Cinequest Film Festival 2022
I virtually attended The Cinequest 2022 Film Festival hosted on Cinejoy this year from 1-20 April.
This is everything I saw in chronological order, #1 was seen elsewhere ahead of the festival and then #2 onwards on Cinejoy.
My favourites (in viewing order) are: Ashgrove (2022), Discontinued (2022), Dash (2022), What We Do Next (2022), Come Find Me (2021), Continue (2022), We're All in This Together (2021) & Sonic Fantasy (2022).
Titles are added from my Cinequest Interest List as I view them.
This is everything I saw in chronological order, #1 was seen elsewhere ahead of the festival and then #2 onwards on Cinejoy.
My favourites (in viewing order) are: Ashgrove (2022), Discontinued (2022), Dash (2022), What We Do Next (2022), Come Find Me (2021), Continue (2022), We're All in This Together (2021) & Sonic Fantasy (2022).
Titles are added from my Cinequest Interest List as I view them.
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- DirectorValerie BuhagiarStarsNatascha McElhoneSteven LoveMichela FarrugiaIn a small Mediterranean village, Carmen has looked after her brother, the local priest, for her entire life. When the Church abandons Carmen, she is mistaken for the new priest. Carmen begins to see the world, and herself, in a new light.
- DirectorJ.W. AndrewStarsWill SterlingRachel PaulsonPhillip Andre BotelloSusan and Henry are hosting a dinner party, while trying to make good on a lie concerning the recent death of their father. Unexpected guests arrive, causing the night to unravel despite Susan's best efforts.
- DirectorPaul ZehrerParents and teachers around the world struggle with their kids' dependence on devices today. As Covid has forced our kids to rely on technology more than ever, "#KidsOnTech" looks at the impact on children's developing bodies and brains, and asks: "How might we better prepare our kids for this digital world?" Voices from India to the U.S., France to China, Mexico to Japan explore what children need to truly excel in a future dominated by tech, including a Google designer, a German brain scientist, and New York Times journalist, Matt Richtel, whose story on a Silicon Valley school created an international media frenzy. Is tech somehow inherently evil? Should we shield our children from tech at all costs? Certainly not, nor could we if we tried. #KidsOnTech's approach is one of empathic concern for all who are caught up in tech's blinding advance and offers parents a reminder of basic child development and how we can better foster our children's growth and maturity so that they might thrive, not only in tech environments, but in the world itself. Most of us were relieved to have zoom classrooms, but children around the world are now emerging even more obsessed than before with tech devices. The growing consensus in scientific circles confers that heavy use of tech can profoundly compromise healthy "brain development" in young children. And yet, in the world today, it is nearly impossible for parents and children not to depend on these devices in multiple ways. What to do? During the editing of the film, everyone wanted us to offer a simple answer; but there were none. Nonetheless, parents and teachers are desperate for answers. Our mission in this film is to step beyond the hyperbolic media coverage spelling doom and gloom for kids and ask: What are we missing in this polarized debate? Our process was to seek out intimate conversations with parents, teachers, neuroscientists, tech executives, child psychologists, and kids of every age from around the world hoping to better understand what's become humankind's greatest social experiment. This film's objective is to help start these important conversations with parents and teachers - conversations that are as important and alive today as climate change. The film tries to remind parents of what they already know - instinctively, as parents - children need to experience outdoor play, work with their hands, engage with their friends, and figure out what to do when they become insufferably bored. The film explores how we might both protect and prepare our children for a rapidly changing world where turning back the clock is not an option. Even so, the jury is still out whether tech is helping our children grow into healthier, more creative and technically proficient adults; or, paradoxically, hindering the very capacities they'll need to navigate an evermore technologically demanding future.
- DirectorJeremy LaLondeStarsAmanda BrugelJonas ChernickNatalie BrownAn overworked scientist needs to take a weekend off work, so she and her husband head to their farm, but something isn't quite right.
- DirectorPeter CallahanStarsPeter CallahanMaggie LaceyTom NelisInside the mind of a middle-aged man as he tries to come to terms with his life over the course of an afternoon walk through his hometown.
- DirectorJaclyn BethanyStarsAyumi PattersonIsabelle ChesterKaley RonayneOctober 1992. A group of law students head to a remote home upstate where a girl disappeared two years earlier.
- DirectorTrevor PeckhamStarsAshley HutchinsonLangston FishburneRobert PicardoA depressed millennial discovers that the world she knows is just a simulated version of reality that is being shut down. Suddenly, she's the only one who wants to stick around.
- DirectorDanny DunlopStarsMark NocentJake RaymondAllan DobrescuA social recluse turns amateur sleuth after stumbling upon a series of mysterious local cold cases involving animal mutilations and occult imagery.
- DirectorDan MirvishStarsWilla FitzgeraldJohn MagaroGina KreiezmarIn 1974, a White House transcriber is thrust into the Watergate scandal when she obtains the only copy of the infamous 18½ minute gap in Nixon's tapes.
- DirectorSean PerryStarsAlexander MolinaMonette MoioPaige GrimardAn adulterous rideshare driver navigating the nighttime streets of Hollywood goes to great lengths to take his troubling double-life to the grave...only to dig a grave for himself.
- DirectorMikey MurrayStarsEilis CahillSteve OramPeter BankoléLucy, a disillusioned office clerk who lives in a dysfunctional relationship with her slovenly partner Paul, is surprised to find herself on the cusp of a none-too-secret affair with her new work colleague, Daniel. The thrill of the chase for a shred of affection takes her mind off her problematic life but she's not sure that she'll ever leave Paul, or that sex with someone else is the true answer to her problems.
- DirectorTracey StrnadStarsRochelle ReynoldsNick DaviesGabriella CircostaHarper takes medical tourism to a new level as she escapes city life to have her abortion in a small cottage resort town on a long weekend. While there, she experiences her childhood playground in a new light.
- DirectorStephen BelberStarsMichelle VeintimillaKaren PittmanCorey StollWhen Elsa Mercado is released from prison after serving 16 years for killing her father, an NYC Councilwoman and corporate attorney are forced to grapple with their involvement in the original crime.
- DirectorJack JamesStarsMary RoubosLiz FarahadiRoxy BuglerTwo sisters, Fay and Alice, reconnect after their father's disappearance. While Fay is on the brink of madness and misremembering the past, Alice attempts to ground her sister and help bring her back from the precipice.
- DirectorRyan DavidStarsTania RaymondeBrandon SklenarRosanna ArquetteAfter undergoing an experimental time travel "process" that sends a man into his future, he investigates the man he has become, by engaging in a romance with his future self's girlfriend in a mind-bending reality.
- DirectorEm JohnsonStarsKatherine WaddellIlia VolokMichael David WilsonA young circus performer, stuck under the harsh rules of her father and community expectations, finds herself captivated by small-town America, forcing her to question everything.
- DirectorDaniel PolinerStarsVictoria CartagenaSol MirandaTovah FeldshuhA mother and daughter facing major life changes and how their love challenges and sustains them.
- DirectorNadine CrockerStarsNadine CrockerShiloh FernandezLio TiptonA depressed girl attempts suicide, gets admitted to a mental institution involuntarily. She finds friends, love, and a new outlook on life, but learns some choices are irreversible. She has one life to live.
- DirectorBrett SmithStarsGerran HowellRJ CylerEwen BremnerAfter a Union soldier flees from battle, rescue comes from a free black man operating a section of the Underground Railroad. But when a ruthless slave catcher discovers the secret network, he conspires to bring it burning to the ground.
- DirectorAimee GrahamStarsOwen BeckmanGretchen LodgeSylva KelegianWhen an astrophysics student working towards his PhD loses priceless research to an auto theft, he makes a bargain with a woman at a local pawn shop in order to get it back.
- DirectorJohn-Michael PowellStarsZachary Ray ShermanLena DrakeSean Harrison JonesWhen an actor throws an impromptu soirée at his Hollywood home, with only his closest friends in attendance, a fun evening devolves into something much darker after he makes an unexpected announcement to the group.
- DirectorTony GapastioneStarsAllison EwingAlley MillsJeremy Ray ValdezReeling from her brother's suicide, a writer/actress tries to put her complicated life back together and finally make a break in her career.
- DirectorDan SlaterStarsNigel BennettBenjamin Charles WatsonJenna WarrenA young family, living in isolation and forced into hard labor out of fear of dishonoring their Father and Mother, fight to free themselves from their religious cult.
- DirectorGenevieve AdamsStarsGenevieve AdamsThomas McDonellHari NefAn atheist actress attempts to convert to Judaism to marry the man she loves.
- DirectorWilliam J. StriblingStarsTeya PattMichael TennantKenny RidwanTwo childhood friends find themselves in Vegas on the same weekend, and one night together-with one life-altering favor-will change everything for them both.