Cinequest Film Festival 17 - Global Landscapes

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This year's incredible Global Landscapes program offers a multitude of exhilarating artistic achievements from 18 countries, spanning the globe to present unique visions from diverse cultures and creeds. Demonstrating a depth of imagination and variety of subject matter that can only be explored by diversity, this showcase offers views from some of the new voices investigating fresh themes in unique ways. Global Landscapes is always an extraordinary group of films, spotlighting cultures whose influence has a significant global impact on the changing face of cinema.

These Maverick filmmakers explore themes ranging from terrorism to religion or fighting for your beliefs to fighting for love. Every story is filled with a passion for life, creating a truly unique experience with each film. Poignant, compelling, surprising, sometimes funny, but always undeniably Maverick—these films are a must for cinema lovers!

All films in Global Landscape are eligible for the Global Vision Award, awarded to the filmmaker who defies convention and exhibits work of universal vision, making bold use of storytelling to create evocative cinema of the future.