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Irate producers. Condescending critics. Production is about to start on your next film. Your girlfriend is leaving you. Your lover is upset. And, your best friend is having a midlife crisis too. Life is tough for an 8 1/2-year-old director! (A fresh take on Fellini’s masterpiece.) Plays before the feature film Sauti (Voice).

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Cinequest’s 2017 program is filled with passion that elevates us to laugh, be inspired and thrilled, to celebrate, to think innovatively, and to embrace love.

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What is more powerful? One’s past or one’s future? Attempting to integrate her mother's traditions with her own dreams, Ethiopian-born Elenie Tariku’s life is destroyed when a mysterious crime in New York takes the life of her only brother. As Elenie searches for the truth behind his death, her life intertwines with an intriguing man whose own personal turmoil brings them together for better or worse.

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How does a grown man learn to grow up? Actor Bo is famous for only one thing: an insurance commercial. Sick of failing to launch his career and nostalgic for his glory days as a high school football star, Bo heads home for his high school reunion. When footage of a drunk Bo goes viral, he finds himself stuck in his hometown for a little longer (under house arrest, no less) than he’d planned and forges an unlikely friendship with the shy boy, Elliot, across the street who’s desperate to learn how to play football.

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The movie the police couldn't erase. Behind the shimmering utopia of Las Vegas lies a police department with individuals willing to go to any lengths to cover up its crimes. What Happened In Vegas exposes the truth in three murder cases where all of the victims were shot by cops. With the help of victims’ friends and family, this shocking and heartbreaking documentary weaves its way through the mountain of lies spewed from top officials in the department.

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Reunited and it feels so…well, I guess, okay? In the years since sisters Amy and Shannon were little kids, you would expect their relationship to have matured. You’d be wrong. Thrust back into each other’s lives by the impending death of their grandmother, their reunion is anything but comfortable. The small town vibe is repulsive to Amy of Hollywood, who just can’t seem to find a decent cup of coffee anywhere (but vodka seems to be a decent replacement), forcing the more reserved Shannon to adapt to Amy’s wild ways.

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Amidst a culture where connection is almost impossible to maintain, how do we choose to live? The darkest hour is just before the dawn. For a parent, what is darker than the loss of a child? Neal has it all: the foreign cars, the Palo Alto mansion, a stunning wife, and on top of it all, he's the father to two beautiful girls. But like Icarus flying too close to the sun, his life comes crashing down with the suicide of his youngest daughter.

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Irina Bjorklund (The American), Harry Hamiln (LA Law), and Edoardo Ballerini (The Sopranos) come together in this multi-narrative drama examining the strange life of artists. All the world’s a stage, but some don’t know they’re merely players. During the opening night of his newest stage creation, controlling director Skene (Edoardo Ballerini) reflects on his latest collaboration with his playwright Jacqueline (Irina Bjorklund).

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Separated in infancy, linked together through kinship. The Twinning Reaction examines the human costs of an infamous research project: the 1960s Neubauer-Bernard study of separated twins. In the nature v. nurture study, twins were separated in infancy by an adoption agency, then tested for multiple years by psychiatrists from a New York research facility. Shockingly, the adoptive parents of these twins were never told their baby had an “other” living in the same metropolitan area -- some just a few miles away.

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The pride of a father. The love of a wife. The soul of a rebel. The heart of a champion. Sam Neill (Jurassic Park), Jack Lowden (Dunkirk), and Peter Mullan (Trainspotting) star in the timeless and inspirational tale of the real-life founders of the modern game of golf. In St. Andrew’s Scotland in 1866, 15-year-old Tommy Morris (Lowden) is an avid golfer like his legendary father Tom Morris (Mullan), the founder and three-time winner of The Open Championship, the first major golf tournament.