2005
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At some time or other growing up we have all concealed a truth from our parents. But Annika has taken it to an extreme. A year before her final exams, she has flunked out of school, a fact she cannot dare tell her adoring parents. So she creates a charade, going off to school each morning, only to hide out all day in an abandoned bus in a junkyard. And like all charades, the more Annika tries to conceal, the deeper she sinks into it, making it impossible to confess the truth.
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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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Mao Zedong?Cultural Revolution chairman, Communism icon, ?red menace.?
To those facets, The Passion of the Mao now adds ?funny guy.? In this rollicking documentary, the life and times of the People?s Republic of China dictator are examined to dispel many of the misconceptions regarding Mao, as well as to shed new light onto the many contradictions.
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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.
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Dani Breznitz? life is falling apart at the seams. A fortysomething detective on the Tel Aviv Police Force, his childless marriage is a joke, and Eva, his sexy mistress, ends their torrid affair. Complicating matters, he has just been released from the hospital after a near fatal car accident, and his hostile superior has handed him an insignificant case, which Dani considers beneath him. But when an unknown body is found in the woods, and nobody cares, Dani finds a cause he can believe in.
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Jens Christian is a highly respected judge and chairman of the Danish Refugee Board. Before him is a controversial case involving a poet and political activist who is seeking asylum for fear of a certain death if he is returned to his home country. When Jens pronounces his decision, the poet commits an unspeakable act and launches Jens into a political and professional crisis.
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The Hamiltons seem to be the picture-perfect American family. They are hardworking community members: giving to their local charities, attending Town Hall meetings and always respectful to their neighbors... except for the fact that they usually end up killing them.
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Like most immigrants, Arjun Singh brought his family to America with the hope of creating a better life. So far, his wishes have been realized, and the future looks promising. One dream remains: the marriage of his daughter, Simrun, to a promising family friend.
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Cinequest is proud to offer a showing of both the legendary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, a remarkable study of the possibilities of cinema first shown in 1968, with its 2005 companion piece, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½.
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What separates each of us from the other? Director Lynne Sachs explores this complex question and others in her haunting new film States of Unbelonging?a beautiful poetic journey that searches for how one person understands another across cultural, historical and political divides.