revealing once again the man with whom she fell in love. Hopeful that his confusion will last until the ferry arrives, she pretends that they are strangers to one another.
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What if right wasnt what you thought it was? Ally is dead. Her two best friends, Seth and Nole, are horrified to discover that she never updated her will after divorcing her abusive, incarcerated husband. He gets every single thing she owned - even small mementos - thanks to her sister and executrix, a stickler for the rules. When the value of the estate takes an unexpected turn into the stratosphere, Seth and Nole begin to ponder what they are willing to do for a few million dollars - including justifying a murder as a charitable act.
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What do you do when Dad dies - and then just won't go away? Mozes is a stonefaced Hungarian Buster Keaton look-alike with confidence issues. His father Janos is a self-centered authoritarian tyrant. But Janos dies, becomes a ghost - and goes through a complete personality change. Melancholic and confused, he just hangs around, can't seem to leave. Can a car mechanic-cum-psychic help? Can Mozes? And what about the rest of Mozes' loopy family, from his overbearing class-conscious aunt to his shotgun-toting adopted sister?
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The 20th century through a Mexican-American photographers lens. Though his story is largely unknown, Pedro E. Guerrero led a remarkable life photographing the work of some of the greatest artists in the world and as an integral part of the 1950s "Mad Men" advertising world. Guerrero grew up poor and the victim of segregation as a Mexican-American. But, when Guerrero was just 22, Frank Lloyd Wright took a look at his portfolio and made the spur-of-the-moment decision to hire him to photograph Taliesin West, Wright's desert home.
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Jack OConnell (Unbroken) stars as a rookie British soldier separated from his unit in a gripping, politically charged thriller. 1971, at the height of The Troubles: Gary (O'Connell) and Thommo (Jack Lowden) are teenage British army recruits, still in training. The situation gets real, however, when their unit is thrust into the line of fire and dispatched to Belfast in Northern Ireland. Needless to say, the situation gets out of hand, and when Gary is separated from the rest of his squad, he finds himself alone in the midst of a highly unpredictable war zone.
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Cinequest's 25th Anniversary culminates in spectacular fashion - with energy, celebration and a whole lot of fun. Join writer/director Victor Levin (Mad Men) and star Anton Yelchin (Star Trek) for a spectacular evening, featuring a screening of the enchanting 5 TO 7, a superbly crafted and refreshing romantic comedy featuring phenomenal performances by leads Yelchin and Berenice Marlohe (Skyfall), and brilliant supporting cast of Olivia Thirlby (Juno), Glenn Close (Damages), Eric Stoltz (Caprica), and Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon). As an aspiring writer, Brian (Yelchin) is used to rejection.
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In the silence of the heart lie all the sounds of the universe. Drops of water fizz on a hot stove. A sharpening knife hisses on crockery. A ghost hovers over a young woman, smoothing her hair. Somewhere someone sobs. In an Uzbek mountain village, four women from the four stages of life live together in a house. Silence, like a breath too long held, magnifies the sounds around them. And in their midst is Bibicha, whose unexplained vow of silence binds them all together. This is a film of stillness, of miniscule movement and moments; of hypnotic whispers; of music more felt than heard.