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A stylish zombie love story with a dry sense of humor, Graveyard Alive - A Zombie Nurse in Love assumes the eerie setting of a hospital, a veritable restaurant for ravished ghouls. Patsy, an introverted nurse, reads romance novels and watches soaps. When a decaying lumberjack manages to bite our wallflower heroine, she morphs into a flesh eating sex-kitten intent on winning back her old sweetheart, the conceited and clueless Dr. Dox.
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Roman has a passionless life. A good son, whose best friend is his elderly mother, Roman is always left out of the camaraderie with his boisterous colleagues at work. But when he is invited to attend the "women's carnival" masquerade party, his life changes forever. After meeting the mysterious Stella and discovering love for the first time, Roman witnesses the beating of a young man in a Zorro costume. When his offer to help is turned down, he returns to Stella, only to find that she has disappeared.
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Iva and Maria, a young lesbian couple in Croatia's capital city, Zagreb, just want to find a quiet place to live together and be left alone. Unfortunately, the apartment building they choose, a half hidden place down by the train tracks, couldn't have been a worse choice. The place is like something from a Balkan David Lynch universe; the tenants - who at first glance seem nice and normal enough - are a crazy-quilt of eccentrics who cover just about every extreme of society's spectrum, and the landlady might have stepped from an Abel Ferrara fever dream.
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As gritty and uncondescending as the movies of Ken Loach (My Name Is Joe, Sweet Sixteen), Eila displays enormous power in a woman's battle for justice and dignity. Based on true events, it is a bracing tribute to the strength of humanity in even the bleakest of situations. For Eila, life boils down to cleaning the floors of a government building and making sure her delinquent son keeps out of trouble. Things change when, unjustly laid off from her job, she finds the strength to join her colleagues in striking for better working conditions and bringing action against the State.
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Eva has just returned from a glorious few days at the beach with her lover. Upbeat and radiantly in love, she says a few words to her neighbor before stepping inside her nondescript flat. And it is there, inside her apartment, we witness both the unraveling of a love affair and the emotional state of a yearning woman, who just might be on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Displaying an intense virtuosity, Patricia Kovacs is mesmerizing in a role that has her dominating the screen, primarily with the use of internal dialogue and phone conversations to her unseen lover.
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Lu Xuechang's Cala, My Dog! is a philosophical tale reflecting the extraordinary struggle of an ordinary worker to reclaim his pet, his family...and himself. Internationally acclaimed, award winning actor Ge You (Big Shot's Funeral, Best Actor of the 47th Cannes Film Festival) stars as an ordinary factory employee, Lao Er, who trudges between the family home and the factory floor every day, constantly in search of his dignity and manhood.
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"I believe that drinking music is the best thing in life. Music is magic and it is a privilege to live with it." - Montserrat Caball?. If you love opera, or even have only an interest in music, immerse yourself in this sensational musical highlighting the career of one of the greatest divas of all time, Montserrat Caball?. Featuring renowned performances in the world's most illustrious Opera Houses and wonderfully inspired words from peers and the legend herself - who brings her warmth to the screen as our host - director Antonio A Farr?'s Caball?
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Two brothers born from the same parents. Oddly, Doug is white and Donnie, black. Yet, it is more than just the color of their skin that makes the two men drastically different. They do share one thing, however - a common goal: money! So, when their mother, whom they have never met, dies, and they are brought together to claim the trailer park she left her two sons, they find themselves challenged to their limits emotionally and physically.
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Being, a film of uncompromising attitude and quality, relentlessly grim, insistently artistic, is a true "lost Maverick." Because Being, originally filmed in 1991, in Russia, is inherently and intensely critical of the social conditions in Soviet Russia, the Soviet censors seized it. Being sat shelved in the archives for nearly ten years, until 2000, when the Polish director, Andrzej Czarnecki, personally bought the uncompleted film outright, took it to Poland and completed it.
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After winning several awards at international film festivals, director Ignacio Ort?z Cruz's critically applauded Bedtime Fairy Tales for Crocodiles arrives at Cinequest to wow audiences with its unique vision of life and death in Mexican territory. Upon learning that his father may be dying, Arcangel hurries back to his crumbling childhood home in a remote part of Mexico. Though suffering from insomnia and in danger of losing his family and career, he is determined to see him one last time. What he finds is not just a path to his past, but to the history of his family and country.