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What makes you laugh? Dark comedies, twisted tales, screwball farce? Well, whatever you are into, this series has it. Comedy Favorites has been a beloved part of past festivals, and this year will be no exception.

Season:
2001
Director:
Chiara Edmands

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Storytelling is the essence of so much in African American culture, we often forget that stories can teach and entertain. Reflecting on history, this is a gut-wrenching tale about the injustice of slavery.

Season:
2001
Director:
Alphonzo Wesson

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A powerful, engaging film that explores the multifaceted, ever-volatile relationship between American black and white women. Set a few months after the historic O.J. Simpson verdict.

Season:
2001
Director:
Erma Elzy-Jones

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A writer with writer's block has his schedule diverted by his girlfriend, accusing him of two-timing.

Season:
2001
Director:
Michael Buffong

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An Eritrean woman, with the dark skin of an African but the mindset of a Swede, questions herself about race, identity, racism and the raw emotions that plague so many on this ever-shrinking planet.

Season:
2001
Director:
Aida Ghidey

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They say 95 percent of all communication is nonverbal. Find out what happens to an American black man when he's not on U.S. soil--immersed in a language not his own, robbed of his ability to communicate with words.

Season:
2001
Director:
Aaron Woolfolk

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Enter the land of magic realism in this lyric, provocative film that delves into an incredible range of themes: poverty, youth, beauty, exclusion and violence.

Season:
2001
Director:
Palesa Letlaka-Nkosi

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A behind the closed-door conversation inside the men's lavatory, providing a clever rhetoric of Washington D.C. and its bureaucracy's alternative motives.

Season:
2001
Director:
Edgar Patterson Davis

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The Bay Area is home to a robust, fiercely independent film community, and Cinequest takes great pleasure in presenting the best, most exciting examples of the talent that surrounds us. The series includes work by director Pam Walton (Call to Witness, Cinequest 2000) and her look at dealing with disease in Death and Life. Breakin' the Glass covers the late, lamented San Jose Lasers, women's professional basketball league, which provided much-needed role models for not only young girls but also how a professional sports team should be run.

Season:
2001
Director:
Reid Waterer

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The Bay Area is home to a robust, fiercely independent film community, and Cinequest takes great pleasure in presenting the best, most exciting examples of the talent that surrounds us. The series includes work by director Pam Walton (Call to Witness, Cinequest 2000) and her look at dealing with disease in Death and Life. Breakin' the Glass covers the late, lamented San Jose Lasers, women's professional basketball league, which provided much-needed role models for not only young girls but also how a professional sports team should be run.

Season:
2001
Director:
M. Leech and Leon Corcos
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