2005

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A compelling series of shorts for today?s world, Show and Tell takes a look at that which we show every day and what we have to say about it. Stories are diverse, featuring Debra Jo Rupp (That 70?s Show) as a stand-up comic trying to make us hate her ex, explorations of how gay youth deal with their sexuality, a Yiddish tale of a little girl and her rabbi father and a woman waiting to see how a storm will ravage her world. Show and Tell makes you take a look at the world around you?and the ones we hope are never seen.

Chris Garcia

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Perhaps no area of film has changed so much over the years as animation. Animated World explores the depths of animation through thirteen films that range from the small and poignant to the over-the-top and uproariously funny. Computer animation has changed the world of film and is well represented with films of an artist?s interview, a tale of the space age, Dragons and Knights and political commentary. Stop motion animation stories feature a teddy bear in love, Greek produced tragedy, a tale of an egg and a strange balloon.

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This year, Cinequest is pleased to present the fantastic crop of documentaries that comprise this year?s DocuNation. The slate of films covers the world around us, beneath us and behind the veil through cameras wielded with truth and grace. Several local works search out the truth behind our peculiar way of Bay Area living. DocuNation will introduce the audience to fascinating people, like an opinionated Centurian, a sea urchin diver or an early computer graphics pioneer and his daughter. Digital video lives with traditional film in a truly diverse DocuNation.

Chris Garcia

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Short films try to raise us to get a better look at the world that all too often passes us by. This program of shorts takes a look at worlds both foreign and familiar from perspectives we seldom encounter.

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There are as many types of funny as there are types of people to laugh, and this year Cinequest endeavors to bring our loyal audiences a broad sampler platter of hilarity. Through odd-colored glasses, we are treated to a world where robots assist children until it is time to musically march off to war, where your arch-nemesis is also your lover, and where writing haiku can also get you all the Spam you can handle.

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48 Hour Film Project - Best of 2004
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What is the 48 Hour Film Project? It's a chance to stop talking and start filming! The premise? It?s an international competition where filmmaking teams have just one weekend to make a short film. All creativity?writing, shooting, editing and adding a musical soundtrack?must occur in a 48-hour window beginning on a Friday evening at 7 o?clock and ending Sunday at 7 o?clock.

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Cinequest is honored to present the festival premiere of Nick Redman?s glorious look at one of cinema?s greatest masterpiece?s, Sam Peckinpah?s The Wild Bunch.

Conceived as a sequel to the Oscar-nominated The Wild Bunch: An Album In Montage (Cinequest, 1996), A Simple Adventure Story: Sam Peckinpah, Mexico And The Wild Bunch, unveils yet another remarkable discovery in the Warner Bros vaults?a treasure trove of never-before-seen, Technicolor and Techniscope outtakes from the movie's remarkable shoot in Northern Mexico.

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Three blind sisters, Regina, Marie and Conceição, linked by an unusual twist of fate, spend their lives singing and playing ganzá for spare change in the street markets of poverty-stricken northeast Brazil. Their story encompasses an intricate tale of love and death, anguish and art.

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Morning comes to a small town in Norway, where the lives of various characters intertwine in Chlorox, Ammonia and Coffee, a comedy-drama as unique and unpredictable as its title. Insightful and entertaining, it suggests a Robert Altman ensemble piece but directed with Dogma 95 edginess.

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Twenty-three-year-old Santiago has just returned from the Peru-Ecuador war to discover that he and his soldier friends have no place in ordinary Peruvian society. The years he has missed weigh heavily, and without a proper education, he cannot find a decent job. His military buddies try to recruit Santiago for a robbery, but he decides to drive a cab while taking a part-time computer course.