Cinequest 2021

A divorced mother looks to protect her daughter after an unexpected tragedy.

John Peterson lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter in Southern California. When he is visited by his aging father who is searching for a place to retire, their two very different worlds collide.

Based on true events, Tracey Deer's debut feature chronicles the 78-day standoff between two Mohawk communities and government forces in 1990 Quebec.

Raw and intimate, this documentary captures the struggles of patients and frontline medical professionals battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan.

UK, Aug. 15, 1939: 17 days before WWII, an English teacher and his camera disappear from a coastal boarding school with 20 German teen girls. Miller gets the job six days later, secretly trying to find out what happened.

Follows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black Federal Agent Jimmy Fletcher, with whom she has a tumultuous affair.

When a young loner becomes the gestational surrogate for a single man in his 40s, the two strangers come to realize this unexpected relationship will challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries and the particulars of love.

In a dystopia of undefined place and time, dominated by primitive technology, a group of people is being controlled by an omnipresent surveillance system. When one of them contracts a mysterious disease, out of fear to lose his job he tries to contact the Officials. Doubts arise about the structure he is working in.

In 1960s San Francisco, a once-promising catholic school girl, Celina Guerrera, sets out to rise above the oppression of poverty and invest in a future for herself that sets new precedents for the time.

It's about a woman's pursuit to join her missing lover by crossing into a parallel dimension.

When a New York lawyer returns to his Boston hometown to reunite his dying friend with his young son, he is forced to finally confront a childhood trauma.

Follows a diverse group of middle-school students from San Jose, CA, who compete in a nationwide tournament to code satellites aboard the International Space Station.

Two sisters, two boyfriends, one simple birthday weekend getaway. Or it would have been, if not for the threesome, the love affair, the unexpected arrival of a fiancé, and the ensuing ridiculous dinner role play charade everyone is forced to participate in just to keep from getting caught.

A boy deals with the loss of his mother by creating a dangerous relationship with a monster rumored to live in the woods.

When a seventeen-year-old girl learns dark secrets about her father's past, she must reconcile the father she thought she knew and the man he may actually be.

Two married, down-on-their-luck, actors decide to put on a site-specific play about their unsuccessful life in Hollywood.

The horror of a woman diagnosed with hysteria.

Alberto Buenaventura is that increasingly common breed - a digital nomad living on the road, unattached. But not much else is common about him. He's not only a successful photojournalist; he befriends strangers and gets involved in unusual whimsical adventures, often fancying himself a hero. Then just as quickly, he's off to the next place, following the spontaneous current of life. Leaving NYC, however, proves to be a different type of beast. Al's attempts to find a way out lead him all over the 5 boroughs, forcing him to deal with various groups of colorful characters that complicate the process and in some cases, make him re-examine his lifestyle - Will he escape the lure of the city?

Stranded in a small village during Earth's final days, a man seeks solace in the brief human connections he encounters.

A couple's relationship threatens to collapse under the pressures of life.

Turns out men in women's clothing isn't welcomed with open arms by all the parents at Woodward West Middle School - even if it's just for the theatre. Mike Gallagher is just an All-American boy - a boy who can sing and walk well in heels.

On an island struck with a sleeping phenomenon, a rogue visitor falls for one of the inhabitants, not realising the personal danger it brings

Middle-age siblings struggle to manage their lives while caring for their recently widowed aging father. Welcome to the "sandwich generation."

Nostalgic for his glory days, a frustrated stay-at-home dad invites all of his high school Facebook friends to an 80s-themed surprise party for his exhausted corporate wife.

A has-been character actor attempts to complete a movie honoring his deceased wife, when divine intervention leads him to a free-spirited actress who just might be his perfect leading lady.