Cinequest 2016 Greats

When a glamour photographer runs over a child's pet, he's forced to fabricate a story about its disappearance.

Rule #1: never feed bears. Rule #2: do not approach within 100 meters. Rule #3: avoid surprising bears. Rule #4: keep your dog on a leash. Now that you know the rules, we wish you a pleasant stay in the natural park of the black bear.

There comes a time when everyone needs to grow up, especially Dad. An amusing slice-of-life character piece about the pitfalls of parenting and the realization that things are not always as they seem.

They were media pioneers, capturing the counterculture from the inside.

Transfixed tells the story of highly unconventional romance: Martine Stonehouse and John Gelmon are middle-aged underdogs, living with Asperger Syndrome - an autism spectrum disorder that makes communication with others extremely difficult. Despite their social limitations, both dream of getting married, but straight identifying John refuses to tie the knot until transsexual Martine gets a real vagina. The only problem: no doctor in Canada will perform operation because Martine's obesity makes her too great of a surgical risk. Will Martine and John find the happiness together that they deserve? Transfixed is a deeply human story about love, freedom, and self-actualization.

Teenage Fern becomes orphaned in the middle of a harsh Montreal winter. Determined to avoid her mother's tragic fate, she sets out to build a new life for herself. When Youth Protection comes looking, she bolts. At one of her mother's cleaning jobs, she finds the book '50 Ways to Become a Millionaire.' 'All you need to do is save,' it promises. Fern decides to do just that, replacing her grief with the quest to become a millionaire.

A reclusive conspiracy theorist enlists people from his small town to help him make a low-budget movie about his experience encountering aliens while working as a geologist for the US government.

A short doc following an elderly Jewish woman as she tries bacon for the first time.

A show that's complicated for everyone except the kids.

Krystal and her twin brother/roommate confront twenty-eight years of their codependency when they start dating the same guy.

Luke, an independent young man with Down's syndrome stumbles upon a wild and life changing friendship.

"The Modern project" is about this phenomenon of the isolated group.There is no real reference to the outer world and the rules seem to be made up as they go along. It's a film about the search for the meaning of life, and people that make an honest attempt to find it, even if they have no clear direction in where to go.

The American dream crumbles when Van Hoang, a Vietnamese immigrant nail salon owner, learns her health problems are due to the chemicals used in her salon.

Using a band as a cover story, a group of unlikely rebels with dubious musical skills pass over forbidden borders and into each other's tangled lives in Israel and Palestine.

The story of three women - a famous prostitute, her housekeeper and their new maid - living in Budapest of 1910s, whose passionate, bizarre and complex relationship can only lead to one thing: murder.

In the company of housewives, professionals and a retired tennis instructor, Hernán is part of a middle-class community that is preparing for the eventual arrival of the end of the world at a holiday resort in the marshy Tigre delta.

The story of a teenage boy Ehsan, a young, innocent deaf and dumb inmate of a correctional camp, who communicates through painting. During his internment he learns that his father has sold his sister to pay off his debts. This makes Ehsan eager to break out of prison to save his sister.

Love knows no borders: a film about the fight to reunite families separated by deportation.

A portrait of Zamora, a rural worker exiled in Patagonia in a town that suffers feminicides of teenagers thrown into ditches once dead. Through hard work, Zamora intends to expiate his guilt.

Two self-involved grandsons are forced to step up after their beloved grandmother loses her husband of 60 years.

Magallanes, a former army soldier (Damian Alcazar) drives a taxi and eventually a driver of a retired colonel (Federico Luppi), who was in command of his troops in times of struggle against subversion in Ayacucho. But something more involving both. A secret that begin to reveal when, in the midst of his pilgrimage as a taxi driver in the city of Lima, Magallanes believes see in Celina, a humble woman (Magaly Solier), which now runs, barely a hair salon on the outskirts of the capital, one of the protagonists of a dark episode in the past.