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Imagine Mad Max meeting Bram Stoker with imagery right out of Fellini. Add some Bunuel, Bergman and Leone, a touch of Euripedes, Chekov and Ionesco with a twist of Beastmaster, and you have some idea how this film plays. Beginning with a quote from the Book of Genesis prophesizing destruction, Goodbye, 20th Century!

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Jakub, an ex-missionary, lives alone on a deserted island. Well, almost alone. He's got his horse, a hive of bees, and the fighter planes that use the island for nighttime bombing missions. The arrival of a young, mute boy, however, will alter Jakub's not-so-peaceful existence. Jakub's motives are normal enough - simple human companionship - and he quickly schools the boy on their environment. For starters, during bombing runs, Jakub takes the boy to the church tower to watch the explosions through a periscope. Jakub never forces the boy to speak.

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Cinequest is thrilled to present the second part of the international powerhouse FRAGMENTS: JERUSALEM. This special event will have filmmaker Ron Havilio (Israel) in attendance. The specially priced ticket will include the Closing Night Party which follows at Art-Tech Gallery, 89 South First Street (two blocks from the Theatre). (Camera 3) Tickets for this very special event will be only $15 thanks to Applied Materials' generous subsidy. Ron Havilio is a Jerusalem filmmaker who has dedicated the last twelve years of his life to one film.

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America in the 1960s was a tumultuous era of social activism and change. Spurred by world events, the Black struggle for civil rights, and the anti-war protests, Puerto Rican and Latino communities organized to fight for economic and social justice. One major group, The Young Lords, rose up in the barrios of New York and left a legacy of community empowerment. The Young Lords were a paramilitary organization that cleaned the streets, spearheaded public health and educational initiatives, and demanded that the city address the concerns of their community.

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In Columbia, a country fraught with violence, poverty, and rampant political corruption, a record number of candidates with no prior political experience ran for congress in 1998. Running for Bogota traces the campaigns of two such novices: Claudia Vasquez, a businesswoman, and Leonor Gonzalez Mina, a popular actress and singer known as "La Negra Grande de Columbia" Faced with the distrust of a people long jaded by promises of reform, the two women take to the streets to gain support and to learn from those they wish to represent.

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In a modern Latin American police state, everyday corruption has entered the digital domain. The murder of an important trade union leader seems at first to be just another ordinary crime of passion, one of the hundreds that occur every day in Mexico City. But of course, nothing is as it seems, and the murder soon turns out to be linked to a widespread money laundering operation. Marco Antonio, an unemployed reporter, is asked to write a major article about the crime. At the same time, Maga?a, a mediocre lawyer, is hired to defend Claudia Jimenez, who is accused of the crime.

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Living isn't always easy. Luckily there are your friends to help you through. Five women, all edging the wrong side of 40, face life's ups and downs together with laughter, tears and sometimes irony. Their only imperative: live, love and live some more... Linda, a prime-time television reporter seeks to find what women in her age group want.

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Cinequest is extremely pleased to add this special screening of Greg Tennant's The Distraction, the story of a young man struggling between instinct and rationality in his new marriage, as his attraction to another woman leads to obsession. Paul is confident in his love for his wife Ally. Taking a new job far from his home, life and friends is a challenge for Paul until he meets co-worker Leslie. Immediately attracted to Leslie, their growing friendship becomes a ray of light in Paul's otherwise mundane existence.

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As part of our tribute to Academy Award winning cinematographer, Vilmos Zsigmond, we're very pleased to present Deliverance. Zsigmond, whose career spans four decades, lives up to the demands of James Dickey's novel and screenplay. Dickey delves into the hearts of men to expose the ugly savagery that lurks just beneath the surface of modern urbanites. Four sportsmen, (Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ronny Cox, and Ned Beatty) take a wilderness canoe trip that leads from idyllic nature to shocking violence and perversion at the hands of the local hillbillies.

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Is memory dormant storage, or can it be retreived and altered? Computer genius, Emmy, is determined to find out. Her obsession with Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852), has driven her to explore the outer reaches of cyberspace, but her desperate attempts to communicate technologically with Ada threaten to destroy both her and her unborn child. Using her own genetic code to collapse time and link her world with Ada's, Emmy must access and store AdaÕs knowledge before it is too late. Ada, daughter of Lord Byron, is now widely recognized as the first computer programmer.