2002
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The title of this series is taken from the English translation of the Czech word Okenka, an apt description of film's improbable task to capture the scope of human emotion and experience. The movie screen gives just a portion, a peek through a window at what people have experienced in reality. And still, we gladly watch.
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The title of this series is taken from the English translation of the Czech word Okenka, an apt description of film's improbable task to capture the scope of human emotion and experience. The movie screen gives just a portion, a peek through a window at what people have experienced in reality. And still, we gladly watch.
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The title of this series is taken from the English translation of the Czech word Okenka, an apt description of film's improbable task to capture the scope of human emotion and experience. The movie screen gives just a portion, a peek through a window at what people have experienced in reality. And still, we gladly watch.
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Director Junichi Mori employs a thoughtful hand in this stunningly lyrical first feature about healing scars from the past, finding love, and receiving second chances. Teru works at a laundromat and has seen plenty of people try to wash away both the stains on their clothes and the stains on their past. Teru is a pure-hearted, twenty-year old who dons a knit cap to cover the scar from a childhood accident that left him in intellectual stagnancy. Trapped in perpetual childhood, he watches his grandmother's coin laundry shop, keeping up with a band of interesting and comedic regulars.
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Winner, Critic's Jury Prize IFP/West Film Festival. Co-filmmakers Josh Apter and Peter Olsen create a haunting beautifully crafted thriller about what happens when ordinary people are pushed to their limits. Mitchell and Ren are about to have a peaceful weekend alone in the CatskillsÉthat is until they pick up and befriend a mysterious hitchhiker, Lyle. Soon, Mitchell and Ren's plans for a quiet vacation are a distant memory-as things go from bad to worse and straight to hell-and their marriage is crumbling under Lyle's overshadowing presence.
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It's no wonder why INerTia walked away with the Best First Feature Award from the Toronto Film Festival. Filled with sly humor and keen observation on the toils of modern romance, Sean Garrity's debut feature is a captivating and assured comedy about restlessness, infidelity, desire, and regret. A four-sided love triangle forms as a group of 20-somethings open doors that are best left closed. Joseph cannot let go of Laura; Laura is interested in the very married Bruce; Bruce is after Joseph's cousin, Alex; and AlexÉwell, like all 19-years-olds, she has other plans.
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A weekend in the country isn't usually a nerve-wracking experience. Not so in Honolulu. It just so happens that in these restless lives, pandemonium is just a heartbeat away. Seven up-and-coming German directors, including Academy Award winner Florian Gallenberger (Quiero Ser, also in this year's shorts programs), present a light and breezy provincial patchwork. Rarely has the conflict between youth angst and comic abandon, the drab reality and willful dreaming been so briskly, so exuberantly balanced.
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Doug Finelli's feature debut is a delightfully sexy comedy about love, marriage, friendship, and wife swapping. The late '70s: a time of experimentation and sexual freedom. For twelve-year-olds Steve and Eric, the prospects for their future seem limitless. Not quite. A little over 18 years later, Steve and Eric are average guys with average wives in the small town of Freehold, and they have yet to make any kind of mark.
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In response to the continued interest in Latino cinema, Cinequest is delighted to present our 8th annual Latino Celebration. This year's event presents the exciting West Coast premiere of the provocative Senorita Extraviada, directed by Lourdes Portillo. Ms. Portillo's second film, Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, was nominated for an Academy Award. Cinequest fans remember her for the phenomenal The Devil Never Sleeps. San Jose favorite, Ysabel Duran, will moderate a question and answer session with Ms. Portillo following this special screening at the Mexican Heritage Plaza.
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Director Noah Nuer presents a heartwarming comedy about two young Parisians who come together to improve each other's lives. Get a Way urges its characters and its viewers to change the course of their future-to stop hiding from life and start embracing it. Didier is a disaffected young man with no apparent direction and a tenuous relationship with his uptight sister, Claire. After a bad encounter with his absent father, Didier nearly runs his van into Anne, a student upset about failing her exams and at odds with her strict parents.