Cinequest Film Festival - Safe Space begins with a shot of a couple driving down a desert road. Suddenly, they hit a spike. This is a good indicator that nothing will go as planned and there may be some turmoil within the relationship. The feature is both an examination of relationships, specifically between couples [...]

Cinequest Film Festival - Following COVID-19, it's likely that we'll see pandemic-based films for some time. Ashgrove is another feature set during a global pandemic. What makes the film unique, however, is its deeply human story. While the pandemic is important in triggering the narrative, the film's real conflict centers on a strained relationship. [...]

Cinequest Film Festival - Imagine if you could see your life from another perspective. What if you had the chance to jump into another dimension and encounter a different you? Which life would you pick? That's partially the premise of director Alberto Evangelio's debut feature, Visitor. What starts out as a home invasion movie [...]

Cinequest Film Festival - It's 1974. Hippies talk about revolution as the country's attention shifts towards Nixon's orchestrated break-in of the DNC. 18 1/2 is a Watergate-era film unlike any that we've seen. It has the feel of a small indie film and edges several different genres without committing to one. There's something engrossing about [...]

Cinequest Film Festival - Writer/director Jack James' Wild Bones is a film that establishes its dark tone immediately. It opens with Fay (Roxy Bugler) standing in front of a window, haunted by an eerie cigarette smoking figure painted black. She also tries to do what she used to love, dance, but when that fails, [...]

Cinequest Film Festival - In writer/director Sean Perry's Dash, rideshare driver Milly (Alexander Molina) has the worst night of his life. First, he needs to unload a huge bag of cocaine in order to pay for his mistress' child. On top of that, he struggles to keep the various women he's seeing from finding [...]

Cinequest Film Festival - What We Do Next is a film told in seven scenes that covers roughly 16 years. It follows the lives of three people connected by their past. It's also a gripping thriller and sharp meditation on race, power, and injustice. Writer/director Stephen Belber's feature follows Elsa Mercado (Michelle Veintimilla), New [...]