2005

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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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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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A modern-day Robin Hood, Guru steals food to give to the poor in urban India. But this is merely a token gesture in Guruâ??s long range plan to alter the widening gap between the â??haves,â? of which he is one, and the â??have-nots,â? in what he views as his culturally corrupt country. Enlisting the beautiful Shireen and his newfound friend, Nezar, who is embarrassed to admit to Shireen that he makes coffee at her local coffeehouse, the three question the ethics and morals of their society.

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Presented by Comcast. Cinequest comes to a closing with one of its tastiest treats, the inspired Norwegian charmer My Jealous Barber, one of the warmest and funniest European comedies since My Life as a Dog.

When love starts intruding on how you get your hair cut, what?s a guy to do? That?s what the young hero, Bent, asks himself when he sees his sleepy life turned upside down by the arrival of Susie, who steals his heart and, in the process, threatens his friendship to the town barber, Frank.

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Shorts Program 1: Comedy?The Final Frontier

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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Otherwise know as our discovery section, Emerging Mavericks & New Visions shines its spotlight on emerging talent in modern cinema. Sometimes controversial, often provocative and always unpredictable, these 15 films run the gamut of erotic fantasy, graffiti art, absurd tales of Hungary, endearing Chaplin-esque puppeteers, zombies, serial killers, underground mine workers in South Africa and so much more.

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Cinequest Offers You the World

?Riveting?? ?Inspiring?? ?Amazing??if only we could count the number of times we have heard those exact words when audiences have described the films they have seen at Cinequest. For the past 15 years, Cinequest has been committed to screening some of the best cinema from around the world and from right in our own backyard. This year, we are especially proud of the programs we have put together?because the films and filmmakers are, quite frankly, exceptional.

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Cinequest 14 proudly offers five special presentations?an eclectic mixture of lost treasures, thought-provoking cinema, comedy-horror and spotlight on local filmmakers.

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Our most exciting Global Landscapes to date offers artistic views from 22 artists and spans the globe to bring some of the most exciting new world visions. Each film in the entire Cinequest program is wildly different from the rest, but Global Landscapes is always a special group, spotlighting specific countries or regions whose influence has a global impact on the art of cinema. In response to the continued interest and audience demand for Latino cinema, Cinequest is delighted to present its twelfth exciting Latino Film Showcase and fourth Pacific Basin Showcase.