2008

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Cinequest is proud to present a selection of shorts from 17 countries around the world that will astonish, inspire, and pique at the curiosity with an extensive range of challenging and redemptive stories. Experience documentaries fold into drama, then flow into animations and maybe end in comedies. Absurd farce will bump shoulders with real life and bored youth will transcend?it?s a roller coaster ride from one film to the next.
Part of Shorts Program 6: What Was Lost A high ranking Samoan chieftain flees home in the wake of a tragedy and winds up a taxi driver on the meanstreets of Honolulu.
Part of Shorts Program 6: What Was Lost November 22, 1963. A day that America and the world will never forget. Four decades later, as the rest of Dallas makes strides as a 21st century city, the…
Part of Shorts Program 6: What Was Lost A young novelist returns from a war torn African country and, in the process of trying to make sense of his experiences, begins an affair with a magazine…
Part of Shorts Program 6: What Was Lost A mysterious stop-motion animated film takes viewers on a visit to a hive of strange archetypal beings who inhabit a netherworld reminiscent of both Fritz…
Part of Shorts Program 6: What Was Lost A restaurant manager attempts to redeem herself after being talked into a humiliating strip search of her socially inept employee.
Part of Shorts Program 6: What Was Lost Eric and Jake are best friends...unfortunately for us all.

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Cinequest is proud to present a selection of shorts from 17 countries around the world that will astonish, inspire, and pique at the curiosity with an extensive range of challenging and redemptive stories. Experience documentaries fold into drama, then flow into animations and maybe end in comedies. Absurd farce will bump shoulders with real life and bored youth will transcend?it?s a roller coaster ride from one film to the next.
Part of Shorts Program 5: Rescue Me Anna's work day begins badly and culminates in one very special, unique moment.
Part of Shorts Program 5: Rescue Me A new Chinese immigrant smokes her last cigarette from home, evoking memories of her last day in Beijing. Back in China, America was her hazy dream of the future…
Part of Shorts Program 5: Rescue Me Choosing to love another person is a lonesome and frightening task.
Part of Shorts Program 5: Rescue Me An epitaph to memory in 11 minutes.
Part of Shorts Program 5: Rescue Me Graham lives with his tyrannical Mother and their pet Jackdaw in a Christian bookshop, trapped in the seedy outskirts of a decaying nowhere town. He and his…
Part of Shorts Program 5: Rescue Me Characters burst through yesterday's emulsion to tell the conflicting story of Frank and Charlie who sacrific their morals to find love as the two worlds collide.
Part of Shorts Program 5: Rescue Me A young thief breaks into a house. He finds a suicide letter.

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Cinequest is proud to present a selection of shorts from 17 countries around the world that will astonish, inspire, and pique at the curiosity with an extensive range of challenging and redemptive stories. Experience documentaries fold into drama, then flow into animations and maybe end in comedies. Absurd farce will bump shoulders with real life and bored youth will transcend?it?s a roller coaster ride from one film to the next.
Part of Shorts Program 4: Signals, Noise and Silence A father rediscovers his fear of confrontation, at the worst possible time.
Part of Shorts Program 4: Signals, Noise and Silence Past and present intertwine in this uniquely unnerving retro-futuristic love story as Louis returns to Paris on the eve of the end of the world…
Part of Shorts Program 4: Signals, Noise and Silence Two boys strike up an unlikely friendship in their suburban-desert town. A promising summer ensues until the departure of one boy forces a change…
Part of Shorts Program 4: Signals, Noise and Silence Dude Martin (picture Gregory Peck with a cowboy hat on and an Epiphone guitar in hand) was one of California's most successful singing cowboys.…
Part of Shorts Program 4: Signals, Noise and Silence Some people have to live their lives on a constant look out for snakes. Some even have to wear boots all the time. But people in Iceland have the…
Part of Shorts Program 4: Signals, Noise and Silence A surreal biopic of Max Ernst, bridging fine art and film.

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Cinequest is proud to present a selection of shorts from 17 countries around the world that will astonish, inspire, and pique at the curiosity with an extensive range of challenging and redemptive stories. Experience documentaries fold into drama, then flow into animations and maybe end in comedies. Absurd farce will bump shoulders with real life and bored youth will transcend?it?s a roller coaster ride from one film to the next.
Part of Shorts Program 3: Forward, Backward, Sideways Two men, one Japanese, one American, represent all the world's cultures as they learn to communicate with each other. Or not.
Part of Shorts Program 3: Forward, Backward, Sideways A contemporary thriller about a Man who lives in an old, busted up camper trailer but wakes up one morning to find himself (and it) rolling down…
Part of Shorts Program 3: Forward, Backward, Sideways We are about to activate a massive destructive force, so we ask everybody to please emote the purest intent.
Part of Shorts Program 3: Forward, Backward, Sideways An offbeat black-and-white romantic comedy... with subtitles. Written and directed by Tim Plester (the creator of cult shorts 'ANT MUZAK' and '…
Part of Shorts Program 3: Forward, Backward, Sideways Bob is a 30 year old man like all others: he walks backwards, looses his memory, his skills, like a good citizen. But one night, he wakes up in…
Part of Shorts Program 3: Forward, Backward, Sideways Please do not attempt to adjust your lifestyle.
Part of Shorts Program 3: Forward, Backward, Sideways Julie learns way too much about her new boyfriend's family over dinner.

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Cinequest is proud to present a selection of shorts from 17 countries around the world that will astonish, inspire, and pique at the curiosity with an extensive range of challenging and redemptive stories. Experience documentaries fold into drama, then flow into animations and maybe end in comedies. Absurd farce will bump shoulders with real life and bored youth will transcend?it?s a roller coaster ride from one film to the next.
Part of Shorts Program 2: Temptations One day after school, ten-year-old Kate takes a different route home.
Part of Shorts Program 2: Temptations Miguel, a famous artist, meets Sofia, a children's book publisher, in a gallery. She goes to his studio to take a flash lesson that will change her life...
Part of Shorts Program 2: Temptations An unparalleled and unique view of London - through the eyes and words of crane drivers.
Part of Shorts Program 2: Temptations Riding a bike much too small for him, 28-year-old Aren awkwardly navigates an old ladies? cruiser down an East Vancouver road. He used to have a bike, but it…
Part of Shorts Program 2: Temptations Two families. Two EXTREME situations.
Part of Shorts Program 2: Temptations An alienated single mother finds she is unable to assume a maternal role. When her life begins to unravel, she puts her daughter up for adoption before causing…
Part of Shorts Program 2: Temptations Two lonely dreamers masquerade lives that are not their own in a comic search for happiness. When they discover an uncommon connection, can love overcome lies?
Part of Shorts Program 2: Temptations Iris loves Michael. Michael loves Iris. He cares, he hugs, he takes her breath away, he smothers her. Slowly but inevitably she is driven into a dark space she…

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Cinequest is proud to present a selection of shorts from 17 countries around the world that will astonish, inspire, and pique at the curiosity with an extensive range of challenging and redemptive stories. Experience documentaries fold into drama, then flow into animations and maybe end in comedies. Absurd farce will bump shoulders with real life and bored youth will transcend?it?s a roller coaster ride from one film to the next.
Part of Shorts Program 1: Pas de Deux A Harold Pinter/Samuel Becket inspired tale of two criminals who, after meeting at a jungle gym to do a mysterious job, get crammed down a magical elevator…
Part of Shorts Program 1: Pas de Deux In an almost deserted self-service a woman is accosted by a handsome guy, offering her a brand new and quick therapy to cure her seemingly bland existence:…
Part of Shorts Program 1: Pas de Deux Their beloved New Orleans home lies in ruins. All they want is a divorce.
Part of Shorts Program 1: Pas de Deux A young boy follows his sister into a field as she sneaks out to see her boyfriend.Lost in the strange world of the cornfield, the siblings experience both fear…
Part of Shorts Program 1: Pas de Deux Searching for the cause of a blackout late one night, exhausted trainspotter Tim mistakenly enters a neighbour's apartment, blundering into a group of cultists…
Part of Shorts Program 1: Pas de Deux A man is walking down the street when he passes a flower stand. What would happen if he brought his wife a bouquet of flowers 'just because'?
Part of Shorts Program 1: Pas de Deux A young time traveler is confronted by an arrogant and hairless future version of himself.

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Filmapalooza - Winning Shorts from the 48 Hour Film Project

Part One A & B (Fri., Feb. 29th, 6:30/9:00pm at Camera 12)

Part Two C & D (Sat., Mar. 1st, 1:00/3:30pm at Camera 12)

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Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Feature

In a very special collaboration with the Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival and the Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest, please join Cinequest as we celebrate Israel?s 60th Anniversary for a special evening with author and screenwriter Ron Leshem and a very special screening of Beaufort.

Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Feature In a very special collaboration with the Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival and the Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific…

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She fell in love with the shoes.

Don?t be fooled by her name. Quincy John Coleman doesn?t have an identity crisis. She is a ?girly girl? down to her core who has found the shoes she was meant to wear. A woman of many names and many talents, her soulful voice aches to be heard by anyone who will listen...
She fell in love with the shoes. Don?t be fooled by her name. Quincy Coleman doesn?t have an identity crisis. She is a ?girly girl? down to her core who has found the shoes she was meant to wear…

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Sexuality and abuse, murder and suicide, truth and lies.

A captivating drama that explodes with an intense visual style and sharp storytelling, Oceania is a rarity for such a young director. At 17-years-old, Harpreet Dehal wrote and directed a film that reveals a talent and a cinematic eye far beyond even the most seasoned Hollywood directors, and based on his debut film, there is no doubt that Dehal is one of the big discoveries of the year.
Sexuality and abuse, murder and suicide, truth and lies A captivating drama that explodes with an intense visual style and sharp storytelling, Oceania is a rarity for such a young director. At 17-…
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