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Let me teach you to be bold. When a grandmothers secret past collides with her granddaughters secret future and her daughters angry present, can the love of three generations be enough to accept decades of deceit? Sometimes an event as simple as fishing lessons is all it takes to splash away the façade society has painted upon our hearts. Only once we learn to break down the preconceived notion of love, are we truly vulnerable and able to love. This was no exception when Rose, a married young woman, met Louise, a bold woman of 1960s.
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A story of temptation and monsters. After a night of debauchery spirals out of control, Marcus (Trevor Long, Ozark) retreats to his family home along the New England coast. Solitude is disturbed when his brother asks Marcus to look after his estranged nephew and niece. As days pass, solace escapes him; he feels baited by a dark force. Is he losing his mind or has something terrible burrowed deep within him? Incubating. Waiting until the climate is right.
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How far will an infiltrator go to expose a group of racists? The disturbing racial content of this film is front and center. Blaze, a young woman embeds herself in a white power group in order to find her adoptive African-American mother, but one night after the group returns from a rally, they test her allegiance. After Blaze proves her DNA is pure European, the group leader wants to celebrate their 6-month relationship by committing violent acts of racial hatred that, if recorded, could give the group access to a more exclusive racist organization.
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The aftermath of a fatal school explosion uncovers more than blame. In this tense drama, a chemistry class explosion at a Manhattan high school throws troublemaker Matty Fairchild into a coma. During an out-of-body experience, he witnesses an investigation that unravels a deeper side to the explosion. Tensions explode between parents and teachers as they navigate through shock and guilt.
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Everyone is just as messed up as you are. Just go with it. What happens when love disappears from an otherwise satisfying marriage? Do you throw in the towel? Do you try to revitalize the spark? Do you pursue your forgotten dreams and goals? Jane tries to work through her marriage and life. The results are sometimes disastrous, sometimes wondrous, but always exciting. Will she learn to Just be! and fulfill the prophecy of becoming the unstoppable smart, classy bitch? See Jane run through the maze of her own making to find the exit to her truth. Pratibha Kelapure
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Each year, one of the worlds most life-affirming films receives the coveted Kaiser Permanente Thrive Award at Cinequest. It is a great honor to present Pick of the Litter as this years winner. The movie exemplifies the work of caretakers who help people thrive in their health and their lives. Artists Dana Nachman and Don Hardy continue to create inspirational, compelling, and empowering documentaries.
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A retrofuture attempt to win back a lost love. Somewhere in the Caribbean, in a future that never was thus begins this zany tale of love and time travel. Laura, frustrated and ready to leave the predictable Diego, agrees to one more weekend of sex to rekindle things, but will her macho ex-boyfriend win her back instead? This film is set in a quirky retrofuture complete with campy ads for technology products that seem, like Diego, more failure than success.
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Roll out the red carpet and join us for an evening of laughs and big guests as director, star, and past Cinequest Maverick Award recipient William H. Macy (Shameless, Fargo) returns to Cinequest to present his highly anticipated new comedy, Krystal. Tyler Ogburn (Nick Robinson, Everything, Everything, Jurassic World) has had a very sheltered upbringing, mostly due to a heart condition that deters him from living the normal life of going to college, playing sports, or pursuing love.
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A quiet detective, a juggler, and a time-travel experiment gone wickedly wrong. Darius is an introverted detective who spends most of his free time looking over a sullen, old lady living next door. When a new murder case turns up, he visits the scene of the crime but discovers something quite peculiar this time around the dead body is identical to his own. As his day-to-day life begins to blur into a series of erratic and haunting memories, an outlandish childhood friend reaches out and connects.
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Suspense skyrockets when a dare goes terribly wrong. Odds Are youre in for gripping suspense that wraps around itself like a snake strangling a mouse. It starts as a game: randomly pick the same number as your opponent and accept his/her challenge. But what happens when a dare goes too far? Whos really in trouble now? Based on actual events, this intense psychological thriller, Odds Are has all the elements to scare you out of your seat. Twists and turns and troubles unfold as a sociopath hunts young college students in a creepy house.