Cinequest 2018
Films showing at the 2018 Cinequest film festival
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- DirectorLaurie CoyleIn the docu-detective Adios Amor, the filmmaker discovers forgotten photographs taken over 50 years ago, and sets out to find their spunky protagonist: Maria Moreno, a migrant mother of twelve who led a movement for farmworker rights years before Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta launched the United Farm Workers. The search for Maria leads through archives, attics, and orchards, Californias rich agricultural belt, the Arizona desert, and beyond the U.S.-Mexico border, and recovers a treasure trove of audiotapes, home movies and memorabilia. Revived as well are the vivid memories of the maverick journalists and artists who captured Marias story and kept her memory alive. What emerges is a suppressed history of the people who harvest the food on our tables even when they cant feed their own families, and the epic saga of an outspoken, trailblazing woman who told their story to the world. Featuring a rocking score of cello, accordion, Gospel and Tex-Mex music, the search for Maria Moreno pays loving tribute to countless anonymous women working behind the scenes for social justice, and provokes us to ask, why havent we ever heard of them?
- DirectorPedro CoutinhoStarsJohnny MassaroRegina BragaBianca ComparatoThe story follows the emotional roller-coaster of Antonio, a young man who has just ended a relationship, but pays for it by believing that he would have no trouble moving on and getting over his ex-girlfriend.All the Reasons to Forget
- DirectorSebastian PerilloStarsJazmín StuartEleonora WexlerAlejandro AwadaMartin (Esteban Lamothe) is a lonely television director, who becomes obsessed with his neighbor, Isabel (Jazmin Stuart), when he finds an amateur porn video in which she participates.
- DirectorSarah HanksStarsChainarong SungkaoChaiwat SungkaoRutrana TatongTwo adolescent Thai boys journey to Bangkok to help a female friend who has landed in the sex industry, testing their friendship and their understanding of a woman's worth.
- DirectorJan SverákStarsJan TrískaOldrich KaiserTereza RambaA boy and his family leave Prague during World War II and move to a small village called Slavonice. There, he meets distant relatives and adjusts to a new way of life.
- DirectorTiago ArakilianStarsKathia CalilJosé de AbreuEucir de SouzaAt the age of 80, Polidoro decides to demolish the stability of his comfortable life as a retired judge and become the owner of a strip club.Before I Forget
- DirectorKen DukenStarsTom WlaschihaMarisa Leonie BachKen DukenWhen Frank offers Andreas a ride into Berlin out of courtesy he is certainly not aware that this decision will end up in a violent road trip for life and death.
- DirectorTasha HubbardStarsBetty Ann AdamWhen is a family reunion not a reunion? When your family has never met. Three sisters and a brother, adopted as infants into separate families across North America, meet together for the first time in this deeply moving film. Birth of a Family follows them through the challenges, trepidations and joys of their first steps towards forming their family.
- DirectorJanus MetzStarsSverrir GudnasonShia LaBeoufStellan SkarsgårdThe story of the 1980 tennis rivalry between the placid Björn Borg and the volatile John McEnroe.
- DirectorPaul SanchezStarsTom BerengerWillem DafoeKeith DavidCharlie Sheen narrates a documentary about the making of Platoon, the award winning, non-union, low budget film cast with young, unknown actors. Insider stories of Oliver Stone's unique directing style and brutal filming conditions.Brothers in Arms (closing night)
- DirectorTjardus GreidanusStarsKareem Abu-ElmagdThomas BurkeRonald BusuttilIn 1967, Dr. Thomas Starzl stunned the world with the first successful liver transplantation. His breakthrough provoked controversy. Critics accused him of recklessness, even murder. Others declared it the beginning of a medical revolution. "Burden of Genius" is the story of an innovator as complex and elusive as the biological secrets he unlocked. It is also a reflection on the price of scientific progress by the man many consider the greatest surgeon of the 20th century and the father of transplantation.
- DirectorBert ScholiersStarsEvelien BosmansDaphne WellensPatrick VervuerenTwo girls. A Friday night. And magical candy that makes body parts talk and through which a trip to another galaxy becomes the easiest thing in the world.
- DirectorHugo Félix MercadoStarsCassandra CiangherottiGustavo Sánchez ParraJorge Luis MorenoSome secrets are best left that way. Fabian is an astronomer on a quest to discover the nature of an unknown object near the Cygnus constellation 37,000 light years from earth. He travels to an observatory, hoping to use its powerful telescopes to uncover the answers he seeks. One night, a strange signal provides Fabian with the hope that he might be close to solving the mystery of Cygnus. As Fabian investigates further, he finds that not all is as it appears, and he begins to wonder who he can trust in his quest for the truth. Shari Clare.
- DirectorPatrik SyversenStarsSigurd MyhreSilje StorsteinPatrik SyversenTwo siblings have to clean the attic of the family's summer home before it is put up for sale. The sibling relationship is sour, at least until the shadows from the past begin to haunt the inheritance and a stranger knocks on the door.
- DirectorQuan ZhouStarsSongwen ZhangZhuo TanZishan RongA timid fifth grader, an orthodox middle-aged teacher, and a grumpy old man experience their first awakening to true self during the 1998 World Cup in China.
- DirectorNathalie BasteynsKaat BeelsStarsNatali BroodsJohan LeysenTheo MaassenWhen her mother abandons her dementing father, Alex unexpectedly finds herself at a crossroads. As she moves back in the parental house to look after her father, she starts questioning her own life. Does she want to stay with her adulterous husband? She tolerated his affairs for years, but is she really happy with him? Or should she, like her parents, drop the facade?
- DirectorDustin CohenFlin Flon, a hockey town" explores a small Canadian mining town's eccentric obsession with its legendary junior hockey team, the Flin Flon Bombers, and how the team and the community thrive off one another.
- DirectorErin PalmquistStarsGhazwan AlsharifNoelle LinzyRobert W. NicholsonThe epic journey of Ghazwan Alsharif, an Iraqi refugee and former translator for the U.S. military. Wrongfully accused of being a double agent, tortured by the U.S. military and ostracized from family and country, we follow Ghazwan as he struggles to rebuild his life in the San Francisco Bay Area while coming out as an openly gay activist.
- DirectorOle GiæverStarsOle GiæverMarte Magnusdotter SolemA filmmaker observes his place in the universe from his balcony in an Oslo suburb. He looks back at his upbringing and ponders a fundamental question: How did I get here?
- DirectorCarl Christian RaabeStarsSynnøve Macody LundEbba Steenstrup SåheimKen VedsegaardAfter her father's death Catherine travels back to her old family estate in winter time Norway. When locals start telling stories of disappearances and possible murders, she is forced to confront her family's mysterious past.
- DirectorLucien BourjeilyStarsLaeticia SemaanNadim Abou SamraSamira SarkisAs all the children and their spouses gathers for Easter's dinner, conversation flows. When something bad happens, everyone is on edge, especially Josephine, and Serge who wants to uncover the truth!
- DirectorJosé Ramón ChávezStarsHernán MendozaElena de HaroLuis AmayaA family is bankrupt. An accident will make them reconsider their decisions, since one of them, according to the doctors, will not survive at night.Help Me Make It Through The Night
- DirectorLaura PlancarteHERMANOS/SIBLINGS tells in parallel the story of two Mexican brothers that want to go back to the US after being deported for life, with the story of an American woman who lost her house and today believes she can get it back through Trump's promises. Their journeys take them on road trips to meet with their past and with relatives who they believe can help them achieve their dreams. Immigration has been shown in many ways, but it has never been presented through the lives of Mexicans and Americans who live similar situations due to poverty and lack of family structure.
- DirectorArnaud DesplechinStarsMathieu AmalricMarion CotillardCharlotte GainsbourgThe story follows a filmmaker (Mathieu Amalric) whose life is sent into a tailspin by the return of a former lover (Marion Cotillard as Carlotta) just as he is about to embark on the shoot of a new film.
- DirectorValerie BuhagiarStarsNina GilmourTom WilsonBenjamin MuirTwo bodies lying in the road. A hauntingly sterile emergency room. A girl crying out for her Father: God. One by one, all of the players in her life, angels and devils alike, emerge and illuminate how she ended up in this liminal consciousness between life and death. It is both in this consciousness and her previous existence that she begins to understand why God had forsaken her and how she can be redeemed. Dreamlike, visceral, and at times surreal, It's Hard to Be Human elegantly poses the age-old questions of what it means to be human and how to have a connection with the Divine in a fallibly human world.