2005
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18-year-old Hiroko is driven by her passion for the blues, a passion incomprehensible to her protective single mother or her oblivious convenience store co-workers in Osaka. Desperate for the intensity of feeling the music promises, Hiroko sets out alone in the night for Chicago, hell-bent on becoming a blues singer.
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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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From the courageous and provocative filmmaker Deepa Mehta comes Water, the profoundly moving and compellingly vibrant story of India?s ?widow houses,? where women of all ages are taken to live (even today) apart from society following the deaths of their husbands.
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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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Viewers' Voice Winner
This story is set on a very hot day. It is all about Conehead and a runaway ice-cream van.
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Winning the Battle is the story of three women from Puerto Rico who are brought up in different environments; but who will find strength through their friendships with each other to overcome immense obstacles.
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The time-honored tale of young lovers on the run from the law gets a thoroughly modern Central European makeover in director Krisztina Deák?s provocative yet determinedly low-key character study, Who the Hell's Bonnie and Clyde.
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The West Wittering Affair is a romantic-sex-comedy of errors about four confused love-hungry Londoners for whom life can never be the same after one crazy weekend away in the country. Jamie has been invited to a weekend retreat in the English countryside, where he discovers that the two women staying there are both after his body. Usually a loser with women, how can he go wrong? Except that what starts out as a dream come true ends up as a comic nightmare.
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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.