France

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?The best American film of the year is about?.sheep!? - Jay Kuehner (Cinema Scope)

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Sometimes you have to get lost to find the way to what you really want and what you really need.

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Start the twentieth anniversary celebration of Cinequest in its tradition of discovering electrifying cinema. Cinequest kicks off with a powerhouse, starring Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated Brian Cox (Match Point, Troy, The Bourne Identity) and emerging master Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine, Gigantic). Dagur Kári (Noi the Albino) directs, nurturing flawless performances from Cox and Dano while delivering a spectacular cinematic experience. And at its core, its story, The Good Heart resonates with quirks and jabs that pack the considerable punch.

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With a nostalgic air, the man without a head dances with lively steps as he prepares himself for the romantic rendezvous. Tonight he will declare his love.

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Albania: A land still all but unknown, even to its nearest neighbors in Europe. Yet, from a land where the everyday verges on the surreal, a land with no international train service, a land that has seen its population dwindle with over 600,000 of its best and brightest emigrated-comes this wild and wooly film, brimming with energy, chaos, and, amidst the detritus of change run amok, hope and love. Niku and Klara, each living with their parents in Albania's capital city, Tirana, are very much in love.

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Director Noah Nuer presents a heartwarming comedy about two young Parisians who come together to improve each other's lives. Get a Way urges its characters and its viewers to change the course of their future-to stop hiding from life and start embracing it. Didier is a disaffected young man with no apparent direction and a tenuous relationship with his uptight sister, Claire. After a bad encounter with his absent father, Didier nearly runs his van into Anne, a student upset about failing her exams and at odds with her strict parents.

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Maxime arrives in Paris. He's an innocent, a clairvoyant, and a bit of a lunatic: operating solely on instinct and impulse, he is, in fact, a modern Candide, or perhaps d'Artagnan. He's looking for Justine, the woman he loved when he was in India. Instead, he finds Jack, an American businessman and his total opposite. Through unlikely circumstances, Maxime and Jack become fast friends, and when Maxime leaves for India to find Justine, Jack decides to drop everything and go along with him. Both, however, are in for a big surprise.

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Too Much Flesh smolders with a sensual tale of a sexual revolution's effects on a small town. Lyle stands naked in a cornfield in a state nearing ecstasy, but it is mixed with an uneasy self-consciousness. He looks around nervously, runs through the field for a while, and then stops again to sway amidst the dry stalks. So begins Too Much Flesh, a tale of sexual discovery set against small-town repression. Lyle is in an unconsummated marriage to Amy. Their marriage is one of convenience and economics, as their union has made it possible for the town to continue its tradition of farming.

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Lovers is the story of a young French woman, Jeanne, and her Yugoslavian lover, Dragan. Jeanne meets Dragan, a painter, who is living illegally in France and who doesn't speak French very well, but does know English. Language, however, is not their only problem. The immigration authorities want to deport Dragan. A love story meant for a lifetime is suddenly threatened to be cut short and requires desperate measures. Lovers puts human faces on a social problem and also shows the conflict between individuals who have their own personal issues as all lovers have.

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Mamlakat loves Shakespeare, loves the theatre and wants to be an actress, but she lives in a small village isolated in an arid region of Central Asia, next to a large sea. So, why shouldn't this seventeen-year-old girl believe that the mysterious, handsome stranger is a friend of Tom Cruise? He wouldn't lie about such a thing. The next thing she knows, she is pregnant, desperate and on a quest to restore the family honor by finding the cowardly inseminator who seduced her.