2005
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Spain in the 1980s. Galicia is one of the primary points for illegal drugs to enter the country. Pilar, fortyish, middle-class wife and mother of three, is faced with a great challenge: her 17-year-old son, Fito, has become addicted to heroin. She feels personally guilty and ashamed, at first. Then Fito slides into crime and her entire family is affected.
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Alice?s Diner is a haven for the hopeless. Sketchy past down on your luck or just getting through life, Alice has a place for you. Benno (played by the incomparable Kurtwood Smith, Dead Poet?s Society, That 70?s Show) is the cook. Years of being the muscle and cracking kneecaps has grizzled him beyond his years. Scotty, the utility guy, is fresh from juvi and can?t seem to shake his petty thief habits. And Joe is the well-intentioned but ultimately dim-witted deliveryman.
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Filmmaker Joe Cultrera and his brother, Paul, were raised as good Catholics in the early Sixties. But thirty years later Paul revealed to Joe a secret that had been tormenting him all those years - he had been sexually abused by the Clergy.
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Aku Louhimies' (Lovers and Leavers ? Winner of Cinequest?s Best Narrative Feature, 2003) hard-hitting Frozen Land was inspired by Leo Tolstoy's short story Faux Billet, in which mischance is passed from one person to another. Winning numerous awards at the Gothenburg Film Festival, including Best Nordic Film, Frozen Land delves into the territories of courage, consequence and survival.
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Cinequest is proud to have this special World Premiere of this fascinating new documentary.
It is now known as the ?Blood in the Water Match? and the focal point of one of the most politicized sports matches every played?the Hungarian water polo team collides with the world class Russian team in the 1956 Olympic Games.
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Sam and Catherine have been estranged for years, having deliberately lost sight of each other because they simply do not get along. Now, both must return home to deal with the sudden death of their mother.
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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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Somewhere in the Eastern European shadowland between the surreal and the absurd, there stands a hunter?s lodge, where the male descendants have returned to honor their dead grandfather, inspect the premises and continue a time-honored family hunting. But things are not as they once were, and what once seemed straightforward is now vague and just a little menacing.
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Phillipe, who daydreams about traveling in space, is stuck in a dead-end job as a telemarketer. He keeps delaying the defense of his doctoral dissertation, in which he asserts that man?s desire to explore space stems from his own narcissicism. When Phillipe?s mother dies, he realizes that he is alone in the world, and seeks to reconcile with his younger brother, a successful TV weatherman. But for an alienated man who believes that people are only interested in themselves, it is easier to search the mysteries of the universe than to relate to others on this planet.
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At the heart of Falling... In Love are four people. Alan is a self-centered, self-abasing, cynical young man, easily swayed, up for anything, who by day parks cars at a ?love motel? and by night is involved with gamblers as an underground boxer.