France

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Winner ? Prize of Hope, Cannes Film Festival

There is a hell, a hell on earth, and it?s a place once known as paradise.

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In the vein of the master Alfred Hitchcock, veteran French director Jacques Otmezguine blends humor and tension to create a thriller that is both fast-paced and sexy.

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All dreams are black and white.

?Spiders' legs brushing against naked skin. Unexplained noises in the dark. A hypodermic needle getting closer and closer. A dead thing trapped in a bottle of formaldehyde. A growling dog running and on the hunt. A big empty house creaking.?

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Can a love affair survive the intrusion of an illegal teenage immigrant?

Veteran Italian director Marco Simon Puccioni explores two very topical, universal themes: the struggle to recognize gay couples and immigration in this subtle, well-crafted drama starring Maria de Medeiros (Pulp Fiction, Henry and June).

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Cinequest is proud to present Oui Non, from noted independent director Jon Jost. A Parisian romance mixed with an experimental essay, it features the striking, experimental impressionism that?s always been a staple Jost, along with an intellectual airiness reminiscent of the classics of the French New Wave.

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"City of Hope? City of Friendship? City of Death?? So mutters fatigued police investigator Habib as he returns to Mashad, the holy city that guards so many memories for him. Just a cog in the Iranian justice system, he?s become more and more disillusioned with the officials he serves, and his arrival in Mashad only encourages his feeling that his superiors are interested more in asserting their power than in serving justice.

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Having finished the graveyard shift a young albino returns to her apartment to find that a vicious killer of the disabled has made her his next victim.