2018

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Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. When Annie must step away for the weekend, she brings on John, a home-care nurse to watch over Agnes, her critically ill aunt, in this horrifying tale. Here, phone reception is spotty; the days, dreary. Stuck in an increasingly freezing landscape, John is miles from the outside world. Yet, the noises around the house persist. As Agnes becomes temperamental, John starts neglecting her.

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When self-preservation takes precedence, no lines are left uncrossed. Siblings Amalie and Emil go through a bunch of old letters which spill some secrets that are better kept from the eyes of their mother. As they review the letters one by one, innocuous conversations and profound discussions occupy their days, that is, until an intrusive stranger ends up at their door. Now they have a secret of their own to protect! Amalie and Emil must work together to deal with their new predicament.

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Some secrets are best left that way. Fabian is an astronomer on a quest to discover the nature of an unknown object near the Cygnus constellation 37,000 light years from earth. He travels to an observatory, hoping to use its powerful telescopes to uncover the answers he seeks. One night, a strange signal provides Fabian with the hope that he might be close to solving the mystery of Cygnus. As Fabian investigates further, he finds that not all is as it appears, and he begins to wonder who he can trust in his quest for the truth. – Shari Clare Preceded by the short film: Zygote; dir.

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Home is where the hurt is. Forced to return home for his mother's funeral, police officer James Downey (Michael Rowe) finds his estranged cousin Danny Power (Matt Wells) trying to keep the family petty crime tradition alive. Danny is in way over his head as he struggles with the cycle of addiction and violence he was born into. As he watches his cousin unravel, James' childhood traumas come back to haunt him as he attempts to save what is left of the family he once desperately tried to escape.

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Will saving Adam’s life help Vince find his? With his first year of college squarely behind him, Vince Ford returns home for summer and work. As his summer path meanders through work and lackluster relationships with family and friends, Vince leaves a party early only to find Adam, a hit-and-run victim on the side of the road. When Adam goes missing a few days later, Vince feels some sort of obligation to search for him, or is he searching for something within himself? This movie binds you in their lives and the quest for meaning while bringing plenty of laughs along the way. – Kelly A.

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Cinequest culminates with celebration, laughs, and incredible guests for the World Premiere of this radically entertaining documentary. Rarely a breakout hit not only captures the Academy Award for best picture but also catapults many of its actors into new realms of stardom. Think The Godfather. Think the seminal Vietnam movie Platoon. The experiences of the actors making these masterpieces range from elation to outrage and, if told, would make movies as intriguing as the ones netting the Oscars.

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An opera by 12-year-old genius composer Alma Deutscher. Hailed as “the next Mozart” and recently profiled on 60 Minutes, 12-year-old prodigy Alma Deutscher has set the world of music and ballet on fire. “She’s the real deal,” says Alasdair Neale, former music director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra…“She’s a lovely little girl, who brings such unalloyed pleasure to what she does,” says Neale.

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Mirth and the misery of the millennials during a wild night. When Charlie and Hannah step out in the night scene of Antwerp and ingest some magical candy, a flurry of strange events begins to unfurl. Body parts talk; historical and religious characters such as Catherine the Great and even the devil himself, walk in and out. A trip to another galaxy reveals an alternate reality. This night of friendly debauchery sheds light on the inner workings of these millennials who work hard at their intellectual pursuits during the day.

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An innovator who elevated mankind. Burden of Genius tells the incredible story of one man who tilted the scales monumentally in favor of mankind in the healthcare battle. Dr. Thomas Starzl, one of the greatest surgeons of the 20th century, saw his mother die of cancer when he was young. Growing up, he was driven by the dream of conquering unbeatable diseases. In what must have seemed like fantasy or science fiction, he revolutionized medicine by being the first to successfully transplant a liver, an organ second in complexity only to the brain.

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Limits are for the limited. Summer, 1980. Blubs flash. The air: electric, buzzing. The world watches and waits. Stoic tennis great Björn Borg (Sverrir Gudnason) will compete for his fifth Wimbledon championship. His opponent: John McEnroe (Shia LaBeouf, Transformers), a terse, hot-blooded American four years his junior. Now more than ever, Borg feels the formidable pressure to live up to his own name, his iconic image. McEnroe, determined and passionate, must step out of Borg’s shadow and assert himself as “one of the greats.” The interviews. The candor. The intensity.