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One man, two missing limbs? a fascinating story of adaptation in a world fueled by the status quo.
Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2007 Mexico City Film Festival, veteran director Eva Norvind (whose daughter completed the film after her death in 2006) pays loving tribute to the strength of the human spirit and our ability to overcome any odds.
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Lina has everything a 15 -year-old would want and one thing she doesn?t?her virginity.
Poor Lina. About to graduate from junior high and she?s never had . . . you know. Her expectations about sex are a bit skewed. When her friends set her up with high school hunk, Danne, it looks like her worries are over. Sadly, Danne turns out to be as sexually sophisticated as a . . . high school kid.
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The siren song of the big city brings new opportunities and new possibilities for love and betrayal, deception, revenge and tragedy in director Zhang Yibai?s masterfully crafted ?psychodrama-cum-puzzle piece? set among five characters in Chongqing.
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In times of conflict and desperation, the road to redemption is often discovered through the route of compassion.
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The severely autistic Kriss spends his days in a psychiatric ward obsessively watching his tape of the 1940's film Pure Hearts?even if he has never seen the ending due to having an incomplete copy. Kriss is enamored with the film?s main heroine, the beautiful Linda. After he gets into a spat with a fellow patient, he is forbidden to watch his tape.
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Stan Schofield?s Parting Words is a blue-collar laughter-and-tears tale about Vince, Nick and Eddie, three best friends who grew up together and are all in love with their best friend Laura. The trouble is that not only are they all secretly in love with one girl, but all the friends are married, except Laura.
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Joel Rothman does not sleep. His wife has left him, and he can?t help himself from playing her farewell message on his answering machine over and over. His daughter is starting to demonstrate severe psychological distress due to the absence of her mother. Compounding his problems are his three new Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome patients?one who is suicidal, one who has profound anger management issues and another who is attaching emotionally to Joel in a manner which is not healthy.
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Sam and Catherine have been estranged for years, having deliberately lost sight of each other because they simply do not get along. Now, both must return home to deal with the sudden death of their mother.
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An intense tour de force, Ambulance is a fast-paced thriller about Tim and Frank, desperate and in need of fast cash to save their dying mother. They decide to rob a bank in order to raise enough money, but things go horribly wrong, and when their getaway car is blocked by the police, they grab the first vehicle they can get their hands on. And keeping with their bad luck of the day, it happens to be an ambulance.
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Cinequest is proud to open its richly diverse collection of works from around the world with the United States Premiere of José Roberto Torero?s delightful Manual For Love Stories, a freewheeling Brazilian take on the comedy of romance. Or is it the romance of comedy?