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The car in America truly is a cultural experience. From your first drive-in movie to your first kiss, Americans have a love affair with their cars. From Vintage 31, a custom car parts shop to Bennett Lane Winery, which runs its own car in the NASCAR West circuit, the love of the classic seems to stem from a love for speed. Threading each story together are fast facts about cars that will leave you with enough trivia to dazzle your friends. For more than a century, the world?s fascination with cars has fueled innovation and tested the limits of our imagination.
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Cinequest is proud to present Cortos de Mexico, a Spanish-language shorts program that showcases the breadth of talent from Mexico?a spectacular group of films that celebrate the life and brilliance of a thriving artistic culture. The program?s variety of moods is evident in the blend of irony and suspense, comedy and drama to the magical and surreal. Cortos de Mexico is also remarkable for its diverse array of styles?featuring animation, action or dream-like imagery. One thing is for sure, each short holds something new, something bold and something
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What is the 48 Hour Film Project? It?s a chance to stop talking and start filming! In this international competition, filmmaking teams have just one weekend to make a short film. All creativity writing, shooting, editing and adding a musical soundtrack ?must be done in a 48-hour window beginning on a Friday evening at 7 pm and ending Sunday at 7 pm. Just 15 minutes before the starting gun, the teams pull their genre from a hat. Sci-fi, comedy, horror, romance, mystery, superhero ? the teams have to be ready for anything!
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Imagine walking through the streets of San Francisco while the army works through the crowd carrying assault rifles and machine guns. This is the situation in which Jamal Dajani and David Michaelis find themselves on a visit together to their home city of Jerusalem. Though one is Palestinian and the other Israeli, both are seeking answers to an age-old conflict?How can peace be restored to the Middle East?
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Cinequest is proud to present the dynamic Opening Night Film Thank You for Smoking, a fiercely satirical look at today?s ?culture of spin.?
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From the courageous and provocative filmmaker Deepa Mehta comes Water, the profoundly moving and compellingly vibrant story of India?s ?widow houses,? where women of all ages are taken to live (even today) apart from society following the deaths of their husbands.
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Winning the Battle is the story of three women from Puerto Rico who are brought up in different environments; but who will find strength through their friendships with each other to overcome immense obstacles.
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Whole New Thing is the delightfully unconventional story of one rather exceptional thirteen-year-old boy. Nothing is simple for Emerson is anymore. Unlike most boys his age, he is clever, well-adjusted and can hold his own in conversation with most adults.
Home schooled by his eco-hippie parents, he has been raised in a household of casual nudity and openness about sex. But when his poor math skills force him into the local school, the change for Emerson?as well as those around him?proves to be seismic.
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The time-honored tale of young lovers on the run from the law gets a thoroughly modern Central European makeover in director Krisztina Deák?s provocative yet determinedly low-key character study, Who the Hell's Bonnie and Clyde.
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The West Wittering Affair is a romantic-sex-comedy of errors about four confused love-hungry Londoners for whom life can never be the same after one crazy weekend away in the country. Jamie has been invited to a weekend retreat in the English countryside, where he discovers that the two women staying there are both after his body. Usually a loser with women, how can he go wrong? Except that what starts out as a dream come true ends up as a comic nightmare.