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The Art Of Flight is the story of three people ? a refugee from southern Sudan, a human rights activist from northern Sudan and an American journalist in self-imposed exile ? all living in Cairo. For very different reasons, the trio has found themselves struggling to survive in Egypt ? a U.S.-backed dictatorship that has reluctantly become their home. The film explores all three characters relationships as they cross paths for a fleeting moment in time.
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Certainly one of the most fascinating films in this year?s festival, Yang Chao?s evocative Passages is a masterpiece of modern cinema?a brilliant mosaic of life in China; filled with haunting landscapes and beautiful cinematography.
Si Xu and his girlfriend, both 18, live and study in a provincial town where their future looks fairly bleak. Unsurprisingly, they aren't particularly interested in finishing school and would rather earn money to head to the big city.
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Blazing Saddles did it to the Western. Airplane did it to the Disaster Flick. Scary Movie did it to the Horror Film. Not Another Teen Movie did it to the, uh, Teen Movie. And now, it?s time for Independent Films to get what they got comin? to ?em.
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Charlie has had better days. A seemingly dim-witted safecracker, Charlie (otherwise known as ?The Ox?) is recruited by a gang of seasoned crooks, only to find himself cheated out of the loot and laughed out of town.
But his new partners really haven?t any idea who they are dealing with, and no one double-crosses Charlie. It does not take long for him to devise a plan to get back what is rightfully his, restore his reputation and teach his friends and expensive lesson. Of course, nothing ever really goes exactly as planned?
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48 Hour Film Project - Best of 2004
90min
What is the 48 Hour Film Project? It's a chance to stop talking and start filming! The premise? It?s an international competition where filmmaking teams have just one weekend to make a short film. All creativity?writing, shooting, editing and adding a musical soundtrack?must occur in a 48-hour window beginning on a Friday evening at 7 o?clock and ending Sunday at 7 o?clock.
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Cinequest is honored to present the festival premiere of Nick Redman?s glorious look at one of cinema?s greatest masterpiece?s, Sam Peckinpah?s The Wild Bunch.
Conceived as a sequel to the Oscar-nominated The Wild Bunch: An Album In Montage (Cinequest, 1996), A Simple Adventure Story: Sam Peckinpah, Mexico And The Wild Bunch, unveils yet another remarkable discovery in the Warner Bros vaults?a treasure trove of never-before-seen, Technicolor and Techniscope outtakes from the movie's remarkable shoot in Northern Mexico.
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Three blind sisters, Regina, Marie and Conceição, linked by an unusual twist of fate, spend their lives singing and playing ganzá for spare change in the street markets of poverty-stricken northeast Brazil. Their story encompasses an intricate tale of love and death, anguish and art.
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Morning comes to a small town in Norway, where the lives of various characters intertwine in Chlorox, Ammonia and Coffee, a comedy-drama as unique and unpredictable as its title. Insightful and entertaining, it suggests a Robert Altman ensemble piece but directed with Dogma 95 edginess.
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Twenty-three-year-old Santiago has just returned from the Peru-Ecuador war to discover that he and his soldier friends have no place in ordinary Peruvian society. The years he has missed weigh heavily, and without a proper education, he cannot find a decent job. His military buddies try to recruit Santiago for a robbery, but he decides to drive a cab while taking a part-time computer course.
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Life goes on and nothing much happens in snowy Woodland Cree, where the Fox family lives as part of the wintry community. Things change, however, when 75-year-old Martin suddenly decides to travel to Nashville in search of evidence that Hank Williams, his longtime hero, has really died.