United States
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Are our lives predetermined? Is it possible to change fate? These are the questions addressed in "Fumi and the Bad Luck Foot", a heartwarming tale of female empowerment. Fumi is a young girl whose left foot attracts bad luck. This affliction, which instigates infant electrocution, a shotgun barrage, and a moose attack, drives her to the brink of despair until she realizes that the source of her unhappiness might just be her most powerful asset.
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Complete with mindless humanoids and talking cats, 'Robots Are Blue' is an absurd comedy about life in the future. In 2021, robots live and work among humans. Tensions rise at the workplace when John (a robot) writes Tom a poem for his birthday. Tom tries to silence his 'worker' before he is found out and reprogrammed. When upper management gets wind of the situation, Tom must decide whether to expose himself as a sympathizer or live in an opressive work environment under the cloak of secrecy.
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Obscura opens the hidden life of Benoit - a man trapped by extreme photosensitivity...a hermit, plunged indoors near total darkness. How can such a being share in the richness of life? The answer is the traces of light flowing through several self-made pinhole cameras (camera obscuras), used to project images of his beloved Cecil, the woman across the street.
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Lanie sings in a grubby bar in Queens, but tonight she shows up five hours late. It?s after closing and she has a proposition for Ross, who runs the joint. She wants him to take topless pictures of her to send in to Playboy?this will be the ticket out of her troubled, dead-end life. Scar-faced Ross is older, gruff, and has a shadowy past. He doesn't seem to think much of her naive plan. Gradually, she starts to come on to him, confident that he might easily be seduced.
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This documentary showcases the 'Floating World' theme of the 2002 Burning Man Festival capturing the energy, spirituality and passion of the annual event. It details many of the incredible art installations, the imagination and originality that went into their creation, and the artists who conceived them.
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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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On June 14th, 2003, The New York Times ran a photograph on its front page of an American soldier kneeling and embracing one of his fellow men. Upon reading the caption, the reader discovers the cause of the soldier?s anguish: Iraqi children have been maimed by unexploded battlefield ordinance. This image of war in the 21st Century begs for a back story. Beyond the immediate tragedy of the destruction of innocent lives, the events that produced this image had to reflect something fundamental about this particular war, for both the men in the photo and for us, their fellow Americans.
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Medical School. First year. First day. Students are thrown into their Gross Anatomy class where they see their own mortalities reflected in the dead bodies that lay before them?waiting to be cut up. Some students are reverent. Others turn to humor to lessen the horror in front of their faces.
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SPECIAL WORK IN PROGRESS SCREENING
It is rare that Cinequest shows a work in progress, but Jason Wulfsohn?s Tracing Cowboys is one of those extraordinary films; a shining example of the power of cinematic artistry to convey a story of beauty, one of life and death, and one that speaks to us all.
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According to recent studies, four million women in the U.S. alone remain sexually unsatisfied. Nearly four decades after ?the sexual revolution,? that?s not exactly progress.