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GREATEST BOOKS ON FILM
MEET THE AUTHORS OF THE GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME Saturday, October 28, 4:00 pm, The Historic TCL Chinese Theatre AFI FEST will host a panel celebrating the greatest film books of all time moderated by The Hollywood Reporter’s...
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WINGS OF DESIRE
After an eternity of looking after mortal beings, observing their lives, their loves, their passions and pains, intrigued angel Damiel (Bruno Ganz) decides to join them, crossing over to live life as they do. He discovers love with circus acrobat...
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AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Starving artist Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) shares a Parisian garret with unemployed pianist Adam Cook (Oscar Levant). When heiress/patroness Milo Roberts (Nina Foch) takes an interest in Mulligan and his canvasses, it could be their ticket to the big time...
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ALL THAT JAZZ
In this autobiographical classic from 1979, filmmaker and choreographer Bob Fosse (CABARET) tells the story of his own life through alter ego Joe Gideon, brought to life by the dashing Roy Scheider at the peak of his career. Gideon’s overindulgence...
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A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN)
Screening introduced by AFI FEST Guest Artistic Director Greta Gerwig Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's celebrated World War II fantasy A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH — called STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN in the U.S. owing to its most memorable special...
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PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE
Screening introduced by AFI FEST Guest Artistic Director Greta Gerwig Paul Reubens made the leap from cabaret theater to major studio movie with his iconic Pee-wee Herman character in this inventive 1985 comedy, along with Pee-wee's toys, gadgets and colorful...
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LEE
U.S. Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Ellen Kuras, writer Liz Hannah, producer Kate Solomon and Lee Miller's son, Antony Penrose Academy Award®-winning actress Kate Winslet stars as Lee Miller, the war correspondent whose bold photos...
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SKIN
Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1 SKIN is a poetic exploration of self-discovery, using symbolism to depict a woman's transformation into a man. Aided by her inner manifestation, she sheds her old skin and embraces her true...
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CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 5
FISHMONGER USA 25 MIN DIRECTOR Neil Ferron SCREENWRITER Neil Ferron, Alexandra Dennis-Renner PRODUCER Jordan Wilcox, Valerie Steinberg DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Jack McDonald EDITOR Augustine So PRODUCTION DESIGNER Xiyu Lin FISHMONGER follows the story of Christie O’Mallaghan, a pathetic Irish fishmonger...
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CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 4
A ROADSIDE BANQUET USA 16 MIN DIRECTOR Peiqi Peng SCREENWRITER Peiqi Peng PRODUCER Ziqi Gao DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Tianyi Liu EDITOR Christine Ho PRODUCTION DESIGNER Yijie EJ Li, Ye Yara Wang Eleven-year-old Chinese girl Mai attends her baby brother’s first...
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CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3
ARO'S WORLD USA 12 MIN DIRECTOR Vibha Kulkarni SCREENWRITER Vibha Kulkarni, Austin Williams PRODUCER Austin Williams, Yuqin Hong DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Maryn McGaw EDITOR Praboo Arivananthan PRODUCTION DESIGNER Suneha Balasubramanya After losing his father, Adi, a grief-stricken preteen boy, befriends...
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CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 2
IN WONDERLAND USA 13 MIN DIRECTOR Andrea Camacho McCracken SCREENWRITER Nora Alameddin PRODUCER Shuqi Li DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Ellin Aldana EDITOR Guanqing Lin PRODUCTION DESIGNER Cyrum A. Ramirez, Mehdi Bennani When Nina, a resilient and tenacious eight-year-old Mexican girl is...
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CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1
LA BRUJA USA 13 MIN DIRECTOR Alex Villareal SCREENWRITER Claudia Rivera PRODUCER Simone Kirlew DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Andrew Danger Charles EDITOR Jackie Lang PRODUCTION DESIGNER Georgina Gutierrez On the night of his eighth birthday, Pablito mourns the loss of his...
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PAEONIA
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 2 Fai is a guilt-ridden scientist conducting genetic experiments on a deserted desert planet to create a species of peony that can survive the harsh environment. His life changes when a mysterious man arrives...
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RAIN
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 5 When a mysterious orange light starts infecting the air, a young mother-to-be attempts to alert her family to its impending danger, whilst wrestling against their overbearing traditions and expectations of her future.
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A ROADSIDE BANQUET
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 4 Eleven-year-old Chinese girl Mai attends her baby brother’s first birthday party, where she gradually realizes everyone only has eyes for her new brother.
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SOME KIND OF PARADISE
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 5 Tyler lives a quiet, unremarkable life in the small Arkansas town of Paradise. That is, until the day that a Hollywood film crew rolls into town, and he matches with actor Raphael on...
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STALLED
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 5 After being expelled from his medical residency program, Imran finds himself stranded in the vast California desert, his car breaking down just hours before reuniting with his family on Chaand Raat, the eve...
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WAKE
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1 At his mother's wake, Cooper becomes overwhelmed with the sudden outreach from his small-town community. He escapes into the forest and attempts to live in solitude, but each night those same people from...
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WE MET AT CAMP
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1 Hayden is new to camp and doesn't fit in with the other girls. She'd rather spend time with her counselor Alison, but in an attempt not to feel like a total loser, she...
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THE GARDEN OF EDETTE
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3 An elderly Creole woman’s life is bound to her flesh-eating garden. When Edette unexpectedly befriends a young girl before her next sacrifice, she must choose between killing her new friend or dying alongside...
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HOT SODA
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 2 When the company fracking their hometown is approved to double their operations, a restaurant family is at odds when the CEO and his bodyguard come in to dine.
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IN WONDERLAND
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 2 When Nina, a resilient and tenacious eight-year-old Mexican girl is granted asylum in the U.S. and forced to stay in the custody of her estranged aunt, she rejects her new family and escapes...
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LUCKY MARKET
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3 After years working at a small Asian grocery store, Min has agreed to move in with her son's family several hours away. On her supposed last day of work, she takes stock of...
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THE MINERS
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1 After complete automation of human work has led to the collapse of American civilization, the war for work begins. Mae, a fourth-generation miner, searches for her missing father and uncovers an unexpected truth...
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MIS-ALIGNMENT
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3 Roberta Statero is a burnt-out engineer in charge of the humane destruction of misaligned androids. When she encounters Ved-A, an android with a severe case of misalignment that includes self-harming, Roberta’s routine is...
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MOIRA’S MEATS
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 5 A hopeless romantic at heart, Janay is looking for Mr. Right. But her lofty expectations for a potential partner come straight out of a cheesy romance novel.
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NAHUAL
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1 Victoria, an emotionally isolated artist, must prove she is a fit guardian for her orphaned sister, but as CPS threatens to take her sister away, Victoria contemplates whether to unleash Nahual, an indigenous...
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OBJECT OF DESIRE
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 5 When Vivien, an aspiring Asian American singer, takes a karaoke hostess job for some quick cash to recover her impounded car, she must confront a slew of clients with a blatant Asian fetish.
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DOSH
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1 When her son’s life is put at risk at their family’s pre-wedding ritual, a hard-of-hearing mother must decide how to seek help for her husband in order to keep her family safe.
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FISHMONGER
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 5 FISHMONGER follows the story of Christie O’Mallaghan, a pathetic Irish fishmonger who must survive a sex pact with an ancient fish creature in order to save his mother's soul from burning in hell.
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FULL MOON
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 2 It's a full moon outside and Mikey just wants to spend his night alone on the couch with some chicken. But when he comes home to a surprise birthday party thrown by his...
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BACKBONE
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3 Cole, a teenager with a broken back, lives with Len, his domineering alcoholic mother who cannot retire because of his condition. Cole will have to deal with the consequences of her actions at...
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BIENVENIDO JUANITO
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 4 Three years after being separated following an attempted border-crossing, Fernanda is reunited with her 12-year-old son Juan. But the small child she knew is now a teenage boy.
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LA BRUJA
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1 On the night of his eighth birthday, Pablito mourns the loss of his Amá. However, his spirits are lifted when his Abuela tells him a fairytale about La Bruja Del Mar, a mystical...
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THE BULLFIGHTER
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 4 A farcical comedy about ex-bullfighter, Felipe Fernando de la Fernand, a once extraordinary figure now trapped in an ordinary world. He gets a job as a parking attendant to stage one final bullfight......
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CAIRN
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 2 In contemporary Georgia, a new groundskeeper Ada is surprised by a weekend getaway of the owner Wyatt and his friends. After discovering a bloody earring and a massive field of cairns, Ada suspects...
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CARCASS
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 4 Gabriel is an outcast from society forced to serve as executioner after being branded a thief. When Travis, a young street urchin, is arrested, Gabriel is forced to examine his role in the...
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CAROLINE
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 4 A young auto mechanic learns his mother has unexpectedly died, forcing him to pick up her car and complete a series of painful, yet banal tasks that sets the stage for a confrontation...
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CHERRY KOMPOT
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3 CHERRY KOMPOT is a family dramedy that follows Lev, a stubborn Jewish-Ukrainian senior, who refuses to sit shiva in the wake of his wife Sonia's death. When his growing hysteria drives all the...
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COLORS OF SOLACE
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 2 COLORS OF SOLACE is a story about a black cop wrestling with his identity and the redemption he finds in this struggle when he is tasked with helping his son harness his own...
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DAD’S JOURNAL
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 4 Charlie finds his long-absent father’s journal and goes hunting for answers with the help of the family dog.
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ARO’S WORLD
Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3 After losing his father, Adi, a grief-stricken preteen boy, befriends sock-puppet ARO who mysteriously operates from his hand while his older brother Marcus becomes his caretaker.
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SOCIETY OF THE SNOW (LA SOCIEDAD DE LA NIEVE)
Spain’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director J.A. Bayona. Returning to Spanish language cinema for the first time since his acclaimed debut THE ORPHANAGE, J.A. Bayona (THE IMPOSSIBLE, JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM) brings breathless thrills and emotional...
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THE BIKERIDERS
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Jeff Nichols. The rise and fall of a Chicago motorcycle gang is given epic treatment in Jeff Nichols’ magnificent THE BIKERIDERS, which confirms the writer/director of LOVING, MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, MUD and TAKE SHELTER as one of the...
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THE END WE START FROM
U.S. Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Mahalia Belo. Postpartum meets post apocalypse in BAFTA award-winning British director Mahalia Belo’s (ELLEN, THE LONG SONG) trope-busting feature debut, a tense survival thriller that doubles as an astute...
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MAESTRO
MAESTRO is a towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein (Carey Mulligan). A love letter to life and art, MAESTRO at its core is an emotionally epic portrayal...
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MAXINE’S BABY: THE TYLER PERRY STORY
World Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with directors Gelila Bekele and Armani Ortiz. MAXINE’S BABY: THE TYLER PERRY STORY, directed by Gelila Bekele and Armani Ortiz, grants the audience unfettered access to the inner world of Tyler...
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SLY
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Thom Zimny, producer Sean Stuart and executive producer Braden Aftergood. Sylvester Stallone looks back at his life and career in this intimate and surprising documentary directed by Thom Zimny. World famous...
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ALBERT BROOKS: DEFENDING MY LIFE
World Premiere Rob Reiner profiles Albert Brooks, comedic legend, acclaimed filmmaker, talented character actor and a lifelong friend, who Reiner first met in their high school drama club. Brooks began his comedy career while still a teenager, and was soon...
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ALL OF US STRANGERS
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Andrew Haigh. One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship...
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AMERICAN FICTION
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Cord Jefferson, moderated by Robert Townsend. Acclaimed television writer Cord Jefferson (SUCCESSION, WATCHMEN) makes a triumphant leap to the big screen with his directorial debut, a whip-smart, wickedly funny and stealthily...
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FINGERNAILS
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Christos Nikou. Greek director Christos Nikou (APPLES, AFI FEST 2020) makes a bold English-language debut with this charming lo-fi sci-fi about the clash between our over-reliance on technology and the primal drive to find true love. Anna...
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FREUD’S LAST SESSION
World Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Matt Brown. London, 1939. On the eve of the Second World War, the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (Anthony Hopkins), hosts Oxford don and committed Christian C.S. Lewis (Matthew Goode) at his Hampstead home. Lewis,...
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MEMORY
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Michel Franco and actor Peter Sarsgaard. Thirteen years sober, Sylvia (Academy Award® winner Jessica Chastain) has worked hard to create a stable life for herself and her teenage daughter. She regularly...
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QUIZ LADY
Screening introduced by director Jessica Yu Humdrum homebody Annie (Awkwafina) loves only two things, her pug Mr. Linguini and her favorite game show, CAN’T STOP THE QUIZ. In fact, she’s never missed an episode, turning into a trivia savant over...
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LA CHIMERA
English expat archaeologist Arthur (Josh O’Connor) has gone to seed. Having relocated to Tuscany in the early 1980s, he fell in love with Beniamina, the daughter of aging local aristocrat Flora (Isabella Rossellini). But Beniamina has died, leaving Arthur a...
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LAST SUMMER (L’ÉTÉ DERNIER)
After exactly a decade, this unnerving return to cinema from French provocateur Catherine Breillat revisits and rewrites Danish filmmaker May el-Toukhy’s 2019 QUEEN OF HEARTS (with co-writer Pascal Bonitzer). Its premise centers on Anne (Léa Drucker), a successful lawyer who...
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OCCUPIED CITY
A monumental accomplishment, Steve McQueen’s (12 YEARS A SLAVE, AFI FEST 2013) rigorous documentary systematically explores Amsterdam under the Nazi occupation of WWII. Rejecting archival footage and first-person narratives, the film excavates history by telling the city’s story one address...
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PERFECT DAYS
Japan’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Kōji Yakusho won the Best Actor award at this year’s Cannes film festival for his portrayal of Hirayama, a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo who performs his job like a dedicated master craftsman,...
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THE BOOK OF SOLUTIONS (LE LIVRE DES SOLUTIONS)
Oscar®-winning filmmaker Michel Gondry (ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND) returns to the big screen with this deliciously meta, hilariously self-aware – and semi-autobiographical – portrait of a DIY filmmaker wrestling with creative and personal demons to complete his latest...
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ME CAPTAIN (IO CAPITANO)
North American Premiere Italy’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Matteo Garrone, actors Seydou Sarr and Moustapha Fall, and script consultant Mamadou Kouassi, whose life experiences inspired the film. Matteo Garrone...
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LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND
World Premiere In this apocalyptic thriller from award-winning writer and director Sam Esmail (MR. ROBOT), Amanda (Julia Roberts) and her husband Clay (Ethan Hawke), rent a luxurious home for the weekend with their kids, Archie (Charlie Evans) and Rose (Farrah...
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CLOSE YOUR EYES (CERRAR LOS OJOS)
Spanish auteur Víctor Erice returns to cinema after a three-decade-long absence with this hauntingly personal, discursive yet simmering reflection on memory, art and the passage of time. Set years after his lead actor and best friend, Julio, disappears suddenly from...
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COBWEB (GEOMIJIP)
No stranger to a myriad of genre play, Kim Jee-woon revisits his comedic strand for this metatextual farce on filmmaking. Set in the ‘70s depression period when the censorship board heavily controlled the silver screen in South Korea, Song Kang-ho...
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EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (AKU WA SONZAI SHINAI)
Following up on his widely acclaimed, Oscar®-winning film DRIVE MY CAR (AFI FEST 2021), Ryusuke Hamaguchi reins in a pensive, enigmatic eco-drama contemplating the tug and pull between humans, nature and the nature of humans in EVIL DOES NOT EXIST,...
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FALLEN LEAVES (KUOLLEET LEHDET)
Finland’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature After a six-year hiatus, Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki (THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE, AFI FEST 2017) returns with this delightfully deadpan tragicomedy once again examining class, love and loneliness in modern-day Helsinki. Ansa...
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GREEN BORDER (ZIELONA GRANICA)
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at this year’s Venice Film Festival, this propulsive, urgent drama from Academy Award® nominee Agnieszka Holland (EUROPA EUROPA, SPOOR, AFI FEST 2017) depicts the crisis which erupted in 2021 at the Belarus-Poland border after...
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IN OUR DAY
Hong Sang-soo’s wily 30th feature probes the mind of the artist to find meaning in the mundane. Sangwon (Kim Min-hee, Hong’s regular collaborator turning in another winning, naturalistic performance) is a 40-something former actress, taking refuge at the home of...
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IN WATER (MUL-AN-E-SEO)
Desperate to make a film, former actor Seongmo drags two friends to popular vacation spot Jeju Island during the chilly offseason. Waiting for inspiration to strike, they wander the island scouting potential locations, eating junk food and pondering the finer...
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KIDNAPPED: THE ABDUCTION OF EDGARDO MORTARA
Bologna, 1858. A well-to-do Jewish family suffers an unfathomable fate when their six-year-old son, Edgardo, is ripped from their arms. Secretly baptized, he must now be raised a Catholic. Under instruction of the Papal State, he is abducted and taken...
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ABOUT DRY GRASSES (KURU OTLAR ÜSTÜNE)
Turkey’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Eastern Anatolia is once again the setting for the films of celebrated Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan (THE WILD PEAR TREE, AFI FEST 2018). To art teacher Samet (Deniz Celiloglu), the landscape is...
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WE GROWN NOW
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Minhal Baig. Set against the backdrop of the Cabrini-Green public housing complex in 1992 Chicago, the latest film from Minhal Baig (HALA, AFI FEST 2019) charts the prepubescent friendship between two boys, Malik and Eric. Sidestepping any...
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THE DAUGHTERS OF FIRE (AS FILHAS DO FOGO)
Plays before the feature MUSIC. Acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa crafts a haunting, layered triptych of three women singing in chorus, expressing their deep existential suffering against the backdrop of a blazing inferno. –Julia KipnisBorn in Lisbon, Pedro Costa left...
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THE PEASANTS (CHLOPI)
Poland’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with directors DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman and composer Lukasz Rostkowski. Made up of over 40,000 oil paintings, this awe-inspiring adaptation of Władysław Reymont’s Nobel Prize...
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THE PROMISED LAND (BASTARDEN)
Denmark’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Nikolaj Arcel and actor Mads Mikkelsen. Denmark, 18th century. A retired army captain with humble origins, Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen), makes a deal with...
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THE SUMMER WITH CARMEN (TO KALOKAIRI TIS KARMEN)
North American Premiere Screening on Oct. 29 to be followed by a conversation with director Zacharias Mavroeidis. Demos and Nikitas are best friends, actors and writing partners. Nikitas is fed up with only being considered for stereotypical queer roles and...
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THE TASTE OF THINGS (THE POT-AU-FEU)
France’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Trần Anh Hùng (THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA) won the Best Director award in Cannes for this rapturous ode to French gastronomy, and the love between two people pursuing a shared passion. A...
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THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE (DAS LEHRERZIMMER)
Germany’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Ilker Çatak. Idealistic young teacher Carla Nowak (Leonie Benesch) relishes her work, teaching both math and physical education to her class of seventh graders. Unfortunately, disciplinary issues are also part...
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TÓTEM
Mexico’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Following her humanist drama, THE CHAMBERMAID (AFI FEST 2018), Lila Avilés’ sophomore feature unfurls in a single chaotic day. Filtered through the perspective of an observant seven-year-old protagonist Sol (sensitively portrayed by newcomer...
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DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD
Romania’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with actor Ilinca Manolache. Winner of two awards at this year’s Locarno Film Festival and Romania’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature, the latest from the...
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HERE
Recipient of the FIPRESCI Prize and Encounters Award at the Berlin Film Festival, the latest film from Bas Devos (VIOLET, AFI FEST 2014) is a wandering, delicate journey on human connections. Stefan (Stefan Gota), originally from Romania, works odd construction...
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LOST IN THE NIGHT (PERDIDOS EN LA NOCHE)
Screening to be followed by a conversation with writer Martin Escalante. In this noir-tinged revenge thriller from award-winning Mexican auteur Amat Escalante (HELI, THE UNTAMED), idealistic young laborer Emiliano (rising star Juan Daniel García Treviño, I'M NO LONGER HERE, LA CIVIL, ROBE OF GEMS) embarks on...
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MAMBAR PIERRETTE
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Rosine Mbakam. "Life is hard and you have to keep going" are the sage words of MAMBAR PIERRETTE's eponymous hero as she presses on raising three children, caring for her elderly mother and running a business as...
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MIDWIVES (SAGES-FEMMES)
North American Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with actress Héloïse Janjaud. Five years after studying to be professional midwives, Sofia (Khadija Kouyaté) and Louise (Héloïse Janjaud) begin their residency at a hospital, eager to perform "the most...
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MUSIC
Preceded by DAUGHTERS OF FIRE Abandoned in a storm as a child, Ion is taken in and raised an orphan. Years later, he will murder his anonymous attacker and be sent to prison for patricide. There, he meets and falls...
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TERRESTRIAL VERSES (AYEH HAYE ZAMINI)
In this boldly galvanizing film, co-directors Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami confront the oppression and conformity of the Iranian government via a tapestry of vignettes. Throughout progressively frustrating situations, we witness how the people of Iran are restricted in their...
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THE BURITI FLOWER (CROWRÃ)
Shot over the course of 15 months in four different villages within the Krahôlandia Indigenous Land of Brazil, this spellbinding blend of ethnography and narrative filmmaking sees co-directors João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora (THE DEAD AND THE OTHERS) continue...
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MENUS-PLAISIRS – LES TROISGROS
Located just across from the train station in the unassuming village of Roanne, France, is La Maison Troisgros, which continues to thrive in its third generation of ownership. Through a bright, open concept dining area and kitchen and into the...
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MILISUTHANDO
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Milisuthando Bongela. A poetic interweaving of archival material and in-depth interviews, Milisuthando Bongela’s incisive personal essay examines identity construction through a historical lens, investigating the impact of racism and colonialism on herself and her loved ones. Born...
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ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (ORLANDO, MA BIOGRAPHIE POLITIQUE)
Philosophically probing and brimming with delight, writer/intellectual Paul Preciado’s directorial debut composes a letter to Virginia Woolf, concerning her nearly 100-year-old novel "Orlando: A Biography." In it, an aristocrat changes gender while sleeping and awakes as a woman who then...
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PICTURES OF GHOSTS (RETRATOS FANTASMAS)
Brazil’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Kleber Mendonça Filho. Acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho (BACURAU, AFI FEST 2019) turns his camera inward, crafting an infectious personal essay exploring the...
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RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS
In the years preceding his March 2023 passing, legendary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto had not been able to hold live performances. This filmed solo concert, Sakamoto’s final performance, directed by his son Neo Sora (THE CHICKEN, AFI FEST 2020) – an...
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SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD
Estonia’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Anna Hints and producer Marianne Ostrat. Tucked away in a lush forest in southern Estonia, a group of women gather seasonally in a communal smoke sauna. A traditional practice of...
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STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING
Screening to be followed by a conversation with executive producer Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, producer Alisa Payne and executive producer Mara Brock Akil. Adapting the celebrated book by historian and National Book Award-winning author Ibram X. Kendi, director Roger Ross...
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THE ECHO (EL ECO)
Mexican-Salvadoran filmmaker Tatiana Huezo (PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN, AFI FEST 2021) makes a visually arresting return to nonfiction filmmaking with this immersive portrait of multi-generational family life in the remote Mexican highlands. Focusing on a tightknit trio of families, the...
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THEY SHOT THE PIANO PLAYER
Animator Javier Mariscal and director Fernando Trueba (BELLE EPOQUE) reunite after CHICO & RITA (AFI FEST 2010) for this animated, Bossa Nova-inflected documentary about virtuoso Brazilian pianist Francisco Tenório Júnior, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances during the military dictatorship of...
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THE UNIVERSAL THEORY (DIE THEORIE VON ALLEM)
In 1974, author Johannes Leinert (Jan Bülow) appears on a German talk show to promote his sci-fi novel “Die Theorie von Allem,” where shadowy Cold War intrigue melds with alternate realities of the multiverse. But instead, Leinert claims his book...
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TIGER STRIPES
Malaysia’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Amanda Nell Eu. The first Malaysian film to win the Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize, Amanda Nell Eu’s debut feature reimagines a classic tale...
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ANSELM 3D
Artist and iconoclast Anselm Kiefer probes the past, holding up a mirror to post-war Germany through his photography, sculpture and massive architectural installations. Working again in 3D after his acclaimed documentary PINA, director Wim Wenders brings depth to this stereoscopic...
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COPA ’71
Screening to be followed by a conversation with directors Rachel Ramsay and James Erskine. Executive produced by Venus and Serena Williams, COPA ‘71 centers on a long-forgotten 1971 tournament held in Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium two decades before the first FIFA-sanctioned Women’s World Cup. Six teams...
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FOUR DAUGHTERS (LES FILLES D’OLFA)
Tunisia’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Kaouther Ben Hania. In this hybrid docu-fiction from Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania (THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN), Tunisian mother of four, Olfa,...
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GOING VARSITY IN MARIACHI
Screenings to be followed by a conversation with directors Alejandra Vasquez and Sam Osborn. In this charming documentary set in the South Texas borderlands, a passionate group of student musicians of varying experience levels come together to form Edinburg North...
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ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT
Award-winning poet, photographer and filmmaker Raven Jackson makes her feature-length debut (produced by Barry Jenkins under his Pastel banner) with a poetic chronicle of Mack, a young Black woman from Mississippi. Eschewing traditional narrative conventions, Jackson weaves through time to...
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CITY OF WIND (SER SER SALHI)
U.S. Premiere Mongolia’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature A remarkably assured feature debut from award-winning Mongolian short filmmaker Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, CITY OF WIND follows Ze, a studious 17-year-old village shaman, who is diverted from the straight and narrow when...
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INSHALLAH A BOY (INSHALLAH WALAD)
U.S. Premiere Jordan’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature INSHALLAH A BOY makes evident from its outset that in contemporary Jordan, women are not valued or respected as autonomous beings, let alone as heads of households. When Nawal’s husband suddenly...
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LITTLE GIRL BLUE
Following the 2016 suicide of her mother – writer Carole Achache, filmmaker Mona Achache (THE HEDGEHOG) decided to tell her mother’s story, as well as the story of the complicated mother-daughter relationships across three generations in her family. The film...
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MOUNTAINS
Screening on Fri, Oct. 27 to be followed by a conversation with director Monica Sorelle. Haitian American filmmaker Monica Sorelle makes her debut with this lovingly crafted portrait of the immigrant experience, set against the backdrop of Miami’s vibrant yet...
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SHAYDA
Australia’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Noora Niasari. Noora Niasari’s poignant debut feature, executive produced by Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett, follows the courageous titular character, Shayda (brought to life...
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SLOW
Lithuania’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature In this gorgeously realized, sensual second feature from Lithuanian filmmaker Marija Kavtaradzė (SUMMER SURVIVORS, 2018), Elena and Dovyda’s unique relationship unfolds and evolves. Dance instructor Elena (played by the alluring Greta Grineviciute) is...
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THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Joanna Arnow and executive producer Sean Baker. Filmmaker Joanna Arnow portrays Ann, a 30-something New Yorker suffering from aging millennial malaise with the various threads of her life each marked by...
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THE SETTLERS (LOS COLONOS)
Chile’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature In Felipe Gálvez's visually striking debut, tailor-made for the big screen, three travelers (a British expat, an American henchman, and Segundo, an Indigenous Chilean) trek through 1900s Patagonia on a roughly veiled colonizing...
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20,000 SPECIES OF BEES (20.000 ESPECIES DE ABEJAS)
In this sun-soaked, sublimely sensitive debut, writer/director Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren sets her lens on an eight-year-old’s identity crisis over one uncertain summer vacation. Ane, in the midst of separating from her husband, takes her children to her hometown, a sleepy...
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SHORTS PROGRAM: YOUNG AT HEART
CLOSING DYNASTY 2022 USA 16 MIN DIRECTOR Lloyd Lee Choi On a school day, a seven-year-old hustles strangers for money on the streets of New York City. STARLING 2023 USA 9 MIN DIRECTOR Mitra Shahidi The spirit of a little...
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SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2
MIISUFY 2023 Estonia 10 MIN DIRECTOR Liisi Grünberg Digital pet cat Miisu gets tired of her owner and starts to revolt. Inspired by Tamagotchi, MIISUFY observes the world through the eyes of digital pets. A KIND OF TESTAMENT (UN GENRE...
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SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1
THE MIRACLE 2022 Belgium 14 MIN DIRECTOR Nienke Deutz Forty-year-old Irma goes on a vacation to an all-inclusive resort. Soon after her arrival she realizes the place is meant for young families, and Irma has to find her own place...
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SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 2
THRIVING: A DISSOCIATED REVERIE 2023 Canada 9 MIN DIRECTOR Nicole Bazuin THRIVING: A DISSOCIATED REVERIE is a surrealist exploration of dissociative identity disorder (DID) based on the lived experience of Black, non-binary, disabled emerging multidisciplinary performance artist and former sex...
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SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 1
MERMAN 2023 USA 11 MIN DIRECTOR Sterling Hampton IV A 58-year-old Black queer man speaks about his life as an emergency nurse, leather title holder and civil rights advocate. FLESHWORK 2023 USA 7 MIN DIRECTOR Lydia Cornett At a butcher...
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SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 2
THE OLD YOUNG CROW 2022 USA 12 MIN DIRECTOR Liam LoPinto An Iranian boy befriends an old Japanese woman at a graveyard in Tokyo. THURSDAY (CZWARTEK) 2022 Poland 15 MIN DIRECTOR Bren Cukier Maria is an actress with secret plans...
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SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1
HONOLULU 2022 USA 14 MIN DIRECTOR Maya Tanaka Flaming lobsters and menstruation woes plague 12-year-old Yuki’s doomed Hawai'ian beach vacation. As tensions boil over, she, her aloof father and elegant grandmother battle bright red sunburns and the seemingly mundane family...
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UR HEINOUS HABIT
Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 A blackmail email prompts a filmmaker to explore the intersection of shame and masturbation through a series of Zoom conversations with his friends. Eugene Kolb is a filmmaker and animator based in...
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THE WAITING
North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 Karen Lips is a researcher living in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica observing frogs. When she leaves the cloud forest and returns, the frogs are gone. All...
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QUIET AS IT’S KEPT
World Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 1 QUIET AS IT’S KEPT is a cinematic response to Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye.” An evocative illustration of the everyday particulars of colorism, the film collages direct animation, super 8...
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SANDWICH CAT
Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 David lives alone with his kitty, Sandwich Cat. It seemed like an ordinary day, but an unexpected visit will lead him to a crucial reflection on humanity. David Fidalgo, a Fine Arts...
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SAVI THE CAT
Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: YOUNG AT HEART When a devoted Kenyan husband surprises his new Black American wife with an adorable kitten, neither are prepared for the destruction it wields upon their home, their life and ultimately their...
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SÈT LAM
Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 2 In the midst of a trance ritual, a young girl is paralyzed by fear, scared her loved ones may be hurt or disappear. It is then that her grandmother tells her...
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THE SKATES (LES PATINS)
International Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1 Mina loves to skate. Today, her father, recently divorced from her mother, accompanies her to her first figure skating lesson. An ordinary day is derailed when something happens to...
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STARLING
World Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: YOUNG AT HEART The spirit of a little girl shoots down from the heavens to spend her birthday with her family. Mitra Shahidi is an Iranian-American story artist, director and screenwriter. Growing...
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SWEET LIKE LEMONS
U.S. Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 SWEET LIKE LEMONS is a visual reflection on getting out of a harmful relationship and moving on. The title is a play on the saying “when life gives you lemons...
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TANGO IS CONSCIOUS!
World Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: YOUNG AT HEART A cat randomly becomes conscious one day and, like the rest of us, has to get a job. Maddie Wu graduated from USC School of Cinematic Arts with a...
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THRIVING: A DISSOCIATED REVERIE
Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 2 THRIVING: A DISSOCIATED REVERIE is a surrealist exploration of dissociative identity disorder (DID) based on the lived experience of Black, non-binary, disabled emerging multidisciplinary performance artist and former sex worker Kitoko Mai....
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THURSDAY (CZWARTEK)
Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 2 Maria is an actress with secret plans for Thursday, but her day takes an unexpected turn. Bren Cukier is a Polish-American writer and director whose short film THURSDAY (CZWARTEK) has screened...
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MARUNGKA TJALATJUNU (DIPPED IN BLACK)
North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 2 An Anangu man road trips back to Aputula as memories from his childhood return, journeying from the oppression of white city life in Adelaide to seek spiritual healing and...
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MERMAN
Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 1 A 58-year-old Black queer man speaks about his life as an emergency nurse, leather title holder and civil rights advocate. Sterling Hampton IV is an American filmmaker from California. After his last...
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MIISUFY
World Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 Digital pet cat Miisu gets tired of her owner and starts to revolt. Inspired by Tamagotchi, MIISUFY observes the world through the eyes of digital pets. Liisi Grünberg is an...
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THE MIRACLE
North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 Forty-year-old Irma goes on a vacation to an all-inclusive resort. Soon after her arrival she realizes the place is meant for young families, and Irma has to find her...
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MY NAME IS EDGAR AND I HAVE A COW (JMENUJU SE EDGAR A MAM KRAVU)
North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 Edgar’s ordinary life is disrupted by a newborn calf he sees at a slaughterhouse. Filip Diviak is a Slovak film director and animator. He studied animation at the Tomáš...
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NǍI NAI & WÀI PÓ (GRANDMA & GRANDMA) (奶奶跟外婆)
Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 1 Nǎi Nai is my grandma. Wài Pó is also my grandma. Together, they are a grandma super team that dances, stretches and farts their sorrows away. Sean Wang is a filmmaker from...
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THE OLD YOUNG CROW
Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 2 An Iranian boy befriends an old Japanese woman at a graveyard in Tokyo. Liam LoPinto is a filmmaker and animator based out of New York City. He graduated from NYU Tisch...
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LA PERRA
U.S. Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 In Bogota, a bird-girl leaves behind the family home, her domineering mother and a faithful dog to go and explore her sexuality. Carla Melo Gampert is a visual artist who...
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PRIMETIME MOTHER
U.S. Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 2 The willpower of a mother is tested as she endures the tedious and degrading audition process of a popular Philippine game show. Sonny Calvento is a director, writer and...
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PUFFLING
Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 1 Over the course of one night, teenagers Birta and Selma exchange nighttime parties for nocturnal puffin rescues – saving lost pufflings, whilst also grappling with their own uncertain futures. A coming-of-age documentary...
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EEVA
North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 It’s pouring down rain at a funeral. There’s a lot of crying, too much wine, several woodpeckers and a couple of dreams that fill in the gaps. Lucija Mrzljak...
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FLESHWORK
Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 1 At a butcher shop in Jeromesville, Ohio, four meat processors situate their labor within their own minds and bodies. Lydia Cornett is a Baltimore-born filmmaker currently based in Brooklyn, New York. As...
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FRATELLI CARBONAI
World Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 2 As Italy lurches to the far right, a Malian migrant finds a place amongst a family of charcoal burners in the remote Calabrian mountains. Joshua Hughes is a documentary filmmaker...
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FRIDAY NIGHT BLIND
Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 2 The Milwaukee Beer Barrels Blind Bowling League is an eclectic mix of visually impaired and sighted bowlers with a simple focus: making friends, having fun and taking life one frame at a...
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GEORGE-PETERLAND (GÖSTA PETTER-LAND)
North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 Five eight-year-olds found the imaginary world “George-Peterland,” a dreamy forest land with cute chickens you can travel to just by shutting your eyes. When rules take over the imaginary...
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GO FOR GRANDMA
Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: YOUNG AT HEART Inspired by the iconic ‘80s fantasy films we all grew up on, GO FOR GRANDMA is a magical journey into the mind of a young boy who escapes a neglectful home...
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HAFEKASI
Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 2 Mona is a 10-year-old Tongan-Australian girl who begins to realize she's different from her single, white mum and family. Both mother and daughter navigate identity and belonging in Melbourne suburbia during...
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HONOLULU
Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1 Flaming lobsters and menstruation woes plague 12-year-old Yuki’s doomed Hawai'ian beach vacation. As tensions boil over, she, her aloof father and elegant grandmother battle bright red sunburns and the seemingly mundane...
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A KIND OF TESTAMENT (UN GENRE DE TESTAMENT)
U.S. Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 Stephen Vuillemin, born in 1986 in Besançon, France, is an animation director, comics author and illustrator. Between 2016 and 2022, Vuillemin dedicated his time to creating his first animation short...
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MADDEN
North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 2 MADDEN tells a story about relating to your herd, duty versus longing, high-heeled shoes stepping in dung and heavy animal bodies thundering across a Scandinavian landscape – a...
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BASRI & SALMA IN A NEVER-ENDING COMEDY
North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1 A husband and wife own an Odong-Odong at the carnival together, spending their days entertaining and taking care of other people’s children without any of their own. Between...
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BEEN THERE
North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 2 Weekend trips, city breaks, a detour into nature or once around the world. Barely a few days off, and you're already gone. Never before has the desire to travel...
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BEYOND THE SEA
International Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1 Lady Casca, a drag queen in her sixties, is about to go on stage at her cabaret for the last time. The next day, retirement by the sea awaits...
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CHUTES
World Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 A young girl struggles to be present in her life while navigating the arbitrary rules of society, capitalism and consumerism through the lens of childhood toys. Kenzie Sutton is an...
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CLOSING DYNASTY
Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: YOUNG AT HEART On a school day, a seven-year-old hustles strangers for money on the streets of New York City. Lloyd Lee Choi is a Korean-Canadian filmmaker whose previous short film SAME OLD (2022)...
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A CRAB IN THE POOL (UN TROU DANS LA POITRINE)
World Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves on a scorching summer day. They will have to burst the abscess of their relationship so as not...
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DAYDREAMING SO VIVIDLY ABOUT OUR SPANISH HOLIDAYS (LA HERIDA LUMINOSA)
North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1 Sun-starved teenagers take a dreamy trip to the Balearic Islands in the pursuit of light and warmth. They must absorb it and be a vessel in order to...
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DILDOTECTONICS (DILDOTECTÓNICA)
North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 2 Today, Rebeca attempts to create a collection of non-phallic ceramic dildos. During the Inquisition, Josefa finds a dildo that is used in a forbidden love relationship with Maria. Although...
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ALPHA KINGS
Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 1 From a rented mansion in suburban Texas, a group of young men sell a hyperbolic, alpha male version of themselves on the internet. Faye Tsakas is a Greek-American filmmaker, cinematographer and programmer...
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AFI FEST 2023 | Social Media Tool Kit
ABOUT AFI FEST 2023 Showcasing the best films from around the world, the 37th annual AFI FEST film festival will be held October 25-29 in Hollywood. The complete AFI FEST program includes more than 140 titles from 49 countries and...
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SHORTS PROGRAM 5
Screening to be followed by a conversation with Sterling Hampton and Kylie Jefferson (KYLIE), & Sander Joon and Aurelia Aasa (SIERRA). HAULOUT ON XERXES' THRONE (ΣΤΟΝ ΘΡΟΝΟ ΤΟΥ ΞΕΡΞΗ) SIERRA KYLIE AN AVOCADO PIT (UM CAROÇO DE ABACATE)
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SHORTS PROGRAM 4
Program to be followed by a conversation with filmmaker Memi Koupa (CREATURES OF THE NIGHT) NEIGHBOUR ABDI (BUURMAN ABDI) ZOON COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER (הפרעת התמוטטות המושבה) CREATURES OF THE NIGHT (ΟΛΑ ΤΑ ΠΛΆΣΜΑΤΑ ΤΗΣ ΝΎΧΤΑΣ) NEST
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SHORTS PROGRAM 3
Screening to be followed by a conversation with filmmakers Merete Mueller (BLUE ROOM), Riley Engemon (DOWN HOME), Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis (THE FLYING SAILOR), Ivy Yang and Kelvin Yuen (YOKELAN, 66), & Stephania Taladrid and John Kurc (AMERICAN SCAR)....
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SHORTS PROGRAM 2
Program to be followed by a conversation with filmmakers Sindha Agha and Matty Neikrug (EVERYTHING WRONG AND NOWHERE TO GO), Jody Arlington and Suzanne Firstenberg (NOT EVEN FOR A MOMENT DO THINGS STAND STILL). IT'S RAINING FROGS OUTSIDE (AMPANGABAGAT NIN...
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SHORTS PROGRAM 1
Program to be followed by a conversation with filmmakers Katherine Propper (BIRDS), July Naters (BEDWETTER), Victor Gabriel and Duran Jones (HALLELUJAH), Sindha Agha and Samira Mian (HOW TO BE A PERSON: HOW TO GET AN ABORTION). HALLELUJAH BEDWETTER (PILONA) LOVE,...
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AFI Conservatory Showcase 9
THE EMISSARIES MOXIE BEFORE YOU CHERUBS SHEDDING ANGELS
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AFI Conservatory Showcase 8
DAVE THE FIANCE SOREDIA THE PORTRAIT UNDER THE ROSES FIRE BORN SUCK HARD
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AFI Conservatory Showcase 7
BLACK WHOLE CHILDREN OF CHANGE ONE MAN BAND TIAN HEI HEI RITMO
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AFI Conservatory Showcase 6
FINDING VEGA AND I MISS YOU LIKE A LITTLE KID CURE THE ERL KING
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AFI Conservatory Showcase 5
I THOUGHT THE EARTH REMEMBERED ME RINGING ROCKS WAITING FOR SPRING SAN GABRIEL VALLEY DADDY
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AFI Conservatory Showcase 4
KISSY & THE SHARK DESERT DREAM LANE FIVE ZENAIDA THE BASICS OF LOVE
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AFI Conservatory Showcase 3
COWBOY PECAN PIE HEAD OF A WOMAN / HEAD OF A MAN WHY DON'T YOU LIKE ME? MAGDALENA
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AFI Conservatory Showcase 2
GORDITX WE WERE MEANT TO CARRION END OF DAY AVES
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AFI Conservatory Showcase 1
CHORUS FIVE MY LIFE STOPPED AT 15 TO THE DUST
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ZENAIDA
An undocumented Filipino-Muslim caregiver who works for an aging diva suffering from dementia, secretly borrows her glamorous wardrobe for his new drag act. Complications arise when the diva mistakes him for a thief. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE...
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ZOON
Small shimmering animals are in heat. A two-legged forest dweller encounters the lustful group. He and his companions snack on the little creatures and soon a feast begins.Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 4 Born in Germany, Jonatan Schwenk is...
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WILDCAT
Screening to be followed by a conversation with co-directors Melissa Lesh and Trevor Beck Frost and participant Samantha Zwicker. Former British soldier Harry Turner, who is suffering from depression and PTSD after a tour in Afghanistan, volunteers to help American...
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WOMEN TALKING
Screening to be followed by a conversation with writer and director Sarah Polley, producer Dede Gardner, cinematographer Luc Montpellier, costume designer Quita Alfred, production designer Peter Cosco and editor Christopher Donaldson. Adapted from Miriam Toews’ acclaimed novel and based on...
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YELLING TO THE SKY (2011)
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Victoria Mahoney. As her family falls apart, 17-year-old Sweetness O’Hara (Zoë Kravitz) is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain. After suffering abuse from bully...
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YOKELAN, 66
In Manhattan's Chinatown, 66-year-old widowed Yokelan goes to dance class. She wants to find love again. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Yi Tang is the winner of the 2021 Cannes Short Film Palme d'Or for ALL THE CROWS...
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WAITING FOR SPRING
A sci-fi love story about a woman on Mars trapped by grief. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 5
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WALK UP
Working his way through the middle-age blues despite being a famous and celebrated film director, Byung-soo pays a visit to old friend Ms. Kim in hopes of securing an interior design apprenticeship for his daughter Jeongsu. As Ms. Kim gives...
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WE WERE MEANT TO
Akil, an African American teen, has wings and one goal: to take his first flight. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 2
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WHY DON’T YOU LIKE ME?
A ride-share driver's five-star rating starts to suddenly go down. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3
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UNDER THE ROSES
A lawyer getting a divorce goes to see an old girlfriend for what he hopes is a date, only to learn that she wants him to convince her son to forgo his dream. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE...
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UNREST (UNRUEH)
It is the 1870s and nestled in the lush Swiss Jura Mountains is the watchmaking town of St. Imier. When Russian traveler Pyotr Kropotkin (Alexei Evstratov) arrives, intent on drawing a more accurate map of the region, he meets Josephine...
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THE VOLCANO: RESCUE FROM WHAKAARI
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Rory Kennedy, producer and co-writer Mark Bailey and producer Sara Bernstein. In 2019, a volcano erupted on Whakaari in New Zealand without warning, raining down rocks and debris, and enveloping the...
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TIAN HEI HEI
A young girl growing up in a Shanghainese gambling den must protect her friend and survive the violent world of petty gangsters by relying on her wits. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 7
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TO THE DUST
Living in the expanse of the Wild West, a disabled woman is forced to fight not only the elements but also her own grief when confronted with an unexpected loss. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1
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TRENQUE LAUQUEN
TRENQUE LAUQUEN will be screening in two parts with a 20-minute intermission. The newest output of the El Pampero Collective (which has produced some of Argentinian cinema’s most exciting recent discoveries, including the colossal LA FLOR), TRENQUE LAUQUEN takes us on a mystifying journey...
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TURN EVERY PAGE – THE ADVENTURES OF ROBERT CARO AND ROBERT GOTTLIEB
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Lizzie Gottlieb. In 2020, when the media landscape was overtaken by Zoom, providing a privileged peek inside pundit and celebrity homes, perched atop book piles, carefully situated within the frame, invariably,...
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SUCK HARD
Reeling from an earth-shattering break up, 17-year-old Zoe must confront all that is left of her first love: a cardboard box of “stuff.” Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 8
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THE SWARMERS (SCHWARMTIERE)
Los Angeles premiere Karla is new at a highly traditional boarding school. Because she breaks the nose of popular classmate Pombert on her very first day, her social decline becomes inevitable. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Alison Kuhn...
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THIS HOUSE (CETTE MAISON)
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Miryam Charles and actors Schelby Jean-Baptiste and Florence Blain Mbaye. On a wintery day in Bridgeport, Connecticut, 2008, a teenage girl named Tessa was mysteriously murdered in her own home. Ten...
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THE SPIRAL
US Premiere A WhatsApp audio begins, and with it, a downward spiral unfolds. The voice of a woman sinking into a health anxiety attack quickly entangles a complex labyrinth of fears and emotions. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3...
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“SR.”
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Chris Smith and producers Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey and Kevin Ford. A tender, career-spanning chronicle of the irreverent, underground filmmaker Robert Downey Sr., who directed films for nearly 50 years,...
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SUBJECT
Screening to be followed by a conversation with co-director Jennifer Tiexiera and co-producers and participants Ahmed Hassan, Margie Ratliff and Mukunda Angulo. From award-winning filmmakers Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall, SUBJECT considers the ethical complications inherent in documentary filmmaking and...
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SIERRA
A father and his son are losing the folk race. In order to win, the boy turns himself into a car tire. Loosely inspired by the director's childhood, SIERRA pulls us into the surreal car racing world. Screens as part...
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SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING (FUMER FAIT TOUSSER)
French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux (DEERSKIN, AFI FEST 2019) returns with another delightfully absurdist comedy, featuring a band of spandex-clad vigilante superheroes called the Tobacco Force - Benzene, Nicotine, Methanol, Mercury and Ammonia – who channel the negative effects of smoking...
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THE SON
Screening to be followed by a conversation with Florian Zeller, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Ben Smithard and Iain Canning. Florian Zeller follows up his previous feature THE FATHER (AFI FEST 2020) with an affecting spiritual sequel adapted from his own stage play....
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SOREDIA
During an improvised trip to the California mountains, a self-conscious French girl studying in the U.S. finds herself lost and, desperate for a sense of belonging, decides to act on her growing obsession towards her charismatic new friend. Screens as...
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SELENA GOMEZ: MY MIND AND ME
World Premiere In this deeply personal documentary, Grammy-nominated singer, Emmy®-nominated producer and award-winning actress Selena Gomez, who’s been in the public eye since childhood, takes audiences on an illuminating and harrowing journey as she navigates the pressures of stardom and...
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SHE SAID
Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star as New York Times investigative reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who together broke the generation-defining story that helped propel the #Metoo movement, shattering decades of silence surrounding the subject of sexual assault in...
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SHEDDING ANGELS
In search of an outfit for a costume party, a young man steals war uniforms from an elderly woman’s yard sale...but pays the price in the most unexpected way. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 9
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RINGING ROCKS
A young man supporting his boyfriend's recovery from paranoid delusions takes him on a romantic getaway to an isolated desert resort, only to start questioning his own grip on reality. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 5
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RITMO
Just as young love begins to blossom for a high-school boy, he is faced with an important decision: to live out his Abuela’s dream, or create his own. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 7
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SAINT OMER
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Alice Diop. It’s a haunting scenario that keeps her awake at night: a young woman gently laying down her 15-month-old daughter upon the shoreline and allowing the sea to claim her....
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SAN GABRIEL VALLEY
Ten months after she moved to the United States with her husband Qinyi, Supin learns her favorite student at the Chinese piano shop is about to leave the country. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 5
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PIAFFE
In a playful exploration of gender, eroticism and control, the introverted Eva (Simone Bucio) is tasked with completing her sibling Zara’s work as a foley artist after Zara is admitted into a psychiatric hospital. Struggling through the sessions for a...
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THE PORTRAIT
Celebrating the five-year anniversary of his clothing line, fashion designer Dorian Gray must decide whether or not to sell his company to accomplished designer Cornelius Black. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 8
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REWIND & PLAY
Screening to be preceded by a special introduction from historian Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. French-Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis exhumes and reedits raw footage from an excruciating, never-aired 1969...
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ONE MAN BAND
A depressed organ recipient embarks on a life-changing journey to fulfill the last wish of his donor by forming an amateur band with the donor’s other two organ recipients. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 7
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PACIFICTION
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Albert Serra. Turning his lens to the tropical landscapes of Tahiti, Albert Serra’s latest marks a departure from his usual subject of historical aristocratic decay, which culminated with the debaucherous LIBERTÉ...
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ON XERXES’ THRONE (ΣΤΟΝ ΘΡΟΝΟ ΤΟΥ ΞΕΡΞΗ)
US Premiere At the Perama shipyard, a ban on physical contact has turned human interaction into otherworldly simulations. The suppression of touch has transformed the boatyard into a charged landscape of repressed sensuality. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5...
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ONE FINE MORNING (UN BEAU MATIN)
Following two travel films in a row - the India-set MAYA (AFI FEST 2018) and the metatextual BERGMAN ISLAND - Mia Hansen-Løve returns to her Parisian roots with another intricately melancholic work of auto-fiction. Léa Seydoux illuminates the screen as...
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NEST
US Premiere A story of siblings building a treehouse together over the course of a year. We experience the beauty and brutality of the seasons, as we follow them through their struggles and moments of joy. Screens as part of...
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NICE TO MEET YOU ALL
Los Angeles premiere NICE TO MEET YOU ALL is a celebration of a woman with Dissociative Identity Disorder who has survived human trafficking rings in the U.S. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Guen Murroni is an Irish-Italian writer/director...
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NO BEARS
Though banned from filmmaking and from leaving the country since 2010, Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi has employed docufiction techniques to evade further sanctions, winning awards internationally at film festivals that he is unable to attend. In his latest, Panahi –...
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NOT EVEN FOR A MOMENT DO THINGS STAND STILL
Visitors from across the nation gather at a sea of white flags to honor loved ones lost to COVID-19. As they mourn en masse, we witness their many expressions of loss and humanity. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2...
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MY LIFE STOPPED AT 15
A visit to a skating rink triggers Sofia into a world where she must confront her pain in order to break free from her past. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1
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NANNY
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Nikyatu Jusu, actor Anna Diop, producer Nikkia Moulterie and costume designer Charlese Antoinette Jones. Intertwining folklore, magical realism and a quiet dread, this ominous feature debut from director Nikyatu Jusu is...
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NEIGHBOUR ABDI (BUURMAN ABDI)
Somali-born Abdi reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbor and filmmaker, Douwe. They embark on a candid journey through a painful history. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 4 Douwe Dijkstra is a...
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MONICA
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Andrea Pallaoro, producer Christina Dow and actors Trace Lysette and Patricia Clarkson. Trace Lysette (TRANSPARENT) stars as the titular Monica, a self-reliant masseuse who has been estranged from her family since...
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MOSQUITA Y MARI (2012)
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Aurora Guerrero, actors Venecia Troncoso, Fenessa Pineda, and Laura Patalano. When Yolanda Olveros meets her new neighbor Mari Rodriguez, all they see in each other are their differences. A sheltered only...
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MOXIE
An exclusive orgy in Los Angeles doesn’t go as planned. AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 9
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MAGDALENA
Czechoslovakia, 1971. A Slovakian woman cannot shake the demons of her horrific past as they come back to haunt her and threaten to destroy the life she's tirelessly trying to build. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3
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MARIUPOLIS 2
US Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with producer Omar El Kadi. Following up on his 2016 documentary MARIUPOLIS, Mantas Kvedaravičius returned to the besieged city of Mariupol to document life under Russia-occupied Ukraine. On April 2, 2022,...
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LORI
North American Premiere A mother sings lullabies to her 12-year-old daughter in order to calm her down. When the lullabies end and the daughter comes to her senses, the reality turns out to be life-altering. Screens as part of SHORTS...
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LE PUPILLE
Screening to be followed by an extended conversation with director Alice Rohrwacher. Inspired by a letter Italian novelist Elsa Morante sent to her friend, LE PUPILLE is a magical fable about a group of mischievous young Catholic schoolgirls during an...
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LIVING
Screening to be followed by a conversation with Bill Nighy, director Oliver Hermanus and writer Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in post-World War II London, Mr. Williams, played by a gentlemanly Bill Nighy at his career best, leads a mundane existence living...
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LOVE, BARBARA
A short documentary about the iconic legacy of pioneering lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, through the lens and love of her partner of over 30 years, Florrie Burke. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Brydie O’Connor is a Kansas-bred,...
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LUCIENNE IN A WORLD WITHOUT SOLITUDE (LUCIENNE DANS UN MONDE SANS SOLITUDE)
Los Angeles premiere In a world without solitude, where everyone shares their life with their double, Lucienne has a relationship with Paul, a former lover who has lost his twin. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 In 2018, Geordy...
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LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER
LA Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre. Adapted from D. H. Lawrence’s novel of the same name which was banned for obscenity, LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER is a sensual account of Lady Constance Chatterley...
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LANE FIVE
A young woman struggles to care for her father with Alzheimer's, only to have him suddenly vanish from the house when her back is turned. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 4
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JOYLAND
U.S. Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Saim Sadiq and producer Apoorva Guru Charan. In his ravishing feature debut, Pakistani filmmaker Saim Sadiq astutely observes a patriarchal, lower-middle-class family’s hesitant explorations of desire and intimacy. When...
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KISSY & THE SHARK
In a polluted world, Kissy (11) attempts to save a beached shark by taking it home. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 4
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KYLIE
A ballerina from Los Angeles speaks her truth about passion and pain in the dance industry. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5 Sterling Hampton (Master Sterling) is a director, photographer and editor from Riverside, CA. Amongst music videos for...
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I THOUGHT THE EARTH REMEMBERED ME
A terminally ill woman journeys back to the place where she once lived with the love of her life over thirty years ago. The place where she chooses to live out her last days and die on her own terms....
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IS THAT BLACK ENOUGH FOR YOU?!?
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Elvis Mitchell and moderator David Fincher. With candor and a vital, unapologetic insight, film critic Elvis Mitchell takes us on a journey through the films that shaped him, those Hollywood-produced depictions...
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IT’S RAINING FROGS OUTSIDE (AMPANGABAGAT NIN TALAKBA HA LIKOL)
Los Angeles premiere The world is about to end. Maya is forced to go home to the province of Zambales. There, she confronts her childhood house that terrorizes her as frogs rain outside. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2...
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HUMAN FLOWERS OF FLESH
Ida (Angeliki Papoulia of DOGTOOTH) leads a crew of five men on a sailing yacht. After becoming fascinated with the French Foreign Legion at a port in Marseille, she sets sail for Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria – the Legion’s historical...
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HUMANS ARE DUMBER WHEN CRAMMED UP TOGETHER (LES HUMAINS SONT CONS QUAND ILS S’EMPILENT)
US Premiere Locked up in their own apartments, some neighbors tell the camera about the little troubles of life in a community. Little by little, when everything piles up, it's enough to drive one mad. Screens as part of SHORTS...
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A HUNDRED FLOWERS (HYAKKA)
North American Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Genki Kawamura. In this delicate feature debut from director Genki Kawamura, adapted from his own novel, Izumi finds his mother Yuriko wandering in the freezing cold on New...
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HEAD OF A WOMAN / HEAD OF A MAN
A lost young man, struggling with his sense of self, encounters St. Francis of Assisi in the woods. The two share an intimate connection that forges an unwavering love. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3
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HELLION (2014)
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Kat Candler and actor Josh Wiggins. Featuring remarkably nuanced, heart-wrenching performances, this vérité-style drama set in southeastern Texas follows motocross-obsessed 13-year-old Jacob Wilson, in a breakout performance from Josh Wiggins, whose...
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HOW TO BE A PERSON: HOW TO GET AN ABORTION
If Alfie hadn’t dumped her, Sanam would never have booty-called Jawad. Now Sanam needs to get an abortion. How does she even do that and what will her Baba say if he finds out? Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM...
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GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO
US Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Christoph Waltz, Gregory Mann, Alexandre Desplat, Patrick McHale, Finn Wolfhard and Georgina Hayn. Academy Award®-winning director Guillermo del Toro and Emmy Award®-winning stop-motion legend Mark...
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HALLELUJAH
After being stuck with the guardianship of their annoying, bookworm nephew, two brothers in Compton, CA, must decide if they are willing to take on the responsibility of being caretakers. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Victor Gabriel is...
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HAULOUT
North American Premiere Off the Russian Arctic coast in a wind-battered hut, a lonely man waits to witness an ancient gathering. But warming seas and rising temperatures bring an unexpected change, and he soon finds himself overwhelmed. Screens as part...
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GODLAND (VANSKABTE LAND / VOLAÐA LAND)
Hlynur Pálmason (WINTER BROTHERS, AFI FEST 2017) delivers his most brutal and unsparing film yet with his third feature, GODLAND. Set in the late 1800s, Danish priest Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove) embarks on an arduous voyage to a remote village...
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GORDITX
Kung-fu-obsessed Ursula discovers she’s not the only outcast at an exclusive country club summer camp. With a golf tournament looming, Ursula hopes to prove her worth with the help of Chef Cormac. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 2
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THE FLYING SAILOR
US Premiere Two ships collide in a harbor, an explosion shatters a city and a sailor is blasted skyward. THE FLYING SAILOR is a contemplation of the wonder and fragility of existence. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Wendy...
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GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Jacquelyn Mills. On the remote Sable Island off the coast of Nova Scotia lives conservationist Zoe Lucas. After first falling in love with the island as a bright-eyed art student in...
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FINDING VEGA
A coming-of-age story of a rebellious Chinese American girl named Xing who has a passionate love for the starry sky and discovers the complexities of her ill mother's love and spirit. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 6
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FIRE BORN
Ruby, who lost her mother at birth to gun violence, works as a cop in Los Angeles. Drawing her gun to stop a robbery, she finds herself in the same situation as when she was born. Screens as part of...
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FIVE
After spending seven years in prison, Malcolm seeks to mend his relationship with his mother while devoting himself as a consistent and faithful new convert to Islam. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1
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THE FIVE DEVILS
In this darkly enthralling tale, a strange little girl named Vicky (Sally Dramé) possesses an exceptional gift for scent. Adoringly attached to her mother Joanne (Adèle Exarchopoulos), who is a swimming coach, Vicky secretly collects and reproduces concoctions of various...
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THE ERL KING
When a young woman from a strict, religious family suddenly finds herself seduced by an ancient woodland god, she falls into a romance that threatens to consume her on the 1800s frontier. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 6
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THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER
On the heels of her twofold memoir THE SOUVENIR, Joanna Hogg once again turns her lens to the tightly-wound, minute yet nebulous magnetism of mother-daughter relationships in this spiritual third installment. Starring the chameleonic Tilda Swinton as both Julie and her...
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EVERYTHING WRONG AND NOWHERE TO GO
Los Angeles Premiere Plagued by overwhelming anxiety about climate change, a filmmaker starts seeing a climate psychologist in hopes that she can find some peace of mind about the end of the world. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2...
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THE FABELMANS
US Premiere A film that has been 75 years in the making, Steven Spielberg’s THE FABELMANS is a soul-bearing and spellbinding movie memoir for the ages. Set in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, this semi-autobiographical coming-of-age epic is told...
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THE EMISSARIES
Three emissaries from a new wave cult seeking land to settle on are tasked with acquiring a ranch at all costs from an old couple who refuse to sell. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 9
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END OF DAY
When a corporate worker decides to chase his dream of being a stand-up comedian, the office transforms into a surreal nightmare that tries to convince him to stay by using his insecurities against him. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY...
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EO
In Polish auteur Jerzy Skolimowski’s playful tribute to Robert Bresson’s 1966 AU HASARD BALTHAZAR, we experience the kindness and the cruelty of the human world through the melancholic eyes of a donkey. A carnival donkey bonds with a young performer...
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DOWN HOME
World Premiere A sleepaway camp in Elgin, Texas, gives adults with developmental disabilities the opportunity to escape societal barriers and have a good ol' time dancing, loving and feeling free. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Liz Moskowitz is...
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DRY GROUND BURNING (MATO SECO EM CHAMAS)
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Joana Pimenta. In the center of this expansive vision of modern Brazil are two sisters ruling the peripheral city of Ceilândia, Brazil. Chitara and Léa lead a fearsome all-female biker gang,...
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THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS
North American Premiere In THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS, based on the award-winning novel of the same name by Paolo Cognetti, two friends navigate a lifelong friendship. Twelve-year-old Pietro (Luca Marinelli) is vacationing with his family in a remote alpine village when...
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DAVE THE FIANCE
When a life-changing accident leaves Dave in the hands of his soon-to-be father and brother-in-law, he must protect the family or risk destroying everything they have. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 8
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DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA
This revelatory new entry from the avant-garde duo of the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (LEVIATHAN, AFI FEST 2014), reveals the human body in ways previously unseen in the cinematic medium. Using a combination of specially...
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THE DEBUTANTE
US Premiere A spirited young woman persuades a hyena from the London Zoo to take her place at a dinner dance held in her honor. Their plan requires a surprising amount of artistry and violence. Screens as part of SHORTS...
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DESERT DREAM
A young Korean foreign exchange student gets expelled and decides to spend his last day living the American Dream. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 4
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COWBOY PECAN PIE
Andrew, a seven-year-old boy escapes into an imaginary Wild West as a defense mechanism when his neighbor, Francis, sexually abuses him. In the Wild West, Andrew meets Pecan Pie, a big talking, fast shooting cowboy who teaches him how to...
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CREATURES OF THE NIGHT (ΟΛΑ ΤΑ ΠΛΆΣΜΑΤΑ ΤΗΣ ΝΎΧΤΑΣ)
Athens 2022. Angst and insomnia persist for months now. Amidst all this, a charitable robber and anarchist, the Pink Bunny, is roaming the dark, empty city streets. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 4 Memi Koupa is a seasoned writer/director,...
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CURE
In the near future a fugitive finds both animosity and refuge in a secret community where people are free from a surveillance barcode burned onto every citizen. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 6
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DADDY
A uniquely twisted coming-of-age story about an aspiring porn star who spends the summer of 1980 in her family’s dilapidated desert motel by sleeping with every man who passes through. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 5
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CLOSE
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Lukas Dhont. In the second feature from Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont (GIRL), the friendship between two sensitive and affectionate 13-year-old boys, Léo and Rémi, is abruptly torn apart when they enter...
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COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER (הפרעת התמוטטות המושבה)
Colony Collapse Disorder is an abnormal phenomenon that occurs when bees leave the hive with no apparent reason. Between forest and city, two ambiguous lovers journey to preserve their togetherness. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 4 Amos Holzman is...
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THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Dror Moreh. In an insightful examination of the complexities surrounding military interventionism, Oscar®-nominated documentarian Dror Moreh (THE GATEKEEPERS) interviews an astounding cadre of powerful decisionmakers in American politics and diplomacy including...
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CHILDREN OF CHANGE
In a last desperate environmental plea, a teen girl will do to her own body what we're doing to the earth. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 7
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CHORUS
After missing his wife's phone call goodbye on the morning of September 11th, a now listless and brokenhearted music teacher must harmonize with his increasingly reckless 14-year-old son. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1
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BRUISER
US Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Miles Warren. Away from his private school friends and having to spend the summer break at home with his mother and stern father (Shamier Anderson), 14-year-old Darious (Jalyn Hall)...
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CARRION
In an isolated desert motel, a young girl digs up a rotting carcass — and later that night, something long-buried is unearthed in her mother. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 2
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CHERUBS
A reserved teenager feels seen for the first time when an older counselor at an arts camp takes her under his wing. As boundaries blur, she reckons with the consequences of self-discovery. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 9
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BLACK WHOLE
When a haunting black hole appears in their yard, a pregnant couple must face their fears of miscarriage, to eliminate the phenomenon before it consumes them. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 7
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BLUE ROOM
In the Pacific Northwest, incarcerated men and women watch nature videos on loop. BLUE ROOM is a meditation, and a provocation, on the human condition in prison and outside of it. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Merete Mueller...
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BODY PARTS
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, producer Helen Hood Scheer and intimacy coordinator Sarah Scott. Kristy Guevara-Flanagan (ÁGUILAS/EAGLES, AFI FEST 2021) tackles the exploitation of women in the entertainment industry by dissecting sex scenes in...
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BONES AND ALL
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Luca Guadagnino and actor Taylor Russell. BONES AND ALL, the newest film from Luca Guadagnino (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, AFI FEST 2017), features a transfixing, award-winning breakout performance from Taylor...
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BEDWETTER (PILONA)
US Premiere Lea, a 10-year-old girl, wets the bed every night. Behind this disorder, there is a hidden secret that makes her a hostile and incredulous child. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Founder of PATACLAUN, a theater group...
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BEFORE, NOW & THEN
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Kamila Andini and actor Ibnu Jamil. Set amid the political upheaval of 1960s Indonesia and spanning 15 years, BEFORE, NOW & THEN observes the evolution of Nana (Happy Salma), an unhappy...
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BEFORE YOU
An African American police officer, who is seven months pregnant, patrols South Mississippi on a graveyard shift that she will never forget. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 9
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BIRDS
Moments in the lives of Austin teenagers during the heat of a Texas summer. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Katherine Propper is an Austin-based filmmaker. Her latest short film BIRDS won Special Jury recognition at SXSW 2022 and...
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AVES
After a sudden encounter with a mysterious student, a tenured ornithologist and war veteran is forced to remember the realities of his past. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 2
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AN AVOCADO PIT (UM CAROÇO DE ABACATE)
North American Premiere Larissa, a transgender woman, and Cláudio, a cisgender man, meet one night in the streets of Lisbon. Two people, two realities, who dance their differences away till morning light. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5 Ary...
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BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS
Screening to be followed by a conversation with Alejandro González Iñárritu, Íker Solano, Ximena Lamadrid, Griselda Siciliani, Daniel Giménez Cacho and Stacy Perskie. Directed by five-time Academy Award®-winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu, BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS is...
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THE BASICS OF LOVE
After getting caught amidst a robbery on New Year's Eve, Liz and Lefty, co-workers in the city sanitation department, are caught off-guard by feelings for one another that they didn't know they had. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE...
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AMERICAN SCAR
When a wedding photographer mistakenly captures a dynamite blast at the U.S.-Mexico border, he discovers a wide-ranging environmental catastrophe that could threaten the future of animal life in North America. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Daniel Lombroso is...
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AND I MISS YOU LIKE A LITTLE KID
When a lonely depressive falls for an older punk during the early days of the pandemic, he soon finds himself trapped in his apartment with her abuse. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 6
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AVA DUVERNAY PANEL
Amplifying the voices and vision of women directors, AFI FEST Guest Artistic Director Ava DuVernay moderates this in-depth discussion with the directors whose films are screening in the Guest Artistic Director section. Panelists include Kat Candler, director of HELLION; Aurora...
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32 SOUNDS
Screening to be followed by a conversation with sound designer Mark Mangini. Certain to forever alter the way that you listen, this profound sensory experience from Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Sam Green (THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND) features an immersive, sonic tour through...
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ALCARRÀS
Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Carla Simón. In Spain’s official Oscar® submission and the second feature from Carla Simón (SUMMER 1993, AFI FEST 2017), the close-knit Solé family, nestled in the rural village of Alcarràs, experiences...
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SING 2
World Premiere The ever-optimistic Buster Moon and his all-star cast of performers prepare to launch their most dazzling stage show yet…all in the glamorous entertainment capital of the world, Redshore City. There’s just one hitch: they first have to persuade...
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THE POWER OF THE DOG
There will be a post-screening conversation with: Jane Campion (Director), Benedict Cumberbatch (Actor), Kirsten Dunst (Actor), Kodi Smit-McPhee (Actor), Ari Wegner (Cinematographer), Peter Sciberras (Editor), moderated by actress and comedian Kathryn Hahn. The year is 1925. The Burbank brothers are...
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COMPARTMENT NO. 6
Finland Official International Feature Film Oscar® Submission A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with...
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SHORTS PROGRAM 5
In-person Q&A to follow screening. Following the virtual program, AFI Festivals Shorts Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Elizabeth Lo (MISTRESS DISPELLER), Urška Djukićz (GRANNY'S SEXUAL LIFE), Karolina Kajetanowicz (GREEN), Suzannah Mirghani (AL-SIT), Mitch Kalisa (PLAY IT SAFE)....
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SHORTS PROGRAM 4
In-person Q&A to follow screening. Following the virtual program, AFI FEST Programmer Julia Kipnis leads a conversation between filmmakers Zahida Pirani (EL CARRITO), Claudrena N. Harold (PRIDE), Eliane Esther Bots (IN FLOW OF WORDS), Stephanie Camacho Castillas (MANO SANTA), Nash...
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SHORTS PROGRAM 2
In-person Q&A to follow screening. Following the virtual program, AFI Festivals Shorts Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Bar Cohen (HER DANCE), Sean Wang (H.A.G.S.), Cosmo Collins Salovaara (ENVIAR Y RECIBIR), Sorayos Prapapan (NEW ABNORMAL), Güzin Kar (YOUR...
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SHORTS PROGRAM 3
In-person Q&A to follow screening. Following the virtual program, AFI Festivals Shorts Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Sam Davis and Rayka Zehtabchi (ARE YOU STILL THERE?), Malika Zouhali-Worrall (VIDEO VISIT), Federico Torrado (YORUGA), Gabriel Herrera (MOTORCYCLIST’S HAPPINESS...
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SHORTS PROGRAM 1
In-person Q&A to follow screening. Following the virtual program, AFI Festivals Shorts Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Louise Monlaü (THE DEATH CLEANER), Diana Cam Van Nguyen (LOVE, DAD), Juliana Kasumu (BABYBANGZ), Alexandra Matheou (A SUMMER PLACE). ZONDER...
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AFI Conservatory Showcase 3
SPACESHIP THE HIDEAWAY A BUTTERFLY VANISHES COLD WALL APART, TOGETHER
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AFI Conservatory Showcase 2
THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THINGS GUIDE ON RIDING SCOOTERS BOYS OF A CERTAIN AGE LIKE US YOURS TO BURY
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AFI Conservatory Showcase 1
KUSH: A BUBBLEGUM WESTERN LUX NOCTIS THE MONKEY KING LI MASS AVE EUREKA
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MEET THE PRESS Shorts 5: After The War
CAMP CONFIDENTIAL: AMERICA'S SECRET NAZIS MISSION: HEBRON
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MEET THE PRESS Shorts 4: Ghosts & Legacies
MELTDOWN IN DIXIE LYNCHING POSTCARDS: 'TOKEN OF A GREAT DAY' THEY WON'T CALL IT MURDER
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MEET THE PRESS Shorts 3: Democracy…on the Line
PARTY LINE RED TAXI TAKEOVER
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MEET THE PRESS Shorts 2: Promises
THE FACILITY THE INTERVIEW BREE WAYY: PROMISE WITNESS REMEMBRANCE
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MEET THE PRESS Shorts 1: Where I Belong
GOLDEN AGE KARATE CODED: THE HIDDEN LOVE OF J.C. LEYENDECKER THE TRAIN STATION LEAD ME HOME
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YOUR STREET (DEINE STRASSE)
The grey present of an industrial area is being charged with its past, linked to a tragic episode in the history of Germany. Are public memorials collective remembrance or repression? Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Güzin Kar is...
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YOURS TO BURY
On the morning before her older brother's Confirmation, a young girl learns what it takes to keep her sister close. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 2 Susan Dretzka AFI Conservatory sdretzka@afi.com
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ZONDER MEER
North American Premiere A boy has disappeared and may have drowned. Five-year-old Lucie is trying to understand what is going on around her. How long can you hold your breath? Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Meltse Van Coillie...
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WHO WE ARE: A CHRONICLE OF RACISM IN AMERICA
Talent attending in-person screening: Emily Kunstler (Director), Sarah Kunstler (Director), and Jeffery Robinson (Producer/Writer). Jeffery Robinson, a former ACLU Deputy Legal Director and lawyer of over 40 years, gives a comprehensive chronicle of anti-Black racism in America during a live...
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WILDHOOD
US Premiere Talent attending in-person screening: Gharrett Paon (Producer), Damon D’Oliveira (Producer), Phillip Lewitski (Actor), Joshua Odjick (Actor), Michael Greyeyes (Actor). The road of life can be difficult as Link, an indigenous Mi’kmaw teen, certainly knows. Fortunately, he has his younger half-brother, Travis, by...
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THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
Norway Official International Feature Film Oscar® Submission Julie is experiencing an existential crisis of life and love. She’s altered her career path a handful of times and begins dating Aksel, an older and successful graphic novelist. As time goes on,...
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YORUGA
A lonely old man pays a visit to Yoruga, one of the last animals on Earth. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Federico Torrado Tobón is a Colombian writer and director based in Los Angeles. His work mixes irrational...
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VERA DREAMS OF THE SEA (VERA ANDRRON DETIN)
North American Premiere Talent attending in-person screening: Director of Photography Sevdije Kastrat. Following the virtual screening, watch a special conversation with director Kaltrina Krasniqi moderated by AFI Festivals Associate Programmer Cedar Sherbert. Unassuming sign language interpreter Vera (Teuta Ajdini) lives...
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VIDEO VISIT
Each week, people visit the Brooklyn Public Library to video call incarcerated loved ones. A story of two mothers and their sons, and the librarians who keep the families connected. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Malika Zouhali-Worrall is...
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VOIR
A collection of visual essays...for the love of cinema.
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WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (RAS VKHEDAVT, RODESAC CAS VUKUREBT?)
After a seemingly predestined pair of romantic encounters, pharmacist Lisa and soccer player Giorgi arrange a date, but after a peculiar curse strikes the pair, each awakens with an altered appearance, leaving them unrecognizable to one another. A seedling, a...
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tick, tick…BOOM!
Opening Night / World Premiere There will be a post-screening conversation with Lin-Manuel Miranda (Director), Andrew Garfield (Actor), Robin De Jesus (Actor), Alexandra Shipp (Actor) and Steven Levenson (Screenwriter) moderated by filmmaker Rian Johnson. Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award® winner...
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TO WHAT REMAINS
World Premiere Over 200 aircrafts were shot down over the island of Palau in the South Pacific during World War II. In the early 1990s, Dr. Pat Scannon went to Palau to help a dive team locate a Japanese trawler...
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THE TRAIN STATION
In this beautifully animated documentary short, filmmaker Lyana Patrick narrates her family's powerful story of love and survival at Lejac Indian Residential School. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 1 Lyana Patrick is a member of the Stellat’en...
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THE TSUGUA DIARIES (DIÁRIOS DE OTSOGA)
When lockdown halted production, Lisbon-based filmmakers Miguel Gomes (TABU, ARABIAN NIGHTS) and Maureen Fazendeiro (BLACK SUN, MOTU MAEVA) incorporated their interrupted project organically into a playful meta-premise: friends Crista, Carloto and João are building a greenhouse for butterflies, cleaning out...
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UNCLENCHING THE FISTS (RAZZHIMAYA KULAKI)
Russia Official International Feature Film Oscar® Submission Following the theatrical screening, watch a special conversation with director Kira Kovalenko moderated by AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan. In a remote North Caucasus mining town, Ada is coming of age in a...
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SUNDOWN
Michel Franco returns to AFI FEST with his latest film which follows a family emergency that summons siblings Neil and Alice Bennett away from their luxurious Acapulco vacation and back to London, with Neil conveniently discovering his passport has disappeared,...
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SWAN SONG
World Premiere There will be a post-screening conversation with Benjamin Cleary (Director), Mahershala Ali (Actor) and Naomie Harris (Actor) moderated by LA Times’ Mark Olsen. Set in the near future, SWAN SONG is told through the eyes of Cameron (two-time...
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TAKEOVER
An exploration of July 14, 1970, when members of the Young Lords Party stormed the Lincoln Hospital in South Bronx, making their cries for decent healthcare heard by the world. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 3 Emma...
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THEY WON’T CALL IT MURDER
Mothers, sisters and grandmothers of those killed by Columbus police, seeking justice in a community bound together by grief and a system that refuses to call these killings murder. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 4 Melissa Gira...
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SIMPLE AS WATER
Talent attending in-person screening: Megan Mylan (Director), Robin Hessman (Producer), Steven Schulman (Cast), Abed Sabha (Cast), Omar Sabha (Cast). The impact of humanitarian crises knows no real borders. The Syrian civil war has devastated its people, causing refugees to migrate...
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SOFT ANIMALS
Two ex-lovers cross paths in a train station. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 4 Renee Zhan is a Chinese-American director and animator from Houston, Texas. In her films, Zhan is primarily interested in exploring topics of the body, nature,...
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SPACESHIP
When a Latina transwoman in East LA is on the verge of losing her daughter to child services, she begins to unravel after confronting her buried traumas and fears. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3 Susan Dretzka AFI...
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STRAWBERRY CHEESECAKE
North American Premiere In Singapore, where even vapes are illegal, three rebellious schoolgirls are caught smoking by the principal. Their revenge prank takes a sinister turn. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 4 Siyou Tan is a Singaporean filmmaker based...
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A SUMMER PLACE
On the day of Tina’s birthday, she is ready to give up on everything until an extraordinary encounter changes her life. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Alexandra Matheou is a Cypriot screenwriter, director and producer based in London,...
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RIDING SCOOTERS
A socially awkward Chinese-American teenager spends an evening trying to impress his crush at a friend’s unusual party. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 2 Susan Dretzka AFI Conservatory sdretzka@afi.com
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SALES PER HOUR
SALES PER HOUR tells the story of a young woman who faces a moral dilemma when she witnesses a sexual encounter at the clothing store where she works. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Michelle Uranowitz and Daniel Jaffe’s...
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SANDSTORM (MULAQAT)
Zara shares a sensual dance video with her virtual boyfriend, who blackmails her. She begins her search for the strength to reject the confines of a patriarchal society. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Seemab is a British-Pakistani filmmaker...
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SHARK
SHARK follows the continuing adventures of Jack, who loves to prank. But in his latest relationship he may have finally met his match. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 4 Nash Edgerton is an Australian film director, actor, stuntman and...
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PROCESSION
Talent attending in-person screening: Robert Greene (Director). Director Robert Greene has a collaborative approach in making his films, often by encouraging his subjects to act out roles in the projects, allowing them a safe place to explore difficult issues (as...
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THE REAL CHARLIE CHAPLIN
From Peter Middleton and James Spinney (NOTES ON BLINDNESS), comes a uniquely crafted portrait of iconic physical comedian Charlie Chaplin, creator of silent cinema’s loveable “tramp.” Featuring rare and never-before-heard recordings and introducing characters from Chaplin’s life who had been...
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RED ROCKET
Talent attending in-person screening: Sean Baker (Director), Suzanna Son (Actor), and Simon Rex (Actor). After 20 years working in LA’s porn industry, Mikey Saber (Simon Rex) walks back into his oil refinery hometown of Texas City for a fresh start....
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RED TAXI
As protests unfold in Hong Kong, RED TAXI shows a city in upheaval through the eyes of those who must traverse the streets day and night to make a living. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 3 Due...
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PLAYTIME (GIOCHI)
North American Premiere A mother wants to play with her son. A boy wants to find out what his friend is giving a girl. A cat has disappeared. But these are only games. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5...
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PLEASURE
Bella Cherry is an ambitious young woman. She arrives in Los Angeles from a small town in Sweden to pursue her dreams of stardom – in the adult film industry. A times raw and explicit, PLEASURE explores a male-dominated industry...
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PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN (NOCHE DE FUEGO)
Mexico Official International Feature Film Oscar® Submission Talent attending in-person screening: Tatiana Huezo (Director), Nicolas Celis (Producer), Jim Stark (Producer), Maya Scherr-Wilson (Executive Producer). Neorealism is at its grittiest in this devastating narrative debut from documentary filmmaker Tatiana Huezo (TEMPESTAD)....
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PRIDE
An aspiring writer finalizes stories for "Pride," a student-run newspaper. Over a hectic two days in the early 1990s, she puts the finishing touches on the upcoming issue. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 4 Kevin Jerome Everson is Chair...
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PARIS, 13TH DISTRICT (LES OLYMPIADES, PARIS 13E)
Adapted from Adrian Tomine’s acclaimed graphic novel, PARIS, 13TH DISTRICT weaves a breezy tapestry of modern love stories. Beautifully realized in crisp black-and-white cinematography, the electrifying, multicultural 13th arrondissement sets the stage for a panoramic tale of four young lovers....
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PARTY LINE
At the early voting line in Ohio’s most populous county, civic duty is a public performance. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 3 Lydia Cornett is a documentary filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland, currently based in Columbus, OH. Her...
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PETITE MAMAN
After the death of her grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly goes to her mother’s childhood home as her parents sort through the estate. Nelly explores the nearby woods where her mother, Marion, used to play as a child and finds the tree...
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PLAY IT SAFE
Jonathan is out of place in his drama school. Pigeonholed and typecast in parts, Jonathan decides to demonstrate to his peers their prejudices during a class role-play exercise. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5 Originally from Rwanda, Mitch Kalisa...
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NEW ABNORMAL
USA Premiere Based on a true story, NEW ABNORMAL is a reflection on human life during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as under the Emergency decree. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Sorayos Prapapan is an independent filmmaker. He...
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A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING
Winner of the Best Documentary Award at Cannes, Payal Kapadia’s hypnotic feature directorial debut examines rediscovered, once lost film reels and a diary written by a student (“L”) to her absent lover at the Film & Television Institute of India....
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ONE SECOND
Master filmmaker Zhang Yimou returns to the big screen with this year’s most charming celebration of cinema. During the Cultural Revolution in China, the film’s nameless hero is sent to a remote labor camp in the desert. After escaping several...
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ONLY THE MOON STANDS STILL (明月依旧)
Three generations of Chinese women say goodbye to their family ballroom dance studio. Executive produced by Lena Waithe, starring Shirley Chen and Mardy Ma. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Johnson Cheng’s films have screened at Tribeca, AFI FEST...
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PARALLEL MOTHERS
There will be a post-screening conversation with Pedro Almodóvar (Director) moderated by film critic Alonso Duralde. Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film follows two women Janis and Ana (both single mothers) from the moment they give birth to two daughters....
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MON AMI QUI BRILLE DANS LA NUIT
A ghost loses their memory after being struck by lightning. They meet Arthur, who tries to help them. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Former students of Gobelins in Paris, Grégoire de Bernouis, Jawed Boudaoud, Simon Cadilhac and Hélène...
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THE MONKEY KING
Bao, a small-time Chinese opera performer, finally gets a chance to perform for the city's V.I.P.s. However, his son's departure brings conflict between their relationship and a potential break. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1 Susan Dretzka AFI...
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MOTORCYCLIST’S HAPPINESS WON’T FIT INTO HIS SUIT (AL MOTOCICLISTA NO LE CABE LA FELICIDAD EN EL TRAJE)
He sits proudly on his motorbike, encompassed in majestic red and the dazzling admiration of others. A playful re-enactment with reversed roles that targets the hubris of colonial conquerors. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Gabriel Herrera is a...
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NALUJUK NIGHT
USA Premiere Every January 6th, families in the Inuit community of Nain, Canada, celebrate Nalujuk Night, when eerie figures in tattered fur clothing arrive to reward the good and punish the bad. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Jennie...
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MISERY LOVES COMPANY
One night, Seolgi is lying on a grass field with friends. A shooting star falls, and dark and intrusive thoughts hits her and her melancholy blooms into "flower people." Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Sasha Lee is an...
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MISSION: HEBRON
Israeli soldiers are recruited at age 18 and, only months later, are already overseeing Palestinian civil life. Former soldiers describe their time in Hebron, the most troubled city in the West Bank. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS...
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MISTRESS DISPELLER
World Premiere A professional “mistress dispeller” works with a married couple struggling with infidelity in contemporary China. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5 Elizabeth Lo is an award-winning filmmaker featured on Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film”...
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MANO SANTA
A grandfather harbors his runaway grandson after fleeing the constraints of home. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 4 Steph Camacho is a filmmaker and photographer from Puerto Rico. They are known for writing and directing the multi-award-winning LGBTQ+ shorts...
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MASS AVE
Over a day of landscaping work, a first generation African American and his immigrant father have their relationship and outlooks on life transformed irreversibly when racially profiled by police. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1 Susan Dretzka AFI...
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MEDUSA
Anita Rocha da Silveira (KILL ME PLEASE) returns to AFI FEST with MEDUSA, a modern horror-satire that fiercely critiques evangelical fanaticism in a Brazil which draws eerie comparisons to American society. Mariana (played with verve by Mari Oliveira) is part...
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MELTDOWN IN DIXIE
A film exploring the broader role of Confederate symbolism in the 21st century and the lingering racial oppression which these symbols help maintain. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 4 Emily Harrold is a documentary filmmaker from Orangeburg,...
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MEMORIA
Colombia Official International Feature Film Oscar® Submission While visiting Bogotá, Colombia, Jessica (Tilda Swinton), a Scottish orchid farmer grappling with deep existential unease, becomes tormented by a sound only she can hear: the heavy thud of a falling metal ball....
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LOVE, DAD (MILÝ TATI)
She finds letters full of love her dad wrote her years ago. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Diana Cam Van Nguyen is a Czech-Vietnamese director based in Prague. In her works, she focuses on personal topics through the...
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LUX NOCTIS
In an isolated matriarchal community, Lina creates an unprecedented amount of light. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1 Susan Dretzka AFI Conservatory sdretzka@afi.com
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LYNCHING POSTCARDS: 'TOKEN OF A GREAT DAY'
From 1880–1968 over 4,000 African Americans were lynched at the hands of white mobs. These lynchings were commemorated through souvenir postcards that would ultimately be subverted by Black activists to expose racist violence in the U.S. Screens as part of...
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KUSH: A BUBBLEGUM WESTERN
Brent and Perry, a broke and in-love couple, run into trouble when they decide to transport weed across the country. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1 Susan Dretzka AFI Conservatory sdretzka@afi.com
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LEAD ME HOME
A short presenting the epidemic of homelessness in America with candid testimonials from the unhoused. A poetic portrait of our culture's fraying edges and the people who inhabit them. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 1 Pedro Kos...
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LI
Li, a recent immigrant, hopes for a better education for her son while dealing with potentially losing her career, and learns how to do what's best for her son. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1 Susan Dretzka AFI...
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LIKE US
A lonely woman saves an alien who cannot experience emotions. As she tries to teach it what love is, she discovers that you can’t teach what you don’t know yourself. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 2 Susan Dretzka...
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LINGUI, THE SACRED BONDS (LINGUI)
Following the theatrical screening, watch a special conversation with director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun moderated by AFI FEST Programmer Julia Kipnis. In a complex story of generational struggle, Amina is exiled from her family for being an unwed single mother. She lives...
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ÎNTREGALDE
Following the theatrical screening, watch a special conversation with director Radu Muntean moderated by AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan. From Romanian writer-director Radu Muntean, this intelligent and engaging parable/thriller replete with dark humor and high tension premiered at the 2021...
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JOCKEY
Talent attending in-person screening: Clint Bentley (Director), Greg Kwedar (Producer), Nancy Schafer (Producer), Clifton Collins, Jr. (actor), Molly Parker (actor), Moises Arias (actor). As Jackson nears the end of his professional jockey’s career, he’s trying to win one last championship...
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JUICE WRLD
World Premiere Talent attending in-person screening: Tommy Oliver (Director). The SoundCloud rap generation, known for music that explores emotional vulnerabilities, prescription drug use and mental health, has greatly impacted American music and culture in the last decade. After posting songs from...
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JULIA
Talent attending in-person screening: Julie Cohen (Director). Julia Child single-handedly changed the way Americans viewed the dinner table in the 20th century. Enrolling in the famed Le Cordon Bleu, a male-dominated culinary school in France, transformed her life. Child went on...
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KING RICHARD
Closing Night Armed with a clear vision and a brazen 78-page plan, Richard Williams is determined to write his daughters, Venus and Serena, into history. Training on Compton, California’s abandoned tennis courts – rain or shine – the girls are...
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HUDA’S SALON
Following the theatrical screening, watch a special conversation with director Hany Abu-Assad moderated by AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore. HUDA’S SALON centers on the complex friction in the West Bank between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation. In this...
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IN FLOW OF WORDS
North American Premiere The narratives of three interpreters of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, who interpreted shocking testimonies without regard for their own feelings and personal histories. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 4 Eliane Esther Bots...
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INDIE CONTENDERS
Presented by The Hollywood Reporter and moderated by columnist and blogger Scott Feinberg, this annual panel favorite features a 90-minute discussion with major talent from the AFI FEST 2021 lineup and recent releases. Panelists will include Caitríona Balfe (BELFAST), Nicolas...
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THE INTERVIEW
THE INTERVIEW forces viewers to confront their own feelings about justice and mercy, while revealing the heavy toll our current system takes on incarcerated people and their families. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 2Jon Miller is a...
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HER DANCE (RIKUD HASSIDI)
After not being invited to her sister's wedding, Aya, a transwoman, shows up by surprise on a Shabbat night at the Orthodox Jewish community where her family lives. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Bar Cohen is a third-year...
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THE HIDEAWAY
After hearing a rumor that her mother is a stripper, 14-year-old Nika becomes determined to discover the truth, unknowingly crossing the threshold into adulthood. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3 Susan Dretzka AFI Conservatory sdretzka@afi.com
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HIT THE ROAD (JADDE KAHKI)
Following the virtual and theatrical screenings, watch a special conversation with director Panah Panahi moderated by AFI FEST Programmer Julia Kipnis. In this fascinating, standout debut from Panah Panahi, son of acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi (TAXI, 3 FACES), an...
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HOLY EMY (AGIA EMY)
North American Premiere Talent attending in-person screening: Araceli Lemos (Director), Ki Jin Kim (Director of Photography/Producer), Giulia Caruso (Co-writer/Producer), Calliope Andreadis (Production Designer), Joel Garber (Associate Producer). Largely keeping to themselves after their mother is forced to leave Athens and...
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GREEN (ZIELEŃ)
Roadside greenery is created to be driven past, not to be in. Geometrical, artificial and overgrown by weeds. Your body is the same, dragged through life instead of living it. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5 Karolina Kajetanowicz graduated...
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GUIDE ON
On her first day of basic training, an army recruit stands out as she defiantly fights to be the first female guidon bearer. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 2 Susan Dretzka AFI Conservatory sdretzka@afi.com
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H.A.G.S.
World Premiere Feeling anxious about adulthood, Sean Wang found comfort in the innocence of middle school through his old yearbooks. Curious about how his old friends were handling adulthood, he called them. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Sean...
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HAPPENING (L’ÉVÉNEMENT)
Following the theatrical screening, watch a special conversation with director Audrey Diwan moderated by AFI FEST Programmer Julia Kipnis. In Audrey Diwan’s Golden Lion award-winning feature adapted from Annie Ernaux’s autobiographical novel, Anamaria Vartolomei delivers a breakout performance as Anne,...
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GOLDEN AGE KARATE
Teen karate pro Jeff Wall teaches senior citizens self-defense at a local nursing home, giving them the tools to feel in control, connected and cared for. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 1 Sindha Agha is an Emmy®-nominated...
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GOOD MADAM (MLUNGU WAM)
Following the theatrical screening, watch a special conversation with director Jenna Cato Bass, producer Babalwa Baartman and actor Chumisa Cosa moderated by AFI FEST Programmer Julia Kipnis. South African auteur and AFI FEST alum Jenna Cato Bass (HIGH FANTASY) delivers...
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GRANNY’S SEXUAL LIFE (BABIČINO SEKSUALNO ŽIVLJENJE)
USA Premiere A trip into grandmother’s youth and the memories of her intimate life illustrate the status of Slovenian women in the first half of the 20th century. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5 Urška Djukić (1986) studied at...
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GREAT FREEDOM (GROSSE FREIHEIT)
Austria Official International Feature Film Oscar® Submission Winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for the Queer Palm, Franz Rogowski captivates as the lovesick Hans in Sebastian Meise’s second narrative feature...
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ENVIAR Y RECIBIR
A warehouse worker at a fast fashion company forms an attachment to a piece of damaged inventory. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Cosmo Collins Salovaara is a filmmaker from New York, currently based in Los Angeles. His work...
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EUREKA
A young indentured Chinese prostitute must overcome her toxic dependency on the brothel madam on the eve of the 1885 anti-Chinese riot in Eureka, California. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1 Susan Dretzka AFI Conservatory sdretzka@afi.com
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THE FACILITY
A group of immigrants, detained inside an infamous American detention center as the pandemic spreads, organize in protest to demand protections and their release. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 2Seth Freed Wessler is an award-winning investigative journalist,...
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THE FIRST WAVE
Talent attending in-person screening: Matthew Heineman (director/producer), Jenna Millman (producer), Leslie Norville (producer), Dr. Nathalie Dougé (subject), Ahmed Ellis (subject), Alexis Ellis (subject), Karl Arabian (subject), Brussels Jabon (subject), Naph Jabon (subject). “Every day we look death right in its eye....
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THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER
Following the theatrical screening, watch a special conversation with directors Ramon and Silvan Zürcher moderated by AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan. In the long-awaited follow-up to their 2013 collaboration THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT and a continuation in what they describe...
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COSTA BRAVA, LEBANON
Following the theatrical screening, watch a special conversation with director Mounia Akl moderated by AFI FEST Programmer Julia Kipnis. Lebanese filmmaker Mounia Akl makes a compelling feature debut with this whimsical family drama. Set in the near future, a close-knit...
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COW
Luma, branded “1129,” is a distinctive dairy cow living on a cattle farm in the English countryside. AFI Conservatory Alumna Andrea Arnold’s first-ever documentary depicts the daily life and routine of Luma and her calf in captivity: being led this...
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THE DEATH CLEANER (EL LIMPIADOR)
For a forensic cleaner in Mexico City, healing is at the core of his service. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Louise Monlaü is a filmmaker based in Paris. Yvonne Ashley Kouadjo The New York Times Op-Docs yvonneashley.kouadjo@nytimes.com
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DRIVE MY CAR (DORAIBU MAI KÂ)
Japan Official International Feature Film Oscar® Submission Following the theatrical screening, watch a special conversation with director Ryusuke Hamaguchi moderated by AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan. Expanding on the eponymous Haruki Murakami short story, this epic examination of loss from...
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CINEMA SABAYA
Talent attending in-person screening: Orit Fouks Rotem (Director). Rona is teaching a film class to a diverse group of eight women. The class becomes the catalyst for deeper discovery as these women bond over their shared experience. While completing the...
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CITIZEN ASHE
Following the virtual and theatrical screenings, watch a special conversation with director-producer Rex Miller and director Sam Pollard moderated by AFI FEST Programmer Julia Kipnis. Born and raised in a segregated Virginia, Arthur Ashe rose to the top of the...
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CODED: THE HIDDEN LOVE OF J.C. LEYENDECKER
The coded advertisements of legendary early-20th century gay illustrator J.C. Leyendecker quietly, but directly, acknowledged a community that was forced to live in the closet. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 1 Ryan White is the director of...
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COLD WALL
After a video of a miscarriage suffered by a student goes viral, a shocked 16-year-old Chinese girl, Katie, attempts to solve a personal crisis in unfamiliar territory. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3 Susan Dretzka AFI Conservatory sdretzka@afi.com
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A BUTTERFLY VANISHES
The peace between Leo and his grieving father is disrupted when the young boy finds a butterfly that he believes to be his deceased mother. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3 Susan Dretzka AFI Conservatory sdretzka@afi.com
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CAMP CONFIDENTIAL: AMERICA’S SECRET NAZIS
During WWII, a group of young Jewish refugees are sent to a secret POW camp near Washington, DC, and they soon discover that the prisoners are Hitler's top scientists. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 5 Mor Loushy...
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EL CARRITO
World Premiere Nelly slogs through another unsuccessful day of street vending in Queens, New York. Determined to improve her circumstances, she makes a risky business decision that ends in misfortune. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 4 Zahida Pirani is...
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CASABLANCA BEATS (HAUT ET FORT)
North American Premiere Morocco Official International Feature Film Oscar® Submission Talent attending in-person screening: Nabil Ayouch (Director). Based on director Nabil Ayouch’s own experiences opening a cultural center for young people in Casablanca, his new film depicts a group of...
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BOYS OF A CERTAIN AGE
Stalked by an ominous driver, a boy on the cusp of puberty faces danger and excitement during a weekend of self-discovery with his best friend. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 2 Susan Dretzka AFI Conservatory sdretzka@afi.com
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BREE WAYY: PROMISE WITNESS REMEMBRANCE
A film by award-winning director and 2021 AFI DOCS Charles Guggenheim Symposium honoree Dawn Porter that looks at how the art world responded to the death of Breonna Taylor by using art not only as a form of protest but...
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THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THINGS
During the hottest heat wave in Southern California, Bobby wakes up to find his AC stolen from his window. Soon, a journey for revenge becomes one of self-discovery. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 2 Susan Dretzka AFI Conservatory...
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BRUISED
World Premiere There will be a post-screening conversation with Halle Berry (Director/Actor) moderated by filmmaker Ava DuVernay. Jackie Justice (Halle Berry) is a mixed martial arts fighter who leaves the sport in disgrace. Down on her luck and simmering with...
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APART, TOGETHER
Yiru is a Chinese teenager traveling to the U.S. as a translator for her mom, who is searching for her first daughter she gave up for adoption under the one-child policy. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3 Susan...
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ARE YOU STILL THERE?
On a hot day, Safa's car battery dies, leaving her stranded in a strip mall parking lot. When her mom arrives, the two struggle to jump-start a car. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 The Oscar®-winning team behind the...
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BABYBANGZ
BABYBANGZ visualizes the story of Anastasia Ebel, owner of a natural hair salon in Mid-city, and her mission to foster opportunities for intentional reflection, for herself and her community. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Juliana Kasumu is an...
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BERNSTEIN’S WALL
Talent attending in-person screening: Douglas Tirola (Director). For the better part of the 20th century, composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein was a household name due to his music in WEST SIDE STORY (for which he won an Academy Award®), his...
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AL-SIT
In a cotton farming village in Sudan, Nafisa has a crush on Babiker, but her parents have arranged her marriage to Nadir, a young Sudanese businessman. Can Nafisa choose for herself? Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5 Suzannah Mirghani...
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ALI & AVA
Ali and Ava each live lonely lives in North Britain. Ali, a British Pakistani, is a former DJ turned compassionate landlord who meets Ava, an Irish-born schoolteacher and single mother of five, while picking up one of his tenant’s children...
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ANXIOUS BODY
Living things, artificial things, geometry shapes and lines. When these different things encounter, a new direction is born. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 4 Born in 1984, Yoriko Mizushiri is a freelance film director who graduated from the Joshibi...
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AHED’S KNEE
Following the theatrical screening, watch a special pre-recorded conversation with director Nadav Lapid moderated by AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan. Filmmaker Y, widely known for his insufferable arrogance and self-righteousness, has just arrived in the remote Arava Valley to introduce...
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Spotify Playlist 2020
Once you're done movie-watching for the day, stream this great music from films featured in the AFI FEST 2020 presented by Audi virtual film festival.
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HILLBILLY ELEGY: A Conversation with Director and Cast
An exclusive conversation with the director and cast of HILLBILLY ELEGY presented by Netflix. Based on the bestselling memoir by J.D. Vance, HILLBILLY ELEGY is a modern exploration of the American Dream and three generations of an Appalachian family as...
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THE WHITE TIGER: A Conversation with the Director
An exclusive conversation with the director and cast of THE WHITE TIGER presented by Netflix. THE WHITE TIGER is the epic journey of a poor Indian driver who must use his wit and cunning to break free from servitude to...
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THE WITCHES: A Conversation with Director and Cast
An exclusive conversation with the director and cast of THE WITCHES presented by HBO Max. Reimagining Roald Dahl’s beloved story for a modern audience, THE WITCHES is a visually innovative film telling the darkly humorous and heartwarming tale of a...
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AFI Conservatory Showcase
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FROM THE STREETS TO THE LEGISLATURE: A CONVERSATION WITH THE FILMMAKERS AND SUBJECTS OF ALL IN: THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY AND TANGLED ROOTS
On the eve of one of the most important elections in U.S. history, directors Lisa Cortes (ALL IN: THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY) and Samantha Knowles (TANGLED ROOTS) explore the powerful connection between social protest, citizen-led democracy and visual storytelling with...
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SHORTS PROGRAM 4
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Jamil McGinnis and Pat Heywood (GRAMERCY), Helki Frantzen (L.A. ROLL), Carla Simón and Dominga Sotomayor (CORRESPONDENCIA), Santiago Barzi (CHINESE WALL). CORRESPONDENCIA GRAMERCY MAALBEEK L.A. ROLL CHINESE WALL
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SHORTS PROGRAM 5
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Zach Woods (DAVID), Henriette Rietz (POSTPARTUM), Jonatan Etzler (SWIMMER), Bridey Elliot (THE FEELING), Sean Glass (A 1984 PERIOD PIECE IN PRESENT DAY), Jacob Halpren (CLAIRE AT SEVEN...
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SHORTS PROGRAM 3
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Yi Tang (BLACK GOAT), Em Weinstein (IN FRANCE MICHELLE IS A MAN’S NAME), Seungee Kim (TIGER & OX), Erica Tremblay (LITTLE CHIEF), Inès Girihiwe (BREAKING GROUND), Johnson...
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SHORTS PROGRAM 2
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Yuan Yuan (HEADING SOUTH), Azadeh Moussavi (THE VISIT), Rim Nakhli (NOUR), Tayler Montague (IN SUDDEN DARKNESS), Danski Tang (UMBILICAL) and Naïla Guiguet (DUSTIN). PILLARS HEADING SOUTH (雁南飞)...
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SHORTS PROGRAM 1
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Neo Sora (THE CHICKEN), Claudia Vernis (THERE’S CAKE), Keisha Rae Witherspoon (T), Kathy Esquenazi Mitrani (RUBBED IN PINK), Ariane Boukerche (THEY SALIVATE) and Mitch Mcglocklin (FOREVER), Jacqueline...
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MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 7: All Politics Are Local
Following the program, NBC News Congressional Correspondent, host of “Way Too Early with Kasie Hunt,” Kasie Hunt leads a conversation with filmmakers. STATUS PENDING VOTE NEIL DO NOT SPLIT
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MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 6: Culture Clash
Following the program, Moderator of Meet the Press and NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd leads a conversation with filmmakers. A PRAYER FOR JOSHUA JACKSON UNITED STATES OF JOE'S TALL TALES WITH TRUE QUEENS GLOVES OFF
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MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 5: Justice For All
Following the program, Senior Washington Correspondent, host of “Andrea Mitchell Reports” Andrea Mitchell leads a conversation with filmmakers. MY BROTHER'S KEEPER THE TORTURE LETTERS LIONS IN THE CORNER
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MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 4: MeToo and Beyond
Following the program, NBC News Senior Investigative Correspondent Cynthia McFadden leads a conversation with filmmakers. CHURCH AND THE FOURTH ESTATE BREACH OF TRUST
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MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 3: Black in America
Following the program, NBC News Correspondent Morgan Radford leads a conversation with filmmakers. THE LOST ASTRONAUT TANGLED ROOTS
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MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 2: Native Stories
Following the program, NBC News Correspondent Jo Kent leads a conversation with filmmakers. BLACKFEET BOXING: NOT INVISIBLE GAMES OF SURVIVAL: A CULTURE PRESERVED IN ICE OIL & WATER
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MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 1: When the News Becomes the News
Following the program, Chief White House Correspondent Hallie Jackson leads a conversation with filmmakers. WHEN THE NEWS HITS HOME: A YEAR INSIDE THE CAPITAL GAZETTE SUSTAINED OUTRAGE
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THE WORLD AS SHE KNOWS IT
Mia’s father is having an affair. She does not know whether to confront her father, tell her mother, or keep the secret to herself.
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YOUR ONE AND ONLY
Returning home after an abortion, Sophie finds her husband cheating on her. Overwhelmed, she invites his mistress to lunch in order to take her revenge.
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WHEN THE NEWS HITS HOME: A YEAR INSIDE THE CAPITAL GAZETTE
World Premiere The 2018 shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper left five people dead, exposing not only the danger many journalists face but reminding the public of the essential role local journalism plays in communities large and small. Screens as...
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WHIRLYBIRD
Following the film, NBC News Correspondent & MSNBC Anchor Katy Tur leads a conversation between filmmaker Matt Yoka and subject Marika Gerrard. In the 1980s and ‘90s, Marika Gerrard and Zoey Tur (known then as Bob) flew high above sprawling...
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WILDLAND
USA Premiere Following the film, AFI FEST Senior Programmer Claudia Puig leads a conversation between filmmaker Jeanette Nordahl and actor Sandra Guldberg Kampp . Families come in all shapes, sizes and career inclinations. After her mother dies suddenly in a...
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WITCHIN
Ridiculed in the witch world and sent to the human world to find the elusive BDE, a young witch confronts her biggest tormentor – her kind spirit.
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WOLFWALKERS
USA Premiere Following the film, AFI Festivals Director of Programming Sarah Harris leads a conversation with filmmakers Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart. In 17th-century Ireland, a magical friendship takes shape. Young Robyn and her wolf-hunter father, Bill, are sent from...
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VEIL
When Leila, a Muslim teenager, shows up to her senior prom in a conservative and modest dress, her beliefs, culture and sense of identity gets tested.
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THE VISIT
North America Premiere Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Yuan Yuan (HEADING SOUTH), Azadeh Moussavi (THE VISIT), Rim Nakhli (NOUR), Tayler Montague (IN SUDDEN DARKNESS), Danski Tang (UMBILICAL) and Naïla Guiguet (DUSTIN). After...
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VOTE NEIL
Neil is a first-time politician running for State House. Mike is his fiancé and campaign manager searching for purpose. An intimate portrait about politics, the Southern LGBTQ experience and one incredible love story. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS...
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WANDER DARKLY
Following the film, AFI FEST Senior Programmer Claudia Puig leads a conversation with director Tara Miele and actor Sienna Miller. How would you regard the arc of a romance if you could revisit it? This visually stunning, moving and time-bending...
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THE WATERMELON WOMAN
Following the film, film scholar and Cinema's Legacy guest curator Racquel Gates leads a conversation with Michael B. Gillespie, Hannah Giorgis and Terri Francis. Aspiring filmmaker and video store clerk Cheryl, self-referentially portrayed by director/writer/editor Cheryl Dunye, is embarking on...
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TRAGIC JUNGLE (SELVA TRÁGICA)
Following the film, AFI Festivals Director of Programming Sarah Harris leads a conversation with filmmaker Yulene Olaizola and actress Indira Andrewin. Set in 1920, a Belizean woman desperately trying to get away from a white British landowner heads into the...
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UMBILICAL
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Yuan Yuan (HEADING SOUTH), Azadeh Moussavi (THE VISIT), Rim Nakhli (NOUR), Tayler Montague (IN SUDDEN DARKNESS), Danski Tang (UMBILICAL) and Naïla Guiguet (DUSTIN). An animated documentary exploring...
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UNCLE FRANK
Following the film, AFI Director of Programming Sarah Harris leads a conversation between filmmaker Alan Ball and actors Paul Bettany, Peter Macdissi and Sophia Lillis. Beth has always been keen on her uncle Frank. On the rare occasions whenever he...
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UNDER THE OPEN SKY
Film critic Amy Nicholson leads a conversation with filmmaker Miwa Nishikawa. Having been behind bars for 13 years for murder, Masao Mikami (Koji Yakusho) is released from prison and now finds himself in a world very different than the one...
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UNITED STATES OF JOE’S
In rural Utah, a valley of world-class bouldering is nestled among a conservative community of Mormons, cowboys and coal miners. When punk rock climbers show up, cultures clash, but the story doesn’t end there. Screens as part of MEET THE...
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THERE’S CAKE (SENSE POSTRE)
World Premiere Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Neo Sora (THE CHICKEN), Claudia Vernis (THERE'S CAKE), Keisha Rae Witherspoon (T), Kathy Esquenazi Mitrani (RUBBED IN PINK), Ariane Boukerche (THEY SALIVATE) and Mitch Mcglocklin...
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THEY SALIVATE (ILS SALIVENT)
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Neo Sora (THE CHICKEN), Claudia Vernis (THERE'S CAKE), Keisha Rae Witherspoon (T), Kathy Esquenazi Mitrani (RUBBED IN PINK), Ariane Boukerche (THEY SALIVATE) and Mitch Mcglocklin (FOREVER), Jacqueline...
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TIGER AND OX (호랑이와 소)
North America Premiere Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Yi Tang (BLACK GOAT), Em Weinstein (IN FRANCE MICHELLE IS A MAN'S NAME), Seungee Kim (TIGER & OX), Erica Tremblay (LITTLE CHIEF), Inès Girihiwe...
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TIL LIFE DO US PART
Two 70-year-old best friends with a pact to kill themselves by their 71st birthday learn that life is worth living with a great friend.
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THE TORTURE LETTERS
North America Premiere One of Laurence Ralph's first memories of the police is when a plainclothes officer harassed his family. Now a Princeton anthropology professor, Ralph traces his story to the entrenched practices of torture by the Chicago Police. Screens...
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T
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Neo Sora (THE CHICKEN), Claudia Vernis (THERE'S CAKE), Keisha Rae Witherspoon (T), Kathy Esquenazi Mitrani (RUBBED IN PINK), Ariane Boukerche (THEY SALIVATE) and Mitch Mcglocklin (FOREVER), Jacqueline...
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TALL TALES WITH TRUE QUEENS
Drag Queen Story Hour features drag queens reading stories to kids in libraries and schools. Amidst a building controversy, we learn that kids and drag queens have more in common than you might think. Screens as part of MEET THE...
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TANGLED ROOTS
TANGLED ROOTS follows Kentucky State Representative Attica Scott as she fights to pass a bill that would dismantle a system of discrimination against black people who are penalized for something seemingly innocuous — their hair. Screens as part of MEET...
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TAPE
A 16-year-old ice hockey player on an all girls’ high school team tries to repair her relationship with her teammate, while preparing for the team’s pre-qualifying game.
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THERE IS NO EVIL (SHEYTAN VOJUD NADARAD)
Following the film, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation with filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof. Banned from making films since 2017, Iranian auteur Mohammad Rasoulof’s Golden Bear-winning four-part anthology is an epic examination of morality under an oppressive regime. Family...
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STATUS PENDING
With immigration law under attack, five first-generation immigration lawyers — who call themselves “The Tribe” — strive to help immigrants obtain safety and status in the United States. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 7 Priscilla González Sainz...
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A STRANGE CALM
When 12-year-old Rosie and Miles encounter a strange man on the 4th of July in 1974, their journey to watch the fireworks on the outskirts of town becomes an unexpected fight for survival.
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A SUITABLE BOY
USA Premiere Episodes 1-6 Before the screening, AFI FEST salutes director and activist Mira Nair this year with a special live conversation at 5:00 p.m. PDT on October 17. 1951. In a newly independent India, passionate literature student Lata Mehra defies tradition and her meddling mother’s wish to...
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SUSTAINED OUTRAGE
World Premiere Eight months after the family-owned Charleston Gazette-Mail won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, the Gazette-Mail grappled with a painful reality: bankruptcy ahead of a sale. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 1 Gabriela Cavanagh is...
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SWIMMER (BADAREN)
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Zach Woods (DAVID), Henriette Rietz (POSTPARTUM), Jonatan Etzler (SWIMMER), Bridey Elliot (THE FEELING), Sean Glass (A 1984 PERIOD PIECE IN PRESENT DAY), Jacob Halpren (CLAIRE AT SEVEN...
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SHOULD THE WIND DROP (SI LE VENT TOMBE)
USA Premiere Following the film, AFI FEST Director of Programming Sarah Harris leads a conversation between filmmaker Nora Martirosyan and actor Grégoire Colin. In the Southern Caucasus there is the small breakaway country of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, but you can't...
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SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS
World Premiere Following the film, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation with filmmaker Lisa Rovner. Theremins, synthesizers and feedback machines abound in this glorious ode to the women who helped shape, not just electronic music but the contemporary...
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A TRIBUTE TO SOFIA COPPOLA
Sofia Coppola exploded onto the festival scene with her directorial debut, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (1999) which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. With her second film, LOST IN TRANSLATION, Coppola earned more accolades, including the Academy Award® for Best Original...
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SOUND OF METAL
Following the film, Variety’s Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis leads a conversation with filmmaker Darius Marder and actors Riz Ahmed, Paul Raci, Chelsea Lee and Shaheem Sanchez. After watching SOUND OF METAL, join us for a live AFI Summit session...
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THE SPEECH
May 2003, Beijing, China. Under pressure from the WHO, the Chinese government announced the SARS outbreak is real. During the ensuing lockdown, three eight-year-old girls have to find a way to make sense of the world.
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RIVAL (RIVALE)
North America Premiere Following the film, film critic Tyra Martin leads a conversation between filmmakers Marcus Lenz and Gunter Hanfgarn and co-writer Lars Hubrich. From the opening scenes of a little boy brandishing a huge gun, the audience is immediately...
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RUBBED IN PINK
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Neo Sora (THE CHICKEN), Claudia Vernis (THERE'S CAKE), Keisha Rae Witherspoon (T), Kathy Esquenazi Mitrani (RUBBED IN PINK), Ariane Boukerche (THEY SALIVATE) and Mitch Mcglocklin (FOREVER), Jacqueline...
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SHADOW IN THE CLOUD
Following the film, AFI Festivals Director of Programming Sarah Harris leads a conversation between filmmaker Roseanne Liang and actor Chloë Grace Moretz. On a stormy night during World War II, a female pilot with top secret cargo talks her way...
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SHE PARADISE
World Premiere Following the film, AFI FEST Senior Programmer Claudia Puig leads a conversation between filmmaker Maya Cozier, writer Melina Brown and actor Onessa Nestor. A film about sisterhood and dance that celebrates the sheer joy of movement, SHE PARADISE...
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POSTPARTUM (WOCHENBETT)
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Zach Woods (DAVID), Henriette Rietz (POSTPARTUM), Jonatan Etzler (SWIMMER), Bridey Elliot (THE FEELING), Sean Glass (A 1984 PERIOD PIECE IN PRESENT DAY), Jacob Halpren (CLAIRE AT SEVEN...
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A PRAYER FOR JOSHUA JACKSON
What do you do when someone says your dream is over? Race car driver Joshua Jackson went through something that would break even the toughest of souls, but Jackson managed to come out even more determined. Screens as part of...
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THE REAGANS
World Premiere Following the film, NBC News Political Director and Moderator of "Meet the Press,” Chuck Todd leads a conversation with director Matt Tyrnauer. Directed by Matt Tyrnauer, this fascinating new four-part Showtime series focuses on the rise and reign...
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REALLY LOVE
World Premiere Following the film at 8:45 p.m. PDT, Academy Award® Winner Barry Jenkins leads a conversation with filmmaker Angel Kristi Williams and actors Kofi Siriboe, Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing. Set in a gentrifying Washington, DC, a rising Black artist, Isaiah (Kofi...
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A TRIBUTE TO RITA MORENO
Rita Moreno’s career began with a Broadway debut at 13 years old. Since then she has won all four of the most prestigious awards in show business - an Oscar®, a Tony®, two Emmys®, and a Grammy® - as well...
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OUT OF THE BLUE
USA Premiere Following the film, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation with restoration producers John Alan Simon and Elizabeth Karr. Commemorating the 40th anniversary of director Dennis Hopper’s too-long unavailable OUT OF THE BLUE, this punk-rock masterpiece can...
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PIEDRA SOLA
USA Premiere Following the film, AFI FEST Lead Screening Committee Member Cedar Sherbert leads a conversation between filmmaker Alejandro Telémaco Tarraf and cinematographer Alberto Balazs. Nestled deep in the remote Argentinian mountainside lives a llama herder with his family. He...
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PILLARS
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Yuan Yuan (HEADING SOUTH), Azadeh Moussavi (THE VISIT), Rim Nakhli (NOUR), Tayler Montague (IN SUDDEN DARKNESS), Danski Tang (UMBILICAL) and Naïla Guiguet (DUSTIN). One Sunday at church,...
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PINK SKIES AHEAD
World Premiere Following the film at 8:45 p.m. PDT, AFI Festivals Director of Programming Sarah Harris leads a conversation between filmmaker Kelly Oxford and actors Jessica Barden, Odeya Rush and Devon Bostick. After watching this Special Presentation, join us for...
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POSSE
Following the film, film scholar and Cinema's Legacy guest curator Racquel Gates leads a conversation with Michael B. Gillespie, Hannah Giorgis and Terri Francis. A band of Buffalo Soldiers are sent on a suicide mission to Cuba in 1898 to...
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NOUR
USA Premiere Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Yuan Yuan (HEADING SOUTH), Azadeh Moussavi (THE VISIT), Rim Nakhli (NOUR), Tayler Montague (IN SUDDEN DARKNESS), Danski Tang (UMBILICAL) and Naïla Guiguet (DUSTIN). Nour and Adem...
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OIL & WATER
Facing imminent takeover of ancestral lands, the women in the Turkana region of Kenya stand up against oil giant Tullow. Despite resistance from the men in their community, they continue to fight for their way of life. Screens as part...
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ON THE RECORD
Screens as part of A Tribute to Kirby Dick In association with AFI FEST’s tribute to Kirby Dick, we are very pleased to be able to present this free showing of ON THE RECORD, directed and produced by Dick and...
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ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI…
ONE NIGHT ONLY DRIVE-IN EVENT $40 per vehicle with a max of 4 people per car. In February 1964, friends Cassius Clay, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke and Malcolm X gather in a hotel room to celebrate Clay’s heavyweight championship win....
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THE NEW CORPORATION: THE UNFORTUNATELY NECESSARY SEQUEL
USA Premiere Following the film, AFI Festivals Senior Programmer Ken Jacobson leads a conversation with filmmakers Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan. In 2003, Canadian filmmakers Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar teamed up with writer Joel Bakan on the penetrating and...
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NEW ORDER (NUEVO ORDEN)
Following the film, AFI FEST Senior Programmer Claudia Puig leads a conversation with filmmaker Michel Franco. This unflinching, provocative and riveting sociopolitical thriller depicts society at a terrifying breaking point. Class warfare has erupted into widespread chaotic violence in this...
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NINE DAYS
Following the film, AFI FEST Senior Programmer Claudia Puig leads a conversation between filmmaker Edson Oda and actors Zazie Beetz and Winston Duke. What if you had just a little over a week to persuade an enigmatic gatekeeper to allow you...
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NO ORDINARY MAN
USA Premiere Following the film, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Chase Joynt and Aisling Chin-Yee, co-writer Amos Mac and subject Marquise Vilson. Jazz musician Billy Tipton’s name was splashed all over the tabloids and talk...
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NOTTURNO
AFI Programmer Ken Jacobson leads a conversation with director Gianfranco Rosi. Racked by war, the bordering areas of Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon have, in recent years, seen untold human suffering and devastation. But, even as a return to normal...
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MY BROTHER’S KEEPER
MY BROTHER'S KEEPER is about the remarkable friendship between former Guantánamo detainee, Mohamedou Ould Salahi, and his one-time American prison guard, Steve Wood, who gradually became convinced of his innocence. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 5 Laurence...
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MY DONKEY, MY LOVER AND I
Following the film, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation with filmmaker Caroline Vignal. Antoinette, a schoolteacher, has a secret. She is having an affair with Vladimir, the father of one of her students. When Vladimir cancels their romantic...
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MY LITTLE SISTER
USA Premiere Switzerland Official International Feature Film Oscar® Submission Following the film, AFI Festivals Director of Programming Sarah Harris leads a conversation between filmmakers Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond and actor Nina Hoss. Dramas exploring adult brother-sister relationships are rare...
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MY PSYCHEDELIC LOVE STORY
Closing Night World Premiere Following the film, Indiewire Editor-at-Large Anne Thompson leads a conversation with filmmaker Errol Morris. A psychedelic head trip crossed with a possible CIA conspiracy and wrapped in a fascinating love story, Errol Morris’ latest documentary takes...
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NASIR
AFI FEST Lead Screening Committee Member Julia Kipnis leads a conversation with filmmaker Arun Karthick. For textile salesman Nasir, the minor setbacks of the day to day are surmountable. Despite his meager pay, he is grateful to be able to...
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LUCE
In a synesthesia of classical music, death and sex, Adriano finds love in a time of grief.
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LUXOR
Following the film, AFI FEST Director of Programming Sarah Harris leads a conversation between filmmaker Zeina Durra and actors Andrea Risenborough and Karim Saleh. British aid worker Hana arrives in the ancient city of Luxor, Egypt, seeking solace and rest...
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MAALBEEK
North America Premiere Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Jamil McGinnis and Pat Heywood (GRAMERCY), Helki Frantzen(L.A. ROLL), Carla Simón and Dominga Sotomayor (CORRESPONDENCIA), Santiago Barzi (CHINESE WALL). Sabine is looking for a...
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MI AMIGO
A hitman attends the funeral of the crime associate and best friend he executed as he searches for forgiveness. After being taunted by his corpse victim in a living room death tableau, he instead finds street justice.
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A TRIBUTE TO MIRA NAIR
After the conversation with Mira Nair, watch A SUITABLE BOY starting at 6:00 p.m. PDT Mira Nair’s accomplished filmmaking has earned her accolades around the world. With her directorial debut, SALAAM BOMBAY! (1988), Nair won the Caméra d’Or at the...
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L.A. ROLL
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Jamil McGinnis and Pat Heywood (GRAMERCY), Helki Frantzen(L.A. ROLL), Carla Simón and Dominga Sotomayor (CORRESPONDENCIA), Santiago Barzi (CHINESE WALL). L.A. ROLL follows members of Sk8 Mafia, a...
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LIONS IN THE CORNER
In Virginia, Scarface started Streetbeefs in his backyard to combat gun and knife violence in the area. Soon, it turned into something much more. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 5 Paul Hairston is a New York...
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LITTLE CHIEF
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Yi Tang (BLACK GOAT), Em Weinstein (IN FRANCE MICHELLE IS A MAN'S NAME), Seungee Kim (TIGER & OX), Erica Tremblay (LITTLE CHIEF), Inès Girihiwe (BREAKING GROUND), Johnson...
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LONELY BLUE NIGHT
World Premiere Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Yi Tang (BLACK GOAT), Em Weinstein (IN FRANCE MICHELLE IS A MAN'S NAME), Seungee Kim (TIGER & OX), Erica Tremblay (LITTLE CHIEF), Inès Girihiwe (BREAKING...
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THE LOST ASTRONAUT
In 1963, Ed Dwight Jr. was poised to be NASA’s first African-American astronaut, until suddenly he wasn’t. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 3 Ben Proudfoot is a filmmaker and the founder and CEO of Breakwater Studios.
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JULIET
A transgender teenager battles prejudice and her own self-doubt to audition for the female lead in her high school’s play.
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JUMBO
Following the film, AFI FEST Senior Programmer Claudia Puig leads a discussion of the film JUMBO with filmmaker Zoe Wittock and actress Noémie Merlant. Forbidden love is not a new theme to cinema. But Jeanne's love is like no other....
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JUST ANOTHER GIRL ON THE I.R.T.
Following the film, film scholar and Cinema's Legacy guest curator Racquel Gates leads a conversation with Michael B. Gillespie, Hannah Giorgis and Terri Francis. Chantal is confident, thoughtful and driven. Her working class Brooklyn family lives paycheck-to-paycheck, so she puts...
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A TRIBUTE TO KIRBY DICK
Watch ON THE RECORD before A TRIBUTE TO KIRBY DICK, beginning October 18,12:00 p.m. PDT Kirby Dick (AFI Conservatory Class of 1983) is a two-time Academy Award® nominated and Emmy® award-winning investigative filmmaker behind some of the most groundbreaking documentaries...
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IN SUDDEN DARKNESS
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Yuan Yuan (HEADING SOUTH), Azadeh Moussavi (THE VISIT), Rim Nakhli (NOUR), Tayler Montague (IN SUDDEN DARKNESS), Danski Tang (UMBILICAL) and Naïla Guiguet (DUSTIN). A slice of life...
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INDIE CONTENDERS
Presented by The Hollywood Reporter and moderated by columnist and blogger Scott Feinberg, this annual panel favorite features a 90-minute discussion with major talent from the AFI FEST 2020 lineup and recent releases. Panelists include: Riz Ahmed (SOUND OF METAL),...
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INDUSTRY
North America Premiere Following the film, AFI Festivals Director of Programming Sarah Harris leads a conversation between filmmakers Mickey Down, Konrad Kay and David P. Davis and actors Myha'la Herrold and Marisa Abela. In the latest series from HBO, an...
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THE INTRUDER
USA Premiere Following the film, AFI FEST Senior Programmer Claudia Puig leads a conversation between filmmaker Natalia Meta and actor Érica Rivas. A would-be relaxing holiday for overworked voice actor Inés is cut short by an unexpected horror. As she...
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JACINTA
Following the film, AFI Festivals Director of Programming Sarah Harris leads a discussion with director Jessica Earnshaw. Jessica Earnshaw’s debut film is penetratingly intimate. The camera follows Jacinta, mid-twenties, even at her lowest. We are there with her while she’s...
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HEADING SOUTH (雁南飞)
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Yuan Yuan (HEADING SOUTH), Azadeh Moussavi (THE VISIT), Rim Nakhli (NOUR), Tayler Montague (IN SUDDEN DARKNESS), Danski Tang (UMBILICAL) and Naïla Guiguet (DUSTIN). Eight-year-old Chasuna travels from...
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HOPPER/WELLES
Following the film, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between producer Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski. Found in 2017 amid 1,083 reels of production footage from Orson Welles’ THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND, this monumental...
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I CARRY YOU WITH ME
Following the film, AFI FEST Senior Programmer Claudia Puig leads a conversation between filmmaker Heidi Ewing and actor Armando Espitia. Realism and romanticism come together artfully in this poignant, decades-long story. Ivan (Armando Espitia) and Gerardo (Christian Vazquez) fall in...
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I’M YOUR WOMAN Encore Screening
Before the film, Variety's Angelique Jackson leads a conversation with director/co-writer Julia Hart, producer/co-writer Jordan Horowitz, producer/actor Rachel Brosnahan and actors Marsha Stephanie Blake and Arinzé Kene. Suburban housewife Jean (Rachel Brosnahan, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) lives a seemingly easy...
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IN FRANCE MICHELLE IS A MAN’S NAME
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Yi Tang (BLACK GOAT), Em Weinstein (IN FRANCE MICHELLE IS A MAN'S NAME), Seungee Kim (TIGER & OX), Erica Tremblay (LITTLE CHIEF), Inès Girihiwe (BREAKING GROUND), Johnson...
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FOREVER
World Premiere Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Neo Sora (THE CHICKEN), Claudia Vernis (THERE'S CAKE), Keisha Rae Witherspoon (T), Kathy Esquenazi Mitrani (RUBBED IN PINK), Ariane Boukerche (THEY SALIVATE) and Mitch Mcglocklin...
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FURTHEST FROM
In 1999, Novato, California, Jessie is enjoying what little time she has left with her best friend, Lucas. The trailer park they live in will be forced to evacuate as a result of MTBE water contamination.
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GAMES OF SURVIVAL: A CULTURE PRESERVED IN ICE
The events at the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics — like the Four Man Carry and the Knuckle Hop — won’t be familiar to most Americans in the Lower 48, but they are rooted in traditional Eskimo culture and pure Americana. Screens...
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GLOVES OFF
GLOVES OFF follows the story of Tiara Brown, a young police officer who forges new ways to serve her community by day, then laces up and fights to make a name for herself in the boxing ring by night. Screens...
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GRAMERCY
USA Premiere Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Jamil McGinnis and Pat Heywood (GRAMERCY), Helki Frantzen (L.A. ROLL), Carla Simón and Dominga Sotomayor (CORRESPONDENCIA), Santiago Barzi (CHINESE WALL). A young New Jersey native...
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THE FATHER
Following the film, AFI FEST Programmer Claudia Puig leads a conversation between filmmaker Florian Zeller and actors Olivia Colman and Anthony Hopkins. Living alone in London and nearing 80 years old, Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) has refused another nurse that his...
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THE FEELING
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Zach Woods (DAVID), Henriette Rietz (POSTPARTUM), Jonatan Etzler (SWIMMER), Bridey Elliot (THE FEELING), Sean Glass (A 1984 PERIOD PIECE IN PRESENT DAY), Jacob Halpren (CLAIRE AT SEVEN...
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FINDING YOUR VOICE: SOUND OF METAL STRIKES A CHORD WITH THE DEAF COMMUNITY
Before this AFI Summit session, watch SOUND OF METAL, available beginning October 17, 12:00 p.m. PDT until October 22, 11:59 p.m. PDT A profoundly moving exploration of both the experience and culture of deafness, SOUND OF METAL (AFI FEST 2020)...
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FIREBALL: VISITORS FROM DARKER WORLDS
Following the film at 9:25p.m. PDT, neuroscientist Moran Cerf leads a conversation with filmmakers Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer. Leave it to Werner Herzog to interrupt a world-renowned planetary scientist who has just made the simple yet astonishing statement that,...
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FLECK
An Asian-American teenager at a traditional prep school longing to fit in is forced to choose between her morality or belonging to the school’s elite.
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ELLE
In the midst of her sexual awakening, 16-year-old Elle finds herself in love with her best girlfriend who is about to move out of town.
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THE END OF SUFFERING (A PROPOSAL)
North America Premiere Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Neo Sora (THE CHICKEN), Claudia Vernis (THERE'S CAKE), Keisha Rae Witherspoon (T), Kathy Esquenazi Mitrani (RUBBED IN PINK), Ariane Boukerche (THEY SALIVATE) and Mitch...
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EW’S THE AWARDIST: A CONVERSATION WITH DIRECTOR JULIA HART AND RACHEL BROSNAHAN
Entertainment Weekly continues their series of conversations with contenders for the year’s biggest awards with an in-depth discussion exploring this year’s unique film landscape with director Julia Hart and leading actress Rachel Brosnahan of the Amazon Original I’M YOUR WOMAN. ...
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EYIMOFE (THIS IS MY DESIRE)
USA Premiere Following the film, AFI FEST Senior Programmer Claudia Puig leads a conversation between filmmakers Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri. Stories of dreamers seeking a better life are a cinematic staple. Yet this Nigerian immigration drama tells the engaging...
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FAREWELL AMOR
Following the film, film critic KJ Matthews leads a conversation between filmmakers Ekwa Msangi and actors Zainab Jah, Jayme Lawson and Ntare Mwine. Walter and Esther were once deeply in love, but when Walter left Angola for the states to...
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DO NOT SPLIT
During the 2019 protests in Hong Kong, a series of evening demonstrations escalate into conflict when heavily armed police appear on the scene. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 7 Anders Hammer is a Norwegian documentarian and journalist....
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DOC ROUNDTABLE
Leading directors behind some of the most talked about and acclaimed documentaries of the year discuss the art of documentary and the creative challenges faced in bringing these extraordinary stories to light. Moderated by producer and film festival curator Caroline...
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DOWNSTREAM TO KINSHASA
USA Premiere Following the film, AFI Festivals Senior Programmer Ken Jacobson leads a conversation with filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi. In June 2000, the brutal Six-Day War between Uganda and Rwanda swept through the city of Kisangani, Congo, leaving 1,000 Congolese dead...
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DUSTIN
North America Premiere Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Yuan Yuan (HEADING SOUTH), Azadeh Moussavi (THE VISIT), Rim Nakhli (NOUR), Tayler Montague (IN SUDDEN DARKNESS), Danski Tang (UMBILICAL) and Naïla Guiguet (DUSTIN). At...
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ELEVATING BIPOC FILMMAKERS: A CONVERSATION WITH ARRAY
When Ava DuVernay founded the collective that would become ARRAY in 2011, she and company president Tilane Jones set out to boldly, proudly and courageously set their endeavor apart from other distributors. Their commitment to amplify and advocate for independent...
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CORRESPONDENCIA
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Jamil McGinnis and Pat Heywood (GRAMERCY), Helki Frantzen (L.A. ROLL), Carla Simón and Dominga Sotomayor (CORRESPONDENCIA), Santiago Barzi (CHINESE WALL). Two young filmmakers discuss the present and...
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DAVID
USA Premiere Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Zach Woods (DAVID), Henriette Rietz (POSTPARTUM), Jonatan Etzler (SWIMMER), Bridey Elliot (THE FEELING), Sean Glass (A 1984 PERIOD PIECE IN PRESENT DAY), Jacob Halpren (CLAIRE...
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DEAD PRESIDENTS
Following the film, film scholar and Cinema's Legacy guest curator Racquel Gates leads a conversation with Michael B. Gillespie, Hannah Giorgis and Terri Francis. Vietnam veteran Anthony (Larenz Tate) tries to adjust to life back home in the Bronx after...
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DIA DE LAS CARPAS
A group of boys help an undocumented girl get to the beach to reunite with her family, unaware of her magical secret that will change their lives forever.
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CHINESE WALL
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Jamil McGinnis and Pat Heywood (GRAMERCY), Helki Frantzen(L.A. ROLL), Carla Simón and Dominga Sotomayor (CORRESPONDENCIA), Santiago Barzi (CHINESE WALL). Fernando receives some baffling news which upsets him...
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CHURCH AND THE FOURTH ESTATE
A reporter uncovers a file that reveals a shocking series of child-abuse allegations in Idaho's Boy Scouts, which rattles the community and implicates the Mormon church. The story reveals long-running crimes that threaten to bankrupt the Boy Scouts. Screens as...
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CITIZEN PENN
Dean of the AFI Conservatory Susan Ruskin leads a conversation between filmmaker Don Hardy and subjects Sean Penn and Ann Lee. “Humanitarian” is not necessarily the word that comes to mind in relation to the iconoclastic actor/director Sean Penn. Don...
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CLAIRE AT SEVEN MONTHS
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Zach Woods (DAVID), Henriette Rietz (POSTPARTUM), Jonatan Etzler (SWIMMER), Bridey Elliot (THE FEELING), Sean Glass (A 1984 PERIOD PIECE IN PRESENT DAY), Jacob Halpren (CLAIRE AT SEVEN...
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COLLECTIVE (COLLECTIV)
Following the film, AFI Festivals Senior Programmer Ken Jacobson leads a conversation between filmmaker Alexander Nanau and subject Cătălin Tolontan. In 2015, a fire roared through the Colectiv nightclub in Bucharest, Romania, killing 27 people and leaving over 100 injured....
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BREAKING GROUND
World Premiere Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Yi Tang (BLACK GOAT), Em Weinstein (IN FRANCE MICHELLE IS A MAN'S NAME), Seungee Kim (TIGER & OX), Erica Tremblay (LITTLE CHIEF), Inès Girihiwe (BREAKING...
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CENTERING CHARACTERS WITH MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS IN FILM AND TELEVISION
Before this AFI Summit session, watch PINK SKIES AHEAD, available beginning October 18, 7:00 p.m. PDT until 11:59 p.m. PDT All too often in Hollywood movies or television programs, characters with mental health conditions are portrayed disparagingly, stereotypically or erased...
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THE CHICKEN
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Neo Sora (THE CHICKEN), Claudia Vernis (THERE'S CAKE), Keisha Rae Witherspoon (T), Kathy Esquenazi Mitrani (RUBBED IN PINK), Ariane Boukerche (THEY SALIVATE) and Mitch Mcglocklin (FOREVER), Jacqueline...
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CHILD OF THE LAND (KAMA’ĀINA)
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Yi Tang (BLACK GOAT), Em Weinstein (IN FRANCE MICHELLE IS A MAN'S NAME), Seungee Kim (TIGER & OX), Erica Tremblay (LITTLE CHIEF), Inès Girihiwe (BREAKING GROUND), Johnson...
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BLACKFEET BOXING: NOT INVISIBLE
As the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women epidemic affects tribal communities, a group of Blackfeet women tackle the threat head-on by practicing and training in self-defense. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 2 Kristen Lappas is...
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BLOCKS
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Zach Woods (DAVID), Henriette Rietz (POSTPARTUM), Jonatan Etzler (SWIMMER), Bridey Elliot (THE FEELING), Sean Glass (A 1984 PERIOD PIECE IN PRESENT DAY), Jacob Halpren (CLAIRE AT SEVEN...
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THE BOY BEHIND THE DOOR
Following the film, AFI FEST Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Justin Powell and David Charbonier and actors Lonnie Chavis and Ezra Dewey. Twelve-year-old Bobby and his best friend Kevin have been kidnapped. Bobby is stuffed in a...
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BREACH OF TRUST
BREACH OF TRUST explores the University of Southern California's institutional cover-up involving the sexual misconduct of former full-time gynecologist George Tyndall. The story is anchored by the survivors, who after being wronged by the university continue their fight for institutional...
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APPLES
USA Premiere Following the film, AFI FEST Lead Screening Committee Member Jesse Knight leads a conversation with filmmaker Christos Nikou. A pandemic is sweeping across Greece, but it’s not COVID-19. Suddenly, thousands of cases of amnesia are spreading. The malady isn’t...
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BELUSHI
One audition at the Second City theater in Chicago changed the life of John Belushi — and the world of comedy — forever. In BELUSHI, noted documentary filmmaker R.J. Cutler captures the spirit of an American cultural icon in a...
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THE BIG SCARY “S” WORD
Following the film, AFI Festivals Senior Programmer Ken Jacobson leads a conversation between filmmaker Yael Bridge and producer Morgan Spector. Socialism... the big scary S word. From the Red Scare to today, being associated with the term has been considered...
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BLACK GOAT
Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Yi Tang (BLACK GOAT), Em Weinstein (IN FRANCE MICHELLE IS A MAN'S NAME), Seungee Kim (TIGER & OX), Erica Tremblay (LITTLE CHIEF), Inès Girihiwe (BREAKING GROUND), Johnson...
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76 DAYS
Following the film, film critic Gil Robertson leads a conversation with filmmaker Hao Wu. On January 23, 2020, to combat the COVID-19 outbreak, China put Wuhan, a city of 11 million, on complete lockdown. For the next 76 days, with...
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A L’ABORDAGE
USA Premiere Following the film, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmaker Guillaume Brac and actor Salif Cissé. Left lovelorn after the whirlwind one-night romance he shared with the beautiful Alma, Felix must do something bold if...
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THE AMERICAN SECTOR
Following the film, AFI Festivals Senior Programmer Ken Jacobson leads a conversation between filmmakers Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez. When the Berlin Wall started to come down in November 1989, it marked a powerful turning point in the history of...
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A 1984 PERIOD PIECE IN PRESENT DAY
World Premiere Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Zach Woods (DAVID), Henriette Rietz (POSTPARTUM), Jonatan Etzler (SWIMMER), Bridey Elliot (THE FEELING), Sean Glass (A 1984 PERIOD PIECE IN PRESENT DAY), Jacob Halpren (CLAIRE...
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40 YEARS A PRISONER
USA Premiere Following the film, Film critic Gil Robertson leads a conversation with filmmaker Tommy Oliver. On August 8, 1978, after a 15-month standoff, the confrontation between the Black liberation group MOVE and the Philadelphia Police Department exploded in gunshots....
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AFI FEST Team
Michael Lumpkin, Director, AFI Festivals Michael Lumpkin is a highly creative and effective executive leader with over 30 years of experience leading international media arts organizations. He joined the American Film Institute (AFI) as Director of the AFI DOCS Film...
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MARRIAGE STORY
Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Noah Baumbach directs this incisive and compassionate look at a marriage coming apart and a family staying together.We would like to offer you the opportunity to attend the screening of MARRIAGE STORY for free through our Gala...
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I AM WOMAN
1966. Helen Reddy arrives in New York with her three-year-old daughter, a suitcase and $230 in her pocket. Helen had been told she had won a recording contract, but the record company promptly dashes her hopes by telling her it...
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AN EVENING WITH MARTIN SCORSESE AND THE IRISHMAN
FREE SCREENING The evening will celebrate the AFI Life Achievement Award recipient and Academy Award® winner's indelible impact on culture as one cinema's most acclaimed filmmakers. Following a conversation with Scorsese, AFI FEST will present his most recent film, Netflix's...
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SHOWCASE 5
GRACE PROGENY LOUISE A RODEO FILM CACTUS BLOSSOM
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SHOWCASE 4
UNDER THE FLAG OUT OF PLACE VINCENT FLORENCE MORS DAG
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SHOWCASE 3
YELLOW GIRL & ME FORT IRWIN THE HISTORY OF MONSTERS MISS BOUNDLESS (弄璋记) THEY WON'T LAST
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SHOWCASE 2
TREE #3 MARRIAGE MATERIAL, THE MUSICAL! MILLER & SON
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SHOWCASE 1
BALLOON THE CHEF SIN CIELO
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MEET THE PRESS SELECTS
AFI FEST and Meet the Press present two special screenings of films from this year’s Meet the Press Film Festival with AFI. Now in its third year, the Washington, DC-based festival presents short documentary films spotlighting issues at the center...
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SHORTS PROGRAM 6
BLACK BUS STOP THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT
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SHORTS PROGRAM 5
TAKE ME TO PROM THE GOLDEN LEGEND (LEYENDA DORADA) THE BURNING BUSH SOMETHING TO REMEMBER (NÅGOT AT T MINNAS) EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SUDDEN BIRTH* (*BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK) MTHUNZI EXIT 12
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SHORTS PROGRAM 4
16 DECEMBER GHOSTS OF SUGAR LAND WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE WATER AND THE MOON THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US AND THE SKY INTERMISSION EXPEDITION CHILD EXAM
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SHORTS PROGRAM 3
UNDER COVERS BUG BITE DEEP TISSUE SUICIDE BY SUNLIGHT SLUG LIFE WAX PAUL NOW YOUR LAST DAY ON EARTH (TU ÚLTIMO DÍA EN LA TIERRA) THE DEVIL’S HARMONY DOCKING
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SHORTS PROGRAM 2
AZIZA BLESSED LAND LOST & FOUND HELLO AHMA CARNE A LOVE SONG FOR LATASHA
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SHORTS PROGRAM 1
ANNA LIBERTY MONSTRUO DIOS ALIEN (REONGHEE) STORY THE CLINIC THE MINORS
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WELCOME TO THE USA
World Premiere Talent attending: Assel Aushakimova (Director), Zhanna Utarbayeva (Co-Producer) WELCOME TO THE USA is a quiet, yet powerful, film exploring concepts of family, migration, gender inequity, sexual identity and the things we lose and gain when deciding to leave...
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WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE WATER AND THE MOON
During an abortion, instead of aborting the fetus, a girl gives birth to a live jellyfish. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 4 Born in the Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, Jian Luo is the recipient of the Ang Lee grant, Hollywood...
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THE WHISTLERS
ROMANIA OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM OSCAR® SUBMISSION Talent attending: Corneliu Porumboiu (Director) Romanian auteur Corneliu Porumboiu returns to AFI FEST with his latest, a tremendously entertaining and inventive crime thriller. When corrupt police officer Cristi is drawn into an elaborate...
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YELLOW GIRL & ME
Talent attending: Paul V Fishback (Producer), Isabella Issa (Director/Writer) Set in the Jamaican countryside, a young child named Nicole waits for her sister, Yellow Girl, to teach her how to swim. Circumstances escalate when Yellow Girl breaks her promise and...
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YOUR LAST DAY ON EARTH (TU ÚLTIMO DÍA EN LA TIERRA)
A man dressed as a fox breaks the spacetime barrier with only one goal: to spend some time with his wife. But below this recreational act, there’s a far more complex and ambitious plan. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Marc...
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UNDER THE FLAG
A driven and conscientious girl at China's premier dance school gets the lead position in a prestigious performance, but struggles to accept it after she learns that her mother has bribed the teacher to buy her the part. Part of...
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VARDA BY AGNÈS
Talent attending: Mathieu Demy (Representative) Concluding a series of insightful personal documentaries by French New Wave pioneer Agnès Varda, this personally guided cinematic tour became a poetic memorial to a colossal career when the 90-year-old artist died one month following...
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VINCENT
On his 21st birthday, Vincent is persuaded to follow his friend Bunny to a brothel where he will meet a woman that looks like his mother. Part of SHOWCASE 4
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WAX PAUL NOW
Three New Yorkers will stop at nothing to get Paul Giamatti his own wax statue at Madame Tussauds. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Val Bodurtha is a comedian whose debut novel—written at seventeen—won the 2017 Young Writer’s Publication Contest. She...
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TREE #3
After he’s been cast (again!) as a background tree in his annual middle school play, an ambitious and imaginative Israeli immigrant boy leads a revolution on stage that his intolerant drama teacher will never forget. Part of SHOWCASE 2 Omer...
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TROOP ZERO
Spunky, oddball nine-year-old Christmas Flint loves space. When she learns the prize for the 1977 Birdie Jamboree talent competition is having your voice recorded on the space-bound NASA’s Golden Record, Christmas decides to start her own troop. After recruiting other...
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THE TRUTH
Upon publication of her memoir, French screen legend Fabienne (the legendary Catherine Deneuve) receives a visit from her screenwriter daughter Lumir (Juliette Binoche), son-in-law Hank (Ethan Hawke) and granddaughter. The book ignites Lumir’s fury over her mother’s many omissions and...
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THE TWO POPES
After serving as pope for eight years, Pope Benedict XVI summons his ideological rival, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, to the Vatican summer home. Historically, popes are meant to serve the Catholic Church until their final breath, but Benedict tells him he’s decided...
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UNDER COVERS
On the night of a lunar eclipse, we uncover the sweet, salacious, and spooky secrets of a small town. From a pigtailed psychopath to naughty nuns and everything in between, this stop motion animated film conjures a comforting thought: that...
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TED SARANDOS WITH SUSAN RUSKIN
Private AFI Conservatory Session for AFI Fellows Susan Ruskin, Dean of the AFI Conservatory, sits down for an in-depth and wide-ranging conversation with Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer of Netflix.
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THEY WON’T LAST
After attending their friends' perfect wedding, Christine is forced to consider the future of her own relationship when her hopeless romantic boyfriend Alex proposes. When Christine is unable to say yes, Alex makes it worse by giving her an ultimatum:...
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TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (TABI NO OWARI SEKAI NO HAJIMARI)
Talent attending: Jason Gray (Producer), Eiko Mizuno (Producer) In his most emotional work to date, J-horror pioneer Kiyoshi Kurosawa delivers a profoundly affecting account of displacement. A Japanese TV crew is shooting a travelogue in Uzbekistan. At the center of...
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THE TRAITOR
FREE SCREENING ITALY OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM OSCAR® SUBMISSION Talent attending: Marco Bellocchio (Director), Pierfrancesco Favino (Talent), Simone Gattoni (Producer) Celebrated Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio (FISTS IN THE POCKET, 1965) steps behind the camera with this ultra-widescreen true story of...
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THE STERILE CUCKOO
Pookie (Liza Minnelli) is an eccentric, neurotic, and positively adorable college student determined to make reserved entomologist Jerry (Wendell Burton) fall madly in love with her. Alan J. Pakula’s 1969 feature debut is tender and profound, a contained story of...
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STORY
'Story' is a reflection about modern man in an age of omnipresent technology. Looking through stories - a popular function in many social media platforms - we see people who are lonely, lost or already indifferent about reality surrounding them....
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SUICIDE BY SUNLIGHT
Valentina, a day-walking black vampire protected from the sun by her melanin, is forced to restrain her bloodlust to regain custody of her estranged daughters Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Sierra Leonean-American filmmaker Nikyatu...
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TAKE ME TO PROM
A colorful, celebratory intergenerational retelling of seven queer people’s prom experience. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5 Marked by their intimacy, Andrew Moir’s documentaries bring audiences into seminal moments of peoples’ lives. He typically works with small crews and with subjects...
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TALKING ABOUT TREES
Ibrahim, Suliman, Manar and Eltayeb — filmmakers and friends for more than 45 years —meet regularly in the capital of Khartoum as the Sudanese Film Group. Their mission is to screen films for the public, which, after decades of war...
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SON-MOTHER (PESAR-MADAR)
US Premiere When Leila, a single working mother of two, is laid off from her factory job, she faces a choice: marry bus driver Kazem, a single father who is ardently pursuing her, or live with her children on the...
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THE SONG OF NAMES
FREE SCREENING Talent attending: François Girard (Director), Robert Lantos (Producer), Clive Owen (Talent), Howard Shore (Composer) Director François Girard (HOCHELAGA, LAND OF SOULS) takes Norman Lebrecht’s acclaimed novel and orchestrates a stellar ensemble as its players in this potent film about two Jewish boys,...
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SONG WITHOUT A NAME (CANCION SIN NOMBRE)
Talent attending: Melina Léon (Director) Inspired by actual events in 1988 Peru, Georgina is a 20-year-old indigenous woman whose newborn is kidnapped in a child-trafficking scheme where itinerant medical centers recruit impoverished pregnant women on the promise of cost-free childbirth...
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SOPHIE’S CHOICE
Alan J. Pakula’s SOPHIE’S CHOICE stars Meryl Streep in an Academy Award®- winning performance as Sophie, a Polish immigrant and Holocaust survivor living in a post-war Brooklyn boardinghouse. Her romantic relationship with Nathan (Kevin Kline) is seen through the perspective...
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SOUTH OXFORD, ALL IOWA LAWN TENNIS CLUB, MARAVILLA, SERVE
Talent attending: Darius Clark Monroe (Director) Filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe returns to the screen with a series of intimate nonfiction vignettes exploring America’s culture and passion for tennis and handball. Richard Northern and his wife reflect on owning a tennis...
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SIN CIELO
Based on true stories. Memo, 15 and working low level jobs with his best friend for the local gang faction to make ends meets Delia, a sixteen year old girl who likes engineering and collecting old computer parts. Their teen...
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THE SLEEPWALKERS (LOS SONÁMBULOS)
While preparing to spend a reluctant summer holiday at her mother-in-law’s family cottage, Luisa (Érica Rivas) discovers her teenage daughter Ana (Ornella D'elía) sleepwalking naked outside of their apartment. Now in the countryside surrounded by extended family, tensions heighten and...
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SLUG LIFE
A day in the life of Tanya, a curious woman who has developed a taste for homemade non-humanoid lovers. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Sophie Koko Gate studied animation at the Royal College of Art in London, where she graduated...
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SOMETHING TO REMEMBER (NÅGOT ATT MINNAS)
A lullaby before the great disaster. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5 Niki Lindroth von Bahr is an artist and animation director based in Stockholm. Her award-winning short films THE BURDEN (2017), BATH HOUSE (2014) and TORD AND TORD (2010) have...
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THE SCIENCE OF FICTIONS (HIRUK-PIKUK SI-ALKISAH)
North American Premiere Talent attending: Robin Moran (Producer), Edwin Nazir (Producer), Yosep Anggi Noen (Director) Indonesia, 1960s. Siman, a solitary farmer, unintentionally witnesses a foreign crew filming a fake moon landing in a dark field. Discovered, he’s punished by having...
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SEARCHING EVA
For 25-year-old Eva living in Berlin, complex emotions surrounding adolescence, family, body, art and sex work are processed publicly through unflinchingly personal photos and writings posted on the internet and Instagram. In an attempt to capture the essence of this...
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SELAH AND THE SPADES
Talent attending: Tayarisha Poe (Director) At Haldwell, an elite boarding school in Pennsylvania, five factions run student life. Selah Summer leads the Spades, the most powerful of the five, conducting all underground drugs and alcohol sales on campus. Selah has...
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SHOOT THE BOOK!
Organized by the French Embassy’s Cultural Services and the Institut Français, Shoot the Book! L.A. features a panel of film rights managers whose books have been selected by a jury of industry professionals for their screen potential. Moderated by Variety’s...
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RICHARD JEWELL
World Premiere The legendary Clint Eastwood tells the tragic true-life saga of Richard Jewell, the security guard hailed as a hero who then became the prime suspect in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Paul Walter...
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ROCKS
Talent attending: Theresa Ikoko (Writer) In east London, teenager Shola is known as “Rocks” after protecting her childhood friend from bullies. Rocks has big dreams, loves makeup and enjoys hanging out with her diverse, all-girl crew after school. One day...
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A RODEO FILM
A bull rider who falls out of love with the sport must choose between his family’s legacy of rodeo and his own aspirations. Part of SHOWCASE 5
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ROMANTIC COMEDY
Talent attending: Elizabeth Sankey (Director), Jeremy Warmsley (Producer) There’s no question about it, Romantic Comedies are having a cultural resurgence right now. What is it about the meet cute, the trusty sidekick, and the tearful confessions that draw audiences in...
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SAINT MAUD
Talent attending: Rose Glass (Director), Oliver Kassman (Producer) Fresh from its Midnight Madness premiere at TIFF, director Rose Glass delivers a thrilling and rich psychological horror story of religious devotion that will make you shiver long after leaving the theater....
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PROGENY
This is a world exactly like ours, except that the wealthy elites are aliens, living and working among us, but with one key difference: they reproduce by implanting their offspring in a human host who raises the alien child as...
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PROXIMA
US Premiere Ask any mother and she will have a story of “working mom guilt:” the internal (and physically exhausting) struggle of raising a child while pursuing a beloved career and never feeling adequate enough. What if that dream career...
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QUEEN & SLIM
World Premiere Talent attending: Pamela Abdy (Producer), Daniel Kaluuya (Talent), Lena Waithe (Writer), Brad Weston (Producer) On a cold night in the Midwest, a black man and a black woman have a forgettable first date. As the two drive home,...
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READY FOR WAR
Talent attending: Nick Boak (Producer), Andrew Renzi (Director) Since the Revolutionary War, immigrants have enlisted in the U.S. Armed Services, fought on our country’s behalf, and were presented with a path to legal citizenship. In present day America, thousands of...
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PATRICK (DE PATRICK)
Talent attending: Kevin Janssens (Talent) Patrick has lost his hammer (and also his father). Now left at the helm of the family business, a beautiful naturalist camp nestled in the Belgian forests, his stress is quickly multiplying. Between the tree-line...
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THE PLANTERS
Talent attending: Milen Angelov (Talent), Sam Barnett (Animator), Jacqueline Beiro (Producer), Phil Danyew (Musician), Alexandra Kotcheff (Director), Thomas (Composer), Hannah Leder (Director), Phil Parolisi (Talent), Pepe Serna (Talent), Louis Weeks (Music Producer) In a vast and lonely desert, two women...
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PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU)
1760, France. Marianne arrives at a seaside villa, commissioned with a difficult task — to create a wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young lady fresh from a convent and betrothed to a man she’s never met. Instructed to secretly paint...
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PRESENT.PERFECT. (WAN MEI XIAN ZAI SHI)
An immersive depiction of the proliferation of self-documentation in China before its suppression by the country’s 2017 Cybersecurity Law, Zhu Shengze’s enthralling found-footage documentary compiles live streaming footage assembled from over 800 hours of material. By enabling individuals — many...
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MTHUNZI
The film follows Mthunzi walking home from the shops as he sees a lady go into seizures in her driveway - he is then asked to help carry her in by her niece and so becomes caught up in a...
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NOBADI
In sunny Vienna elderly Robert awakes to find his dog has died. He wants to bury him in the garden, but a stubborn tree root impedes his progress. He goes into town to hire some help and encounters young immigrant...
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OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE
Talent attending: Rick Burns (Director) Famed neurologist and best-selling author Oliver Sacks (THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT and many others), who died in 2015, led an extraordinary life. Less well known are the many obstacles he...
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ONE CHILD NATION
FREE SCREENING Talent attending: Nanfu Wang (Director) After becoming a first-time mother, filmmaker Nanfu Wang (HOOLIGAN SPARROW) reflects on her childhood in China, deciding to turn her camera on the experience and history of the country’s one child policy. From...
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OUT OF PLACE
Talent attending: Irene Yang (Producer) Under the pressure of an impending exam that will determine the fate of her career as a concert pianist, Hui practices frantically that nearly pushes herself over the edge. Her fear of failure and disappointing...
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THE MINORS
A slice of life film about a Grandpa and his grandsons, the future and the past. Oh, and they started a band! Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Born in the small town of King City California, and raised in the...
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MISS BOUNDLESS (弄璋记)
Talent attending: Siyi Ren (Producer) During the Qing Dynasty, a young girl competes with her male cousin for the right to inherit leadership of a powerful house. Part of SHOWCASE 3 Siyi Ren ren55mil@gmail.com 213-572-9695
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MONSTRUO DIOS
God is now a Power Plant. On a misty night cows escape, a child is chosen, and a teenager tries to find freedom. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Director of photography, colorist and image and sound designer, Agustina San Martín...
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MORS DAG
Talent attending: Elena Aksenova (Producer), Jeanine Frost (Director/Writer), Erin G. Wesley (Cinematographer) Ellen succeeds well at keeping her past and shattered self-perception at bay by focusing on her freelance producing job, away from her family. But on Mother’s Day, when...
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MS SLAVIC 7
Talent attending: Sofia Bohdanowicz (Director) Indiscriminately housed in the Harvard Houghton Library is a collection of elegantly composed letters exchanged between Nobel Prize-nominated author Jozef Wittlin and poet Zofia Bohdanowiczowa, retrievable using call number MS Slavic 7. The correspondence extends...
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MACK WRESTLES
FREE SCREENING Transgender wrestler Mack Beggs broke records and changed history by winning the Texas high school state title two years in a row. With college on the horizon, Beggs must grapple with what comes next. Followed by Q&A with...
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MARRIAGE MATERIAL, THE MUSICAL!
Talent attending: Maor Azran (Producer), Oran Zegman (Director) After her boyfriend rejects her marriage proposal, Leah Schwartzman checks herself into the “Late Blooming Bride” retreat, which prides itself on transforming less-than-perfect women into “Marriage Material.” Part of SHOWCASE 2
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MATERNAL
Talent attending: Maura Delpero (Director) Teenage mothers, Lu and Fati, live in a Catholic residence called Hogar in Buenos Aires with their children. Fati is pregnant with her second child after being raped and can’t go back home. One day...
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MILLER & SON
Talent attending: Kate Chamuris (Producer), Asher Jelinsky (Director) A transwoman mechanic lives between running her family’s auto shop during the day and expressing her femininity at night, until an unforeseen event threatens the balance of her compartmentalized life. Part of...
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LOST & FOUND
A determined man, armed only with a megaphone, his determination, and an unshakeable smile, sets out to reunite lost children with their families in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, which now houses over 600,000 Rohingya Muslims. Part of SHORTS...
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LOUISE
Louise is the young daughter of an affluent merchant in Southern California in 1912. Although she is surrounded by every luxury and refinement, she craves the love and affection of her mother, Judith. Louise doesn’t understand her mother’s depression and...
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LOVE ME TENDER
US Premiere Talent attending: Klaudia Reynicke (Director) Agoraphobic Seconda’s life is about to change irrevocably. When her home life is suddenly upended, she must decide whether life outside of the apartment that she’s shared with her family will be forever...
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A LOVE SONG FOR LATASHA
A Love Song For Latasha is a dreamlike archive in conversation with the past and the present to reimagine a more nuanced narrative of Latasha Harlins by excavating intimate and poetic memories shared by her cousin and best friend. Part...
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THE LAST TO SEE THEM (GLI ULTIMI A VEDERLI VIVERE)
Talent attending: Sara Summa (Director) Loosely based on true events, this impressionistic film doesn’t focus on the aftermath of a family’s brutal murder nor the violent act itself. Instead, THE LAST TO SEE THEM centers on the 24 hours before...
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LIBERTÉ
In his latest provocation Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra (THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV) finds a small clearing in the woods somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin where, over the course of one extended night of debauchery, a band of exiled Libertines seeking...
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LIBERTY
Alex and Milagros deal with great life upheaval as they prepare to dance at their community’s redevelopment groundbreaking ceremony. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Faren Humes is a writer and director from Miami, Florida. Her work engages with temporality and...
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LINGUA FRANCA
Talent attending: Nicole Cosgrove (Executive Producer), Jerry Kerkman (Executive Producer), Isabel Sandoval (Director), Jhett Tolentino (Producer), Carlo Velayo (Producer) Olivia is an undocumented Filipina trans woman and the home health aide for Olga, an elderly Russian American woman in Brighton...
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JUST MERCY
Talent attending: Bryan Stevenson (Writer (Memoir)) In the late 1980s, a young African-American, Harvard-educated lawyer named Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) declines various lucrative jobs and instead moves to Alabama determined to defend and fight for innocent death-row inmates. Early...
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THE KINGMAKER
FREE SCREENING Talent attending: Lauren Greenfield (Director) A fascinating and riveting political documentary that plays like a sprawling television family drama, THE KINGMAKER is both a definitive biography of former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos and an exposé of the...
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KLUTE
The inaugural film in Alan J. Pakula’s “paranoia trilogy,” KLUTE follows small-town private investigator John Klute (Donald Sutherland) who is led to Manhattan sex worker Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda in an Academy Award®- winning performance) while searching for a missing...
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KNIVES AND SKIN
Talent attending: Marika Engelhardt (Talent), Brian Hieggelke (Producer), Jan (Producer), Jennifer Reeder (Director), Christopher Rejano (Cinematographer), Raven Whitley (Talent) Returning to AFI FEST with this electric feature debut, writer/director Jennifer Reeder graduates from her amazing short film work (BLOOD BELOW...
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INTERMISSION EXPEDITION
During a sunny holiday, a flock of tourists struggle to let go of their busy city lives, and the absence of daily tasks leaves them lost in an uncomfortable and frightening place. Once they learn to slow down, they may...
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IVANA THE TERRIBLE
North American Premiere Talent attending: Catalin Cristutiu (Editor), Ivana Mladenovic (Director) Ivana Mladenović's charming sophomore feature enlists former lovers, family members and friends to portray semi-fictionalized versions of themselves. As herself, Mladenović is a pleasure to watch hurl insults at...
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JALLIKATTU
Like the ferocious beast at the center of JALLIKATTU that eludes capture by an entire village of pursuers, Malayalam filmmaker Lilo Jose Pellissery breaks through the passivity of the movie-going experience with this fresh, totally original vision of contemporary Indian...
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I AM NOT ALONE
Talent attending: Garin Hovannisian (Director), Alec Mouhibian (Producer) In March 2018, Nikol Pashinyan, a former journalist and opposition member of the Armenian parliament, began a protest march from Armenia’s second largest city to the capital; only a couple of dozen...
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I WAS AT HOME, BUT… (ICH WAR ZUHAUSE, ABER…)
Angela Schanelec’s cryptic, disjointed and enigmatic winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director award at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival takes place two years following the death of Astrid’s (Maren Eggert) husband. As Astrid attempts to maintain a sense...
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IDOL (WOO SANG)
Talent attending: Lee Su-jin (Director) A fatal hit-and-run accident marks one family’s devastating loss and another’s downward moral spiral in Lee Su-Jin’s luridly satisfying revenge thriller set against the backdrop of a corrupt Korean political landscape. The smooth, up-and-coming politician...
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INDIE CONTENDERS
Presented by The Hollywood Reporter and moderated by columnist and blogger Scott Feinberg, this annual panel favorite features a 90-minute discussion with major talent from the AFI FEST 2019 lineup and recent releases. Panelists will include Awkwafina (THE FAREWELL), Sterling...
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HE DREAMS OF GIANTS
Talent attending: Lucy Darwin (Producer), Keith Fulton (Print Source), Lou Pepe (Director) In Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe’s irresistibly entertaining 2002 documentary LOST IN LA MANCHA, celebrated director Terry Gilliam attempted to complete a film adaptation of Cervantes’ masterpiece DON...
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HELLO AHMA
Unable to return home to attend Grandma’s funeral because of immigration bureaucracy, a young Singaporean girl new to America searches for Grandma’s reincarnation in a pet store turtle. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Siyou Tan is an LA-based filmmaker originally...
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A HIDDEN LIFE
Talent attending: Elizabeth Bently (Producer), Dario Bergesio (Producer), Valerie Pachner (Talent) Terrence Malick returns with this harrowing true-life tale of conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter (August Diehl), eliciting comparisons in scope to his Academy Award-nominated TREE OF LIFE. The rise of...
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THE HISTORY OF MONSTERS
Talent attending: Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz (Director/Writer) Evelyn lives isolated in a cabin in the woods haunted every night by monsters of unknown origin. One day she finds a man in the forest and decides to help him. She becomes...
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THE HUMAN FACTOR
Behind the scenes, American diplomatic envoys and experts have borne witness to — and shaped — some of the most intense and tenuous negotiations of the Middle East peace process. THE HUMAN FACTOR presents a unique perspective on decades of high stakes peace talks by focusing...
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THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT (SINGLE CHANNEL)
Filmed on location in Harlem, USA and in Claude Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, France, THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT is a multi-textured cinematic poem that meditates on the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women. Through audacious formal experimentation, filmmaker and...
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THE GOLDEN LEGEND (LEYENDA DORADA)
A summer day at the swimming pool of the village of Montánchez, Spain. From above, Our Lady of Consolation of the Castle keeps her watchful gaze. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5 Chema Garciìa Ibarra was born in Spain in 1980....
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GRACE
GRACE is a father/son drama that tells the story of Lucas Walker, a charismatic pastor's teenage son, who discovers that his father’s alternative religious movement has become a dangerous and seductive cult of personality. He must shatter the only world...
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HALA
Talent attending: Minhal Baig (Director), Geraldine Viswanathan (Talent) Breathing new life into the classic American high school coming of age movie, writer/director Minhal Baig, making her feature debut, masterfully navigates the usual tropes of the genre to craft this thoroughly...
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FORMAN VS. FORMAN
Very few film directors have been able to pull off what Miloš Forman was able to achieve over his decades-long career: create a body of work that consistently jolted Hollywood out of its narrative complacency and that would receive both...
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FORT IRWIN
Talent attending: Quinn Else (Director), Marc Tarczali (Producer) A veteran suffering from PTSD decides to participate in a military simulation exercise in the hopes it will cure his symptoms. Part of SHOWCASE 3 Quinn Else quinnelse@gmail.com
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THE FRIEND
US Premiere Talent attending: Gabriela Cowperthwaite (Director) Dane moves in with his best friends since college, Nicole and Matthew and their young daughters, to help the family when Nicole is diagnosed with cancer. Laundry and take-out boxes pile up around...
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GHOSTS OF SUGAR LAND
In Sugar Land, Texas, a group of young, Muslim-American men ponder the disappearance of their friend “Mark,” who is suspected of joining ISIS. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 4 Bassam Tariq is a TED Fellow and was named one of Filmmaker’s "25...
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EXIT 12
After two tours in the Iraq War, U.S. Marine Roman Baca came home a different person. Now, as the founder and artistic director of the Exit12 Dance Company in New York City, Roman, with other veterans and military families, uses...
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FAMILY MEMBERS (LOS MIEMBROS DE LA FAMILIA)
Talent attending: Mateo Bendesky (Director) After the death of their mother, siblings Gilda and Lucas reluctantly return to their quiet coastal hometown to scatter her remains in the ocean. After the announcement of a nationwide bus strike, they are unable...
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FIRE IN PARADISE
FREE SCREENING On the morning of November 8, 2018, a seemingly small fire broke out in Butte County, California. Over the course of a few short hours, the camp fire grew into the country’s deadliest wildfire in over a century,...
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FLORENCE
Florence goes through her days without letting anyone into her world. When someone slips a love letter into her pocket, she decides to branch out, remembering what it is to feel hopeful. Part of SHOWCASE 4 Emanuele Daga emanueledagagv@gmail.com (323)687-7786
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EVA LONGORIA AND STACY SMITH ON THE ERASURE OF LATINX IN FILM
Founder of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative Dr. Stacy Smith and producer, director, actress and activist Eva Longoria delve into the latest findings from the Initiative that show an alarming lack of representation of Latinx individuals in film, both behind...
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EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SUDDEN BIRTH* (*BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK)
The true story of how the Berkeley police department, the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, an Academy Award® winner and Spock of STAR TREK fame are all connected by 1966’s SUDDEN BIRTH, one of the most unintentionally hilarious and disturbing...
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EXAM
A teenage girl delivers a package of cocaine to a client and gets caught in a weird cycle of events. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 4 Sonia K. Hadad is an Iranian Filmmaker. She was born in 1989 in Tehran. She completed...
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EXECUTIVES OF THE CULTURE: SENIOR AND EMERGING ENTERTAINMENT EXECS OF COLOR ON HOLLYWOOD
Join senior and emerging Hollywood executives as they discuss their career paths, current work/creative partnerships and the future of diverse content across entertainment platforms with moderator Brickson Diamond, CEO of Big Answers, LLC; founding board member and chair of The...
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THE DEVIL’S HARMONY
Kiera is being bullied at school. She’s the nerdish captain of the a cappella club and an easy target. Or so it seems. In fact, her a cappella club possess a secret, supernatural power: when they sing the ‘Devil’s Harmony’,...
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THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US AND THE SKY
Night, national road. Two strangers meet for the first time at an old gas station. One has stopped to gas up his bike, while the other is just stranded. Lacking the 22.50€ he needs to get home, he will try...
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DOC ROUNDTABLE
Join AFI and the Los Angeles Times as we bring together the leading directors behind some of the most talked-about and acclaimed documentaries of the year. Moderated by Amy Kaufman from the Los Angeles Times, panelists will include Waad al-Kateab...
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DOCKING
Trevor reflects on his fear of dating. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Trevor Anderson is a writer-director whose most recent film DOCKING premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. His film THE LITTLE DEPUTY premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film...
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CORPUS CHRISTI (BOŻE CIAŁO)
POLAND OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM OSCAR® SUBMISSION Talent attending: Jan Komasa (Director), Piotr Sobociński (Director of Photography) After he is released from a brutally violent juvenile detention center, Daniel disguises himself as a priest and hides out in a dysfunctional...
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THE CROWN AND A TRIBUTE TO PETER MORGAN
US Premiere For the third season of the award-winning original series, Oscar® winner Olivia Colman takes on the iconic role of Queen Elizabeth II while Tobias Menzies steps into the role of Prince Philip and Helena Bonham Carter is Princess...
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DEEP TISSUE
A woman orders a special massage. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Meredith Alloway is a Texan who currently resides in NYC as a filmmaker and writer. Her short RIDE is streaming in collaboration with Hulu + Sundance Institute. DEEP TISSUE,...
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DEERSKIN
Purchasing a vintage, fringed deerskin jacket, George slips it on, gazes at himself and says with fervent ecstasy, “Killer style,” foreshadowing violent deeds to come. The shopkeeper also gifts him an old camcorder for good measure. From here, Georges —...
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DESERT ONE
Talent attending: Barbara Kopple (Director) On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students, irate over President Jimmy Carter’s decision to grant asylum to the deposed Shah of Iran, stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seized over 60 American...
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CHILD
In the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, a young mother struggles to connect to her new baby. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 4 Talia Zucker is a Sundance Screenwriters Lab fellow. Her short film, CHILD, was developed through the AFI Directing Workshop for...
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CITIZEN K
Talent attending: John-Paul Bernbach (Executive Producer), Alex Gibney (Director) In this penetrating and gripping documentary, Academy Award®-winning director Alex Gibney charts the fascinating rise and fall —and surprising resurgence — of former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. In the years...
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CLEMENCY
Talent attending: Chinonye Chukwu (Director), Aldis Hodge (Talent), Alfre Woodard (Talent) Commanding the screen, Alfre Woodard plays Bernadine Williams, a stoic prison warden challenged with overseeing death row executions. She navigates the physiological complexities and consequences of regularly taking a...
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THE CLINIC
Amidst a devastating opioid epidemic, a needle exchange and free clinic operates in the shadows of Fresno, California. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Elivia Shaw is an award-winning filmmaker from Washington, DC. She is driven by filmmaking that uses intimacy...
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CARNE
Flesh is about how women are seen as bodys at disposal, judged as time passes as meat cooking stages. Through the form and texture of real materials such as paint, watercolor, clay, 35mm film and virtual image decomposition as glitches...
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THE CAVE
FREE SCREENING Talent attending: Feras Fayyad (Director) As Russian bombers and Syrian troops lay siege to the Syrian city of Ghouta, Dr. Amani, an aspiring pediatrician, leads a team of 130 medical practitioners who must go underground to create a...
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THE CHEF
In the near future, when all labor works are replaced by humanoids, a Chinese chef, Pu (60s) is ordered to pass on his cooking skill to a humanoid robot William and to teach him Chinese cooking. Designed to satisfy his...
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CHEZ JOLIE COIFFURE
Talent attending: Rosine Mbakam (Director) Inside a bustling Brussels shopping center, hair salon Jolie Coiffure has become hub to a vibrant group of African migrants. Through its tall glass windows, manager Sabine can be seen braiding hair or lending advice...
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BLOW THE MAN DOWN
On the night of their mother’s funeral, the Connelly sisters’ lives become much more complicated. After learning about the massive debts left by their mother, the sisters are forced to cover up a deadly act of self-defense (and the ice...
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THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN
Talent attending: Kathleen Hepburn (Director), Violet Nelson (Talent), Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (Director) Young, pregnant, and barefoot in the street, Rosie (Elle-Maija Tailfeathers) is being accosted by her abusive boyfriend when Aila comes to her aid. Aila is everything Rosie is not...
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BUG BITE
In this mixed media comedy, a young woman and a female bed bug form an unlikely bond while contending with toxic masculinity. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Emily Ann Hoffman is an award-winning animator, filmmaker and artist. She is a...
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THE BURNING BUSH (הסנה הבוער)
A poetic story of letting go. Danny mourns the lost love to her ex-girlfriend, symbolized by a small plant. Danny's mother wants her daughter to bury the memories, but when the dust settles something more powerful remains, which will not...
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CACTUS BLOSSOM
To win his wife’s love back, an old man transforms into the thing she loves the most: a cactus. Part of SHOWCASE 5 Samir Oliveros samiroliveros@gmail.com
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BLESSED LAND
A middle-aged woman and her son visit her late husband’s grave - situated in a former fishing village she hasn’t been to in decades. In the cemetery on the sandy dunes, they wander around for a long time without finding...
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BIKRAM: YOGI, GURU, PREDATOR
Talent attending: Eva Orner (Director) With his chiseled physique, simple but demanding program, and charismatic teaching style, Bikram Choudhury, the founder of Bikram Yoga, rode the wave of yoga’s growing popularity in the U.S. to build an empire of yoga...
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BLACK BUS STOP
Students reclaim a popular gathering spot on the campus of the University of Virginia. (from co-director Claudrena N. Harold): “Sacred ground. A transcendent space of communion where young people could be found listening to music, talking politics, dancing, flirting, living...
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BLACKBIRD
Talent attending: David Bernardi (Distributor), Sherryl Clark (Producer) Battling a terminal illness, Lily (Susan Sarandon) has decided to end her life on her own terms. Lily and her husband (Sam Neill) request their loved ones come to their seaside home...
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BALLOON
Talent attending: Christina Cha (Producer), Jeremy Merrifield (Director), Michael James Scott (Executive Producer) The only way Sam knows how to survive junior high is to stay under the radar. But that’s impossible after Jason picks a fight with him and...
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BALLOON (QI QIU)
Shepard Dargye and his wife, Drolkar, live a simple life with their sons and Dargye’s father on the family farm in rural Tibet. With government quotas on family size recently imposed, Drolkar visits the health clinic for condoms (which are...
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THE BANKER
World Premiere Bernard Garrett (Anthony Mackie) has always been a fast learner who is fascinated by numbers. Joe Morris (Samuel L. Jackson) is a shrewd business owner with money to invest. Both are confident about taking a risk and starting...
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BEANPOLE
RUSSIA OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM OSCAR® SUBMISSION Talent attending: Kantemir Balagov (Director) Amid the aftermath of war-ravaged Russia, Iya (Viktoria Mironshnichenko), a nurse nicknamed “Beanpole” for her lanky stature, cares for injured soldiers as well as her best friend’s son...
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ATLANTICS (ATLANTIQUE)
SENEGAL OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM OSCAR® SUBMISSION Talent attending: Fatima Al Qadiri (Composer), Olivier Demangel (Writer), Mati Diop (Director) A tower under construction looms over the Senegal coastline. 17-year-old Ada meets her lover, Souleiman, on the beach after he returns...
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AZIZA
A dynamic take on the life of Syrian refugees told through black comedy. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Soudade Kaadan is a Syrian director, born in France. She studied theater criticism at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Syria...
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BABYTEETH
Much to her parents’ dismay, 15-year-old Milla falls for Moses, a quirky, smalltime drug dealer at a train station. Their relationship blooms quickly despite Milla’s rapid decline in health, igniting in her a new fervor for life. Milla continues loving...
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BACURAU
Talent attending: Udo Kier (Talent) In this outrageous, transgressive thriller, Brazilian auteur Kleber Mendonça Filho teams with longtime collaborator Juliano Dornelles in a decidedly unconventional approach to genre cinema. A sci-fi western and modern colonialist critique, BACURAU takes place in...
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ANNA
Anna, a middle-aged single mother, lives in a small industrial town in war-torn Eastern Ukraine. She works in a meat processing plant, lives in a rundown apartment and dreams for a better life for herself and her 16-year-old daughter. Desperate...
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ANNE AT 13,000 FT
US Premiere Talent attending: Dan Montgomery (Producer), Kazik Radwanski (Director) Anne works at a Toronto daycare with her best friend Sarah. Most of her social and professional interactions are awkward and erratic – whether arguing about a cup of coffee...
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ANTIGONE
CANADA OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM OSCAR® SUBMISSION Talent attending: Sophie Deraspe (Director) Antigone is a straight-A student who represents her immigrant family’s best hopes for leaving behind a traumatic past and achieving a bright future in its adopted country of...
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THE APOLLO
FREE SCREENING Talent attending: Roger Ross Williams (Director) The historic Apollo Theater on Harlem’s West 125th St. is cherished as the platform that launched the careers of countless African-American talents, including some of the most important and influential names: Billie...
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ALIEN (REONGHEE)
Reonghee and I are illegal aliens. Yesterday, Reonghee died while running away from the Immigrant Office Agents. The company we worked for is only concerned about covering up the mess. I'm going to find Reonghee, who's body the company has...
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AMERICAN FACTORY (美国工厂)
FREE SCREENING Talent attending: Steven Bognar (Director) When a giant Chinese auto glass company takes over a shuttered GM plant in Dayton, OH, it is greeted like a savior by locals desperate to reclaim the good jobs that have largely...
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AND THEN WE DANCED
SWEDEN OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM OSCAR® SUBMISSION Talent attending: Levan Akin (Director), Ketie Daniela (Producer), Levan Gelbakhiani (Talent), Nino Jincharadze (Producer), Bachi Valishvili (Talent) A dancer in the National Georgian Ensemble, Merab is descended from a line of traditional dancers....
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ADAM
MOROCCO OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM OSCAR® SUBMISSION Talent attending: Maryam Touzani (Director) Samia, heavily pregnant and alone, walks the streets of Casablanca knocking on doors, seeking shelter and work. With an illegitimate child on the way, Moroccan society has shunned...
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THE AERONAUTS
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we invite you to witness death-defying feats with our two charismatic heroes and one giant balloon! THE AERONAUTS is an exhilarating fictionalized account of pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne), a scientist with his...
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ALAN PAKULA: GOING FOR TRUTH
FREE SCREENING Talent attending: Matthew Miele (Director), Hannah Pakula (Attendee) Producer/director/writer Alan Pakula created some of the most emotionally penetrating, culturally significant and artistically brilliant films of the 60s, 70s and 80s. This insightful documentary portrait includes interviews with Jane...
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16 DECEMBER
Saturday. Nightfall. The ball travels quickly across the court as the players move to take advantage of gaps in the defense. Lucía, twenty-five years old, leaves handball training and sets off to pick up her brother under the lights of...
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WORMWOOD
A Tribute to Errol Morris. What made Dr. Frank Olson plunge out of a hotel window in 1953? Did he jump? Did he fall? Or is the truth darker and more complex than that? In WORMWOOD, master storyteller Errol Morris...
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THE WORKSHOP (L’ATELIER)
Palme d’Or-winning French filmmaker Laurent Cantet has never shied away from controversy or pushing boundaries, and his latest effort is no different. Parisian author Olivia leads a small writing workshop for teens, where she battles indifference, disruptive cell phones and...
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WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY (HVA VIL FOLK SI)
Sixteen-year-old Nisha lives a double life — the perfect Pakistani daughter to her strict parents, and a normal Norwegian teenager with her friends at school. One night when her father catches her and her boyfriend in her bedroom, Nisha’s two...
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WINTER BROTHERS (VINTERBRØDRE)
Living in a remote, snowy area can have a profound effect on the psyche, and working as a miner in this landscape, loner Emil struggles to fit into his hyper-masculine environment. He appears strange and awkward next to his fit...
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WALKING PAST THE FUTURE (LU GUO WEI LAI)
Widespread factory layoffs in the post-industrial Chinese metropolis of Shenzen force the parents of Yang Yaoting (Yang Zishan) to retreat to their agricultural background in the northeastern province of Gansu. Once they arrive, her parents find they no longer own...
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WESTERN
The provocatively titled WESTERN follows Meinhard, a stoic and terse man who begins work with a German construction crew on a site in the remote Bulgarian countryside. Cultural rifts between the rowdy German workers and their unwelcoming Bulgarian neighbors soon...
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VISIONS OF AN ISLAND
Sky Hopinka was born and raised in Ferndale, WA, and is currently based out of Milwaukee, WI. He received his BA from Portland State University in Liberal Arts and his MFA in Film, Video, Animation and New Genres. In Portland, he...
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WAJIB
Shadi is a 30-something Palestinian architect who’s traveled home to Israel from Rome to assist his father, Abu Shadi, in the distribution of wedding invitations for his sister’s upcoming nuptials. As the two men drive around Nazareth, paying calls to...
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VICTOR & ISOLINA
Born in New York, William Caballero graduated from Pratt Institute and New York University. His student film was selected as the mtvU Film of the Week and won the Best Filmmaker on Campus award. He is a Gates Millennium Scholarship...
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VINCENT & THEO
VINCENT & THEO examines the relationship between celebrated Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (Tim Roth) and his younger brother Theo (Paul Rhys), a successful art dealer, whose support enabled Vincent to devote his life to painting. Though Theo seemingly held...
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TREE
New Reality Co.
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V.I.P.
The son of a high-ranking North Korean official, the creepily charismatic Kwang-il is committing brutal serial murders around the world. Drawn into this fraught crisis are three different enforcers: Jae-hyuk, a by-the-book, buttoned-up Korean federal agent; Inspector Chae Edo, a...
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TITICUT FOLLIES
Although TITICUT FOLLIES premiered at the New York Film Festival in 1967, it was banned for general audiences for 23 years. Frederick Wiseman’s debut documentary is a searing institutional critique of Bridgewater State Hospital — a facility for the “criminally...
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THE TOWN I LIVE IN
Guadalupe Rosales is an artist and archivist based in Los Angeles. Rosales is the founder of Veteranas and Rucas and Map Pointz, both digital archives found on Instagram. She has lectured at various institutions such as UCLA, the New Museum, New...
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THELMA
A gripping psychological thriller, THELMA follows a unique young woman with two overprotective, devoutly Christian parents. As Thelma begins her journey to leave home, her parents become alarmingly nervous. More than empty nest syndrome, they’re experiencing genuine fear for mysterious...
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THOROUGHBREDS
Amanda and Lily haven’t been friends since an incident that occurred during childhood, but are forced back into each other’s lives when Lily needs tutoring to prepare for college entrance tests. As their friendship rekindles, Lily’s harsh stepdad Mark threatens...
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TEN METER TOWER
Filmmakers Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck collaborate as Plattform Produktion in Gothenburg, Sweden. Together, Van Aertryck and Danielson direct and produce feature documentaries and short films. Their most recent short film, TEN METER TOWER, was published on The New...
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THE TESLA WORLD LIGHT (TESLA: LUMIÈRE MONDIALE)
Matthew Rankin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He studied Québec history at McGill University and Université Laval before devoting himself to filmmaking. His work features a blend of genres, the use of historical or documentary elements and a referential, lyrical...
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SWEET COUNTRY
Warwick Thornton’s beautifully photographed Outback Western tells the story of a stoic Aboriginal stockman, Sam Kelly (Hamilton Morris), working the land of a white preacher (Sam Neill), whose strength of character ignites a fierce conflict that divides a small settlement...
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TAKEOUT NIGHT
Duncan Birmingham is a writer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, CA. Most recently he's been a writer/executive producer on IFC's MARON and writer/co-executive producer on Starz's BLUNT TALK. He has written and directed short films that have been screened...
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STILL DEVOUT
Melissa Y. Perez is a Mexican-American filmmaker from Victorville, CA. She is a 2016 AFI Conservatory Directing alumna, a 2014 OUTSET alumna and a Latino Donor Collaborative & Women in Film Scholar. Her work often centers on themes of conflicting...
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SUMMER 1993
When her mother dies of an AIDS-related illness, six-year-old Frida has to leave her home in Barcelona to live with her uncle, aunt and four-year-old cousin in the Catalan countryside. Though surrounded by loving and understanding family members, with visits...
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SPOOR (POKOT)
Polish master Agnieszka Holland delivers an animal rights murder mystery for the ages in this genre-bending pleasure. Agnieszka Mandat stars as Duszejko, a middle-aged hippie living in the Klodzko Valley, a region in Poland known for grand, heart-stoppingly beautiful forest landscapes,...
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A SKIN SO SOFT (TA PEAU SI LISSE)
Québécois director Denis Côté, who so deftly travels between documentary and narrative filmmaking, is one of the most powerful voices emerging from the contemporary Canadian film scene. His latest film, focusing on a group of French Canadian bodybuilders, follows the...
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SOLLERS POINT
Keith is out on probation and living in his father’s house in a working-class Baltimore neighborhood. He’s resolved to set his life right, but old ties from the past keep pulling him dangerously back toward an existence of hustling and...
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SHORT CUTS
In his last Los Angeles-set film, Robert Altman adapts the work of author Raymond Carver in what is widely seen as the best cinematic treatment of Carver’s writing to date. Based on nine short stories and one poem by Carver,...
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SILICA
Array Pia Borg was recently named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film in Filmmaker Magazine. In 2017, her work was featured in the Maltese Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. She is the recipient of numerous awards...
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THE SHAPE OF WATER
The luminous Sally Hawkins stars as Eliza Esposito, a mute cleaning lady living in a nondescript coastal city ensconced in 1950s Cold War paranoia. Her work at a government lab brings her into contact with an unusual government asset, a...
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SHINAAB
Lyle Mitchell Corbine, Jr., is a writer, director and producer whose most recent short film, SHINAAB, played at the Sundance and Toronto International film festivals. He has received numerous grants and awards through the Sundance Institute, Time Warner Foundation and...
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SAMMY DAVIS, JR.: I’VE GOTTA BE ME
The full life of legendary singer, dancer, comic, actor and all-around entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr., takes center stage in this documentary about the ups and downs of his life and career. Already performing at the age of three, Davis blazed...
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A SEASON IN FRANCE (UNE SAISON EN FRANCE)
Abbas (Eriq Ebouaney) is living the life of many migrant workers. Formerly a scholar in his home country of the Central African Republic, he now crates produce for a vendor in Paris, trying to make ends meet so that his...
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A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
Robert Altman ended his astonishing career of 39 features with this wistful comedy based on the characters of Garrison Keillor’s eponymous radio show. Referencing classic backstage musicals, and set on the evening of the show’s final bow, the plot follows...
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RED DESERT (IL DESERTO ROSSO)
Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1964 Golden Lion winner — and first foray into color — follows muse Monica Vitti as a maladjusted woman searching for her place in the world. Giuliana (Vitti) is a melancholy, young mother who lives in a foggy,...
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THE PLAYER
With an eight-minute tracking shot setting the stage for a movie within a movie, Robert Altman’s satire of the Hollywood studio machine is as sharp today as it was 25 years ago. Tim Robbins stars as Griffin Mill, a stereotypical...
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PENROSE STUDIOS: A CASE STUDY OF EUGENE CHUNG’S INNOVATIVE ANIMATION
A presentation by Penrose Studios Founder and CEO Eugene Chung, the creator of cutting-edge VR animation such as ALLUMETTE and ARDEN'S WAKE: THE PROLOGUE.
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THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE (TOIVON TUOLLA PUOLEN)
A Syrian refugee stowed away on a freighter, Khaled arrives in Helsinki soot-faced and desperate to start a new life. Meanwhile, Wikstrom is a traveling salesman in the throes of a very deadpan midlife crisis, who wins big at a...
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PENDULAR
Julia Murat’s debut feature follows an unnamed young couple, a sculptor and a dancer. They have just moved into a massive loft, with a ceremonial ribbon of tape laid down the center to mark where the sculptures will be displayed...
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ON BODY AND SOUL (TESTRŐL ÉS LÉLEKRŐL)
Mária is the newly hired quality control specialist at a Budapest slaughterhouse. Her supervisor, an older man named Endre, is beloved by the slaughterhouse’s co-workers. Meanwhile, Mária is resented for her exacting standards. After striking up an awkward friendship, the...
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NIGHTHAWK (NOČNA PTICA)
Born in Slovenia, animation director and producer Špela Čadež studied graphic design and continued her studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany. She created two puppet animation works that gained international recognition: MATE TO MEASURE (2004) and LOVESICK...
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NUTAG-HOMELAND
Alisi Telengut is a visual artist, animator and filmmaker based in Montreal, Canada. Her recent works received awards at the Stockholm, Montreal World and Canada International film festivals. Her films have screened at festivals internationally and have contributed to enthnographic...
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NEWTON
In a jungle in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, 76 villagers who have never before voted in their country’s democratic elections receive a visit from Newton (rising Indian star Rajkummar Rao), the idealistic, officious election monitor determined to make their voices...
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NIGHT NIGHT
Dark Corner Studios
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NATIONAL DISINTEGRATIONS
Braden King is a New York-based filmmaker, photographer and visual artist. His most recent feature film HERE (2011), starring Ben Foster and Lubna Azabal, premiered at the 2011 Sundance and Berlin film festivals, and was distributed theatrically by Strand Releasing. Field...
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MUDBOUND
Set in the 1940s, the story of MUDBOUND begins when a beautiful young bride must move from the big city of Memphis to a dusty, small Southern town in the Mississippi Delta, where every family’s fate is tied to the...
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NASHVILLE
NASHVILLE, the most enduring and beloved of Altman’s films, is a masterpiece that continues to resonate and endure. #59 on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies, the film is a portrait of the complicated lives of several Nashville residents, including a country...
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MR. ROOSEVELT
Despite doing an amazing impression of Holly Hunter haggling at a yard sale, Emily still hasn’t made it as a comedian in Los Angeles. One night, she gets an urgent call from her ex about the cat they used to...
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MR. YELLOW SWEATSHIRT
Yoni Brook is a Film Independent Spirit Award-nominated cinematographer. His credits include VALLEY OF SAINTS, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and won the Audience and Alfred P. Sloan awards. His documentaries have premiered at the Tribeca, Berlin...
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MRS HYDE (MADAME HYDE)
A loose adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” MADAME HYDE follows Madame Géquil, a shy chemistry teacher who gets little respect from her students. When an accident in her lab causes her to be struck by...
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MOLLY’S GAME
MOLLY’S GAME is based on the true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world’s most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested in the middle of the night by 17 FBI agents wielding...
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MR. LONG
Mr. Long is a Taiwanese hitman so stealthy he can bring down a roomful of opponents using just a six-inch blade. But when an assignment in Tokyo goes sideways, leaving Mr. Long injured and in need of a quick escape,...
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MILLA
Milla and her boyfriend Leo are teens living on the fringes in a grey town on the English Channel. They’ve started a damp but cozy home in an abandoned house, and even though times are hard and work opportunities nil,...
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MODERAT – REMINDER
Sehsucht Berlin
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MARY AND THE WITCH’S FLOWER (MEARI TO MAJO NO HANA)
From Oscar®-nominated director Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Oscar®-nominated producer Yoshiaki Nishimura comes a dazzling, beautifully animated new adventure for all ages. MARY AND THE WITCH’S FLOWER is based on Mary Stewart’s 1971 children’s book “The Little Broomstick,” and tells the story of...
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MCCABE & MRS. MILLER
Mumbling gambler John McCabe (Warren Beatty, in one of his best performances) arrives in the snowy mining town of Presbyterian Church and opens a provisional brothel, only to have tack-sharp Constance Miller (a wise and luminous Julie Christie) appear on...
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MARE NOSTRUM
Co-directors Rana Kazkaz and Anas Khalaf are married, with dual Syrian and American citizenship. They are currently living in Amman, Jordan, after having fled Damascus as a result of the ongoing Syrian conflict. Their credits include: SEARCHING FOR THE TRANSLATOR,...
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MARLINA THE MURDERER IN FOUR ACTS (MARLINA SI PEMBUNUH DALAM EMPAT BABAK)
Pure, white-hot revenge has long been the cinematic domain of stoic men. Enter the commanding force of Marlina. After roving bandits arrive at her isolated Indonesian cabin to rape her and steal her belongings, this resourceful heroine gets the upper...
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M*A*S*H
Adapted from a novel by Richard Hooker and then filtered through Robert Altman’s signature improvisational style, the courageously uproarious antiwar satire M*A*S*H was one of the most successful comedies of its day. Ostensibly set during the Korean War but no doubt...
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A MAN OF INTEGRITY
A former university professor now living as a goldfish farmer in a Northern Iranian village, Reza quietly tends to his own affairs alongside his wife Hadis, a principal at a local girls’ school, and their young son. After his river-sourced...
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EL MAR LA MAR
Not so much pushing the boundaries of conventional documentary filmmaking as obliterating them and beginning anew, this stunning film brilliantly deconstructs the formal elements of classic ethnographic cinema and reconstitutes them into a wholly new form, immersive and alive with...
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LOVELESS (NELYUBOV)
Andrey Zvyagintsev returns with his latest feature, a gut-wrenching drama centered on Zhenya and Boris, a couple nearing the end of a nasty divorce. All that remains to be offloaded is the burden that stands between them and happiness: their...
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LUPUS
Carlos Gómez Salamanca began his directing career with the animated short film CARNE (2012). It screened at festivals internationally, including Annecy, Bradford and Sao Paulo. His plastic work finds its roots in realist painting. His art can more generally be defined...
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THE LONG GOODBYE
Robert Altman updates Raymond Chandler in a way that only Altman could, with Elliott Gould giving a laid-back, cool-cat turn as iconic private eye Philip Marlowe, navigating the mean streets (or at least the narcissistic streets) of a groovy 1970s...
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LOS CAIFANES
When wealthy couple Jaime and Paloma leave a swanky party and wander the streets of Mexico City, finding a seemingly abandoned car where they can sneak some kisses, little do they know they’ve stumbled upon a set of wheels owned...
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LIFE BOAT
Born and raised in Los Angeles, writer, director and actress Lorraine Nicholson graduated from Brown University in 2012. In 2017, she was selected to participate in the AFI Directing Workshop for Women. She has directed music videos for up-and-comers Hana,...
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LIFE OF US
With.in
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THE LEISURE SEEKER
Lovingly married for half a century, John and Ella Spencer (Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren) have weathered their share of storms. But when Alzheimer’s cruelly strips away John’s memory and sense of self, Ella makes an impromptu decision to take...
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LET THE CORPSES TAN (LAISSEZ BRONZER LES CADAVRES)
Filmmakers Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani trade in the crushed velvet and bloody shadows of their previous films (AMER, THE STRANGE COLOR OF YOUR BODY’S TEARS) for a sun-soaked adventure fueled by machine-gunfire and creaking leather. A small group of...
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LIFE AND NOTHING MORE
In AFI FEST alumnus Antonio Méndez Esparza’s sophomore feature, the gifted director observes the struggles of a family living in northern Florida — working-class mother Regina, and her troubled teenage son Andrew — with a compassionate eye, sharply focused on...
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LA COLLECTIONNEUSE
Set in an idyllic, sun-drenched villa on the Riviera, Eric Rohmer’s third of his “Six Moral Tales” centers on two male friends, an art dealer and a painter, whose summer of relaxation is upended when Haydée, a carefree, rules-be-damned woman...
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LANCE LIZARDI
Xander Robin is a filmmaker raised in Florida and based currently in New York City. He received a BFA from the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts. His work as a director has screened at film festivals internationally,...
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KANSAS CITY
Jennifer Jason Leigh is fast-talking dame Blondie O’Hara, a platinum-blonde telegraph operator emulating Kansas City native Jean Harlow. When her petty thief husband (Dermot Mulroney) is kidnapped after holding up the client of local black mob leader Seldom Seen (Harry...
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ISLANDS (LES ÎLES)
Yann Gonzalez was born in Nice, France. He made six short films between 2006 and 2012 before directing his first feature, YOU AND THE NIGHT, presented at Critics' Week at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. ISLANDS is his latest short...
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JIM & ANDY: THE GREAT BEYOND – FEATURING A VERY SPECIAL, CONTRACTUALLY OBLIGATED MENTION OF TONY CLIFTON
In 1999, a documentary crew filmed Jim Carrey behind the scenes during the making of MAN ON THE MOON, in which he played legendary comedian Andy Kaufman. As Carrey immersed himself in the role of Kaufman — and, periodically, Kaufman’s...
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JOY JOY NAILS
Joey Ally is a graduate of Amherst College, and a New Yorker currently based in LA. She began as a filmmaking assistant for Megan Griffiths and Lynn Shelton and is an alumna of the AFI Directing Workshop for Women, Tribeca/Chanel "Through...
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THE INSULT (L’INSULTE)
On a day like any other in downtown Beirut, unassuming construction foreman Yasser, a Palestinian refugee, approaches Christian nationalist Tony, seeking permission to fix a broken drainage pipe outside Tony’s apartment. Hotheaded and always ready for a fight, father-to-be Tony’s...
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IN THE FADE (AUS DEM NICHTS)
Katja (Diane Kruger) lives a life of relative tranquility in Hamburg, Germany, in love with her ex-con husband and besotted with their six-year-old son. When an act of domestic terrorism wrenches away everything Katja holds dear, she finds herself on...
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IFO
Kevin Jerome Everson was born and raised in Mansfield, OH. He is a professor of art at University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Everson was awarded the 2012 Alpert Award for Film/Video. Everson's paintings, sculptures, photographs and films have been exhibited internationally.
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IMMERSIVE SHORT FORM STORYTELLING: SHORT FILMS AND THEIR VR COUNTERPARTS
This panel features creators whose VR works started as short films and whose 360-degree works incorporate strong narrative storytelling. Some are companion VR pieces that heighten the experience of the original films, while other works are standalone projects. Panelists include...
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I AM NOT A WITCH
Directed by Rungano Nyoni and beautifully photographed by David Gallego, this film is a unique social satire, set in Zambia, that mines the depths of humor and pathos with confidence. In the cruel and surreal world of I AM NOT...
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I, TONYA
Scandalous. White-trash. Violent. Crazy. People describe the story of battling figure skaters Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding in countless ways. Knowing that these preconceived ideas arrive in tow with viewers, director Craig Gillespie has crafted a unique approach to telling...
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HOT DOG HANDS
Matt Reynolds grew up just north of San Francisco. His films have screened at festivals such as SXSW, Annecy, Ann Arbor Film Festival and Animafest Zagreb. In 2016, he received his MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts. He now lives in Los...
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HOUSE OF JXN
Rosie Haber is a writer and director. She is a graduate of NYU Tisch and has been a fellow of Film Independent's Project Involve, Outfest's Screenwriting Lab, the AFI Directing Workshop for Women, Universal's inaugural Directors Intensive and the Sundance...
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HOW’S YOUR PROSTATE?
Co-directors Jeanne Paturle and Cécile Rousset met while studying at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France. Both Paturle and Rousset then became educators. Teaching at the same school over two years inspired their previous film, THE...
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HOCHELAGA, LAND OF SOULS (HOCHELAGA, TERRE DES ÂMES)
Arriving on Canada’s 150th anniversary, HOCHELAGA, LAND OF SOULS is a poetic tapestry of stories across time, all stemming from an excavation dig in Montreal following a deadly sinkhole during a college football game. Historian and Mohawk Baptiste Asigny (Canadian...
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HOSTILES
Captain Joseph Blocker (a stellar Christian Bale) is nearing the end of a respected military career when he’s given an assignment he can’t refuse: Escort an ailing Native prisoner, Chief Yellowhawk (Wes Studi), up to his Montana homeland to die....
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HI STRANGER
Kirsten Lepore is an LA-based director and animator, and alumna of CalArts. Her stop-motion episode of ADVENTURE TIME won 2016 Emmy® and Annie awards and her other films have taken top prizes at SXSW and Slamdance, among other festivals. Lepore...
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HIGH FANTASY
Lexi and her friends Xoli, Tatiana and Thami head to her family’s isolated Northern Cape farm for an overnight camping trip, capturing the excursion on their cell phones. When they awake the next morning to discover they’ve all swapped bodies,...
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HAVE A NICE DAY (HAO JI LE)
Banned by the Chinese government from screening at the world’s most prestigious animation festival in Annecy, France, HAVE A NICE DAY is a morbid, hilarious noir that cuts deep into the greed fueling the Chinese economic miracle. Security guard Xiao...
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HANNAH
Charlotte Rampling gives another career-defining performance in this taut and layered sophomore feature from Andrea Pallaoro. In a seaside Belgian town, Hannah (Rampling) attends an acting class and has a quiet dinner with her husband. The next day, she lays...
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HAPPY END
The Laurent family has issues. Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant), the aging patriarch of the wealthy Callais clan, is more interested in exiting this world than enjoying it. Anne (Isabelle Huppert) has a repellent adult son to deal with, and Thomas (Mathieu...
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GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER
Set during the tumultuous climate of the late 1960s, GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER delves into the complexities of an interracial love affair between an African-American doctor and a young white socialite. Following a whirlwind romance in Hawaii, the pair...
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GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER + CINEMA’S LEGACY: JORDAN PEELE, DIRECTOR/WRITER OF GET OUT
Set during the tumultuous climate of the late 1960s, GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER delves into the complexities of an interracial love affair between an African-American doctor and a young white socialite. Following a whirlwind romance in Hawaii, the pair...
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GOSFORD PARK
A massive estate nestled deep in the countryside of England serves as the perfect stage for an unexpected, albeit well-deserved murder. In this critically praised, award-winning whodunit by Robert Altman, a group of seemingly affluent guests and their respective servants...
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GREAT CHOICE
Robin Comisar is originally from Cincinnati, OH. He taught himself how to edit and animate working for Reggie Watts and Diarrhea Planet. His short film GREAT CHOICE was commissioned by Borscht Corp., and won jury prizes for best short film...
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GOOD MANNERS (AS BOAS MANEIRAS)
Clara is a quiet nurse with a thin résumé from the outskirts of São Paulo. When she’s hired by high-class and seemingly sheltered Ana to be a nanny for her unborn child, the two develop a surprising relationship. Ana’s increasingly...
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THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (IL BUONO, IL BRUTTO, IL CATTIVO)
The final film in Sergio Leone’s “The Man With No Name” trilogy and perhaps his best-known work, THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY, released in the U.S. in 1967, is a landmark film celebrated by generations of cinephiles around...
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A GENTLE CREATURE (KROTKAYA)
An unnamed Russian woman receives a package she’d sent to her incarcerated husband, stamped with the frustrating words “return to sender.” So begins this woman’s descent into the bureaucratic hell of the Russian penal system, as she travels to a...
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A GENTLE NIGHT (XIAO CHENG ER YUE)
Qiu Yang was born and raised in Changzhou, China. He studied film directing at the Victorian College of the Arts in Australia. His short UNDER THE SUN played the 68th Cannes Cinéfondation. He has been selected to participate in the Taipei...
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GARY & CLAIRE
Sehsucht Berlin
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GAZE (NEGAH)
Farnoosh Samadi is an Iranian filmmaker who graduated from the Fine Art Academy in Rome, Italy. THE SILENCE, her first short film co-directed by Ali Asgari, had its world premiere in competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Her second...
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GEMINI
Aptly set in Los Angeles, this film is an impressionistic, dark and stylish murder mystery. The LA that GEMINI’s characters inhabit is an insecure city filled with insecure people; secrets have to be hidden — especially about sex — and...
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FOXTROT
Samuel Maoz set his brilliantly claustrophobic debut LEBANON solely inside a war tank. His latest tale operates on a larger canvas, but still bears Maoz’s trademark intimacy and detail of storytelling. FOXTROT follows Michael, a grieving Israeli father who must...
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FUNDING AND FINANCIAL MODELS FOR VR
This panel discussion centers on how and where VR artists can find funding, as well as platforms and models for distribution. Panelists will include Jeffrey Abramson, DiscoveryVR, Head of Programming and Development; James Kaelan, Acquisitions and Licensing for Positron; and...
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FITS AND STARTS
Actor/comedian Wyatt Cenac delivers a double dollop of his trademark deadpan charm in this fantastic and funny debut from director Laura Terruso. Cenac plays David, a writer who hasn’t yet attained the success he wants so desperately from the literary...
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FILMWORKER
In 1973, actor Leon Vitali was cast in Stanley Kubrick’s BARRY LYNDON. Being on set and observing Kubrick’s genius at work changed Vitali. He would eventually give up his successful acting career and dedicate his life to working behind the...
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FISH STORY
Charlie Lyne is a writer and filmmaker best known for the feature-length essay films BEYOND CLUELESS (2014) and FEAR ITSELF (AFI FEST 2016). He is also the director of a number of shorts, and 10-hour protest film PAINT DRYING (2016)....
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A FANTASTIC WOMAN (UNA MUJER FANTASTICA)
Scratching out a modest living waiting tables while pursuing her dream of being a renowned torch singer, Marina (trans actress Daniela Vega, in an astonishing debut performance) finds peace and stability in her relationship with factory owner Orlando. But when...
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THE FARE
Santiago Paladines is an Ecuadorian award-winning director/writer based in Los Angeles. He holds an MFA in Directing from the AFI Conservatory and is the recipient of a DGA Student Film Jury Award and the First Prize at the Hispanic Heritage...
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FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL
Hoping to rekindle a once brilliant if troubled acting career, fading movie icon Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening) finds renewal and a sense of promise in the footlights of the British stage. But when a devastating illness returns, cutting short any...
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THE ENDLESS
Filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead return with another elevated and fiercely original, genre-busting sci-fi horror film. Struggling in Los Angeles, two brothers receive a mysterious recording from the cult they escaped as children. Each remembering it differently —...
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EDGE OF ALCHEMY
Stacey Steers is known for her process-driven, labor-intensive films composed of thousands of handmade works on paper. Steers' animated films have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, New Directors New Films, IFFR Rotterdam, Locarno IFF, MoMA and...
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DOLLAR KING
Drew Pollins' sensibility for imaginative, personal comedy and drama has received widespread acclaim. He is the director of the College Television Award-winning DOLLAR KING. He holds an MFA in Directing from the AFI Conservatory. His feature debut is currently in...
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THE DISASTER ARTIST
There are bad movies, there are really bad movies and then there’s THE ROOM. Directed by and starring Tommy Wiseau, the film was shot in Los Angeles and aggressively marketed around the city. Wiseau’s unusual visage peered out from massive...
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THE DIVER
Born in Mexico City, Esteban Arrangoiz studied media and cultural studies at the Macquarie University in Australia and studied filmmaking at UNAM in Mexico. His short films have played festivals internationally, winning awards such as the José Rovirosa Prize, and best...
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DOC ROUNDTABLE
Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang sits down with a panel of distinguished directors behind some of the most talked-about and acclaimed documentaries of the year. The panelists will include Evgeny Afineevsky (CRIES FROM SYRIA), Greg Barker (THE FINAL...
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DEERBROOK
MacLaren Productions Inc.
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THE DAY AFTER (GEU-HU)
Premiering in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, the second Hong Sang-soo feature at the festival this year reteams Hong with actors Kwon Haehyo (YOURSELF AND YOURS, AFI FEST 2016) and Kim Min-hee (RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN; AFI FEST 2015)....
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CUBS (UNGAR)
Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttir is an Icelandic writer, director and producer and one of Iceland's best-known actresses. She studied scriptwriting for film and television at the Vancouver Film School. Her debut short as a director/writer, PLAYING WITH BALLS (2014), premiered at...
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DADYAA–THE WOODPECKERS OF ROTHA (DADYAA)
Based in Kathmandu, Pooja Gurung and Bibhusan Basnet have been working together for six years. Their first short film, THE CONTAGIOUS APPARITIONS OF DAMBAREY DENDRITE (2013), was selected at film festivals internationally. DADYAA premiered at the Venice Film Festival before...
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COMMODITY CITY
Jessica Kingdon is a Chinese-American director/producer and member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective. Her award-winning documentary COMMODITY CITY has screened at film festivals internationally. Her series “Fanwei” was featured at the 2017 Spotlight on Documentary IFP Film Week. She was...
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COPA-LOCA
Christos Massalas was born in Greece and is currently based in Athens. He studied film theory at Kingston University, London, and Filmmaking at the London Film School. His short films have been screened and won awards at film festivals internationally....
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CLOWNS
The Manhattan Company was formed in response to the Great Clown Panic of 2016. It is devoted to making films about people, places and things on the wrong side of history. It is comprised of Alex Kliment, Dana O'Keefe and Mike...
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COIN OPERATED
An engineer by training but an artist at heart, Nicholas Arioli spent years in the technology industry before making the leap to filmmaking. He was born and raised in New York City, though he now lives in San Francisco. He...
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CLAIRE’S CAMERA (KEUL-LE-EO-UI-KA-ME-LA)
The first of two films by South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo in the festival this year, CLAIRE’S CAMERA is set against the backdrop of the Cannes Film Festival. Hong Sang-soo’s character study follows Man-hee as she tries to navigate the...
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CLOSENESS (TESNOTA)
Since its debut at Cannes this year, CLOSENESS has been stirring up controversy and picking up awards. Director Kantemir Balagov’s feature debut takes place in 1998, in the North Caucasus region of Russia. The Kabardians, an ethnic minority group, live...
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CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
The latest film from Luca Guadagnino is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love. It’s the summer of 1983 in northern Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17-year-old American-Italian boy, spends his days in his family’s 17th-century...
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A CIAMBRA
Jonas Carpignano’s sophomore feature follows 14-year-old Pio in a small Romani community in Calabria, Italy. The teen boy is desperate to grow up fast, and follows his brother Cosimo everywhere, learning the skills needed to navigate life on the streets...
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THE BURDEN
Array Niki Lindroth von Bahr is an artist and animation director based in Stockholm, Sweden. She studied fine art at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Lindroth's films TORD AND TORD (2010) and BATH HOUSE (2014) have screened at...
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CALIFORNIA SPLIT
In CALIFORNIA SPLIT, George Segal plays Bill, a magazine editor whose friendship with gambling addict Charlie (Elliott Gould) sucks him into a lifestyle of adrenaline and risk. Soon, Bill finds himself in debt, forcing him to head to Reno with...
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BRIGHT SUNSHINE IN (UN BEAU SOLEIL INTÉRIEUR)
Divorced artist Isabelle (Juliette Binoche) is in a rough patch in her romantic life. Though she has her lovers, including married men and her ex-husband, she fears that true love might be forever out of reach. Master filmmaker Claire Denis...
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BUILDING WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS: DESIGNING WITHIN VR
Join Apelab CEO and co-founder Emilie Joly and Mindshow's Virtual Experience Designer Jim Toepel to discuss new tools for designing VR experiences within a virtual environment.
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BODIED
A meek white-boy rapper wants to spit fire, but does cultural appropriation outweigh his desire? Whether it’s sci-fi, satire, or race relations, Joseph Kahn’s auteur style defies anticipations. In BODIED, a white boy explores rap battle vernacular, immersed in a subculture...
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THE BREADWINNER
THE BREADWINNER tells the story of Parvana, an 11-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana disguises herself as a boy in order to support her family. With dauntless perseverance, Parvana...
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BEAUTY AND THE DOGS
Kaouther Ben Hania’s sophomore narrative feature follows Mariam, a young Tunisian woman who meets Youssef during a student party and then leaves with him. Hours later, she and Youssef are forced to embark on an infuriating and degrading journey —...
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BLOW-UP
AFI FEST is proud to present Michelangelo Antonioni’s first film in English. “Swinging London” fashion photographer Thomas (David Hemmings) becomes bored at a shoot and walks off to the park, where he takes pictures of two lovers. Later, when he...
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BALLOONFEST
Nathan Truesdell is a documentary director, producer, cinematographer and editor based in Los Angeles. He produced and shot BIG BIRDING DAY (2010) and DEAR VALUED GUESTS (2013). Truesdell was cinematographer on CAUCUS (AFI FEST 2013) and one of many cinematographers on SPEAKING IS DIFFICULT (AFI FEST...
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BAREFOOT IN THE PARK
This classic romantic comedy pairs Robert Redford and Jane Fonda as a young married couple with absolutely nothing in common. Paul (Redford), a conservative young lawyer, has his hands full with his free-spirited young wife Corie (Fonda), who is determined...
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THE BALLAD OF LEFTY BROWN
The sidekick becomes the leading man in Jared Moshé’s accomplished Western, a loving homage to the classics of the genre that sidesteps tradition to examine this well-travelled cinematic landscape from a different point of view. The inimitable Bill Pullman gives a...
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ASCRIBED ACHIEVEMENTS
Samaneh Shojaei received a BA of Fine Arts from the Alzahra University and an MA of Moving Image from the Art University of Tehran, Iran. She is credited as an animator on Elmira Bagherzadeh's 2016 short ROOHANGIZ. Her directorial debut...
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AVA
Thirteen-year-old Ava is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns she will go blind in the coming months. While her mother acts as if everything is normal, Ava confronts the problem in her own way — and...
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APRIL’S DAUGHTER (LAS HIJAS DE ABRIL)
Seventeen-year-old Valeria is pregnant and lives with her sister Clara. She wants to keep her pregnancy a secret from her absent and domineering mother April. When Clara tells April about her sister’s condition, their mother suddenly arrives, full of loving...
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AFTER SOLITARY
Emblematic Group
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ALTERATION
Okio Studio
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THE 6TH AMENDMENT
Elika Portnoy is a director, producer and actress. In 2008, she founded the production company Mutressa. Since then, she has produced 10 feature films, including LOVE IS STRANGE (2014), THE VOICES (2014) and BEASTS OF NO NATION (2015). Her directorial...
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AFTER SCHOOL KNIFE FIGHT
Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel were born in Ajaccio and Toulouse, France, respectively. Each separately directed several short films — Vinel's OUR LEGACY (2016) and Poggi's CHIENS (2013) — before they began collaborating. Their short film AS LONG AS SHOTGUNS...
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3 WOMEN
Inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s PERSONA, Robert Altman’s late ‘70s masterpiece features a beautifully rich color palette that permeates this surrealist fever-dream creation. New-girl-in-town Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek) gets a job working as a nurse in a desert town spa. There,...
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YOURSELF AND YOURS (DANGSINJASINGWA DANGSINUI GEOT)
The seventh film YOURSELF AND YOURS to be featured at AFI FEST by prolific South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo, emerges as a singular work amid the expanse of Hong’s subtle variations on a theme. With deceptive simplicity, this enigmatic modern...
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THE WOMAN WHO LEFT
Led by AFI FEST programmers, this conversation will discuss the filmmaker and his work. Winner of the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival, THE WOMAN WHO LEFT is the latest grand vision from renowned Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz....
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THE WOUNDED ANGEL (RANENYY ANGEL)
In the dry, austere beauty of a small Kazakh village, the dreams of four adolescent boys are challenged by the harsh realities of post-Soviet life. For Zharas, the shame of having a thief for a father drives a fierce self-righteousness...
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WÙLU
When low-level transit employee Ladji (powerfully played by Ibrahim Koma) misses out on a potentially lucrative promotion, his years of scraping by to support himself and his sister finally bring him to a breaking point. He uses his connections to...
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VR + 360° CAMERA RIG WORKSHOP
A conversation about the camera systems and rigs that lmmakers use to shoot and edit VR content, with cameras and rigs included from Dark Corner Studios, Here Be Dragons, Jaunt One and REALTRA.
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WOMAN IN DEEP
A woman calls a suicide prevention hot line and is put on hold.
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THE UNTAMED (LA REGIÓN SALVAJE)
Alejandra is a young mother who works at a factory and takes care of her two boys. Her husband Angel spends nights away from home, involved in an extramarital affair and neglecting his wife’s sexual needs. Her brother, Fabian, is...
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THE VISITOR
A short horror experience about an unexpected visitor knocking on your door.
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TILT BRUSH
TILT BRUSH is a stunning drawing tool that lets you paint life-size brush strokes in a 3D space.
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TONI ERDMANN
The smash hit of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival is the third film from AFI FEST alum Maren Ade, a heartwarming father-daughter tale that follows a workaholic woman, Ines, whose prankish elderly dad, Winfried, is a source of constant embarrassment....
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UNIVITELLIN
A classic story in a far-from-classic reworking. Terence Nance is an artist born and raised in Dallas. His first feature film AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY screened at the Rottederam and Sundance film festivals in 2012, leading to Nance's recognition...
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THROUGH THE AGES: PRESIDENT OBAMA CELEBRATES AMERICA’S NATIONAL PARKS
President Obama guides us on a wondrous and transporting journey to Yosemite as he honors the National Parks Service Centennial.
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THUNDER ROAD
Officer Arnaud loved his mom. Jim Cummings wrote this during his commutes to and from work.
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THINGS TO COME (L’AVENIR)
Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert) is a middle-aged philosophy professor, still deeply passionate about her career and in a seemingly happy, comfortable marriage with her husband Heinz. There are minor bouts of drama with her needy mother, but otherwise life is steady....
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A THOUSAND MIDNIGHTS
A lyrical documentary following the social histories of black Americans. Carlos Javier is a Guggenheim Award-winning director, cinematographer and photographer who focuses on American cities, violence and marginalized communities. Javier’s current project is a series of short films chronicling the...
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THEBLU: LUMINOUS ABYSS
Venture into the deepest region of the ocean to discover the iridescent abyss.
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THEBLU: REEF MIGRATION
Witness the magnificence of an undersea migration on the edge of a coral reef.
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THEBLU: WHALE ENCOUNTER
Prepare for an undersea close encounter with an 80-foot whale in what is recognized as one of the most iconic room-scale VR experiences to date.
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SUPERBIA
In the land of Superbia, strict rules divide the societies of women and men. Hungarian-born Luca Tóth studied animation at the MoholyNagy School of Design (MOME) in Budapest and at the Royal College of Art in London. She received a...
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A STROLL DOWN SUNFLOWER LANE (ذاكرة عبّاد الشمس)
An old grandfather, a little granddaughter, an old house and some glimpses of memory. Mayye Zayed is an Egyptian filmmaker and a co-founder of Alexandria-based production company Rufy’s Films. After studying Engineering at Alexandria University, she had a Fulbright scholarship...
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SUMMER CAMP ISLAND
Oscar has to accept that his totally normal sleepover with Hedgehog isn’t going to be totally normal. Julia Pott graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2011 with an MA in Animation. Her animated films have screened at festivals...
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STILL LIFE
In her first feature film, director Maud Alpi paints an excruciatingly intimate and beautifully disturbing portrait of a young nameless worker who earns a temporary living by ushering countless livestock to a gruesome and untimely death for the sole purpose...
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SPEEDY
The great Harold Lloyd stars in the title role of this hilarious tale, the last of his silent films to be theatrically released. Lloyd plays Harold “Speedy” Swift, whose attempts to save the last horse-drawn streetcar in New York City...
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SPLIT
Though Kevin (James McAvoy) has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher (Betty Buckley), there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the...
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SCENERY (DECORADO)
The world is a wonderful stage, but its characters are disgraceful. Alberto Vázquez is an animation director, illustrator and cartoonist. He’s written and directed two short films: BIRDBOY (2011) and UNICORN BLOOD (2013). He won the Goya Award for Best...
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THE SEND-OFF
On the evening of their high school prom, a group of students hope to transcend the rural town and industrial landscape that surround them. Ivete Lucas was born in Brazil and started her filmmaking career in Mexico. At age 23,...
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SPEAKING IS DIFFICULT
Begining in the present day, a scene of tragedy unfolds, telling a cumulative history that is both unbearable and inevitable. AJ Schnack is a nonfiction filmmaker. He is one of the co-creators of Field of Vision, a visual journalism unit...
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RULES DON’T APPLY
It’s Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey (Lily Collins), under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes (Warren Beatty), arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes (Alden Ehrenreich), who...
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THE SALESMAN
In Asghar Farhadi’s latest masterwork on domestic discord, a couple, Emad and Rana, have just moved into a new apartment. When a violent occurrence mars their housewarming — Rana is attacked by an intruder — Emad takes it upon himself...
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RAIN OR SHINE
It’s a perfect summer day in London; the sun is shining, the birds are singing, there’s a spring in everybody’s step, and Ella is determined to wear her new sunglasses. What could possibly go wrong?
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THE RED TURTLE
Japan’s Studio Ghibli has long been the gold standard in animated features, producing revered masterpieces such as GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (1988), PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997) and SPIRITED AWAY (2001) since its inception in 1985. For Ghibli’s first international co-production, the...
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PUSSY (CIPKA)
A young girl decides to have a pleasurable evening at home, but not everything goes according to plan. Born in 1991, Renata Gąsiorowska is an animation student and cartoonist from Cracow, Poland. In 2010, she graduated from the National School...
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PICCADILLY
After the headlining act quits at an outré London nightclub, the owner turns his obsessive attentions to a preternaturally talented member of the kitchen staff: Shosho (Anna May Wong), a humble dishwasher who enjoys entertaining her fellow backroom employees by...
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PREVENGE
British comedy actress Alice Lowe makes her feature directorial debut with this pitch-black comedic tale of a pregnant woman whose fetus has a lust for killing. Seven months pregnant, Ruth receives murderous instructions from her misanthropic unborn baby, who has...
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PATRIOTS DAY
An account of the Boston Marathon bombing, PATRIOTS DAY is the powerful story of a community's courage in the face of terror. In the aftermath of an unspeakable attack, Police Sergeant Tommy Saunders (Mark Wahlberg) joins courageous survivors, first responders...
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PEARL
Set inside their home, a beloved hatchback, PEARL follows a girl and her dad as they crisscross the country chasing their dreams. From Academy Award®- winning director Patrick Osborne comes a story about the gifts we hand down and their...
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PEDRO
Pedro gets home at dawn. Before he falls asleep, his lonely mother drags him to the beach. André Santos and Marco Leão started their long-lasting collaboration in 2008. Since then, they co-directed WILD HORSES (2010), INFINITE (2011), BAD BLOOD (2013)...
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PANAMERICAN MACHINERY (MAQUINARIA PANAMERICA)
There isn’t a better workplace than Maquinaria Panamericana. Employees are in a convenient location, with an expansive workspace. They have a generous boss who treats his workers as family. It all feels more like fun than labor, until the day...
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PATERSON
Premiering at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, PATERSON is the latest film from America’s punk poet laureate Jim Jarmusch. Adam Driver stars as the title character, a working-class poet and bus driver living in Paterson, NJ. Eschewing the comforts of...
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THE ORNITHOLOGIST (O ORNITÓLOGO)
Behold the latest fever dream from director João Pedro Rodrigues. As the film begins, the title character, while blissfully studying birds, is tossed out of his kayak by a rogue current and swiftly becomes incapacitated. Once rescued, he finds that...
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OSCURO ANIMAL
Gorgeously shot and paced with patient rigor, feature debut director Felipe Guerrero’s OSCURO ANIMAL follows three Colombian women who are all brutally affected by the country’s armed conflict. Rocio returns from a routine laundry trip to find her small village...
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OLD STONE (LAO SHI)
Timid and unassuming, cab driver Lao Shi (Chen Gang) finds his quiet workaday life turned inside out after helping an accident victim to the hospital. His decency is rewarded with a nightmarish descent into an unforgiving bureaucratic machine and the...
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ONE WEEK AND A DAY (SHAVUA VE YOM)
For Eyal and Vicky, it is the end of Shiva, the seven-day Jewish mourning ritual when a bereaved family opens their home to visitors. Grieving the death of their 25-year-old son, the couple tries to return to their lives in...
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A NIGHT IN TOKORIKI (O NOAPTE ÎN TOKORIKI)
On Geanina’s 18th birthday, her boyfriend and Alin will give her a most surprising gift. Born in Romania in 1991, Roxana Stroe studied film directing at the National University of Theatre and Cinema in Bucharest. She has written and directed...
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NOCTURAMA
Bertrand Bonello returns to AFI FEST with his latest film, which follows a pack of Parisian teenagers from different backgrounds over the course of one day as they carry out a series of planned attacks throughout the city. Once their...
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NOTES ON BLINDNESS
An immersive VR experience based on one man’s sensory and psychological experience of blindness.
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THE NET (GEUMUL)
Korean master filmmaker Kim Ki-duk returns to AFI FEST with his latest offering, which explores the political divide between North and South Korea. When North Korean fisherman Nam Chul-woo’s boat motor dies in a river separating the two countries, he...
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MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA
“Heightened style,” a term mentioned by one of the animated characters in this audacious disaster comedy, aptly describes the painterly mixed-media visuals created by director Dash Shaw and lead animator Jane Samborski for their surreal take on teen comedies and...
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NERUDA
Director Pablo Larraín returns to Chilean history with a unique film about the difference between man and artist, person and persona. In 1948, betrayed by the supposed left-wing president he helped support, renowned poet and senator for the Chilean communist...
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MOTHER (MADRE)
Sixteen-year-old Andrea travels downtown from her poor neighborhood to audition for a porno film. Simón Mesa Soto is a director/writer born in Medellín, Colombia, in 1986. He was awarded the Palme d’Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for his...
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MULE
A thrilling, emotional journey through the last moments of a man’s life. Chose your ending – do you want to be buried or cremated?
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MISS SLOANE
In MISS SLOANE, ruthless and highly successful political strategist Elizabeth Sloane (Oscar® nominee Jessica Chastain), exposes the cutthroat world of DC lobbyists on both sides of the gun control debate. New legislation requiring more stringent background checks for gun ownership...
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MISTER UNIVERSO
Cheeky and full of life, 20-year-old Tairo has grown up in the circus, taming his beloved but aging big cats and building a life with beautiful contortionist Wendy. When a cherished childhood amulet goes missing — a bent iron rod...
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MOANA
Three-thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped — and no one knows why. From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes...
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MALGRÉ LA NUIT
In Philippe Grandrieux's fourth feature, the director's signature tight framings follow a man named Lenz as he falls into the milieu of pornographic snuff films while searching for his lost love Madeleine. In a realm of undefined spaces and intense...
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MIFUNE: THE LAST SAMURAI
Steven Okazaki’s thoughtful, elegant portrait of Japanese cinema’s greatest actor is less a straightforward documentary than a creative examination of the formative elements — both personal and cultural — surrounding Toshiro Mifune that contributed to his rise in stardom. The...
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THE LURE
Set in 1980s Warsaw, Agnieska Smoczy’nska’s debut film follows Silver and Golden, a pair of man-eating mermaid sisters who take human form to explore the world outside of their ocean home. Upon their arrival in this new world, Silver falls...
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MADE. NOT BORN!
A home movie from 1981 turns out to be far more hypnotic than originally planned. Mike Plante makes documentaries, including the shorts THE MASQUE (2012), THE POLAROID JOB (2016) and MADE. NOT BORN! (2016), and the feature BE LIKE AN...
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LOVE
Affection is described in three different chapters, through an impact on a distant solar system. Hungarian-born Réka Bucsi is an independent animation filmmaker. She attended MOME (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest) in the animation department. Her graduation...
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LOVR
A story of love, told through neural activity captured over four seconds.
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THE LOST CITY OF CECIL B. DEMILLE CONVERSATION
An in-depth panel discussion, with clips, on the history behind the documentary THE LOST CITY OF CECIL B. DEMILLE, which centers on the unearthing of the film set for one of DeMille’s lavish spectaculars — THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1923) —...
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THE LOST CITY OF CECIL B. DEMILLE
In 1923 Cecile B. DeMille made his first version of The Ten Commandments. He built a huge City of the Pharaoh set. When he was done, it vanished. 30 years ago Peter Brosnan heard this story in a bar and...
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LION
Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train that takes him thousands of miles across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed...
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LIVE CARGO
Nadine and Lewis, a young couple grieving after a terrible loss, escape to the Bahamas, where Nadine frequently spent time as a child. Though welcoming faces greet them, it’s soon clear that director Logan Sandler’s (AFI Class of 2014) feature...
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LAYLA M.
Prolific Dutch director Mijke de Jong provocatively frames radicalization as an expression of teenage rebellion and idealism in her latest film, the tough but heartbreaking LAYLA M. Played with assured grace by newcomer Nora El Koussour, Layla is an 18-year-old...
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LIMBO
Thirteen kids and the carcass of a whale washed ashore. Born in Komotini, Konstantina Kotzamani is a graduate student of the Film Department of Fine Arts of Thessaloniki. Her short movies have screened in several international festivals and gained several...
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KITTY
A young girl finds herself transformed. Actress Chloë Sevigny got her start in acting in the highly acclaimed and controversial hit KIDS (1995), and was later nominated for an Academy Award® and a Golden Globe for BOYS DON'T CRY (1999)....
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LA LA LAND
Damien Chazelle. His debut, GUY AND MADELINE ON A PARK BENCH, was a loving ode to the city of New York, and to being young and in love; his follow-up feature, WHIPLASH, took audiences by storm with its intense take...
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LAND OF MINE
After World War II, Denmark faced the problem of how to defuse thousands of mines left buried in the country’s beaches by German soldiers. The fair solution at the time seemed to be defeating the enemy to clear them. However,...
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KATI KATI
Without any memories or knowledge of who she is or why she is there, Kaleche finds herself in a field. Soon she finds a group of strangers in the nearby resort who tell her the truth: She is dead and...
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KILL ME PLEASE
This debut film follows 15-year-old Bia and her friends as they grow up in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro. As the girls try to navigate the usual pitfalls of puberty, a wave of murders sweeps the city and...
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JACKIE
JACKIE is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman, in one of her best performances)....
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JULIETA
When we meet Julieta (Emma Suárez), she seems to be a relatively happy, well-balanced woman preparing for a move away from Madrid with her boyfriend. But a chance encounter on the street leaves her reeling, and she’s tossed back into...
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THE ITCHING
A shy Wolf tries to connect with a group of hip, party-loving Bunnies but finds her body is in revolt. Dianne Bellino is a NYC-based director/writer of live-action and animated films. Her latest short film, THE ITCHING, a collaboration with...
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JÁAJI APPROX.
The distance between a father and son is narrowed when locations and language meet. Sky Hopinka is a Ho-Chunk Nation national and descendent of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians. His work centers on personal positions of homeland and landscape,...
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IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING: GENRE EXPANDS INTO VR
Join the Dark Corner Studios creators, Seed&Spark creative director James Kaelan and others who have brought genre stories to the immersive VR space.
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INDIE CONTENDERS ROUNDTABLE
Hear from a diverse panel of artists who have done standout work this year in independent lm. Presented by The Hollywood Reporter and moderated by columnist and blogger Scott Feinberg, the panel will feature a 90-minute discussion with the artists...
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IT’S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD (JUSTE LA FIN DU MONDE)
For his sixth feature film — which took the Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival — AFI FEST favorite Xavier Dolan teams with a powerhouse cast of French superstars to adapt an intimate, observant stage play by Jean-Luc...
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IL SORPASSO
Slapstick road trip comedy meets the most fabulous of odd couple pairings in Dino Risi’s IL SORPASSO. Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant star as Bruno and Roberto — the first a boastful, free-spirited bachelor and the second a square, timid...
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IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING: BUILDING ANIMATED WORLDS
A conversation about the cutting-edge animation used in VR content between creators from Google and Oculus Story Studio, and the VR experiences ALLUMETTE and GNOMES & GOBLINS.
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I, DANIEL BLAKE
Reemerging from his announced retirement to resume his 50-year plus filmmaking career and claim a second Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, British master Ken Loach returns with another story about everyday people and the extraordinary challenges they face....
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ICEBOX
A young boy from Honduras finds himself in a difficult situation when he is arrested at the U.S. border. Raised in Stockholm, Daniel Sawka (AFI Class of 2015) grew up acting in theater productions and directed plays before receiving a...
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HUNTER GATHERER
Fresh from a three-year prison stint, wiry and high-strung Ashley (Andre Royo) returns to his mother’s South LA home determined to pick up his life where it left off, including a longstanding relationship with Linda, who reveals she’s since taken...
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I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
Peck joins us in person for the inaugural World Cinema Masters in Conversation section at AFI FEST. He will sit down for an in-depth discussion with Toronto International Film Festival Artistic Director Cameron Bailey at the festival’s screening of Peck’s...
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HOME
Flemish filmmaker Fien Troch (KID, AFI FEST 2012) recreates — with a handheld camera and a confined aspect ratio — the fluctuating, heightened emotions of youth and the generational dynamics that render adults oblivious. Just released from a juvenile detention...
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HOUNDS
On the day of a would-be promotion, a museum worker must deal with an accident involving a prized sculpture. Omer Tobi is a director/writer of Moroccan and Tunisian origin. As part of Arisa, a Tel-Aviv party collective which he founded,...
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HENRY
This brilliantly animated delight takes you inside the world of a lonesome but lovable hedgehog.
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HIDDEN
Possessed by sibling rivalry, Parham, must face his role in a series of events that have incapaciated his half-brother. Farzad Ostovarzadeh (AFI Class of 2015) was a directing graduate of the Young Fellow Filmmakers Club from Tehran. He has also...
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THE HITCH-HIKER
When two all-American everymen pick up a deranged hitchhiker on the barren highways of the Southwest, the three descend into a gripping nightmare that is pure film noir. The hitchhiker quickly takes his drivers hostage and forces them into the...
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HARD WORLD FOR SMALL THINGS
A narrative exploration of the circumstances and lives affected by a single tragedy in Los Angeles.
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HARMONIUM (FUCHI NI TATSU)
Awarded the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Koji Fukada’s latest film uses themes of Japanese domesticity to investigate the surrounding fissures that expand to collapse a family shaken by tragedy. With his wife Akie, Toshio...
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THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MÄKI
Winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, this impressive debut from Finnish filmmaker Juho Kuosmanen is based on the true story and follows the buildup of the 1962 world featherweight championship title match in...
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HARBERS STUDIOS SHORT FILM SHOWCASE: WOMEN IN FOCUS
Join Harbers Studios for a special screening and conversation on short films, featuring Janicza Bravo’s WOMAN IN DEEP and Academy Award® winner Megan Mylan’s TALLER THAN THE TREES. This screening is part of Harbers Studios’ ongoing Women in Focus series,...
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GRADUATION (BACALAUREAT)
Romeo, a middle-aged doctor living in the Romanian city of Cluj, is faced with a brutal moral dilemma. His bright young daughter, Eliza, is on the cusp of receiving a scholarship to Cambridge — she just needs to ace her...
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HAM HEADS
Larry and Barry are the world's oldest living conjoined twins. They live in their brother's basement. Efrén Hernández is a director/writer currently living in Queens, New York. His first short film MASTER MUSCLES premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in...
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GNOMES AND GOBLINS
Take a first step into the interactive fantasy world of Jon Favreau’s GNOMES & GOBLINS and its many realms and denizens.
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GODLESS
Gana is a nurse who spends her days shuttling between elderly patients. Yet behind her seemingly selfless work tending to the physical indignities of old age, Gana is running a scam: In cahoots with her boyfriend — with whom she...
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GOOGLE CASE STUDY: PEARL AND RAIN OR SHINE
A conversation about development and production with the creative talent behind two of Google’s latest projects, PEARL and RAIN OR SHINE.
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THE FUTURE PERFECT (EL FUTURO PERFECTO)
Awarded Best First Feature at the Locarno International Film Festival, German-Argentinian newcomer Nele Wolatz‘s THE FUTURE PERFECT explores fractured relationships within culture, tradition and language in this whimsical romantic comedy. Xiaobin has just moved to Argentina to reunite with her...
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GLOVE
The true story of a glove that's been floating in space since 1968. Alexa Lim Haas is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker from New York City. She studied directing and animation at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2011....
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FRANCA: CHAOS AND CREATION
In this incisive documentary, director Francesco Carrozzini creates an intimate portrait of his mother, Franca Sozzani, the legendary editor-in-chief of Italian Vogue. Her provocative, often controversial photo shoots — exemplified by the notorious Black Issue and Plastic Surgery Issue —...
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FRAUD
Who is the author of a film — its director or its subject? And what is real — an identity presented to the world, or a secret self? These are just some of the questions raised by Dean Fleischer-Camp’s FRAUD....
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FIRE AT SEA (FUOCOAMMARE)
As part of the inaugural World Cinema Masters in Conversation section at AFI FEST, renowned documentarian Gianfranco Rosi will sit down with Venice Film Festival Artistic Director Alberto Barbera for an in-depth conversation about one of the year’s most lauded...
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FLIRTING WITH DISASTER
Following the birth of his first child, Mel (Ben Stiller) feels he can’t decide on a name until he meets his own biological parents. When he finds his mother’s address from Tina (Téa Leoni), an incompetent but attractive adoption agency...
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FATA MORGANA
A grieving couple is forced to examine their marriage when they journey from China to the United States for the funeral for their only child. Originally from Beijing, Amelie Wen (AFI Class of 2015) is a recent graduate of the...
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FEAR ITSELF
Film essayist Charlie Lyne uses clips from horror films to explore why the world’s most popular film genre burrows so deeply into our psyches in this fourth-wall-breaking, boundary-pushing, cinematic deep-dive. Using lone female voice narration — eerily reminiscent of the...
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ELLE-2016
Paul Verhoeven returns with his French-language debut and most sophisticated genre reworking to date. An adaptation of the French-Armenian novel “Oh…” by Philippe Djian, ELLE is a thriller as challenging as it is provocative. The inimitable Isabelle Huppert is Michèle...
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THE EYES OF MY MOTHER
Director Nicolas Pesce’s debut feature fascinates with its combination of raw, brutal storytelling and elegant imagery. Beautifully lensed in black and white by cinematographer Zach Kuperstein, Pesce’s film immediately immerses the viewer in its Gothic atmosphere with a jarring act...
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DREAMING OF BALTIMORE (AU LOIN, BALTIMORE)
Freedom means only one thing: riding your dirt bike in the street, front wheel aimed at the sky. But tonight, the engine gives up on him. Lola Quivoron was born in 1989 in Paris. After her diploma, she completed preparatory...
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E.W.A
Ewa can't stop bleeding. Gigi Ben Artzi is a New York-based director. He started off as a fashion photographer and in 2014 directed his first documentary, DOWNTOWN DIVAS. Following the film's success over social networks and major magazines, he continued...
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EARS, NOSE AND THROAT
A woman’s testimonial faculties are confirmed through medical examinations before she recites a tragic story. Ohio-born Kevin Jerome Everson is a recipient of the Alpert Award in Film/Video in 2012. Everson's films — which, to date, include eight features and...
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A DRAGON ARRIVES! (EJHDEHA VARED MISHAVAD!)
A densely layered, postmodern pastiche of disparate genres and perspectives, Mani Haghighi’s A DRAGON ARRIVES! reenacts the confounding circumstances surrounding the 1965 suicide of an exiled political prisoner, whose body is found in an abandoned shipwreck on a remote desert...
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DRAMATIC RELATIONSHIPS
The male gaze inspected through the relationship between a director and his female actors. Dustin Guy Defa's feature film BAD FEVER (2011) premiered at SXSW and was named one of the best films of 2012 by The New Yorker. His...
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DOC ROUNDTABLE
At this inaugural event, lm critic Justin Chang sits down with a panel of distinguished directors behind some of the most talked-about documentaries of the year. MODERATED BY: Justin Chang, Film Critic for the Los Angeles Times PANELISTS: Otto Bell...
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DONALD CRIED
Director/writer/star Kris Avedisian expertly deconstructs the contemporary obsession with "man-child" characters in mainstream and independent comedies in his feature debut. Since launching at SXSW and the Film Society of Lincoln Center's prestigious New Directors/New Films showcase, this darkly funny character...
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THE DISAPPOINTMENT TOUR
Three generations of women, crammed into a car along with their emotional baggage, expeience an unexpected moment of connection on the side of the road. Erica Liu is a Taiwanese-American filmmaker based in Los Angeles. In 2015, Liu was selected...
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DIVINES
Disenchanted and unimpressed by the parameters of life in the slums of Paris, a fearless and ferocious teenager named Dounia unabashedly dreams of prosperity, not only for herself but also for her charismatic best friend and alcoholic mother. In her...
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THE DEMONS (LES DÉMONS)
Growing up in suburban Montreal in the late 1980s, 10-year-old Félix is surrounded by a seemingly loving and stable family, and should be living a carefree existence. But the mysterious grown-up world around him comes into vivid focus when an...
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DIRT
Some things must die to live. Darius Clark Monroe's most recent film DIRT screened at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, New Directors New Films and Telluride Film Festival. His documentary short film TWO CITIES debuted at the 2016 SXSW Film...
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DEATH IN SARAJEVO (SMRT U SARAJEVU)
In 1914, a Serbian man named Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, kicking off the chain of events that led to World War I. One hundred years later, during a centennial commemoration of those events, Academy Award®-winning director...
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DEER FLOWER
A family visit to a deer farm results in a peculiar experience. Kangmin Kim is an award-winning filmmaker and designer based in LA. His films have screened at festivals including as AFI FEST, Annecy, Ottawa, Sundance and. He is a...
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DARK NIGHT
Tim Sutton’s third feature is a quiet meditation on the planning and impact of a Cineplex massacre in a suburban town, taking place over the course of one day, from sunrise to midnight. Loosely inspired by the horrific real-life killings...
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DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST
In her iconic feature film directorial debut, filmmaker Julie Dash beautifully weaves lush lyrical imagery and a poetic narrative to transport us into the tapestry of Gullah culture, descendants of slaves off the Georgia coast. Narrated by the voice of...
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A CONVERSATION WITH DIRECTOR BARRY JENKINS ABOUT MOONLIGHT
In this in-depth, moderated discussion, MOONLIGHT director Barry Jenkins and cast members will talk about this landmark lm that traces a young gay African- American man’s coming of age in Miami.
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CROSSCURRENT (长江图)
In a daze following his father’s sudden death, cargo ship captain Gao Chun falls under the spell of a mysterious book of poetry found hidden in his ship’s engine room, sending the beleaguered captain on an unexpected journey both up...
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CRYSTAL LAKE
A group of girls takes over the half pipe. There on the ramp, with no boys around, they are thriving and visible. Jennifer Reeder constructs personal films about relationships, trauma and coping. Her award-winning narratives are innovative and borrow from...
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THE COMEDIAN
An aging comic icon, Jackie (Robert De Niro) has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain...
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THE COMMUNE (KOLLEKTIVET)
Director Thomas Vinterberg returns to AFI FEST with his most personal film yet. Basking in the warm glow of Denmark in the 1970s, Erik and Anne are young people struggling to get by and raise their new family. When they...
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CITIZEN KANE
Ranked at the top of AFI’s list of the greatest films of all time, Orson Welles’ portrait of newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane (a thinly veiled stand-in for William Randolph Hearst) is brilliant, blistering and beautiful. The story moves through...
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A COAT MADE DARK
Two burglars strike it rich after stealing a mysterious coat. Since graduating from the National Film School in Ireland, Jack O’Shea has specialized in classical, hand-drawn techniques for design and animation, providing an inventive approach and offbeat imagery for music...
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CATATONIC
An immersive journey through an insane asylum in which the audience, bound to a wheelchair, undergoes a sensory-shocking horror thrill ride.
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CIRQUE DU SOLEIL KA
Designed as an epic VR cirque show, the world of KÀ The Battle Within is an adventure of heroism and martial arts.
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BUSTER’S MAL HEART
Sarah Adina Smith’s sophomore feature is the story of Jonah, a man who has been split in two by grief — one who lives in the woods and another who is trapped at sea — with each incarnation looking for...
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CARMEN JONES
Directed by the legendary Otto Preminger and adapted from a 1943 Broadway musical of the same name, CARMEN JONES stars Dorothy Dandridge in the title role that made her the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Best Actress...
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BRIGHT LIGHTS: STARRING CARRIE FISHER AND DEBBIE REYNOLDS
In real life, Carrie Fisher lives next door to her mother, Debbie Reynolds — or, rather, you could say that Princess Leia lives next to Tammy. The tenuous dialectic between individual, character and icon is negotiated onscreen in BRIGHT LIGHTS:...
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BURLAP
Step inside the lair of a lonely and disturbed killer as he comes closer than ever to completing his masterpiece.
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BORIS WITHOUT BEATRICE (BORIS SANS BÉATRICE)
Boris, a proud man of wealth and achievement, is forced to take leave from his work when his wife Beatrice, a minister in the Canadian government, falls ill. At their country home, Beatrice is cared for by a young nurse...
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF PRINCESS X
A supercharged history of sculptor Constantin Brancusi’s infamous "Princess X." Born in 1984, Gabriel Abrantes has directed 18 short films over the past eight years, often setting his provocative narratives in diverse contexts such as, Argentina, Brazil, France, Haiti, Portugal...
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BLOODY BARBARA
Barbara roams the streets covered in blood, reenacting the scenes from some of her favorite films. Shawn Bannon is an award-winning California filmmaker, commercial director and conservationist. He is a graduate of Cal Arts and Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School....
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THE BLOOP
In 1997, an unusual sound was recorded. It lasted one minute and was never heard again. Cara Cusumano is the director of programming for the Tribeca Film Festival, where she has programmed feature narrative and documentary films since 2008. Prior...
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ALWAYS SHINE
Sophia Takal’s sophomore feature follows two friends, Anna and Beth, both actresses with varying degrees of success, as they travel to Big Sur for a weekend getaway in hopes of reconnecting and reestablishing a bond broken by years of competitiveness...
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ALLUMETTE
An intimate tale about the love between a mother and her child as well as the sacrifices people are willing to make for the greater good.
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ALBÜM
Turkish couple Bahar and Selma are eager to adopt a baby, but they want to keep it a secret in order to give the world the impression that their child is of natural birth. So they create a few fake...
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ALL THESE VOICES
A Nazi soldier in disguise encounters a survivors’ avant-garde theater troupe celebrating the end of the war. David Henry Gerson (AFI Class of 2015) is a filmmaker and actor who grew up in DC. A graduate of Columbia University and...
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ACTOR MARTINEZ
AFI FEST alums Mike Ott and Nathan Silver collaborate on a film that follows an actor, Arthur Martinez, as he hires two indie filmmakers (Ott and Silver playing themselves) to make a film with him as the star. Once on...
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AFTER LOVE (L’ÉCONOMIE DU COUPLE)
AFTER LOVE premiered in Directors' Fortnight at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Joachim Lafosse returns to AFI FEST with his latest feature, which follows Marie and Boris, who have been married for 15 years, as they go through the emotional...
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20TH CENTURY WOMEN
Director Mike Mills brilliantly pulls back the curtain on the struggles, tragedies and triumphs of three generations of American women living in 1979 Santa Barbara. Annette Bening stars as Dorothea, a smart and resourceful woman in her 50s, raising her...
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YOLO
Filmed in the remains of Soweto's historic Sans Souci Cinema (1948-1998), YOLO is a makeshift structuralist mash-up created in collaboration with the Eat My Dust youth collective. Born in 1976, Ben Russell is an American media artist and curator whose...
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YOUTH
Director Paolo Sorrentino, whose previous film THE GREAT BEAUTY (AFI FEST 2013) went on to win the 2014 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar®, returns to the festival with YOUTH, boasting one of his most impressive casts yet. Michael Caine, in...
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YELLOW FIEBER
Athens was covered in a strange yellow dust. No one expected what was about to happen. Konstantina Kotzamani was born in Komotini in 1983. She studied cinema at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has participated at the Berlin and...
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THE WHITE KNIGHTS (LES CHEVALIERS BLANCS)
From joyful creation to maddening self-destruction, entangled family dramas have held recurring prominence in the works of award-winning Belgian filmmaker Joachim Lafosse (OUR CHILDREN, AFI FEST 2012). In THE WHITE KNIGHTS, Lafosse’s latest project unveiled at this year’s Toronto International Film...
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WORLD OF TOMORROW
A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of the distant future in the latest opus from Don Hertzfeldt. Don Hertzfeldt is an Oscar®-nominated American filmmaker whose animated films include IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY, THE MEANING OF LIFE,...
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WAVES ’98
Omar is lured into the depths of segregated Beirut. Isolated from reality, he struggles to keep his sense of home. Lebanese director Ely Dagher was born and raised in Beirut. He graduated with an MA in New Media and Contemporary...
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WHERE TO INVADE NEXT
It’s been six years since renowned political agitator and stalwart purveyor of institutional dissent Michael Moore wielded his camera as a tool to raise uproarious his voice on the subject of national consciousness. With his latest madcap call to action,...
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VOLTA (ΒΌΛΤΑ)
Nina is told she is just going for a walk. Stella Kyriakopoulos received her BA from Swarthmore College, and studied Sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts in Greece. She received an MFA in Filmmaking from the Tisch School...
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A WAR (KRIGEN)
Tobias Lindholm’s third film examines the moral complexities of split-second decision-making in battle and the ramifications of those choices. Claus Pedersen is a company commander stationed in Afghanistan. At home, his wife is caring for their three children and trying...
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UNTIL I LOSE MY BREATH
Serap is a quiet but hotheaded adolescent working long hours in a cramped clothing workshop as a runner. Only one thing keeps her going: the hope of moving into an apartment with her father, a long-distance truck driver. When her...
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VICTOR XX
In a small seaside town, a young person makes a personal discovery while experimenting with gender. Ian Garrido was born in Granada in 1988. In 2014 he made the television series pilot QUEER, and the short film VICTOR XX, about...
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TWO FILMS ABOUT LONELINESS
A split screen separates two distinct worlds that are closer than they appear. Christopher Eales and William Bishop-Stephens have worked together on a range of creative projects over the past seven years. Will is a sculptor, animator, published writer and...
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UNDER THE SUN (RI GUANG ZHI XIA)
An attempted act of kindness sets two families on an irrevocable collision course from which there is no return. Qiu Yang was born and raised in Changzhou, China. His 2014 short THE WORLD was selected into several international film festivals,...
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TUESDAY (SALI)
An ordinary school day for a teenage girl in Istanbul. Ziya Demirel was born in 1988, in Adana, Turkey. While studying industrial engineering at Galatasaray University, he directed his first short film THE TITLE OF THE FILM. After his graduation,...
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TWELVE TALES TOLD
The dream factory folds in on itself. Johann Lurf was born in Vienna in 1982. Since 2002 he has studied at Vienna´s Academy of Fine Arts. In 2009 he received his diploma after studying under German director Harun Farocki. Sixpack...
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THOSE WHO FEEL THE FIRE BURNING
Morgan Knibbe’s poetic experimental documentary captures with raw force the modern migrant experience in Europe, as seen through the eyes of a deceased shipwreck victim. With darkly sparkling cinematography and Malick-esque fragmented voiceover narration, we follow the path of migrants...
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TRACKS
An amateur skateboarder is left to care for his girlfriend's young daughter on the day of a championship tournament. Logan Sandler obtained his MFA in Film Directing from the AFI Conservatory in 2014, and was recently awarded the Institute’s Franklin...
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THE TREASURE (COMOARA)
AFI FEST stalwart Corneliu Porumboiu (POLICE, ADJECTIVE) returns with his latest tale of present-day Romanians still in the grip of their country’s politically tumultuous history. In this utterly deadpan comedy, Adrian implores his neighbor, family man Costi, to join him...
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THE FACE OF UKRAINE: CASTING OKSANA BAIUL
Adorned in pink sequins, little girls from war-torn Ukraine audition to play the role of Olympic champion figure skater Oksana Baiul. In 2012, Kitty Green moved to her mother’s native Ukraine to live and shoot with the provocative protest movement...
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THIS WAY UP
This Way Up tells the story of a construction worker who lost his home in the housing market crash. With construction at a halt, Charlie finds himself out of work, homeless, and living in a storm drain underneath the Las...
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TALE OF TALES (IL RACCONTO DEI RACCONTI)
Matteo Garrone’s TALE OF TALES is a collection of three ancient Italian fairy tales, all intertwined and illustrated with a blazing cinematic style that brings these unusual stories to the screen for the first time. A flea grown to enormous...
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TEETH
That which is neglected is lost. UK-born directing duo Tom Brown and Daniel Gray met in a Welsh film school in 2003. Their graduation film T.O.M. won awards at festivals including Sundance, Ottawa and Annecy, and at the British Animation...
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SWORN VIRGIN (VERGINE GIURATA)
Laura Bispuri’s debut feature beautifully captures one woman's struggle to escape the confinement of a strict patriarchal society by making a radical choice. As a teenager, Hana decides to escape her destiny of becoming a wife and servant by appealing...
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TAKE WHAT YOU CAN CARRY
When a young woman living abroad receives a letter from home, it’s what she needs to fuse her transient self with the person she's always known herself to be. Matt Porterfield has written and directed three feature films: HAMILTON (2006),...
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THE SUN LIKE A BIG DARK ANIMAL (EL SOL COMO UN GRAN ANIMAL OSCURO)
Even computers need love. Ronnie Rivera is a self-taught illustrator, photographer and filmmaker working in Miami, Florida. In 2012, Rivera began the art collective Bleeding Palm, which has produced psychedelic impressionistic photography of the Miami music and art scene and...
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SWEET BEAN (AN)
SWEET BEAN, or AN in its native Japanese, is the latest film by Naomi Kawase. She crafts the heartwarming but subtle story of Sentaro, a man who runs a small bakery that serves dorayaki, or fruit-filled pancakes; and Tokue, an...
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SWIMMING IN YOUR SKIN AGAIN
A film about motherhood, banality, Miami, the water, the divine feminine and how to sing in church in a way that calls forth your own adulthood. Terence Nance is an artist born and raised in Dallas, Texas. His first feature...
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STEALTH
Sammy is a transgender child. She was born a boy but is living in stealth, as a girl, with the support of her mother and a doctor. At her new school, Sammy finds the friends she has always dreamed of...
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STINKING HEAVEN
Set in a crumbling home for recovering drug addicts in the early 1990s, the latest American ensemble piece from eclectic micro-budget filmmaker Nathan Silver offers a grimy, grating yet utterly authentic and compassionate character study. Capturing the human spirit dwelling...
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SONGS MY BROTHERS TAUGHT ME
Johnny and Jashaun, two siblings coping with the loss of their father in distinctly different ways, form the heart of Chloé Zhao’s stunning directorial debut set among the Lakota people of South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. When Johnny reveals his...
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SOUTHBOUND
On a desert road, a series of characters are irrevocably changed when they encounter sinister forces: a pair of friends reel from the aftermath of a hit job gone wrong; three bandmates visit the home of a strange couple who...
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SERENITY
Everyone remembers their first time. Everyone has regrets. Jack Dunphy is a filmmaker and animator based out of New York. His work blends documentary with fiction, animation with live action and comedy with dark stuff that bums his mom out....
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SHARE
The victim of an unspeakable act gone viral returns to high school. Pippa Bianco studied at Yale University before moving to New York. Her films have won prizes at festivals including Cannes and SXSW, and have been named among Indiewire's...
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SON OF SAUL (SAUL FIA)
Winner of the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, this sparse yet resonant film resolutely follows one man through the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in October 1944. Isolated from the rest of the camp, Saul is a Sonderkommando, a member...
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SEA CHILD
A young girl on the verge of womanhood is consumed by nightmares. Minha Kim was born in South Korea and recently graduated from the National Film and Television School. Her thesis film SEA CHILD has been selected by film festivals...
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SEMBENE!
Ousmane Sembène is a crucial name in the history of cinema. The first indigenous director to make films in sub-Saharan Africa, beginning in the 1960s, he is known — deservedly — as the Father of African Cinema, and yet his...
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SAFETY LAST!
One of the most famous images from the silent era of classic Hollywood can be found in Harold Lloyd’s brilliant SAFETY LAST!: Lloyd clinging desperately to the hands of a city clock atop a skyscraper, as traffic drives past far...
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SAM
SAM follows the journey of young, handsome New York City playboy Sam Wellman -- a man’s man and professional woman hater -- and his relationship with Doc, his best and only friend. One strange, drunken night Sam stumbles into an...
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RONALD REAGAN LIGHTS THE LIGHTS
President Reagan conducts a delicate task. Pacho Velez works at the intersection of ethnography, contemporary art and political documentary. His current project, THE REAGAN YEARS, explores a prolific actor’s defining role as Leader of the Free World. His last film MANAKAMANA (co-directed with Stephanie...
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RONALD REAGAN PARDONS A TURKEY
The President makes a tough call. Pacho Velez works at the intersection of ethnography, contemporary art and political documentary. His current project, THE REAGAN YEARS, explores a prolific actor’s defining role as Leader of the Free World. His last film MANAKAMANA (co-directed with Stephanie...
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THE RETURN OF ERKIN
A man just released from a long-term prison discovers that his former life has vanished, never to return. Maria Guskova was born in 1982. She began studying filmmaking in Sweden and later directing at the Higher Courses of Scriptwriting and...
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REVIEW
A young woman recounts a story to a group of friends who listen with rapt attention, but the tale sounds very familiar.
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RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN (JIGEUMEUN MATGO GEUTTAENEUN TEULLIDA)
Fans of the incendiary, sharply realized body of work from Korean master Hong Sang-soo can expect a degree of welcome familiarity in his choice of subject matter, character traits, setting and themes. Nearly all of his feature films center around...
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RATE ME
A portrait of a teen escort comes to life via online user reviews. Born in 1985, Fyzal Boulifa is a writer/director based in Tangier and London. He has completed several short films, including WHORE (2009), winner of Cannes’ Grand Prix du Jury Angers Premiers...
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PYROMANCE
A lonely pyrotechnician finds an unlikely spark on the eve of the Fourth of July fireworks show. John de Menil is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and recent graduate of the AFI Conservatory. A native New Yorker, he graduated from the...
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QUEEN OF THE DESERT
Nicole Kidman stars in the true story of British explorer, cartographer and archaeologist Gertrude Bell, who, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, worked with Winston Churchill to draw and define the modern borders of the Middle East. Legendary director...
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RAMS (HRUTAR)
Sheepherder brothers Gummi and Kiddi have been estranged for years, going about their separate lives on neighboring farms in northern Iceland. When Gummi discovers a fatal outbreak in his brother’s herd, their community spirals into grave uncertainty, unsure how to...
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POSTINDUSTRIAL
Eleven floors of thoughts held tight by iron brackets. Born in 1989, Boris Pramatarov is a visual artist. Honored as one of the top young talents at the Angoulême International Comics Festival 2013, he has had six solo exhibitions in...
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THE PETER CASSIDY PROJECT
In 1972, a reporter and his team attempt to discover the truth behind an infamous director and the controversial advertisements he directed in the late ’60s. From an early age, Noah Lee was introduced to all types of film by...
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PINK GRAPEFRUIT
A young married couple, two single friends and a long weekend in Palm Springs. Michael Mohan makes films of all shapes and sizes. His credits include the feature film SAVE THE DATE (starring Lizzy Caplan and Alison Brie), the short...
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PALM ROT
An old Florida fumigator comes face to face with a mysterious threat. Ryan Gillis is an animation filmmaker living in Los Angeles. Born in Florida to a Cuban mother and an American father, his work is a reflection of the...
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PARADISE (MA DAR BEHESHT)
Modern-day Tehran is a veritable paradise for some, but the treatment of women depicted in this film presents a tougher portrait. Haneieh is a 25-year-old teacher living in Tehran with her married sister. After an unexpected, violent act throws all...
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PATTERN FOR SURVIVAL
A key ingredient in any survival situation is the mental attitude of the individuals involved. Kelly Sears is an experimental animator and filmmaker. She intervenes with archival materials from America’s post war history through cutting up, collaging and compositing film...
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OF THE UNKNOWN
In Hong Kong, millionaires and the working poor live side by side. Eva Weber is a London-based filmmaker working in both documentary and fiction. Her award-winning short films have screened at numerous top international film festivals. Weber’s THE SOLITARY LIFE...
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OUR LITTLE SISTER (UMIMACHI DIARY)
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda (LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON, AFI FEST 2013) has crafted another carefully observed film about family. Kore-eda again draws a beautiful portrait of an unconventional family, and shows how stepping outside of standard familial structures can reveal truer...
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NO HOME MOVIE
Though not a “home movie” in the conventional sense, the late Chantal Akerman’s sweet, melancholic ode to her mother is a movie about home and the wild places beyond it. The filmmaker's mother, Natalia, who died in 2014, was an...
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OBJECT
A hypnotic underwater search is seen from the point of view of the rescue team, the diver and the people waiting on shore. Born in 1987 in Kowary, Poland, Paulina Skibińska studied animation in Wrocław with a specialization in film....
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NECKTIE YOUTH
Twenty-three-year-old writer-director Sibs Shongwe-La Mer referenced a painful loss as a teen to make this personal, stylized debut. The film offers an authentic perspective of life in Jo’burg, or Johannesburg, South Africa, as he knew it. The film begins on...
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NEON BULL (BOI NEON)
Iremar is a modern-day cowboy working the Brazilian rodeo circuit. He spends his days covered in mud and feces, looking after the bulls and preparing their tails before releasing them onto the Vaquejada track. A recent textile boom is providing new...
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MYNARSKI DEATH PLUMMET
A handmade historical micro-epic and psychedelic photochemical war picture about self-sacrifice, immortality and jellyfish. Matthew Rankin was born in Winnipeg and studied Québec history at McGill and Université Laval. An alumnus of the Sundance Film Festival, Matthew was a 2013 artist-in-residence...
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THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF PÉROLA (A MISTERIOSA MORTE DE PÉROLA)
A young student leaves her home and boyfriend behind to study art in France, where she moves into an old apartment and begins to lose herself in her loneliness and nostalgia. She becomes increasingly frightened of open doors and windows,...
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NAHID
Sareh Bayat (A SEPARATION, AFI FEST 2011) plays Nahid, a woman whose whole life is a struggle. Her typing job has maimed her hand, and it doesn't pay enough to cover her rent or the tuition for her son's school....
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MUSTANG
France’s Foreign Language Oscar® submission and winner of the Europa Cinemas Label award at the Cannes Directors' Fortnight, Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s debut feature is a coming-of-age story that follows five sisters living in a Turkish village. When a seemingly innocent...
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MY GOLDEN DAYS (TROIS SOUVENIRS DE MA JEUNESSE)
Arnaud Desplechin’s 1996 film MY SEX LIFE…OR HOW I GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT gets a prequel of sorts in this dazzling coming-of-age story, a film that stands on its own as a visual feast with the sprawl of a great...
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MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (SHAN HE GU REN)
MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART is Chinese auteur Jia Zhang-ke’s nostalgic depiction of his country; a place where the rigidity of old class order has been complicated by the recent introduction of capitalism. A transcontinental and multilingual epic that spans three time...
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EL MOVIMIENTO
A stark black-and-white vision of anarchy, Benjamín Naishtat’s EL MOVIMIENTO follows various groups of armed men who drift aimlessly across a war-scarred landscape. They claim to be working for “The Movement.” This vague, Kafkaesque stance allows the gangs to take...
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A MONSTER WITH A THOUSAND HEADS (UN MONSTRUO DE MIL CABEZAS)
When Sonia receives the news that without immediate medical attention the fate of her cancer-stricken husband is sealed, she races to track down his indifferent doctor. This fruitless encounter sets off a chain of increasingly violent confrontations between a distraught,...
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MOUNTAIN
Yaelle Kayam’s debut feature follows a young Orthodox Jewish woman who lives with her family in the ancient cemetery atop Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives. She spends her days roaming the mountain in an attempt to escape the banality of her...
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MEN GO TO BATTLE
In 1861, two young farmers, Francis and Henry Mellon, eke out a living in the rural Kentucky countryside. As the Civil War plays out in the distance, the brothers focus on their more immediate concerns, keeping the farm going through...
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MANOMAN
Beware what lies within. Simon Cartwright’s early animation work came out of his love of drawing comics, leading him to study traditional hand-drawn animation at Edinburgh College of Art, and later at the National Film and Television School, where he...
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MARYLAND PUBLIC TELEVISION INTERVIEWS THE REAGANS
The President nails an interview; featuring the First Lady and surprise guest. Postscript LLC
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MEDITERRANEA
Expanding his internationally acclaimed short A CHJANA into a debut feature of uncommon visceral power, director Jonas Carpignano introduces us to Ayiva, a husband and father from Burkina Faso, who crosses the sea from North Africa to Europe, hoping for...
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MACBETH
Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard and Justin Kurzel have come together to create a visually arresting, formally daring and thematically challenging adaptations of Shakespeare’s bewitched classic. With startling, haunting images and the specter of death looming over its every frame, the...
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MAMAN(S)
Eight-year-old Aida and her family are thrown into chaos when her father returns from Senegal with a new wife. In 2013, Maïmouna Doucouré directed her first short film HIDE-AND-SEEK. MAMAN(S) is inspired by Doucouré’s personal experience, and centers on the...
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THE LOBSTER
A man is brought to a picturesque seaside resort because his wife has recently left him. If he is not romantically recoupled within 45 days, he will turn into an animal. And so director Yorgos Lanthimos smashes his audience into the...
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MA
Director Celia Rowlson-Hall uses her background as a choreographer to create MA, a modern-day retelling of Mother Mary’s pilgrimage. Here the Virgin figure is Ma (Rowlson-Hall), a lanky woman who emerges from the desert wearing only a T-shirt, cowboy boots...
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LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT
LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT is a rich and sublime tale of the nature of faith, doubt and the shifting bonds between fathers and sons, wrapped inside the biblical story of Jesus’ 40 days of prayer in the desert. Writer-director...
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THE LIAR (GEOJINMAL)
Beautiful, immaculately dressed, in control: Ah-young glides through Seoul’s luxury penthouses, department stores and showrooms with the taste and confidence of the most elite of first-world consumers…until the bill arrives. Home for Ah-young is a dirty, cramped hovel shared with...
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THE LITTLE DEPUTY
Trevor tries to have his photo taken with his father. Trevor Anderson is an independent filmmaker based in Edmonton, Alberta. His previous films include THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY, THE HIGH LEVEL BRIDGE, THE ISLAND and ROCK POCKETS. Anderson plays...
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LAND AND SHADE (LA TIERRA Y LA SOMBRA)
Awarded the coveted Camera d’Or prize at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, César Augusto Acevedo’s magnificently photographed minimalist feature debut reveals rich pleasures beneath its luscious veneer. With his estranged son gravely ill, an old farmer returns to the sugarcane...
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LANDFILL HARMONIC
When an environmental technician arrives at a landfill community in Paraguay in 2006 to work with gancheros — people who collect materials from the site to recycle for income — his first reaction is that the community’s children deserve better...
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THE LADY IN THE VAN
Based on the smash hit play of the same name, THE LADY IN THE VAN stars Maggie Smith as Miss Mary Shepherd, a cantankerous yet eloquent homeless woman who sets up residence on the curb outside the home of a...
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LANCASTER, CA
A portrait of love in the California desert. Mike Ott studied under Thom Andersen at Cal Arts, where he received his MFA degree in Film/Video. He recently completed his desert trilogy, which includes the films LITTLEROCK, PEARBLOSSOM HWY and LAKE LOS...
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JAMES WHITE
Josh Mond’s directorial debut is an observational coming-of-age drama about a young New Yorker who is forced to take control of his self-destructive lifestyle as he navigates his mother’s fight with a serious illness. Having served as producer on AFTERSCHOOL...
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KRISHA
First-time filmmaker Trey Edward Shults has crafted an incredibly personal and intense family Thanksgiving experience. Estranged relative Krisha arrives to make amends and get to know her family again, but as the day unfolds, she can’t seem to escape her...
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I REMEMBER NOTHING
An epileptic seizure told in five phases. Zia Anger’s work has screened at the Locarno, New York and New Directors/New Films film festivals. She has made music videos for independent artists including Angel Olsen, Julianna Barwick and Jenny Hval. Anger...
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IN THE SHADOW OF WOMEN (L’OMBRE DES FEMMES)
Husband and wife Pierre and Manon live and work in Paris as poor but happy documentary filmmakers. When Pierre meets Elizabeth, an intern at the film archives, he quickly takes her as a lover, hoping to fulfill his desire of...
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IXCANUL
A young Mayan woman lives with her parents on a coffee harvesting farm at the base of a volcano in the Guatemalan highlands. She is poised to enter an arranged marriage when everything is thrown into chaos. She becomes pregnant...
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HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT
For one week in 1962, two titans of cinema met in person for the first time in Hollywood. Shining star of the French New Wave François Truffaut conducted a series of exhaustive interviews with his idol, Alfred Hitchcock. Spanning Hitchcock’s...
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H.
Helen of Troy, New York, spends her days coddling creepy, ultra-realistic “reborn dolls” as her husband, Roy, quietly dreams of release from their 40-plus-year marriage. Meanwhile, another Helen of Troy, one half of a performance art duo with husband Alex,...
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HALF WET
A man with large pores tries to escape the realization that he's slowly evaporating. Sophie Koko Gate is an animation director and illustrator based in London. She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins....
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GROUP B
A rally car driver mounts a comeback after a long and troubled absence. Nick Rowland is a directing student at the National Film and Television School (UK). His work has received BAFTA and BIFA nominations. His films have been screened...
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THE GULLS (CHAIKI)
Filmed in winter near the Caspian Sea, THE GULLS is the masterful debut feature of rising writer/director Ella Manzheeva, a native of the small Russian republic of Kalmykia. The first film of its kind from the region in decades, this...
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FUNNY BUNNY
Three misfits with unusual obsessions form an awkward friendship in this character study by Alison Bagnall (THE DISH & THE SPOON, AFI FEST 2011). Gene, depressed by his ever-dwindling relationship with his ex-wife, works as a childhood-obesity activist going door...
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GRAND FINALE
The end of a Fourth of July evening in Detroit. Kevin Jerome Everson is Professor of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. His artwork — painting, sculpture and street photography — as well as seven feature films and over...
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FRANKENSTEIN’S BRIDE (LA NOVIA DE FRANKENSTEIN)
At her summer job, Ivana learns it's easy to create a circle of lies, fiction and love when you're bored. Born in Buenos Aires in 1987, Francisco Lezama is a film director, researcher and distributor. In 2011 he co-directed the...
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FREE IN DEED
Based on true events, FREE IN DEED tells the story of a young mother struggling to raise her special-needs son. When she turns to a local storefront church for help, a lonely Pentecostal minister is forced to confront his own...
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FUCKKKYOUUU
A lonely girl finds love and rejection with her past self in this alluring collaboration with Flying Lotus. Eddie Alcazar is an American director, writer, producer and game developer. He was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film...
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THE FORBIDDEN ROOM
If a movie could dream, it might look something like THE FORBIDDEN ROOM. Canadian auteur Guy Maddin and co-director Evan Johnson invite audiences to glimpse what fills the human interior: urges, repressed memories, nightmares and dreams-within-dreams. The film is a...
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FIELD NIGGAS
Khalik Allah’s FIELD NIGGAS is a stylized documentary chronicling summer nights spent at the intersection of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in Harlem. Portraiture is woven together with non-sync audio conversations with the neighborhood’s most oppressed and exhausted inhabitants, giving...
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FLYING DOWN TO RIO
This 1933 RKO musical, best known as the first on-screen pairing of fleet-footed screen icons Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, stars the gorgeous Dolores del Río as Belinha, an irresistible woman who seduces the leader of a band touring Miami....
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THE EXQUISITE CORPUS
Based on various erotic films and advertising rushes, myriad fragments are melted into a single sensuous, humorous, gruesome and ecstatic dream. Peter Tscherkassky was born in 1958 in Vienna, Austria. He is the founding member of Sixpack Film, and has...
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EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY (ALLES WIRD GUT)
A divorced father picks up his eight-year-old daughter. It seems like every second weekend, but something isn't right. Patrick Vollrath grew up in central Germany. In 2013 he was a participant of the Berlinale Talent Campus. He has won several...
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EVOLUTION
Lucile Hadžihalilovićs sophomore feature is a fantastic tale of an island town inhabited only by women and boys. On this island live 10-year-old Nicolas and his mother. Nicolas and the island’s other boys are regularly subjected to strange medical procedures...
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E.T.E.R.N.I.T.
A Tunisian immigrant working in asbestos removal must make a radical choice in the name of his family. Born in 1984, Giovanni Aloi has directed LA PROMESSA, a true story that took place in the early 1980s about a rising...
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EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (EL ABRAZO DE LA SERPIENTE)
The shaman Karamakate waits warily by the edge of the river as a German explorer approaches. The stranger seeks the Yakuna, a legendary rare flower that can cure the man of his mysterious sickness. Only the shaman knows its location,...
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DISORDER
In Alice Winocour's sophomore feature DISORDER, the French filmmaker combines astute sound design with perceptive camera movements to externalize symptoms of PTSD, as ex-soldier Vincent (Matthias Schoenaerts, RUST AND BONE, AFI FEST 2012) becomes locked in a deadly game of...
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DON’T BE BAD (NON ESSERE CATTIVO)
Set in the drug-fueled scene of the mid-‘90s, DON’T BE BAD follows a pair of twentysomething best friends who are forever chasing the next high. When an alluring woman enters their lives, everything they know comes into question. As they...
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DRAGSTRIP
A moment or two before the race. Daniel Claridge is a young filmmaker based in Cambridge whose work includes both documentary and fiction film. He works as a teaching assistant in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard...
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DESDE ALLÁ
Armando is middle-aged, wealthy and living in a poor neighborhood in Caracas. He wanders the streets looking for young men to bring home. In exchange for a wad of cash, they follow his precise instructions: No touching — he will...
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DHEEPAN
Winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, DHEEPAN marks the return of French auteur Jacques Audiard to AFI FEST (RUST AND BONE screened in the Gala section at the 2013 festival). Audiard’s latest is another film...
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DAY ONE
No husband, no job, no future: Divorce is a life sentence for Feda, a thirty-year-old Afghan American woman pushed aside by her conservative community. Taking control of her life, she uses her one marketable skill as a bilingual immigrant, returning...
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DER NACHTMAHR
The sophomore feature from German filmmaker AKIZ is a sensory experience with a pulsing soundtrack and engrossing visual language that blur the lines between horror and coming-of-age films. Seventeen-year-old Tina falls completely out of her normal reality when she begins...
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COLOR NEUTRAL
A color explosion sparkles, bubbles and fractures in this handcrafted 16mm short from film artist Jennifer Reeves. Brooklyn-based Jennifer Reeves has directed more than 20 films since 1990. Her subjective and personal films push the boundaries of film through direct-on-film...
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CONCUSSION
It’s the most popular sport in the United States. It’s the backbone for millions of jobs and billions of dollars. But what is the deadly side of football? CONCUSSION looks at the life of a brilliant immigrant doctor – perhaps...
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THE CLAN (EL CLAN)
Director Pablo Trapero returns to AFI FEST for a third time with his most outlandish tale yet. Following the real-life exploits of the notorious Puccios, THE CLAN tells the story of how a normal working-class family concocted a vicious plan...
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THE CLUB (EL CLUB)
One of the most exciting contemporary voices in world cinema, Chilean iconoclast Pablo Larraín turns his provocative gaze toward the sins of the Catholic Church in this tightly wound, tonally subversive tragicomic parable. A tight-knit group of aging priests live,...
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CHEVALIER
While on a fishing trip in the Aegean Sea, six men decide to play “Chevalier,” a game that measures every aspect of who they are. Things will be compared. Blood will be spilled and tested. At the end of the...
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CHRONIC
Tim Roth turns in an understated, beautiful performance as an end-of-life caregiver in this quiet, delicate portrait of those who dedicate themselves to hospice work. Director Michel Franco returns to AFI FEST (AFTER LUCIA, AFI FEST 2012) with a gentle,...
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BY THE SEA
Written, directed and produced by Oscar® winner Angelina Jolie Pitt, BY THE SEA is her directorial follow-up to survival epic UNBROKEN. The film stars Brad Pitt and Jolie Pitt, who are supported by an international ensemble led by Mélanie Laurent,...
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CAROL
Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara give luminous performances in Todd Haynes’ adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s influential lesbian novel “The Price of Salt.” Mara stars as shopgirl Therese Belivet, underwhelmed by her life working in a department store and dating a...
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BOYS (POJKARNA)
At a home for wayward boys, Markus prepares for a very important appointment. Born in 1987, Isabella Carbonell is a filmmaker, screenwriter and actor living and working in Stockholm. She has a background in social work and is currently studying...
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BUS NUT
The 1955 Montgomery bus boycott articulated as an educational video on school bus safety. Akosua Adoma Owusu is a filmmaker with Ghanaian parentage whose films have screened worldwide in prestigious film festivals, museums, galleries, universities and micro-cinemas since 2005. She...
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BOB AND THE TREES
Burning with a working-class authenticity as rare in contemporary American filmmaking as it is refreshing, writer-director Diego Ongaro’s absorbing debut feature tells the story of middle-aged logger Bob (first-time actor and real-life logger Bob Tarasuk, giving an extraordinary performance), who...
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THE BIG SHORT
Almost no one saw the 2008 housing crisis and subsequent global financial crash coming. Almost — yet a handful of investors and financial analysts who looked deep into the ready-to-pop bubble discovered that the country and the world were on...
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BLOOD BELOW THE SKIN
Three teenage girls from different social circles form unexpected bonds when they discover the secrets that lie below the skin. Jennifer Reeder constructs personal films about relationships, trauma and coping. Her award-winning narratives are innovative and borrow from a range...
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BLOOD OF MY BLOOD (SANGUE DEL MIO SANGUE)
Beginning in 1965 with the classic FISTS IN THE POCKET, Marco Bellocchio has never wavered in his allegiance to politics and uncomfortable sexuality in his 50 years of filmmaking. BLOOD OF MY BLOOD incorporates his enduring obsessions into a dual...
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BASKIN
First-time feature director Can Evrenol audaciously mashes up a cop movie and a satanic cult slasher in BASKIN, the unholy spawn of their union. Gorkem Kasal brings sensitivity and strength to his performance as the vulnerable cop, who has a...
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ANOMALISA
We all are self-obsessed, but customer service guru David Stone is especially so. He’s in Cincinnati for one night to speak at a conference and sign his latest book. As he settles in his chicly generic hotel room and orders...
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BAD AT DANCING
A perpetual third wheel and awkward outsider inserts herself into her roommate's relationship. Joanna Arnow is a filmmaker and cinematographer based in Brooklyn. She recently wrote, directed and edited short film BAD AT DANCING, which was awarded the Silver Bear...
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AFERIM!
Celebrated filmmaker Radu Jude returns to AFI FEST with a refreshingly crisp historical drama, delving deep into the past to produce a Romanian Western teeming with life and bursting with cynical satire. Based on historical documents and traditional folklore, Jude’s...
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AGAINST NIGHT
The late 1960s, heyday of the Soviet space program. A Soyuz capsule carrying two cosmonauts violently reenters the atmosphere, burning up. Miraculously, both men survive, landing far off-course in the remote frozen steppes of Mongolia. With no way to call...
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THE 33
Patricia Riggen’s THE 33 tells the harrowing true story of the Copiapó mining accident in 2010, when a group of Chilean miners spent 69 days trapped underground. Despite the low pay and unsafe working conditions, there are few options other...
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45 YEARS
British screen icons Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay star as Kate and Geoff Mercer, a couple approaching their 45th wedding anniversary. A week before the planned festivities, a bomb of information arrives that threatens to throw their pleasantly routine marriage...
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YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW (IERI, OGGI, DOMANI)
Vittorio De Sica’s YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW is a unique, three-part omnibus film featuring the megawatt star coupling of Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. The iconic actors here are in comedic mode, as they play three sets of couples from...
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YOUNG LIONS OF GYPSY (A CIAMBRA)
Over the course of one long night, a young Romani boy grows up.
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WRONG NUMBER
Girl can't throw up.
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YEARBOOK
A man is hired to compile the definitive history of human existence before Earth blows up.
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YES WE LOVE (JA VI ELSKER)
Four generations, each in crisis on Norwegian Independence Day. Norwegian Film Institute
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WILD TALES (RELATOS SALVAJES)
A sane person may think that when confronted with a difficult situation that tests patience and values, she or he will act rationally. But, when push comes to shove, one may very well end up like the rabid, violent and...
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THE WONDERS (LE MERAVIGLIE)
Debuting in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, THE WONDERS tells the story of a close-knit family in the rolling Italian countryside. Domineering father Wolfgang tries to control his many daughters, keeping them away from outside influences as they...
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WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS
A New Zealand “documentary” crew gets unprecedented access to a house shared by five vampires in the latest from AFI FEST Audience Award winner Taika Waititi (BOY, AFI FEST 2010). First there’s Viago (Waititi), a Baroque-era dandy who struggles to...
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WHITE MORNING
The violent little boys become violent little men.
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VIOLET
A regular day at the local shopping mall turns into a hellish trauma when 15-year-old Jesse witnesses his friend’s murder. As he tries to readjust to the world, spending time with his family and riding the streets and nearby forests...
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WASHINGTONIA
The Washingtonia is the only palm tree whose heart is not devoured by the red beetle, because its heart is small and dry and no one likes small, dry hearts. Squared Square
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THE VANQUISHING OF THE WITCH BABA YAGA
Jessica Oreck’s stunning essay film finds a fertile metaphor for Eastern Europe’s changing relationship with the natural world in the Slavic folktale of forest-dwelling witch Baba Yaga. Oreck shifts between a haunting, animated retelling of the legend (gorgeously illustrated by...
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VIKTORIA
Maya Vitkova’s sharply satirical and surreal debut mixes the personal and the political, seeking out clever parallels between the life of a young woman and the political upheaval of modern Bulgaria. Viktoria is a girl born unwanted. Her mother attempted...
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VILLA TOUMA
VILLA TOUMA shines light on the Palestinian aristocracy – nearly forgotten since the 1967 Israeli occupation. Filmmaker Suha Arraf makes use of the static camera and confines most of this reclusive domestic melodrama to a Ramallah house – where a...
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TU DORS NICOLE
At 22, Nicole is a typical post-college aimless spirit. Living with her parents, she passes the summer by watching her brother’s band practice in the family home. She occasionally lusts after young men, and is lusted after by a little...
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TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT)
The world-renowned Dardenne brothers (KID WITH A BIKE, AFI FEST 2011) return to the festival with this powerful tale of collective bargaining and solidarity. Marion Cotillard gives a stunning performance as Sandra, a Belgian working mother who has one weekend...
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TITLI
Possessing the ability to give escalating dramatic conflict an unaffected realism and honesty, director-screenwriter Kanu Behl infuses his first feature with the kind of character-driven specificity found in many international breakout films. Shot in Super 16 and starring a gifted...
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THE TRIBE
Set in a Ukrainian school for the deaf and mute, THE TRIBE follows new student Sergey as he gets a crash course in who’s really in charge. The decrepit institution is awash in drugs, prostitution and organized petty crime. This...
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THOU WAST MILD & LOVELY
In her sophomore feature, Josephine Decker crafts an erotic drama, filled with psychosexual tension, examining the darkness that lingers in the secrets we keep. Quiet and grounded farm worker Akin takes a summer job working for the oppressive and confrontational...
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TIMBUKTU
Contemporary epic TIMBUKTU is acclaimed Mauritanian-born filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako's indictment of armed Islamic jihadis' persecution of West African Saharans. Lamenting a pained, very recent era where everything from music to soccer is illegal, Sissako's tragic parable is set in 2012,...
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STATIONS OF THE CROSS (KREUZWEG)
STATIONS OF THE CROSS is meticulously composed in 14 scenes, each masterfully unfolding via a single long take and all inspired by the classic Roman Catholic depictions of Christ carrying the cross to his crucifixion. Director Dietrich Brüggemann brings to...
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STILL ALICE
Julianne Moore gives a powerful performance as Dr. Alice Howland, a linguistics professor who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Possessed of a brilliant mind, Alice is in a unique position to understand what her diagnosis holds in store. As she...
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TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER
For more than 25 years, a quiet menace crept in secret through the shadows of South Central Los Angeles. In 2010, police arrested a suspect in the brutal murders of at least 10 women. Documentary provocateur Nick Broomfield, whose gifted...
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SONG OF THE SEA
In this Irish hand-animated fantasy by Tomm Moore (THE SECRET OF KELLS), Ben and his silent younger sister Saoirse lose their mother when she disappears one night into the sea. Their father is so saddened by the loss that the...
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SOUND THAT
A few minutes spent looking for leaks in the infrastructure with the employees of the Cleveland Water Department. Picture Palace Pictures
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SLEEPING GIANT
The chaotic nature of boys is captured in this lyrical coming-of-age journey. Urbinder Films
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SLUT
A young girl with love in her heart unwittingly attracts the attention of a murderous sociopath. Don't Tell Betsy Productions
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SILENT
A magical contraption brings the history of the movies to life! Moonbot Studios
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SLAP
A teenage boxer comes to terms with his true self. NFTS
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SELMA
The presentation will feature 30 minutes of exclusive footage from the film followed by a conversation with producers Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, director Ava DuVernay and lead actor David Oyelowo at the Egyptian Theatre. SELMA is the...
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SEND
The Internet can be a dangerous place for teenage girls. Vack Brown Inc
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SHIPWRECK
A tour de force rumination on the terrible tragedy that befell a boat carrying 500 Ethiopian refugees on October 3, 2013.
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THE SALT OF THE EARTH
This artistic documentary on famous Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, often referred to as the master of black-and-white photojournalism, is co-directed by German filmmaker Wim Wenders and Salgado’s son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado. It blends new images of Salgado’s photographs with interviews...
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SELF MADE (BOREG)
In SELF MADE, Israeli director Shira Geffen unites Sarah Adler (ANA ARABIA, MARIE ANTOINETTE) with newcomer Samira Saraya in a charming story of exchanged identities. Adler plays conceptual artist Michal, who loses her memory when a bed she bought --...
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RUN
In his ambitious narrative feature debut, director Philippe Lacôte balances fantasy with vérité to illuminate the frayed world of a fatherless young man growing up in the Ivory Coast. The orphaned boy, who dreams of ascending to the throne of...
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SAINT LAURENT
Lavish and visually seductive, director Bertrand Bonello’s biopic of iconic French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent (Gaspard Ulliel) is also an intimate drama which covers the deeply personal landscapes of addiction and sexuality that underscore the story of Saint Laurent’s...
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REALITY (RÉALITÉ)
Quentin Dupieux, director of such singular films as RUBBER and WRONG, returns to AFI FEST with REALITY, a bizarre tapestry of the absurd. In this world of dream logic, a cameraman gets to direct his first film, but the executive...
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RED ARMY
The Cold War plays out just as intensely on the ice rink as it does in the realm of international politics in this lively, stirring documentary delving into the fascinating history of the Soviet Union’s Red Army hockey team –...
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THE PRESENT
An Eastern ghost story with haunting implications.
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RABBITLAND
Those brainless rabbits are completely fulfilled. Why should their votes matter? Film House Bas Celik
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RAT PACK RAT
Even Sammy Davis Jr. impersonators have it tough.
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OVER YOUR DEAD BODY (KUIME)
In a regional film industry known for producing prolific directors, Japanese horror master Takashi Miike has a reputation as the hardest-working man in show business. With OVER YOUR DEAD BODY, Miike pulls the curtain back on a theater production that...
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PERSON TO PERSON
A stranger passed out on his floor after last night's party. Now she won't leave. At least it will make a good story.
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THE OBVIOUS CHILD
Somebody broke the girl's parents. The rabbit was there when it happened. It was an awful mess.
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ONE YEAR LEASE
Brian and Thomas document a year's worth of their communication from their landlady, who has an itchy speed-dial finger and much to say. Exit 36 Productions, LLC
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A MOST VIOLENT YEAR
Set in 1981 during one of the most crime-ridden winters in New York City’s history, J.C. Chandor’s A MOST VIOLENT YEAR follows Abel and Anna Morales (Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain) as they attempt to capitalize on the American Dream...
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MR. TURNER
In his latest sumptuous work, director Mike Leigh creates a portrait of iconoclastic painter J.M.W. Turner, mid-19th century master of light and color. This meditation examines the nature of art itself, in conflict with the changing perceptions of peers and...
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NDA
Man enacts legal fantasy.
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MOMMY
Die, a widowed single mother, regains custody of her son, Steve, after he is kicked out of a correctional facility. Trying to make the best of this situation, Die decides to home-school Steve and enlists the help of her neighbor...
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MONDO HOLLYWOOD
This underground cult classic documentary captures Hollywood at its most psychedelic, from 1965 to 1967. But this isn't a la-la-land we're used to seeing. Instead, it goes beneath the usual glitz and glamor and heads for the fringe, following everyone...
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THE MIDNIGHT SWIM
Three half-sisters travel to their mother’s home to settle her affairs after she goes missing in mysterious Spirit Lake. The youngest, June, a documentary filmmaker, captures their homecoming with her camera. On their first night in the house, the women...
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MIGRATION
Observe the migration patterns of a most unusual herd. Fluorescent Hill
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MERCHANTS OF DOUBT
Academy Award®-nominated director Robert Kenner (FOOD, INC.) tackles the ongoing "debate" over climate change in his latest documentary. Inspired by the acclaimed book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, MERCHANTS OF DOUBT focuses on a surreptitious group of PR masterminds,...
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MI NINA MI VIDA
The bustling crowds and noisy rides of the amusement park won't be enough to make Jack smile today. Travelling
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MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE (MATRIMONIO ALL’ITALIANA)
Narrating in flashback, successful businessman Domenico (Marcello Mastroianni) tells of his 20-year love affair with country prostitute Filumena (Sophia Loren). Their romance is anything but a typical one. Domenico is initially so infatuated with Filumena that he finances her way...
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MASTER MUSCLES
Veronica and Efrén take an explosive road trip through a strange America.
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MAY ALLAH BLESS FRANCE! (QU’ALLAH BENISSE LA FRANCE!)
The stirring true story of a French teen’s struggle to escape from a poverty-stricken life of crime and into the sanctuary of hip-hop and Islam is brought to refreshing life by first-time filmmaker Abd Al Malik. A major force in...
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MAN ON THE CHAIR (L’HOMME SUR SA CHAISE)
Does the man on the chair exist? Sacrebleu Productions
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MANOS SUCIAS
For young men in Buenaventura, Colombia – a dangerous area policed by paramilitaries and poisoned by the drug trade – the prospect of a better life requires getting out of Buenaventura. And getting out means getting your hands dirty. Such...
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LOVE STREAMS
Love – flawed, messy and wounded – streams through this latter-era film by the great John Cassavetes. Centering on a boozy, hedonistic writer and his beleaguered sister (played, respectively, by Cassavetes and the equally great Gena Rowlands, his real-life wife...
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MAGICIAN: THE ASTONISHING LIFE AND WORK OF ORSON WELLES
From documentarian Chuck Workman comes an exhaustive look at one of cinema’s greatest masters: Orson Welles. Combining extensive filmmaker interviews with rare archival footage of Welles himself, Workman takes us through the life of the legendarily uncompromising actor and director...
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LEVIATHAN
Premiering in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, LEVIATHAN is the latest work and magnum opus from Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev (ELENA, THE RETURN). Zvyagintsev tells the story of aging father Kolya, who runs an auto repair shop in...
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LIGHT
After suffering a devastating loss, a Lebanese man is challenged by a mother's request.
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IT FOLLOWS
Jay, a college student living in the Detroit suburbs, spends her time hanging out with her sister and friends Paul and Yara. After having sex with her new beau, Jay is plagued by nightmarish visions and the sneaking suspicion that...
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JAUJA
Renowned filmmaker Lisandro Alonso’s penetrating puzzle of a film marks a bold new chapter for the enigmatic auteur. Its prologue referencing a mythical land of happiness that has eluded all who search for it, the quixotic tale unfolds with a deceptive...
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INHERENT VICE
INHERENT VICE is the seventh feature from director Paul Thomas Anderson and the first film adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel. It’s the tail end of the ‘60s and drug-fueled paranoia is running the day. P.I. Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix)...
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THE IRON MINISTRY
Three years spent on China’s vast train system are distilled into a one-of-a-kind sensory experience in this immersive, formally daring documentary. While traveling via both pristine first-class train cars and the crowded, lively economy class, director J.P. Sniadecki combines the...
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HUMAN CAPITAL (IL CAPITALE UMANO)
The term “human capital” describes the criteria insurance companies use to determine an appropriate monetary value for the life of one human being. In this stylish murder mystery, which moves backward from a deadly bicycling accident, director Paolo Virzì explores...
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HUMAN VOICE (VOCE UMANA)
Sophia Loren stars in this spirited adaptation of Jean Cocteau's one-woman play. Edoardo Ponti is the writer/ director of multiple award winning short films and motion pictures, including HUMAN VOICE, starring Sophia Loren, THE NIGHTSHIFT BELONGS TO THE STARS, starring...
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HERE I AM…THERE YOU ARE…
When a married couple’s foreplay veers into domination, reality is stronger than the imagination. student - Minshar For Art
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HOLE
A fearless portrait of a disabled man in search of intimacy.
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THE HOMESMAN
When three women go insane on the edges of the American frontier, the task of delivering them back East falls to pious spinster Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank). The daunting challenge of driving a wagon loaded with madwomen the distance...
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HAZE
A well-intentioned young man struggles to explain last night. Capital Letter Films LLC
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HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT
The third narrative feature from brothers Josh and Benny Safdie explores a love story of heroin junkies living on the streets of New York City. Harley is in mad love with Ilya, so much so that she slits her wrists...
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HAPPY VALLEY
Filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev (THE TILLMAN STORY) turns his camera on the community of State College, Pennsylvania, which in 2011 weathered the child sex-abuse scandal that brought down iconic Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and assistant coach and perpetrator Jerry...
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A HARD DAY (KKEUT-KKA-JI GAN-DA)
The gripping first scene of director Kim Seong-Hun's gem of moral relativism throws us into Detective Ko's first of many hard days. He is speeding back from his mother’s funeral in an attempt to hide incriminating evidence at his precinct...
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HAEMOO
During the Asian financial crisis, a desperate fishing captain accepts a lump-sum cash advance to smuggle illegal immigrants back to the peninsula. Once at sea with his ragtag crew, heedless mistakes and a young sailor's secret romance turn the voyage...
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THE HAIRCUT
In 1976, Amy defies expectations and joins the first class of female cadets accepted for military service. She'll have to prove to all that she has what it takes. Spotted Cow Entertainment
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GÜEROS
After pushing his mother to her limit with a prank involving a water balloon and a baby stroller, teenage Tomás is sent to live with big brother Sombra and his roommate Santos, who are up to their own shenanigans while...
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HACKED CIRCUIT
This circular study of the Foley process portrays sound artists at work constructing complex layers of fabrication and imposition. Video Data Bank
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GIRLHOOD (BANDE DE FILLES)
In her third feature, French filmmaker Céline Sciamma crafts an intimate coming-of-age story. Rugged tomboy Marieme has been told she must go to technical school due to her low grades. Instead, she drops out and finds acceptance with a gang...
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GOODNIGHT MOMMY (ICH SEH ICH SEH)
“Mommy” is a television personality and the mother of rambunctious twin boys. After an extensive trip to the plastic surgeon, she returns to the family’s idyllic country home, face swaddled and entirely masked in bandages, to recover and recuperate. But...
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GARY HAS AN AIDS SCARE
Gary might have a bit of a problem... Joe Chandelier Light Co.
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GETT, THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM
Viviane Amsalem desperately craves a divorce. But in Israel, this falls to the rabbinical court, which demands a husband’s blessing. Despite being separated from her for years, Vivane’s husband refuses; he won’t even appear at proceedings. Thus begins a series...
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FROM WHAT IS BEFORE (MULA SA KUNG ANO ANG NOON)
The latest film from Filipino arthouse sensation Lav Diaz is a culmination of the lauded filmmaker’s career. Drawing on personal experience, the film tells the story of the years leading up to the brutal rule of Ferdinand Marcos’ forces in...
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FUNNEL
A man's car breaks down and sends him on a quest across town that slowly turns into the most fantastically mundane adventure. HotHouse Productions / bLoNd cHiLi Productions
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THE GAMBLER
In this gritty modern noir, Mark Wahlberg plays Jim Bennett, a whip-smart college professor caught up in the dangerous world of high-stakes underground gambling. His luck running out, Bennett finds himself pursued by local gangsters intent on sweating him out...
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THE FOOL (DURAK)
An honest man encounters severe resistance from all sides when he stands up to uncaring bureaucrats to protect the safety of a group that doesn’t want to be helped. Russian filmmaker Yuriy Bykov’s striking morality tale moves along at a frenetic...
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FOXCATCHER
FOXCATCHER is the true story of Olympic wrestler brothers Mark and Dave Schultz, whose lives were forever altered by unhinged multimillionaire John du Pont. Channing Tatum dominates the screen as Mark, a hulking former champion who seems as lost for...
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FISH & CAT (MAHI VA GORBEH)
FISH & CAT boldly defines its own subgenre as a horror comedy art film, in the vein of a FRIDAY THE 13TH installment by way of Alain Resnais. Told in one staged continuous shot, the film moves between a group...
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FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE (ÐAP CÁNH GIUA KHÔNG TRUNG)
Huyen is pregnant and needs money for an abortion. When her boyfriend skips out on her, taking with him the cash he’d saved for her operation, Huyen must take matters into her own hands. She dabbles in prostitution with a...
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FAULTS
Ansel Roth has seen better days. A once-revered authority on mind control and the go-to guy for families hoping to save brainwashed loved ones from cults, he now bargains with cheap hotels for free meals in return for promoting his...
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FELT
Amy, a San Francisco artist, is haunted by a recent trauma that was inflicted by men in her life. As she veers dangerously close to a complete emotional and psychological breakdown, she plunges into the world of her art as...
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EDEN
It’s no accident that Mia Hansen-Løve’s 20-year journey through the electronic dance music scene opens with an early ’90s rave that’s already over. As Parisian teenager and future DJ Paul (Félix de Givry) approaches the turntables to ask about a...
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EXCHANGE AND MART
An unorthodox self-defense class at a remote Scottish boarding school yields unusual results.
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THE DRAGON IS THE FRAME
This experimental detective film explores the enigma of depression and its subtle interplay between presence and absence.
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THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY
Director Peter Strickland returns to AFI FEST (his BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO was an Official Selection in 2012) with this lurid tale of power, sex and the twisted pursuit of happiness. Using a claustrophobic cinematic space, Strickland introduces us to two...
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THE CUT (LA COUPE)
A father and daughter fluctuate between proximity and detachment during the course of a haircut. 3.14 Collectif
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DAY 40
Sinister forces take hold in the untold sordid story of what really happened on Noah's Ark. Artbeast Productions
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THE DIGGERS
These are the grave diggers. This is their day. Four Thirty-Three Pictures
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CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA
Responding to a challenge from Juliette Binoche to write a deeply complex female role, renowned French auteur Olivier Assayas has crafted an emotionally rich and evocatively meta-textual rumination on art, acting and aging. Binoche takes center stage as Maria, a...
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THE CHAPERONE 3D
More than 10,000 drawings intersect with a series of animation techniques to tell the true story of a lone teacher's stand against a motorcycle gang in the 1970s. Thoroughbread Pictures
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CHILDREN’S SONG
Children sing a song.
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CINEMA PARADISO
Upon receiving news that an old friend has died, famous Italian film director Salvatore Di Vita recalls his childhood growing up in post-World War II Italy, and the local Cinema Paradiso theater where he would spend all his free time....
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BUFFALO JUGGALOS
There is a secret land in upstate New York, where the Juggalos roam free...
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BUZZARD
Festival alum Joel Potrykus returns with his second feature, BUZZARD, starring APE (AFI FEST 2012) actor Joshua Burge. Marty Jackitansky is a disillusioned temp at a mortgage office, out to get what he feels he deserves. When he isn’t wasting...
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THE BLUE WAVE (MAVI DALGA)
“Even the ambulance is going somewhere!” This line, said by teen Deniz, captures the adolescent restlessness at the heart of THE BLUE WAVE. Deniz and her friends, all juniors in high school, live in the relatively nondescript, midsize Turkish city...
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BREATHE (RESPIRE)
At 17, Charlie is a polite and well-behaved high school student. When she befriends the outspoken and rebellious new girl, Sarah, the two become inseparable. But Sarah’s interest eventually wanes, and Charlie is devastated. She attempts to win Sarah back,...
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BLACK COAL, THIN ICE (BAI RI YAN HUO)
A trail of dismembered human remains discovered in 1999 in a coal factory in northern China sets the stage for Diao Yinan’s bleak and deliberate detective story. After quickly identifying a suspect in the meticulous slaying, detective Zhang becomes entangled...
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BLIND
Acclaimed Norwegian screenwriter Eskil Vogt (REPRISE, OSLO, AUGUST 31ST) makes his directorial debut with a dark comedy about Ingrid, a recently blinded woman who handles the loss of her sight by writing mordant stories that reveal her displacement and isolation...
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AUGUST WINDS (VENTOS DE AGOSTO)
Gabriel Mascaro’s narrative film debut quietly observes the young inhabitants of a small coastal village in Brazil. Shirley and Jeison work on a plantation, where they find time to sneak away and make love among the coconuts. The couple spend...
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BATH HOUSE (SIMHALL)
The mice are going after the bath house safe in this droll stop-motion puppet short. Swedish Film Institute / Svenska Filminstitutet
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ALLELUIA
Michel is a womanizing hustler who cons lonely women into giving him their life savings. He gets more than he bargained for when he meets Gloria, a single mother and nurse, who falls head over heels for him after their...
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AFRONAUTS
Inspired by true events. It's July 16, 1969: America is preparing to launch Apollo 11. Thousands of miles away, the Zambia Space Academy hopes to beat them to the moon.
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ALIVE (SANDA)
A harsh and uncompromising film of luscious beauty and terrifying hardship, ALIVE demonstrates great formal strength and understanding of narrative subtlety from one of South Korea’s most promising new talents. Director-writer Park Jung-Bum plays poor mountain laborer Jeong-Cheol, whose expressive...
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8 BULLETS (8 BALLES)
A grief-stricken expat hunts the man he believes is responsible for killing his family in this mixed-media fever dream. L'image D'apres
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THE ABSENT (LOS AUSENTES)
One of the notable voices of New Mexican Cinema, director Nicolás Pereda (GREATEST HITS, AFI FEST 2012) returns to the festival with this moody modern parable about existence. An elderly man lives alone in an isolated cabin deep in the...
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130919 • A PORTRAIT OF MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ
This one-take 3D film majestically documents legendary performance artist Marina Abramović in a manner befitting her art. Dissident Industries
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’71
An explosive thriller set at the height of the Troubles in 1971 Belfast, the discovery of this year’s Berlin Film Festival concerns 24 hours in the life of a rookie British soldier, who becomes separated from his regiment during a...
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10,000 KM
Alexandra and Sergi are in love. They live in Barcelona and have decided to have a baby. Opening with one long take that establishes their relationship, we observe the couple’s routines: They make love, eat a meal and discuss their...
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THE WIND RISES (KAZE TACHINU)
The latest animated wonder from Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of the legendary Studio Ghibli, is the master’s first directorial effort in five years, and quite sadly, may very well be his last. Eschewing his typically fictional characters ensconced in a fantasy...
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A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
Cassavetes casts his wife Gena Rowlands as Mabel Longhetti, a wife and mother whose tendency toward oddball behavior and over-the-top displays of affection lead her husband Nick (a brilliantly unhinged Peter Falk) to have her committed. – Mike Dougherty Nick...
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WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM
Romanian New Waver Corneliu Poremboiu (POLICE, ADJECTIVE) is back to his clever, wordy dialogue, deadpan sense of humor and patience-demanding shot duration with this tale of a director attempting to convince his supporting actress (and current bedfellow) to appear nude...
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WILD HORSES
They captured her heart. She captured their story. Lascuatro Films C/O Goodfriend & Jacobs
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WE ARE THE BEST! (VI ÄR BÄST!)
Skip the neon leg warmers, it’s 1982 Stockholm and punk is thriving by means of intrepid Klara and ingenious Bobo. The two middle school outcasts spend their days defiantly resisting femme stereotypes with their Mohawk haircuts and political activism. Taking...
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WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE
Coming out swinging with a style-infused debut, brothers and co-directors Zeke and Simon Hawkins serve up a breathless Texas neo-noir with deliciously dark shades of hardboiled novelist Jim Thompson. As their summer comes to an end, BJ (Logan Huffman) convinces...
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WHALE VALLEY (HVALFJORD)
Two young brothers living in a remote Icelandic fjord come to terms with the hard truths that make kids grow up before they're ready. The Danish Film Institute
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VIC+FLO SAW A BEAR
One of the most singular voices to emerge in the last decade, French-Canadian iconoclast Denis Côté inhabits a universe of storytelling all his own. His latest begins with Vic’s sudden arrival in a peaceful backwoods town. Recently released from prison...
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WE ARE MARI PEPA (SOMOS MARI PEPA)
Alex has big plans for his summer in Guadalajara. He hopes to get a girlfriend, make money with a new job, learn a new song with his band, Mari Pepa, and win the upcoming ”battle of the bands” concert. His...
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THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (LES PARAPLUIES DE CHERBOURG)
One of the most popular musicals of all time, THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG is a passionate expression of the emotionalism of the everyday. Taking its cue from opera, all of the dialogue is sung to Oscar®-winner Michel Legrand’s nearly wall-to-wall,...
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THE UNKNOWN KNOWN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DONALD RUMSFELD
Master documentarian Errol Morris turns the “Interrotron” – his notorious device for filming interview subjects as they gaze directly into the camera – toward the subject of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. One of the most trusted advisors to the...
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THIS MUST BE THE ONLY FANTASY
A magical, mythical and lyrical ode to 1980s fantasy role-playing games.
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TOKYO GIANTS
Using footage captured by hidden cameras on the streets of Tokyo, Nicolas Provost constructs a narrative set to the conventions of Hollywood mysteries in the thrilling conclusion to his PLOT POINT trilogy.
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TOM AT THE FARM (TOM A LA FERME)
Director Xavier Dolan is only 24 years old, but this is his fourth feature, and all of his previous films have played at AFI FEST. The newly blond Dolan stars as Tom, a young gay man who travels to a...
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STRANGER BY THE LAKE (L’INCONNU DU LAC)
The winner of the Un Certain Regard directing prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Alain Guiraudie’s latest effort immediately distinguishes itself with frank sexuality and graphic full-frontal male nudity set entirely against the otherwise serene backdrop of a lakeside...
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SYNDROMEDA
No one believes that Leif was abducted by aliens. But then why did he wake up naked and bloody on the side of the road? Aliens, that's why.
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THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY’S TEARS (L’ÉTRANGE COULEUR DES LARMES DE TON CORPS)
From the directors of AMER and the “O is for Orgasm” segment of THE ABC’S OF DEATH (AFI FEST 2012) comes this gorgeous and lurid homage to masters of classic Italian Giallo horror. Dan returns home to his Art Nouveau...
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THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT (DAS MERKWÜRDIGE KÄTZCHEN)
On the day of a large family gathering, a Berlin flat is bustling with activity. The mother has a full plate: the two older children are home for dinner, and the youngest screams at kitchen appliances. Add the neighbor fixing...
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SKIN
A child taxidermist and loner resorts to drastic measures when an entrancing girl finds his work beautiful.
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SOCIAL BUTTERFLY
In the south of France, a 30-year-old American woman wanders into a teenage party. Nobody seems to know what she's doing there.
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A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS
Filmmakers Ben Russell and Ben Rivers team up for the first time to create this triptych of stories revolving around a silent protagonist. The first section centers on a man who lives in a commune, sharing food, responsibility and intimacy...
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THE SELFISH GIANT
Inspired by the children she met in Bradford in northern England when researching her previous acclaimed documentary, THE ARBOR, Clio Barnard creates a moving tale that combines fairytale with contemporary reality. Arbor is a feisty menace who rejects his meds...
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SHADOW OF A CLOUD (O UMBRA DE NOR)
On a sweltering summer day in Bucharest, a priest is called to a dying woman's side to say a final prayer.
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SAVING MR. BANKS
When Walt Disney’s daughters begged him to make an adaptation of their favorite book, P.L. Travers’ Mary Poppins, he made them a promise he didn’t realize would take 20 years to keep. Inspired by true events, this stirring and comical...
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THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY
Ben Stiller directs and stars in THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, James Thurber's classic story of a daydreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. When his job,...
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THE SACRAMENT
Patrick is a photographer whose once drug-addicted sister, Caroline, is a member of an isolated sober-living community in Mississippi. Patrick discovers that the program is closer to a communal-living collective and that there is a strange and charismatic leader of...
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SAFE
You can never be too safe.
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RPG OKC
In a world on the brink of war, two video game characters find love on a dating website.
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THE RUNAWAY (LA FUGUE)
A social worker at a detention center for juvenile offenders must bring one of the girls in his care to court for her sentencing.
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THE RANCHER
A series of terrible dreams unhinge a man in power.
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THE ROCKET
THE ROCKET begins with the birth of twin boys in rural Laos. Local superstition dictates that one is blessed, while the other is cursed, and the only way to return balance to the village is to get rid of them both....
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THE ROPER
A young African-American calf roper works through the rodeo circuits in the Deep South as he dreams of competing in the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas.
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#POSTMODEM
A pop musical that predicts technological singularity in the form of a series of cinematic tweets.
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R100
Takafumi Katayama is a single father, signing up for an exclusive new bondage club. Eager to enhance the S&M experience, the club offers a service where the dominatrix will surprise the customer at work, at home or even in the...
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PICKPOCKET
Narrated in the first-person from diary entries, PICKPOCKET tells the story of young Michel, a wandering soul who secretly steals from strangers in public places. He spends his days choreographing and rehearsing his technique in his modest apartment, and later...
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THE PLACES WHERE WE LIVED
His parents are selling his childhood home. What a terrible, terrible feeling.
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THE OWNERS (LOS DUEÑOS)
Taking inspiration from cinema masters like Claude Chabrol, Luis Buñuel and Woody Allen, theater veterans Agustin Toscano and Ezequiel Radusky present the timeless theme of class struggle in their comedic first feature film, THE OWNERS. Sergio, Ruben and Alicia are...
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THE PAST (LE PASSÉ)
Returning to AFI FEST, Academy Award® winner Asghar Farhadi continues his career-defining exploration of family dynamics, morality and class conflict. After four years of separation, Ahmad returns to Paris from Tehran to finalize his divorce with his wife Marie. Almost...
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PHILOMENA
During the 1950s, Philomena Lee conceived a baby boy out of wedlock in a conservative Irish Catholic community. Her father placed Philomena in a convent, where her child was taken from her and sent away to the U.S. for adoption....
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OUR SUNHI
Both longtime devotees as well as strangers to the work of Hong Sang-soo will find a delightful meeting point with the prolific auteur’s 15th feature. Hong’s second film this year alone, and one of his most accessible efforts, finds him...
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OUT OF THE FURNACE
From Scott Cooper, the critically acclaimed writer and director of CRAZY HEART (2009), comes a gripping drama about family, fate, circumstance and justice. Russell Baze (Christian Bale) has a rough life: he works a dead-end blue collar job at the local...
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OMAR
Omar is not afraid to climb over the Israeli walls in Palestine using surreptitious rope ladders; having sniper fire whiz past his head is a part of daily life for Omar and his best friend, Tarek. Ironically, the most dangerous...
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ON SUFFOCATION
This dialogue-free film about an execution describes what happens when the system becomes more important than human life. Swedish Film Institute / Svenska Filminstitutet
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NOAH
Noah's relationship takes a rapid turn for the worse in this fascinating study of romance in the digital age set entirely on a teenager's computer screen. KoalaMotion
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NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN (TORE TANZT)
Tore is a fervent new member of the fundamentalist Christian youth group, Jesus Freaks. Returning from his baptism, he and his fellow believers encounter a broken-down van belonging to a man named Benno. Tore seems to restarts the van by...
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MY AFGHANISTAN – LIFE IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE
Danish journalist and filmmaker Nagieb Khaja arms 30 civilians with high-definition cell phone cameras in war-torn Afghanistan for this jarring, embedded reportage. Infiltrating local towns for personal stories beyond the usual journalistic access, the filmmakers parachute viewers down to emotional...
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MY DOG KILLER (MÔJ PES KILLER)
In the dreary early hours, as the sun scatters upon the desolate Slovak countryside somewhere near the border, 18-year-old Marek trains his ferocious mutt to attack. Marek’s scrappy, pale frame and hard, deadened eyes betray an impenetrably empty figure, resigned to...
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NEBRASKA
Bruce Dern stars as Woody, a stubborn elderly man who has decided to walk 850 miles from Billings, Montana, to Lincoln, Nebraska, just to collect sweepstakes prize money he thinks he has won. His wife, Kate (June Squibb), is frustrated...
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MOEBIUS
Originally banned in its native country for its extreme nature, master provocateur Kim Ki-duk’s latest masterstroke drives well past all conventional boundaries with purpose and poise, resulting in the filmmaker’s most audacious opus yet. Shot with a micro-budget sensibility surprising for such...
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MOVIES MADE FROM HOME #15
Robert has big plans. He's going to live as long as he can. Four Thirty-Three Pictures
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THE MISSING PICTURE (L’IMAGE MANQUANTE)
Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, using dozens of miniature clay figures he painstakingly sculpts by hand, recreates his youth under the Khmer Rouge in this transfixing documentary. Through assembled tableaus featuring the inanimate yet startlingly expressive figurines, Panh takes us through...
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MISTERIO
They say that if you put your ear to the back of his neck you can hear the Virgin talk.
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MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
Swiss filmmaker Thomas Imbach takes an innovative look at Great Britain’s most tragic royal figures to present the story of a woman haunted by expectations, and torn between romance and duty. At a young age, Mary is sent to France...
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THE MASQUE
The Masque was L.A.'s first punk rock club. This is all that's left. Sundance Film Festival
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THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (DIE EHE DER MARIA BRAUN)
For the shrewd Maria Braun, whose soldier-husband is feared dead and then – very much alive – is sent to prison for a murder he didn’t commit, learning the ruthless ins and outs of business is her means of survival....
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MARY POPPINS
On August 27, 1964, MARY POPPINS debuted at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre and exploded into the national consciousness. Though Walt Disney had been making live-action motion pictures for over a decade, director Robert Stevenson’s sumptuous musical became one of Disney’s major...
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MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
Idris Elba embodies Nelson Mandela in this epic adaptation of Mandela’s autobiography, “Long Walk to Freedom.” It tells the story of his struggle to bring an end to the racist system of apartheid, which denied black South Africans their human...
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MANUSCRIPTS DON’T BURN
Based on a true story, this modern thriller tells the story of a failed effort by the Iranian government to murder almost two dozen journalists in 1995. Told in a gripping fashion that artfully reveals itself over time, MANUSCRIPTS DON’T...
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MARILYN MYLLER
Marilyn maketh, Marilyn taketh away. It will be epic. It will be tear-jerkingly profound. It will be perfect.
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MAGNESIUM
A talented young gymnast makes a life-changing discovery as she prepares for an important tournament, and her last chance to reach the top.
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MANAKAMANA
The journey up a mountain to the Manakamana temple is an ancient ritual for the Nepalese people. What once took pilgrims days to complete can now be accomplished in just 10 minutes thanks to a gondola. This film consists solely...
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THE LUNCHBOX
Ila is an unfulfilled Mumbai housewife who yearns to regain the affections of her inattentive husband, patiently concocting a warm lunch for him to enjoy at work. Through a mix-up with the delivery service, the meal ends up at the...
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MACHSOM
A 19-year-old Israeli soldier stationed at one of the most dangerous checkpoints along the West Bank must contend with pressures on all sides in the face of a high-stakes incident.
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LITTLE BLACK SPIDERS
Sixteen and pregnant with her married lover's child, Katrina leaves France to take refuge at a Belgian hospital, where a program for similarly compromised young women is hidden away on the top floor of the building. As Katrina nears her...
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LONE SURVIVOR
Writer/Director Peter Berg crafts a striking portrait of the human spirit and unbreakable bonds in his new film LONE SURVIVOR. Four NAVY SEALS are sent on a covert mission to counteract a high-level al-Qaeda operative and capture a notorious Taliban...
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LA JAULA DE ORO
The dangerous migrant journey begins with few words spoken among 15-year-olds Juan, Sara and Samuel. Soon a Tzotzil Indian boy named Chauk joins the quietly desperate triumvirate to make four for the road. Setting off from their poor Guatemalan hometowns,...
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THE LAST EMPEROR (3D)
For the 25th anniversary of the international release of this visually sumptuous epic about the life of Pu Yi (1905-1967) – China’s final sovereign after millennia of dynastic rulers – the film has been given a 4K restoration with re-mastered...
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LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (SOSHITE CHICHI NI NARU)
Hirokazu Kore-eda won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival this year for his touching drama, LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON, the story of two families who learn that their six-year-old sons were switched at birth. One of the fathers...
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K.I.T.
A guilt-ridden yuppie goes to great lengths to prove she is a decent human being.
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KARAOKE!
On a night out in New York City, a young man avoids his problems.
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JODOROWSKY’S DUNE
1974 was to be a breakout year for cult film icon Alejandro Jodorowsky. He had burst onto the international scene with the first “midnight movies” – mystical EL TOPO followed by surreal sensation THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, both acclaimed in the...
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JUVENILE OFFENDER
Kang’s second feature JUVENILE OFFENDER is South Korea’s official entry for this year’s Academy Awards®. An appeal for societal and personal reform, this intimate crime drama peers into the consequences of cyclical, intergenerational abandonment as experienced by a troubled 16 year...
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IN BLOOM (GRZELI NATELI DGEEBI)
First-time filmmakers Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross present a powerful story of two girls challenging outdated patriarchal expectations while living in a country dominated by testosterone-fueled aggression. It’s 1992 in Tbilisi, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but 14-year-old...
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INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a folk musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles – some of them of his own making....
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THE INVISIBLE WOMAN
Nelly (Felicity Jones), a happily married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile...
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HERBLOCK: THE BLACK AND THE WHITE
A fascinating look at Herbert L. Block, known to millions by his pen name “Herblock,” a man summarized by journalist Ted Koppel as “the most feared editorial cartoonist-journalist in the country” for his 55-year career at the Washington Post. Fellow...
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I KILL
A gruesome, honest portrait of the man who kills your food. New Zealand Film Commission
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HELI
Heli lives in a tiny house on the Mexican plain. His life involves taking care of his young wife and sister and trying to do right by working an honest job at a factory. His younger sister is only 12...
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HER
From the singular perspective of Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Spike Jonze (BEING JOHN MALKOVICH) comes HER, an original love story that explores the evolving nature – and the risks – of intimacy in the modern world. Set in Los Angeles in the near...
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HALF OF A YELLOW SUN
Nigerian-born British playwright Biyi Bandele translates Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's powerful prize-winning novel of the same name into an emotional drama that gives voice to personal stories of the indignities and atrocities suffered during the Nigerian Civil War. Set in the...
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HARMONY LESSONS (UROKI GARMONII)
With his stunningly accomplished debut feature, Kazakh writer, director and editor Emir Baigazin firmly announces himself as a filmmaker of tremendous power and lyricism. In its very first images, Baigazin establishes a gripping hypnotic rhythm as 13-year old Aslan silently...
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THE GREAT BEAUTY (LA GRANDE BELLEZZA)
At the age of 65, after years of being content to entertain the masses as the host of a parade of endless conga line and cocktail-fueled rooftop terrace extravaganzas frequented by Rome’s upper class – aristocrats, nobles, politicians, celebrities, artists...
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THE GREEN INFERNO
Seeking to make a difference in the world, a group of college students sets out for the Amazon jungle to undertake an act of environmental protest. They are scared of being labeled eco-terrorists but when their trip goes awry and...
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GABRIELLE
Gabrielle (winningly played by upbeat first-timer Gabrielle Marion-Rivard) is a 22-year-old woman with Williams syndrome, a genetic disorder that often slows cognitive skills while increasing outgoingness and musical talent. She sings in a Montreal choir for other disabled adults, where...
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GLORIA
Director Sebastián Lelio’s fourth feature film is an intimate portrait of social life in contemporary Chile as seen through the character study of a unique woman who seizes control of her own reality and achieves self-reliance with dignity and elegance....
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GRAND CENTRAL
Anything can go wrong at the nuclear power plant where Gary Manda (portrayed by the boyish Tahar Rahim) is recruited as a low-level worker – each day is a perilous struggle against the “colorless, odorless, invisible dose” of radiation. Gary...
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THE FAKE (SAIBI)
South Korean animator Yeon Sang-ho’s sophomore feature film is an intriguing and controversial exploration of blind faith and the distorted beliefs that define good and evil. A small rural village is on the verge of being flooded to construct a...
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FAMILY IN THE PARK (UN DÍA EN FAMILIA)
On a Sunday afternoon in the park, happiness exists but it comes at a price. Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE)
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THE EVENT
Love and a severed foot, at the end of the world.
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EXHIBITION
In director Joanna Hogg’s third feature, married artists known only as D and H (played with commendable naturalism by former punk singer Viv Albertine and artist Liam Hillick) find dormant anxieties and buried frustrations bubbling to the surface after they...
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DRONES
In a doublewide trailer somewhere in the Nevada desert, a general's daughter (Eloise Mumford) on her first day of deployment and a high school dropout airman (Matt O'Leary) decide the fates of "terrorists" from a height of five miles up. As...
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AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF AN IRON PICKER (EPIZODA U ZIVOTU BERACA ZELJEZA)
Bolstered by the harrowing true-life events inflicted upon a Roma family in Bosnia, renowned filmmaker Danis Tanovic (NO MAN’S LAND) ingeniously obliterates the line between fact and fiction by casting the actual participants of dramatic events in the recreation of...
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DEMOCRACY (DEMOCRACIA )
Please gather in the conference room. The boss has a life-changing announcement guaranteed to boost morale. Kimuak
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DOCUMENTEUR
Subtitled “an emotion picture,” DOCUMENTEUR is Agnès Varda’s impressionistic study of a French typist (played by the film’s editor, Sabine Mamou), recently separated from her lover, who searches with her eight-year-old son (played by Varda’s real son, Mathieu Demy) for...
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THE DATE (TREFFIT)
Tino’s manhood is put to the test when he hosts a date for the family's stud cat.
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DECLARATION OF WAR
A mesmerizing montage of audiences reacting to George W. Bush's announcement of Operation Enduring Freedom told entirely through footage captured during the speech. Bad Fever LLC
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THE COURT JESTER
The Oscar®-winning writing team of Norman Panama and Melvin Frank produced and directed this beloved musical-comedy spoof of Hollywood swashbucklers. Danny Kaye stars as a good-hearted, ex-circus performer in medieval England who joins a band of forest rebels seeking to...
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DATAMOSH
Yung Jake raps about tweet culture, data-moshing, hashtags and memes as he merges with Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr and Instagram. He's not on PhotoBooth.
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CONGRATULATIONS!
The search for a missing boy takes a turn for the bizarre in director Mike Brune's debut feature CONGRATULATIONS! When little Paul Gray disappears from his oldest brother's graduation party, local police are on the scene within hours, led by...
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THE CONGRESS
Elegant Robin Wright plays an aging actress who stopped working in order to prioritize her family. Desperate to avoid oblivion and rescue her career, she licenses her image and accepts an offer from Miramount Studios to be digitally replicated and...
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CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (CLÉO DE 5 À 7)
It’s 5:00 p.m. in Paris, and Cleo (Corrine Marchand) is getting a Tarot card reading. Her pop song is playing in all the cafés and she’s on the verge of exploding with fame. Unfortunately, her cards display a frightening misfortune:...
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CLOSED CURTAIN (PARDE)
Jafar Panahi continues to defy Iran’s brutal 20-year ban on his right to make films with CLOSED CURTAIN, an allegorical narrative that takes aim at his country’s oppressive laws. It is an emotional piece of meta-fiction, examining the director’s government-imposed...
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CAUCUS
Every four years, a new cast of presidential hopefuls congregates in Iowa. The first state to hold its caucuses, Iowa serves as both a training ground and a battleground for the primary candidates. AJ Schnack's documentary takes us behind the...
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CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO
With text taken solely from transcripts of real black box recordings, CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO employs both stark theatricality and 3-D photography to insert the audience into the experience of aviation disasters. The film, which takes its title from phonetic aviation...
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CHILD’S POSE (POZITIA COPILULUI)
Călin Peter Netzer won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale this year for this dark tragicomedy about an overly protective and domineering mother, Cornelia (Luminita Gheorghiu), who uses all of the means at her disposal to keep her adult son,...
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CARLOTA
He will be in love with her very soon. He is sure of this.
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CATHERINE
Catherine is ready to come back to work.
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BREATHE IN
Keith Reynolds (Guy Pierce) is a high school music teacher who has long replaced his dream of being a professional musician – except for an occasional stint as a symphony sub in Manhattan – for a family life outside the...
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BUTTER LAMP (LA LAMPE AU BEURRE DE YAK)
An inventive and heartfelt travelogue through reality, dreams and memory told through the eyes of two Tibetan photographers and their clients.
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BLUE RUIN
A classic American revenge story, BLUE RUIN follows a mysterious outsider whose quiet life is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. Proving himself an amateur assassin, he winds up...
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BORGMAN
Borgman is rousted from his underground dwelling by an angry group of men pursuing him. He escapes to find himself outside a modern country house and decides to beg a family for assistance. The overly aggressive response he receives sets...
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BETHLEHEM
Sanfur (Sahdi Marei), a young Palestinian, is only 15 when he is recruited as an informant by Shin Bet, the Israeli secret service. Sanfur’s militant older brother is on the Shin Bet’s most wanted list and Sanfur is the key...
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BIG BAD WOLVES
The celebrated filmmaking duo behind Israel’s first horror film (RABIES, 2010) masterfully explores an unimaginable terror in this tense and ambitious fairy tale gone wrong. A killer of children is on the loose, raping, mangling and beheading little girls. An...
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BABY BLUES
Natalia is a 17-year-old mother juggling adolescent desires and adult responsibilities in Kasia Rosłaniec’s visually stylish sophomore film set in present-day Poland. Rejected by her mother, Natalia roller-skates down the streets of Warsaw pushing a trendy baby-stroller, chasing after her...
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BALCONY (BALLKONI)
An entire village reacts to a boy dangling from a balcony in this one-shot tour de force. n'Art
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B FOR BOY
Director Chika Anadu’s remarkable debut feature is a scathing critique of Nigeria’s patriarchal social order. Her protagonist, Amaka, maintains a happy marriage, raises a 7 year old daughter and runs her own successful business, yet her failure to produce a son...
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AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
A dark, hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house where they grew up, and to the dysfunctional woman who...
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AWFUL NICE
Director Todd Sklar skillfully crafts a peculiar and hilarious version of the family road trip movie when two estranged brothers, Jim (James Pumphrey) and Dave (Alex Rennie), must travel to Branson, Missouri, to check out the family’s summer home they...
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AFTER HOURS
Martin Scorsese won Best Director at Cannes in 1986 with the black comedy AFTER HOURS for the masterful way he externalizes the protagonist’s paranoia on one harrowing, interminable night in New York City. – Wonsun Choi AFTER HOURS is a...
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YOUNG HOLLYWOOD ROUNDTABLE
The Los Angeles Times returns with its very popular Young Hollywood Roundtable. Some of the year’s hottest rising stars will engage in a lively discussion the The Times’ Amy Kaufman on life in the industry and being thrust into the...
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ZAYTOUN
In 1982, amid the fighting of the Lebanese Civil War, Israeli pilot Yoni (Stephen Dorff) crash lands in Beirut, where he is taken prisoner by the combat-trained inhabitants of a Palestinian refugee camp. Among the captors is Fahed, a young...
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WRONG
Dolph Springer (the wonderful Jack Plotnick) awakens one morning to realize he has tragically lost the love of his life – his dog, Paul. So begins WRONG, the micro-epic tale of Dolph’s quest to reunite with his best friend and...
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WHATEVEREST
An original documentary about the unlikely inspiration behind "Inspector Norse," a dance tune produced by Todd Terje.
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WHITE ELEPHANT
Pablo Trapero returns to AFI FEST following his pulsating neo-noir CARANCHO with an explosive vision of Argentina’s crumbling slums and the men who labor to sustain those struggling to survive in them. When an Amazon tribe is brutally slaughtered, Father...
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WEST OF MEMPHIS
Unfolding with the epic scope and emotional complexity of a Russian novel, Amy Berg’s WEST OF MEMPHIS casts a light on the brutal murder of three young boys in the Robin Hood Hills area of West Memphis, Arkansas – and...
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WAR WITCH (REBELLE)
A harrowing drama laced with moments of exquisite beauty, WAR WITCH unfolds as a bedtime story of sorts – told by a 14-year old African child soldier to her unborn son. Taken from her village at gunpoint, Komona (Rachel Mwanza)...
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WE CAME HOME
Born in L.A., the year the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, Ariana Delawari's life is filled with refugees, Afghan music, and her father's dedication to his homeland. September 11th changes their lives. Her parents sell everything and move back to Kabul where...
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VIVRE SA VIE
Ignoring her domestic responsibilities, Nana leaves her husband and child to pursue an acting career in Paris. Presented in 12 chapters and featuring French actor Anna Karina’s most iconic moments, the film details Nana’s descent into prostitution and her eventual...
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VOICE OVER
A voice over leads us through three extreme situations that ore actually the some. Will you discover the connection?
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THANK YOU NOTE FROM A DEAD MAN
A group of friends gathers for a drink to mourn their friend who has died under mysterious circumstances.
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TOO MUCH WATER (DEMASIADA AGUA)
A young woman fills her backyard pool every night and finds it empty in the morning. Strange neighbors and even stranger circumstances stir her paranoia about where the water is going.
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TAPE GENERATIONS
A brief experimental animation made with simple rolls of tape, gravity and time.
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TCHOUPITOULAS
The Ross brothers’ TCHOUPITOULAS is a dreamlike documentary following three young boys who venture across the mighty Mississippi River into New Orleans’ famous French Quarter for a night of revelry among street performers, drag queens, burlesque dancers and Mardi Gras...
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TEY (AUJOURD’HUI)
Alain Gomis’ third film is a lyrical and poetic portrait of modern Senegal. Saül Williams is Satché, a healthy young man who is told by the community’s fortuneteller that he has only one day left to live. Satché accepts his...
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SUNSET BLVD
A stunning new restoration of this classic of American cinema is presented in partnership with Technicolor. The brilliant and versatile Billy Wilder (1906-2002) began his film career in the late 1920s. He left Nazi Germany, arriving in Hollywood in1933 where...
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TABU
TABU is a highly stylized dream of a film. The film takes its name from the F.W. Murnau and Robert Flaherty 1931 silent classic TABU: A STORY OF THE SOUTH SEAS and is similarly an epic colonial romance. However, in...
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SUN DON’T SHINE
Amy Siemetz’s directorial debut, SUN DON’T SHINE, follows Crystal and her boyfriend Leo as they travel across the Sunshine State to escape Crystal’s haunting past and embark on a new future together. As they travel, we are introduced to their...
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SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS
Studio head William Fox offered F. W. Murnau complete artistic freedom when he brought the German director to the United States after the filmmaker’s critical triumphs, THE LAST LAUGH (1924) and FAUST (1926). SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS, which...
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SPOTLIGHT
Presented by Entertainment Weekly Entertainment Weekly takes a seat at AFI FEST 2012 to have a conversation with featured actors from some of the year’s most buzzed about films.
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STARLET
Sean Baker’s unusual character study follows the improbable friendship that develops between Jane, a rootless 21-year-old porn actress and Sadie, a prickly octogenarian who accidentally sells her a thermos full of cash at a yard sale. Jane’s unspoken attempts to...
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STORAGE
A couple's relationship reaches the breaking point when they hunt far treasure in a dead relative's storage unit.
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SOMETHING IN THE AIR (APRÈS MAI)
Set in Paris in 1971, just a few years after the student riots of 1968, SOMETHING IN THE AIR feels like an open letter to the friends and forces that shaped director Olivier Assayas’ coming of age. Assayas masterfully makes...
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SOMETHING STRANGELY FAMILIAR
An apocalypse in ink, soap and 35mm film, shot in high definition video.
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SIMON KILLER
Antonio Campos’ sophomore effort follows recent graduate Simon as he travels to Paris to escape the fallout from a former relationship. No matter how hard he tries, Simon can’t seem to shake the past and feelings of lost love. Instead,...
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SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME
SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME continues in the comedic tradition of Bob Byington’s 2009 film HARMONY AND ME, albeit with the presence of a mysterious suitcase. There’s something unusual about Max’s story as he is oddly immune to aging, a...
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A SESSION WITH THE TALENT BEHIND THE SESSIONS
Presented by the Hollywood Reporter The Hollywood Reporter peels back the curtain for conversation with talent from one of this year’s awards season contenders, THE SESSIONS. Moderated by THR awards columnist/blogger Scott Feinberg.
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SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
Based on Matthew Quick’s novel, SILVER LINING PLAYBOOK is a funny and moving examination of one man’s recovery from a personal and professional meltdown. Things have gone terribly wrong for Pat (Bradley Cooper). A substitute history teacher cuckolded by his wife...
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THE SAPPHIRES
From the Land Down Under comes this inspiring and thrilling true story of a late 1960s girl group caught up in the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. The film’s screenwriter is the real-life son and nephew of the...
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SEE YOU THEN, THEN
At an intimate dinner party, a surprising announcement is made.
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THE RULES OF THE GAME (LA RÈGLE DU JEU)
A comedy of manners and musical beds set against society’s need to keep up appearances, RULES OF THE GAME contrasts the French aristocracy and lower classes as they interact on a country estate during a weekend hunting party. Jean Renoir...
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RUNAWAYS
The appearance of two young runaways drives an aging couple to the breaking point.
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RUST AND BONE (DE ROUILLE ET D’OS)
RUST AND BONE is Jacques Audiard’s follow-up to A PROPHET, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2009. With his new film, Audiard gives us Stephanie (Marion Cotillard) and Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts), two independent and strong-willed souls who bond...
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ROOM 237
In ROOM 237, filmmaker Rodney Asher delves into the symbols and motifs in Stanley Kubrick’s historic film, THE SHINING, revealing even more secrets hidden within the story over 30 years later. A filmmaker as rigorously detailed as Kubrick demands close...
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A ROYAL AFFAIR
In the Age of Enlightenment, a young woman becomes Queen of Denmark via an arranged marriage, but shortly after the ceremony it becomes clear that the young King suffers from mental illness. German physician and philosopher Johan Struensee is called...
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RISE OF THE GUARDIANS
RISE OF THE GUARDIANS is an epic adventure, spinning the tale of a group of heroes each with extraordinary abilities. Jack Frost’s presence brings joy to children on snow days, Santa Claus’ army of yetis makes toys year round, the...
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POST TENEBRAS LUX
Winner of the Best Director prize of the 65th Cannes Film Festival, POST TENEBRAS LUX further establishes Carlos Reygadas as a distinctive voice in contemporary Mexican cinema. The film details the life of Juan and Natalia, a wealthy couple living...
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QUARTET
QUARTET tells the story of retired opera singers and lifelong chums Wilf and Reggie who, together with their former colleague Cissy, reside in the Beecham House retirement home. At the home, the residents hold an annual fundraising concert on Giuseppe...
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REALITY
REALITY opens with a gorgeous aerial shot that follows a beautiful horse-drawn chariot to a wedding celebration where the real guest of honor is surprising, a reality television star. Watching in the wings is Luciano (Aniello Arena) in a clownish...
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PIETA
Kim Ki-Duk (ARIRANG) returns to AFI FEST with his Golden Lion winner, PIETA, the story of a man working as a loan shark who threatens and cripples those who can’t make their payments. One day, a woman appears on his...
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THE PIRATE OF LOVE
An oral history of one man's soulful songs of love, pride and loneliness.
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PARADISE: LOVE
This first installment of Seidl’s PARADISE trilogy tells the story of Teresa, an aging European woman, as she embarks on a sex tourism trip. Traveling to Kenya, she finds herself on a beach with muscular young men lining up to...
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PEARBLOSSOM HWY
Friends Cory and Anna are drifting through life, struggling to find their place. Cory is sick of life in the desert and wants to be on a reality show, so he can prove to his brother that he isn’t a...
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OUR CHILDREN (À PERDRE LA RAISON)
Armed with a remarkable team of writers and actors, Joachim Lafosse’s fifth film continues his exploration of family dynamics by detailing when a mother snaps under uncontrollable circumstances. This psychological drama begins with the love story of Murielle, a Belgian...
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THE PACK (LA MANADA)
After school, a group of friends hang out in a ditch, testing each other's boundaries in mean ways
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PARADISE: FAITH
In the second installment of the controversial PARADISE trilogy we meet Anna Maria, a fanatically devout Christian and the sister of Teresa, the protagonist in the first film. Anna Maria takes time off from work to travel the countryside, attempting...
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ON THE ROAD
Walter Salles gives Jack Kerouac’s coming of age classic new life with a screen adaptation that burns bright and boldly captures the spirit of the novel. The ensemble cast brings Kerouac’s characters to life with an intensity that overflows from...
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ONLY THE YOUNG
North of Los Angeles stands the city of Santa Clarita, where once-affluent neighborhoods now buckle under the strain of economic recession. Inside one of the town’s vacant houses, teenagers Garrison Saenz and Kevin Conway build a skateboard ramp in an...
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OH BOY
In this German comedy shot in black & white, Niko, a young slacker and college dropout, is dumped by his girlfriend. His father cuts him off financially and a psychiatrist confirms that he’s emotionally unbalanced. To cope with his situation,...
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OH WILLY…
Forced to return to his roots in the wild, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery.
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NARCOCORRIDO
The drug ballad of a gravely ill border cop's reckless heist of a cartel shipment, sung by a desperate soul destroyed in her wake.
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NOT IN TEL AVIV
In NOT IN TEL AVIV, first time director Nony Geffen stars as Micha, a repressed high school teacher who, upon losing his job, kidnaps one of his students, kills his mother and reconnects with a former high school crush. The...
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NANO SCIFI TALES – BABY
A young girl creates a tribute to one of her favorite songs. The first of three micro science fiction shorts from the director of EXTRATERRESTRIAL (AFI FEST 2011)
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NANO SCIFI TALES – CLOCK
The second of three micro science fiction shorts from the director of EXTRATERRESTRIAL (AFI FEST 2011)
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NANO SCIFI TALES – UFO
The last of three micro science fiction shorts from the director of EXTRATERRESTRIAL (AFI FEST 2011)
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NAIROBI HALF LIFE
Despite his parents’ wishes, Mwas leaves his small village and embarks on a journey to Kenya’s capital in order to pursue a career in acting. Naïve and filled with hope, he quickly learns why the city is nicknamed “Nairobbery.” A...
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NANI
In this AFI Conservatory Thesis Film and a 39th Student Academy Award® winner, Oscar, a teenage graffiti artist, and Isabel, an elderly nursing home resident, form an unlikely bond through misadventures in graffiti.
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MOVING STORIES
Two young airplane passengers adventure toward a mysterious future.
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MEN OF THE EARTH
A privileged encounter with a secret somber ritual of working men takes place when traffic is delayed on the edge of a roadwork site.
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THE MOST FUN I’VE EVER HAD WITH MY PANTS ON
After spreading the ashes of her father, Andy and her childhood friend Liv set out on a road trip from L.A. to Austin – to decompress, try new experiences and basically see what it’s like to do crazy things. It's...
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LOVE DRAIN (AMORES PASSAGEIROS)
During a routine sewer inspection, a lonely worker has an encounter that marks the beginning of a perplexing relationship
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MAGNETIC RECONNECTION
An experimental short-form documentary contrasting the northern lights with the harsh landscapes and decoying man-mode remnants of Churchill, a northern Canadian town.
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LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE
With his new film, Abbas Kiarostami goes to Tokyo and delves even more deeply into the world of artifice that he explored in his last film, CERTIFIED COPY, by crafting characters wrought with shame, whose emotional wounds lead them to...
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LINCOLN
Steven Spielberg directs two-time Academy Award® winner Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lincoln,” a revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President’s tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course...
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LIFE OF PI
Director Ang Lee (BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN; CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) presents a groundbreaking movie about a young man who survives a disaster at sea. While marooned on a lifeboat, he forms a stunning and unexpected connection with the ship's only other...
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LEVIATHAN
Emerging from inky darkness, we join the writhing life that is nighttime on a commercial fishing boat. With uncanny intimacy, LEVIATHAN propels the viewer into the rhythmic horrors of the sea and the men who live in it. Cameras are...
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LIFE AND FREAKY TIMES OF UNCLE LUKE
A modern adaptation of the 1962 French short film LA JETEE starring Luke Skywalker from 2 Live Crew.
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THE LAST STEP
“I always lost track of past events, even before my death,” says the deceased protagonist of Ali Mosaffa’s THE LAST STEP, inviting us down the rabbit hole of this playful puzzle of a film. The narrator is Koshrow (Mosaffa), a...
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LAURENCE ANYWAYS
Prolific Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan returns to AFI FEST with his latest passionate rollercoaster ride of unattainable love. Set in the ‘90s, LAURENCE ANYWAYS narrates the story of Laurence, a handsome high school teacher and writer who is madly in...
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KON-TIKI
Thor Heyerdahl is alone in his belief that Polynesia was first populated by settlers from South American rather than by men from the East, but he is determined to raise the funds for an expedition to prove his hypothesis. The...
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KUMA
“Kuma” is Turkish for “second wife,” referring in this case to an uncommon yet enduring form of polygamy. Director Umut Dag has fashioned a sharply observed drama about a Muslim family caught between an older generation's traditions and their children's...
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JUST ANCIENT LOOPS
Using archival footage, chemical processes and animation, Bill Morrison presents a unique view of the heavens.
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KID
Kid, a boy of seven, lives with his mother and older brother Billy on a farm outside a small town. Abandoned by their father three years earlier, they have been forced to fend for themselves. Gradually, Kid’s mother sells off...
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KID-THING
Childhood is a stage of life that has long fascinated filmmakers. From THE 400 BLOWS to HOME ALONE, directors have explored youth with their own signature style. In their second feature film, writer-director David Zellner and his brother Nathan, the...
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IZZY & SALVADOR
A tale of two cats on the road , honest and moving in its depiction of love.
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JOHN DIES AT THE END
From the novel by David Wong comes this instant cult favorite that has been thrilling audiences at festivals around the world. John and Dave are problem solvers – and it’s all thanks to drugs. After taking “Soy Sauce,” the two...
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IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY
Bill finds himself in a hospital, struggling with memory problems in this third and final chapter of Don Hertzfeldt's EVERYTHING WILL BE OK trilogy.
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IN THE FOG
Adapted from the novel by Vasili Bykov, recent Palme d’Or nominee IN THE FOG is director Sergei Loznitsa’s sobering meditation on the complicated moral decisions faced by both soldiers and citizens during wartime. Set in Nazi-occupied Belarus, Loznitsa’s film begins...
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THE INTERNATIONAL SIGN FOR CHOKING
THE INTERNATIONAL SIGN FOR CHOKING is an innovative, multilayered film that follows Josh, a commissioned filmmaker in Argentina, in search of so much more than a video subject. He rents a room in a familiar boarding house and quickly sets...
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THE HUNT (JAGTEN)
Mads Mikkelsen won the Best Actor Prize at Cannes this year for this performance. Thomas Vinterberg revives themes he has explored – the sanctity of childhood, family and community. As always, he challenges his characters with dark secrets. THE HUNT...
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THE IMPOSSIBLE
Henry (Ewan McGregor) and Maria (Naomi Watts) have taken their three young sons to Thailand to spend Christmas 2004 at an idyllic beachfront resort. The family is playing outside by the pool when a tsunami hits the shore, laying waste...
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IN ANOTHER COUNTRY
Each time Isabelle Huppert’s Anne returns to the seaside town of Mohan she is a different woman; a new character in a completely different story. Hong Sang-soo gives us a trio of stories, each with its own very different interpretation...
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HORIZON (ORIZONT)
If a fisherman mysteriously disappears in the depths of the Black Sea and there is nobody around to hear him, does he make a sound?
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HOWARDCANTOUR.COM
This is the story of Howard Contour , a warrior, that l follows his life as a film critic earning to terms with reviewing his hero's film.
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HOLY MOTORS
HOLY MOTORS may be the most driven and divine film produced this year. After a brief overture, harkening back to the very earliest images of cinema itself, Leos Carax’s beguiling work takes us on a voyage unlike any other. The...
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HOPSCOTCH
A brief encounter sparks tensions when an estranged father visits his child
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A HIJACKING (KAPRINGEN)
One mistake can mean life or death to the crew on board a Danish ship taken hostage by Somali pirates. In Denmark, the shipping company’s CEO boldly ignores advice from a hostage negotiator and speaks on the phone directly with...
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HITCHCOCK
Starring Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock and Helen Mirren as Alma Reville, his wife, collaborator and the love of his life, HITCHCOCK reveals the untold story behind the director’s darkest masterpiece, PSYCHO. An intense love story, HITCHCOCK reveals how two...
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HERE AND THERE (AQUÍ Y ALLÁ)
Winner of the top prize in the Critics Week section of Cannes, Antonio Mendez Esparza’s directorial debut radiantly captures the complex homecoming of a loving father. After many years in New York, Pedro returns home to Guerrero, Mexico, to an...
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HERE COMES THE DEVIL (AHÍ VA EL DIABLO)
While on a trip to Tijuana, husband and wife Felix and Sol (Mexican stars Francisco Barreiro and Lura Caro) are put through the ringer when their pre-teen children, Sara and Adolfo, go missing overnight while hiking through a mountainside pockmarked...
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GREATEST HITS (LOS MEJORES TEMAS)
In one of the most inventive and humorous films of AFI FEST 2012, 30-year-old Nicolas Pereda’s sixth film deconstructs linear storytelling by wittily playing with reality, perception and appearances. Gabino grew up without a father, male guidance or a career...
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HERD LEADER (CHEF DE MEUTE)
An isolated woman's new dog is the first step in an unlikely but empowering relationship.
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FORTUNE FADED
This short technical marvel offers a single pan, moving through time and space, exploring a house on fire.
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GINGER & ROSA
Sally Potter retraces the steps to the roots of the aesthetic and political consciousness that shaped many of the artists who came of age in the 1960s amidst social upheaval and the sexual revolution. Through Ginger (Elle Fanning) and Rosa...
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THE GLOBE COLLECTOR
A journey into the incredible world of a light bulb collector, whose passion for electronics is all-consuming and whose diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome is nothing more than a label.
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FINAL CUT – LADIES & GENTLEMEN
György Palfi's “recycled film” is the tale of the ultimate man and the ultimate woman. What are their distinguishing marks? He is charming like Marcello Mastroianni in LA DOLCE VITA. But he's also strapping like Brad Pitt in THE FIGHT...
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THE FORT
On a rainy day, a young boy builds a fort in the woods, when a man appears and offers to help.
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EVERYBODY’S GOT SOMEBODY… NOT ME (TODO EL MUNDO TIENE A ALGUIEN MENOS YO)
In his first feature film, Raul Fuentes dares to explore the psyche of a woman caught in a vicious self-sabotaging cycle that incapacitates her ability to love. EVERYBODY’S GOT SOMEBODY BUT ME details the story of Alejandra, a condescending intellectual...
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FAMILY NIGHTMARE
Re-purposing a series of unearthed home movies, Dustin Guy Defa dubs his own voice over the voices of his family members to create a haunting portrait of family dysfunction.
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ELKO
An Internet-obsessed boy in rural Nevada responds to a stranger's online request to be murdered
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EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY (TOATA LUMEA DIN FAMILIA NOASTRA)
Divorced father Marius will finally be allowed to take his five-year-old daughter Sofia on a much anticipated weekend vacation to the beach. He takes time off from school, borrows his parent’s car and even buys little Sofia a stuffed Octopus....
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ELECTRICK CHILDREN
Rebecca Thomas’ feature film debut, ELECTRICK CHILDREN, follows Rachel, a 15-year-old girl from a strict Mormon family, who finds herself miraculously pregnant after listening to a rock music cassette. With her family pressuring her to marry a suitor they have...
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DOGS ARE SAID TO SEE THINGS (DIZEM QUE OS CÃES VEEM COISAS)
An omen , a shred of time: suddenly, the big-bellied man jumps into the pool holding a glass of whiskey.
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EAT SLEEP DIE
Nermina Lukac’s electrifying performance as Raša is the heart of director Gabriela Pichler's feature debut. A Montenegrin-born young woman living in rural Sweden, Raša is laid off from her job at a food-packing plant. Her ensuing job search pulls us...
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ELECTRIC CHAIR
Huddled with Director of Photography Fabio Cianchetti and other members of his crew, Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci is watching digital texts and looking doubtful. Perhaps it’s better to go back to film. There are only a few days left before...
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COME OUT AND PLAY
A young couple on vacation takes a small boat to a picturesque island. On arrival, they find a strangely isolated world, one seemingly devoid of adults. At first, they shrug off the strangeness and think it’s nothing more than a...
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CREEPER
New hi-tech augmented reality glasses make finding your prey through social media easy, interactive and fun!
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CITY PARKING
In the modern urban jungle , a young parking attendant explores his artistic side and tries to find love .
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CLIP
In CLIP, Jasna, a teenage Serbian girl grapples with random sexual encounters and nothing to grasp onto in the way of a future. With her father plagued by illness, Jasna is left with little more with which to navigate her...
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CENTURY
Acclaimed experimental filmmaker Kevin Everson returns to AFI FEST with of portrait of destruction and decay.
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CHILLY
As the temperature rises in a stuffy hotel room, a talking ice cube pitches the wonders of modern refrigeration to a strangely distracted man.
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CATNIP: EGRESS TO OBLIVION?
Catnip is all the rage with today's modern feline, but do we really understand it? Is ii a source for harmless kicks, or a potentially crippling addiction?
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THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE
Ken Burns joins daughter Sarah Burns and her husband David McMahon to tell a story based on Sarah Burns’ book, “The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding.” They take us back to a night in 1989 when...
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BOUND BY FLESH
They were the highest paid act in vaudeville. They sang, danced, played musical instruments, and were as close as any two sisters. America’s sweethearts in the ‘30s and ‘40s, they were among the biggest celebrities of their day. They were...
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BRADLEY MANNING HAD SECRETS
The story of Bradley Manning, not as a Wikileaks "hacktivist" but as a young American soldier simultaneously going through a crisis-of-conscience and a crisis-of-gender-identity.
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CAESAR MUST DIE (CESARE DEVE MORIRE)
Deep within the walls of the Roman prison Rebibbia, inmates whisper and conspire, giving new life to the timeless words of William Shakespeare as they rehearse a production of “Julius Caesar.” Utilizing the device of an unfinished theater, the players...
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BLOOD OF MY BLOOD (SANGUE DO MEU SANGUE)
Writer-Director João Canijo boldly balances nuanced social realism with high stakes melodrama in this sprawling, humane portrait of a troubled working class family. Márcia Fialho (Rita Blanco) is a weary matriarch who lives with her lonely sister Ivete and grown...
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BOBBY YEAH
When petty thug Bobby Yeah steals the favorite pet of some very dangerous individuals, he finds himself in deep trouble.
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BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO
From the screams of ingénues to the splitting of skulls, a cacophony of tones echoes through the hallways of BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO, showcasing the work of a quiet Englishman with an unquiet mind. Having accepted a job as sound designer...
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BEYOND THE HILLS (DUPĂ DEALURI)
After winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2007 for FOUR MONTHS, THREE WEEKS AND TWO DAYS, Cristian Mungiu returns with another strong film about women and self-determination. This time the story is set in a cloistered orthodox community in...
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BARBARA
Working with Christian Petzold for the fifth time, the beautiful Nina Hoss exudes raw strength, bringing layers of meaning to Petzold’s naturalistic and observational style. BARBARA is a portrait of a female doctor who is transferred to a country hospital...
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BELLY
Against his better judgment, Oscar experiences the necessary evil of leaving something behind.
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AUDACITY (AASHPORDHA)
Set in a noisy neighborhood of Calcutta, India, this short is a comedy about a rebellious 13-year-old and her old fashioned dad.
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THE BANQUET OF THE CONCUBINE (LE BANQUET DE LA CONCUBINE)
During the Tong dynasty, the Chinese emperor prepares a grand banquet in honor of Yang, the most beautiful of all his concubines.
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THE ANGELS’ SHARE
Not many would look at Robbie and see a man worthy of redemption. He’s constantly looking over his shoulder for a gang of thugs bent on settling a family grudge. His girlfriend is about to give birth to their son...
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ANTIVIRAL
Brandon Cronenberg’s debut feature ANTIVIRAL takes us to an alternate reality where society’s obsession with celebrity has grown exponentially. Syd March works in a clinic specializing in disease sales: harvesting infections from celebrities and selling them to their legions of...
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APE
Trevor Newandyke is the epitome of post-adolescent boredom, rising in the afternoon and endlessly complaining about mundane things like the cable company. His sole ambition in life is to be a famous comedian and he devotes his entire day to...
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AMOUR
AMOUR won Michael Haneke his second Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Haneke also received the prize for his last film, THE WHITE RIBBON, which screened at AFI FEST in 2009. With AMOUR, Haneke gives us a...
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ALASKA IS A DRAG
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ALL THE LIGHT IN THE SKY
Joe Swanberg returns to AFI FEST following last year’s Filmmaker Spotlight with a tale direct from Hollywood’s backyard. Jane Adams plays a woman living in a house perched precariously on stilts above the beach in Malibu who clings to her...
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ADELE 1
A young girl creates a tribute to one of her favorite songs.
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AFTER LUCIA (DESPUÉS DE LUCIA)
Roberto and his daughter, Alejandra, travel to Mexico City to begin a new life after the death of his wife, Lucia. Unable to cope with their grief and the pace of the unfamiliar city, the two proceed with their new...
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ABCS OF DEATH
Twenty-six directors. Twenty-six ways to die. From producers Ant Timpson and Tim League comes this assemblage of 25 of the best-known genre directors from around the world (and one lucky contest winner). Each filmmaker was given a letter of the...
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42ND STREET
From 1928 through 1930 Hollywood’s mantra was “All Talking, All Singing, All Dancing” as musicals dominated the new medium of sound motion pictures. Then, abruptly, “tuners” became a drug on the market, and in 1931-’32 studios stopped green-lighting musicals and...
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88:88
Rendered powerless by on outside force, a young woman must find a way to fight back.
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38–39°C
A man with a large birthmark on his back enters a bathhouse. He falls into a dream and confronts his father, who has an identical birthmark.
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THE ZONE
In the final film of this trilogy, films are nesting within other films, not so much breaking the fourth wall as pushing its boundaries beyond reality. THE ZONE finds Joe Swan berg virtually playing himself, a filmmaker who puts beautiful...
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WUSS
Wuss - noun (slang) A weak, cowardly or ineffectual person. Mitch is a substitute teacher, a Dungeons & Dragons playing mega-dork who still lives at home and is picked on by his sister, friends and even his students. Everybody's perception...
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YEARBOOK
Something strange is going on at Rockdale High School
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ZERGUT
Within a refrigerator, a bottle ensues as moldy, decoying foods forgotten in the depths of the back rise up against the fresh ingredients that reside in the front.
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WE’RE LEAVING
Rusty has to find a new place to live with his wife and teenage American alligator, Chopper
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WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT (KYSS MIG)
In WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT, writer/director Alexandro-Therese Keining offers a subtle, sensual romantic drama about how love appears in the most unexpected ways, and at the most unexpected times. Mia (Ruth Vega Fernandez) and her fiance Tim set off on a...
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THE VOYAGERS
In the summer of 1977, NASA sent Voyager l and Voyager 2 on an epic journey to travel to the end of the universe.
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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
Director Lynne Ramsay (RATCATCHER, MORVERN CALLAR) steps behind the camera for the first time in nine years to tell the fragmented story of a woman living a waking nightmare, coming to terms with the reality that her son was a...
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TO DIE BY YOUR SIDE (MOURIR AUPRÈS DE TOI)
When a Parisian bookseller's books come to life, Dracula's girlfriend Mina and Macbeth's skeleton fall in love.
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THE TURIN HORSE
Inspired by the account of Friedrich Nietzsche's mental breakdown at the sight of a horse being whipped , Hungarian master Bela Tarr's new work - which he claims will be his lost - is on apocalyptic vision. Tarr's film begins...
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UNMANNED
UNMANNED explores the new face of remote controlled warfare through the story of a young drone pilot.
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THIS IS NOT A FILM (IN FILM NIST)
"If one could tell a film, why would one make a film?" In 2006, Jafar Panahi was able to attend AFI FEST and shore his film OFFSIDE with our audience. At this year's festival, Panahi's absence is strongly felt. Forbidden...
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THREE AND A HALF (SEH-O-NIM)
THREE AND A HALF is the story of Honieh, Homo and Bonofsheh, three Iranian convicts who, while on temporary leave from prison, hatch a scheme to escape the country by crossing the northern border Telling jokes and pulling pranks on...
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TATUM’S GHOST
These three ultra· short shorts came from the prolific mind of experimental filmmaker Stephanie Barber.
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THIEF
An Iraqi goat herder's childhood memories return to haunt him when a mysterious stronger arrives at his isolated hut. Winner of the top prize in narrative filmmaking at the 38th Annual Student Academy Awards and top prize at the 32nd...
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SPARK OF BEING
Director Bill Morrison hos been a mainstay of the experimental film world for many years, but this is his first appearance at AFI FEST His previous works, including DECASIA, have played in festivals around the world, winning numerous awards and...
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TARGET (MISHEN)
Set in 2020, TARGET envisions o culturally stagnant Russia where the disparity between classes is even greater than it is now, and where a whizzing superhighway connects the nation with its trade partners in China and France. Four ultra-wealthy Muscovites...
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SLEEP STUDY
A woman can't sleep well at night, so she seeks the help of a doctor.
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SNOWTOWN
In his feature film debut, director Justin Kurzel brings to the screen the horrifying true story of Australia's most notorious serial killer. 16-year-old Jamie lives with his mother and brothers in a rundown Adelaide suburb. Longing to escape the violence...
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SILVER BULLETS
This trilogy by director Joe Swanberg deals with autobiographical issues of filmmaking, sex and the collision of art and reality. SILVER BULLETS is the first film in the series and it premiered earlier this year at the Berlin Film Festival,...
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THE SILVER CLIFF (O ABISMO PRATEADO)
Violeta has it all: a loving husband, a beautiful child, a fulfilling career and a new apartment near the beach. Like any normal day, she dives into her routine, gets ready for work, kisses her husband goodbye and heads off...
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SATAN SINCE 2003
Richmond, Virginia, becomes a battleground for moped gangs.
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A SEPARATION
When Simin files for divorce from her husband Nader, neither of them imagines that her action will lead to a domestic incident that will force each member of the family to conceal the truth in a desperate attempt to protect...
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SHAME
Winner of the Camera d'Or at Cannes in 2008, HUNGER put Steve McOueen on the map as a remarkably promising new filmmaker That promise is fulfilled, and surpassed, with his second directorial effort SHAME . A searing examination of sexual...
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RESTLESS CITY
Director Andrew Dosunmu gives us a fresh take on New York City hustling through the eyes of recent immigrants for whom there are no illusions about the American Dream. His main character, Diibril, is on aspiring musician from Senegal who...
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THE RUNAWAY (LA HUIDA)
Chewing gum. A dog leash. An Australia-shaped stain on the wall. A bent traffic light. Each has its own story; together they create a new plot.
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PROTOPARTICLES (PROTOPARTÍCULAS)
The experiment was a success: protomatter exists.
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RAMPART
Academy Award-nominated writer/ director Oren Moverman (THE MESSENGER) and James Ellroy ("LA Confidential ") team up to create a hard-boiled crime drama layered with grit , loathing and disgrace. Woody Harrelson gives a ferocious performance as Dave Brown, an LA...
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PIONEER
A father tells his little boy the most epic bedtime story ever.
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PLAY
Director Ruben Ostlund returns to AFI FEST (where his remarkably assured second film INVOLUNTARY appeared in 2008) with a fascinating and troubling look at race, ethics and group psychology . Based on actual events in Goteborg, Sweden, PLAY follows a...
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OSLO, AUGUST 31 (OSLO, 31. AUGUST)
Caught in a downward spiral of his own creation, recovering addict Anders - with two weeks left in rehab - uses a day pass to return to Oslo, a city haunted by memory and regret. He drifts through the city...
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PINA
In 2009, legendary Germon choreographer Pino Bausch began to collaborate with Wim Wenders on this documentary film, but when she died suddenly that summer, Wenders was faced with the challenge of completing his portrait without its subject. And yet, despite...
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ONCE IT STARTED IT COULD NOT END OTHERWISE
Animated images from 1974 high school yearbooks uncover a dark and secret history.
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (BIR ZAMANLAR ANADOLU’DA)
A suspect has confessed to murder All that remains is for him to take the police to the victim's body. This journey begins a long odyssey across the rolling countryside as it becomes clear that the confessed killer can't remember...
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ONE MINUTE PUBERTY
A quick trip through life's toughest journey.
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NIGHT HUNTER
NIGHT HUNTER evokes a disquieting dreamscape, drown from allegory, myth and archetype. Music and sound by Lorry Polanski.
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NIGHTMARE ALLEY
Totally unknown in Spain, for me this was one of the discoveries of this summer. With strong supporting performances by Joan Blondell and Coleen Gray, it tells of the rise and fall of an attractive mentalist with the face and,...
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MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
In the summer of 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark worked as a lowly assistant an the set of THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL, the film that paired Sir Laurence Olivier with Marilyn Monroe . Nearly 40 years later, his diary of...
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NEGATIVIPEG
Rory Lepine gives a personal account of his fateful 1985 encounter with The Guess Who's legendary lead singer, Burton Cummings, at a 7-Eleven in Winnipeg.
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MICHAEL
From the outside, 35-year-old Michael leads a seemingly normal life. He's vying for a promotion at the insurance company where he works and goes on vacations to the mountains with friends. But inside Michael' s ordinary suburban home, he is...
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MISS BALA
Director Gerardo Naranjo returns to AFI FEST with this his third and most ambitious film to dote. MISS BALA tells the frenetic story of Laura, a pageant hopeful who is drown against her will into the incredibly violent world of...
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MY BOW BREATHING (IL RESPIRO DELL’ARCO)
A girl tries to attune her breathing to the movements of her bow, arrow after arrow, but her sporting talent hides her need to retrieve a primitive, violent instinct: an archetype.
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MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO
What would the life of a bodybuilder be if his own body wanted something that his mind was not so sure about?
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MEXICAN CUISINE
In California, the state with the largest Mexican immigrant population, a cuisine has a deeper meaning.
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MASKA
An adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's novel, "Mosko."
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MELANCHOLIA
MELANCHOLIA is a psychological disaster film that could hove only come from the mind of Lars von Trier Promising no happy endings, MELANCHOLIA centers on sisters Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg). Justine is celebrating her marriage to Michael...
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THE LONELIEST PLANET
Intensely in love and engaged to be married, a young couple finds their journey through the Coucosus Mountains abruptly spun off course by one crucial action.
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MAMA AFRICA
The late, great Miriam Makeba (1932-200 8) was one of the most charismatic African performers of her time. At the height of her popularity in Africa, Makeba boldly took a public anti-apartheid stand that led to the revocation of her...
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LIBERTAS
The story of a girl who travels to Uluru in the aftermath of a tragedy.
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LIGHT OF MINE
Owen is a photographer with an incurable and debilitating eye disease that will soon leave him blind Before his sight is completely gone, he and his wife Laura take a once-in-a-lifetime rood trip to Yellowstone National Park. During their bittersweet...
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LITTLE KITTEN
These three ultra-short shorts came from the prolific mind of experimental filmmaker Stephanie Barber.
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LAW OF DESIRE (LA LEY DEL DESEO)
A conversation with Pedro Almodovar and Variety's John Hopewell will precede the screening AFI FEST is honored, to present this 25th anniversary screening of LAW OF DESIRE, a landmark chapter in Pedro Almodovar's storied career Looking back across the decades,...
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LE CERCLE ROUGE (EL CÍRCULO ROJO)
The thriller is an almost non-existent genre in Spain. In Europe, at least in the second half of the last century, the only country with a tradition in this genre was France, and its chief exponent was Jean-Pierre Melville, a...
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KINYARWANDA
Six intimate stories ore interwoven to tell the tragic story of Rwanda's 1994 genocide, when a machete-wielding Hutu militia began targeting and killing their Tutsi countrymen - former friends and neighbors - with impunity Making his feature film debut, director/writer...
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THE LADY
THE LADY is the extraordinary story of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner at the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her husband, Michael Aris. Michelle Yeah (CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) gives a quietly riveting performance as...
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THE KID WITH A BIKE (LE GAMIN AU VÉLO)
Two-time winners of the Palme d'Or ot the Cannes Film Festival, Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (L'ENFANT) ore two of the most acclaimed directors working today . Their latest film, a story about a feisty 11-year-old boy who must...
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KILL LIST
Unemployed for the lost eight months, suburban dad Jay is reluctant to use his natural gifts, but as the bills stock up and the day-to-day pressures mount, he realizes it's time to get back on the horse and kill some...
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THE KILLERS
Never have so few pages, six, inspired so much good cinema . The short story "The Killers," written by Ernest Hemingway, gave rise to two thriller masterpieces, the first directed by the eclectic Robert Siodmak, and the second by Don...
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JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI
For over half a century, 85-year-old sushi master Jiro Ono has dedicated his life to perfecting his art. His peerless work ethic and flawless technique have earned Ono's restaurant, Sukiyoboshi Jiro, the reputation for the best sushi in Japan, earning...
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JUAN & LA BORREGA (JUAN Y LA BORREGA)
Juan's routine is turned upside dawn when La Borrega comes into the store where he works.
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J. EDGAR
As head of the FBI, J Edgar Hoover rose to be the most powerful man in America. Through eight presidents and three wars, he battled threats both real and perceived, bending the rules to keep his country safe From Oscar-winning...
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JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME
In their second major studio outing (following CYRUS), Jay and Mark Duplass tell the story of a day being blown off course with beauty, clarity and style. Jason Segel shines as Jeff, a late-blooming loser living in his mother's basement....
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INTO THE ABYSS
Living legend Werner Herzog returns to AFI FEST for the second year in a row with a new documentary. This time, Herzog turns his focus on one horrible crime in Texas and the realities of Death Row. A young man...
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THE INVADER
THE INVADER tells the story of Amadau (lssaka Sawadogo), an African immigrant living illegally in a bustling western European metropolis. Working for and housed by a construction company, he is essentially enslaved by his employers. When his friend and co-worker...
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I MELT WITH YOU
Nearing the middle of their fifth decades on earth, four friends (Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven, Rob Lowe and Christian McKay) gather every year for a debauched reunion. As the alcohol flows and the drugs seep in, their shored memories seem...
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I SAW YOUR SISTER YESTERDAY
Women in this world have many restrictions that come from our social environment: prejudice, sexism and social norms.
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INFINITE MINUTES (VÉGTELEN PERCEK)
One story with many perspectives, a trick only film can pull off.
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HANAAN
HANAAN is the story of Stas, a fourth-generation Korean-Uzbek police detective seeking to avenge the drug-fueled death of a friend. Infiltrating the Uzbeki underworld, Stas makes discoveries that plunge him into fury, moral chaos and a resurgent heroin dependency he...
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HEADHUNTERS (HODEJEGERNE)
Based on the Norwegian bestseller by Jo Nesbo, HEADHUNTERS is a fun cat-and-mouse game full of unpredictable twists and turns. Aksel Hennie stars as the charming, sly Roger Brown, a successful corporate headhunter with many secrets. He will do anything...
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FROZEN STORIES (OPOWIEŚCI Z CHŁODNI)
The two worst employees of the supermarket hove been ordered to find one goal in their lives.
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GREEN
Genevieve, played by Kate Lyn Sheil, is an intellectual New Yorker who moves to a cabin in the rural South with her boyfriend Sebastian (Lawrence Michael Levine) so that he can blog about sustainable farming She form . s a...
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FOOTNOTE (HEARAT SHULAYIM)
FOOTNOTE is the story of a complex and competitive relationship between a father and son, both of whom ore equally eccentric and dedicated Talmudic scholars. Eliezer, the father, is a meticulous researcher who has never received the recognition he deserves,...
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THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD
After years of bitterness and disputes over a tract of land, two Albanian families find themselves teetering on the brink of a full-blown feud. When a refusal to back down ends in murder, the children of one clan are forced...
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EYES WITHOUT A FACE
Of all the mad doctors that the cinema has given us, Dr. Genessier (Pierre Brasseur) in EYES WITHOUT A FACE is the one who has most elements in common with Dr. Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) in THE SKIN I LIVE IN,...
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FAUST
Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, FAUST is director Alexander Sokurov's fourth and final film in his tetralogy on the corrupting effects of power In MOLOCH, TAURUS and THE SUN , Sokurov turned his gaze on...
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EXPECTING (LA ESPERA)
Expecting Waiting. A teen girl with a bright future buys some pills from a woman on a pork bench. She goes home and her parents are out of town. Her boyfriend comes over. This could be preparation for a night...
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EXTRATERRESTRIAL (EXTRATERRESTRE)
TIMECRIMES director Nacho Vigalondo's surprising second feature finds an alien invasion providing the backdrop for one of the most delightful romantic comedies in years.
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THE EAGLEMAN STAG
A dark, cerebral comedy about a man's obsession with his quickening perception of time.
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EX-SEX
A one-night stand between two people who used to be in love (or so they thought).
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DR. BREAKFAST
A surreal meditation on the quirky but rejuvenating nature of friendship and the most important meal of the day.
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DRAGONSLAYER
Filmed in and around abandoned houses, punk shows and empty swimming pools in Fullerton, California, DRAGONSLAYER is a gritty documentary portrait of Josh "Skreech" Sandoval, a truly unique character who operates on his own wavelength. Something of a local skate...
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CORIOLANUS
In his feature film directing debut, Ralph Fiennes has crafted a masterful adaptation of one of the Bard's most gripping tragedies. Setting Shakespeare's verse against a modern backdrop of 24-hour cable news networks and instant polling, this story of power,...
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THE DAY HE ARRIVES
With his newest film, AFI FEST veteran Hong Sang-soo returns to the crisp, black-and-white vision of Seoul in winter lost seen in his Nouvelle Vague-like VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS (2000) Evoking the earlier film's compelling mix of romantic...
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THE DISH & THE SPOON
Furious over her husband's infidelity, Rose (Greta Gerwig) recklessly drives to her pa rent's deserted beach house with a single goal: revenge. Along the way, Rose meets a young British teen (newcomer Olly Alexander) who togs along to bear witness...
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CLEAR BLUE
Simon gets his first job as a lifeguard at the local indoor pool where he discovers a startling secret.
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THE COLOR WHEEL
Confirming Alex Ross Perry as an innovative new voice in American cinema, THE COLOR WHEEL takes viewers on a comedic and cathartic road trip through the diners , motels and thrift stores of the Northeast. JR (co-writer Carl en Altman)...
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CARNAGE
Razor-sharp and acidly funny, CARNAGE strips away the thin veneer of civilization to find the savage heart beating just below the surface Adapting Yasmina Reza's smash comedy play "God of Carnage" to the screen, legendary director Roman Polanski assembles a...
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CARRÉ BLANC
One of the strongest debuts in years, CARRE BLANC is a dystopian sci-fi vision of a world with limited resources and limitless cruelty. Suicide is so prevalent in this society that nets are strung up around high-rises and loudspeakers encourage...
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BUTTER
In the tradition of BEST IN SHOW and ELECTION, BUTTER is a merrily twisted comedy about American life and culture. BUTTER tells the tale of the raw ambition of Laura Pickler (Jennifer Garner), the wife of Bob Pickler (Ty Burrell),...
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CAFÉ DE FLORE
Many filmmakers marry music and film together, but perhaps none as lovingly as Jean-More Vallee. The '70s pop that informed the filmmaker's childhood also fueled his 2008 film CRAZY Vallee's new film tells two parallel stories, both connected by music...
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BROKEN NIGHT (PU-SEO-JIN BAM)
The night becomes never-ending when on insurance scammer gets scammed by a younger couple.
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BULLHEAD (RUNDSKOP)
Director Michael Roskam's debut feature is a hulking mass of cinema that practically pulses off the screen. BULLHEAD tells the story of Jacky (Matthias Schoenaerts), a cattle farmer and "juicer" whose life and business are both fueled by similar drug...
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BLINK
Explore the way we hide parts of ourselves and what happens when those parts are finally exposed.
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BONSÁI
In on attempt to impress Emilia, Julio lies about reading Proust. Suddenly, the two are plunged into a love affair set among university classrooms, study groups and punk rock concerts. Eight years later, working as a freelance editor and struggling...
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BABYLAND
A woman seeks love and beyond in a small American town.
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BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW
Filmmaker Magazine recently named director Panos Cosmatos one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film,"" and this, his debut feature, makes it easy to see why. Suffused with a love for classic cinema, this audacious sci-fi film set in...
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THE ARTIST
Silence is golden in director Michel Hazanavicius' delightful block-and-white feature set in 1920s Hollywood. Jean Dujardin won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his charming portrayal of George Valentin, a vain, preening silent film star of...
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ATTENBERG
Athina Rachel Tsangari's ATTENBERG is a unique spin on the coming-of-age film. In a stark white crumbling town by the sea, 23-year-old Marina has grown up an outsider to human interaction, splitting her time between caring for her dying father...
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ANOTHER BULLET DODGED
In the fading echoes of a relationship, character is revealed.
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ARIRANG
In ARIRANG , we find director Kim Ki·duk in the mountains of South Korea, secluded from the world of filmmaking and living a very simple life Kim retired from filmmaking in 2008 following a near-fatal accident on the set of...
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ART HISTORY
"Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper," filmmaker Jean Cocteau once famously said. But what Cocteau didn't anticipate was how unstable the lines between reality and fantasy can become when the...
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ALMAYER’S FOLLY (LA FOLIE ALMAYER)
For her first narrative feature in six years, Chantal Akerman loosely adapts Joseph Conrad's first novel in what is almost a companion piece to her 2000 masterpiece LA CAPTIVE (also adapted from the work of a literary giant, Marcel Proust)....
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ALPS (ALPIS)
Acclaimed Greek auteur Yorgos Lonthimos makes his first appearance at AFI FEST with his newest film, ALPS. A paramedic, a nurse, a gymnast and her coach have formed a group they call Alps. They provide a most unusual service for...
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ALL FLOWERS IN TIME
A darkly surreal, Lynchian look at memory and identity, starring Chloe Sevigny as a red-eyed shapeshifter.
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ALL IN ALL
A lave story set on the final night of Christian summer camp.
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AANTENI
When Simin files for divorce from her husband Nader , neither of them imagines that her action will lead to a domestic incident that will force each member of the family to conceal the truth in a desperate attempt to...
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THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN
Based on the internationally beloved and irrepressible characters created by Herge, the story follows the unquenchably curious young reporter Tintin Uamie Bell) and his fiercely loyal dog Snowy as they discover a model ship carrying an explosive secret. Drawn into...
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30,000 DAYS
These three ultra· short shorts came from the prolific mind of experimental filmmaker Stephanie Barber
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THE WEATHER STATION (ПРЯЧЬСЯ!)
Ivanov and Drozdov hove spent the lost decode living in a shock-like weather station where their only job is to take weather measurements and report them a couple times a day. Their cook and houseboy is a 19-yeor-old troublemaking orphan...
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WIN/WIN
Filmmaker Jaap van Heusden returns lo AFI FEST, this time with his first feature film after his short A COMPLICATED STORY, SIMPLY TOLD was on official selection at AFI FEST 2006. This hyperkinetic cautionary tale follows a young man whose...
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UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES
Opening in the rustle of a moonlit forest and closing in the hum of a neon-lit hotel room, the long-anticipated fifth feature from Thailand's laureate of tropical animism unfurls in an intoxicating hush. Uncle Boonmee's body is quietly dying, though...
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VOICE ON THE LINE
Enchanting operators, covert government plots, Cold War paranoia and ordinary telephones forever changed how we got in touch with one another.
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TUB
Paul jerked off in the shower. Paul just impregnated his bathtub.
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TWO GATES OF SLEEP
Somewhere on the Mississippi-Louisiana border, brothers Jack and Louis prepare for their mother's imminent death. Their communication limited to glances, they hunt a gorgeous animal, cook a special meal and share lost moments of quiet intimacy with the woman who...
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TELEPHONEME
An entertaining and informative lesson on a massive linguistic conspiracy.
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TIME FREAK
The story of Stillman, a neurotic inventor who builds a lime machine and gets caught up traveling around yesterday.
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SUBMARINO
Thomas Vinterberg has made some of the most acclaimed Danish films of the past decade in his still-young career. After two trips to our shores for English-language films, Vinterberg returns to his early roots with an unrelenting character-driven drama. As...
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SUCCESSFUL ALCOHOLICS
A comedy of substance about two alcoholics who need to redefine their idea of success.
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STRIPS
A vintage erotic film is cut into strips and then reassembled
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SOME BOYS DON’T LEAVE
The story of a breakup without the break.
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SOME DAYS ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS
Delicately weaving together the lives of three lonely strangers, Matt McCormick makes a graceful, unassuming feature debut. The story explores the elusiveness of personal fulfillment as McCormick's characters bump up against the discarded - from a kind-eyed sheller dog to...
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A SCREAMING MAN (HOMME QUE CRIE)
There is a consistency and calm to Adam's life as a hotel pool attendant, working alongside his son Abdel, that is lost when change comes in the form of new proprietors who terminate Adam's employment For Adam, a former swimming...
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SHIT YEAR
Santa Cruz filmmaker Cam Archer makes his feature film debut at AFI FEST this year (his short film BOBBYCRUSH played to acclaim in 2006) Sacrificing his signature lush color landscapes, Archer has embraced black and white photography for this, his...
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SACRAMENTO – A FAMILY FABLE
When Dan returns home to retrieve his childhood pet dog, he discovers that the dog is dead... and that's the least of his worries.
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THE SANDPIT
Composed from more than 35,000 stills in Manhattan and Brooklyn, using a "tilt-shift" style, this film watches the pulses and rhythms of the city and its inhabitants from a different perspective.
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THE SAVAGE CANVAS
A theater director with big ideas finds his radical new performance piece being undermined and ultimately taken from him by a self-possessed and precocious school girl.
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THE RESPONSE
In the early hours of the 1992 LA riots, a seasoned black paramedic and her idealistic white partner respond to on emergency call. Act Four Productions
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RUBBER
Why? No reason. "No reason" will never make more sense than after you hove survived a screening of RUBBER. Straddling art film and horror, RUBBER has the most outrageous premise of any film this year. (Or ever?) An audience gathers...
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REAR WINDOW
The best people, the best mood, the best setting for a murder mystery. - David Lynch Alfred Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW is a deconstruction of the art of filmmaking, a decoding of our deepest voyeuristic desires and a crackerjack thriller all...
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REMOVAL
Cole is a likeable, regular guy. Except that ever since he witnessed a gruesome murder-suicide, things haven't been quite right. His wife left him, he is tormented by hallucinations and his career has nosedived into a blue-collar job with a...
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PUTTY HILL
In a spore room of on abandoned home tucked away in a low-class, rural suburb of Baltimore, Cory overdosed on heroin The people we meet in the film ore the people who knew him, some better than others. As the...
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QUADRANGLE
An unconventional documentary about two "conventional" couples who swapped partners and lived in a group marriage in the early '70s, hoping lo pioneer on alternative to divorce and the marriage of the future.
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RABBIT HOLE
Adapted from David Lindsay-Aboire's Pulitzer Prize-winning ploy, RABBIT HOLE is a vivid, honest and unexpectedly witty portrait of a family searching for what remains possible in the most impossible of situations Just eight months ago, Becca and Howie Corbett (Nicole...
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THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER
When the ravishing Morie de Mezieres is betrothed to the Prince of Montpensier, a fateful chain reaction commences. Whisked away to the Montpensiers' castle, she is entrusted to the Count of Chabonnes, the prince's confidante and a tormented deserter, whose...
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PULSAR
In this GASLIGHT for the digital age, writer / director Alex Stockman examines the dominion communication technologies hold over our lives. PULSAR narrates the long-distance love story between Samuel in Brussels and Mireille in New York. The couple stays constantly...
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POETRY (SHI)
Lee Chang-dong returns to AFI FEST after his triumphant 2008 screening of SECRET SUNSHINE with his latest film, POETRY This quietly precarious film opens with an enigmatic scene of a young girl's corpse floating down a river The story then...
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PRECIOUS LIFE (CHAIM YAKARIM)
As a tangible document of hope for peace in the Middle East, former war correspondent Shlomi Eldar's PRECIOUS LIFE conveys the need to bypass politics and nationalism in order to protect our children and improve their quality of life. Born...
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PINK SARIS
With her documentaries DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE (1998), SISTERS IN LAW (2005) and ROUGH AUNTIES (2008), director Kim Longinotto has made a name for herself as a chronicler-without-borders of women's fight for justice. In PINK SARIS, Longinotto follows Sampat Pal Devi,...
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PIXELS
The real world undone by retro video game favorites.
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ON LEAVE (REGILA)
Yotom came back home, but something went wrong on the way.
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OUTRAGE (AUTOREIJI)
In a world where there are no heroes, it's bad guy vs. bad guy in a spiraling explosion of gang warfare. Japanese writer, director and action movie heartthrob "Beat" Tokeshi Kitano is back to deliver one of his most violent...
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PHOTOGRAPH OF JESUS
Real-life archives become the stage where foci and fiction collide, belief runs amok and unruly images hove a life of their own.
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NOTHING’S ALL BAD (SMUKKE MENNESKER)
In his feature film debut, writer /director Mikkel Munch-Fols delivers an examination of sexuality and desire in the lives of four lonely souls. Ingeborg feels unattractive and longs for a companion after the death of her husband. Young Jonas is...
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OKI’S MOVIE (O-KUI-UI YEONG-HWA)
Fresh from showings at Venice and Toronto, the second opus from prolific savant Hong Sang·soo this year not only serves as an exhilarating companion piece to its predecessor, but also propels headlong into a formalistic exploration of the auteur's favorite...
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THE MYTH OF THE AMERICAN SLEEPOVER
David Robert Milchell's fealure film debut reminds us of a time when sleepovers, bike rides and Ouija board hijinks were the now-or-never crucial moments of our existence. Set against a backdrop of the mile roads, neighborhood blocks, lakes and abandoned...
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NORWEGIAN NINJA
In 1984, Norway was stunned by the arrest of charismatic Norwegian diplomat Arne Treholt, who was convicted of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and sent to prison for 20 years Bui Treholt wasn't a spy. He was a...
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MON ONCLE
Exquisite, extreme, French '50s with the big heart and humor of Jacques Tati. - David Lynch Jocques Tati's suspicion of automated modern life is never so apparent as in his film MON ONCLE . Monsieur Hulot lets loose in this...
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MORGEN
Nelu is a low-abiding citizen in his Romanian-Hungarian border lawn . He works as a supermarket security guard and spends his off hours fishing. Nelu 's reputation and respect for authority ore challenged when he runs into on illegal Turkish...
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MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON
Voiced and written by SNL alum Jenny Slate, this short about a shell look the Internet by storm.
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MARY LAST SEEN
A young woman embarks on a rood trip with her boyfriend to a place he promises will be beautiful and peaceful.
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LOVE & OTHER DRUGS
AFI is honored to host the world premiere of AFI Conservatory graduate Edward Zwick's LOVE & OTHER DRUGS. Adapted from Jamie Reidy's scathing memoir, "Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman," the film is at once a winning romantic...
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MADE IN DAGENHAM
In the 1960s, the Dagenham factory was one of the largest assembly plants in Europe. Alongside 55,000 men, 187 women worked as machinists stitching car seats. Despite their highly specialized work, the women were classified as unskilled workers and paid...
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LITTLEROCK
Like his debut film, ANALOG DAYS, Mike Ott's second feature film explores the theme of self-awakening in a small California town. Japanese brother and sister Rintoro and Atsuko ore traveling to Son Francisco when their car breaks down in the...
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LOLITA
Staggeringly great performances, direction, writing and mood. - David Lynch Stanley Kubrick's early adaptation of Nabokov's famous novel - wherein a middle-aged professor becomes sexually obsessed with a pubescent girl - was mode during a time of intense British censorship,...
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LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH
Provost is port scientist and port magician, generating a grotesque visual poetry of hypnotic beauty and macabre consequences.
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THE KING’S SPEECH
Based on the true story of the Queen of England's father and his remarkable friendship with maverick Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue, THE KING'S SPEECH stars Academy Award nominee Colin Firth (A SINGLE MAN) as King George VI, who unexpectedly...
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LE QUATTRO VOLTE
In Michelangelo Frammortino's astounding new film, a soul journeys through four different vessels. First inhabiting on elderly shepherd who suffers from a hectoring cough, it drifts through a medieval Calabrion village and its bucolic outskirts, taking on other forms -...
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KARAMAY (KE LA MA YI)
In 1994 in the Chinese city of Karamy, a performance for visiting officials was underway when a fire broke out. Over 700 people were in Friendship Hall when the flames began and more than 300 souls never escaped. While. all...
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KIDS MIGHT FLY
Set in on urban wilderness, this film is an offbeat and touching experimental drama about East London kids.
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IF YOU DRIVE AT NIGHT, TRY TO HAVE COMPANY (SI MANEJA DE NOCHE PROCURE IR ACOMPAÑADO)
A couple of old friends talk on a Sunday night in Mexico City.
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JULIA’S EYES
From Spain comes this stylish new thriller produced by Guillermo Del Toro. Belen Rueda ploys twin sisters who both hove a degenerative eye disease that causes blindness. While Julio's condition is not yet completely advanced, her sister is not so...
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I LOVE LUCI
A comedy of missing teeth, unrequited love and one dog's potential to shape the fortunes of a couple destined never to be together.
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I MISS
This mesmerizing short about a girl prompted by her mother in the recitation of an intensely romantic poem is a meditation on feminism, love and the notion of acting.
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I WILL FOLLOW
Ava DuVernay's first fiction feature is a delicately observed study of small, unpredictable moments and long unvoiced emotions that suddenly erupt in flurries of grief and recrimination. For more than a year, Maye (Salli Richardson-Whitfield) has been living in Topanga...
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THE HOUSEMAID (HANYEO)
Kim Ki-young's claustrophobic setting of a narrow two-story home is the perfect cage in which to attempt to contain the wild and escalating emotions of this domestic melodrama The film tells the story of Mr. Kim, a music teacher whose...
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THE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER
The human resources manager of Jerusalem's largest bakery is in trouble. He's separated from his wife, distanced from his daughter and stuck in a job he hates. When one of his female employees, a foreign worker, is killed in a...
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HOUR OF THE WOLF
Bergman's surreal masterpiece conjures startling experiences. - David Lynch The torments of creativity underlie Ingmar Bergman's otherworldly HOUR OF THE WOLF. A pointer and his wife - pitch-perfect Bergman regulars Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmonn - retreat to a...
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THE HOUSEMAID
This remake of Kim Ki-young's THE HOUSEMAID is far less claustrophobic than the original: the house is bigger, the family is wealthier and thus the boundaries between the family and the housemaid are even more stringent than they were in...
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THE HIGH LEVEL BRIDGE
Director Trevor Anderson pays homage lo the people and events surrounding Edmonton's High level Bridge. Dirt City Films
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HIS & HERS
A single female subject occupies the frame she talks about her relationships with the men in her life. This starkly simple structuralist approach renders on e of the most powerful documentaries of the year on love, loss and life. Beginning...
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HAMILL
We have all seen the sports film about overcoming adversity. HAMILL, a true story based on the life of UFC fighter Matt Hamill and directed by newcomer Oren Kaplan, is not your typical sports film. Matt Hamill grew up deaf...
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HEARTBEATS (LES AMOURS IMAGINAIRES)
When best friends Marie and Francis befriend the boyishly handsome, self-possessed Nicolas, not only is the dynamic of their friendship upended, but their very identities are called into question. With infuriatingly mixed messages from Nicolas - is he straight or...
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FILM SOCIALISM (FILM SOCIALISME)
A gargantuan ocean liner housing teeming pools, garish casinos and even a church drifts through a vast expanse of open water Its windswept decks empty save for a few wandering souls - including Patti Smith as a rumpled troubadour -...
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FREE RADICALS
Filmmaker and film archivist Pip Chodorov offers this affectionate overview of some of the leading figures of 20th-century experimental film. Narrating in a personal and plainspoken manner ("I'd like you to meet some of my friends and see their films"),...
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HAHAHA
Synonymous with the explosion of South Korean cinema's vital achievements, exacting iconoclast Hong Sang·soo's growing body of increasingly playful, yet structurally inventive creations comes to AF! FEST in the farm of not one but two new intriguing films to savor....
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FEEDER
We want it. We buy it. We eat it. We swallow it down the hole. But what does our body see when we slick it in our mouth?
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ERASERHEAD
Dream of dark and troubling things. - David Lynch David Lynch didn't burst into the cinematic scene so much as crawl. Antagonistic reviews of his first feature, the comic·surreal nightmare ERASERHEAD - with its AFI production and FILMEX debut -...
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EXCUSE ME
A young couple threatens to splinter apart due lo what may or may not hove been said in the heat of passion.
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THE COMPANY MEN
In his feature film directorial debut,John Wells paints a heroic and honest portrait of where our culture is today. The force behind such celebrated shows as ER, THE WEST WING, SOUTHLAND and the upcoming Showtime series SHAMELESS, Wells brings his...
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DELMER BUILDS A MACHINE
An account of the most important event in recorded History.
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CHICO & RITA
CHICO & RITA is on epic, animated love story set against the splendor of Cuban culture, history and music. Beginning in 1948, the spellbinding film tells a tale of passion and heartache worthy of a bolero. Chico is a promising...
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CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS
Herzog's latest ecstatic pilgrimage takes us on a journey into the most distant past of human history. As the first filmmaker ever granted access to the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet Cave, Herzog has rarely seemed so powerfully moved as...
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CERTIFIED COPY (COPIE CONFORME)
An art scholar on a promotional tour of Italy for his new book is taken on an impromptu excursion by a local admirer He's English, unflappable and self-possessed She's French, flustered and inquisitive. Over the course of a single, sun-soaked...
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CARGO
An homage to such films as ALIEN and 2001, Ivan Engler's CARGO is a visually stunning achievement in independent, low-budget sci-fi. The year is 2267 and the Earth is no longer habitable. Most remaining humans live in sweaty, overcrowded space...
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CASINO JACK
Kevin Spacey gives the performance of a lifetime in CASINO JACK, a riotous new film about a man hell-bent on acquiring all that the good life has to offer. Inspired by true events, the film lays bare the wild excesses...
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BOTTLE
Animated on location at a beach, in snow and underwater, this stop-motion short details a transoceanic conversation between two characters via objects in a bottle
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BOY
The year is 1984 and 11-yeor-old Boy is a dreamer who spends his days idolizing Michael Jackson, fantasizing about his first hickey and inventing memories of his absent t hug father. When dad return s home in a cool muscle...
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CARANCHO
In Argentina, more than 8,000 people die every year in rood accidents. Each victim represents a potential insurance claim, especially for Soso, a sleazy lawyer who stalks hospital waiting rooms and occident scenes in search of prospective customers. Soso is...
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BLANK CITY
In. the late seventies, Manhattan was virtually bankrupt, leaving the crumbling tenements of the Lower East Side overrun with. squatters . Young artists - writers, musicians, actors, pointers and filmmakers - quickly formed a loose tribe built around a spirit...
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BLUE VALENTINE
Derek Cianfrance's BLUE VALENTINE juxtaposes the story of a disintegrating marriage against the butterfly-filled moments of newly discovered love. Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) have reached an impasse in their marriage. Hoping to rekindle the flame, they spend...
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BERIK
A short drama about friendship and understanding, set in Semey, Kazakhstan.
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BLACK SWAN
A Fox Searchlight Pictures release by visionary director (and AFI Conservatory graduate) Darren Aronofsky, BLACK SWAN takes a thrilling and at times terrifying journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the Swan Queen turns out...
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BARNEY’S VERSION
Based on Mordecai Richler's prizewinning comic novel, BARNEY'S VERSION is the warm, wise and witty story of Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti), a seemingly ordinary man who lives an extraordinary life. Barney's candid confessional spans four decades and two continents, and...
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BEDEVILLED
Jang Cheol-soo's debut film is a work of genre-bending feminist horror that explores the moment when a victim of savagery herself becomes the savage. When a comely young bank employee from Seoul witnesses an attempted murder, she decides to take...
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AWFULLY DEEP
Edward, Susan and their son Lino have been living with everything a family could wish, a perfect existence filled with the finest material items and a problem free routine.Then, one day and without warning stinky, brown, doughy 'stuff' starts appearing...
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BARBERSHOP PUNK
When Robb Topolski set out to share his collection of rare, turn-of-the-century barbershop quartet recordings over the Internet, he found his uploads were blocked by his service provider, the nation's largest cable company, Comcast. From this seemingly innocuous beginning, the...
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AMIGO
John Sayles once again gives us a beautiful character-driven film, this lime against the backdrop of the turn-of-the century Philippine-American War. The able cast is led by Chris Cooper as the American colonel, Garret Dillahunt as the earnest lieutenant and...
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THE ABYSS BOYS
There's no escape when you're in this deep.
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THE ACCORDION
The theft of a street musician's accordion leads to a surprising discovery in this film about the freedom of conscience and religion.
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ADRIENN PAL (PAL ADRIENN)
Viewers familiar with the cinema of Bela Tarr - with its resolute focus on everyday minutiae and surprisingly expressive force - will recognize its influence on this doting, even obsessive, treatment of the doily routines of Pirosko, a terminal word...
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ABEL
This is the story of a 9-year-old boy whose confounding behavior and refusal to speak have landed him in a mental-health facility near his home. Hoping for a miracle and convinced that a reunion with his brother and sister might...
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52 TAKES OF THE SAME THING, THEN BOOBS
The title says it all.
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AARDVARK
AARDVARK tells the story of a man blind from birth who is in recovery and attending AA Larry is played by Larry Lewis, who is himself actually blind and in AA When Larry joins a jiu-jitsu class, he discovers a...
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13 ASSASSINS (JÛSAN-NIN NO SHIKAKU)
A band of samurai is recruited for a virtuoso mission: snuff out the Shogun's brother - a foppishly cold-blooded torturer with a hair-trigger temper and royal impunity - by intercepting his unsuspecting and heavily armed entourage as they pass through...
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WOMAN WITHOUT PIANO (LA MUJER SIN PIANO)
As impressive as director Javier Rebollo's 2006 feature debut LOLA proved to be, it doesn't prepare one for the sheer mastery on display in his second film. Rebollo, with his regular co-writer Lola Mayo, holds o bemused gaze on his...
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YOUTH IN REVOLT
This coming-of-age comedy pulls a fresh and outrageous stamp on a tale of adolescent obsession and rebellion. Starring Michael Cera (SUPERBAD, the Oscar-winning JUNO) and based on the acclaimed novel by CD. Payne, YOUTH IN REVOLT is the story of...
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WAKE IN FRIGHT
Hailed as one of Australia's greatest films, Ted Kotcheff's movie (which was released internationally under the title OUTBACK) has the rare distinction of having been programmed twice at the Cannes Film Festival-in official competition in 1971 and, digitally restored, as...
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THE WHITE RIBBON
On the eve of World War 1, disturbing events of an unknown origin upset the surface calm of a rural Northern German village. Michael Haneke won Cannes' Palme d'Or for this stark, uncompromising drama, shot in blistering black-and-white.
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THE TWO HORSES OF GENGHIS KHAN
Chahor·Tugchi, Hicheengui Sambuu, Chimed Dolgor "Old things must be destroyed so that something new can evolve," mournfully observes Urna, the subject of Byambasuren Davao's latest documentary. Ostensibly, the old thing of which she speaks is a song, The Two Horses...
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VINCERE
Once considered a filmmaker whose best works (FISTS IN THE POCKET, 1965; CHINA IS NEAR, 1967) were in t he post, Marco Bellocchio hos been on a roll during the past seven years. But even triumphs including MY MOTHER'S SMILE...
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A TOWN CALLED PANIC (PANIQUE AU VILLAGE)
This wacky, wonderful and thoroughly absurdist feature length film continues the misadventures of Cowboy, Indian and Horse, stars of Belgium's cult favorite TV show of t he same title. The three stop-motion heroes have their regular bouts of personal drama...
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TRANSCENDENT MAN
Are we poised at the precipice for a new stage in human evolution? This is the theory proposed by inventor and futurist Roy Kurzweil, the central and deeply complex subject of Barry Ptolemy's debut feature In his non-fiction bestselling The...
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TRASH HUMPERS
In an unnamed city as deliberately banal as the action is outrageous, a loose circle-a cult, perhaps carries on with all sorts of crazed, indescribable games and antics. All but the youngest in this strange family wear rubber masks that...
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SWEETGRASS
Stunning in its cinematic and observational power, SWEETGRASS is a new kind of pastorole, a visual poem of cultural and historical shifts. Lucien Castaing-Taylor, who teaches at Harvard's Visual Anthropology Deportment, and llisa Barbash, of Harvard's Peabody Museum, describe themselves...
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TO DIE LIKE A MAN (MORRER COMO UM HOMEM)
Plus-sized Tonia (Fernando live Santos), born Antonio, has d as a woman for decades. She's a battle-scarred veteran of the Lisbon drag clubs, with a cute if somewhat crazy lover young enough to be her son (she also has an...
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SOMETHING’S GONNA LIVE
AFI alumnus Daniel Raim (Oscar-nominated for his short documentary, THE MAN ON LINCOLN'S NOSE) explores the artistry and personalities of acclaimed production designers land pals) Robert "Bob" Boyle, Henry Bumstead, Harold Michelson and Albert Nozaki, along with master cinematographers Haskell...
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SWEET RUSH (TATARAK)
Now 83, Polish master Andrzei Waida has created a sublime work about love and mortality Teaming up again with actress Krystyna Janda (MAN OF IRON, l 98 1 ), he adapts a poignant short story by Jarosaw lwoszkiewicz - the...
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THE SIMPLE ANTENNAE
Kevin Jerome Everson's unprecedented body of work about the African-American experience in America is beautifully encapsulated in this trio of films THE CITIZENS features a young Muhammad Ali - more a father than a boxer LEAD offers a beautiful expression...
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A SINGLE MAN
Unfolding on a single day in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, this story follows George Falconer, a 52-year old British college professor (Colin Firth) who struggles to find meaning after the death of...
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SHORT TERM 12
A thought-provoking story about the effects of child abuse and neglect told through characters living and working in a residential facility for at-risk teens.
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THE SILENT ARMY (WIT LICHT)
Even in a barbarous era, one practice that still seems like a special crime against nature is the kidnapping of children by guerrilla forces with the intent of turning them into murderers. It's the impulse to fight this inexcusable outrage...
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THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES (EL SECRETO DE SUS OJOS)
Argentina's submission for best foreign-language Oscar elevates the procedural drama to witty, entertaining and thrilling new heights, following a retired prosecutor as he revisits a heartbreaking case.
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SEND ME TO THE ‘LECTRIC CHAIR
Guy Maddin straps his muse Isabella Rossellini to an electric chair and plunges the viewer into a feverish world of death wishes and heroic acts.
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THE ROAD
After an unspecified calamity, the world has been destroyed, leaving nothing but shells of cities-and the road. A father and son walk through an ash-gray landscape ducking the ever-present, terrifying threat posed by other survivors. This astonishing adaptation of Cormac...
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A ROOM AND A HALF (POLTORY KOMNATY ILI SENTIMENTALNOE PUTESHESTVIE NA RODINU)
Andrey Khrzhanovsky's bittersweet, endlessly imaginative film begins with the revered poet Joseph Brodsky (Grigory Dityatkovsky, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the Nobel Prize-winning poet) approaching his beloved St. Petersburg after a decades-long exile imposed by the Soviet state In a...
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S/T
What matters in the cinemo? Lisandra Alonso shows us, with help from an imposing owl who stares at the viewer and commands total attention of the eye and ear.
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PRECIOUS
Set in Harlem, this vibrant, honest and resoundingly hopeful film follows the story of Clareece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe, a 16-y ear-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. Pregnant for the second time by her absent...
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A PROPHET (UN PROPHÈTE)
Like the Depression-era gangster classics PUBLIC ENEMY and LITTLE CAESAR, Jacques Audiard's story follows a disadvantaged young man as he masters the codes, rules and tactics of professional criminals. A PROPHET unfolds in prison, amidst a little-known conflict between an...
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PETITION (PETITION: LA COUR DES PLAIGNANTS)
Zhao Liang filmed this documentary, without permission, over more than a decade, building a harrowing testimony of suffering on the part of Chinese citizens who spend years of their lives appealing various injustices and abuses committed by Chinese authorities Zhao...
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POLICE, ADJECTIVE (POLITIST, ADJECTIV)
After researching the subject of POLICE, ADJECTIVE - which begins with the depiction of a cop on the beat and and ends with a comic inquiry into the meaning of the word "conscience" - filmmaker Corneliu Porimboiu (12:08 EAST OF...
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OIL CHANGE
Kole and Teresa never thought they had a need for fancy cars, big houses or a clean track record to make their relationship work. But then, they got to know each other better.
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PERPETUUM MOBILE
Nervous about leaving the nest, a 24-year-old truck driver still lives with his mother. They keep a careful distance until they stumble upon a body
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NORTH BY NORTHWEST
In Hitchcock/Truffaut, his essential book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffout states that NORTH BY NORTHWEST epitomizes the whole of the director's work in America Cory Grant, at his most Cary Grant plays Roger 0. Thornhill (the "O." doesn't stand...
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NORTHLESS (NORTEADO)
Selecting Debussy's Claire de lune as supporting music for o film about a young man's interrupted quest to cross the Mexican border for the US is typical of the inventiveness in Rigoberto Perezcano's tender yet ironic opera prima. To love...
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NE CHANGE RIEN
Though the title of Pedro Costa's latest translates as "nothing ever changes," those who know him only from his masterpiece COLOSSAL YOUTH (2006) w ill find everything's different. Costa filmed actor-chanteuse Jeanne Balibar performing in club settings, and, using additional...
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NEIL YOUNG TRUNK SHOW: SCENES FROM A CONCERT
Few musical artists have shown cataloging their has much interest in history as Neil Young. Since RUST NEVER SLEEPS in 1979, Young has been at the center of concert films. Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme has always exhibited a passion for...
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NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS (KASI AZ GORBEHAYE IRANI KHABAR NADAREH )
Bahman Ghobadi's infectiously lively and youthfully exuberant film follows two intelligent and determined Persian teens as they jump through hoops doing what in many other countries is relatively simple: forming a rock band As they comb Tehran's basements, recording studios,...
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MOSCOW (MOSCOU)
Eduardo Coutinho, Brazil's premier documentary filmmaker, reaches new heights with this surprising, even mysterious account of the Galpoo Theatre Company in Belo Horizonte. Coutinho and his crew are invited to record the process as the troupe creates a new, emotionally...
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MOTHER (MADEO)
After only three films, including his cult sensation THE HOST (2006), Bong Joon-ho's slightly bent and always inventive approach to genre filmmaking has pushed him to the Korean cinema forefront. Although MOTHER is a dazzling murder mystery, it's also built...
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THE MILK OF SORROW (LA TETA ASUSTADA)
Winner of the Golden Bear for best film at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival, this exquisitely original allegory details the lingering trauma from the decades-long conflict in Peru that was passed on through la teta austada - milk of sorrow...
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MODUS OPERANDI
After the mysterious "The Cowboy" double-crosses the CIA, two important briefcases go missing. Black Ops special agent Stanley Cashay is dragged out of retirement to track them down. His reward? The name of the man who killed his wife. But...
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THE LOVED ONES
Sean Byrne's heart-pounding thriller opens with tragedy, and then slowly spirals out of control. Brent (Xavier Samuel) ts a brooding teen who has suffered the loss of his father Otherwise, his world is not much different than any other teenager's...
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LUNCHFILMS
Truly independent films ore mode from the gut. One day I bought a broke filmmaker friend lunch. I suggested that, instead of owing me, he make a film for the amount I spent. We mode a napkin contract with "rules"...
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THE MESSENGER
After collecting his medals and recovering from hi s wounds inflicted during a tour of duty in Iraq, Will Montgomery, played by Ben Foster (SIX FEET UNDER, 3lO TO YUMA) in his first leading role, marks his return to civilian...
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LONDON RIVER
On July 7, 2005, four Muslim assassins, traveling on London's public transport during morning rush hour, activate a series of bombs. They kill 56 people and injure many others on three underground trains and one double-decker bus. Rochid Bouchareb's LONDON...
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LOOKING FOR ERIC
Working-class hero Ken Loach makes o surprising shift to a light, even fanciful mood in his new film about Eric a bedraggled postal worker (the winning Steve Evets) who is watching his entire life slip away from him. The realist,...
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LEAD
Kevin Jerome Everson's unprecedented body of work about the African-American experience in America is beautifully encapsulated in this trio of films THE CITIZENS features a young Muhammad Ali - more a father than a boxer LEAD offers a beautiful expression...
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A LETTER TO UNCLE BOONMEE
Three young men describe to an uncle how their Thai village of Nabua has been abandoned in the wake of war.
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A LAKE (UN LAC)
Philippe Grandrieux (SOMBRE, LA VIE NOUVELLE) is an artist fully engaged with the reinvention of cinema. "I don't thin k in terms of stories," Grandrieux hos noted. "To me these films ore objects They're plastic They're formed." Set in a...
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THE LAST STATION
In this comic-dramatic account of Leo Tolstoy's final months, Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer, in a magnificent performance) has renounced writing fiction and started a movement focused on pacifism, chastity and the abolishment of private property. His secretary (James McAvoy) mediates between...
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JOHN WAYNE HATED HORSES
On a hot summer day, a father and his young son struggle with their differing ideas about masculinity, boredom and the proper way to play with army toys.
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KANIKÔSEN
Though famed at home for his wacky comedies, the 45-year-old Japanese actor/director Sobu remains virtually unknown in the US His latest, inspired by a 1929 left-wing agitprop novel that become sensationally popular after being translated into Mango genre graphic fiction,...
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THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS
Gilliam's fantastical morality tale tells the story of a traveling show where the audience gets an irresistible opportunity to travel into their imaginations, guided by the extraordinary Doctor Parnassus (Christopher Plummer) An inveterate gambler, Parnassus made a bet thousands of...
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IN THE ATTIC (NA PUDE ANEB KDO MÁ DNESKA NAROZENINY?)
Marking his return to animation after 20 long years, director Jiri Barta's latest wicked brew is a welcome reminder of why stop-motion fans consider him one of the few true masters. Barta's previous works, including THE PIED PIPER ( 1985),...
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THE INHERITORS (LOS HEREDEROS)
Here as in his first film TROPIC OF CANCER, Eugenio Polgovsky uses his camera as on exploratory tool to venture where other filmmakers might easily turn away And few filmmakers hove managed to so intensively document and reflect upon the...
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I KILLED MY MOTHER (J’AI TUÉ MA MÈRE)
While the youthful impulse to create is almost universal the ability of teens and young adults to translate their life experiences into powerful, appealing songs, poetry and film 1s often limited. First-time filmmaker Xavier Dolan, big-time winner of four prizes...
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ICONS AMONG US
By combining rare archival stills, interviews with 75 jazz artists and live recordings culled from 25 hours of concerts ICONS AMONG US is a dynamic and engaging ' document of many of the greatest jazz musicians of today It contains...
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THE HOLE
When their single mother (Teri Polo) uproots 17-year-old Dane (Chris Massoglia) and his l 0-year-old brother Lucas (Nathan Gamble) from New York City to the sleepy town of Bensonville, the boys' summer fun grinds to a halt. But the drudgery...
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I AM SO PROUD OF YOU
Dark family secrets cast a shadow over Bill's recovery in this second chapter to the Sundance Grand Jury Award-winning film EVERYTHING Will BE OK.
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GUY AND MADELINE ON A PARK BENCH
Imagine Jacques Demy as seen through an urban, iazz infused American indie filter and you'll gel a sense of writer/direclor Damien Chazelle's startling debut endeavor. The electrifying GUY AND MADELINE ON A PARK BENCH takes the musical genre to a...
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THE HISTORY OF AVIATION
During a family holiday at a spectacular seaside getaway, a little girl wanders off and discovers the wonder and danger of early airborne flight.
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THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX
Visionary director Wes Anderson's first animated film utilizes classic handmade stop-motion techniques to tell the story of the best selling children's book by Roald Dahl (author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach.) Mr. and...
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FIRST OF ALL, FELICIA (FELICIA INAINTE DE TOATE)
In a collaboration unique in Romania's burgeoning cinema, Rozvon Radulescu (from Romania) and Melissa de Roof (from the Nether lands) hove co-written and directed a simple yet rich story confined to a single day It downs for Felicia (Ozono Oancea)...
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FISH TANK
Andrea Arnold's FISH TANK deepens her exploration of the British working class on view in her Oscar-winning 2003 short film, WASP, and in her 2006 Cannes Jury Prize-winning feature debut, RED ROAD. Even more, Arnold's new film (marking her second...
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EVERYBODY’S FINE
Giuseppe Tornatore's 1990 classic STANNO TUTTI BENE told the story of a widower who, lonely during the holidays, embarked upon a tour of Italy to visit his children (who, appropriately in this bittersweet melodrama, were all named far Italian opera...
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EVERYONE ELSE (ALLE ANDEREN)
The couple experiencing a mutuaI crack -up has long been a staple of film - Antonioni, Bergman and Chabrol, to name only a few, have mode it a central topic of their art -- but it's always an exciting event...
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DICK CHENEY IN A COLD, DARK CELL
Experimental collage artist Jim Finn returns to AFI FEST with his new, wishful rumination on our former vice president.
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EASIER WITH PRACTICE
Based on David Rothbart's autobiographical article for GQ magazine, Kyle Patrick Alvarez's debut feature follows young author Davy (an excellent Brian Geraghty) as he embarks, skeptical brother in tow, on a book tour for his self-published collection of short stories....
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CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH (NANJING! NANJING!)
Lu Chuan's essential epic, exquisitely photographed in black and white by Cau Yu, re-creates the atrocities committed by the Japanese army during its occupation of Nanking in December 1937 Lu begins with a ferocious bottle sequence, with the lost Chinese...
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LA DANSE: THE PARIS OPERA BALLET (LA DANSE: LE BALLET DE L’OPÉRA DE PARIS)
Frederick Wiseman has devoted the past four decades to studying institutions, making classics such as HIGH SCHOOL 11968), LAW AND ORDER 11969) and PUBLIC HOUSING 11997) He resists simple interpretations of his work. "If I could summarize it in 25...
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CASTRO
From the unforgettable opening moments, featuring a goggle of characters dashing about the streets of Buenos Aires as if their lives depended on it, Alejo Moguillonsky's sneaky, frantic film pounces on the viewer with a giddy energy This cockeyed semi-comedy's...
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THE CITIZENS
Kevin Jerome Everson's unprecedented body of work about the African-American experience in America is beautifully encapsulated in this trio of films THE CITIZENS features a young Muhammad Ali - more a father than a boxer LEAD offers a beautiful expression...
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BELLAMY
Inspired by novelist Georges Simenon's beloved Jules Maigret character, master French New Wave director Claude Chabrol has his first collaboration with Gerard Depardieu. Police investigator Bellamy (Depardieu, in one of his finest roles) is on holiday with his loving wife...
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BEST WORST MOVIE
"Bad books are bad, bad food is bad, but bad movies aren't always bad " So says one of the fans of TROLL 2 a film adored by devotees as the worst film ever mode . '1n BEST WORST MOVIE,...
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BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS
After RESCUE DAWN, Werner Herzog returns to American genre cinema, this time taking on the mythic, audience friendly framework of the gritty urban cop film. Working from William Finkelstein's tightly compelling script, Herzog sets the plot in New Orleans, which...
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BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO
For more fascinating filmmaking than any entomology lesson, American filmmaker Jessica Oreck's debut captures the essence of a centuries-old Japanese subculture that has on acute enthusiasm for insects. Her unconventional approach to science education is never dull, unearthing a surprising...
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THE ANCHORAGE
Immersing the viewer in magnificent Swedish landscapes, this sober and meditative film reveals the beauty of nature and the beings that co-exist in harmony there: a Rousseau-esque vision of a relationship between a human being and her environment Ullo, the...
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THE ART OF THE STEAL
What is art's relationship to the public at large, and who decides who gets to see it? Rarely has the beauty of brotherly love seemed so rancorous as in Don Argott s fascinating, thoroughly researched documentary on the Barnes Foundation...
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AFTER.LIFE
When are the dead in fact dead? In its pleasure at simultaneously embracing and sending up horror genre conventions, AFTER.LIFE suggests that the line between the living and the dead is thin indeed. Christina Ricci and Justin Long (fast earning...
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AJAMI
It is difficult to find metaphors that capture the complex essence of the greater Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or of Israel's internal Jewish-Arab clash. The impasse seems existential in nature. This is why, of the many films about the decades-long turmoil, Scandor...
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1983: THE RED RIDING TRILOGY PART 3
This harrowing serpentine, five-hour tale of crime, revenge and ultimate redemption was adapted by Tony Grisoni (FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS) from British writer David Peace's acclaimed series of crime novels about the true-life sexual murders committed by the...
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ABOUT ELLY (DARBAREYE ELLY)
This tout, involving drama, centered around the mysterious disappearance of a young woman, confirms director Asghar Farhadi as a major talent, with on unrivaled ability to chronicle the malaise of middle-class Iranian society Working in a highly controlled film industry...
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1980: THE RED RIDING TRILOGY PART 2
This harrowing serpentine, five-hour tale of crime, revenge and ultimate redemption was adapted by Tony Grisoni (FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS) from British writer David Peace's acclaimed series of crime novels about the true-life sexual murders committed by the...
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1974: THE RED RIDING TRILOGY PART 1
This harrowing serpentine, five-hour tale of crime, revenge and ultimate redemption was adapted by Tony Grisoni (FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS) from British writer David Peace's acclaimed series of crime novels about the true-life sexual murders committed by the...
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WORLDS APART
The Danish contender for the Best Foreign-language Film Academy Award, WORLDS APART is director Niels Arden Oplev's follow-up film to the acclaimed WE SHALL OVERCOME. Based on a newspaper story Oplev read about a girl expelled from the Jehovah's Witnesses,...
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THE WRESTLER
Back in the late '80s, Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a headlining professional wrestler Now, 20 years later, he ekes out a living performing for handfuls of die-hard wrestling fans in high school gyms and community centers around...
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WITCH HUNT
Dana Nachman and Don Hardy's documentary film, narrated and executive produced by Sean Penn and featuring music from Pearl Jam, chronicles the unraveling of a small town's justice system. The subjects, working -class moms and dads , all were wrongly...
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WOMANS’ WORK
A mild-mannered housewife accidentally discovers her superpowers, but can she get this hero stuff right?
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THE WORLD WE WANT
Patrick Davidson 's empowering documentary follows a group of self-motivated teenagers from a brood spectrum of countries who come together to strive for societal betterment. In the film, eight teams compete in Project Citizen, an international program in which teams...
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WELLNESS
Film and literature are filled with charming charlatans-suave frauds who take our money, yes, but also steal our hearts. This oxymoronic breed is nowhere to be found in writer-director Jake Mahaffy's devastating drama WELLNESS, which instead presents a starkly prosaic...
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WENDY AND LUCY
Wendy is alone save for her dog, Lucy, and traveling toward Alaska in hopes of finding seasonal employment. Then her car breaks down and Lucy vanishes. Avoiding the usual cliches of class-conflict melodrama, Kelly Reichardt (OLD JOY) manages to give...
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WAITING FOR SANCHO
How can filmmaking be filmed? The question would seem to have been answered already, given the teeming amount of "making of" featurette extras that cling to DVD packages. But the dirty little secret of "making of" films is that none...
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WALTZ WITH BASHIR
Beginning with unnerving images of a pock of dogs racing through the streets of Tel Aviv-on emblem of tormented conscience-writer-director and former Israeli soldier Ari Folman offers the most powerful statement yet about the agony of years of Middle East...
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UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US
In 1991 , Norwegian churches started to burn, just after on underground scene of anti consumerist metal musicians had begun to jell. While reporters and police scrambled for answers, more and more churches went up in flames. They had no...
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LA VIE DES MORTS
Two lesser-known works by the master of contemporary French cinema showcase Desplechin's versatility and explore themes of family and transition: his award-winning debut LA VIE DES MORTS tells the story of a reunion built on a tragedy, and the documentary...
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VISIONEERS
George Washington Winsterhammerman lives an ordinary life. He has a wife, a kid, a house and a boat. Every day George gets in his minivan and goes to work as a Level Three Tunt at the Jeffers Corporation, the largest...
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TWO LOVERS
Acclaimed director James Gray (LITTLE ODESSA, WE OWN THE NIGHT) presents a taut, emotionally charged psychological love story. Inspired in part by Dostoyevsky's story "White Nights," and adapted by Gray and co-scripter Richard Menello , TWO LOVERS is a modern-day...
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TWO-LEGGED HORSE (ASBE DU-PA)
Acclaimed director Samira Makhmalbaf (5 IN THE AFTERNOON, THE BLACKBOARD) returns to AFI FEST with TWO-LEGGED HORSE, an exploration of how two people can test the very limits of a human relationship. Set in Afghanistan, the film introduces us to...
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TRUTH IN 24
For the past decade, Audi has upheld its historically formidable presence in the international car-racing arena. Yet in recent years a tense and emotionally charged rivalry with European car company Peugeot has plagued the Audi team. TRUTH IN 24 follows...
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TULPAN
One of the most delightful works to come out of the Cannes and Toronto film festivals this year, Sergey Dvortsevoy's tale centers on Asa, a Kazakh sailor who returns home and dreams of life as a shepherd on the windswept...
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TOKYO!
Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-ho transform elements of the mundane to tantalizing visual aphorisms Gondry's INTERIOR DESIGN begins when a young man and woman move to Tokyo to pursue his dreams of filmmaking Soon, they are lost in endless...
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TOMMY
Havana, Cuba. A onetime dancer, now HIV-positive, talks about love and longing and shares his life with us.
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THREE BLIND MICE
This taut psychological drama follows one night in the lives of three young Australian naval officers On shore leave on the eve of being shipped out to fight in Iraq, they hit the streets of Sydney. The three lose each...
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TIMECRIMES (LOS CRONOCRIMENES)
This debut feature from acclaimed short-film maker Nacho Vigalondo is a diabolically intricate little machine. Free of the flashy digital effects that con overwhelm modern science fiction, it feels instead like a tout short story from a previous age ....
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TEAT BEAT OF SEX: EPISODES 8,9,10,11
This is a take on first kiss, first make-out session, first jealousy, first sex, exclusively from a girl's point of view
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THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON’T THEY?
Famously holding the record for the most number of Academy Award nominations (nine) that didn't include Best Picture, Sydney Pollack's 1969 adaptation of a Depression-era Horace McCoy novel packs a timely punch today in the midst of the financial industry...
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SUPER SMILE
Before you con bat an eye, this woman has you hypnotized. There is no escape
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THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY
As a novelist and screenwriter (Hitchcock's STRANGE RS ON A TRAIN), Patricia Highsmith had a remarkable sensitivity for the way people and their inner lives-their motives and desires-interrelate and compete. Anthony Minghella , whose lush, novelistic films were also sensitive...
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TANAREXIA
Some people go to church, Johnny goes to the tanning salon . until changes force him to take a hard look at his life.
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SUMMER HOURS
Helene (Edith Scob) gathers her children and grandchildren at her French country estate to celebrate her 75th birthday Their gift of a tricky-to-use mobile phone, however, seems to symbolize the 21st-century pressures that are closing in on her precious way...
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THE SUN AND THE MOON
A meditative, atmospheric portrait of a distant culture shot in gorgeous black and white.
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STILL ORANGUTANS (AINDA ORANGOTANGOS)
Hyperkinetic and brash, ca-writer and director Gustavo Spolidoro's adventurous film is not so much a traditional piece of cinema as it is an incitement to riot. Veering from sublime to ridiculous, mashing up sacred and profane, bitingly funny and piercingly...
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SUGAR
For many Dominicans, baseball represents the pathway from poverty to wealth and glory. And so when Sugar, a gifted 19-year-old pitcher, gets called up to the American minor leagues, it seems a dream fulfilled for him, his family and his...
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SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Today is the biggest day in Jamal Malik's life. A penniless, 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, he's one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? But when the...
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THE SOLOIST
From Academy Award-nominated director Joe Wright (ATONEMENT) and starring Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx and Academy Award-nominee Robert Downey Jr., this poignant and ultimately soaring tale is based on on incredible true story of a disenchanted journalist's transformative odyssey through...
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SHAKESPEARE AND VICTOR HUGO’S INTIMACIES (INTIMIDADES DE SHAKESPEARE Y VICTOR HUGO)
At the corner of Shakespeare and Victor Hugo streets in Mexico City sits a boarding house owned by Rosa Elena Carbaja l Within this house lies an intimate, passionate and potentially explosive story. Winner of best documentary prizes at festivals...
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SHHH
After Heinz begins hearing strange noises coming from his walls, he unwisely enlists his friend Jim to investigate Chaos ensues.
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SKIN
Spanning 30 years in the history of South Africa and the life of Sandro Laing (Sophie Okonedo), SKIN is the true story of o young woman who, despite being born to white Afrikaner parents, is classified as "colored" because of...
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RGB XYZ
A random discovery, an eager filmmaker and the Internet combine to create the most enigmatic piece of animation ever to leave a computer.
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RUN
A couple is forced to face fears of spiders and loneliness.
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THE REST OF THE NIGHT
Francesco Munzi's sophomore film, after his acclaimed SAIMIR, shines a light on a Europe in xenophobic flux. In a northern ltalian city, Silvana, the wife of a provincial industrialist, grows convinced that Maria, their young Romanian maid, is responsible for...
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REVANCHE
The ex-con Alex (Johonnes Krisch) and his immigrant prostitute girlfriend Tamara (Irina Potapenko) ore desperate to escape the dangerous brothel where they work. Robert (Andreas Lust) is a police officer happily married to Ursula (Ursula Strauss), the two enjoying the...
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PURIFY
The latest experiment from on acclaimed artist and AFI FEST veteran.
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A QUIET LITTLE MARRIAGE
Things begin to fall apart for Dax and Olive, a loving young couple who gradually realize they hove different thoughts about the fundamental nature of their relationship. This conflict begets a series of secrets and lies, which slowly begin to...
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LA RABIA
The farmers of Argentina's endless pampas are as rough and bristly as the arid landscape that is their home. Circumstances force them to share and help one another.,But sometimes emotions can erupt like a summer storm. When strong, silent Poldo...
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PRODIGAL SONS
Debut filmmaker Kimberly Reed dives headfirst into on unflinching portrait of her family that is absolutely engrossing and marks her coming-out, in more ways than one. Returning home to a small town in Montana for her high school reunion, Reed...
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PROPER EYES (POR SUS PROPIOS OJOS)
This film-which won best actress awards for Ana Carabajal and Luisa Nunez at the Biarritz and the Mannheim-Heidelberg film fests - balances social criticism, fear, fantasy and reality in the lives of the women with family in prison. Far her...
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PLAYING COLUMBINE
By reenacting one of the nation's most infamous school shootings , the video game Super Columbine Massacre RPG! (the initials standing for "role-playing game ") instantly provoked more debate and discussion than any game in recent years. Media pundits pointed...
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POUNDCAKE
This dysfunctional family comedy with heart stars Academy Award nominee Kathleen Quinlan and Jay O. Sanders and takes place in Buffalo, NY, in the late '80s . On the night before Thanksgiving, Cliff and Carol Morgan gather their three grown...
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PINDORAMA – THE TRUE STORY OF THE SEVEN DWARVES (PINDORAMA – A VERDADEIRA HISTÓRIA DOS SETE ANÕES)
Charles , Claudio, Cleidy , Cleidiomar, Zuleide , Gilberto and Rogerio Gomes de Oliveira are siblings, colleagues , friends, competitors and entertainers . Together these seven remarkable people , with their respective families , make up the Pindorama Circus ....
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PLASTIC CITY (DANGKOU)
Yu Lik-woi, the cinematographer-poet of postindustrial spaces (LOVE WILL TEAR US APART, ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES) turns his unbridled visual imagination toward Brazil's thick jungles and multicultural metropolises through the complex father-son relationship of aging Chinese gangster Yudo (the great Hong...
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PASSAGES
A woman awaiting the arrival of her first child doesn't foresee the hardships that lie ahead.
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PERFECT LIFE (WAMMEI SHENHUO)
Emily Tang's second film confirms what was already striking in her debut, CONJUGATION (2001): a gift for combining minute, mundane details to suggest a larger story (in this case, a tale of globalization, internal exile and loss) She interweaves the...
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PALESTINE EN SOLIDARIDAD
Two border struggles come face to face as Palestinians visit the U.S.-Mexico border and find parallel injustices.
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PARADISE
Michael Almereyda is best known for his hip update of HAMLET, with Ethan Hawke , and his black-and-white vampire film NADJA PARADISE continues his recent for into documentary that began with WILLIAM EGGLESTON IN THE REAL WORLD. Like a ll...
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OBSERVANDO EL CIELO
The night sky, opened up only for the big screen.
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OF ALL THE THINGS
Dennis Lambert, a 60-year-o ld family man selling real estate in Florida, is about to embark an a whirlwind concert tour to the Philippines. Among those watching will be thousands of fans he never knew he had and his son...
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NIRVANA
Alisa leaves Moscow for St. Petersburg, hoping to escape her loneliness. But her quest for love and happiness, coupled with a dangerous, intense connection with' her troubled neighbors, threatens to destroy everything she knows . Can she emerge from her...
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NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF OZPLOITATION
Quentin Tarantino, the mod professor of exploitation cinema, lends his encycloped ic knowledge of genre film to this documentary about the unheralded, raunchy, raucous, blood-soaked cinema shot in Australia in the 7Os and early '80s - "Ozploitotion." Though the images...
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O’HORTEN
"It seems most everything comes too late . so nothing comes too late," someone tells Odd Horten, o shy, willfully isolated man whose life has been organized around the rigid rituals associated with his career as a train engineer. Now...
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NILOOFAR
Niloofar, a 12-year-old Iraqi girl, dreams of reading and writing, but she lives in a village where education is only for boys Her mother, a well-known midwife, insists that Niloofar become her apprentice. While assisting her mother during a delivery,...
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NINETY THREE
A happy birthday from an acclaimed film artist.
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A NECESSARY DEATH
The difficulties facing today's independent filmmakers ore immense. In addition to securing financing, mentorship and other support, these artists also need a subject or story worth their time and effort With exploitation and sensationalism ever more reworded, how can young...
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NED KELLY
After making a successful transition to a Hollywood career, Australian-born Heath Ledger returned to his native soil to star in this handsomely mounted 2003 epic directed by his friend Gregor Jordon (TWO HANDS) It's a romanticized version of the history...
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MY SEX LIFE… OR HOW I GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT
A prequel of sorts to KINGS AND QUEEN, Amalric (garnering his first Cesar) is a part-time philosophy lecturer laboring over a 400-page doctoral thesis while trying to break off his 10-year relationship with Devos. The film's round-robin bed swapping and...
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NATIVE DANCER (BAKSY)
Co-written and produced by the Oscar-nominated Russian director Sergei Bodrov (MONGOL), this debut feature by Omarova collides two sensibilities-the rough-and -tumble nature of gangsters and the mysticism of witch doctors- in a conflict over a piece of real estate. The...
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MR. MUSTACHE
Several interviews reveal the disadvantages and positive effects from growing hair beneath one's nose, including the complexities of kissing and eating ice cream.
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MUGS
Your favorite celebrity mug shots morph from one to the next, with a trancelike soundtrack adding to the hypnotic effect.
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MAJOR DUNDEE
Charlton Heston may be fondly remembered for his larger-than-life personifications of conquering heroes, but in a few striking examples, such as Sam Peckinpah's MAJOR DUNDEE 11965) and Orson Welles's TOUCH OF EVIL (1958)-both of which were severely edited against their...
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MAKE MY DAY
A boy arriving at the hospital with a sprained ankle . finds himself standing up for his father against a bullying doctor.
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MEGATRON
Maxim 's turning 8 years old. For his birthday, his mother takes him from the village too McDonald's in the city.
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LIVERPOOL
Lisandra Alonso, writer-director of LA LIBERTAD and LOS MUERTOS and one of the key figures of New Argentine Cinema, elevates his austere, meditative style to poetic, provocative new levels with this tale of a loner adrift both at sea and...
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LOST GIRL
An unexpected look at the life of one young female Iraqi citizen.
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LEZZIEFLICK
An abstract and provocative art piece constructed from pornographic material.
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LION’S DEN (LEONERA)
Director-screenwriter Pablo Trapero (ROLLING FAMILY, EL BONAERENSE) returns to AFI FEST with this redemptive story of a young pregnant woman trying to survive in prison. This film follows the ill-fated and beautiful Julia, who, after killing her lover, gives birth...
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LAST MEAL
Revenge and weird cuisine are served up at a death-row diner.
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THE LEGLESS BOY CANNOT DANCE (EL NIÑO SIN PIERNAS NO PUEDE BAILAR)
A boy is left alone after the death of an old man, but then discovers a new friend.
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LAKE TAHOE
Director Fernando Eimbcke returns to AFI FEST (his first film, DUCK SEASON, won the AFI FEST 2004 Grand Jury Prize) with his second film, one with a strong autobiographical element. After Eimbcke's father died, he passed through a long denial...
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LAST CHANCE HARVEY
Academy Award-winners Dustin Hoffman (RAIN MAN, KRAMER VS. KRAMER) and Emma Thompson (SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, HOWARD 'S END) skillfully capture the vulnerability and yearning of an unexpected midlife romance in this endearing new film from write r and director Joel...
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THE LAST DAYS OF SHISHMAREF
While politicians, scientists and environmentalists debate the effects of global warming , an lnupiaq Eskimo community in northwest Alaska, just under the Arctic Circle , faces the real-world consequences of climate change every day. The ice beneath the small Alaskan...
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KISSES
On Christmas Day, Dylan (Shane Curry) a sullen, asthmatic 11-year-old boy living in a filthy slum in Dublin flees his father's drunken violence. Along for the adventure is fellow 11-year-old Kylie (Kelly O'Neill), the bold, determined girl who lives next...
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L’ AIMEE
Two lesser-known works by the master of contemporary French cinema showcase Desplechin's versatility and explore themes of family and transition: his award-winning debut LA VIE DES MORTS tells the story of a reunion built on a tragedy, and the documentary...
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KASSIM THE DREAM
Kassim "The Dream" Ouma is a complex character. He's the 2004 IBF Junior Middleweight champion of the world, a father, o young man who hasn't seen his mother since he was a teen and a former Ugandan child soldier who...
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KINGS AND QUEEN
When single, working mother Devos discovers her father is gravely ill, she receives little support from her ex-boyfriend, a capricious, tax-dodging violinist (Cesar winner Amalric) recently committed to a mental health institution, where he improvises hip-hop choreography and verbally spars...
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JUST ACT NORMAL
Four episodes track a man's gradual descent into disorientation.
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KANIZSA HILL
After being shot, a head and a body learn to exist independently from one another while seeking reunification.
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JERRYCAN
Five bored kids with nothing to do decide to blow something up. A round of rock-paper-scissors seals Nathan's fate.
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JOLANDA 23
There is a logical explanation for what these men are doing in this field, just wait and see.
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THE JUCHE IDEA
The third in a troika of hilariously serious looks at communism, Jim Finn's newest triumph firmly establishes the director as the funniest simp/dupe since Zero Mostel. This time Finn takes dead aim at the official North Korean ideology Juche, reveling...
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IN THE THEME (B TEME)
A young couple celebrating their first wedding anniversary hold forth on marriage, family and the future in this documentary.
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INVOLUNTARY (DE OFRIVILLIGA)
It's almost summer in Sweden. Throughout the city, people ore engaging in minor indiscretions and misbehavior. leffe likes to show off for his friends and play salacious pranks, especially when he's drinking A righteous grade-school teacher doesn't know where to...
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IDIOTS AND ANGELS
Following a career spanning decodes, animation icon Bill Plympton thrusts his most sublimely provocative vision to dote upon the world. His latest feature-length endeavor, a darkly comic fantasia without words, focuses on a vicious and dastardly fellow who haunts seedy...
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IMAGINADORES
"What's wrong with wanting to escape when you ore in prison?" on Argentine comic book artist asks, referring to the transformative possibilities of fantasy-based literature. This powerful documentary, which focuses on the amazing cultural force that is the Argentine comic...
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I THINK I THOUGHT
Joe's life threatens to come apart when he begins thinking too much. He discovers Thinkers Anonymous, where he learns that thinking is best left to professionals like politicians, religious leaders and the news media .
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I’M GONNA EXPLODE (VOY A EXPLOTAR)
After his acclaimed second feature, DRAMA/ME X, Gerardo Naranjo returns to AFI FEST with this compelling love story of two 15-year-olds who begin to discover themselves while learning about each other. Set in Guanajuato, Mexico , the film tells the...
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HUNGER
Though ostensibly about the 1981 hunger strike initiated by Irish Republican Army leader Bobby Sands, this poetic-realist debut by Steve McQueen ventures into far deeper territory, seeking to visually articulate the very nature of oppression and resistance. Beginning with bloody...
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THE HUSTLER
Paul Newman brought a new, casual intelligence to male stardom in the 1950s and '60s, a sensitive tricksterism versus Brando's and Dean's wounded inarticulation; David Thomson wrote that Newman "seems to me an uneasy, self-regarding personality, as if handsomeness had...
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THE HIGHER FORCE (STORA PLANID)
On the heels of his stunning, critically acclaimed drama THE AMAZING TRUTH ABOUT QUEEN RAQUELA (2008), rising Icelandic filmmaker Olaf de Fleur Johannesson presents a quirky, hilarious, kindly comedy about a bumbling petty criminal who dreams of a better life...
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HORSE TERRITORY
A woman in transition, traverses the Horse Territory.
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HOT DOG
This is the third in the DOG series. In this one episode our plucky hero joins the fire company to save the world from house fires and gain the affection he so richly deserves. Typically, the results never turn out...
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HI MY NAME IS RYAN
I like to stay busy. I like to make people happy. I am an entertainer," quips the exuberantly youthful Ryan Avery, luminous figurehead, rebellious visionary and eclectic member of Phoenix's outsider art scene . Charmingly crafted by Paul Eagleston and...
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THE HIDDEN LIFE OF THE BURROWING OWL
Through the lens of a wild life documentary, we meet an owl who recently lost his mate to a large predator. Can he survive in this dangerous wilderness alone?
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THE GOOD THE BAD THE WEIRD
One might call director Kim Jee-woon's stunning $10 million homage to Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone a kimchi Western The sixth film by the director of the cult favorite A TALE OF TWO SISTERS (2003) and A BITTERSWEET LIFE (2005),...
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THE HEADLESS WOMAN
Lucrecia Martel's LA CIENEGA skewered the corruption of a wealthy Argentine family and their servants. In THE HOLY GIRL, Martel explored an adolescent girl's erotic-religious obsession. Now , in her third and most demanding film, THE HEADLESS WOMAN (co-produced by...
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GOGOL BORDELLO NON-STOP
Gogol Bordello is a collective, musically and politically We create an insane party atmosphere to deliver social and political commentary." - Eugene Hutz After years spent in various European refugee camps, Eugene Hutz made his reputation in the U.S as...
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GOMORRAH
We've seen the story on screen before: first a breakdown in loyalties among crime gongs , then a wave of unthinkable violence . But writer-director Matteo Garrone injects this tale- winner of Cannes's Grand Prize-with an epic Balzacian vision. Garrone...
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A GOOD DAY TO BE BLACK AND SEXY
African-American writer-director Dennis Dortch's smart, sensuous debut explores the ever-shifting balance of power in the tug of war between the genders . Set in Los Angeles over the course of one day, the film is composed of six vignettes about...
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GACHI BOI WRESTLING WITH A MEMORY (GÂCHI BOI)
Every morning, the 20-year-old low student lgarashi (Ryuto Sato) wakes up able to remember only a portion of his life-the port that happened prior to a bicycle occident that damaged his frontal cortex and temporal lobe. Resorting to copious notes...
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FINALLY, LILLIAN AND DAN
Mike Gibisser's auspicious debut feature includes so much original vision it's hard not to feel a tremor of excitement a new voice in American cinema has arrived. FINALLY, LILLIAN AND DAN offers o meditation on young love and its delicacy,...
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FLOK
Twin brothers travel around their town in search of dead birds. Using science, art and faith, they attempt resurrection.
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FOOD FIGHT
Horrible news: There's been a governmental conspiracy afoot for decades to make America's food less delicious! In Chris Taylor's gastronomical documentary, this crime against our taste buds is comprehensively exposed, with the revolutionary stance against it (otherwise known as organic...
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EVERYDAY PEOPLE
Ever wondered what it's really like to be Julia Roberts, Will Smith or Michael Douglas?
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EX-BULLY
A knock at the door...
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ESTHER KAHN
A sullen 19-year-old improbably rises from her immigrant family's sweatshop to play the lead in Hedda Gobler. This mesmerizing period drama confounds expectations at every turn. Modeled on Truffaut's THE WILD CHILD, Desplechin's sole English-language film explores the inherent artifice...
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EVERLASTING MOMENTS
One fine day in 1907 in the Swedish village of Malmo, Maria Larsson (Moria Heiskonen) wins a Contessa camera in a lottery. That camera accounts for the title of the latest film by the Swedish master and Oscar nominee Jon...
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DRIFT
A mysterious disappearance on a 1960s space journey, contraband radio broadcasts, psychedelic rock, wayward space transmissions, scientific research and bodily levitation all come together in this story.
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ENERGY!
An uncontrolled high voltage discharge of 30.000 volts exposes multiple sheets of photographic paper which are then re-arranged in time to create new visual systems of electron organization and a universal story older than the world itself.
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DOWNTOWN LA
A visual poem about the heart of Los Angeles.
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THE DESERT WITHIN (DESIERTO ADENTRO)
Rodrigo Pio sets this compelling moral and spiritual fable during one of Mexico's bloodiest periods . In the late 1920 s, the revolutionary socialist government attempted to outlaw the Catholic Church, making the performance of religious rituals illegal and punishable...
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DIVIZIONZ
The Ugandan visual arts collective Yes! That's Us. takes on filmmaking, blasting the screen with sure-footed confidence. In this compelling tale of friendship and ambition, Kapo , Bona, Kanyankole and Mulokole are four aspiring musicians who have been offered a...
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DEFIANCE
Based an an extraordinary true story, and directed by AFI alum Edward Zwick, this epic tale of family, honor, vengeance and salvation in World War II begins in 194 1. The Jews of Eastern Europe are being massacred by the...
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CUTECUTECUTE
Oh hail X thx bail
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A DAY AT THE BEACH
An animated look at the complexity of modern love.
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DEADGIRL
This unexpectedly challenging film tangles the archetypal male coming-of-age narrative with the mechanics of paracinema . Using familiar visual tropes of a slasher-zombie-voyeur-horror flick, co-directors Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel make literal the terrifying hyperbolic metaphors of adolescent anxiety. Thus,...
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THE CLAY HEAD
A curse in a jar.
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CRY ME A RIVER (HESHANG DE AIQUING)
Jia Zhangke stages this exquisite film=poem over the romantic canals of the historic city of Suzhou during a 10-year reunion of university friends. They used to be poets or writers; now they discuss investment banking. One of them, the editor...
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A CHRISTMAS TALE
During a bittersweet holiday season, three generations of the Vuillard family gather at their home for what may be the last time. The matriarch, Junon (Catherine Deneuve), has a rare genetic condition. Her adult children, Henri (Mathieu Amalric), Elizabeth (Anne...
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THE CLASS
Laurent Cantet, already a hero to cineastes for his class-strife studies TIME OUT and HEADING SOUTH, breaks into the international spotlight with this Palme d'Or-winning story of Francois, who , along with his fellow teachers, is preparing for a new...
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CHE: PART TWO
One of American film's leading revolutionaries takes on one of modern history's most famous radicals in this two-part epic. The first segment, THE ARGENTINE, opens with Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Benicio Del Toro, in his most extraordinary, charismatic and nuanced performance...
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CHOUGA
Since winning prizes for KAIRAT( Silver Leopard, Venice 1992) and KILLER (Un Certain Regard Prize, Cannes, 1998), Darezhan Omirbaev has served as the inspirational center of Kazakhstan's resurgent cinema . With this loose adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, he demonstrates...
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THE CHASER
Ex-cop pimp Joong-ho is irritated because his girls keep disappearing without clearing their debts . One night, he gets a call from a customer and sends Min-ji. Joong-ho realizes the phone number of the customer matches that of the calls...
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CHE: PART ONE
One of American film's leading revolutionaries takes on one of modern history's most famous radicals in this two-part epic. The first segment, THE ARGENTINE, opens with Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Benicio Del Toro, in his most extraordinary, charismatic and nuanced performance...
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CAREFUL WITH THAT AXE
A young boy tries his hand at chopping firewood with his father's razor-sharp, incredibly heavy axe. Protect your extremities!
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CARPET DIEM
A two-minute creative documentary studies two still photos one taken by a cell phone, the other by a professional Hollywood paparazzo
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BUCKETS
This musical portrait of the people living on the skids in Los Angeles reveals beauty in unexpected places
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BUSCO PERSONAS: THE FACES OF COLOMBIA’S WAR
This documentary explores the human costs of Colombia's war.
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BLOOD APPEARS (LA SANGRE BROTA)
Argentine Pablo Fendrik broke into the independent film world with lost year's THE MUGGER, a favorite at both AFI FEST 2007 and Cannes' Critics' Week. He returns with this keenly observed account of one middle·class family's disintegration. The story follows...
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THE BROTHERS BLOOM
Academy Award-winner Rachel Weisz (THE CONSTANT GARDENER), Academy Award-w inner Adrien Brody (THE PIANIST), Mark Ruffalo (ZODIAC) and Academy Award-nominee Rinko Kikuchi (BABEL) star in this globetrotting comedy about the last great adventure of the world's two best con men....
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BETTER THINGS
"Real life was difficult, at best," Gail reads to herself, a good summation of this exploration of people connected by their isolation. An agoraphobia, Gail keeps inside, escaping into romance novels. Mr. and Mrs. Gladwin find their 60-year relationship shifting....
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BIRDSONG (EL CANT DELS OCELLS)
Albert Serra emerged as a major talent with HONOR DE CAVALLERIA, a retelling of Cervantes's Quixote. BIRDSONG, the Spanish director's second film, follows three ancient kings as they follow signs, omens and angels toward their destination: the birth of a...
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APOLOGY LINE
Feeling guilty? The film tells the story of a real-life apology line where members of the public anonymously confess to anything and everything.
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BEFORE THE FALL (3 DÍAS)
Life as we know it ends in three days. The leaders of the world hove just announced that a comet is hurtling toward Earth. No one con stop it, and the object is so immense that there is no hope...
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ALEX AND HER ARSE TRUCK
Featuring Baby Shoes, his nymphomaniac girlfriend, her black lover, a mentalist and a pair of drug-dealing lesbians.
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ALONE IN FOUR WALLS (ALLEIN IN VIER WANDEN)
Director Alexandra Westmeier's absorbing documentary offers a poignant look at what a devastated economic structure can do to impressionable youth. This beautifully lensed film about Russian delinquent boys, all under the age of 14, allows its subjects to recount their...
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AFTERSCHOOL
A teenage rites-of-passage drama, AFTERSCHOOL vividly captures the corrosive omnipresence of Web video footage for American teens. From violent You Tube-style clips to Internet pornography, our new media, suggests this debut film from director Antonio Campos, is creating a tangled...
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AGILE, MOBILE, HOSTILE: A YEAR WITHIN ANDRE WILLIAMS
A larger-than-life presence, magnetic raconteur and blues-soaked dandy, Andre Williams is o singular figure in American music. On the backs of hit 45s like Bacon Fat, Jail Bait and Shake a Tail Feather, Williams become on R&B star in the...
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ACNE
Few films capture the pitfalls of growing up as simply and effectively as Federico Veiroj's heartfelt, beautifully crafted debut. A teenage rite-of-passage drama infused with comedy and raging hormones, ACNE vividly captures the tangled confusion of adolescence and ripeness of...
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ADAM RESURRECTED
Like his Oscar-nominated AFFLICTION ( 1997), Paul Schrader's latest film deals with on individual tormented by memories of horrific violence . Like MISHIMA ( 1985), it jumps boldly through time and space . And like AUTO FOCUS (2002), it serves...
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3 WOMEN (SE ZAN)
Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Manijeh Hekmat unfurls a beautifully paced, visually rich and emotionally insightful story about a family of three women. On a day that should be ordinary, Minou, a museum rug conservator, sets out with her aging, senile mother...
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ACHILLES AND THE TORTOISE (AKIRES TO KAME)
The West has no real analogue to Takeshi "Beat" Kitano. One of Japan 's best-known celebrities, he has been a stand-up comic, TV personality, novelist, pointer, academic and , as international film buffs know, a major film director. The fluidity...
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24 CITY (ER SHI SI CHENG JI)
Jia Zhangke goes one (magnificent) step further in his idiosyncratic exploration of both the thin border between documentary and fiction and the self-imposed destruction experienced by China in her march toward a free-market economy. Though factories were once the temples...
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THE YEAR OF THE NAIL (AÑO UÑA)
THE YEAR OF THE NAIL is a thoughtful, evocative portrayal of friendship, love, longing and the sometimes static nature of life. Director/Screenwriter Jonas Cuaron (Alfonso Curaron's son) tells this story through photographs and voiceover. Using a year's worth of photos...
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YOURS TRULY
Frank and Charlie sacrifice their morals to find love as two worlds collide.
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WHITE MAN IN A BLACK BOX
Yourself seen through the lens of a camera by young kids of a Himba tribe from northern Namibia'.
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WITH YOUR PERMISSION (TIL DODEN OS SKILLER)
There's a point where permanent optimism becomes something darker, something pathological. Jan, a controlling restaurant manager, is the type of fellow who could put a positive spin on eternal damnation and might well twist off his own head before admitting...
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WATCHING IT RAIN (VER LLOVER)
Some like watching the rain, others would rather get wet.
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WELCOME TO NOLLYWOOD
Nigeria produces 2,400 films a year-it's the third largest film industry worldwide. Nigerian filmmakers are not dreaming about making it big in Hollywood, they're just picking up a camera and making a movie in Nollywood. Nollywood director lzu Ojukwu learned...
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VAL LEWTON: THE MAN IN THE SHADOWS
We usually regard directors, writers and actors as the ones mainly responsible for cinematic art. We think of producers as only concerned about the commercial aspects of films - or obstacles to the creative process. Val Lewton, who ran a...
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VIVA
Get ready for a kinky night at AFI FEST, as Anna Biller takes us on a trip back to the swinging '70s for a delicious tribute/parody to soft-core pornography and sexual liberation. This fantastic, one-of-a-kind sexploitation film seems at once...
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THE UNFORESEEN
If you ever swam at Barton Springs in Austin, Texas, you'd fight to save it too. Laura Dunn's THE UNFORESEEN is the story of how big developers spoiled a city treasure, and about the consequences continued development has on us...
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UNTITLED #2
UNTITLED #2 exploits a glitch in the visual landscape of an online community, teasing out the vague boundaries and tenuous relationships of virtual identity, property and body.
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USED PARTS (PARTES USADAS)
If nothing succeeds like success, then where does that leave the rest of us? Ending where most immigration stories begin- the promise of the border-USED PARTS uncovers a reality that few see and even fewer get far enough away from...
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THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS
Against a cold Winnipeg backdrop, Tracey Berkowitz wandered looking for her missing younger brother Sonny, who thinks he is a dog. This abstract meditation on teenage alienation set in a gritty cruel environment is a brilliant realization of themes ands...
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THE TRAGIC STORY OF NLING
In his struggle to survive beyond the walls of a slum city, a man soon finds that he is no more humane than his animal friend.
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TORN FROM THE FLAG (A LYUKAS ZASZLO)
Klaudia Kovacs's film tells the extraordinary tragic story of Hungary's struggle for national identity against the domination of Soviet Communism with special emphasis on the briefly successful armed popular rebellion in October 1956 that was put down when Soviet tanks...
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TOWER BAWHER
A whirlwind tour of Russian construction art with cascading, energetic animation
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TERRORIZER (K’UNG-PU FEN-TZU)
A blocked novelist (Cora Miao) contemplates giving up writing and returning to the 9-to-5 work force. Her husband, a doctor, snitches on a colleague in order to get a promotion at work. Meanwhile, a photographer becomes increasingly obsessed with the...
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A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS
It's been 25 years since Wayne Wang won over audiences his quirky comedy-mystery CHAN IS MISSING, a film about Chinese immigrants trying to reconcile their cultural traditions with the American way of life. With this adaptation of stories by the...
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SURGERY
Do not pay attention to this tremor.
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T.O.M.
This is how Tom starts his day; he is going to school today.
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TEARGAS & PLATEGLASS ‘ONE DAY ACROSS THE VALLEY’
This experimental video painting re-imagines the horror of war in kaleidoscopic vision.
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STEEP
STEEP takes us inside the world of big-mountain skiing, from its beginning in the 1970s in the mountains above Chamonix, France, to its future in remote Alaskan and Icelandic peaks. Highlighting the best of the best of this rare breed...
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STRANGE CULTURE
Blasting the screen with sure-footed conviction, director Lynn Hershman Leeson has crafted a powerful documentary that shines a light on the netherworld of homeland security and the artists who choose to use their freedom to question American policy. The surreal...
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SPIDER
It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.
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SPINE TINGLER! THE WILLIAM CASTLE STORY
This fantastic and little-known Hollywood story reveals William Castle-largely remembered for installing electrical shocking devices in seats for added scares at his horror films-as a fascinating, multi-dimensional man. A master of ballyhoo and a brand name in movie horror, Castle...
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SOLOS
The algebra of cliché holds that a picture is worth a thousand words, but it never fits silence into the equation. In SOLOS, co-directors Loo Zihan and Kan Lume have succeeded at the seemingly impossible task of creating a film...
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SOUTH CENTRAL FARM: OASIS IN A CONCRETE DESERT
This documentary tells the true story of the high profile controversy over the largest urban farm in the US involving local farmers and their supporters, including celebrity tree sitters and the developer and the city. It includes a rare interview...
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SOUTHLAND TALES
In 1920, Robert Frost described two roads in a yellow wood. More than 85 years later, filmmaker Richard Kelly, director of the cult favorite DONNIE DARKO, takes the one less traveled. In one of the year's most anticipated films, Kelly...
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SILENT LIGHT (STELLET LICHT)
Carlos Reygadas's (JAPON, BATTLE IN HEAVEN) new film is a beautifully haunting meditation on the impermanence of existence and love, infused with an ethereal peace. In this emotion ally mature story about a small Mennonite community in Mexico, Reygadas lets...
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SMILEY FACE
OK, just hang on a second, because it's not like this is a complicated movie with tons of shadows or peasants , but there's, you know, a lot of moving parts and stuff. It definitely starts on a Ferris wheel,...
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SHUTEYE HOTEL
As cops investigate gruesome murders in a sleazy hotel they become victims of an evil force.
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SIGUR ROS: HEIMA
Sigur Ros's thank you letter to their motherland, HEIMA will carry you on an ethereal cloud of profoundly gorgeous compositions as you float over the breathtaking Icelandic countryside, a landscape as hypnotic and serenely beautiful as their music. In the...
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SECRET SUNSHINE (MILYANG)
Lee Chang-Dogn's movie possesses the fullness and complexity of a great novel, revealing new layers to us the deeper we move into it. It begins as the story of a recent widow (Jeon Do-yeon) and her young son adjusting to...
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SHAME (SKAMMEN)
"History is a nightmare from which I cannot awake," wrote James Joyce. Bergman dramatizes that idea unforgettably in SHAME. Liv Ullman wakes up to a roar of rockets that sound like they're emanating from an endless newscast inside her head...
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THE SAVAGES
Wendy (Laura Linney) is a struggling playwright, surviving on temp jobs while enduring a bad relationship with a married man. Her brother John (Philip Seymor Hoffman), is a university professor forever delaying the finish of his PhD thesis and struggling...
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SEARCHERS 2.0
SEARCHERS 2.0 is Alex Cox's (REPO MAN, SID & NANCY) eclectic, laugh-out-loud send-up of the original SEARCHERS, steeped in all the elements we have come to expect and want from an Alex Cox film. Mel and Fred are two actors...
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ROCK POCKETS
A moving musical portrait of PDA.
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SAKURAN
As apprentice courtesan Kiyoha in this racy, mango-inspired film, Japanese pop superstar Anna Tsuchiya turns in a knowing, nuanced performance that suggests she recognizes the numerous similarities between her own day job and her character's profession. Both exist in celebrity-driven...
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SALIVA
A young girl is about to experience her first kiss, but a crippling fear of drowning in saliva threatens to overtake this seminal moment.
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PUBLIC ENEMY: WELCOME TO THE TERRORDOME
Public Enemy's 20 year career has had a monumental impact on the music world. Robert Patton-Spruill's WELCOME TO THE TERRORDOME chronicles their legacy, their history and what icons of the music world say about their influence. Two decades later, the...
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THE QUEST FOR THE MISSING PIECE
THE QUEST FOR THE MISSING PIECE is a compelling documentary about rituals and their meanings in a modern world. Creatively telling his story as a fairy tale, Director Oded Lotan punctures the surface of time honored traditions. Once upon a...
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PSYCHO
Probably Hitchcock's most famous film is the gothic thriller, PSYCHO. The film features Hitchcock at his most startling pitch and at the height of his manipulative technique. The famous shower scene in which he expeditiously disposes of the co-star, Janet...
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PSYCHO HILLBILLY CABIN MASSACRE!
A bloodbath erupts when a group of Ivy League students discover an isolated hillbilly cabin in the woods.
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POP SKULL
There's a moment early on in Director Adam Wingard's debut feature POP SKULL where you will begin to doubt yourself. Don't freak out - it happens to everyone . This isn't a film that is 'difficult to watch' in the...
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PRINCE OF THE HIMALAYAS
Almost every country in the world at one time or another has displayed and defined its cultural identity by offering up its own interpretation of the plays of Shakespeare. Now that China has again become a global cultural force, especially...
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THE PRINCESS OF NEBRASKA
Wayne Wang's career as a filmmaker has been marked by a restless desire to adopt drastically different styles from film to film. EAT A BOWL OF TEA and JOY LUCK CLUB a re beautiful jewel-like pieces that handle melodramatic family...
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PIERRE RISSIENT: MAN OF CINEMA
For the past 50 years, in the world of film, Pierre Rissient has operated behind the scenes as powerfully as any mythic cardinal in a 19th-century novel-either launching the careers of countless great filmmakers, or giving their work a vital,...
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PLEASE VOTE FOR ME
Winner of the Sterling Audience Award at the SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Film Festival, PLEASE VOTE FOR ME is one of the most insightful and enjoyable documentaries of the year. At a school in Wuhan, China, it's class monitor election...
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THE PASSENGER
Michelangelo Antonioni's last great movie appeared in 1975 when he was in his early 60s. It's officially a French-Spanish- Italian co-production, with an American star, Jack Nicholson. The film immediately escapes categories, beginning in stark desert terrain and following a...
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PERSEPOLIS
Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical novels detail her upbringing in Tehran from the overthrow of the Shah through the years of Ayatollah Khomeni's Islamic fundamentalist regime and the Iran-Iraq war. Her gripping personal journey from childhood through adolescence, followed by her sexual...
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ORANGE REVOLUTION
Like something out of an old world spy novel, a popular politician is poisoned in an attempt to install a ruthless opponent. Welcome to the ORANGE REVOLUTION. Steve York's riveting documentary chronicles what led to the Orange Revolution in Ukraine...
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OUSMANE
Dakar, Senegal Ousmane, a 7-year-old child begs in the streets. He decides to write a letter to Santa Claus.
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ON THE ROAD WITH JUDAS
This surprising, disorienting comedy is a missile, a brilliantly smart bomb fired straight at the heart of mainstream cinema. It begins as the chronicle of counterculture folk hero Judas (played alternately by Aaron Ruell and Eddie Kaye Thomas) and his...
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ONE DEVIL AND HIS DOG
The devil has lost his dog. Everybody run.
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OPERATION FILMMAKER
After seeing a documentary about a 25-year-old Iraqi film student whose school was destroyed, Liev Schreiber decided to help. So he invited Muthana Mohmed to work on the production of his film EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED in Prague. But getting coffee...
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NOSALTRES
One man has paid 750 euros to be smuggled out of Africa, while another has lived in the small town in Catalonia all of his life: What do these two men say to each other as they pass each other...
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OLDEASTSIDE
Very short five-minute, non-malignant parody by Khavn De La Cruz on the ultra-long films by Lav Diaz in general and the five-hour BATANG WESTSIDÉ in particular. Diaz himself chose the five quotes that are digitally deconstructed. The film was made...
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NIGHT TRAIN
Diao Yinan, the award-winning director of UNIFORM, once again uses his hometown Xi' an as the backdrop for a meditation on Chinese provincial life. Diao's spare images and non-psychological approach to storytelling form a portrait of the almost-monastic life of...
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NOISE
Henry Bean won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2002 with THE BELIEVER, a stunning portrait of a young Jewish man who became a determined neo-Nazi. Bean's Follow-up Feature deals with another articulate intellectual New Yorker with a Fanatical gripe....
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NAKED (NAAKT)
Eric is 8-years-old. He visits a sauna for the first time with his mother and he cannot believe his eyes. As he leaves he encounters a beautiful young woman .
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NEVER APOLOGIZE: A PERSONAL VISIT WITH LINDSAY ANDERSON
A unique hybrid of film, theater and literature, NEVER APOLOGIZE combines actor Malcolm McDowell's personal reminiscences with his readings of pieces written by and about his friend and mentor, celebrated British director Lindsay Anderson. Anderson, the award-winning director, critic, essayist,...
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MUNYURANGABO
Lee Isaac Chung, a Korean-American filmmaker working out of New York, makes his feature debut with an outstanding film about two young Rwandan men, one Hutu and the other Tutsi, on a journey through Rwanda's haunted countryside. Set in the...
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MY BIODEGRADABLE HEART
A story about puppy love and how long it would take said puppy to decompose.
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MR. WARMTH, THE DON RICKLES PROJECT
If you're old enough to remember his hysterical live performances seated on Johnny Carson's TONIGHT SHOW couch during the 60s, then you know that Don Rickles is simply one of the legendary Kings of Comedy. What you might not know...
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THE MUGGER (EL ASALTANTE)
He's a mugger in a three-piece suit; the kind of thief who'd fit in quite nicely in a French New Wave piano bar circa 1957. Ramos oozes avuncular charm as he pulls his gun and asks for the cash in...
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METAMORPHOSIS
METAMORPHOSIS is a new film by acclaimed Irish artist Clare Langan. It depicts a world in an unrelenting state of transformation and motion, shifting between scenes of stormy landscapes to snow filled interiors, and from frozen glacial surroundings to violent...
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MOMENT OF GLORY (MOMENT DE GLOIRE)
A man's infinite patience pays off as he approaches the climax of a monumental project.
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THE MARK
A lawyer rents a room to a human lightning bolt.
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MESSAGE FOR THE NEIGHBOURS (SINUM NAABRITELE)
Anti has worked as a TV repairman all his life. One day he realizes it is the world that needs to be repaired.
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METALOSIS MALIGNA
A fictitious documentary about a spectacular yet chronically debilitating disease.
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MANUELA Y MANUEL
Director Raul Marchand Sanchez and screenwriter Jose lgnacio Valenzuela are innovative storytellers with an extraordinary sense of humor and visual flare. They have cleverly molded a delightfully appealing film. Deep inside, Manuel has always been Manuela. In the middle of...
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MARGOT AT THE WEDDING
With THE SQUID AND THE WHALE, writer/director Noah Baumbach drew comparisons to Woody Allen by depicting neurotically self-aware , New York literary types. In his new film, Baumbach audaciously approaches the mode of Allen's hero, Ingmar Bergman. Nicole Kidman and...
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MACHINE (MAQUINA)
After a terrifying and unusual assault, a young woman finds herself radically changed in ways she could have never imagined.
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MAD DETECTIVE
Back together at the helm, Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai set incendiary cinematic material ablaze to create a fiery action drama. This film is both a thrilling adventure exposing the dark side of Hong Kong's police force and a fascinating...
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LYNCH
This gorgeous documentary is a sophisticated puzzle about time and reality, and showcases American legend David Lynch's world and life in exquisite experimental form. LYNCH, the documentary, gives us a rare glimpse into the fascinating mind of the man who...
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M’APPELLE
The story of a fallen apple.
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LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
One of the greatest love stories ever told, and based on the timeless masterpiece by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez , LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA spans a half-century in the complex , magical and sensual city of...
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LUCKY MILES
In an unlikely setting-Australia 's outback in 1990-first-time director Michael James Rowland gives us a wickedly funny comedy peopled with refugees, human cargo smugglers and army reservists patrolling the shores for smuggling boats. When the asylum seekers swim for shore...
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LIONS FOR LAMBS
Directed by Academy Award® winner Robert Redford, LIONS FOR LAMBS is a powerful and gripping story that digs behind the news, the politics and a nation divided to explore the human consequences of a complicated war. The story begins after...
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THE LIVING WAKE
Mike O'Connell's story of a quixotic character living in a small country town is the kind of comedy that clasps you to its bosom... and reeks lightly of gin. It's the final day in the life of self-proclaimed artist and...
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LOOK
No one is spared from the relentless, unblinking eyes of the surveillance cameras that are now hidden in every nook and cranny of day-to-day American life. The average citizen is now captured nearly 200 times a day- in department stores,...
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LIFE AND TIMES OF ROBERT KENNEDY STARRING GARY COOPER
Overlaid newsreel footage of Robert Kennedy and images from the classic Hollywood western HIGH NOON blur the line between truth and fiction.
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LIGHT WORK MOOD DISORDER AND HE WALKED AWAY: AN EVENING WITH JENNIFER REEVES
Soon after she began making short experimental works in 1990, Jennifer Reeves attracted attention for her bold and personal compositions. Her film CHRONIC is a haunting, romantic and tragic depiction of a self-destructive young girl who cuts herself to escape...
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KIDS + MONEY
Teens in Los Angeles discuss money: getting it, spending it and learning to live without it. KIDS + MONEY is an original short film by award-winning filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield.
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THE LAST MISTRESS (UNE VIEILLE MAITRESSE)
Catherine Breillat is known for her transgressive studies of female sexuality in film. In shocking contemporary dramas including FAT GIRL and ROMANCE, she combines graphic interest in female sexual pleasure with ironic portrayals of power struggles in a male-dominated society....
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JUNO
While most girls in Dancing Elk, Minnesota are updating their MySpace pages or shopping at the mall, Juno, a whip-smart teen, lives by her own rules. A typically boring afternoon becomes anything but when Juno has sex with the charmingly...
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KEY LIME PIE
In this animated spin on the noir genre, a man's obsession with key lime pie brings him to the brink of insanity
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IT’S BETTER IF GABRIELA DOESN’T DIE (MEJOR ES QUE GABRIELA NO SE MUERA)
Have you ever met someone and then forgotten they ever existed? That's what happens to telenovella writer Miguel (Mauricio Isaac), who talks his way out of a ticket by supplying the policeman with 'inside information' about a future plotline. Unfortunately...
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JELLYFISH (MEDUZOT)
Co-directed by popular Israeli novelist and short story writer Etgar Keret and his wife, screenwriter Shira Geffen, this entertaining, memorably unsettling film introduces us to three women at a Tel Aviv wedding. Batiya (Sarah Adler) has lost a boyfriend and...
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I MET THE WALRUS
Raskin romances Lennon in a cascading flood of multipronged animation.
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IN SEARCH OF A MIDNIGHT KISS
SEXLESS, the 2003 film by comedy director Alex Holdridge is the only movie to have won both the Jury and Audience Award for best feature film at the SXSW Film Festival. Holdridge's new work is a comic and tender ride...
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IRINA PALM
Rock star turned actress Marianne Faithful is mesmerizing as a woman trying to help her grandson in any way she can. Maggie needs money urgently. Her grandson is seriously ill in the hospital, and the medication that could save his...
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HUMBLE PIE
In this charmingly deadpan comedy, director Chris Bowman and screenwriter/star Hubbel Palmer make a stylistic show of their skills and decidedly quirky tone with an infectious film about a guy with a dream of a driver 's license. At nearly...
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THE HUNTER
Each winter Tub hunts with childhood friends Frank and Kenny. Middle-aged and still the butt of every joke, Tub wants this year to be different. And it is. Deep inside a snow-covered forest, his long-buried aggression comes raging to the...
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HOLLYWOOD CHINESE: THE CHINESE IN AMERICAN FILM
Produced, directed, written and edited by Academy Award® nominee and triple Sundance award-winning filmmaker Arthur Dong (LICENSED TO KILL, COMING OUT UNDER FIRE, FORBIDDEN CITY, U.S.A.), HOLLYWOOD CHINESE presents 11 of the community's most accomplished Chinese American film arti sts...
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HONEYDRIPPER
Using a steamy blues soundtrack to tell the story of the birth of rock and roll, iconic independent filmmaker John Sayles's (RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS 7, PASSIONFISH) new film HONEYDRIPPERS is set in an Alabama juke joint in 1950, and...
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HAPPY DESERT (DESERTO FELIZ)
Is it possible to quantify something so ephemeral as happiness? As we watch Jessica, a Brazilian runaway forced into prostitution, it becomes hard not to wonder when, exactly, she was most happy. Certainly it was not in her sun-blasted hometown,...
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HECKLER
Although the exact details have been lost to history, one imagines that the first critic 's judgment was closer in form to a Bronx cheer than to Aristotle 's Poetics. Both significant and uproariously funny, Michael Addis's documentary focuses on...
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GLASS, CONCRETE AND STONE
A short film about buildings that focuses on the aesthetics of construction and leveling.
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GOD PROVIDES
Shot in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and bound by elements of fiction, this unexpected documentary short is a glimpse into faith-based sentiment and inexplicable loss in the American South. While a man searches for his kitchen appliances in...
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H.R. GIGER’S SANCTUARY
This short documentary features an interview and a museum tour with the master of the airbrush, the inventor of "biomechanics" and the creator of the Academy Award winning ALIEN. The artist talks openly about his fascination with the morbid; his...
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FUNUKE, SHOW SOME LOVE YOU LOSERS! (FUNUKEDOMO, KANASHIMI NO AI WO MISERO)
Kyomi dreams of writing mango but she feels trapped by a dysfunctional family stewing in dashed dreams, suppressed rage and sexual deviance. Director Daihachi Yoshida's eccentricity seems influenced by the work of Todd Solondz and Wes Anderson, but he has...
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GAZE
This beautiful video abstraction further meditates on the common themes in Arandi's video work.
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
Graham and his mother both love God, but in very different ways.
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FROM HERE TO BREATH
Abstract depiction of life and death. One must die to be born again. Water is used as a medium to purify the body and soul to prepare for re-birth.
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FARO: GODDESS OF THE WATERS (FARO – LA REINE DES EAUX)
In this assured debut from Salif Traore, a former assistant to Souleymane Cisse and Abderrahmane Sissako, we follow the story of an engineer who returns to his rural village in Mali many years after having been cast out for being...
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THE FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON (LE VOYAGE DU BALLOON ROUGE)
Made in conjunction with the Musee d'Orsay, and inspired by Albert Lamorisse's classic family film LE BALLON ROUGE, master filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien moves away from his usual investigations of Taiwanese identity, both historical and contemporary, and visits Paris. The result...
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EXPIRED
Claire (Samantha Morton , typically superb) and Jay (Jason Patric, in a surprising comic performance that's a career-best) share the unhappy distinction of working at one of those jobs that society holds in lowest esteem-they ticket drivers whose parking meter...
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FAAT-KINE
When Kine (the marvelous Venus Seye), a gas-station manager in present-day Senegal, realizes that she is financially unable to provide for her two college-age children's desired European travel and study, she starts to reevaluate her own life of dreams deferred...
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ELVIS PELVIS
Two interlaced stories about hero worship and fatherhood echo one another in Nigerian/UK filmmaker Kevin Aduaka's striking debut ELVIS PELVIS. Elvis Pelvis is a story told in two parts; "THE SUIT" tells of a family living in London in the...
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EMERGENCY NEEDS
From acclaimed filmmaker Kevin Everson comes a unique meditation on the July 1968 uprising in Cleveland Ohio and the reaction of Mayor Carl Stokes.
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EVERYTHING WILL BE OK
A series of dark and troubling events forces Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life or lack thereof.
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THE DUCHESS OF LANGEAIS
The most active of the surviving Nouvelle Vague/Cahiers du Cinema players, 80-year-old writer-director Jacques Rivette has built a five-decades-long career centered on one preoccupation: the difficulty of cinematic representation. Rivette often uses the codes of theater as an exaggerated means...
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ECHO
When a divorced man kidnaps his own son because he cannot bear the thought of losing him, he falls off the edge of reason and into a haunting fantasy that is both thrilling and horrifying. As a police officer, Simon...
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DOGHEAD (CABEZA DE PERRO)
Director /screenwriter Santi Amodeo (ASTRONAUTS) utilizes personal insight and poetic storytelling to craft a thoughtful story of a man looking to get outside. Samuel is an 18-year-old boy who has suffered from a strange neurological disease since childhood. Sometimes he...
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DOWNHILL SKIING IN SUMMER
The Lauberhorn ski race, the world's longest downhill ski race, has been postponed until summer. The 10,000 wooden slats give their account of the perfect line, which is highly sought after but never achieved in winter. The viewers become the...
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DESTINY MANIFESTO
Paintings of the American western frontier and contemporary images of the conflict in the Middle East fuse in a painted collage.
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THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY (LA SCAPHANDRE ET LE PAPILLON)
Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor of Elle France, is blessed with money, talent, love and children. And then, in a moment, he is suddenly paralyzed from head to toe. This tragedy, however, doesn't deter Bauby's determination to communicate with the world....
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DEAR BILL GATES
A simple correspondence evolves into a poetic essay exploring the ownership of our visual history and culture . Combining original and archival film, video and images from the Internet, DEAR BILL GATES draws unexpected connections between mining, memory and Microsoft.
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DEFICIT
Actor Gael Garcia Bernal's directing debut is infused with an infectious, youthful energy, voyeuristically following his complex characters at a house party just outside of Mexico City. Bourgeois, rich kid Cristobal (Gorda Bernal) is having his friends over for a...
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CONTINENTAL, A FILM WITHOUT GUNS
A middle-aged man wakes up on an abandoned bus in the middle of the forest. He walks off the bus, disappears into the forest and is never seen or heard from again. Louis, when asked why he is interested in...
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THE COUNTERFEITERS (DIE FALSCHER)
Austrian writer/director Stefan Ruzowitsky tells a little-known, true-life story of World War II. Solomon Sorowitsch, (Karl Markovics) a gifted artist, black-market forger and Russian Jew, is plucked from almost certain death in a Nazi concentration camp and put in charge...
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CYRANO FERNANDEZ
Once honor was the sole possession of those few rich enough cultivate it. Nowadays it is a fossil, a self-imposed handicap for moral Luddites. Certainly that's the case for Cyrano Fernandez (Edgar Ramirez), a true idealist whose devotion to the...
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CLOUDS OVER CONAKRY (IL VA PLEUVOIR SUR CONAKRY)
CLOUDS OVER CONAKRY takes us into urban Africa, where the new-beauty pageants, Apple laptops, recording studio, beachside bars-clashes with the old, and in Conakry, the weatherman is predicting rain. Bangali (known as BB) secretly works as a cartoonist at the...
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CONFESSIONS OF A SUPERHERO
This is the quintessential Los Angeles story. Young people with heads full of lofty dreams move to Los Angeles with hopes of making it big. But fate holds far too many twists for the naive newcomers, and before long they...
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CHOP SHOP
Combining the powers of observation and understatement, director Ramin Bahrani is able to render an emotional tale of two siblings who struggle to stay together and get their own little piece of the American dream. Small in stature but huge...
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CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY
One of the most touching love stories of the year, Guido Santi and Tina Mascara's CHRIS & DON . A LOVE STORY chronicles the 30-year relations hip between British born author Christopher Isherwood (whose novel The Berlin Stories would later...
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BODY OF WAR
One of the most effective ways to give an important story life beyond the 60-second news bite is to present it in o film. So it is no surprise that Phil Donahue, one of the fathers of the modern television...
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CARAMEL
ln her gorgeous and love-affirming feature debut - which was the sleeper hit of this year 's Cannes Film Festival - Nadine Labaki finds gold in the hot goo used to strip body hair. Set in and around a Beirut...
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BLIND MOUNTAIN (MANG SHAN)
A demographic time bomb haunts China today. Den Xiaoping 's One-Child Policy has left too few women available for Chinese men to marry, especially in the less prosperous countryside. Writer/director Li Yang's film, which received sustained. ovations at Cannes uses...
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BLISS
Director Robert Todd's haunting, evocative work will spill over our public space for all to enjoy. With deep ties to the natural world, Todd's films have elevated modern experimental filmmaking.
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BITCH
Love at first sneer.
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BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER THREE
The third part in a series of films dealing with naturally derived psychedelia. Shot during a performance by local Rhode Island noise band Lightning Bolt, this film documents the transformation of a rock audience's collective freak-out into a trance ritual...
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THE BAND’S VISIT (BIKUR KATIZMORET)
This audience-pleasing sensation of Cannes' Un Certain Regard and winner of eight Israeli Oscars follows the comic plight of the Alexandria Police Orchestra. These eight slightly bewildered Egyptian officers, after getting lost at the airport, arrive in a remote, nearly...
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BIG RIG
Sleek steel monsters roll through the night on a cross-country odyssey that keeps the wheels of the American machine turning. Meet the working-class heroes who deliver your food-and all the goods you can't live without. Doug Pray (SCRATCH, HYPE!, SURFWISE),...
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AUTUMN BALL
In a shabby Estonian hotel, a coat room attendant pretends be a guest at a conference of intellectuals so he can scam a free meal. As he tucks in, a woman starts a one-sided conversation, opining, There is no such...
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BABY
A mother holds her child. Her face barely shows any expression.
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THE ART OF NEGATIVE THINKING (KUNSTEN A TENKE NEGATIVT)
At times both horrific and hilarious, THE ART OF NEGATIVE THINKING is a stunning debut film . Director Bard Breien and actor Fridtjov Saheim have created a countercultural hero for the ages. Geirr is a depressed but bitterly funny and...
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ATENCO, A CRIME OF STATE
Atenco is a symbol of pride in Mexico. The documentary that bears its name captures the peoples' revolt frame-by-frame as it unfolded on May 3 and 4, 2006, by a collective of filmmakers who recorded the darkest days in Mexico's...
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ALEXANDRA
Acclaimed Russian director Alexander Sokurov (FATHER AND SON, THE RUSSIAN ARK) continues his career-long meditation on the state of the Russian soul in his latest work, an anti-war story set in a Russian army camp in Chechnya. Alexandra (Galina Vishnevskaya)...
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ALICE SEES THE LIGHT
Alice laments the loss of her view of the night sky, one of her initial reasons for living in the country. The change in her environment is the result of" security lighting" for a large corporate storage facility.
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AFTER THE FUNERAL
After his wife's funeral, a widower listens to his favorite record and imagines one last moment with his lost love.
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AFTERMATH ON MEADOWLARK LANE
While on their way to a mariachi recital, a devastating car crash forces a mother and her two sons to confront the truth about their past-based on a true story.
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THE AERIAL (LA ANTENA)
White text on a black screen reads, "Once upon a time... there was a city without a voice." A pop-up storybook city fills the frame and the black and white homage to silent cinema begins. Although the inhabitants of the...
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AFGHAN MUSCLES
Danish director Andreas Mol Dalsgaard's relentlessly entertaining documentary follows the most popular sport in Afghanistan, male bodybuilding. And this is not the Afghanistan of your nightly news. Just check out the hilarious scene at a qualifier for the men's national...
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1000 JOURNALS
Like a modern day message in a bottle, "Someguy" from San Francisco sent 1000 journals out into the world. Offering them via his Web site, leaving them on park benches and restrooms or just handing them to strangers, they began...
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4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (4 LUNI, 3 SAPTAMINI SI 2 ZILE)
Winner of Cannes' Palme d'Or, writer/director Cristian Mungiu's masterwork manages to be political without a single conventional reference to politics. The story, set in the final year of Ceaucescu's dictatorship in Romania, depicts a college student (the magnificent Anamaria Marinca)...
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ZOZO
Director Josef Fares (JALLA JALLA, KOPS) is an innovative storyteller with an extraordinary sense of humor and visual flare. His new film ZOZO is more dramatic and emotionally charged, yet still steeped in Fares' unique style. Zozo is a young...
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ZIM AND CO.
French director Pierre Jolivet has crafted a film that on the surface is a light comedy but contains within it wonderful social observations. Already a smash hit at this year's Cannes Film Festival, AFI is proud to present the North...
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THE ZIT
A small zit becomes a big problem. Don't touch it!
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YOGISHA (THE SUSPECT)
When you're a cop in Tokyo, office politics are more deadly than the yakuza. That bitter truth becomes apparent when Chief Inspector Shinji Muroi (Tashiro Yanagiba) re-opens a controversial murder case. Muroi doesn't believe that the young policeman accused of...
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YOUNGSTER
A 12-year-old drug dealer finds himself in a tough situation when hands over a crack rock to a pushy addict without first getting paid.
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THE YOUTH IN US
A young couple confronts a painful future by looking to the past.
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THE WORLD’S FASTEST INDIAN
Based on the true story of Burt Munro, one of New Zealand's national heroes, THE WORLD'S FASTEST INDIAN refers to the souped-up classic Indian Scout motorcycle which carried Munro to his destiny in 1967, when he broke the world land...
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WRONG SIDE UP (PRIBEHY OBYCENJNEHO SILENSTVI)
In this delightfully deadpan romantic comedy, writer/ director Petr Zelenka makes a stylistic show of his skill and decidedly quirky tone, communicating with a breezy, generous wit. Life is a bitch and love is a quest. And then you ship...
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WHAT’S EATING GILBERT GRAPE
Based on the novel by Peter Hedges and directed by Lasse Hallström (CHOCOLAT, MY LIFE AS A DOG), this is the clever, moody tale of a young Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) who lives at home in a small town with...
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WILD RIVER
remarkable 1960s drama starring Montgomery Clift and lee Remick, the rarely seen WILD RIVER has been gorgeously re-mastered in its original widescreen glory, and is finally coming to DVD early next year courtesy of Fox DVD. Set during the New...
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WALK THE LINE
"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash," was the humble, friendly greeting that opened the concerts of country music's legendary Man in Black. This pioneering outlaw turned Nashville upside down, blurring the lines between blues, folk, gospel, rockabilly and country. Developed over seven...
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THE WEDDING PARTY (DIE BLUTHOCHZEIT)
Based on the graphic novel, Lune de Guerre, that achieved cult status in Belgium and France, THE WEDDING PARTY is an action-fueled black comedy about a wedding reception that is derailed by shotguns and hand grenades before anyone makes it...
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WHAT A WONDERFUL PLACE
Winner of the Israeli Academy's Best Picture Ophir Award and is Israel's official Oscar® submission for the Best Foreign Language Film. This film is a rare and moving examination of both human and exploitive relations between migrant workers and their...
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TSOTSI
Winner of the People's Choice Award at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, TSOTSI is based on the novel by renowned South African playwright Athol Fugard, tracing six days in the violent life of a young thug in the Johannesburg...
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UNITED NATIONS OF HIP HOP
Jay-Z posters adorn bedroom walls, youth sport Adidas, MCs battle on street corners in Senegal, West Africa, where MCs talk about African debt dependency, Islam, and poverty over powerful beats. Explore the far reaches of hip hop, capitalism and the...
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TRANSAMERICA
The terrific performances of Felicity Huffman and Kevin Zegers work in synch to maximize the impact of this profoundly resonant film. Living in Los Angeles, Bree (Felicity Huffman in an Oscar-worthy performance, of a conservative transsexual woman saving money for...
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TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY
Michael Winterbottom (24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE, 9 SONGS, IN THIS WORLD) has turned his sights on classic literature with this irreverent take on Laurence Sterne's raucous The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Witerbottom intercuts adeptly from the costumed...
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THROUGH THE FIRE
A basketball journey that rivals the heart of the fictional film 8 MILE, THROUGH THE FIRE follows the most publicized high school athlete to come out of New York City's public schools in recent memory - Sebastian Telfair. Eighteen years...
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TOWER OF BABEL
Miller, the modern-day King of Babel, has built a tower of corporate success. Through wealth and power he's challenging the gods. But, in the process, he's lost his ability to commune with the rest of us.
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TATTOOED (TATUADO)
Director Eduardo Raspo's (GEISHA) new film is filled with potent observations about lingering memories and unspoken mysteries between father and son, and the longing for the woman who left them behind. Seventeen-year-old Paco, a boy on the brink of adulthood,...
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TBILISI-TBILISI
A selection from Cannes' prestigious Directors Fortnight, writer/director/film professor Levan Zakareishvili's second film is a powerful, personal work, which turns an unforgiving narrative eye on the harsh realities of life on the streets of his native Tbilisi. Among those struggling...
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THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA
In a stunning directorial debut, actor Tommy Lee Jones also stars in THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA, an exquisitely crafted Western realist myth written by Guillermo Arriaga (AMORES PERROS, 21 GRAMS), who won on award at the 2005 Cannes...
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SUNFLOWER (XIANGRIKUI)
Riding the new wave of Chinese cinema, Zhang Yang's (QUITTING, SHOWER) latest film is an ode to change and an engaging analysis of the importance of the family as social unit in Chinese culture. SUNFLOWER centers on the hardship and...
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SWIMMERS
Financial pressures and simmering tensions threaten to overwhelm a family struggling to cope with life's unexpected storms. Wide·eyed newcomer Tara Devon Gallagher anchors a sterling cast in this powerful drama from writer/director Doug Sadler. When a health crisis sidelines an...
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STRESSLESS
Young, mature and single? Living alone with your dog? Lulu tells you how to handle emotional stress when just divorced.
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SUMMER IN BERLIN
There is an artistry to the narrative vision of Andreas Dresen's (GRILL POINT, NIGHT SHAPES) films that enable him to infuse his simple morality tales with a breadth of sensibility and understanding, turning them into something so much more. SUMMER...
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SPL
International action stars Donnie Yen and Somma Hung hove come together to make one of the most visually intense and psychologically tricky police thrillers to come along in recent years. In SPL, themes of vengeance and justice play out over...
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STORIES OF DISENCHANTMENT (HISTORIAS DEL DESENCANTO)
Demons and schoolgirls collide in this outrageous and innovative phantasmagoria from director Alejandro Valle. Using (GI and live action, this film tells the story of two children who stumble into a world filled with demons and drugs that doesn't resemble...
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SOPHIE SCHOLL: DIE LETZTEN TAGE
The true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine, SOPHIE SCHOLL-THE FINAL DAYS has already received numerous awards worldwide, including three Lolas (the German equivalent of the Academy Award®), two Silver Bears for Best Director and Best Actress at the...
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SORRY, HATERS
Robin Wright Penn is mesmerizing in Jeff Stanzler's socio-political, psychological thriller SORRY, HATERS. Set in New York City and, like many great New York films, it all begins with a cab ride. Ashade (Abdellatif Kechiche), a Muslim cab driver, picks...
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SARAH SILVERMAN: JESUS IS MAGIC
God help you if you try telling any of these jokes to your friends. Just don't do it. Because you are not Sarah Silverman, and you will come off sounding like a racist or a homophobe or just a generally...
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SCREAMING MASTERPIECE
One thousand years of history, Vikings, poetry and dirges, and the whisper that echoes through the stirring and severe snow-covered rocky coast-this is the music of Iceland. A sound and style that is uniquely ancient and modern. There's much more...
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SHANGHAI DREAMS (QINGHONG)
Winner of the Prix Du Jury at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, SHANGHAI DREAMS is acclaimed director Wong Xiaoshuaii's (BEIJING BICYCLE, DRIFTERS) exploration of his post as port of o generation of children whose lives took root in the realm...
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ROSARIO TIJERAS
They say she kisses her victims right before killing them. They say she has killed more than 200 people. She is the queen of all assassins. This is the legend of the woman known as Rosario Tijeras, the sexy and...
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RYNA
Ryna has been trapped in an impoverished Romanian village for 16 years with a father who forces her to dress like the son he has always wanted, certain this will keep her from ever becoming a woman. Then, one day,...
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RISE UP
A woman attempts to revive her comatose husband by taking him back to the cabaret-the place where they first met.
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ROMANCING THE WIND
In a seaside park in Vancouver, Canada, World Champion multiple sport kite flyer Ray Bethell flies three kites at once-to the music of Lakmeî by Leo Delibes.
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RIDE OF THE MERGANSERS
The Hooded Merganser is a rare and reclusive duck found only in North America. Just 24 hours after hatching, the tiny ducklings must make the perilous leap to the ground below to begin life in the wild. Humans rarely observe...
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RIPLEY UNDER GROUND
Tom Ripley returns to the screen and gleefully cuts another psychopathic swath through high society. Patricia Highsmith's Ripley is a devious creation with no morality but a cunning intellect and a deft sense of style. Alan Cumming co-stars as the...
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THE RED SHOES
Loosely based on the classic fable by Hans Christian Anderson, THE RED SHOES is one of the most terrifying and visually startling films to come out of the new Asian horror wave. In a world where people are increasingly defined...
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THE REFUGEE ALL STARS
THE REFUGEE ALL STARS tells the remarkable and ultimately life- affirming story of a group of six Sierra Leonean musicians who come together to form a band while living as refugees in the Republic of Guinea. In the midst of...
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PRINCESS RACCOON
"No man should love a Tanuki. Even less should this enchanted forest creature ever love a man." So begins the latest film from Seijun Suzuki. The 82-year-old veteran filmmaker serves up a highly stylized, musical fairytale about forbidden love between...
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QUEENS (REINAS)
A laugh out loud send-up of the perfect wedding day, QUEENS is a flawlessly executed, highly stylized romp from acclaimed director Manuel Gomez Pereira (SALSA ROSA). Set in and around the first ever gay wedding in Spain, QUEENS is a...
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RAW
A woman chooses to leave an abusive lifestyle. RAW is an ambiguous and beautiful depiction of her dual realities.
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PABLO: THE POET’S LIVES
A surreal cinematic tribute to one of the world's greatest poets, PABLO, THE POET'S LIVES is an impressionist's homage that beckons you to spend some time reveling in the words and images that drift before you. The story of Chile's...
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PELE FOREVER (PELE ETERNO)
In another time, athletes played for family or for country or, yes, for the love of the game. In another time, fans cheered wildly for their team and applauded greatness in an opponent's efforts. And, in that time, a man...
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NO GRAY TWILIGHT
A cinematic meditation on the ritualized preparations of several young cowboys as they get ready for their rough stock events at an America rodeo, NO GRAY TWILIGHT was inspired by the city symphony films of the early 20th century, the...
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ON THE OTHER SIDE (AL OTRO LADO)
Writer/director Gustavo Loza's visually stimulating, hauntingly timely film punctures the surface of immigration with a distinctive and unconventional storytelling style. Three countries, three cultures, three different realities serve as background for the stories of three children (a Mexican boy, a...
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MUTUAL APPRECIATION
After his first feature film FUNNY HA HA, Andrew Bujalski won the IFP's 2004 "Someone to Watch" Spirit Award and Filmmaker magazine selected him as one of the "New Faces of Indie Film." With a nod to Linklater and Warhol,...
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NEXT DOOR (NABOER)
Norwegian writer/director Pal Sletaune (JUNK MAIL) cites Alfred Hitchcock as his greatest influence, and this gripping and involving psychosexual tale would no doubt please the master of suspense. Breaking up is hard to do as John finds out when he's...
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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF MY VERY BEST YEARS
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF MY VERY BEST YEARS is a thoughtful, evocative portrayal of friendship, love, longing and the static nature of life sometimes. Combining the powers of observance and understatement, director Martin Boulocq is able to render an emotional...
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MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS
Acclaimed British director Stephen Frears (MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDERETTE, THE GRIFTERS, HIGH FIDELITY, DIRTY PRETTY THINGS) is undoubtedly at the top of his game in MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS, based on the true story of Laura Henderson, one of the most prominent...
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MEMORY OF THE SEA (RECUERDO DEL MAR)
As a young boy's eyes take in the ocean for the very first time, the rest of the world seemingly falls away.
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MERRY CHRSTMAS (JOYEUX NOËL)
Writer/director Christian Carion (THE GIRL FROM PARIS) has fashioned a truly pan-European, multi-lingual triumph in MERRY CHRISTMAS, an exquisite re-telling of a wartime tale that has become legendary as a symbol of how shared humanity trumps duty-even in the face...
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MAN SEEKING MAN (MIES ETSII MIESTÄ)
Seppo is a 5O-year-old man. He places a Men Seeking Men personals ad in a newspaper. Kale is Seppo's 25-year-old son who decides to go and meet his father after 20 years.
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MARY
A holy messenger with modern day implications visits a young girl.
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THE MCCOMBIE WAY
She's 81, gardens 15 acres, built the road to her house and clears the Mojave Desert one rusty tin can at a time. From the middle of the Mojave Desert, a gentle reminder about making the most of your time...
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LUCKY
Lucky is a South African AIDS orphan who learns about life through an unlikely bond with an Indian woman.
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M
A kinetic fusion of Mexican culture with comic book style animation, M tells the story of a female boxer whose personal demons are manifesting.
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LITTLE ATHENS
Athens, Arizona, is not exactly the cradle of civilization. Instead, it's a town populated by young men and women struggling in on environment with limited options. They are pool cleaners, EMTs, tow truck drivers and pizza delivery boys. Writer/director Tom...
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THE LOST CITY
Beautifully rendered by writer/director Andy Garcia, THE LOST CITY is an illuminating. tale of the durability of family ties, set in pre-Revolutionary Havana. Guillermo. Cabrera Infante and Andy Gorda spent 16 years bringing lnfante's novel Three Trapped Tigers to the...
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THE LIBERTINE
First time filmmaker Laurence Dunmore crafts a deliciously dark portrait of London in the 1600s. Plague, rats and syphilis are as much a port of the landscape as the fog and the theatre. It is of course the characters that...
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LIFE WITH MY FATHER (LA VIE AVEC MON PERE)
Sebastien Rose's sophomore effort, a humorous relationship drama with a captivating ensemble cast, charmed many at the 40th Karlovy International Film Festival where it recently won the Audience Award. Paul Agira, a bohemian writer, ekes out a meager existence in...
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KISSED BY WINTER (VINTERKKYSS)
Norway's official Oscar submission, in this stunning debut, writer/director Sara Johnsen tells the story of Victoria (Annika Hallin), a doctor who is called to the scene when a young refugee boy is found dead in a snow bank. Victoria is...
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KRUSTY
Take a ride with the desires of the lost and lonely as they relive their past and dream for personal peace.
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LEAGUE OF LEGENDS
The world's best soccer players had to start at the bottom. The competition to rise to the top is sometimes as dramatic as a gangland standoff.
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JOY
Director Julie Shies utilizes personal insight and poetic storytelling to craft a thoughtful story of a young woman, her family and reality TV. Joy Levine is a little shabby and rough on the outside, yet filled with joy on the...
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THE KID & I
Acclaimed, versatile filmmaker Penelope Spheeris is best known for straddling two careers - directing commercial Hollywood comedies (WAYNE'S WORLD, THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES, BLACK SHEEP) while lovingly documenting the emergence and trajectory of punk and heavy metal (THE DECLINE OF WESTERN...
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INITIAL D (TAUMANCHI D)
Who is the racing god of Mt. Akina? Strap in for a hypnotically beautiful street racing film from Japan that blows the doors off of THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS. Based on the popular manga and anime, and produced by...
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THE INTERVENTION
There are some stories Steve loves to tell and some stories that tell on him.
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IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER
This is the story of a father's death and the fractured family that mourns his passing in their own inimitable way. The adult children of a Hollywood mogul decide to take drugs, screw around and film the entire thing for...
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IN THE DOGHOUSE
Some days you don't get out of bed. Some days you probably shouldn't have at all.
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HORST BUCHHOLZ–MY PAPA
From 2001 until his sudden death in 2004, Horst Buchholz's son Christopher recorded insightful conversations with his father. Opening up as never before, Horst tells us of his mother's attempted suicide with him in the womb, his years spent in...
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IN BED (EN LA CAMA)
Few films capture the pitfalls of yearning for communication as simply and effectively as Matias Bize's heartfelt and beautifully crafted IN BED. The film's action takes place in one room with two characters, two strangers in bed -- loving, betraying...
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THE GRÖNHOLM METHOD (EL METODO GRÖNHOLM)
THE GRONHOlM METHOD is a slick modern thriller about the extremes to which people will go in today's corporate world. Director Marcelo Piiieyro has created a provocative situation for his characters. What lengths will people go to for the sake...
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HELL (L’ ENFER)
Director of the Academy Award®-winning NO MAN'S LAND, Danis Tanovic's sophomore film HELL uses Dante's Inferno as a point of departure, and turns into a compelling portrait of a family torn apart by events from the past. The story unfolds...
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HIDDEN (CACHE)
Contemporary world cinema has few more controversial-and eagerly anticipatedfilmmakers than Austrian director Michael Haneke. In films like FUNNY GAMES, CODE UNKNOWN, THE PIANIST and THE TIME OF THE WOLF, Haneke experiments with our preconceptions of fear and doom, and the...
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THE GOODTIMESKID
Director Azazel Jacobs's sophomore film is shot with stark simple imagery highlighting the easygoing lives of his three thoroughly entertaining characters at a pitchfork in their lives. THE GOODTIMESKID is the relaxed episodic story of two men with the same...
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GREEN BUSH
Over one heartbreaking but empowering night, radio DJ Kenny realizes that his job at an Aboriginal community radio station is about more than just playing music.
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THE GIGOLOS
It's hard work being a gigolo. That's why you need a gent. When Sacha comes home at 6:00 a.m. after a long night of work, that's when his gent, Trevor, is just getting started Sure, the gigolo is the higher...
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GOODBYE MOMO (A DIOS MOMO)
Weaving together seamlessly a powerfully lyrical narrative, A DIOS MOMO is homage to the delicate rhythms of life in the Carnival. A DIOS MOMO is the story of 11-year-old street kid Obdulia, who sells newspapers for a living but does...
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FUCK
What is it about this word? Reviled by many as plain obscene, it has made its way into our everyday vernacular, sporting multiple definitions and usages and becoming an undeniable part of our culture. FUCK explores our relationship with the...
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GEMINIS
Alberto Carri's (THE BLONDS) GEMINIS is a beautifully shot but disturbing film that peels back the skin of a middle-class family to reveal the secrets below. Lucia and Daniel have three children: the eldest is Ezequiel, who now lives in...
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FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
Journalist Raoul Duke and his lawyer Dr. Gonzo drive from LA to Las Vegas on a drug binge.· They nominally cover news stories, including a convention on drug abuse, but also sink deeper into a frightening psychedelic otherworld. As Vietnam,...
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FIRST RENDEZVOUS
A woman's first rendezvous with a young and charming photographer turns into a life-threatening situation. The story is told through her accelerated and boundless mind that desperately seeks a way out, while recalling what seem to be irrelevant moments of...
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FOUR CORNERS OF SUBURBIA
How do we know whether thoughts of straying are triggered by a lack of fulfillment in an existing relationship or by our own selfishness? The stunning Miidchen Amick leads a strong ensemble cast examining just such questions. Walt is a...
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FALSE ALARM
A New York limo driver takes you on a ride through his colorful streets.
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FATELESS (SORSTALANGSAG)
Acclaimed Hungarian cinematographer Lajos Koltai makes his feature directorial debut with this superior and harrowing Holocaust drama based on the novel by Nobel laureate (and concentration camp survivor) lmre Kertesz. The always incomprehensible events of the Holocaust are rendered all...
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LA FABRIK: THE CUBAN HIP-HOP FACTORY
Blasting the screen with red-hot beats, intense musicality and sure-footed confidence director Lisandro Perez-Rey has crafted a slamming documentary about the talented hip-hop artists emerging from Cuba's rising cultural vibrancy. Two of Cuba's leading hip-hop groups, Obsesion and Doble Filo,...
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FACTOR 8: THE ARKANSAS PRISON BLOOD SCANDAL
FACTOR 8 is about to take its place in history as one of the most tragic pharmaceutical drug stories since Thalidomide. Made from tainted blood bought from the Arkansas prison system, Factor 8 infected thousands of unsuspecting Canadians with HIV...
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EDWARD SCISSORHANDS
When a mad scientist meets an early death, his creation is left to fend with scissors for hands. Considered by many to be the best collaboration between Johnny Depp and director Tim ' Burton, it is an uncommonly creative triumph...
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THE EYES OF DON BACHARDY
Even if you already know the work of artist Don Bachardy, you will find a new appreciation in this uncommonly moving portrait. If you do not know this painter's work, prepare to be doubly impressed.
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DIRTY
We all have ghosts that follow us. If you are a dirty undercover cop in Los Angeles, you probably have plenty haunting you. Cuba Gooding Jr. and Clifton Collins Jr. star as two undercover cops battling demons on the street,...
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A DISTANT SHORE
A young girl, convinced that her missing mother is summoning her to the shore, journeys to a remote lighthouse.
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THE DEVIL’S MINER
This powerful documentary follows 14-yeor-old Basilio as he risks his life to support his family in the mines of Cerro Rico, Bolivia. The mines, known as "the mountains that eat men," hove killed eight million people since the Spanish conquistadors...
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DICK TERRAPIN
This animated comedy proves that the old axiom is true: a boy's best friend is his turtle.
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DELIVERY
An old hermit lives a lonely life under the dork shadows of industrial smog. One day he receives a mysterious package, which gives him the ability to change his environment. DELIVERY is a surreal story about the change of a...
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DESIRE
Full of humanity and heart, DESIRE is o profoundly moving documentary directed by Julie Gustafson and The Teenage Girls Documentary Project. A group of young women were given a camera to document their lives, and the result is an incredibly...
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DETAIL
At the entry point to Bet Omar, both sides of the road are lined by piles of rubble and in the middle of the road lays a huge boulder. A humiliating ritual begins, since the residents must return the boulder...
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DEAD RUN
Shuji reacts passively to everything: his brother's aggression, his parents indifference and the confession of a guilt-ridden priest. He feels powerless to act until Eri, an enigmatic girl obsessed with running, leaves their small town for Tokyo and Shuji is...
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COME INTO THE LIGHT (ALLA LUCE DEL SOLE)
"I came back in order to help good people step out with their head held high," stated father Giuseppe Puglisi, appointed by the archbishop of Palermo to his native parish of Brancaccio, a suburb of the Sicilian metropolis. Three years...
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DARK HORSE (VOKSNE MENNESKER)
Director Dagur Kári's (NOI ALBINOI) sophomore feature, DARK HORSE is a flawlessly executed, highly stylized romp about a cast of well drawn oddballs shot in hypnotic black and white. DARK HORSE is a comedic drama about the charmingly irresponsible graffiti...
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DEAD MAN
William Blake, a young accountant lost in unfamiliar territory and caught in inextricable circumstances that leave destiny beyond his control, travels the western frontier during the mid-19th century. Wounded and branded an outlaw, Blake flees the gunmen hired to hunt...
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CLARA
A beautiful and haunting portrait of a little girl alone. This film uses meticulous stop motion animation to create an eerie and otherworldly scenario.
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CLOSING TIME
A surreal fast-food robbery goes awry. Burgers, tigers, and guns. Oh my!
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CASANOVA
Acclaimed director Lasse Hallström (MY LIFE AS A DOG, CHOCOLAT, AN UNFINISHED LIFE) returns to AFI FEST (the US Premiere of THE CIDER HOUSE RULES opened AFI FEST 1999) with the North American Premiere of CASANOVA, a sharp, sophisticated comedy...
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CINEMA, ASPIRINS AND VULTURES
Developed at the first Sundance Film Institute Screenwrlting Workshop in Brazil, CINEMA, ASPIRIN AND VULTURES won the Prix de Education Nationale at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Set in the dry, arid, barren landscape of the Northeastern Brazilian hinterland, where...
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BURNING MAN: BEYOND BLACK ROCK
The man stands atop his temple, looking down upon the makeshift city built just for him in a dry lakebed in Nevada. He will burn in six days. If you've never been to Burning Man, this should serve as the...
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C.R.A.Z.Y.
Writer/director Jean-Marc Vallée weaves a wonderfully rich tapestry spanning 20 years in the always hectic and dysfunctional, alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, Beulieu household. Born fourth in a line of five sons, Zach always fell cursed by his Christmas Day birth...
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BREAKFAST ON PLUTO
The latest from consummate Irish director Neil Jordan, BREAKFAST ON PLUTO tells the story, in 36 short chapters, of Patrick "Kitten" Braden (Cillian Murphy) a cheeky and flamboyant transvestite whose tale begins when she is abandoned at birth by his...
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BUCKLE BROTHERS
Just outside of Compton, men and women are riding horses and winning rodeos! Director Marquette Williams cleverly illuminates this clash of cultures, highlighting the Old West spirit of South Central Los Angeles. BUCKLE BROTHERS is exuberant cinema. It's an extraordinary...
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BAM BAM AND CELESTE
Margaret Cho wrote and stars in this candy colored comedic tale of two social misfits on a classic road trip. Together since high school, Barn Barn and his best friend Celeste have always been outcasts. Years later, they are still...
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THE BIG WHITE
THE BIG WHITE is a pitch black Comedy directed by Mark Mylod - shot in the Yukon and steeped in the miasma of this arrestingly cold place. This is a world with just the right kind of cliffs off which...
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ARIE
With gorgeous photography and choreography, ARIE tells the story of Vittorio, a professional dancer who falls in love with Marco, the choreographer with whom he is working. Vittorio's feelings are not reciprocated by Marco. Vittorio is alone but stronger for...
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ART OF FLIGHT
This intimate and raw guerilla documentary, shot secretly in Egypt, tells the tale of refugees fleeing Sudan's bloody 20-year civil war. They hope that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will help them relocate to another country. Unfortunately,...
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BACK TO BOSNIA (NA PUT KUCHI, U TUDJINU)
Twenty-eight year old Sabina Vajraca's first film will be her most important - an emotional exploration of the past, an undeniable connection to the land of her birth and the atrocities that go unmentioned. This is her family's personal journey....
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AMU
Following the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984, angry mobs spent a week attacking and killing Sikhs. When their anger subsided, over 4,000 Sikhs were dead and over 50,000 were left homeless. AMU is a powerful examination...
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ANTIBODIES (ANTIKORPER)
With a nod to THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, writer/director Christian Alvart pits a brutal serial killer against a small town cop in this psychological thriller that tests the limits of even the most agile imagination. Serial killer Gabriel Engel...
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AN AMERICAN HAUNTING
Based on true events, this is the only time in US history where the government has acknowledged that supernatural forces were responsible for a man's death. Donald Sutherland stars as John Bell, a God-fearing head of the household in rural...
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AFTER INNOCENCE
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, AFTER INNOCENCE skillfully tells the dramatic story of the exonerated-innocent men wrongfully imprisoned for decades and then released after DNA evidence proved their innocence. Director Jessica Sanders draws...
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ALMOST HEAVEN
Set in the "locals only" world of Jamaica, ALMOST HEAVEN is an utterly charming fish-out-of-water story. Helen dreams of traveling to Nashville to play country music at the Bluebird Cafe. When her life in Germany takes a dramatic turn, she...
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ADCORP, INC.
Creating a brand is serious business. AdCorp's advertisement executive Pete Wells (Andy Dick) and his think tank team do this every day. Spend a few minutes behind closed doors as they work under pressure to come up with a title...
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ADDICTION
ADDICTION is an emotionally mature drama about the depths of addiction and sexuality and a haunting meditation on the impermanence of existence. Life has become a matter of performing rather than living-shopping, drinking and eating all common addictions of our...
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7 VIRGINS (7 VIRGENES)
Tano, a young teenager from Seville, is given a 48-hour leave from juvenile detention to attend his older brother's wedding. Tano has to kill time and stay out of trouble. Impossible. Tano (Juan Jose Ballesta) immediately hooks up with his...
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THE ABORTION DIARIES
THE ABORTION DIARIES is a documentary featuring 12 women who speak candidly about their abortions. Their stories weave together with diary entries of the filmmaker. It's a dinner party, where the audience is invited to hear what women say behind...
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11:59
11:59 brings to life nine nervous minutes in the life of Khalid, a young Dutch-Moroccan man living in Amsterdam, who makes a decision at 11:50 a.m. one day to go back to school one more time for an encounter that...
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6/5 THE SIXTH OF MAY
The line between reality and fiction is blurred in 06/05, the compelling final film from Theo van Gogh. Based on the book by Thomas Ross, the film is van Gogh's version of events leading to the assassination of popular Dutch...
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YOUNG ARTIE FELDMAN
Fifteen-year-old YOUNG ARTIE FELDMAN is a precocious wheeler-dealer with all the instincts of a killer talent agent, brokering jobs in the San Fernando Valley fast food industry.
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ZULU LOVE LETTER
There is no sense in reliving the past unless it leads to personal catharsis and a sense of social justice. ZULU LOVE LETTER is a stirring portrait of the women left behind due to the ravages of apartheid's political regime....
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WOW AND FLUTTER
WOW AND FLUTIER is the story of 14-year-old David who makes a mix tape for his first crush, Amber, an unattainable high school senior.
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YESTERDAY
South Africa's official Oscar® selection for Best Foreign Language Film, comes from the director of SARAFINA! and CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY, and is also the first Zulu-language film ever released internationally. Winner of the Human Rights Film Award at the...
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WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN (MUJERES AL BORDE DE UN ATTAQUE DE NERVIOS)
The wildly hysterical international box office hit, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN introduces us to Pepa (Carmen Maura) who has just been jilted by an answering machine. The love of her life, Ivan (Fernando Guillen), has ended...
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THE WOODSMAN
A tiny hand gesture, a flick of the eye or a minute tremble serves as a window into a world of internal conflict in this stunning performance by Kevin Bacon, one of the finest in his highly esteemed career. In...
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VOODOO, MOUNTED BY THE GODS
Mahounon's father was a Voodoo High Priest in Benin who lived nearly a century, before passing his unwritten knowledge of sacrifice and stones to his son. Although Mahounon is still decades younger, his connection to the Other World advises him...
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WET FUR
In WET FUR, Elizabeth returns home to put the family cot to sleep and discovers her mother's plans for on elaborate feline funeral.
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WOMAN BELOW THE ICE (DIE EISBADERIN)
In WOMAN BELOW THE ICE, a lonely, homeless woman finds a pair of ice skates on a cold winter night.
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A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT (UN LONG DIMANCHE DE FIANCAILLES)
From the director and star of AMELIE (Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audrey Tautou) comes a very different love story. Based on the acclaimed novel by Sebastien Japrisot, A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT takes place in France near the end of World War...
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VETOOL
In VETOOL, an American Gulf War veteran-turned-artist resists an attempt by a Kuwait-born Indian film student to understand how art can heal the wounds of war.
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TELL THEM WHO YOU ARE
Acclaimed cinematographer Haskell Wexler is renowned for his genius and groundbreaking work. Winner of two Academy Awards®, his care is filled with classic films-WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, AMERICAN GRAFFITI and ONE FLEW OVER...
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TWO CARS, ONE NIGHT
Director Taika Waititi captures a magical moment in a bar parking lot somewhere in Aotearoa in TWO CARS, ONE NIGHT.
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THE TAKE
"Occupy. Resist. Produce." The mantra of the unemployed workers of an Argentinean auto parts manufacturer. The goal?. Rebuild Argentina one factory at a time. Struggling since the country's 2001 economic collapse left millions unemployed, 30 former auto parts factory employees-members...
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TALK TO HER (HABLA CON ELLA)
With a pure love for his characters that's apparent in every scene, Almodovar delivers a film that is characteristic of his visual sense and narrative style, yet free to explore the fringes of human emotion and social taboos on its...
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TANGO IN THE AIR
TANGO IN THE AIR is a poetic musical film about the appeal between an old sweeper, tango player Carmen and the wind in a subway station.
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SWEET JAM (CONFITUUR)
Belgian director Lieven Debrauwer (PAULINE & PAULETIE) delivers a poignant yet wry second feature about love and the confounding ways we find to test its limits. As the entire village celebrates, Tuur looks more like a man attending his own...
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SYMMETRY (SYMETRIA)
Drawing upon his own personal experience, writer/director Konrad Niewolski has crafted a provocative character study that questions how an innocent, educated, humane man could possibly survive months of unfair imprisonment with hardened criminals. Falsely identified in a police line-up and...
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THE SUBTLE DISTINCTION (DER FEINE UNTERSCHIED)
While little Jonas is shopping with his mother, he is suddenly displaced into other worlds in THE SUBTLE DISTINCTION.
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THE SURPRISE (DIE UBERRASCHUNG)
In THE SURPRISE, Olaf is trying to get his girlfriend back.
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SOUTH (HET ZEUIDEN)
Dutch director Martin Koolhoven (THE CAVE, AMNESIA) digs deep into the psyche of an apparently successful businesswoman in this intense psychological drama. By day, Martje (Monie Hendrickx) is the manager of a busy laundry operation. She's a good boss who...
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SPEAK
Few films capture the pitfalls of youth and the yearning for communication as simply and effectively as Jessica Sharzer's heartfelt and beautifully crafted SPEAK. SPEAK is the story of Melinda, a smart, spirited high school freshman who has been silenced...
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SOLDIERS UNDER COMMAND
SOLDIERS UNDER COMMAND is a behind-the-scenes look at the 10-year reunion of the first Christian metal band, Stryper.
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SOMERSAULT
Nominated for 15 Australian Film Institute Awards across all 13 categories, SOMERSAULT broke all records. Sixteen-year-old Heidi (Abbie Cornish) is on a crash course, using her reckless sexuality to fill her need for belonging. Caught by her mother in a...
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SOUNDLESS (LAUTLOS)
Shadowy assassin Viktor slips into a home under the watchful eyes of the police, killing a man and stealing valuable documents-all without a sound. The police are outraged, yet puzzled, that Nina- sleeping in bed-was left alive. Viktor's hallmark is...
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SHARDS
After his best friend overdoses on crystal meth, hip hop DJ Walter struggles to kick the habit and leave his hometown in SHARDS.
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SIMONE’S LABYRINTH
In SIMONE'S LABYRINTH a mother and daughter are living in two worlds. Both are striving through their own self- made labyrinths
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SEOUL TRAIN
For five million North Koreans living in deplorable conditions and facing the threat of starvation and disease, an underground railroad to China may be the only hope for a better life... although getting out of North Korea is only half...
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SHADI IN THE BEAUTIFUL WELL
In SHADI IN THE BEAUTIFUL WELL, an autistic boy, Shadi, lives in the heart of a Palestinian refugee camp where the other kids constantly torment him-until an unexpected present arrives.
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THE SEA INSIDE (MAR ADENTRO)
Alejandro Amenabar (best known for his dealings with life and death in films like THE OTHERS and OPEN YOUR EYES) returns with the beautifully rendered and realized THE SEA INSIDE, the true story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro (played quite brilliantly...
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SECONDHAND CHILD (WER KUSST SCHON EINEN LEGUAN)
A winner of the European Children Film Prize, SECONDHAND CHILD is a moving story about a boy who asks his neighbor to pretend to be his father for one week. At the age of 13, Tobias has become self-sufficient out...
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SECUESTRO EXPRESS
Statistics paint a grim picture of the low survival rate for secuestro (kidnap) victims in Latin America, but they don't tell the whole story. They don't communicate the sheer terror and mind-numbing fear experienced by people randomly snatched off the...
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RX
A true talent, up-and-comer Ariel Vromen brings to the screen a visually alluring and emotionally charged first feature. With a cast of gifted young actors, Vromen delves into the darker side of the party to reveal that life can change...
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RYAN
RYAN poses the question, "How does one of the pioneers of Canadian animation end up as a gentleman panhandler?"
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ROLLING FAMILY (FAMILIA RODANTE)
A poetic slice of life, ROLLING FAMILY is a beautifully rendered film from director Pablo Trapero (CRANE WORLD). Eighty-four-year old Grandmother Emilia is having her entire extended family come over to celebrate her birthday. She gets a call from her...
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THE RULES OF FLYING (DE REGELS VAN HET VLIEGEN)
From the director of SLEEPING ROUGH (AFI FEST 2002), THE RULES OF FLYING shows how you have to really want it. There is no excuse for failing. Where there's a will there's a way. That's the first rule of flying.
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RHYTHM IS IT!
An extraordinary, uplifting documentary about Roysten Maldoom and his transformational No Limit Dance Studio, with its audacious goal of forging an international dance company out of 250 no-experience, at-risk youths to perform Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring with the Berlin...
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ROCK FRESH
Even before the classic 1983 film STYLE WARS exposed graffiti to the mainstream, there has been a growing fascination with this art form. Director Danny Lee's film is an electric exploration of the evolution and world of graffiti now focusing...
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REFUND
REFUND is the saga of a girl who buys an ice cream cone and accidentally drops it on the sidewalk.
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REVOLUTION OF PIGS (SIGADE REVOLUTSIOON)
Winner of a Special Jury Prize of the Moscow International Film Festival, REVOLUTION OF PIGS is a passionately inventive first from Estonian New Face Rene Reinumogi and co-director Jaak Kilmi. Fueled by a great soundtrack of classic 80s pop, the...
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RABBIT ON THE MOON (CONEJO EN LA LUNA)
With a cast and crew assembled from the best of contemporary Mexican cinema, Jorge Ramirez Suarez brings to the screen a poignant crosscultural thriller that's modern on every level, yet gently radiates the sensibility of a classic film. Though around...
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RAHTREE: FLOWER OF THE NIGHT (BUPPHA RAHTREE)
What begins as a poignant tale of romantic yearning and loss unexpectedly morphs into a wild melange of supernatural horror and crazed comedy in the latest from genre-hopping director Yuthlert Sippapak (KILLER TATTOO). Shy university student Buppah Rahtree has suffered...
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RAVE AGAINST THE MACHINE
RAVE AGAINST THE MACHINE is a vibrant and heartfelt film revealing an underground music scene, which saved the sanity of young Bosnians during the 1990s siege of Sarajevo.
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PRODUCING ADULTS (LAPSIA JA AIKUISIA)
Finland's official Oscar® selection for Best Foreign Language Film, Aleksi Salmenpero's debut feature, PRODUCING ADULTS, is a stirring film about standing at the brink of adulthood. Venla works as a psychologist at a fertility clinic. She dreams of having a...
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QUIET AS A MOUSE (MUXMAUSCHENSTILL)
QUIET AS A MOUSE is a pitch black comedy directed by Marcus Mittermeier about Max, a vigilante who's determined, to clean up the world. God is dead and the world is a terrible place, populated by too many people who...
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POL POT’S BIRTHDAY
In POL POT'S BIRTHDAY, the office staff of the most brutal dictator on earth attempts to throw a surprise party for their boss.
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PRETTY DEAD GIRL
PRETTY DEAD GIRL is a musical about a girl who loves a boy who loves a corpse.
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PEAS AT 5:30 (ERBSEN AUF HALF 6)
Hilmir Snaer Gudnason and Fritzi Haberlandt star as Jakob and Lilly, two people who undertake a cross-country journey together. Just a few complications await them: they've barely met, one wants nothing to do with the other and they can't see....
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PHYSICS II (FISICA II)
The final exam for PHYSICS II is composed of three questions that will decide-pass or fail.
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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET (O OUTRO LADO DA RUA)
Marcos Bernstein, co-writer of CENTRAL STATION, has created a compelling character study starring the brilliant star of CENTRAL STATION, Fernanda Montenegro. Montenegro plays Regina, a retired woman who strolls around Copacabana with her little dog and passes information to the...
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OUR TIME IS UP
Therapist Dr. Leonard Stern (Kevin Pollok, THE USUAL SUSPECT S, A FEW GOOD MEN, CASINO) has always treated his patients gently and sympathetically-until he discovers he has six weeks to live. Now, with time running out and nothing to lose,...
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A PANTHER IN AFRICA
A PANTHER IN AFRICA skillfully draw in the audience, documenting the charismatic Pete O'Neal, one of the last American exiles from an era when activists considered themselves at war with the US government. More than 30 years ago, O'Neal, a...
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ONG-BAK: MUAY THAI WARRIOR
You will believe a man can fly (no, really). Leading man Tony Joo astounds with his talents as on acrobat and pugilist, while Prochyo Pinkoew directs with confident flair. Ong Bok is a sacred idol held dear for its protective...
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THE OTHER SIDE OF AIDS
In Africa, they tell of a cursed bone that manages to kill its victims with only the power of suggestion. Never mind that the bone's recipients may be in perfect health-the village treats them like walking corpses, and the weight...
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OMAGH
Terrorism has become an unfortunate societal reality. News of senseless acts of violence is all-too-common, but seldom do stories put a truly human face on such events. Winner of the Discovery Award at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, OMAGH...
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ONE WEEKEND A MONTH
In ONE WEEKEND A MONTH, busy single mom Meg McDermott is having a routine crazy Monday morning when her phone rings. The caller delivers some news that turns her life, and the lives of her children, upside down.
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THE NOMI SONG
Winner of the Teddy Award for Best Documentary at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival, THE NOMI SONG is the story of Klaus Nomi, a cult figure in the New Wave Underground scene, and one of the '80s most profoundly bizarre,...
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NOTRE MUSIQUE
Describing and structuring his new work as a film in three parts - Hell, Purgatory and Paradise-Jean-Luc Godard uses Dante's Inferno as a point of departure to muse on one of the director's primary obsessions the vagaries of the contemporary...
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MY STEP BROTHER FRANKENSTEIN (MOJ SVODNYJ BRAT FRANKENSTEIN)
A pleasant nuclear family-father Yulik, mother Rita, teen son Egor and young daughter Anya-enjoy a tranquil domestic life. Until a letter from a long-lost love changes everything. The letter claims that Yulik is the father of Pavel, a 20-year-old war...
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MY TINY UNIVERSE
Established producer Bobby suffers through a personal hell in the wickedly dark comedy MY TINY UNIVERSE, when a suicidal actor recovers Bobby's lost cell phone and promptly threatens reveal all of Bobby's philanderings. Struggling actor Dickie is about to end...
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NINTH NOVEMBER NIGHT
NINTH NOVEMBER NIGHT is a powerful documentary about a heroic art installation of Holocaust remembrance that is assaulted by vandals, living proof of hatred that refuses to die.
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MÚSICA CUBANA
Executive produced by Wim Wenders, German Kral's MUSICA CUBANA revisits some of the stars of BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB, while introducing us to the up-and-coming Cuban musicians of today. Taxi driver Barbaro picks up the maestro, 85-year-old Pio Leiva, who...
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MY PARENTS (MEINE ELTERN)
Who will be the one surprised at the end? MY PARENTS poses the question, "Can Maria keep her bourgeois parents a secret when she meets the man of her life?"
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MALACHANCE
Debut director Gerardo Naranjo's MALACHANCE is an urban fable aimed at the disillusioned, stubborn and rebellious. It's the story of a kid who wants to be somebody else. In the New Orleans backstreets - inhabited by older drug dealers relying...
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THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
Michael Radford (IL POSTINO) approaches Shakespeare's classic play with an expert hand, magnificently drawing out its full conversation al meaning for contemporary audiences, thanks to his deft direction and stunning performances from a principal cast of actors including Al Pacino,...
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LSD A GO GO
LSD A GO GO is the story of how things got a little out of hand in the 1950s after the CIA embarked upon the MK-ULTRA major drug and mind control program, and studied the effects of LSD on themselves...
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MACHUCA
Acclaimed director Andres Wood (LOCO FEVER, FOOTBALL STORIES) offers a perceptive story of friendship, class struggle and social responsibility. Chile's official Oscar® selection for Best Foreign Language Film. In a bid to foster mutual respect and tolerance, Father McEnroe-the headmaster...
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LITTLE GIRL BLUE (2003)
Director Anna Luif's (SUMMERTIME) new film is filled with potent observations about children on the brink of adulthood. Sandra, new to the neighborhood, doesn't fit into the cool crowd. But when she meets Mike, who lives in the house across...
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LIVE FLESH (CARNE TRÉMULA)
Based on the novel by Ruth Rendell, this colorful film overflows with rich, sensual performances and beauty. Penelope Cruz appears as Victor's mother, a prostitute who gives birth to him on a bus in the film's brilliant opening. A shooting...
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LONG STORY SHORT
LONG STORY SHORT is a comedy about the strangely impossible task of a black girl trying to get her hair done.
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A LEAGUE OF ORDINARY GENTLEMEN
Bowling is back with a vengeance. Pete Webber, a renegade McEnroe-esque bad boy, returns to claim bowling's top honor from Walter Ray Williams, the cool headed, mild mannered pro who took it from him years ago. This is not your...
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LET’S ROCK AGAIN!
For discerning music fans and radio disciples alike , former Clash singer Joe Strummer is a rock icon on par with (or higher than) Pete Townsend and Bruce Springsteen. But as he embarks on to r with his band, the...
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KONTROLL
Step out of your ordinary existence into the subterranean world of a strange young man and his fellow ticket inspectors, as they patrol the tracks and trains of the world's second oldest underground railway. Hungary's official Oscar® selection for Best...
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THE LAST FULL MEASURE
THE LAST FULL MEASURE, her father's return from war in Vietnam is a much-anticipated homecoming. Navigating her mother's anxious stares and the loss of the father she'd known, Katherine tries to find her way back to the little girl left...
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INNOCENT VOICES (VOCES INOCENTES)
Luis Mandoki (WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN) returns to his Spanish language roots with a moving portrayal of civil unrest through the eyes of a brave 11-year-old-boy, based on the true-life experience of screenwriter Oscar Torres. Mexico's official Oscar...
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INVITATION TO A SUICIDE
INVITATION TO A SUICIDE is highly recommended for people who find death and suicide amusing. Set deep in the heart of black comedy territory, writer/director Loren Marsh has crafted a wonderful romp that sparkles with hilarious one-liners carrying grave consequences,...
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KOMA
Imagine drunkenly stumbling into someone else's hotel room and discovering a ghastly scene of bloody violence. That's what happens to Ching (Angelica Lee) otter a friend's wedding, and soon she is set on a collision course with organ thieves. When...
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INFERNAL AFFAIRS 2 (WU JIAN DAO 2)
Spanning the "forgotten years" between 1991 and 1997, this prequel documents the dramatic events that forever changed the cops and criminals of INFERNAL AFFAIRS. As the story begins, Sam (Eric Tsang) and Officer Wong (Anthony Wong) are potential allies rather...
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INFERNAL AFFAIRS 3 (WU JIAN DAO 3)
Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu Wai return in the final chapter of the award-winning saga. Rather than take a straightforward approach to a sequel, the events of the first film are both anticipated and deconstructed with a moody, meditative...
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INDOCUMENTADOS
INDOCUMENTADOS is a fascinating meditation on 9 /11 and strikes a beautiful chord as soon as it hits the screen. The film is a powerful glimpse into the streets of New York in the aftermath of the destruction of the...
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INFERNAL AFFAIRS (WU JIAN DAO)
Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu Wai star in this incredibly tense thriller that turns the game of cat and mouse on its head, even as its characters are haunted by desperation and sadness. Mob boss Sam (Eric Tsang) and...
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I AM STAMOS
I AM STAMOS poses the reality that there's only one John Stamos ... and his name is Andy Shrub.
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IMAGINARY WITNESS: HOLLYWOOD AND THE HOLOCAUST
For an uncompromising evil, the Holocaust has had a complex effect on Hollywood, as the industry struggled to balance what one historian calls "the need to understand and the desire to forget." As Hitler's power swelled, the studios watched in...
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THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS
Based on the autobiographical book by J.T. LeRoy, this film polarized audiences to the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Ripped from o loving foster home and returned to his drug addicted, sexually dysfunctional mother (played to. miserable perfection by Asia Argento),...
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HOTEL RWANDA
Winner of the People's Choice Award at the 2004 'Toronto International Film Festival, HOTEL RWANDA is the story of one of those rare iconic individuals who perform unassuming, selfless acts of heroism during mankind's darkest hours. Ten years ago, as...
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HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS (SHI MIAN MAU FU)
Renowned filmmaker Zhang Yimou (JU DOU, RAISE THE RED LANTERN, TO LIVE, HERO) returns with HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, an exquisitely realized masterpiece that is both breathtaking martial arts epic and sweeping romance. The film is China's official Oscar® selection...
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HANK WILLIAMS FIRST NATION
Shot on the Woodland Cree First Nation in Northern Alperta, HANK WILLIAMS FIRST NATION is steeped in the indigenous miasma of this sleepy Cree reservation. Reminiscent of SMOKE SIGNALS and POW WOW HIGHWAY, HANK WILLIAMS FIRST NATION is a road...
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HEAD ON
Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival, HEAD or is a not so quintessential, yet utterly convincing, love story about two lost souls who bring each other back to life. In what one would call a...
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GUERILLA: THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST
One of America's most notorious kidnappings-young newspaper heiress Potty Hearst 's abduction and alleged induction into the Symbionese Liberation Army-caused a national stir, while what really happened to Hearst still seems a mystery. GUERRILLA immerses its audience in the cultural...
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GYPPO
In GYPPO, sex education in the mid-1980s is a nightmare for 12-year-old Rosa.
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GENESIS 3:19
Spurred to action by a strange and sudden love for a woman, lion entrusts his best friend Eric with three dying wishes in GENESIS 3:19.
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THE GOD (BOZHESTVO)
In THE GOD we find out even a god might have to reincarnate to get rid of a pesky fly.
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THE GREAT WATER (GOLEMATA VODA)
Risk taking in every sense of the word, Ivo Trajov's unique take on a '70s era novel explores the atrocious effects of war and political oppression. Filmed in Macedonia despite brimming socio-political upheaval, THE GREAT WATER is a coming-of-age period...
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FROZEN
FROZEN stars Shirley Henderson (INTERMISSION, AFTERLIFE, WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF), and dives headlong into the reality that sometimes finding someone is worse than losing them. It's been two years since the mysterious disappearance of her older sister, Annie. But...
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GAY REPUBLICANS
The world of politics is so perverse and characterized by controversy that it can easily be viewed as a parody of itself. "From executive producers Ferdon Bailey, Randy Barbato (THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE) and acclaimed director Wash Westmoreland (FLUFFER),...
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FERPECT CRIME (CRIMEN PERFECTO)
Alex de la lglesia's new comedy, FERPECT CRIME, is an uproarious and politically incorrect parody of the distance between the idealized perceptions we have of ourselves and the cruel reality. Rafael (Guillermo Toledo) is a suave Don Juan-type who works...
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A FOND KISS
Award-winning British director Ken Loach (SWEET SIXTEEN, BREAD AND ROSES) makes a powerful return to the Festival with this timely drama with a timeless theme: the inexorable conflict between hearts and minds. Casim is the only son of a proud...
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EYES OF NIGHT (MATIA APO NICHTA)
A wonderfully acted relationship drama, EYES OF NIGHT tracks the lives of three people and the ordinary choices and mistakes they make along the way. With a middle-aged couple as a refreshing focal point, we are reminded of the ever-changing...
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FAR SIDE OF THE MOON (LA FACE CACHÉE DE LA LUNE)
Robert Lepage's fifth film/and Canada's official Oscar® selection for Best Foreign Language Film, started as a one-man show. It's a pitch-perfect, quirky dramedy encompassing interplanetary travel and the more mundane difficulties of communication here on Earth. Philippe is a perpetual...
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DUCK SEASON (TEMPORADA DE PATOS)
Winner of six awards at the Guadalajara Film Festival, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Actress, DUCK SEASONS is a flawlessly executed, highly stylized romp from debut writer/director Fernando Eimcke. Best friends Flama and Mok are...
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ETHAN MAO
Facades fall away when everyday family life is hijacked by extreme situations. This genre-busting film blends drama, thriller and romance into a singular coming-of-age journey for the titular character. Newcoming Jun Hee Lee's innocent face and straightforward portrayal help illuminate...
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DOES GOD PLAY FOOTBALL?
DOES GOD PLAY FOOT BALL? is set in the 1960s, when fatherless seven-year-old Tommy fills in the emotional gaps by believing his dad must be Jesus Christ.
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DOWNTOWN: A STREET TALE
A compelling drama about New York City street kids that distinguishes itself with an exceptional script by co-star Joey Dedio, stellar performances - especially from Genevieve Bujold who can't help but radiate as a weary, tough but ever tender inner-city...
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THE DEAL
Spearheaded by Christian Slater as a Wall Street high financier, this politically charged thriller tackles the hypocrisy of America's military intervention in the Middle East, as well as the mentality of closing the deal no matter what the cost. Abbey,...
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DEATH OF A MINOR CHARACTER
In DEATH OF A MINOR CHARACTER, Janet goes to the park with her friends, but she has an ominous feeling.
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DIAS DE SANTIAGO
Writer/director Josue Mendez' visually stimulating, hauntingly timely film punctures the surface of a soldier's life after the war. Santiago, an intense 23-year- old trained for nothing but fighting, finds himself back in normal life after service in the army. His...
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DAYBREAK (OM JAG VANDER MIG OM)
Winner of the Blue Angel from the 2004 Berlin International Film Festival for the Best European Film and a Silver Bear for the excellent work of the actors, DAYBREAK is an uncomfortably observant,' always brutally honest drama about 12 people...
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DAYS AND HOURS (KOD AMIDZE IDRIZA)
A man visits his relatives to fix a water boiler. From that deceptively simple premise emerges a complex, gentle rumination on life, loss and war. Bosnia-Herzegovina's official Oscar® selection for Best Foreign Language Film. Fuke has been reluctant to visit...
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CZECH DREAM (CESKY SEN)
Reminiscent of THE YES MEN and SUPER SIZE ME, the mischievous CZECH DREAM is a provocative and hilarious look at the effects of rampant consumerism. Made as a graduation project by Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda from the FAMU Film...
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DAVID MAMET’S GILDED STONES
Thought to be lost in on MGM vault fire in 1998, David Mamet's masterpiece is restored with the help of Rosanna Arquette, Elizabeth Perkins and some surprising guests in DAVID MAMET' S GILDED STONES.
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CONSENT
CONSENT is the story of a couple of college kids discussing a sexual consent form back at the dorm room.
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THE COST OF BREAD (A PENA DO PANA)
In THE COST OF BREAD, young, hungry and poor, Moriuzzeddo takes bread on credit, but how will she pay when the bill comes due?
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CLEAN
CLEAN offers a brief look at a man and his obsessive desire for a spotless car.
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CODENAME: SIMON
In CODENAME: SIMON, Simon thinks he's a space traveller trapped on Earth awaiting pick-up by his parents' spaceship.
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THE CHORUS (LES CHORISTES)
With France's official Oscar® selection for Best Foreign Language Film, Christophe Barratier debuts as an astoundingly graceful storyteller who delights in the power of art to mend lives. When his mother dies, world-class conductor Pierre Morhange returns home and is...
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CHRYSTAL
Set in the backwoods and barrooms of the South, CHRYSTAL not only transports you to this evocative place, but also plugs you into its pulse. Sixteen years after Joe (Billy Bob Thornton) plunged the family car off the road with...
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CAMPFIRE (MEDURAT HASHEVET)
Winner of the Israeli Academy Award for Best film, director Joseph Cedar (TIME OF FAVOR) utilizes personal insight and poetic storytelling to craft a thoughtful coming-of-age story of a young girl, her family and the West Bank. Israel's official Oscar®...
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CHILDREN WILL LISTEN
In a world where we all too often sit our children down in front of a screen to learn-be it TY or computer-Charlene Gilbert's documentary shows us how well the old adage of "learning by doing" can still work. Almost...
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BRIDE AND PREJUDICE
From the team that created the internation al hit BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM comes a classic romance not just retold but reinvented in a new globally connected world. BRIDE AND PREJUDICE puts an entirely different spin on Jane Austen's story...
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CALLING HEDY LAMARR
Seventy years ago, young Hedy Lamarr caused a sensation in the erotically charged ECSTASY. Her beauty and acting prowess led to a Hollywood career that spanned more than two decades, but ended in frustration. Director Georg Misch examines a fascinating...
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BEYOND THE SEA (2004)
Kevin Spacey's highly anticipated film is a lovingly crafted account of '50s heartthrob singer and actor Bobby Darin. BEYOND THE SEA steers well clear of most biopic conventions, instead delivering a complex portrait of a gifted performer driven to succeed,...
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THE BIG QUESTION
On the set of THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, two Italian men are asking THE BIG QUESTION, and, luckily for us, they decided to film it, posing direct questions to people regarding their own intimate perception of the divine. THE...
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BLACKBALLED: THE BOBBY DUKES STORY
"Second place is first place for losers." Bobby Dukes ... paintball legend ... fallen hero. Ten years after a "wiping" violation got him ejected from the championship and banned from the game, Bobby Dukes (Rob Corddry) returns to the Hudson...
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THE BALLOON
In THE BALLOON, a little girl is separated from her ever-protective mother when she undertakes an adventure ta find her lost balloon.
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BEREFT
Actor Tim Daly goes behind the camera as producer and co-director with DP/ co-director Clark Mathis for this sobering study of the unfathomable nature of grief and its devastating effects on a too-young widow. Aspiring photographer Molly led an idyllically...
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BACKSTREET BINGO
BACKSEAT BINGO is on animated documentary about the romantic lives of senior citizens: Sexy Senior Seeks Same.
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BAD EDUCATION (LA MALA EDUCACION)
Celebrated Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar returns with the searing BAD EDUCATION. At first, a revealing account of two friends and their childhood experiences in a boarding school during the 1960s, the film soon reveals complex narrative layers populated by characters...
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ASTRONAUTS (ASTRONAUTAS)
In this delightful deadpan comedy, Santi Amodeo's solo feature debut makes a stylistic show of his skill, communicating with a breezy, generous wit. Forty-something junkie Daniel (Nancho Novo) goes cold turkey in a hut before heading to the city to...
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THE AUCTION
Grown-up Vito lives with his mother, plays with toys and wants to buy the special "gold" edition of Bot Roy in an online auction in THE AUCTION.
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THE ART AND CRIMES OF RON ENGLISH
Bombarded by relentless advertising in a growing culture of junk, one man-activist/ artist Rem English-dares to hijack corporate advertising, challenging us to change "the sham of reality they've created and reminding us that free speech still lives. Bringing his messages...
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THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON
Sean Penn is mesmerizing as furniture salesman Sam Bicke, who, betrayed by the broken promise of the American Dream, slowly becomes unhinged in Richard Nixon's America. Set in 1974, with the constant chatter of Watergate permeating life, Everyman Sam Bicke...
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ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (TODO SOBRE MI MADRE)
Manuela (Cecilia Roth), a nurse who works in a transplantation unit, witnesses the accidental death of her romantic son, Esteban, as he chases a car bearing the famous actress, Huma Roja (Marisa Paredes), from whom he wants an autograph. Esteban...
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AMERICAN FAME PT 1: RIVER PHOENIX
AMERICAN FAME PT 1: RIVER PHOENIX is a look at the famous life and times of former child star, River Phoenix.
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THE ACT
Rosy Marconi is a comedian with a secret in THE ACT.
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AFTERMATH
AFTERMATH is a mature, honest, unique debut feature from acclaimed actress Paprika Steen (OPEN HEARTS, OKAY). How does one bear the unbearable? That is the question for Claes and Britt, a couple in their mid-30s, who lost their only child...
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20 FINGERS (BEEST ANGOSHT)
Demonstrating the abilities that mark the development of a remarkable cineaste, Mania Akbari's 20 FINGERS was the winner of the Best Film Cinema Digitale at this year's Venice Film Festival. A story told in several episodes, producer/actor Bijan Daneshmand and...
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WHAT THE EYE DOESN’T SEE (OJOS QUE NO VEN)
With arresting performances, WHAT THE EYE DOESN'T SEE is a powerfully perceptive human story of the citizens caught in the crossfire of a corrupt and inhuman government. It is the kind of film that stays with you long otter the...
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WOLFSBURG
In this chillingly effective morality tale about redemption and one man's earnest attempt to achieve it solely through good works, Benno Furmann is simply riveting as the deeply flawed Phillip, an unsympathetic cipher falteringly trying to atone for his crime....
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WHAT I WANT MY WORDS TO DO TO YOU
"It's not that reality is outside-we're just as real as the outside." This affirmation by an inmate at a women's maximum-security prison goes to the heart of this rewarding film. The filmmakers' unvarnished aesthetics, combined with the force of the...
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WHAT REALLY HAPPENED DURING THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
In WHAT REALLY HAPPENED DURING THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, as the US and USSR engage in a nuclear endgame aver Cuba, a single mother and her two-year-old son face off in their own private battle-toilet training.
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WALKENTALK
As her search for work flounders, her lave far Freddie deepens. Finally, a young man with a severe social disorder has difficulty meeting his brother's girlfriend. Hilarity ensues in WALKENTALK.
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A WAY OUT (ENTRE DOS)
A tortured couple find themselves desperate to save their only son in A WAY OUT.
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THE VEGGIE VAN VOYAGE
Rounding out the program is THE VEGGIE VAN VOYAGE-here' s one slick solution big oil can 't keep down. It called The Veggie Van and it's powered by vegetable oil. Keen to clean America's highway s, this flower-covered van fills...
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VISION TEST
What begins as a routine eye exam turns into a troubling dramatization of attitudes towards minorities in the United States in VISION TEST.
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TWO FRIENDS (DUE AMICI)
Winner of the Golden Lion of the Future at the Venice International Film Festival, TWO FRIENDS follows the lives of Nunzio, a gentle, naive factory worker stricken with a chronic cough and subsequently laid off, and his friend Pino, a...
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UNDERDOG
Wrestling is a tough sport for anyone. In UNDERDOG, being the worst wrestler on your high school team is even tougher.
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UPSWING (NOUSUKAUSI)
An upwardly mobile couple eager to impress their super-competitive friends embarks on a new kind of adventure travel-living as unemployed people for one month. They learn that self-discovery carries a hefty price tag. About to begin a lucrative new job,...
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TWINNI
Director Ulrike Schweiger beautifully captures the aching awkwardness of adolescence with humor, honesty and the accomplished-beyond-her-years performance of young Diana Latzka as a 13-year-old whose world is turned upside down by her parents' divorce. When the divorce forces her to...
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TWO DAYS
Sean McGinly's TWO DAYS dares to tread on the last uncharted land of mockumentaries-death-as it chronicles the last days of a 30-y ear-old actor's life and, delightfully, all the guilt everyone feels for not being nicer to him. Paul Miller,...
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TOM HITS HIS HEAD
Followed by TOM HITS HIS HEAD, in which Tom has panic attacks , making him afraid to leave the house.
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THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE (BELLEVILLE RENDEZ-VOUS)
Breaking down the rules of studio animation with a sledgehammer, this French gem has rediscovered animation's potential to offer a pure sense of wonderment and delight. In the Paris countryside, a young boy named Champion gets a tricycle from his...
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SUNSET JUNCTION
Every August, over 100,000 Angelenos pile in to a dosed-off section of Silver Lake for the rockin' bands and stellar people-watching found at the Sunset Junction Street Fair. SUNSET JUNCTION chronicles the story of one of the organizers, a Beverly...
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THE THREE OF US
If two heads could have the same dream, it might look something like THE THREE OF US: a surreal love triangle inspired by an accoustic Ben Harper song.
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SPRING
For the first time in his life, nine-year-old Franz is going to jump from the live-meter board and prove to himself that he is not a coward in SPRING.
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THE STATEMENT
A contemporary political thriller starring Michael Caine and Tilda Swinton, THE STATEMENT is based on a novel by Brian Moore that shines a light on some of the darkest corners of the religious and political establishment. Set in modern day...
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THE SUNDAY MORNING STRIPPER
A pastor of a financially failing church needs a miracle to hold his congregation together in THE SUNDAY MORNING STRIPPER. He gets it in the form of a woman that takes off her clothes during a heightened worship service.
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SPIN
A smart, affecting family drama based on the novel by Donald Everett Axinn, SPIN is" enriched by a running,commentary on anti-Mexican racism in 1950s America, and excellent acting from the entire ensemble. This bittersweet coming-of-age tale reveals the emotional life...
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THE SPIRIT OF GRAVITY
Inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, THE SPIRIT OF GRAVITY is an animated mini-musical, in which Nietzsche sings his philosophy to a, town.
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THE SNELL SHOW
THE SNELL SHOW is the story of a community that gathers at Old Man Snell's trailer for the greatest show on earth.
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SONG FOR A RAGGY BOY
Director/screenwriter Aisling Walsh's extraordinary film is based on Patrick Galvin's autobiographical book, Song for a Raggy Boy. The world continues to be shocked by the revelations of the offenses committed by Catholic priests, this well-timed film is filled with emotional...
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A SINGLE ROSE
A SINGLE ROSE is a haunting visual blues song about an African-American beauty, who finds her soul singing at a nearby juke joint.
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SIXTY SPINS AROUND THE SUN
Ironic, engaging, political and often flat out funny, Laura Kightlinger's documentary SIXTY SPINS AROUND THE SUN follows political activist and comedian Randy Credico, the causes for which he fights and the madness that surrounds him. Filming started when Credico was...
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SHADOWBOXER
Filmed in a direct and provocative style, SHADOWBOXER brings the issues of female teenage violence into focus through the story of 16-year-old Reena.
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SHE GOT GAME
Tennis might be the most glamorous and lucrative of all women's sports. But as SHE GOT GAME shows, it also might be the most lonely and heartbreaking. Bobbi Jo Krals and Abbey Jack Neidik's absorbing documentary follows the journey of...
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SHUI HEN
SHUI HEN is the story of a Chinese girl in Hong Kong who rejoins her family in Cuba after being left behind 15 years earlier.
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SANSA
Imagine what a trance might look like through the eyes of the hypnotized and you might approximate the experience of watching writer/director Siegfried's boldly original film, in which Roschdy Zem turns in a perfectly mesmerizing performance as the alluring and...
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SEXUAL DEPENDENCY (DEPENDENCIA SEXUAL)
Masterfully using the split-screen format, verite camera work and emphasis on spontaneous dialogue, SEXUAL DEPENDENCY explores individual identity versus societal expectations. An appealing young ensemble cast inhabits complex characters whose revelations occur unexpectedly, making them all the more powerful. As...
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ROSENSTRASSE
Jewish husbands of Aryan wives were protected from deportation to concentration camps and the near-certain death sentences that awaited them. However, during the " final roundup" of mid-winter 1943, many of these protected Jews were suddenly taken to a detention...
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THE SAME RIVER TWICE
Working as river guides for much of the 1970s, director Robb Moss and his friends lived an unscheduled, communal (often naked), outdoor life committed to counter-cultural ideals. Cutting between images of a month-long river trip filmed 25 years ago and...
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THE PURIFIED (DE LUTREDE)
Jesper Jargil's THE PURIFIED punctures the myths and misunderstandings of the Dogme revolution, revealing the truths behind the movement that, in many ways, transformed filmmaking, even as it threatened to collapse under the weight of its own ambitions. In 1995,...
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THE RAGE IN PLACID LAKE
Australian rocker Ben Lee makes his feature debut as Placid Lake in this sly comedy with hysterical performances by Miranda Richardson and Garry MacDonald as his parents, THE RAGE IN PLACID LAKE is a sweet, twisted coming-of-age story. When Placid...
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RED ROSES AND PETROL
The seemingly incongruous title is a fitting one writer/director Tamar Simon Hoffs' elegy about an Irish family's scars, secrets and shared experiences contrarily recalled. Malcolm McDowell delivers a typically stellar, powerfully understated, performance. The death of patriarch Enda Doyle, a...
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PUPENDO
Part dark comedy, part biting drama, PUPENDO navigates that nasty grey area between complicity and compliance that pervaded society in the former Soviet Bloc countries leading up to the fall of socialism. Mora is a highly talented sculptor who has...
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THE PUPPETEER
THE PUPPETEER is made in the tradition of the best of Egyptian melodramas; it involves a moral fight between good and evil intertwined with so and dance. Omar Sharif stars as an aging puppet-player, a self-declared artist with a message...
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PORNOGRAFIA
"Pornography" means different things to different people . To Frederic and Witold, two middle-aged men living in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1943, it is entirely a mental exercise, the savoring of imaginary erotic scenarios created through their love of mind games....
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POEM – I SET MY FOOT UPON THE AIR AND IT CARRIED ME (POEM – ICHE SETZLE DEN FUSS IN DIE LUFT UND SIE TRUG)
Cast aside all narrative notions and open your mind lo the visual possibilities that erupt from this mod marriage of celluloid and poetry. POEM combines the words of great writers with carefully chosen documentary footage and dramatized interpretations. Working like...
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THE OLIVE HARVEST
Writer/ director Hanna Elias eschews convention in this heartfelt drama set in a small Palestinian village. By avoiding the calcified rhetoric of extremists on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict-choosing instead to explore a painful love triangle-the film smartly emphasizes...
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OSAMA
Based on the true story of a young girl living under the rule of the Taliban, this Afghani film met with standing ovations and a Special Jury Award at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. In a society where women are...
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OCULARIST
In OCULARIST, an ocular prosthetician's hauntingly sight less prosthetic eyes transform faces, outlooks and lives.
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THE OLD WOMAN (LA VIEJA DE LA BOLSA)
Starting the program, a man meets a strange old woman while crossing the street in THE OLD WOMAN.
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OLD, NEW, BORROWED AND BLUE (SE TIL VENSTRE, DER ER EN SVENSKER)
Do we choose love or does love choose us? This spirited yet bittersweet romantic comedy makes an awfully strong case for the latter, with wonderful writing and vibrant performances from a game ensemble cast. Forty-eight hours before her wedding, Katrine...
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NOBODY NEEDS TO KNOW
Award-winning short filmmaker (and son of avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs) Azazel Jacobs makes his feature directorial debut, with a story about self-discovery and constantly changing observations within the poetic landscape of the New York indie film world. Lamont steps outside...
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NOI ALBINOI
Presenting a close up view of a strange teenage boy in a remote Icelandic village, Dagur Kari's stunning debut feature has garnered numerous awards worldwide for its masterful fusion of dry comedy, coming-of-age angst and earth shattering myth. Noi lives...
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MONSTER
Charlize Theron stars in MONSTER, a shockingly moving film that burrows deep beneath the tabloid sized headline stories on Aileen Wuornos, the man-hating-and murdering-serial killer executed last year in Florida. Director Patty Jenkins unearths a love story in the midst...
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NICOTINA
NICOTINA is a flawlessly executed, highly stylized romp from sophomore Mexican director Hugo Rodriguez. Combining and contrasting black comedy, suspense and diamond heist plot twists, NICOTINA takes place in real time. The story starts at 9:17 p.m. in Mexico City...
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THE MIRACLE OF BERN
Principally following a young boy named Mattias, this masterful period piece intertwines an ensemble of stories around the surprise German victory in the 1954 World Cup that helped revive the spirits of those who suffered during WWII. Taking a paternal...
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MONSIEUR IBRAHIM (MONSIEUR IBRAHIM ET LES FLEURS DU CORAN)
Based upon Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's novel, MONSIEUR IBRAHIM beautifully depicts Paris in the early 1960s as a place filled with the vibrant promise of social change. Watching this new world go by from his dim apartment is adolescent Momo (Pierre Boulanger},...
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MACKENNA’S GOLD
Marshall MacKenna (Gregory Peck) is entrusted with a map that leads to a legendary Valley of Gold. Once word gets out, MacKenna finds himself the subject of considerable interest to a great many people, most notably the Mexican outlaw Colorado,...
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THE MAN OF THE YEAR (O HOMEN DO ANO)
A simple haircut triggers a bloody chain of events in Jose Henrique Fonseca's spellbinding feature debut. After challenging him to a modern-day duel, Maiquel, a lost and unsure loner, kills Suel, a criminal everyone loves to hate. Fearing reprisals and...
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A LITTLE BIT OF FREEDOM (KLEINE FREIHEIT)
Memories can cast long shadows that cross international boundaries. Trying to make new lives for themselves in Germany, two young refugees are confronted by ugly reminders of their past. Teenaged Baran works diligently at a fast-food restaurant in Hamburg while...
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LIVE FOREVER
"It was just madness," says Oasis' Noel Gallagher from the comfort of his leather throne. He's waxing pompous about the mid-'90s, those glory years when he and his friends (and enemies) orchestrated the British takeover of rock. In the wake...
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THE M WORD
THE M WORD is the story of two ambitious executives who decide to negotiate a future together.
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KOPS (KOPPS)
From the creator of the award-winning JALLA JALLA comes a sweet, quirky comedy that takes place in a small town in Sweden where there hasn't been a single crime in over 10 years. When the tightly knit local police force...
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THE LETTER
"How long until we ore like Somalia?" asks a frustrated citizen of Lewiston, Maine. It sounds like a ludicrous question, but Ziad H. Hamzeh's engaging documentary explores the complicated story behind this divided town. Once, Lewiston's 97% Caucasian population made...
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KITCHEN STORIES (SALMER FRA KJOKKENET)
Many filmmakers have focused on the conflict between science, which is presumably cold and rational, and volatile human needs. Few, however, have done it as humorously -- or with as much heart -- as Bent Hamer in KITCHEN STORIES. Falke...
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KNIGHT GAMES (RITTERSCHLAG)
Held in prison by two dragons the beautiful princess cries for help in KNIGHT GAMES, but the attacking knights don't realize that dragons also need to practice.
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KAMCHATKA
It's easy to see why this was Argentina's submission for Best Foreign Language Film-KAMCHATKA is an achingly wrought drama set against the backdrop of the coup in 1976. Director Marcelo Pineyro's wrenching story of children caught in the political cross-fire...
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KILL ME TENDER (HAZ CON MIGO LO QUE QUIERAS)
Ingrid Rubio shines as a troubled young woman with a Circe-like ability to enchant men, even as she struggles to find her place in the world. Writer/director Ramon de Espana deftly weaves comedy and tragedy in this twisted meditation on...
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KISS AND TELL
Is a kiss just a kiss? In KISS AND TELL, the question posed to girls on the street is, "Have you ever kissed another woman?" The answers just might surprise you.
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JAPANESE STORY
Starring the extraordinary Toni Collette as a geologist adrift in her life, JAPANESE STORY is a profound meditation on the impermanence of existence and the destabilization of love and connection. Sandy, an ambitious geologist, suddenly finds herself having to baby-sit...
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JOY OF MADNESS
Go behind the scenes of the first film made in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban. Your tour guide is a 14-year-old girl with a camera but make no mistake, these are not ordinary home movies. The fifth and...
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INHERITANCE (ARVEN)
What is the value of an inheritance that brings only heartbreak and pain? The second film in Per Fly's trilogy depicting three layers of Danish society, INHERITANCE questions the price paid by the wealthy elite. Christoffer enjoys the good life...
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JAMES’ JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM
Documentarian Ra'anan Alexandrowicz (THE INNER TOUR) utilizes irreverence, wit and insight to craft an intense, often humorous and extremely adept exploration of the age old journey to that most holy of places-Jerusalem. In the imaginary African village of Entshongweni, young...
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I’M NOT SCARED (IO NON HO PAURA)
Haunting and suspenseful, I'M NOT SCARED tells the story of a boy who discovers a chilling secret just beneath the surface of an idyllic rural landscape. Director Gabriele Salvatores (MEDITERRANEO) delves into his characters' hearts through images that are as...
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IN AMERICA
Director Jim Sheridan's (MY LEFT FOOT, IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER) semi-autobiographical film, IN AMERICA is an intimate story of an Irish family's pursuit of dreams in New York City. IN AMERICA is told through the eyes of Christy,...
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IN THE CITY (EN LA CIUDAD)
From the director of the beautiful coming-of-age film KRAMPACK, Cesc Gay's new film IN THE CITY is a mature, honest and engaging story of modern life and love in the city. IN THE CITY is about the hidden desires of...
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HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG
Academy Award® winners Sir Ben Kingsley (GANDHI) and Jennifer Connelly (A BEAUTIFUL MIND) star in the dramatic thriller HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG, based on the acclaimed bestseller by Andre Dubus Ill. Massoud Amir Behrani (Sir Ben Kingsley ) is...
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HOW MY MOTHER GAVE BIRTH TO ME DURING MENOPAUSE (COMMENT MA MERE ACCOUCHA DE MOI DURANT SA MENOPAUSE)
Motherly love takes on a whole new meaning in Sebastien Rose's hilarious debut feature. The mother of graduate student Jean Charles is like most mothers-loving, overly protective, eager for grandchildren-only Jean Charles's mother is more so. She sleeps in the...
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THE GREEN BUTCHERS (DE GRONNE SLAGTERE)
THE GREEN BUTCHERS is a remarkable sophomore feature debut from director Anders Thomas Jensen (FLICKERING LIGHTS). He turns his attention to the morbid and a musing in this story of two friends who open a butcher shop. Featuring strong characters...
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HAPPY HOUR
HAPPY HOUR explores a tragic life drowning in booze. While a writer thinks he has all the time in the world to accomplish his goals, it might be too late when he meets the woman who could change his life....
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GIRLHOOD
GIRLHOOD, the new documentary from Academy Aword®-nominated director Liz Garbus, tells two coming-of-age stories from the real America: Shanae, 10 years old when she was gong-roped by five boys, responded by drinking and drugging, graduating to murder at age 12...
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GO FURTHER
Director Ron Mann (GRASS, TWIST, POETRY IN MOTION) has once again created an entertaining film that offsets the propaganda dominating our culture. Celebrating the idea that the single individual is the key to large-scale transformational change, the film follows actor/activist...
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FUNNY GIRL
Omar Sharif stars as gambler Nicky Arnstein opposite Barbra Streisand in her film debut as Ziegfeld star Fanny Brice. In this highly fictionalized musical biopic, Brice-a poor Jewish girl from the Lower East Side-rises to fame and wins audience's hearts...
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FUSE (GORI VATRA)
Landmines still explode and the black market thrives in a rural village in Bosnia. War may be over, but the hard-fought struggle for existence continues until a ray of hope arrives-US President Clinton plans to visit. The mayor announces that...
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FRAGILE
One day in September a woman starts a long journey in FRAGILE, visiting the people she loves to say goodbye.
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FRANKIE AND JOHNNY ARE MARRIED
"Never spend your own money," and never work with your wife. Director Michael Pressman (SOME KIND OF HERO, CHICAGO HOPE) illustrates the folly of ignoring the two cardinal rules of show business in a film that is by turns hilarious,...
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THE FLYING CLASSROOM (DAS FLIEGENDE KLASSENZIMMER)
Expelled from eight boarding schools, Jonathan arrives at St. Thomas School, home of the world-famous boys' choir. Joining his new roommates at their secret meeting place, an abandoned. train car, he discovers a mysterious stranger named Bob-and the script for...
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THE FOG OF WAR
Master documentarian Errol Morris (THE THIN BLUE LINE; A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME; FAST, CHEAP AND OUT OF CONTROL) has created a 20th century fable of an American dreamer who rose from humble origins to the height of political power....
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THE FOREST (DE LA FOREST)
Starring Eriq Ebouaney (LUMUMBA), THE FOREST is a magnificently perceptive story that probes the power and tensions of globalization. Disillusioned with Gabon's lazy political state , Gonaba disappears deep into the forest. Once there, he hopes to use formal education...
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FISHY
Glenda, an unemployed misfit falls in love with Freddie, her goldfish in FISHY.
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FIVE SIDES OF A COIN
To comprehensively articulate a cultural phenomenon as complex as hip-hop is impossible, but director Paul Kell presents the "five sides" in a seamless Flow of kinetic energy-creating on infectious, vibrant documentary, blasting the screen with red-hot beats and intensity. This...
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FASSBINDER IN HOLLYWOOD
Working at a furious pace, master German fimmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder completed more than 40 films before his untimely death at the age of 36 in 1982, What would have happened if he had moved to Hollywood? Through interviews with...
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FIRE WITHIN
This documentary is the product of the annual international exchange program of the Jacobs International Teen Leadership Institute (JITLI), which chooses 10 Israeli Jewish, 10 Israeli Bedouin and 10 American Jewish teenagers to interact together in Spain and Israel for...
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EXTRAÑO
Winner of a 2003 Tiger Award, the jury of the Rotterdam Film Festival called EXTRANO" ... a confident and mature debut that takes a bold risk, inventing its own visual language to describe the outer and inner world of a...
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EDDIE LOVES MARY
EDDIE LOVES MARY explores the nature of love and how cruel the fall-out can be.
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EL ELEGANTE
In EL ELEGANTE, a young woman breaks into the hotel room of a lonely misfit and-through a series of absurd miscommunications-the two end up dancing together late into the evening.
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EVIL (ONDSKAN)
Just when you thought it was safe lo go back to boarding school, this Swedish box office hit provides a stinging reminder of the dark side of initiations, educational discipline and standing up for your principles. Erik keeps getting expelled...
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E PUR SI MUOVE
Finally, in E PUR SI MUOVE, a boy discovers in his very own way what faith means in the Catholic religion. However, what he finds out is not exactly what his grandmother had in mind.
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THE EARTH SINGS (ZEM SPIEVA)
The charmingly bucolic Venice Film Festival Prize winner, THE EARTH SINGS is a delightful musical portrait of rural life as it once was in the high Tatras Mountain area of Slovakia. Karel Plicka and Alexander Hackenschmied, strongly influenced by Eisenstein,...
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DOUBLE FIESTA
Pleasure in the Tropics is the topic of DOUBLE FIESTA, this invocation of the Double via Meredith Monk's music performed by Anthony de Mare.
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DRIFTERS (ER DI)
Wang Xiaoshuai's sixth feature follows the heartbreaking struggle of a father's attempts to reclaim his own son. A Since his deportation from America, Hong Yunsheng has searched for his son, whom he legally gave up to his employer in the...
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DOUBLE AGENT (JI JOONG GAN CHEOP)
As the Cold War fades from public consciousness, cinematic depictions of the espionage during that era remain feverishly alive. Putting aside the American viewpoint, how do other societies look back and judge those chilly times? Part of a wave of...
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DOUBLE DARE
You won't find their names above the title. Spanning more than 25 years and three continents, Amanda Micheli's documentary uncovers the success and struggle of two talented stunt people who just happen to be women. Jeannie Epper grew up in...
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DISTANT LIGHTS (LICHTER)
Nominated for multiple German film awards, DISTANT LIGHTS presents two days in the lives of a teeming mass of characters. They steal, cheat, love, help, hope and despair on the border between Germany and Poland. All they have in common...
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DOLLS
A kaleidoscope of color and searing images, Takeshi Kitano's DOLLS offers us a multi-layered, transcendent take on modern love. On his wedding day, Matsumoto learns that Sawako, a long lost love, is nearly brain dead following a suicide attempt. He...
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DEEP SILENCE (SILENCE PROFUNDO)
Two children have mysteriously disappeared from La Havana; one of them comes back and decides to remain silent in DEEP SILENCE.
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DESTINO
DESTINO is the final product of the Dali/Disney collaboration that began in 1940.
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CONDOR: AXIS OF EVIL (CONDOR: LEX AXES DU MAL)
Condor was the codename for a special operations network developed by the military dictatorships in Argentina, Chile and Paraguay and allegedly supported by Interpol, the CIA and the US State Department during the 1970s and '80s, dedicated to silencing left-wing...
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CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE
"Why can't I," devout Irish Catholic seminary student Daniel earnestly asks the church's hierarchy, "be a priest and marry the girl I love?" So posits writer/director John Deery as he tackles the most fundamentally challenging of topics-how to reconcile human·...
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CRACKER INGENUITY
In CRACKER INGENUITY, meet Leonard Knight, who has spent 20 years and 80,000 gallons of paint creating a candy-colored mountain in praise of God.
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THE COMPANY
In THE COMPANY, the esteemed Robert Altman (M*A*S*H, NASHVILLE, THE PLAYER, GOSFORD PARK) teams up with the Jeffrey Ballet of Chicago to provide a vivid and gritty insight into the working life of a busy dance company. The story revolves...
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CHINESE ODYSSEY 2002 (TIANXIE WUSHUANG)
Don't miss this delightful, gender-bending comedy of errors that blends romance, fantasy, martial arts and Hong Kong-style absurdist comedy to tell a story of love striving against immense odds. In Ming Dynasty China, young Emperor Zheng De and Princess Wushuang...
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THE COAST GUARD
Kim Ki-duk has been stunning audiences for years with films such as BIRDCAGE INN, THE ISLE and BAD GUY. Now the former soldier imagines a living nightmare shared by both the innocent and the guilty. Corporal Kang wants to catch...
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THE COMMISSION
Who shot JFK? That question ho s prompted countless books, films and Web sites. Sure to spark further debate, THE COMMISSION goes behind closed doors to reveal the secret discussions in Washington among the principal investigators about on event that...
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THE CALL
THE CALL is an urban nightmare in which a 19-year-old answers a phone he finds in the street. At the other end is a woman intent on seduction.
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CHAVEZ RAVINE: A LOS ANGELES STORY
Narrated by Cheech Marin and scored by Ry Cooder, CHAVEZ RAVINE: A LOS ANGELES STORY evokes a lost Mexican-American village in the heart of downtown LA, razed in the 1950s to build Dodger Stadium.
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BUSH BIKES
Starting off the program is BUSH BIKES. In town camps and remote area communities of central Australia, Aboriginal kids begin their apprenticeships early, making Bush Bikes by collecting parts from the town and from the bush.
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CALENDAR GIRLS
CALENDAR GIRLS is inspired by the British story of the Yorkshire women who set out to raise money for the Leukemia Research Fund by posing nude for an alternative Women's Institute calendar. Their courage and chutzpah turned a local story...
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BRIGHT LEAVES
One of the true pioneers of the American personal documentary, Ross McElwee (SHERMAN'S MARCH, TIME INDEFINITE, SIX O'CLOCK NEWS) returns again to muse, reflect and delight in BRIGHT LEAVES. This time, McElwee takes us on a journey back to his...
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BUDDY
Deftly blending hilarious pranks, bright pop music and touching drama, this Norwegian take on the classic romantic comedy follows best pals Kristoffer and Geir, who videotape their skatepunk antics and paste up billboards for a living. Kristoffer and Geir move...
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BODY SONG
Visually stunning and mesmerizing, BODYSONG is cinematic poetry, a rapture of energy and release. Using images taken from all around the world over the last 100 years of cinema, depicting every possible aspect of the human life from microscopic, medical,...
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BON VOYAGE
The canvas is writ large - it is 1940 and the Germans have just invaded France. Yet the daily dramas of people's lives keep on playing out affairs, plots and deaths continue even as the world crumbles. The story begins...
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BLUE GATE CROSSING (LANSE DA MEN)
Unexpectedly moving, Yee Chih-Yen's BLUE GATE CROSSING proves that sometimes the simplest beginnings-a high school love affair-can lead to the most complicated, and satisfying, endings. Kerou and Yuezhen are high school girls who seem destined to be friends forever until...
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BOBBYCRUSH
BOBBYCRUSH is the story of 13-year-old Bobby, who is in love with best friend Dylan. Dylan doesn't feel the same way.
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THE BLESSING BELL
Call it destiny or call it chance as one fateful day in the life of an ordinary man is staged with the elegant simplicity of a fairy tale. As day posses into night, the never-identified man is mistaken for a...
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BLIND SHAFT (MANG JING)
Banned in China, Li Yang's BLIND SHAFT rips open the seams of Chinese working-class life to unearth a haunting story that's as touching as is provocative. In the darkness of a remote mine, loners Jinming and Zhaoyang kill a fellow...
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THE BIG EMPTY
Steve Anderson's debut feature is a sun-baked modern noir. Jon Favreau ploys on out- of-work actor trying to make sense of a blue suitcase, 75 missing people, a neighbor who loses his head and a cryptic cowboy. Deep in debt,...
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THE BLAZING SUN (SIRAA FIL-WADI)
After discovering Omar Sharif while sitting in a Cairo cafe, director Youssef Chahine gave the handsome young actor his first film role as Ahmed, the son of an estate manager. Set in contemporary 1950s Upper Egypt, this pastoral tale provides...
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THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS (LES INVASIONS BARBARES)
Denys Arcand is one of Canada's most celebrated filmmakers, and the ferociously witty and achingly sad THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS revisits his 1986 film THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE. This time, the Declins are in their 20s and doing what...
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BEAH: A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS
In BEAH: A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS, actress-turned-director LisaGay Hamilton (BELOVED, TRUE CRIME, THE PRACTICE) has made a stylishly smart film revealing the remarkable life of distinguished African American actress, teacher, poet and social activist, Beah Richards. Arriving in Hollywood, young...
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BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD
Imagine a beauty pageont "in a country where women are not allowed to bore their skin. Take it a step further - the country has been labeled part of the "Axis of Evil." Welcome to Libya, home of Miss Net...
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AT THAT POINT…. REBECA
One morning, Rebeca wakes up to discover her overwhelming weight in AT THAT POINT.... REBECA.
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AUNT LUISA
AUNT LUISA is an old woman who thinks she hears Guy Lombardo and his band serenading her at home.
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ANGST (DER ALTE AFFE ANGST)
Falling in love is the easy part. Staying in love is the bigger challenge for two people in this tense drama from writer/director Oskar Roehler (NO PLACE TO GO). Playwright Robert Hennicke) and physician Marie (Marie Baeumer) have come to...
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AT FIVE IN THE AFTERNOON (PANJ E ASR)
The third film from 23-year-old director Samira Mokhmalbaf (THE APPLE, BLACKBOARDS) is set in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban. Nogreh wants to be her country' s first female p resident, but first she has to find a way...
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AN ALMOST ORDINARY STORY (SKORO SASVIM OBICNA PRICA)
Boy meets girl, boy gets girl, girl wonders why they're together. In what maybe the first Serbian romantic comedy, two age-old questions are addressed: how to sustain a long-term relationship and how to, survive your best friend's advice. Belgrade 20-somethings...
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AMERICAN MADE
AMERICAN MADE is the story of an Indian American family stranded on the side of a desert road who are faced with issues of tradition, faith and conformity.
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AILEEN: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER
"This is the most personal and most disturbing film I have made. I knew Aileen over the course of twelve years, and the barbaric nature of her death had a profound effect on me ... It was one film I...
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ADAM & EVA
Paul Harather's exquisitely charming ADAM & EVA is a comic, disarming and accomplished dissection of the quintessential fairytale ending. Fireman Adam saved the beautiful Eva from a fire four years earl married her-a fairy tale come true. But instead of...
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AFTERLIFE
Winner of the Audience Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival, few films capture our universal yearning Jar connection as simply and effectively as Alison Peebles' heartfelt and beautifully crafted AFTERLIFE. Kenny Brogan (Kevin McKidd), on ambitious journalist is working on...
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XX/XY
Don't let the simple title fool you. Writer/director Austin Chick has fashioned a rich, involving drama about the sheer messiness of being in love, told in two parts held together by Mark Ruffalo's thoroughly natural and commanding performance. Part One...
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THE WISER SEX
THE WISER SEX is a virtually unknown Claudette Colbert film produced in the pre-Code era. Colbert has a lively double role as a woman of independence, who pretends to be a gold-digger to save her boyfriend, played by Melvyn Douglas,...
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THE WORMHOLE
We open with WORMHOLE, which allows us to view a boy's struggle with the disappearance of his younger brother.
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A WEDDING IN RAMALLAH
"I cannot take another broken heart again, you know?" says Bassam Abed on the eve of his second wedding. After a painful divorce from an American woman, Bassam returns to his native Palestine, seeking a traditional wife willing to fetch...
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WEST BANK BROOKLYN
With wit, charm and irreverence, writer/director/producer/actor Ghazi Albuliwi's WEST BANK BROOKLYN contrasts the different interpretations of God and religion for three young Muslim friends living in Brooklyn where Jewish, Muslim and Catholics live side-by-side. Albuliwi plays a chameleon-like realist who...
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WHITE LIKE THE MOON
WHITE LIKE THE MOON poses the idea that if the sun makes you darker, then the moon will make you lighter.
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VINCENT
VINCENT tells how a young boy's perspective on life is colored by an early mishap, but nothing can dull Vincent's hopes for a bright future full of love.
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THE WAY HOME (JIBURO)
Told with a grace and beauty reminiscent of Ozu, THE WAY HOME reminds us that sometimes the only way to find your home is to leave it. Sang Woo, a six-year-old city slicker, visits his grandmother in a rural mountain...
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UNPRECEDENTED: THE 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION (THE 2004 CAMPAIGN EDITION)
In the two years since the 2000 elections, events both staggering and banal have hazed the nation's memories of mayhem when Al Gore and George W. Bush waged their second war for the presidency. As a result, the political drama...
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VAYA CON DIOS
"Losing your religion" takes on a special meaning in Zoltan Spirandelli's hilarious coupling of the sacred and the profane. Winner of four Bavarian Film Awards, including Best New Director, Best Actor and Best Acting, VAYA CON DIOS follows the rite...
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TRAPPEDINFREEDOM
The program opens with TRAPPEDINFREEDOM where a man is set free as he loses his mind.
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TV DREAM HOMES: THE DRAWINGS OF MARK BENNETT
TV DREAM HOMES: THE DRAWINGS OF MARK BENNETT, a short profile of artist and cultural phenomenon Mark Bennett, who gained fame for his intricate drawings of '60s television sitcom homes.
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THIS IS NOT A LOVE SONG
Spike has only been out of prison for four hours when everything goes wrong. Best friends Spike and Heaton must rethink their weekend plans after their van runs out of gas in the middle of nowhere. Now, instead of holing...
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THREE LOVES (DIE FRAU NACH DER MAN SICH SEHNT)
In this melodrama, Marlene Dietrich plays her first full-blown femme fatale-a sinister seductress who sets the wheels of her own demise in motion when she claims her next victim aboard a speeding passenger train. THREE LOVES, shot in Berlin, is...
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TO STAY ALIVE (BEMANI)
Director Dariush Mehrjoui paints a vivid portrait of a society and culture rarely seen in the West. Within its framework, he creates a world filled with beauty and loss, love and death. Bemani's world is thrown into upheaval when, against...
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TEMPO
In TEMPO, we learn that inventive methods are sometimes necessary for daily life-timing is everything.
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TESTIMONY: THE MARIA GUARDADO STORY
Director Randy Vasquez was immediately impressed when he met Maria Guardado at a political meeting in 1997. Drawn to her spirit and ideas, he started documenting her protests in and around Los Angeles. A patient woman with the stubborn, admirable...
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TALK TO HER (HABLE CON ELLA)
From Academy Award®-winning writer/director Pedro Almodovar (MATADOR, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER) comes TALK TO HER, a tender film about madness. Two strangers, Benigno (Dario Grandinetti) and Marco (Leonor Watling), sit together in...
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TATTOO
TATTOOis a rich, suspenseful murder mystery that slithers from the trendy German rave scene into more ominous territory. With cinematic fervor, the film combines mesmerizing and unflinching imagery with all-too-human characters to tell a gripping psychological drama. After graduating from...
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SUV TAGGERS
And finally, two committed environmentalists take action in SUV TAGGERS by placing bumper stickers on vehicles in the parking lots of California malls.
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SWEET SIXTEEN
Fearless British director Ken Loach (BREAD AND ROSES, MY NAME IS JOE, LADYBIRD LADYBIRD, RIFF RAFF, KES) returns in fine form with SWEET SlXTEEN, starkly beautiful and naturalistic work which breathes real life into its gritty characters SWEET SIXTEEN is...
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SPIDER
David Cronenberg (CRASH, NAKED LUNCH, DEAD RINGERS, THE FLY) has developed a reputation for his distinctive, memorable films. SPIDER's unique tone and pace are driven by the hypnotic, unforgettable performances of Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson and Gabriel Byrne. The details...
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SUPPLEMENT (SUPLEMENT)
Krzysztof Zanussi's previous film, LIFE AS A FATAL SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE, won the grand prize at the Moscow Film Festival and was Poland's entry for the Foreign Language Film Oscar. Half sequel and half companion piece to that film, SUPPLEMENT...
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SNAKESKIN
Gillian Ashurst's brazen portrait of contemporary teenage angst is an homage to the great American Western. Separated by a century and a couple of continents, SNAKESKIN is part cowboy mythology, part THELMA & LOUISE and part EASY RIDER. Two Kiwi...
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SOLITUDE
Louis and Hilary are as far from average as any middle-class Phoenix siblings can get. Louis is brilliant but suicidal. Hilary is seductive but falling apart. The "fun and games" escalate when Hilary tips the delicate balance of their relationship...
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SMALL VOICES (MGA MUNTIN TINIG)
For many, the best of Filipino cinema is defined by its resolute devotion to exposing the country's problems. With SMALL VOICES director Gil M. Portes opts for a decidedly more optimistic stance, albeit one tempered by a realistic outlook. The...
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THE SMITH FAMILY
Kim and Steve Smith of Salt Lake City, Utah, are seemingly the picture-perfect Morman couple. Proud parents of two bright and loving teenagers, active in the Morman community and absolutely devoted to each other and their family, the Smiths seem...
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THE SLAUGHTER RULE
Capturing the stark landscape of a rural Montana winter in Cinemascope and smoldering performances by Ryan Gosling and David Morse, THE SLAUGHTER RULE is an astute, harsh meditation on the interminglings of growing up, identity and sense of place. Set...
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SLEEPING ROUGH (TUSSENLAND)
One of the winners of the 2002 Rotterdam Film Festival, filmmaker Eugenie Jansen's SLEEPING ROUGH is a rich story that cuts to the heart of friendship between two disparate individuals. Jakob, an 80-year-old moody widower and veteran of the Dutch...
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SHATTERED GLASS (SCHERBENTANZ)
The destructive nature of family secrets and the redemptive power of the truth, however painful, are at the heart of this taut family drama. Resentful and disillusioned, underachieving younger son Jesko just wants to be left alone to die from...
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SHOUJYO: AN ADOLESCENT
One of Japan's most popular actors, Eiji Okudo's directorial debut is a beautiful, erotic fable. The film portrays a Japan more complex and dysfunctional than what is often displayed on American movie screens. Tomokawa, played by Okuda, is a middle-aged...
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SAMSARA
Set in the majestic landscape of the Himalayas and shot in glorious Cinemascope, Samsara-which means "the world we live in"-tells an epic tale of a spiritual quest. Ta shi (Shawn Ku) is a brilliant young Buddhist monk who is just...
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SHAOLIN SOCCER (SIU LAM JUK KAU)
A huge hit in Asia, Stephen Chow's SHAOLIN SOCCER is an unusual and visually exciting combination of soccer and kung fu. Hilarious and action-packed visual effects magically transport the game to another level. Complete with tongue-in-cheek musical numbers and a...
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THE ROUTINE
We conclude with ROUTINE, a moving depiction of the daily life of a single mother and her daughter in a world gone wrong.
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THE SAFETY OF OBJECTS
Glenn Close, delivering a typically stalwart performance, heads a fine ensemble cast that also includes Dermot Mulroney, Moira Kelly, Mary Kay Place, Patricia Clarkson and Joshua Jackson. Director Rose Troche's suburbia, based on a series of stories by AM. Homes...
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THE QUIET AMERICAN
Surface appearances are deceptive, and nowhere is this truer than in Phillip Noyce's evocative adaptation of Graham Greene's The Quiet American. Set during the French war in Indochina in the early 1950s, THE QUIET AMERICAN matches Michael Caine and Brendan...
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RABBIT-PROOF FENCE
Over the past several years, Australia has been taking measures-on both governmental and social levels-to address the agony of the "Stolen Generation" of aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families. Director Phillip Noyce's RABBIT-PROOF FENCE is based on the true...
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RESPIRO
Shot on the sun-drenched Sicilian island of Lampedusa, RESPIRO does a superb job of capturing the everyday rhythms of a small fishing village and the tensions that threaten to tear apart a lively local family. The ocean is the backdrop...
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PROFILES IN SCIENCE
PROFILES IN SCIENCE will enlighten you about the life of the fictional Dr. Chung, on unsung pioneer of time-lapse photography.
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PROM NIGHT IN KANSAS CITY
The only memory filmmaker Hali Lee retains about her high school prom is the hangover she had the next day. In her search to find the real reason why this quintessential American ritual still endures, Lee, along with co-director Peter...
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ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE
From acclaimed documentarians D A Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus (MONTEREY POP, STARTUP.COM, DON'T LOOK BACK, ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS) comes a rocking documentary about the rhythm and blues performers who were the backbone of Stax Records and...
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PHOTOS TO SEND
Winner of the San Francisco International Film Festival's Golden Gate Award, PHOTOS TO SEND retraces Life magazine photographer Dorothea Lange's footsteps in County Clare, Ireland, after nearly 50 years, to find that time has stood still in this small, farming...
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NOWHERE IN AFRICA (NIRGENDWO IN AFRIKA)
Winner of German Film Awards for Best Film and Best Director for Caroline Link, NOWHEREIN AFRICA is based on Stefanie Zweig's best-selling autobiographical novel depicting her German-Jewish family's escape to Kenya from Nazi terror during the 1930s. Leaving their loved...
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OKAY
It's not easy being the only person who can keep it together when everything falls apart. Nete has always seen herself as the responsible one in her family. But after years of stress and worry, her concern for everyone is...
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MORVERN CALLAR
After Lynne Ramsay's first short film received the 1996 Cannes Jury Prize, she continued to win critical acclaim with her feature debut, RATCATCHER. MORVERN CALLAR is the assured sophomore film from Ramsay, starring the stellar Samantha Morton (SWEET & LOWDOWN,...
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MOZAMBIQUE WHERE FILM GOES (MOZAMBICO DOVE VAL IL)
Rarely has the increasingly familiar tale of filmmakers making movies about movies been explored with such impact and resonance as in MOZAMBIQUE WHERE FILM GOES. The depiction of the moving images featured in this documentary-and the audiences' reactions to these...
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NOTHING MORE (NADA MAS)
Winner of the Best First Feature Award at the Havana Film Festival, NOTHING MORE enlists a cadre of innovative techniques-crisp black and white cinematography, fanciful language juxtaposed with absurd satire and slapstick, and colorful bursts of animation-all used to punctuate...
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MILLENNIUM ACTRESS
Renowned anime director Satoshi Kon exhibits a respect and fondness for Japanese history and culture through jaw-dropping animated sequences in MILLENNIUM ACTRESS, a compelling romance/adventure where fantasy and reality collide. A director named Genya Tachibana is hired to film a...
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MONA, MON AMOUR
An animated view of rules for dating in New York best describes MONA, MON AMOUR.
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MAX
In 1918, 15 years before ascending to the rank of Chancellor of Germany, Adolph Hitler was just another struggling painter scouring the streets of Munich with a sketchpad under his skinny, unwashed arm. Hitler's penciled drawings of cocker spaniels and...
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MBOUTOUKOU
Locating the perfect termite mound in MBOUTOUKOU is precisely what 12-year-old Napo sets out to achieve.
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MAN ON THE TRAIN (L’HOMME DU TRAIN)
Simplicity in art is often only discovered after a lifetime of work. In this superbly imagined and deeply moving film, Patrice Leconte strips away artifice and extraneous detail to focus on two unlikely men. MAN ON THE TRAIN features two...
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MANITOU’S SHOE (DER SCHUH DES MANITU)
Move over BLAZING SADDLES and make room for this English dubbed German box office record-breaking madcap Western spoof that holds nothing sacred. In order to buy a saloon for his tribe, Apache Chief Abahachi takes out a loan from a...
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A MAP OF THE HEART (DER FELSEN)
Who would think that the most difficult place in the world to run away from your problems would be an island in the Mediterranean Sea? Writer/director Dominik Graf explores Corsica, along with the possibilities of digital video, in this tale...
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A LUCKY DAY (UNA DIA DE SUERTE)
With a staunch disregard for normal narrative form, Sandra Gugliotta's documentary background infuses her debut feature film A LUCKY DAY with an electric melding of genres. A forceful tale of illusive passion, 25-year-old Elsa lives in Buenos Aires, a city...
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LUCKY MAN
Are the stakes too high in LUCKY MAN, for a lifetime loser who attempts to play out the perfect poker hand?
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LOVE LIZA
Winner of the 2002 Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance, LOVE LIZA is a taut, witty, disparate character study fueled by the arresting performance of Philip Seymour Hoffman. Wilson Joel's (Hoffman) wife has committed suicide, leaving him alone to cope...
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LOVE THE HARD WAY
The fine line between love and obsession is completely blurred in Peter Sehr's sharp, bitter pill of a love story that more than merits its title, shattering such quaint romantic notions as "opposites attract." Claire is an Ivy League good...
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LEFT-HANDED
In LEFT-HANDED, a left-handed boy is forced to cope in a right-handed world.
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LIFE, LIBERTY & THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
LIFE, LIBERTY & THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS playfully explores the ironic and sometimes absurd views that surround the reproductive rights of women in the US.
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THE ITALIAN JOB
One of the all-time great heist movies, THE ITALIAN JOB is also one of the least-known, although this perhaps may change with the release of the remake next year starring Mark Wahlberg, Edward Norton and Charlize Theron. Charlie Croker (Michael...
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JIMMY SCOTT: IF YOU ONLY KNEW
Best known for his impossibly high singing voice, enigmatic jazz legend Jimmy Scott has been called by The New York Times "the most unjustly ignored American singer of the 20th century." Scott is the rare comeback kid who achieved rediscovery...
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JOURNEY MAN
JOURNEY MAN is a simple story of a stowaway from Sierra Leone who arrives in a Welsh town at Christmas.
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THE IPCRESS FILE
Len Deighton's reluctant anti-hero Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) burst onto the spy-crazed film world of the 1960s. Unlike James Bond, however, here was a British spy with a working-class accent and horn-rimmed glasses who really didn't want to be a...
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IRANIAN SPREAD (SOFREH IRANI)
With IRANIAN SPREAD, veteran producer/ director Kianoosh Ayyari alchemizes a simple tale-the journey of a fake banknote into a powerful meditation on morality and Iranian culture. Ayyari's eighth feature follows the fate of a counterfeit 1,000 tomans note, as it...
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THE INHERITANCE
Its easy to see why THE INHERITANCE was such a hit at the Brazilian box office. Daniel Filho's vibrant comedy about four vastly different women reunited by the death of their mother perfectly captures the confounding dynamics and unique bond...
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INTACTO
Is being a survivor just a matter of luck? Legendary actor Max Von Sydow stars in this elegant thriller by first-time director Juan Carlos Fresnadilllo. Thomas, a young thief, wakes up in a hospital as the sole survivor of a...
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I’M WITH LUCY
l'M WITH LUCY is a modern screwball comedy which introduces us to Lucy Federowicz (Monica Potter), who is reluctantly throwing herself back into the dating scene. During the course of one year, five potential boyfriends present themselves as candidates, but...
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IMAGINE YOURSELF BACK TO FRONT
To complete this program, IMAGINE YOURSELF BACK TO FRONT sets the pace with ballet-like movements and experimental photography.
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INA’S BIRTHDAY
INA'S BIRTHDAY leads her to a suicide attempt and a quest for love, while CIGAR BY CAR follows a narcoleptic attendant and a shoplifter into a mystical cow pasture.
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HOLD MY HEART (TYVEN TYVEN)
With uncommon candor and openness, Trygve Allister Diesen's raw, sublime second feature examines an unusual father/daughter relationship. At the center of HOLD MY HEART is estranged father Harald, who decides to do the unthinkable-kidnap his own daughter. What follows is...
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HYPNOTIZED AND HYSTERICAL (HAIR DRESSER WANTED) (FILLES PERDUES, CHEVEUX GRAS)
Three young women-and three very confused minds-cross paths on their individual quests in a hypnotic world of their own. Each is looking for someone or something she has lost. After angry, working-class single mom Elodie is fired from her latest...
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GRILL POINT (HALBE TREPPE)
With wry realism, playful humor. and incredible performances from the four principal cast members, GRILL POINT was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Berlin Film Festival. In the unexciting town of Frankfurt/Oder, two married couples have...
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GUERILLA PUBLIC SERVICE
GUERILLA PUBLIC SERVICE, an artist objects to a confusing freeway sign and takes matters into his own hands-can you say, "Civil disobedience?"
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GET CARTER
Generally cast as a likable working-class bloke, Michael Caine cashed in this persona to play Jack Carter, a very unlikable London gangster who heads to the north of England to investigate the recent death of his brother. The local police...
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GETTING MY BROTHER LAID (MEIN BRUDER DER VAMPIR)
A truly audacious, disarmingly frank comedy from Germany about a family that manages to put the fun back into being dysfunctional. Fourteen-year old shutterbug Nic is pretty sure things will make a lot more sense once she has sex, so-camera...
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A FOOL AND HIS MONEY
A FOOL AND HIS MONEY is the first American film with an all African American cast-a "lost" film, found by Californian David Navone and given to AFI to preserve. A vaudeville-style comedy, A FOOL AND HIS MONEY stars cakewalk king...
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GEBIRTIG
"Once the world capital of anti-Semitism, Vienna has become the capital of forgetting." So sings Jewish cabaret artist Danny Demont of his hometown in 1987 during the Waldheim affair. Halfway around the world in New York City, composer Hermann Gebirtig...
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EVERYDAY SOMETHING
EVERYDAY SOMETHING uses newspaper clippings to bring to light the strange reality of our daily existence.
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FAMILY
Sami Saif was eight years old when his father fled the constraints of family life, leaving Sami and his brother, Thomas, to their incompetent, alcoholic mother. Twenty years later, following two tragedies that have made his family even smaller, Sarni...
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FITS & STARTS
In FITS AND STARTS, we observe two people who communicate in a unique and amusing style.
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EVENHAND
"You wanna help people? You arrest them. That's what you do, you're a cop." Those are the words of wisdom Officer Ted Morning offers new partner Officer Rob Francis during his first week on the job in San Lovisa, Texas....
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EVERY STEWARDESS GOES TO HEAVEN (TODAS LAS AZAFATAS VAN AL CIELO)
Director Daniel Burman's deeply satisfying E VERY STEWARDESS GOES TO HEAVEN is a rousing confirmation that Argentinean independent filmmaking is alive and well, championing a new style of filmmaking incorporating strong narratives and complex visual styles. This is the story...
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EAT, SLEEP, NO WOMAN (ESSEN, SCHLAFEN, KEINE FRAUEN)
As American Cruise missiles begin raining down upon Taliban targets, their impact is felt far beyond Afghanistan's borders. Throughout he world, people notice subtle shifts in their daily lives. In Pakistan, a billboard painter for a local movie theater worries...
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EDUCATING RITA
Rita (Julie Walters) is a married, working-class hairdresser with a sharp wit. She is 26 and doesn't want a baby. Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine) is a disillusioned university professor of literature. His marriage has failed, his girlfriend is having...
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DON’T TEMPT ME (SIN NOTICIAS DE DIOS)
In this very imaginative comedy by Agustin Díaz Yanes, feisty bad girl Penelope Cruz and sexy angel Victorial Abril are instruments in a battle between Heaven and Hell to rule the world. Angel Lola (Victoria Abril), a nightclub singer in...
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DR. CUDDLE
KUDDLE, a man who treats wounded Furbees befriends a precocious nine-year-old girl with surprising results.
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THE DESERTED VALLEY
An official selection at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival, THE DESERTED VALLEY is one of only a few Vietnamese films post-produced outside of Vietnam. It has already won several awards, including three at the 13th Vietnam Film Festival. Rector...
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DIVINE INTERVENTION (YADON ILAHEYYA)
Part parable, part experimental narrative, Elia Suleiman utilizes irreverence,w it, mysticism and insight to craft an intense, hallucinogenic and extremely adept exploration of the dreams and night· mares of Palestinians and Israelis living in uncertain times. In the opening sequence,...
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THE DANCER UPSTAIRS
Based on Nicholas Shakespeare's adaptation of the eponymous novel, THE DANCER UPSTAIRS marks John Malkovich's feature directorial debut, starring Academy Award®-nominated actor Javier Bardem (BEFORE NIGHT FALLS) and acclaimed actress Laura Morante (THE SON'S ROOM). As an unspecified Latin American...
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DARK WATER (HONOGURAI MIZUNO SOKOKARA)
Dread. Pure dread. That's the only word to describe the chilling cinema of Hideo Nakata. Tempering his terrors with shades of sorrow and repulsion, Nakata has an unerring knack for unsettling his audience, often-times using seemingly innocuous objects. In his...
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CIVIL BRAND
Starring Lisa Raye, DaBrat, MC Lyle and Mos Def, CIVIL BRAND is a hip-hop tale of young black women behind bars who rise up against the "prisons for profit." After Frances, a young nurse and mother in an abusive marriage,...
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THE CUCKOO (KUKUSHKA)
Writer/director Alexander Rogozhkin's 1998 film CHECKPOINT examined the banality and treachery of war. Now, he has produced an exquisitely tuned look at the misunderstandings among three people - a Russian, a Finn and a Lapp, none of whom speak each...
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CINEMANIA
For most people, movies are a form of entertainment. But for the five New York cinephiles featured in this unique documentary, movies are a psychological necessity-an obsession that dominates every waking moment. We meet the characters in this delightfully deranged...
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CITY OF GOD (CIDADE DE DEUS)
Told with equal parts aching tolerance and smoldering activism, CITY OF GOD is a raw, honest film. Director Fernando Meirelles and codirector Katia Lund assembled 110 non-professional actors into a stylishly imaginative story of one boy's coming-of-age in the dark...
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CITY OF NO LIMITS (EN LA CIUDAD SIN LIMITES)
Antonio Hernandez's THE CITY OF NO LIMITS combines exceptional performances and unforgettable visuals to tell the story of the inner workings of a family and the never-ending effect of the past on the present. Newly arrived from Argentina, Viktor (Leonardo...
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CIGAR BY CAR
CIGAR BY CAR follows a narcoleptic attendant and a shoplifter into a mystical cow pasture.
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CHAOS AND DESIRE (LA TURBULENCE DES FLUIDES)
Writer/director Manon Briand (2 SECONDS) has said that her connection to water is like that of a pilot to air. In her haunting second feature film, CHAOS AND DESIRE, she turns this possibility into a profound metaphor for the protagonist's...
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CHIHWASEON
In a time of political upheaval in 19th century Korea, an uncouth beggar child grows up to become one of the most brilliant and beloved painters of his era. Korean master Im Kwon-Taek won the award for Best Directior at...
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THE CIDER HOUSE RULES
The Opening Night film of AFI FEST 1999 and John Irving's adaptation of his own best selling novel, THE CIDER HOUSE RULES is brought to the screen by celebrated filmmaker Lasse Hallstrom. Central to this story set during World War...
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BRAZIL
Otto is separated from his unfaithful wife in BRAZIL, and seeks a most unusual revenge.
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BYE BYE INKHEAD
Next is BYE BYE INKHEAD, where an au pair seems the likely solution to Mona's problems... or is it?
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THE BOX MAN
A man has a curious encounter with a cardboard box in the aptly titled THE BOX MAN
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BOYS GIRLS
BOYS GIRLS asks what creates sexual identity. The answer is what you get when you cross a fountain nymph with the son of Hermes.
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BLISSFULLY YOURS (SUD SENAEHA)
What at first seems to be a wry, neo-realist film about Thailand's disenfranchised enters the realm of the poetic when its characters- an illegal Burmese immigrant and the two Thai women who care for him-escape into the lush Thai countryside...
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BOOK OF KINGS
The boundaries of belief are explored in BOOK OF KINGS, a portrait of a family who may or may not understand the language of birds.
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BATTLESHIP CONTEMPKIN
A rainy day, a man, a woman and a game by Milton Bradley play out in original style in BATTLESHIP CONTEMPKIN.
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BLIND SPOT – HITLER’S SECRETARY (IM TOTEN WINKLE. HITLERS SEKRETARIN)
In 1942, unassuming, apolitical 22-year-old typist Traudl Junge became Adolf Hitler's personal secretary. In 2001, after nearly 60 years of silence, she decided to speak about her experiences. In this intimate record of Junge's first-ever on-screen interview, the camera never...
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AT DAWNING
AT DAWNING is a morality tale that combines a one·night stand, a suicidal man and a baby.
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BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS (BALZAC ET LA PETITE TAILLEUSE CHINOISE)
Dai Sijie's poignant, largely autobiographical coming-of-age tale reminds us that love can always blossom where you least expect. BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS is a return to China's Cultural Revolution, when playing Mozart could get you killed, and reading...
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ANTWONE FISHER
"Initially, I wanted to tell my story because the opportunity presented itself and I was told that I could not do it.... It reminded me of how I was always told as a child that I was worthless and I...
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ARARAT
One of the most original voices in world cinema, Canadian writer/ director Atom Egoyan (FAMILY VIEWING, EXOTICA, THE SWEET HEREAFTER) returns with ARARAT, a deeply personal exploration of the mores and attitudes surrounding the Armenian genocide. In Egoyan's compelling style,...
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ANANSI
Dazzling us with this original odyssey of immigration, director Fritz Baumann's characters are humorous, deep and alive. In West Africa, the name "Anansi" means "spider," representative of a well loved trickster. In numerous fables, he successfully uses his charm and...
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ANONYMOUSLY YOURS
Pig-tailed and bubbly, Zu Zu first appears to be an average teenager. Then she tells of the abduction that twisted her childhood into a succession of chilling abuses. Sold for prostitution, drug-dealing and even as a bound-and gagged food source...
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ALCHEMY
Great sets help illustrate the practice of 'what goes around comes around' in ALCHEMY-the gift that keeps on giving.
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ALFIE
Perhaps one of Caine's most memorable performances, this grim comedy was nominated for an Academy Award™ and centers around the self-involved, rakish cockney wastrel Alfie, who moves between women with scant emotional maturity. Alfie maneuvers from conquest to conquest, all...
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7TH STREET
Josh Pais has lived on 7th Street between Avenues C and D in the East Village since he was three when his hippie mother relocated the family there. In the nearly four-decades Pais has spent in New York's Alphabet City,...
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ABOUT THE LIVING (SERES HUMANOS)
Weaving a hypnotic score with breathtaking cinematography, director Jorge Aguilera presents a story of loss and redemption in his debut film. After the death of six-year-old Dalia, her mother eludes grief by hosting a scandalous TV talk show, her brother...
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2 MINUTES
During 2 MINUTES, a boy lies in his bathtub holding his breath. Will he beat his personal best?
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WHOA
Modern living is held up for target practice in this series of shorts. Whether you reside in the hood or are surrounded by strip malls, you will see a bit of yourself in all these stories. DELUSIONS IN MODERN PRIMITIVISM:...
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ZOE
Few films capture our universal yearning for connection as simply and effectively as Deborah Attoinese's heartfelt story of three runaway teens and a displaced British woman whose paths cross in the desert. Unable to bear the sight of her battered...
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WEDDING NIGHT (NOCHE DE BODAS)
Whatever is going on in Latin cinema, we can only hope it's contagious. From the hundreds of Latin submissions, we are proud to present eight of the very best. WEDDING NIGHT: Passion multiplies during a wedding night. BAMBOLEHO: Inspired by...
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WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? (NI NEI PIEN CHI TIEN)
A Tsai Ming-liang film has certain elements: the long held shot and exquisite tension in the frame; the pacing; the themes of alienation; and of course that familiar face of constant muse Lee Kang-Sheng. But WHAT TIME IS IT THERE?...
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VISIBLE SECRET (YAULING YANGAN)
This latest film from Ann Hui may surprise some of her fans-it's a ghost mystery. An internationally recognized and awarded filmmaker, Hui is best known for her moving films on Hong Kong and Chinese history and life. But after working...
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THE WEDDING BANQUET (HSI YEN)
THE WEDDING BANQUET is the second film in Ang Lee's "Father's Knows Best" trilogy {and the second to be shot in New York). A young man from Taiwan and his American lover are happily sharing their lives together. Unfortunately, his...
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UNLOVED
Winner of the Grand Rail d'Oro and the Ecumenical Jury Prize for Future Talent at the 20001 Cannes Film Festival, UNLOVED is an extraordinary film and an incisively astute depiction of ambition. Mitsuko is content as an administrator at city...
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VELOCITY RULES
Modern living is held up for target practice in this series of shorts. Whether you reside in the hood or are surrounded by strip malls, you will see a bit of yourself in all these stories. DELUSIONS IN MODERN PRIMITIVISM:...
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VIOLET PERFUME, NOBODY HEARS YOU (PERFUME DE VIOLETAS)
Tackling the growing problem of sexual assault in Mexico City, VIOLET PERFUME, NOBODY HEARS YOU fictionalizes the true story of a friendship between two girls torn apart when one of them is attacked. Tomboy Yessica, frequently in trouble, strikes up...
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TRULY HUMAN (ET RIGTIGT MENNESKE)
A quixotic, thought-provoking film about a child's imaginary friend who becomes an actualized human being and blank slate to write on with everyone he encounters. Seven-year old Lisa's only friend is "P," an imaginary companion who lives behind the wall...
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THE TUNNEL
The Berlin Wall was more than 166 kilometers of concrete and twisted razor wire, patrolled by guards and watchdogs, accented by heavily armed watchtowers. Nearly 300 people died trying to get over the Wall and, as with recent current events,...
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TO LOVE, TOO MUCH (DEMASIADO AMOR)
TO LOVE, TOO MUCH is a sensual and contemplative film adaptation based on Sara Sefchovich's novel Demasiado Amor, which won the Agustin Yanez prize. Beatriz and her sister, Laura, have a dream to immigrate to another country and open a...
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TRIBUTE
Pop music is a world of subcultures. The strangest of these subcultures might very well be tribute bands. TRIBUTE documents the great lengths to which these cover bands and their dedicated fans go in their attempt to recreate the experience...
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SWEET LIFE
This program bravely tackles the subject of Love. This tantalizing group of shorts range from the bizarre to the macabre to the deeply poignant, bringing us all closer to comprehending the complexities of Love . BIG LOVE: Two parents perform...
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TEN CENTS A DANCE
Barbara Stanwyck's rarely-seen and provocative TEN CENTS A DANCE, the latest feature film preserved by AFI, was made in the pre-censorship, pre-Code era and is realistic and daring in the pre-Code manner. Directed with great skill by Lionel Barrymore, it...
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SKIES, SATELLITES (NEBO, SATELITI)
From the ashes of the war in Croatia floats SKIES, SATELLITES, a transcendent tale about one man's journey through a ravaged land where identity, sanity and hope seem lost. Early in the war, during a periodic exchange of prisoners, one...
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A SONG FOR MARTIN (EN SANG FOR MARTIN)
Academy Award® and two time Palm d'Or-winning director Bille August's new film is a beautiful and heart wrenching· W portrait of a woman's love for her husband in the face of a terrible and incurable disease. The performances by the...
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SWEET
This program bravely tackles the subject of Love. This tantalizing group of shorts range from the bizarre to the macabre to the deeply poignant, bringing us all closer to comprehending the complexities of Love . BIG LOVE: Two parents perform...
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THE SEARCH FOR JOHN GISSING
Mike Binder wrote, directed and stars in this corporate comedy of willfully and ruthlessly induced errors. Binder is greatly assisted by droll co-stars Janeane Garofalo as his put-upon wife and Alan Rickman as the title's elusive John Gissing. When innocents...
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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY is a beautiful evocation of the 19th century English gentry and its ruins. The film tells the story of a newly impoverished widow and her two daughters and the tangled complications caused by the daughters' love affairs....
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A SAD FLOWER IN THE SAND
A poetic rapture of energy and release, A SAD FLOWER IN THE SAND is the chronicle of writer John Fante. Often described as a writer's writer, Fante influenced and spoke to several generations of authors, including screenwriter Robert Towne (CHINATOWN),...
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SALAD DAYS (DESALINADA)
Whatever is going on in Latin cinema, we can only hope it's contagious. From the hundreds of Latin submissions, we are proud to present eight of the very best. WEDDING NIGHT: Passion multiplies during a wedding night. BAMBOLEHO: Inspired by...
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PUSHING HANDS (TUI SHOU)
Ang Lee's first feature film, PUSHING HANDS, tells the story of Master Chu, a retired Chinese Tai-Chi master who moves to New York to live with his son's family, including his American wife and their son. It's a comedy of...
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ROGELIO
Whatever is going on in Latin cinema, we can only hope it's contagious. From the hundreds of Latin submissions, we are proud to present eight of the very best. WEDDING NIGHT: Passion multiplies during a wedding night. BAMBOLEHO: Inspired by...
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PLASTER CASTER
Legendary artist and rock groupie Cynthia Plaster Caster is world renowned for plaster-casting the penises of rock 'n' roll's finest, including the highlight of her career, Jimi Hendrix. With a music "cast" from Jello Biafra to Noel Redding to Wayne...
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PROMISES
PROMISES goes where no other documentary on the heated Jerusalem conflict has gone-into the future, out of the mouths of babes. Shot between the Palestinian uprisings of 1995 and 2000, the film explores the issues through interviews with seven Israeli...
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PULSE (KAIRO)
After a computer analyst commits suicide, his colleagues find a computer disc that conceals a virus that contaminates its users, radically changing their behavior. A young computer analyst is found hanging in his apartment, leaving behind a dark stain on...
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PIE IN THE SKY: THE BRIGID BERLIN STORY
Chronicling the obsessive and fascinating life of Warhol's Chelsea Girl, Brigid Berlin, PIE IN THE SKY reveals the cult figure's segue from wealthy socialite to trash-talking-rebel-bad-girl. The naughty and outspoken Brigid Berlin was raised as a wealthy debutante in a...
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PIÑERO
PINERO is the true story of the turbulent and artistic life of Latino icon and Puerto Rican poet-playwright-actor, Miguel Pinero {Benjamin Bratt), who captivated New York City's cultural elite in the 1970s and '80s. Pinero's life is an awesome study...
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PAULINE AND PAULETTE
Reminiscent of WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE in tone and in themes, director Debrauwer's debut film, PAULINE & PAULETTE, was a huge success in Belgium, starring two of Belgium's favorite actresses on screen together for the first time. PAULINE & PAULETTE...
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PETER RABBIT AND THE CRUCIFIX
Whatever is going on in Latin cinema, we can only hope it's contagious. From the hundreds of Latin submissions, we are proud to present eight of the very best. WEDDING NIGHT: Passion multiplies during a wedding night. BAMBOLEHO: Inspired by...
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THE PARLOR
Modern living is held up for target practice in this series of shorts. Whether you reside in the hood or are surrounded by strip malls, you will see a bit of yourself in all these stories. DELUSIONS IN MODERN PRIMITIVISM:...
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PASSENGERS
Modern living is held up for target practice in this series of shorts. Whether you reside in the hood or are surrounded by strip malls, you will see a bit of yourself in all these stories. DELUSIONS IN MODERN PRIMITIVISM:...
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ONE NIGHT WITH SABRINA LOVE (UNA NOCHE CON SABRINA LOVE)
From Pedro Almod6var's ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER, Cecilia Roth co-stars as famous porn star Sabrina Love. Roth and newcomer Tomas Fonzi compassionately portray two individuals coming together from opposite worlds who explore their own lessons in friendship, sex, love and...
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PALINDROME
Whatever is going on in Latin cinema, we can only hope it's contagious. From the hundreds of Latin submissions, we are proud to present eight of the very best. WEDDING NIGHT: Passion multiplies during a wedding night. BAMBOLEHO: Inspired by...
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OKIE NOODLING
Gritty, down-home and boldly unique, OKIE NOODLING chronicles the tradition of handfishing or "noodling," in the rural rivers of Oklahoma. Filmmaker Bradley Beesley dives into the murky waters to catch a brief glimpse of this dying breed of obscure fishermen,...
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ON EDGE
The revelations of the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan affair are nothing compared to the unbelievable truths unearthed in ON EDGE, Karl Slovin's satirical, riotous skewering of women's figure skating. ON EDGE follows three unlikely Olympic hopefuls - the 200-pound Wendy; the...
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NINE QUEENS (NUEVE REINAS)
Avoiding guns, explosives and the excesses of a Hollywood budget, Argentine director Fabian Bielinsky has crafted one of the most gripping, irrepressible thrillers in recent memory. Two small-time swindlers, Juan and Marcos, agree to team up, but only on a...
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NO MAN’S LAND
Awarded Best Screenplay at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, Danis Tanovic's astonishing first feature film is a provocative fable that takes an uncompromising look at the Bosnian war. The director's years as a front-line cameraman in the Bosnian army add...
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THE NEW COUNTRY (DET NYA LANDET)
THE NEW COUNTRY recently received awards for Best Film and Best Screenplay at the Nordic Awards and won the Prix Europa at the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels 2001, in addition to the Ecumenical Award at the Berlin Film Festival...
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MORTAL TRANSFER (MORTEL TRANSFERT)
After an eight-year absence, acclaimed director Jean-Jacques Beineix (DIVA, BETTY BLUE) returns with a satis.fying, surreal piece of contemporary noir about a narcoleptic psychoanalyst who may or may not have murdered one of his patients. Dr. Michel Durand (an appropriately...
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MR. X (SR. X)
Whatever is going on in Latin cinema, we can only hope it's contagious. From the hundreds of Latin submissions, we are proud to present eight of the very best. WEDDING NIGHT: Passion multiplies during a wedding night. BAMBOLEHO: Inspired by...
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MIRACLE (MIRAKEL)
The screening of MIRACLE is part of AFl's Screen Education Program, in which students from public high schools in Los Angeles County are invited to participate in AFI FEST 2001 programs through curriculum, special screenings and other educational opportunities. MIRACLE...
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MONSTER’S BALL
MONSTER'S BALL is a hard-hitting Southern drama tempered by a story of powerful, life-changing love. Hank, an embittered prison guard working on Death Row in rural Georgia, begins an unlikely but emotionally charged affair with Leticia, the wife of a...
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THE MEDICINE SHOW
Wendell Morris deftly handles this romantic comedy about cancer. When sardonic cartoon writer Taylor is diagnosed with colon cancer, he resolves to drink and deadpan his way through the entire affair, from the insufferable sympathy of friends and co-workers to...
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MILLENNIUM MAMBO
The film opens with Vicky (the vivacious Shu Qi) bouncing along an elevated pathway, lit by overhead fluorescents. A simple opening that in Hou Hsiao Hsien's hands (and the eyes of cinematographer Mark Lee) becomes a scene that's beyond beauty...
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MAYA
For 12-year-old Maya, life is very simple in her village located in rural India. She and her foster brother Sonjay are perfectly matched in size, athletic ability, adventurousness and mischievousness, while their mother and father are loving, supportive and wealthy...
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MEAN PEOPLE SUCK
Modern living is held up for target practice in this series of shorts. Whether you reside in the hood or are surrounded by strip malls, you will see a bit of yourself in all these stories. DELUSIONS IN MODERN PRIMITIVISM:...
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LITTLE SENEGAL
The director of DUST OF LIFE, Rachid Bouchareb, has created a thought-provoking film about race, ancestry and family. After many years as a tourist guide at the Slave Museum in Senegal, Alloune, a 65-year-old widower, decides to go to America...
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MAIDS (DOMESTICAS)
A colorful, spirited look at the lives of a handful of indefatigable maids in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Co-writers/ directors Fernando Meirelles and Nando Oliva! beautifully weave the women's stories of hope, heartbreak and resiliency with just the right blend of...
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LANTANA
From Australian director Ray Lawrence (BLISS) comes LANTANA, a deeply engaging psychological mystery about love, suspicion, insinuation and distrust, starring Anthony LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush and Barbara Hershey. Dr. Valerie Somers (Barbara Hershey) is a successful psychiatrist tortured by the memory...
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LATE NIGHT SHOPPING
With flawless execution and fluid storytelling, writer Jack Lothian's and director Saul Metzstein's debut feature film LATE NIGHT SHOPPING is an upbeat, oddball, after hours comedy about the ups and downs of sex and shelf-stocking in the 21st century. LATE...
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LIFT
LIFT won Best Film at this year's Urban World Film Festival and was developed at the Sundance Filmmakers Lab. Co-directors DeMane Davis and Khari Streeter's sophomore feature film is stylishly smart, with moments of pure cinematic audacity. LIFT takes us...
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JSA-JOINT SECURITY AREA (GONG DONG KYUNG BI KU YUK)
In JOINT SECURITY AREA, a bloody shootout at the Korean DMZ leads to a tortuous investigation of murder, friendship and the disarming beauty of cigarettes and late-night conversations. Major Sophie Jang heads a bilateral investigative team · responsible for uncovering...
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KANAKE
A German skinhead dresses up as a Turkish immigrant for the costume contest during the carnival in Cologne, Germany.
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ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS (ITALIENSK FOR BEGYNDERE)
Awarded the Silver Bear at the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival, ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS takes the Dogme rules in a new direction, where the script, rather than the photographic style, contains delightful surprises. The story follows six lost souls searching...
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JAILS, HOSPITALS & HIP HOP
Writer/director/actor Hoch is a pure force to be reckoned with, presenting nine indelible characters in a seamless flow of kinetic energy set to a pulsing hip-hop beat. JAILS, HOSPITALS & HIP HOP is Danny Hoch's one-man stage show brilliantly conceived...
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INVISIBLE CHILDREN (LOS NIÑOS INVISIBLES)
Just think if you were a child and you were invisiblethe world would be yours. Rafael is seven years old and desperately in love with Martha Cecilia, whom he wants to see without being noticed. This attraction motivates Rafael to...
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IT’S A SHAME ABOUT RAY
There seems to be an overwhelming theme present in our short filmmakers' collective consciousness-death, dying and what comes next. We selected some of our favorites and put together an eclectic group of films, each with a profoundly unique perspective. BULLET...
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THE ICE STORM
THE ICE STORM is Ang Lee's penetrating adaptation of Rick Moody's novel about America's upper middle-class suburbs in the 1970s. It's a beautifully interwoven story of two families' lives, their sexual awakenings and the effect that parents' decisions have on...
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THE ICELANDIC DREAM (ISLENSKI DRAUMURINN)
Writer/director Robert I. Douglas' wry, bittersweet comedy about a rudderless young man's feeble attempts to get ahead was an instant hit in Iceland and one of the country's highest grossing films of the past year. For Toti, a disgruntled, 30-year-old...
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IN THE BEDROOM
Todd Field's unforgettable feature debut starring Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, Marisa Tomei and Nick Stahl, is a delicate, suspenseful film about class, loss and getting on with your life. Based on a short piece of fiction by author Andre Dubus,...
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HAIRBALLS
This program bravely tackles the subject of Love. This tantalizing group of shorts range from the bizarre to the macabre to the deeply poignant, bringing us all closer to comprehending the complexities of Love . BIG LOVE: Two parents perform...
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HITCHED (WILDE EHE)
This program bravely tackles the subject of Love. This tantalizing group of shorts range from the bizarre to the macabre to the deeply poignant, bringing us all closer to comprehending the complexities of Love . BIG LOVE: Two parents perform...
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FIGHT TO THE MAX
From Simeon Soffer (director of the Academy ® Award -nominated documentary THE WILDEST SHOW IN THE SOUTH), comes his latest prison activity spotlight, FIGHT TO THE MAX. This engaging and stylish documentary captures the trials and tribulations of incarcerated boxers...
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FRIEND (CHINGU)
Korean cinema is on a tear and FRIEND is now the king of the heap, setting a new box office record previously held by JOINT SECURITY AREA, with more than double the admissions of the top Hollywood blockbusters released in...
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FELIX AND LOLA (FELIX ET LOLA)
Charlotte Gainsbourg, daughter of revered singer/songwriter/iconoclast Serge Gainsbourg, stars in this stylish romance directed by Patrice Leconte, one of France's most prolific, award-winning auteurs. The mundane life of Felix (Philippe Torreton), a carnival-ride operator, is forever altered when he notices...
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FESTIVAL IN CANNES
FESTIVAL IN CANNES is the latest film from independent filmmaker Henry Jaglom (SHOPPING; DEJA VU; VENICE/VENICE; EATING). Shot entirely in the south of France during the Cannes Film Festival, the film stars Anouk Aimee (A MAN AND A WOMAN; LA...
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ESCAFLOWNE THE MOVIE: A GIRL IN GAIA
Japanese animation, also known as anime, is more popular than ever. AFI FEST 2001 is proud to present some of the latest works from this genre. Shoji Kawamori's animated ESCAFLOWNE THE MOVIE: A GIRL IN GAIA is a story about...
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THE EXPERIMENT (DAS EXPERIMENT)
Based on the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971, THE EXPERIMENT has already garnered numerous awards including Best Director at the 2001 Montreal World Film Festival and the Bavarian Film Awards, as well as the Audience Award for Best Film...
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FALLING FOR ART (FENSTERSTURZ)
This program bravely tackles the subject of Love. This tantalizing group of shorts range from the bizarre to the macabre to the deeply poignant, bringing us all closer to comprehending the complexities of Love . BIG LOVE: Two parents perform...
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ED
This program bravely tackles the subject of Love. This tantalizing group of shorts range from the bizarre to the macabre to the deeply poignant, bringing us all closer to comprehending the complexities of Love . BIG LOVE: Two parents perform...
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ELLING
An endearing odd couple story of two men trying to successfully navigate life on the outside after being released from a state mental institution. This tender, unique tale about the healing power of friendship broke box office records in Norway...
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DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS
Bursting out of Santa Monica in the early '70s, the Z-Boys blew people's minds with their surf-influenced take-no-prisoners skateboarding style. Narrated by Sean Penn, this long-awaited Los Angeles screening chronicles the Z-Boys' legendary exploits. Director Stacy Peralta, one of the...
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EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN (YIN SHI NAN NU)
Shot in his homeland of Taiwan, EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN, the last installment in Ang Lee's "Father Knows Best" trilogy, is a touching comedy about love, family and tradition. The film follows a Taipei master chef who has lost his...
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THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE
Following the success of his two darkly beautiful horror films, CRONOS and MIMIC, Mexican-born director Guillermo del Toro has turned his considerable talents to a gothic ghost story in his latest engaging work. Set near the end of the Spanish...
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DIRT BOY
DIRT BOY is a remarkable feature debut for director Jay Frasco. With limited resources and young unknown actors, Frasco has turned his attention to the strong story and beautiful cinematography, creating a stunning low budget film that is alive with...
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DEAR FIDEL – MARITA’S STORY (LIEBER FIDEL – MARITAS GESCHICHTE)
Wilfried Huismann's DEAR FIDEL-MARITA'S STORY is the stranger-than-fiction account of a modern Mata Hori who could have changed the course of world history by assassinating Fidel Castro-if she hadn't fallen in love with him. Lorenz was assigned by the CIA...
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DELUSIONS IN MODERN PRIMITIVISM
Modern living is held up for target practice in this series of shorts. Whether you reside in the hood or are surrounded by strip malls, you will see a bit of yourself in all these stories. DELUSIONS IN MODERN PRIMITIVISM:...
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CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (WO HU CANG LONG)
Set in a feudal kingdom and shot on location in China, CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON is a magical, mystical epic search for a sword, a woman, and a way of being. At once romantic, adventurous and spiritual, this tale of...
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DARK BLUE WORLD (TMAVOMODRY SVET)
Reuniting the creative team behind the Academy Award-winning KOLYA, DARK BLUE WORLD tells the gripping story of celebrated Czechoslovakian fighter pilot Lieutenant Franta, who in 1939 is assigned to train a rookie named Karel. But when the Nazis invqpe their...
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COPY SHOP
Modern living is held up for target practice in this series of shorts. Whether you reside in the hood or are surrounded by strip malls, you will see a bit of yourself in all these stories. DELUSIONS IN MODERN PRIMITIVISM:...
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CROOKED EARTH
CROOKED EARTH stars Temuera Morrison (ONCE WERE WARRIORS) and Lawrence Makoare (WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKEN HEARTED?) in a brother against brother contemporary Western showdown. The forces of tradition, government authority and tribal pride collide in an action-packed saga of...
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CHAPERONE
Modern living is held up for target practice in this series of shorts. Whether you reside in the hood or are surrounded by strip malls, you will see a bit of yourself in all these stories. DELUSIONS IN MODERN PRIMITIVISM:...
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CHILDREN UNDERGROUND
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, Edel Belzberg's CHILDREN UNDERGROUND is a powerful and unflinching verite portrait of homeless children in Romania, giving voices and faces to one of Eastern Europe's grimmest realities. During...
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BULLET IN THE BRAIN
There seems to be an overwhelming theme present in our short filmmakers' collective consciousness-death, dying and what comes next. We selected some of our favorites and put together an eclectic group of films, each with a profoundly unique perspective. BULLET...
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CAKE (BOLO)
Whatever is going on in Latin cinema, we can only hope it's contagious. From the hundreds of Latin submissions, we are proud to present eight of the very best. WEDDING NIGHT: Passion multiplies during a wedding night. BAMBOLEHO: Inspired by...
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BIRDS OF A FEATHER (DER VOGEL FORSCHER)
This program bravely tackles the subject of Love. This tantalizing group of shorts range from the bizarre to the macabre to the deeply poignant, bringing us all closer to comprehending the complexities of Love . BIG LOVE: Two parents perform...
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BORSTAL BOY
At an age when most boys are studying for exams, Brendan Behan was trying to change the world. BORSTAL BOY is the true story of this Irish writer and activist. Sixteen-year-old Brendan Behan, an Irish Republican, is going on a...
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THE BRONZE SCREEN
THE BRONZE SCREEN: 100 YEARS OF THE LATINO IMAGE IN HOLLYWOOD CINEMA is the remarkable, untold story of Latinos in the American cinema. T his 90-minute film celebrates the achievements and contributions Latinos have made to movie history, while taking...
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BERLIN IS IN GERMANY
Born in 1970, director Hannes Stohr makes his feature film debut with a profound story that explores issues of loneliness, solitude and hope. After being imprisoned for 11 years, 36-year-old Martin Schultz is released from the Brandenburg Penitentiary. East Berlin...
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BIG LOVE
This program bravely tackles the subject of Love. This tantalizing group of shorts range from the bizarre to the macabre to the deeply poignant, bringing us all closer to comprehending the complexities of Love . BIG LOVE: Two parents perform...
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BAMBOLEHO
Whatever is going on in Latin cinema, we can only hope it's contagious. From the hundreds of Latin submissions, we are proud to present eight of the very best. WEDDING NIGHT: Passion multiplies during a wedding night. BAMBOLEHO: Inspired by...
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BARAN
Majid Majidi's impressive BARAN touches on the issues of Iran's relationship with neighboring Afghanistan. The story is focused on a construction site full of illegal Afghan workers, where Lateef, a 17-year-old Iranian worker, is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young...
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ANITA TAKES A CHANCE (ANITA NO PERD EL TREN)
ANITA TAKES A CHANCE, the latest film from veteran Catalan director Ventura Pons, is a thoughtful look at the perils and joys of one woman's journey past the 50-year-old threshold. For 30 years, Anita has watched life pass her by...
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ANOTHER BLUE DAY
There seems to be an overwhelming theme present in our short filmmakers' collective consciousness-death, dying and what comes next. We selected some of our favorites and put together an eclectic group of films, each with a profoundly unique perspective. BULLET...
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ANGEL EXIT (ANDEL EXIT)
From the director of AMERIKA comes ANGEL EXIT, a hybrid of materials and genres, mating and clashing, resulting in a visually emotional and artistic tour de force. Set in Prague, this is a drug story about a bloody bond. It...
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THE ANGRY EYE
Jane Elliott has no intention of retiring until prejudice and discrimination are eradicated from our society. "Does that mean I have a job for life?" she sighs. "I think it does." Elliott takes no joy in such job security. A...
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AMERICAN WET DREAM
There seems to be an overwhelming theme present in our short filmmakers' collective consciousness-death, dying and what comes next. We selected some of our favorites and put together an eclectic group of films, each with a profoundly unique perspective. BULLET...
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ACCORDING TO SPENCER
Shane Edelman's earnest romantic comedy is filled with charismatically disarming characters brought to life by a talented ensemble of young actors. At age 10, Spencer (Jesse Bradford) had a crush on Melora (Mia Kirshner). Fifteen years later, she crashes into...
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AH! MY GODDESS (AA! MEGAMI-SAMA)
Come hear and try to guess the voices. Kosuke Fujishima's beloved AA! MEGAMI-SAMA mango has been crafted into a beautiful eel-animated film by Hiroaki Gohda, depicting a world where goddesses can fall in love with mortals, which means they need...
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ABC AFRICA
From acclaimed Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, ABC AFRICA is a powerfully cinematic film capturing the plight of thousands of children whose parents have died of AIDS. In ABC AFRICA, Kiarostami returns to the examination of children's issues that was present...
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90 MILES (90 MILLAS)
90 miles is the length of water between the US and Cuba, but Juan Carlos Zaldivar's personal documentary portrays a more complex and compelling distance. In 1980, Juan was a 13-year-old communist demonstrating against the thousands of people who were...
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WORLD RECORD GUY
The Dark and Quirky Comedy Shorts Program contains seven offerings ranging from the inventive and humorous to the scary and dismal. The program opens with RATILER, the story of a Samaritan who takes the good neighbor scene just a little...
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YOU CAN COUNT ON ME
With Martin Scorsese as executive producer, veteran playwright Kenneth Lonergan as director, and leads including Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, and Matthew Broderick, YOU CAN COUNT ON ME is a powerhouse drama that was selected as co-winner of this year's Sundance...
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THE WIDOW OF SAINT PIERRE (LA VEUVE DE SAINT-PIERRE)
An epic drama directed by one of France's leading auteurs and starring two of its greatest actors, THE WIDOW OF ST. PIERRE is set in 1 850 on the isle of Saint-Pierre, a small French territory off the coast of...
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WITH A FRIEND LIKE HARRY (HARRY, UN AMI QUI VOUS VEUT DU BIEN)
Alternately chilling and humorous, HARRY, HE'S HERE TO HELP is an eerie psychological tale that gripped audiences in the Official Competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. While on another mundane family vacation with his wife and three young daughters,...
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THE WANDERERS
Adapted From Richard Price's novel, THE WANDERERS is a coming-of-age story about five members of an ItalianAmerican street gang in the Bronx in 1963. A soundtrack of classic doo-wop establishes the time and place, but it's a time that is...
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THE WHITE DAWN
In the waning days of the 19th century, three shipwrecked whalers (Timothy Bottoms, Warren Oates and Louis Gossett Jr.) are rescued by a band of Eskimos in the Canadian Arctic. James Houston's novel was filmed entirely on location with a...
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VERY MEAN MEN
In this quirky dork comedy from the director of KISS ME GUIDO, a bartender (Matthew Modine) tries to frighten a tip out of a cheap drunk (Academy-Award-winner Mortin Landau) by spinning a crazy tale about two notorious families who go...
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WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH (ESPERANDO AL MESIAS)
Soon after his Bar-Mitzvah, Daniel Burman "realized that being proud of my roots didn't mean being convinced about my destiny. And so I began looking for my Messiah." The result is this provocative meditation on parallel universes coexisting in the...
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WALKING ON THE WILD SIDE
Leave it to the Europeans to help us understand matters of the heart. This captivating program of shorts range from romantic to poignant, passionate to funny, and from sweet to just plain offbeat. In the charming ENCHANTED, a boy, a...
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THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
Named by Movieline as one of the l 00 best movies ever made, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING is a remarkable ada.ptation of the seemingly unadaptable novel by Milan Kundera. Working with Ingmar Bergman's favorite cinematographer, Sven Nykvist, Kaufman paints...
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UNDESIRABLES
Follows the lives of four runaway youths and their abusive families in today's Russia.
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TOTAL LOSS
When Dana Nechushtan saw a stage performance of TOTAL LOSS, she knew this story "in which action, emotion and hard circumstances predominate" had to be her directorial debut. En route to a party on New Year's Eve, housemates Rainier, Duca...
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TSATSIKI, MORSAN OCH POLISEN (TSATSIKI, MUM AND THE POLICEMAN)
A rare film that adds insight and wisdom to the oft-told story of growing up, TSATSIKI, MUM AND THE POLICEMAN distinguishes itself from myriad other coming-of-age films through director Ella Lemhagen's impeccable timing and the remarkable charisma of young leading...
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TABOO (GOHATTO)
Codes of honor, sexuality and loyalty are challenged and entangled in this highly-charged drama from cutting-edge director Nagisa Oshima, best-known as one of the founders of the 1960s Japanese New Wave. In 1 865 Kyoto, Commander lsami Kondo and his...
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TERMINAL RITE (RITO TERMINAL)
In the tradition of magical realism, TERMINAL RITE explores the fascinating and enigmatic encounter between two worlds that are always naturally together, but which modern man chooses for comfort to hold apart. After leaving the native community where he has...
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A TIME FOR DRUNKEN HORSES
Winner of the Camera d'Or at Cannes 2000, this first feature by Kurdish director Bohman Ghobadi (former assistant to Abbas Kiarostami) demonstrates the profound moral force and crystalline storytelling that we have come to recognize in Iranian cinema. 25 million...
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SUZHOU RIVER (SUZHOU HE)
Suzhou River runs through the heart of Shanghai, carrying with it all the filth, excesses and stories the city has to offer. Follow it and you will see many things, even catching glimpses of things that have never been. We...
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SYNCHRONICITY
Animation as a whole is in the midst of a real renaissance right now, like a smack in the head-or a body blow, as is evident in the opening short PUMP-ACTION, where balloon animals meet RESERVOIR DOGS. On the more...
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STREET LOVE
Daring and highly dramatic in both form and subject, STREET LOVE combines elements of both traditional narrative filmmaking and documentary to tell the story of a remarkable Mexico City prostitute. As she explains in a series of interviews in her...
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SUN ALLEY (SONNENALLEE)
"Rock and roll... and passport control!" In his feature debut, Leander Haussmann takes us on a hip and edifying look at East Germany in the early 1970s, an era where Big Brother is watching while the city's inhabitants bask in...
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SPRING OF LIFE (PRAMEN ZIVOTA – DER LEBENSBORN)
An emotional and artistic tour de force, SPRING OF LIFE is the moving story of a young woman caught in the gears of the Third Reich's machine. During the winter of 1938, young, blond Czech women are brought to the...
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STOCKHOLM (ESTOCOLMO)
In recent years, filmmakers have been challenged to be different and nowhere is it more evident than in this year's Short Drama selection. In ONE DAY CROSSING, a woman struggles to protect her family during a crisis point in WWII....
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SOMETHING SWEET
With flawless execution and fluid storytelling, it's hard to believe SOMETHING SWEET is writer/director Olivia Pi-Sunyer's debut feature film. Under the weight of her family's lofty expectations, Mel returns from college to be with her dying father and hardened grandmother...
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SONGCATCHER
With a dazzling cast led by Academy-Award-nominee Janet Mc Teer, Aidan Quinn and newcomer Emmy Rossum, SONGCATCHER won the Sundance 2000 Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Ensemble Performance. It is both a journey into one woman's soul and a revelation...
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SPRIGGAN
Based on an 11-volume Japanese mango comic strip, SPRIGGAN was directed by Hirotsugu Kawasaki and supervised by Katuhiro Otomo (creator of the renowned AKIRA). The result of their collaboration is an impressive achievement of consummate artistry. More than 90 thousand...
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THE RIGHT STUFF
Named the best film of 1983 by Siskel & Ebert, this adaptation of the Tom Wolfe book is that rarest of cinematic birds-an epic with a sense of the absurd. Gleefully cynical about the media circus surrounding NASA's Project Mercury...
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SENTINELLES
Animation as a whole is in the midst of a real renaissance right now, like a smack in the head-or a body blow, as is evident in the opening short PUMP-ACTION, where balloon animals meet RESERVOIR DOGS. On the more...
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REJECTED
Animation as a whole is in the midst of a real renaissance right now, like a smack in the head-or a body blow, as is evident in the opening short PUMP-ACTION, where balloon animals meet RESERVOIR DOGS. On the more...
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THE RIDE HOME
In recent years, filmmakers have been challenged to be different and nowhere is it more evident than in this year's Short Drama selection. In ONE DAY CROSSING, a woman struggles to protect her family during a crisis point in WWII....
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RATTLER
The Dark and Quirky Comedy Shorts Program contains seven offerings ranging from the inventive and humorous to the scary and dismal. The program opens with RATILER, the story of a Samaritan who takes the good neighbor scene just a little...
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REEF HUNTERS (MURO AMI)
The Philippine's foremost director, Marilou Diaz Abaya (IN THE NAVAL OF THE SEA-AFI Fest '98, RIZAL) returns with this literally breathtaking descent into the silent waters off the southern Filipino island of Bohol. Megastar Cesar Montano is Freda, a reef...
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PUMP-ACTION
Animation as a whole is in the midst of a real renaissance right now, like a smack in the head-or a body blow, as is evident in the opening short PUMP-ACTION, where balloon animals meet RESERVOIR DOGS. On the more...
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QUILLS
From the director of the first major studio NC-17 film comes a provocative, daring tale of passion, persecution and the uncrushable spirit of the human imagination. Philip Kaufman (THE RIGHT STUFF, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, HENRY AND JUNE) directs...
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THE PERIWIG-MAKER
Animation as a whole is in the midst of a real renaissance right now, like a smack in the head-or a body blow, as is evident in the opening short PUMP-ACTION, where balloon animals meet RESERVOIR DOGS. On the more...
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POSTMARK PARADISE
In his warm and unpredictable feature debut, director Thompson E. Clay takes us to Paradise, Michigan to find out what happens to mail-order-brides. In Paradise, a big night out for the guys means hanging at the local bar and reading...
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THE PROUD FAMILY
Animation as a whole is in the midst of a real renaissance right now, like a smack in the head-or a body blow, as is evident in the opening short PUMP-ACTION, where balloon animals meet RESERVOIR DOGS. On the more...
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A PARADISE UNDER THE STARS (UN PARAISO BAJO LAS ESTRELLAS)
Winner of the Audience Award at the 1999 Havana Film Festival, this literally colorful story of love and rivalry is a delightful Caribbean comedy of errors. The action centers around the Tropicana, a glorious Cuban cabaret where Sissy dreams of...
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PEPPERMINT
The first feature from director Costas Kopokos-whose shorts hove merited several European awards-PEPPERMINT won on unparalleled nine prizes at Greece's Stole Film Awards. This charming coming-of-age story shows us the funny and poignant adventures of a boy in 1960s Greece....
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ORDINARY LOVE (GELIEBTER ALLTAG)
Leave it to the Europeans to help us understand matters of the heart. This captivating program of shorts range from romantic to poignant, passionate to funny, and from sweet to just plain offbeat. In the charming ENCHANTED, a boy, a...
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OREGON
The Dark and Quirky Comedy Shorts Program contains seven offerings ranging from the inventive and humorous to the scary and dismal. The program opens with RATILER, the story of a Samaritan who takes the good neighbor scene just a little...
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ONE DAY CROSSING
In recent years, filmmakers have been challenged to be different and nowhere is it more evident than in this year's Short Drama selection. In ONE DAY CROSSING, a woman struggles to protect her family during a crisis point in WWII....
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THE OPPONENT
Have you ever felt so frustrated-so taunted-that you wished you could just beat some sense into the offending party? Patty has. A victim of domestic abuse, Patty is at her wits' end as she wakes up in the temporary shelter...
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NAKED STATES
New York photographer Spencer Tunick spent two years crossing the country by van, asking strangers in every state to pose nude in public spaces. Beginning with his arrest at a Times Square photo shoot, NAKED STATES follows Tunick's trek, including...
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O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?
Everett Ulysses McGill (George Clooney) is a garrulous, silvertongued, petty criminal, having some difficulty adjusting to the regimentation of life as a man sentenced to a term of hard labor in Mississippi. Reluctant to spend any more time crushing rocks,...
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ODD LITTLE MAN (DA JETRAFF JESES… UED SPRETTERT)
Based on the book THE WORLD OF MY CHILDHOOD by Norway's beloved jazz poet Odd Borretzen, ODD UTILE MAN takes us back to the years when Borretzen was a child. The film is at once thoughtful, darkly funny, and penetratingly...
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ME & ISAAC NEWTON
Michael Apted's latest documentary is an exhilarating journey to the center of the lives of seven brilliant scientists, exploring the personal and spiritual underpinnings of their intellectual quests. This captivating, accessible film covers the spectrum of sciences, from theoretical physicist...
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THE MISSION
Taut and atmospheric, Johnnie To's instant Hong Kong neo-classic, THE MISSION, shows that To Kei-Fung is one of the "few Hong Kong filmmakers who can deliver the goods-and this is one of his best. A respected crime boss is almost...
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MAN OVER THE HILL
Animation as a whole is in the midst of a real renaissance right now, like a smack in the head-or a body blow, as is evident in the opening short PUMP-ACTION, where balloon animals meet RESERVOIR DOGS. On the more...
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MAZE
Actor Rob Morrow makes a remarkable directorial feature debut with this alternately subtle and painfully realistic love story, in which he stars as Lyle Maze, a sensitive and charming sculptor afflicted with Tourette Syndrome. Isolated by his own fear and...
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LOVE’S A BITCH (AMORES PERROS)
Winner of the International Critics' Week Grand Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival, LOVE'S A BITCH is the innovative and moving first feature from director Aleiandro Gonzalez lnarritu. Octavio, Daniel, and El Chivo are three disparate men who represent...
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LOYALTIES
What if the past unexpectedly collided with the present? What if history began unfolding itself in an unpredictable manner? Two women face these questions and discover that their relationship extends further back in the past than they had previously imagined....
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LAPUTA: THE CASTLE IN THE SKY
Hayao Miyazaki (PRINCESS MONONOKE) borrowed the name of the floating island in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels for this film about a "flying Treasure Island." The story takes place at the end of the 19th century in an alternate universe, where...
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LITTLE CHEUNG (XILU XIANG)
Director Fruit Chan is perhaps Hong Kong's best hope for a new cinema to overcome the doldrums of the past few years. A true independent with insider experience, his third film is an amazing and intensely entertaining gem. Hong Kong...
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JAZZ EPISODE 4: THE TRUE WELCOME
Master documentarian Ken Burns brings us a sneak peek at his third and final epic documentary, rounding out an American trilogy which includes the award-winning films BASEBALL and CIVIL WAR. The fourth episode of this much-anticipated 19-part series explores the...
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KRAMPACK
Cesc Gay's second feature is a daring, fresh and candid exploration of sexuality and youth. With their parents away for the summer and their only warning not to over-water the marijuana plants, 16-year-old friends Dani and Nico ore left alone...
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IN THE WINGS
In recent years, filmmakers have been challenged to be different and nowhere is it more evident than in this year's Short Drama selection. In ONE DAY CROSSING, a woman struggles to protect her family during a crisis point in WWII....
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INNOCENCE
The surprising sleeper hit on this year's festival circuit, INNOCENCE has been both critically and popularly acclaimed: Paul Cox's film won the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at Montreal WorldFest, received the Prix FIPRESCI at Taormina and was named one...
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INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
A variation on the Don Siegel/Jack Finney classic, this full-scale sci-fi horror fable transplants pods from small town America to San Francisco. Kaufman and writer W.D. Richter find a witty, more fantastic analogy to the McCarthy era paranoia in the...
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THE HUNDRED STEPS (I CENTO PASSI)
Winner of Best Screenplay at the 2000 Venice Film Festival, Marco Tullio Giordano's THE HUNDRED STEPS is not a film about the Mafia so much as it is, in the director's words, "about imagination and the happiness of a group...
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IN THE BOX (V KOCKE)
Animation as a whole is in the midst of a real renaissance right now, like a smack in the head-or a body blow, as is evident in the opening short PUMP-ACTION, where balloon animals meet RESERVOIR DOGS. On the more...
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HOMELAND
Following the lives of four Lakota Indian families on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, HOMELAND offers a fresh change of pace to the usual stories of despair on "The Rez." An intimate and charming portrait of Indian life...
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HOUSE!
Aided by Kjell Vassdal's striking cinematography and Jonathan Rudd's sharp editing, Julian Kemp's first feature is a stylistic tour-de-force that marks him as a director to watch. Threatened by overwhelming competition from the new Mega Pleasure Bingo Arena, which is...
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HENRY & JUNE
While hitchhiking through Europe as a young man, Kaufman smuggled a copy of Henry Miller hidden in his underwear through customs. Years later, he tried to get some of Miller's sensibility past the MPAA, and the result was the only...
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HIS WIFE’S DIARY (DNEVNIK YEVO ZHENY)
Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin fled Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution and holed up at a seaside villa with his wife, his young lover and an inspiring poetess. Depicting a tumultuous range of emotions, HIS WIFE'S DIARY is a glimpse into...
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GANGSTER NO. 1
Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis and Saffron Burrows star in this stylishly thrilling tale of ruthless ambition and betrayal, while newcomer Paul Bellany turns in a brilliantly eerie star-making performance. In present day London, Gangster (McDowell) is where he always knew...
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HAVANNA MI AMOR
HAVANNA Ml AMOR is a journey into the love lives of seven Cubans whose relationships echo the ever-popular telenovela, but in far more exciting and realistic ways. Interspersed with footage of avid telenovela viewers watching their favorite program, this documentary...
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FLICK
The art of Drinking, Smoking and Screwing is lost in America. Fortunately, for viewers of Finton Connelly's first feature, they are still perfecting this art in Dublin, Ireland. A poetic rapture of energy and release, FLICK is the chronicle of...
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GAEA GIRLS
"We are liberty! We are violent! We are freak-out! We are... GAEA GIRLS!" With the ring announcer's bold declaration, directors Kim Longinotto and Jana Williams usher us into the incredible world of Japanese female wrestling. At tough training camp Gaea...
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ENCHANTED (VERZAUBERT)
Leave it to the Europeans to help us understand matters of the heart. This captivating program of shorts range from romantic to poignant, passionate to funny, and from sweet to just plain offbeat. In the charming ENCHANTED, a boy, a...
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EVERYTHING FOR A REASON
In a spectacular fusion of charm, wit and irrepressible romance, Greek-American brother team Vias Parlapanides (director) and Charley Parlapanides (producer) have created a film with an appealing twist on the "boy meets girl/fear of commitment" angle. When Manny Papadopoulos meets...
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THE FIRST TRAIN (DER ERSTE ZUG)
Leave it to the Europeans to help us understand matters of the heart. This captivating program of shorts range from romantic to poignant, passionate to funny, and from sweet to just plain offbeat. In the charming ENCHANTED, a boy, a...
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DOWNPOUR
Animation as a whole is in the midst of a real renaissance right now, like a smack in the head-or a body blow, as is evident in the opening short PUMP-ACTION, where balloon animals meet RESERVOIR DOGS. On the more...
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EDITING IS EVERYTHING
The Dark and Quirky Comedy Shorts Program contains seven offerings ranging from the inventive and humorous to the scary and dismal. The program opens with RATILER, the story of a Samaritan who takes the good neighbor scene just a little...
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CINEMA VERITE: DEFINING THE MOMENT
Revisit the renaissance of documentary filmmaking with an incisive and intriguing look into the revolutionary movement of cinema verite. Dive deep into the world of documentaries and discover the magic of cutting edge non-fiction cinema. CINEMA VERITE: DEFINING THE MOMENT...
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CLEAVE
In recent years, filmmakers have been challenged to be different and nowhere is it more evident than in this year's Short Drama selection. In ONE DAY CROSSING, a woman struggles to protect her family during a crisis point in WWII....
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CHUNHYANG
Im Kwon Taek is Korea's greatest filmmaker, and his latest is yet another triumph in an impressive filmography. Mongryong, the privileged son of a provincial governor, falls in love with Chunhyang, the daughter of a former courtesan, who is known...
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THE CINCINNATI KID
The Man (Robinson) competes with the Kid (Steve McQueen) in a nail-biting duel for the poker championship. The Kid is cocksure, but the Man is ruthless and backed by 30 years of experience. In a suspense-filled film with more twists...
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BURLAP
In recent years, filmmakers have been challenged to be different and nowhere is it more evident than in this year's Short Drama selection. In ONE DAY CROSSING, a woman struggles to protect her family during a crisis point in WWII....
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CHUMP CHANGE
You may remember Milwaukee Steve (writer-director-actor Stephen Burrows) from that jock-itch commercial for Crotch Fresh. That was before Merv Griffin sued him for the not-so-flattering documentary he made about his time as a contestant on the WHEEL OF FORTUNE. Now-because...
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BREATH OF LIFE (SOPLO DE VIDA)
Borrowing elements of real-life misery and violence from contemporary Colombia, Luis Ospina has created an intelligent and poignant neo-noir. A Former policeman investigates the murder of a girl killed in a seedy hotel. He knows her only by her nickname,...
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BRIGHTER THAN THE MOON (HELLER ALS DER MOND)
Writer-director Virgil Widrich won the City of Salzburg Screenplay Award for this debut feature. Melles, a former contractor-turned-bank robber, has enlisted the services of Romanian Knarek, whose fiancee Julie has stowed away in the trunk of his car to escape...
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BREAD AND ROSES
The latest verite masterpiece from legendary British director Ken Loach, BREAD AND ROSES is a self-proclaimed David and Goliath story of union struggles in Los Angeles. Working with an Hispanic cast, as he had previously with LAND AND FREEDOM, Loach...
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BREAD AND TULIPS (PANE E TULIPANI)
Silvio Soldini's latest film about a housewife with an independent spirit won nine of Italy's prestigious David di Donatello Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Actress. Licia Maglietta gives a luminous performance as Rosalba,...
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BLACK XXX-MAS
The Dark and Quirky Comedy Shorts Program contains seven offerings ranging from the inventive and humorous to the scary and dismal. The program opens with RATILER, the story of a Samaritan who takes the good neighbor scene just a little...
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BLACKBOARDS (TAKHTE SIAH)
Twenty-year-old Samira Makhmalbaf co-wrote her second feature with her filmmaker father, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, who also edited. Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes, BLACKBOARDS is a daring and provocative account of the struggle for survival on the Iran-Iraq border. Disenfranchised...
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BILLY JONES
The Dark and Quirky Comedy Shorts Program contains seven offerings ranging from the inventive and humorous to the scary and dismal. The program opens with RATILER, the story of a Samaritan who takes the good neighbor scene just a little...
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BLACK PEOPLE HATE ME….
The Dark and Quirky Comedy Shorts Program contains seven offerings ranging from the inventive and humorous to the scary and dismal. The program opens with RATILER, the story of a Samaritan who takes the good neighbor scene just a little...
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BEFORE THE STORM (FORE STORMEN)
Seldom does a film come around with the startling originality and craftsmanship of Reza Parsa's BEFORE THE STORM. Parsa has created a piece of cinematic poetry, flawlessly executing a complex narrative style that combines and contrasts the stories of two...
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THE BIG ANIMAL (DUZE ZWIERZE)
Director and veteran Polish actor Jerry Stuhr passionately brings to the screen this previously unproduced screenplay by the late, acclaimed Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski. Where do the roots of intolerance lie? When we go against standards and counter the norms...
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THE ALCOHOL YEARS
In this stylish, revealing film that reshapes the boundaries of the documentary art form, British filmmaker Carol Morley recounts five self-destructive years of her life in Manchester in the early 1980s. THE ALCOHOL YEARS is a lyrical retrieval of that...
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BEFORE NIGHT FALLS
The film BEFORE NIGHT FALLS is based on the life of Reinaldo Arenas, exiled Cuban novelist and poet, who was born in 1943 in Oriente Province, rural Cuba and died in New York City in 1990. It contrasts his early...
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THE AGE OF CONSENT
The latest film preserved by the American Film Institute, THE AGE OF CONSENT was made in the pre-censorship pre-Code era and is quite a daring film for its time. Gregory LaCava, one of Hollywood's finest directors of the 1930s (MY...
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ALCATRAZ AVENUE
Imagine a writer who gets all his ideas from real life situations-only he creates the situations himself, filling his work with suspense and the destruction of innocent people. In writer-director Tom Edgar's ALCATRAZ AVENUE, David-an aspiring writer with a very...
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6IXTYNIN9 (RUANG TALOK 69)
Likened to such cinematic luminaries as the Coen brothers and Quentin Tarantino, director Pen-ek Ratanaruang has already entertained audiences at the Rotterdam Film Festival and the Berlin Film Festival with his second feature. In the midst of a depression over...
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A VOICE FROM HEAVEN
In an age when technology records and distributes an overwhelming array of voices in every language and every genre, it is no small honor to be recognized as one of the most beautiful voices of the century. Such was the...
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WHO’S DANCIN’ NOW?
In 1983, the Oscar-winning documentary HE MAKES ME FEEL LIKE DANCIN' captured the exuberance and commitment of public school children enrolled in Jacques d'Amboise's innovative dance program, the National Dance Institute. Using footage from the original film to identify the...
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THE YOUNG GIRL AND THE MONSOON
Growing up is hard to do - particularly for an adolescent girl in Manhattan with a photojournalist father still reeling from a messy divorce. Thirteen-year-old Constance is torn by life, stretched between parents and struggling through all the typical, daunting...
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VANAPRASTHAM, THE LAST DANCE
According to Indian scriptures, a man's life is divided into stages. After a student life and a family life, one takes up 'Vanaprastham,' learning the renunciation of material attachments. A tense and powerful story of passion and betrayal directed by...
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VIOLET
A badly-scarred young woman iourneys to find the TV evangelist who has promised to heal her. Along the way, she meets two soldiers, one of whom falls in love with her. Leaving him behind to continue her quest, she ultimately...
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THE TREE OF CHERRIES (L’ARBRE DE LES CIRERES)
After years of serving in a remote valley village in the Catalonian region of Spain, the town doctor decides to return to life in the city. His departure reverberates amongst the townspeople, as they wonder why some might want to...
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UNDER A SPELL (UN EMBRUJO)
In 1920s Mexico, 13-year-old Eliseo dreams of escaping his hometown and his impoverished, domineering father. lncreqsingly alienated by his father's rough manner, Eliseo seeks refuge at the home of his teacher, Felipa, who is unfulfilled by her clandestine affair with...
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THRONE OF DEATH (MARANA SIMHASANAM)
Awarded the Camera d'Or at Cannes, THRONE OF DEATH is a provocative and darkly comic examination of politics, technology and human nature. Krishnan and his family, seasonal laborers far generations, live in a small island community in Kerala. Out of...
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TOOTS AND CASPER: CASPER’S NIGHT OUT
AFl's latest film restoration/ preservation work includes the only existing copies of three comedies, a 1949 Three Stooges TV film and two movies based on old-time comic strips. The Stooges film, JERKS OF ALL TRADES, was made for a TV...
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SUPER CHIEF
Corrupt leaders, rigged elections and the passionate efforts of citizens to change a system that seems untouchable are at the center of Nick Kurzon's documentary. The millions of dollars that come through the new casino on the White Earth Reservation...
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THE THIRD MIRACLE
A charismatic priest who serves as a church-appointed "spiritual detective," Father Frank Moore probes the facts behind reported miracles. But after a disturbing incident leaves him with the nickname "The Miracle Killer", Father Frank is on the brink of hopelessness,...
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THE THREE STOOGES: JERKS OF ALL TRADES
AFl's latest film restoration/ preservation work includes the only existing copies of three comedies, a 1949 Three Stooges TV film and two movies based on old-time comic strips. The Stooges film, JERKS OF ALL TRADES, was made for a TV...
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STARRY NIGHT
When Vincent van Gogh committed suicide in 1890, he was considered a failure-during his lifetime only one of his paintings sold. If he returned today, van Gogh would be shocked by his reputation as one of the artistic geniuses of...
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SUCKERS
Bobby Deluca's life goes from bad to worse in this gripping look at masculinity and morality. Out of work, and deep in debt, Bobby is forced to take a job at a new car dealership. Reggie, the general manager with...
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SOFIE’S WORLD (SOFIES VERDEN)
With some creative license, this screen adaptation of the world-famous novel SOPHIE'S WORLD sends a fifteen-year-old girl on an extensive journey through time and space. Alberto Knox, a mysterious philosophy teacher, first materializes on a televised report directly from the...
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STALKER GUILT SYNDROME
After coincidentally following a woman home, a neurotic New Yorker finds himself suffering from an acute case of the urban phenomenon known as "Stalker Guilt Syndrome."
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SIX DAYS IN ROSWELL
SIX DAYS IN ROSWELL documents the hilarious pilgrimage of UFO enthusiast Richard Kronfeld to Roswell, New Mexico for the 50th anniversary of the infamous (and alleged) Roswell UFO crash. Leaving Minneapolis for the first time in his life, Kronfeld undertakes...
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SLEEPWALKER
When Joe sleeps he transforms from a creature of habit to a creature of the night, at which point he is forced to make a choice: Does he continue to sleepwalk through life or live out his dreams?
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SNOW DAYS
In this comic tale, The Marcus Bros. provide an always honest and often hilarious look at lost youth and found love. When James was 4, his Grammy told him the family curse: "We're doomed in love. The men leave, and...
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SHADOW OF A DROUGHT
Having mysteriously vanished from the set of the major motion picture Drought, the search for actor Charley Mclaren has captivated the world. Mixing three types of animation, the film hinges upon crisis. Do we find Charley? That's not the point....
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SIAM SUNSET
SIAM SUNSET is a dangerously funny romantic adventure about a man's search for peace in the face of overwhelming catastrophe. Perry's perfect life creating colors for an English paint company has become one of constant misfortune. He has a sense...
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SCHPAAA
Thirteen-year-aid Jonas and his friend Mir, a ticking time bomb always ready to explode into violence, are part of a small gang in Oslo. Easy money calls when Mir's uncle gives them two assignments: deliver some heroin to one of...
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SET ME FREE (EMPORTE-MOI)
In a darkened movie theater in 1963 Montreal, thirteen-year-old Hanna first discovers Nana, played by Anna Karina in Jean-Luc Godard's VIVRE SA VIE. Fascinated by this character, Hanna finds a certain similarity between Nana and one of her teachers with...
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RIEN SUR ROBERT
In this wryly comic look at the tribulations of a mid-life crisis, magazine critic Didier finds his world turning upside down. He is haunted by his own actions - including a disastrous review in which he condemns a film without...
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THE SALESMAN
In this faithful homage to the silent screen comedy stars, a hardworking shoe salesman pursues romance with a beautiful woman he runs into on the street.
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PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES
Kick off the Halloween weekend with our all-night Halloween Movie Rave- -Thon! On Friday night the Vogue Theatre will host five classic horror, sci-fi and cult films. Most will include live accompaniment, as guest DJs from Berlin DJ Traveler &...
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PRINCESS MONONOKE
Directed by Japan's leading animator, the renowned Hayao Miyazaki, PRINCESS MONONOKE is mature in theme, operatic in scope and mystical in style. Set in ancient Japan and based loosely on Japanese folklore, the film takes place in a time of...
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RENDEZVOUS IN SAMARKAND
Randall, an insolent, rich American, is attempting to smuggle a 4x4 vehicle across the Sahara Desert, in a failed attempt to impress his French girlfriend, Cecile. Along the way, they pick up two enigmatic female Japanese hitchhikers, who are not...
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PEEP SHOW
A woman enters a "peep show" where the male performers know the true secret of female arousal.
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PIGEONHOLED
Eighteen-year-old Devon has spent his adolescence failing at everything. Disgusted, his father duct-tapes him to the passenger seat of the family Jaguar and drops him at Sunny Meadows rehabilitation center. There, Devon meets Kayleigh (the anorexic), Gabby (the overeater), Eve...
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SLEEPWALKER
When Joe sleeps he transforms from a creature of habit to a creature of the night, at which point he is forced to make a choice: Does he continue to sleepwalk through life or live out his dreams?
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SNOW DAYS
In this comic tale, The Marcus Bros. provide an always honest and often hilarious look at lost youth and found love. When James was 4, his Grammy told him the family curse: "We're doomed in love. The men leave, and...
Read More..
SOFIE’S WORLD (SOFIES VERDEN)
With some creative license, this screen adaptation of the world-famous novel SOPHIE'S WORLD sends a fifteen-year-old girl on an extensive journey through time and space. Alberto Knox, a mysterious philosophy teacher, first materializes on a televised report directly from the...
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NOT OF THIS WORLD (FUORI DAL MONDO)
Caterina is a young nun about to take her perpetual vows. Ernesto owns a launderette and suffers both loneliness and a racing heart. Teresa is a youngster wandering Milan, trying to decide where to stay the night. And Fausto is...
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OSKAR AND LENI (OSKAR UND LENI)
Oskar, a gold-medalist swimmer at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, made headlines for almost fourteen years as Europe's most wanted jewel thief. But in 1987, his career was ended abruptly by a bullet to his head and for 15...
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SHADOW OF A DROUGHT
Having mysteriously vanished from the set of the major motion picture Drought, the search for actor Charley Mclaren has captivated the world. Mixing three types of animation, the film hinges upon crisis. Do we find Charley? That's not the point....
Read More..
SIAM SUNSET
SIAM SUNSET is a dangerously funny romantic adventure about a man's search for peace in the face of overwhelming catastrophe. Perry's perfect life creating colors for an English paint company has become one of constant misfortune. He has a sense...
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SIX DAYS IN ROSWELL
SIX DAYS IN ROSWELL documents the hilarious pilgrimage of UFO enthusiast Richard Kronfeld to Roswell, New Mexico for the 50th anniversary of the infamous (and alleged) Roswell UFO crash. Leaving Minneapolis for the first time in his life, Kronfeld undertakes...
Read More..
RIEN SUR ROBERT
In this wryly comic look at the tribulations of a mid-life crisis, magazine critic Didier finds his world turning upside down. He is haunted by his own actions - including a disastrous review in which he condemns a film without...
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MUSIC OF THE HEART
From acclaimed director Wes Craven comes on extraordinary film for anyone who has ever been told their dreams ore out of reach. MUSIC OF THE HEART is the inspirational true story of a woman who proved to countless children that...
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THE SALESMAN
In this faithful homage to the silent screen comedy stars, a hardworking shoe salesman pursues romance with a beautiful woman he runs into on the street.
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NAILBITER
An overbearing man causes his son to develop a worrying and nervous habit. After a violent act, the boy's mother takes matters into her own hands, with gruesome consequences.
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SCHPAAA
Thirteen-year-aid Jonas and his friend Mir, a ticking time bomb always ready to explode into violence, are part of a small gang in Oslo. Easy money calls when Mir's uncle gives them two assignments: deliver some heroin to one of...
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SET ME FREE (EMPORTE-MOI)
In a darkened movie theater in 1963 Montreal, thirteen-year-old Hanna first discovers Nana, played by Anna Karina in Jean-Luc Godard's VIVRE SA VIE. Fascinated by this character, Hanna finds a certain similarity between Nana and one of her teachers with...
Read More..
PIGEONHOLED
Eighteen-year-old Devon has spent his adolescence failing at everything. Disgusted, his father duct-tapes him to the passenger seat of the family Jaguar and drops him at Sunny Meadows rehabilitation center. There, Devon meets Kayleigh (the anorexic), Gabby (the overeater), Eve...
Read More..
PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES
Kick off the Halloween weekend with our all-night Halloween Movie Rave- -Thon! On Friday night the Vogue Theatre will host five classic horror, sci-fi and cult films. Most will include live accompaniment, as guest DJs from Berlin DJ Traveler &...
Read More..
PRINCESS MONONOKE
Directed by Japan's leading animator, the renowned Hayao Miyazaki, PRINCESS MONONOKE is mature in theme, operatic in scope and mystical in style. Set in ancient Japan and based loosely on Japanese folklore, the film takes place in a time of...
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MIFUNE
The morning after Kresten's wedding, he receives word of his father's death, complicating the fact that he has already lied about having no living relatives. Unwilling to reveal his povertystricken past to his new wife, Kresten returns alone to his...
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RENDEZVOUS IN SAMARKAND
Randall, an insolent, rich American, is attempting to smuggle a 4x4 vehicle across the Sahara Desert, in a failed attempt to impress his French girlfriend, Cecile. Along the way, they pick up two enigmatic female Japanese hitchhikers, who are not...
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MOONSHINE
A portrait of Jim Tom Hedrick's rebellious spirit, his relationship with his Southern Baptist sister, and the process of distilling moonshine from corn mash. It's a taste of bootleg whiskey and Jesus.
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NAILBITER
An overbearing man causes his son to develop a worrying and nervous habit. After a violent act, the boy's mother takes matters into her own hands, with gruesome consequences.
Read More..
NOT OF THIS WORLD (FUORI DAL MONDO)
Caterina is a young nun about to take her perpetual vows. Ernesto owns a launderette and suffers both loneliness and a racing heart. Teresa is a youngster wandering Milan, trying to decide where to stay the night. And Fausto is...
Read More..
OSKAR AND LENI (OSKAR UND LENI)
Oskar, a gold-medalist swimmer at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, made headlines for almost fourteen years as Europe's most wanted jewel thief. But in 1987, his career was ended abruptly by a bullet to his head and for 15...
Read More..
PEEP SHOW
A woman enters a "peep show" where the male performers know the true secret of female arousal.
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THE LIGHTHOUSE (EL FARO)
Set in scenic South America, this powerful story captures the invincible bond between two orphaned sisters. Told in an intimate, unassuming style, THE LIGHTHOUSE portrays the sisters' courageous alliance against an uncertain future, resulting in a profound understanding of love...
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THE MAGNETIST’S FIFTH WINTER (MAGNETISOREN’S FEMTE VINTER)
Charlatan or healer? In this dark and mystical tole, a mysterious stronger arrives in a northern Swedish town in 1819. Colling himself a "mognetist" - on amalgam of hypnotist and healer - Meisner claims he con cure illnesses which hove...
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THE MAO GAME
Set against the backdrop of the Hollywood fast lane, this unmistakably modern coming-of-age story opens with a card game. Played between Jordan's mother and grandmother, the game is called Mao. Like the adult world in which Jordan is prematurely thrust,...
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THE MAO GAME
Set against the backdrop of the Hollywood fast lane, this unmistakably modern coming-of-age story opens with a card game. Played between Jordan's mother and grandmother, the game is called Mao. Like the adult world in which Jordan is prematurely thrust,...
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MIFUNE
The morning after Kresten's wedding, he receives word of his father's death, complicating the fact that he has already lied about having no living relatives. Unwilling to reveal his povertystricken past to his new wife, Kresten returns alone to his...
Read More..
MOONSHINE
A portrait of Jim Tom Hedrick's rebellious spirit, his relationship with his Southern Baptist sister, and the process of distilling moonshine from corn mash. It's a taste of bootleg whiskey and Jesus.
Read More..
MUSIC OF THE HEART
From acclaimed director Wes Craven comes on extraordinary film for anyone who has ever been told their dreams ore out of reach. MUSIC OF THE HEART is the inspirational true story of a woman who proved to countless children that...
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THE LEOPARD (IL GATTOPARDO)
A favorite of both Scorsese and Coppola, as well as a gorgeous evocation at a past era, this Italian masterpiece tells the saga of a Sicilian landowner as he loses power during the unification of Italy in the 1800s. The...
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LIFE IS TO WHISTLE (LA VIDA ES SILBAR)
A compelling story of fated encounters and personal revelations, LIFE IS TO WHISTLE is a fusion of absurdist humor and mystical realism. In end-of-millennium Havana, 18-year-old Bebe introduces us to three people whom she "loves very much": Elpidio, a listless,...
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THE LIGHTHOUSE (EL FARO)
Set in scenic South America, this powerful story captures the invincible bond between two orphaned sisters. Told in an intimate, unassuming style, THE LIGHTHOUSE portrays the sisters' courageous alliance against an uncertain future, resulting in a profound understanding of love...
Read More..
THE MAGNETIST’S FIFTH WINTER (MAGNETISOREN’S FEMTE VINTER)
Charlatan or healer? In this dark and mystical tole, a mysterious stronger arrives in a northern Swedish town in 1819. Colling himself a "mognetist" - on amalgam of hypnotist and healer - Meisner claims he con cure illnesses which hove...
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KUMAR TALKIES
An ambitious exploration of the relationship between Kalpi - a small town in northern India - and its only surviving cinema, KUMAR TALKIES chronicles Kalpi's economic decline and its citizens' hopes and frustrations while taking a nostalgic look at the...
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THE LEGEND OF 1900
An extraordinary tale of a virtuoso musician born at sea who never sets foot on dry land. THE LEGEND OF 1900 tells the story of a boy's unique journey to manhood. Abandoned on an ocean liner and named for the...
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KUMAR TALKIES
An ambitious exploration of the relationship between Kalpi - a small town in northern India - and its only surviving cinema, KUMAR TALKIES chronicles Kalpi's economic decline and its citizens' hopes and frustrations while taking a nostalgic look at the...
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THE LEGEND OF 1900
An extraordinary tale of a virtuoso musician born at sea who never sets foot on dry land. THE LEGEND OF 1900 tells the story of a boy's unique journey to manhood. Abandoned on an ocean liner and named for the...
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THE LEOPARD (IL GATTOPARDO)
A favorite of both Scorsese and Coppola, as well as a gorgeous evocation at a past era, this Italian masterpiece tells the saga of a Sicilian landowner as he loses power during the unification of Italy in the 1800s. The...
Read More..
LIFE IS TO WHISTLE (LA VIDA ES SILBAR)
A compelling story of fated encounters and personal revelations, LIFE IS TO WHISTLE is a fusion of absurdist humor and mystical realism. In end-of-millennium Havana, 18-year-old Bebe introduces us to three people whom she "loves very much": Elpidio, a listless,...
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KILLER
A beautiful gangster bride gives a professional hitman an order. What appears to be an easy job turns into a hellride when he learns he must kill the Godfather.
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KILLING JOE
In 1963, thirteen-year-old Joe Fergal Kennedy is a daydreaming Londoner. Fascinated by JFK, the new American president with whom he shares his initials, Joe imagines that he too may some day change the world. But his reveries are interrupted by...
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JONAH & THE WAIL
At age 90, retired trumpet player Jonah Jones looks back on his prolific career and life as lived through the evolution of this American art form known as Jazz.
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KILLER
A beautiful gangster bride gives a professional hitman an order. What appears to be an easy job turns into a hellride when he learns he must kill the Godfather.
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KILLING JOE
In 1963, thirteen-year-old Joe Fergal Kennedy is a daydreaming Londoner. Fascinated by JFK, the new American president with whom he shares his initials, Joe imagines that he too may some day change the world. But his reveries are interrupted by...
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IN THE REGION OF ICE
Based on a Joyce Carol Oates short story, this film explores the relationship between a brilliant but disturbed college student and the nun who is his English Literature teacher. Although she tries to help him alter his self-destructive ways, she...
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JOHN
A men's room attendant faces a possible forced retirement after twenty years of service at the upscale Matteos Restaurant when the owner's son takes over the family business. With his livelihood at stake, the employee works up the courage one...
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JONAH & THE WAIL
At age 90, retired trumpet player Jonah Jones looks back on his prolific career and life as lived through the evolution of this American art form known as Jazz.
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IN THE REGION OF ICE
Based on a Joyce Carol Oates short story, this film explores the relationship between a brilliant but disturbed college student and the nun who is his English Literature teacher. Although she tries to help him alter his self-destructive ways, she...
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JOHN
A men's room attendant faces a possible forced retirement after twenty years of service at the upscale Matteos Restaurant when the owner's son takes over the family business. With his livelihood at stake, the employee works up the courage one...
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HOMEBOYS AT THE BEACH (LE CIEL, LES OISEAUX ET… TA MÈRE!)
A smash at the French box office this year, the auspicious first film from 22-yeor-old Djomel Bensoloh strikes a nonchalant, comic tone in its exploration of friendship and adolescence. Four childhood buddies from the Paris projects fake a documentary for...
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HOMELAND
A young gang member, deported to his native El Salvador, must make difficult choices to survive.
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GUTS (LEF)
Aspiring writer/actor Olivier longs to live like Alain Delon, a tough-guy hero of French cinema. Unfortunately, Olivier is a coward - which becomes painfully obvious when he sees a young woman being pushed around and does nothing to help her....
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HAREM SUARE
Yildiz Palace, Istanbul, 1904. Outside, the revolution growls. Inside, a story-teller to the Sultan's harem tells us that "within these walls, three things are essential: love, power and fear." While the Sultan dreams his way through private operas, the machinations...
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HENRY HILL
A character study within a dark romantic comedy, HENRY HILL is a tender yet hilarious portrait of a young man coming to terms with himself and his chosen life. Henry is a violin virtuoso living in New York, whose paralyzing...
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FEMININE, SINGULAR (FEMMINILE,SINGOLARE)
Vera, a gifted young painter, finally gets the chance she's been waiting for since art school: a meeting with a major gallery owner. Rummaging through her closet for the perfect outfit, Vera assesses the "vibe" of each dress and gets...
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FROM THE LIFE OF THE MARIONETTES (AUS DEM LEBEN DER MARIONETTEN)
AFl's presentation of the new print of this little-seen film from master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman is cause for celebration. This rare gem has its first LA screening in almost two decades, making it a unique opportunity to view one of...
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GEMINI (SOSEIJI)
Distinguished by the extraordinary visuals for which he is justifiably celebrated, the latest film from director Shinya Tsukamoto is an atmospheric, eerie exploration of identity, destiny and circumstance. Dr. Yukio Daitokuji seems to have it all in 1910 Tokyo. He...
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GREED
TCM presents the LA premiere of the newly restored version of the legendary classic film GREED. It is one of the most celebrated and critically acclaimed masterpieces in cinema history. Considered a triumph of film restoration, Rick Schmidlin has painstakingly...
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GUTS (LEF)
Aspiring writer/actor Olivier longs to live like Alain Delon, a tough-guy hero of French cinema. Unfortunately, Olivier is a coward - which becomes painfully obvious when he sees a young woman being pushed around and does nothing to help her....
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ERASERHEAD
Kick off the Halloween weekend with our all-night Halloween Movie Rave- -Thon! On Friday night the Vogue Theatre will host five classic horror, sci-fi and cult films. Most will include live accompaniment, as guest DJs from Berlin DJ Traveler &...
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EXILES IN NEW YORK
Juan, a refugee from Guatemala, arrives in New York ready to live the American Dream. However, he soon meets the last bastion of American idealism - liberals - and finds that America is much more confusing than he had ever...
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FROM THE LIFE OF THE MARIONETTES (AUS DEM LEBEN DER MARIONETTEN)
AFl's presentation of the new print of this little-seen film from master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman is cause for celebration. This rare gem has its first LA screening in almost two decades, making it a unique opportunity to view one of...
Read More..
GEMINI (SOSEIJI)
Distinguished by the extraordinary visuals for which he is justifiably celebrated, the latest film from director Shinya Tsukamoto is an atmospheric, eerie exploration of identity, destiny and circumstance. Dr. Yukio Daitokuji seems to have it all in 1910 Tokyo. He...
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DREAMING OF JOSEPH LEES
Sensuous Eva longs for the adventurous and worldly Joseph Lees, whom she has known all her life. When he retreats from society after a terrible accident, Eva withdraws into her own charged memories of him. Then the simple but romantically-inclined...
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THE DUKE
A small boy has a special relationship with his grandfather, whom he truly believes is John Wayne. Saddle up and hold tight as 'The Duke' rides again!
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EAST IS EAST
Damien O'Donnell's directorial debut tells the often hilarious and poignant story of two cultures colliding within one family. George Khan is the father of seven free-spirited children. He wants the best for them, which means raising them in his traditional...
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THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASSIN
From acclaimed director Chen Kaige comes a sprawling epic in the tradition of David Lean. In the third century BC, megalomaniac King Ying Zheng is obsessed with unifying all of China and becoming its first emperor. To this end, he...
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EXILES IN NEW YORK
Juan, a refugee from Guatemala, arrives in New York ready to live the American Dream. However, he soon meets the last bastion of American idealism - liberals - and finds that America is much more confusing than he had ever...
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FEMININE, SINGULAR (FEMMINILE,SINGOLARE)
Vera, a gifted young painter, finally gets the chance she's been waiting for since art school: a meeting with a major gallery owner. Rummaging through her closet for the perfect outfit, Vera assesses the "vibe" of each dress and gets...
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CURSE OF THE DEMON
Kick off the Halloween weekend with our all-night Halloween Movie Rave- -Thon! On Friday night the Vogue Theatre will host five classic horror, sci-fi and cult films. Most will include live accompaniment, as guest DJs from Berlin DJ Traveler &...
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DEAD ON TIME
A young man plans to be the first person to commit suicide in the 21st century. Then he discovers his landlord has equally bizarre plans for a millennial first: to be the first person to commit murder.
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DOLPHINS
Told with music and visuals rather than dialogue, DOLPHINS is a modern fairy tale in which romance is created through gestures and atmosphere. Lara is a sensitive young woman who, although she isn't insane, is being held in a psychiatric...
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EAST IS EAST
Damien O'Donnell's directorial debut tells the often hilarious and poignant story of two cultures colliding within one family. George Khan is the father of seven free-spirited children. He wants the best for them, which means raising them in his traditional...
Read More..
THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASSIN
From acclaimed director Chen Kaige comes a sprawling epic in the tradition of David Lean. In the third century BC, megalomaniac King Ying Zheng is obsessed with unifying all of China and becoming its first emperor. To this end, he...
Read More..
ERASERHEAD
Kick off the Halloween weekend with our all-night Halloween Movie Rave- -Thon! On Friday night the Vogue Theatre will host five classic horror, sci-fi and cult films. Most will include live accompaniment, as guest DJs from Berlin DJ Traveler &...
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THE CONVERSATION
A psychologically brutal thriller that challenges every cerebral pulse point, this classic suspense film is on a level with Hitchcock and the great noir of the past. An engrossing film that some call perfect, THE CONVERSATION paints a chilling portrait...
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COSY DENS (PELÍSKY)
Living in the same two-story villa in 1967 Prague, Mr. Sebek and Mr. Kraus claim opposite sides of the political fence. Mr. Sebek, a straightforward army officer, has a teenage son and supports the socialist establishment. Mr. Kraus is a...
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CRIMSON WINGS
In the struggle to cope with the sudden death of his wife and model, a painter faces the question - Is the present moment a dream or reality?
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CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH (SEISHUN ZANKOKU MONOGATARI)
Japan's own REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, this film tells the story of two young lovers and their fight against the world of 1960 Japan. This internationally and critically-acclaimed film made a daring statement about the disillusionment that took place in...
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DREAMING OF JOSEPH LEES
Sensuous Eva longs for the adventurous and worldly Joseph Lees, whom she has known all her life. When he retreats from society after a terrible accident, Eva withdraws into her own charged memories of him. Then the simple but romantically-inclined...
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THE DUKE
A small boy has a special relationship with his grandfather, whom he truly believes is John Wayne. Saddle up and hold tight as 'The Duke' rides again!
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THE CIDER HOUSE RULES
John Irving's adaptation of his own best selling novel, THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, is realized by celebrated filmmaker Lasse Hallstrom. Homer Wells begins his life journey as a child without parents who is raised and mentored by his orphanage's doctor,...
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CITIZEN KANE
Voted the number one film of all time in "AFl's l 00 Years ... I 00 Movies," CITIZEN KANE was written and directed by boy wonder Orson Welles, at the age of 27. At the center of this intricate film...
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DEAD ON TIME
A young man plans to be the first person to commit suicide in the 21st century. Then he discovers his landlord has equally bizarre plans for a millennial first: to be the first person to commit murder.
Read More..
DOLPHINS
Told with music and visuals rather than dialogue, DOLPHINS is a modern fairy tale in which romance is created through gestures and atmosphere. Lara is a sensitive young woman who, although she isn't insane, is being held in a psychiatric...
Read More..
THE CARRIERS ARE WAITING (LES CONVOYEURS ATTENDENT)
Roger Closset is the photographer for a small town tabloid paper. Between monitoring the police band for leads and tricking people into posing for incriminating photos, he dreams of a life beyond where his motorcycle can take him. Roger sees...
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CHARMING BILLY
We all have disappointments in life. Most of us deal with it and get on with the day-to-day business of living with unrealized expectations. But for "Charming" Billy Starkman, something, somewhere went terribly wrong. A haunting portrait of the quiet,...
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CHILDREN OF PARADISE (LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS)
Based on a true story of the crime trial of the legendary mime, JeanGaspard Debureau, the story revolves around a group of performers and thieves living on the "Boulevard of Crime" of 1840's Paris. A meditation on the true nature...
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CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH (SEISHUN ZANKOKU MONOGATARI)
Japan's own REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, this film tells the story of two young lovers and their fight against the world of 1960 Japan. This internationally and critically-acclaimed film made a daring statement about the disillusionment that took place in...
Read More..
CURSE OF THE DEMON
Kick off the Halloween weekend with our all-night Halloween Movie Rave- -Thon! On Friday night the Vogue Theatre will host five classic horror, sci-fi and cult films. Most will include live accompaniment, as guest DJs from Berlin DJ Traveler &...
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BOBBY G. CAN’T SWIM
Bobby Grace is a low-level drug dealer living a hand-to-mouth existence with his prostitute girlfriend in New York's infamous Hell's Kitchen. When some out-of-town rich kids want to score a kilo, Bobby G. sees the chance to make some real...
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BRINGING OUT THE DEAD
Over a span of some fifty years, Elmer Bernstein has proven to be one of our most prolific and versatile screen composers, producing sweeping scores and memorable themes that have become icons of the art form. Bernstein originally planned to...
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BRONX CHEERS
After WWII ends, returning veteran Danny is befriended by Logs Laganegra, a former World Heavyweight contender reduced to throwing fights for easy money. Although Logs tries lo help Danny fulfill his songwriting ambitions, Logs' uncontrollable temper inevitably leads to disaster....
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THE CALL OF THE OBOE (O TOQUE DO OBOÉ)
A fable about life and death that celebrates rebirth through art, THE CALL OF THE OBOE is the story of a fatally ill Brazilian musician who chooses a forsaken village as his final resting place. Following an impromptu musical performance...
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THE CONVERSATION
A psychologically brutal thriller that challenges every cerebral pulse point, this classic suspense film is on a level with Hitchcock and the great noir of the past. An engrossing film that some call perfect, THE CONVERSATION paints a chilling portrait...
Read More..
COSY DENS (PELÍSKY)
Living in the same two-story villa in 1967 Prague, Mr. Sebek and Mr. Kraus claim opposite sides of the political fence. Mr. Sebek, a straightforward army officer, has a teenage son and supports the socialist establishment. Mr. Kraus is a...
Read More..
CRIMSON WINGS
In the struggle to cope with the sudden death of his wife and model, a painter faces the question - Is the present moment a dream or reality?
Read More..
BIRDCAGE INN (PARAN DEEMUN)
A visceral, engaging contemplation of the universal themes of acceptance and belonging, Kim Ki-Duk's evocative and touching film explores the relationship of two young women to each other and to those around them. Jin-Ah and Hye-Mi are the same age...
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BLACK SABBATH (I TRE VOLTI DELLA PAURA)
Kick off the Halloween weekend with our all-night Halloween Movie Rave- -Thon! On Friday night the Vogue Theatre will host five classic horror, sci-fi and cult films. Most will include live accompaniment, as guest DJs from Berlin DJ Traveler &...
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THE BLUE SUMMER
Shot picture-postcard style in the gorgeous Welsh Marches, THE BLUE SUMMER is a provocative experimental feature documentary about a writer's ill-fated attempt to understand his lover and her art via an increasingly tormented contemplation of the media, contemporary art, digitalization,...
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THE CIDER HOUSE RULES
John Irving's adaptation of his own best selling novel, THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, is realized by celebrated filmmaker Lasse Hallstrom. Homer Wells begins his life journey as a child without parents who is raised and mentored by his orphanage's doctor,...
Read More..
CITIZEN KANE
Voted the number one film of all time in "AFl's l 00 Years ... I 00 Movies," CITIZEN KANE was written and directed by boy wonder Orson Welles, at the age of 27. At the center of this intricate film...
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THE BICYCLE THIEF (LADRI DI BICICLETTE)
This film is the quintessential example of Italian Neo Realism. With Fascism gone and Italy battered by poverty, neo-realists dealt with issues of poverty because they felt it was one of their country's most important social issues. A film that...
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THE BIG SPLIT
Tracey and Frank rushed into marriage after a mere two weeks. Now, on the eve of their divorce, they tell us they are "mature enough to rush back out." She is a documentary filmmaker working on a project about Angelenos...
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BIG WHEEL
When a seven-year-old boy's vivid imagination cannot fend off the harsh realities of his life, he resorts to drastic action against his abusive father.
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CHARMING BILLY
We all have disappointments in life. Most of us deal with it and get on with the day-to-day business of living with unrealized expectations. But for "Charming" Billy Starkman, something, somewhere went terribly wrong. A haunting portrait of the quiet,...
Read More..
CHILDREN OF PARADISE (LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS)
Based on a true story of the crime trial of the legendary mime, JeanGaspard Debureau, the story revolves around a group of performers and thieves living on the "Boulevard of Crime" of 1840's Paris. A meditation on the true nature...
Read More..
AVE MARÍA
In 1649 Mexico, Maria Inez is a beautiful, educated mestizo (half Indian, half Spanish) daughter of a Spanish duke, studying Botany and Astronomy in a mission financed by her father. Unfortunately, Maria's brilliance and worldliness are met with anger and...
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BAD CITY BLUES
Eugene Grimes, a doctor living in the underbelly of New Orleans, awakens in the night to find Callie, a woman with a bullet wound and a case containing $2 million, on his doorstep. Drawn into a dark labyrinth of betrayal...
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BARNEY GOOGLE: RUNNIN’ THRU THE RYE
AFl's latest film restoration/ preservation work includes the only existing copies of three comedies, a 1949 Three Stooges TV film and two movies based on old-time comic strips. The Stooges film, JERKS OF ALL TRADES, was made for a TV...
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THE CALL OF THE OBOE (O TOQUE DO OBOÉ)
A fable about life and death that celebrates rebirth through art, THE CALL OF THE OBOE is the story of a fatally ill Brazilian musician who chooses a forsaken village as his final resting place. Following an impromptu musical performance...
Read More..
THE CARRIERS ARE WAITING (LES CONVOYEURS ATTENDENT)
Roger Closset is the photographer for a small town tabloid paper. Between monitoring the police band for leads and tricking people into posing for incriminating photos, he dreams of a life beyond where his motorcycle can take him. Roger sees...
Read More..
AMBUSH (RUKAJARVEN TIE)
In the first days of the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union ( 1941-44), idealistic young lieutenant Eero Perkola unexpectedly sees his beloved fiancee Kaarina in a village deserted by the enemy. He asks his superior to have...
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AMERICAN HOLLOW
This compelling story of an Appalachian family caught between past tradition and the modern world encompasses many of the disquieting and politically-charged social conflicts facing America today. For seven generations, the Bowling family has lived in Saul, Kentucky, one of...
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BRINGING OUT THE DEAD
Over a span of some fifty years, Elmer Bernstein has proven to be one of our most prolific and versatile screen composers, producing sweeping scores and memorable themes that have become icons of the art form. Bernstein originally planned to...
Read More..
BRONX CHEERS
After WWII ends, returning veteran Danny is befriended by Logs Laganegra, a former World Heavyweight contender reduced to throwing fights for easy money. Although Logs tries lo help Danny fulfill his songwriting ambitions, Logs' uncontrollable temper inevitably leads to disaster....
Read More..
ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (TODO SOBRE MI MADRE)
There is a Greek saying that only women who have washed their eyes with tears can see clearly. The saying does not hold true for Manuela. The night a car ran over her son Esteban, she cried until she was...
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THE BLUE SUMMER
Shot picture-postcard style in the gorgeous Welsh Marches, THE BLUE SUMMER is a provocative experimental feature documentary about a writer's ill-fated attempt to understand his lover and her art via an increasingly tormented contemplation of the media, contemporary art, digitalization,...
Read More..
BOBBY G. CAN’T SWIM
Bobby Grace is a low-level drug dealer living a hand-to-mouth existence with his prostitute girlfriend in New York's infamous Hell's Kitchen. When some out-of-town rich kids want to score a kilo, Bobby G. sees the chance to make some real...
Read More..
AFTER THE RAIN (AME AGARU)
In Akira Kurosawa's last screenplay, a group of travelers is stranded at a small country inn after heavy rains. Among them are lhei Misawa, a poor ronin, or masterless samurai, and his wife Tayao. As the rain continues, tensions mount...
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ALICE
Kick off the Halloween weekend with our all-night Halloween Movie Rave- -Thon! On Friday night the Vogue Theatre will host five classic horror, sci-fi and cult films. Most will include live accompaniment, as guest DJs from Berlin DJ Traveler &...
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BIRDCAGE INN (PARAN DEEMUN)
A visceral, engaging contemplation of the universal themes of acceptance and belonging, Kim Ki-Duk's evocative and touching film explores the relationship of two young women to each other and to those around them. Jin-Ah and Hye-Mi are the same age...
Read More..
BLACK SABBATH (I TRE VOLTI DELLA PAURA)
Kick off the Halloween weekend with our all-night Halloween Movie Rave- -Thon! On Friday night the Vogue Theatre will host five classic horror, sci-fi and cult films. Most will include live accompaniment, as guest DJs from Berlin DJ Traveler &...
Read More..
4AM – OPEN ALL NIGHT
A misguided sense of propriety and a healthy dose of fear keep two people from striking up a conversation in an all-night diner, until the Counterman bets each of them to take a chance.
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THE BIG SPLIT
Tracey and Frank rushed into marriage after a mere two weeks. Now, on the eve of their divorce, they tell us they are "mature enough to rush back out." She is a documentary filmmaker working on a project about Angelenos...
Read More..
BIG WHEEL
When a seven-year-old boy's vivid imagination cannot fend off the harsh realities of his life, he resorts to drastic action against his abusive father.
Read More..
BARNEY GOOGLE: RUNNIN’ THRU THE RYE
AFl's latest film restoration/ preservation work includes the only existing copies of three comedies, a 1949 Three Stooges TV film and two movies based on old-time comic strips. The Stooges film, JERKS OF ALL TRADES, was made for a TV...
Read More..
THE BICYCLE THIEF (LADRI DI BICICLETTE)
This film is the quintessential example of Italian Neo Realism. With Fascism gone and Italy battered by poverty, neo-realists dealt with issues of poverty because they felt it was one of their country's most important social issues. A film that...
Read More..
AVE MARÍA
In 1649 Mexico, Maria Inez is a beautiful, educated mestizo (half Indian, half Spanish) daughter of a Spanish duke, studying Botany and Astronomy in a mission financed by her father. Unfortunately, Maria's brilliance and worldliness are met with anger and...
Read More..
BAD CITY BLUES
Eugene Grimes, a doctor living in the underbelly of New Orleans, awakens in the night to find Callie, a woman with a bullet wound and a case containing $2 million, on his doorstep. Drawn into a dark labyrinth of betrayal...
Read More..
AMBUSH (RUKAJARVEN TIE)
In the first days of the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union ( 1941-44), idealistic young lieutenant Eero Perkola unexpectedly sees his beloved fiancee Kaarina in a village deserted by the enemy. He asks his superior to have...
Read More..
AMERICAN HOLLOW
This compelling story of an Appalachian family caught between past tradition and the modern world encompasses many of the disquieting and politically-charged social conflicts facing America today. For seven generations, the Bowling family has lived in Saul, Kentucky, one of...
Read More..
ALICE
Kick off the Halloween weekend with our all-night Halloween Movie Rave- -Thon! On Friday night the Vogue Theatre will host five classic horror, sci-fi and cult films. Most will include live accompaniment, as guest DJs from Berlin DJ Traveler &...
Read More..
ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (TODO SOBRE MI MADRE)
There is a Greek saying that only women who have washed their eyes with tears can see clearly. The saying does not hold true for Manuela. The night a car ran over her son Esteban, she cried until she was...
Read More..
4AM – OPEN ALL NIGHT
A misguided sense of propriety and a healthy dose of fear keep two people from striking up a conversation in an all-night diner, until the Counterman bets each of them to take a chance.
Read More..
AFTER THE RAIN (AME AGARU)
In Akira Kurosawa's last screenplay, a group of travelers is stranded at a small country inn after heavy rains. Among them are lhei Misawa, a poor ronin, or masterless samurai, and his wife Tayao. As the rain continues, tensions mount...
Read More..
YASAMIN
Amid the Iranian Hostage Crisis, Yasamin moves to the USA and navigates the trials and tribulations of assimilation through the waxing of an unibrow. Julia Elihu, a Persian-American filmmaker, is currently earning a BFA in Film Production at Chapman University....
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YAEL (CONCEPTION: YAEL)
Becoming a mother is one of the most transformative life experiences. Margaret Cheatham Williams produces short-form narrative and documentary video at The New York Times. She is particularly driven to stories that examine the intersection of health, family and personal...
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YARA
A gently paced romance, Abbas Fahdel’s YARA captures the elation of first love and the crushing pain of its loss. Yara lives alone with her grandmother on a remote Lebanese mountainside. Hers is a world disconnected from modern civilization, where...
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X
X, a young black kid, wanders through Los Angeles while confronting the difficult realities of adolescence while being black in America. Yara Shahidi is an actress, activist and breakout star of the comedy series BLACK-ISH. Margaret Cheatham Williams produces short-form...
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WIDOWS
Academy Award®-winning director Steve McQueen returns with a crime thriller where women take charge. Veronica's (Viola Davis) decadent lifestyle is abruptly interrupted when her husband is killed, along with his criminal gang, in a heist gone wrong. She soon discovers...
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THE WILD PEAR TREE (AHLAT AGACI)
Palme d’Or winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s THE WILD PEAR TREE is an achingly beautiful portrait of an ambitious young writer returning home after college. Hoping to enjoy momentary solace in the company of nature’s calming indifference and with parents whose...
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WHERE THE WATER RUNS
During the most drastic and prolonged drought in California history, a water truck delivery driver uses his resources to return water to the communities that need it most. An AFI Conservatory thesis film. DuBois Ashong (AFI Class of 2017) focuses...
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WHILE I YET LIVE
Five acclaimed African-American quilters from Gee's Bend, Alabama, talk about love, religion and the fight for civil rights as they continue the tradition of quilting that originally brought them together. Maris Curran's films have shown at Berlinale, TIFF, Sheffield Doc/Fest...
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THE WATER SLIDE
Tragedy strikes the world's tallest water slide. Nathan Truesdell recently directed BALLOONFEST, THE WATER SLIDE and THE ART OF MAKING MONEY. Truesdell was the lead cinematographer of SPEAKING IS DIFFICULT. He produced WE ALWAYS LIE TO STRANGERS, CONVENTION and CAUCUS....
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THE WEEKEND
Despite remaining friends, stand-up comedian Zadie is “extremely single” ever since her breakup with Bradford. When she invites him to her mother’s bed and breakfast for the weekend, Bradford invites his girlfriend. What begins as a fun weekend getaway quickly...
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VISION
In the lush mountains of Nara, Japan, thoughtful and withdrawn Tomo has taken refuge from the madness of the world, sharing a quiet life alongside mysterious herbalist Aki, a blind seer who possesses an otherworldly understanding of the ways of...
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VOX LUX
As a teenager in 1999, Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) survived a brutal school shooting in Staten Island. To process her grief, young Celeste wrote and performed a song that unexpectedly catapulted her into the national spotlight; and so a country's trauma...
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WAR PAINT
A young, South LA black girl experiences a series of events that intersect racism and sexism during the Fourth of July holiday. An AFI Directing Workshop for Women film. Katrelle N. Kindred (AFI Directing Workshop for Women, Class of 2018)...
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UMBRA (TARIKI)
A few minutes after midnight, a young woman realizes that her partner has disappeared after sex. Worried, she goes out to find him in the dark streets. After graduating from Azad University Tehran in Electronics Engineering in 2006, Saeed Jafarian...
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UNDER THE SILVER LAKE
Hidden beneath the surface of the lives of the young and beautiful in Los Angeles lurks a sinister code to unlocking everything. Sam (Andrew Garfield) is just another failed artist living in Silver Lake, perpetually buzzed on too much pot....
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TEMPORADA
In a transitional moment personally and professionally, Juliana knows all too well the value of having a steady gig as a member of Brazil’s working class. After relocating to bustling Contagem to take a municipal job with the endemics department,...
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TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG (TARDE PARA MORIR JOVEN)
Chilean filmmaker Dominga Sotomayor has only made three films in her nascent career but she has already developed a mature and singular aesthetic style. TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG transports us to the 1990s Chilean countryside, where a group of...
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STYX
Rike (Susanne Wolff) is an experienced amateur sailor embarking on a solo voyage through open Atlantic waters. After weathering a brutal night storm, Rike awakens the next morning to spot a vessel in the distance that has been thrust into...
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THE SUMMER OF THE ELECTRIC LION (EL VERANO DEL LEON ELECTRICO)
Hidden in a house far from the city, Alonso accompanies his dear sister, Daniela. She expects to become the seventh wife of The Lion, a prophet who (according to stories) electrocutes you when you touch him. Diego Céspedes graduated as...
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SUNSET (NAPSZALLTA)
It’s 1913, Budapest, in the heart of Europe as World War I approaches. The young Irisz Leiter arrives in the Hungarian capital with high hopes to work as a milliner at Leiter, the legendary hat store that once belonged to...
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SIR
When her wealthy employer's wedding is abruptly called off, Ratna — a maid with ambitions to break free of domestic work and become a high-end tailor — returns to her boss' high-rise Mumbai apartment. As she dutifully tends to Ashwin...
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STAN & OLLIE
The true story of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, two of the world’s biggest stars, and how they fell from grace, losing not only their fortunes but their best friends. Delightful performances from Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly as...
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SIDELINED
In 1978, several NFL cheerleaders posed in Playboy magazine after receiving approval from team management. But when the issue hit newstands, cheerleaders were fired, the San Diego Chargettes were disbanded, and the story made it to newspaper headlines, talk shows,...
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A SIEGE (OSTROM)
A lonely woman in war-torn Sarajevo embarks on a journey to find water, and neither her neighbors nor sniper fire can stop her. Filmmaker István Kovács’s film THE SOUND OF CONCRETE screened at more than 30 international film festivals, winning...
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YASAMIN
Amid the Iranian Hostage Crisis, Yasamin moves to the USA and navigates the trials and tribulations of assimilation through the waxing of an unibrow. Julia Elihu, a Persian-American filmmaker, is currently earning a BFA in Film Production at Chapman University....
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ROMA
Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) is the live-in maid and nanny for an upper-middle-class family in Mexico City in the 1970s. While Cleo’s days are long, she is content in her role in the house, despite the occasional hushed upbraiding from her...
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SHE (AJO)
To escape an early marriage arranged by her father, Zana has to make a courageous decision. More Raça is a Kosovar director and writer of short and documentary films. Raça focuses on socialeconomic issues concerning women’s issues and challenges. Apart...
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SHOPLIFTERS (MANBIKI KAZOKU)
The winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, SHOPLIFTERS tells the tender story of a family of misfits and grifters struggling to make ends meet, but happily making the most of life together in Tokyo. After...
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X
X, a young black kid, wanders through Los Angeles while confronting the difficult realities of adolescence while being black in America. Yara Shahidi is an actress, activist and breakout star of the comedy series BLACK-ISH. Margaret Cheatham Williams produces short-form...
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YAEL (CONCEPTION: YAEL)
Becoming a mother is one of the most transformative life experiences. Margaret Cheatham Williams produces short-form narrative and documentary video at The New York Times. She is particularly driven to stories that examine the intersection of health, family and personal...
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YARA
A gently paced romance, Abbas Fahdel’s YARA captures the elation of first love and the crushing pain of its loss. Yara lives alone with her grandmother on a remote Lebanese mountainside. Hers is a world disconnected from modern civilization, where...
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RELAXER
AFI FEST alum Joel Potrykus takes us back to the halcyon days of Y2K for his latest study in broken men and thwarted ambitions – and it all takes place on a couch. Longtime collaborator and frequent muse Joshua Burge...
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THE RETURN
Karoline — a woman raised in Denmark by adoptive parents — travels to South Korea seeking more information about her birth mother. She takes up residence at KoRoot, a real-life guesthouse in Seoul for transnational adoptees. It's there that the...
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WIDOWS
Academy Award®-winning director Steve McQueen returns with a crime thriller where women take charge. Veronica's (Viola Davis) decadent lifestyle is abruptly interrupted when her husband is killed, along with his criminal gang, in a heist gone wrong. She soon discovers...
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THE WILD PEAR TREE (AHLAT AGACI)
Palme d’Or winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s THE WILD PEAR TREE is an achingly beautiful portrait of an ambitious young writer returning home after college. Hoping to enjoy momentary solace in the company of nature’s calming indifference and with parents whose...
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RAFIKI
Kena is a teen living in the suburbs of Nairobi, Kenya. Her day-to-day consists of working her dad’s kiosk and kicking around a soccer ball with her boys. Ziki is a bubbly school girl who practices dance routines with her...
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RAY & LIZ
In this immersive debut, director and photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz. As Thatcher-era circumstances progressively worsen...
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REBIRTH IS NECESSARY
A video-art film exploring the magic and dynamism of Blackness in a realm where time and space are altered. Jenn Nkiru is a visionary artist and director from and based in Peckham, London. An MFA graduate in Film from Howard...
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THE WATER SLIDE
Tragedy strikes the world's tallest water slide. Nathan Truesdell recently directed BALLOONFEST, THE WATER SLIDE and THE ART OF MAKING MONEY. Truesdell was the lead cinematographer of SPEAKING IS DIFFICULT. He produced WE ALWAYS LIE TO STRANGERS, CONVENTION and CAUCUS....
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THE WEEKEND
Despite remaining friends, stand-up comedian Zadie is “extremely single” ever since her breakup with Bradford. When she invites him to her mother’s bed and breakfast for the weekend, Bradford invites his girlfriend. What begins as a fun weekend getaway quickly...
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WHERE THE WATER RUNS
During the most drastic and prolonged drought in California history, a water truck delivery driver uses his resources to return water to the communities that need it most. An AFI Conservatory thesis film. DuBois Ashong (AFI Class of 2017) focuses...
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WHILE I YET LIVE
Five acclaimed African-American quilters from Gee's Bend, Alabama, talk about love, religion and the fight for civil rights as they continue the tradition of quilting that originally brought them together. Maris Curran's films have shown at Berlinale, TIFF, Sheffield Doc/Fest...
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PUTIN’S WITNESSES (SVIDETELI PUTINA)
With PUTIN’S WITNESSES, documentarian Vitaly Mansky — former head of documentaries for Russian national television — returns to footage he filmed when commissioned, and provided with unnervingly intimate access, on a propaganda piece promoting Vladmir Putin’s first presidential election. The...
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QUEEN OF DIAMONDS
Filmmaker Nina Menkes is a spell caster, a conjurer who weaves a hypnotic trance amid the white bones and blue sky of the expansive and alienating desert landscape. Its dark nights punctuated by neon and the ever-constant chorus of slot...
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UNDER THE SILVER LAKE
Hidden beneath the surface of the lives of the young and beautiful in Los Angeles lurks a sinister code to unlocking everything. Sam (Andrew Garfield) is just another failed artist living in Silver Lake, perpetually buzzed on too much pot....
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VISION
In the lush mountains of Nara, Japan, thoughtful and withdrawn Tomo has taken refuge from the madness of the world, sharing a quiet life alongside mysterious herbalist Aki, a blind seer who possesses an otherworldly understanding of the ways of...
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VOX LUX
As a teenager in 1999, Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) survived a brutal school shooting in Staten Island. To process her grief, young Celeste wrote and performed a song that unexpectedly catapulted her into the national spotlight; and so a country's trauma...
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WAR PAINT
A young, South LA black girl experiences a series of events that intersect racism and sexism during the Fourth of July holiday. An AFI Directing Workshop for Women film. Katrelle N. Kindred (AFI Directing Workshop for Women, Class of 2018)...
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PIG (KHOOK)
Hasan is a past-his-prime filmmaker who obsessively worries about his fallen status in the Tehrani creative community. When it becomes clear that a serial killer is picking off relevant local filmmakers one by one, Hasan suddenly has a new insecurity...
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PIU PIU
A restless young woman yearns to escape the confines of romance in order to find her superpower. Naima Ramos-Chapman is from Brooklyn, New York. She makes movement with body, word, image, silence, sound and technology, telling stories of transformation and...
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TEMPORADA
In a transitional moment personally and professionally, Juliana knows all too well the value of having a steady gig as a member of Brazil’s working class. After relocating to bustling Contagem to take a municipal job with the endemics department,...
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TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG (TARDE PARA MORIR JOVEN)
Chilean filmmaker Dominga Sotomayor has only made three films in her nascent career but she has already developed a mature and singular aesthetic style. TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG transports us to the 1990s Chilean countryside, where a group of...
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UMBRA (TARIKI)
A few minutes after midnight, a young woman realizes that her partner has disappeared after sex. Worried, she goes out to find him in the dark streets. After graduating from Azad University Tehran in Electronics Engineering in 2006, Saeed Jafarian...
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PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE.
In an effort to improve feminine hygiene, a machine that creates low-cost biodegradable sanitary pads is installed in a rural village in Northern India. Rayka Zehtabchi is an Iranian-American film director based in Los Angeles. Her directorial debut, MADARAN, qualified...
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PIERCING
Reed (Christopher Abbott) is a seemingly normal guy struggling to channel some dark urges involving an ice pick. To keep his family out of harm's way, he checks himself into a hotel and orders a prostitute, with the secret intention...
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SIR
When her wealthy employer's wedding is abruptly called off, Ratna — a maid with ambitions to break free of domestic work and become a high-end tailor — returns to her boss' high-rise Mumbai apartment. As she dutifully tends to Ashwin...
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STAN & OLLIE
The true story of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, two of the world’s biggest stars, and how they fell from grace, losing not only their fortunes but their best friends. Delightful performances from Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly as...
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STYX
Rike (Susanne Wolff) is an experienced amateur sailor embarking on a solo voyage through open Atlantic waters. After weathering a brutal night storm, Rike awakens the next morning to spot a vessel in the distance that has been thrust into...
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THE SUMMER OF THE ELECTRIC LION (EL VERANO DEL LEON ELECTRICO)
Hidden in a house far from the city, Alonso accompanies his dear sister, Daniela. She expects to become the seventh wife of The Lion, a prophet who (according to stories) electrocutes you when you touch him. Diego Céspedes graduated as...
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SUNSET (NAPSZALLTA)
It’s 1913, Budapest, in the heart of Europe as World War I approaches. The young Irisz Leiter arrives in the Hungarian capital with high hopes to work as a milliner at Leiter, the legendary hat store that once belonged to...
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THE ORPHAN (O ÓRFÃO)
Jonathas is adopted but then returned due to his "different" way. Inspired by true events. Carolina Markowicz is a screenwriter and director based in São Paulo, Brazil. She was one of the 10 emerging international filmmakers invited to be part...
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OUR TIME (NUESTRO TIEMPO)
Two-time AFI FEST alum Carlos Reygadas returns with an intensely personal project. OUR TIME tells the story of an upper-middle-class rancher (Reygadas) whose wife (played by Reygadas' real-life spouse) draws him into a cuckolding fetish. As the emotional stakes rise,...
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PEREZ – “LES VACANCES CONTINUENT”
A music video that embraces the bloody, neon soul of KNIFE+HEART. Yann Gonzalez was born in 1977 in Nice. He directed primarily short films before his feature debut, YOU AND THE NIGHT (2013). KNIFE + HEART is his sophomore feature....
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SIDELINED
In 1978, several NFL cheerleaders posed in Playboy magazine after receiving approval from team management. But when the issue hit newstands, cheerleaders were fired, the San Diego Chargettes were disbanded, and the story made it to newspaper headlines, talk shows,...
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A SIEGE (OSTROM)
A lonely woman in war-torn Sarajevo embarks on a journey to find water, and neither her neighbors nor sniper fire can stop her. Filmmaker István Kovács’s film THE SOUND OF CONCRETE screened at more than 30 international film festivals, winning...
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ON THE BASIS OF SEX
ON THE BASIS OF SEX follows the inspiring and spirited true story of young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Academy Award® nominee Felicity Jones) as she teams with her husband Marty (Armie Hammer) to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S....
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ONE DAY (EGY NAP)
Anna is a married mother of three with a job, a best friend and a pushy mother-in-law. Dropping us into the world of modern harried parents, ONE DAY begins early in the morning. The youngest wakes up at the crack...
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RELAXER
AFI FEST alum Joel Potrykus takes us back to the halcyon days of Y2K for his latest study in broken men and thwarted ambitions – and it all takes place on a couch. Longtime collaborator and frequent muse Joshua Burge...
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THE RETURN
Karoline — a woman raised in Denmark by adoptive parents — travels to South Korea seeking more information about her birth mother. She takes up residence at KoRoot, a real-life guesthouse in Seoul for transnational adoptees. It's there that the...
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ROMA
Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) is the live-in maid and nanny for an upper-middle-class family in Mexico City in the 1970s. While Cleo’s days are long, she is content in her role in the house, despite the occasional hushed upbraiding from her...
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SHE (AJO)
To escape an early marriage arranged by her father, Zana has to make a courageous decision. More Raça is a Kosovar director and writer of short and documentary films. Raça focuses on socialeconomic issues concerning women’s issues and challenges. Apart...
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SHOPLIFTERS (MANBIKI KAZOKU)
The winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, SHOPLIFTERS tells the tender story of a family of misfits and grifters struggling to make ends meet, but happily making the most of life together in Tokyo. After...
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NORMAL APPEARANCES
An unsettling supercut of the women of #BachelorNation watching themselves being watched. Nonfiction filmmaker Penny Lane has made three features (THE PAIN OF OTHERS, NUTS! and OUR NIXON) and about a dozen short films. Her awards include a Special Jury...
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OF FATHERS AND SONS
At the outset of Talal Derki’s chilling exposé of children groomed to become jihadi soldiers, the Syrian documentarian echoes his father’s advice: that he should record his nightmares to prevent them from resurfacing. For more than two years, Derki posed...
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RAFIKI
Kena is a teen living in the suburbs of Nairobi, Kenya. Her day-to-day consists of working her dad’s kiosk and kicking around a soccer ball with her boys. Ziki is a bubbly school girl who practices dance routines with her...
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RAY & LIZ
In this immersive debut, director and photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz. As Thatcher-era circumstances progressively worsen...
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REBIRTH IS NECESSARY
A video-art film exploring the magic and dynamism of Blackness in a realm where time and space are altered. Jenn Nkiru is a visionary artist and director from and based in Peckham, London. An MFA graduate in Film from Howard...
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NITRATE KISSES
This debut feature from acclaimed lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer is at once an experimental excavation of queer histories, a celebration of difference across communities and a lamentation for histories lost to cultural repression. In this poetic, beautiful and, at times,...
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NON-FICTION (DOUBLE VIES)
Alain and Selena (Guillaume Canet and Juliette Binoche) are an affluent Parisian couple in a seemingly content marriage; he's the head of a prestigious publishing imprint, and she's an actress in a weekly crime drama. As Alain attempts to navigate...
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PIG (KHOOK)
Hasan is a past-his-prime filmmaker who obsessively worries about his fallen status in the Tehrani creative community. When it becomes clear that a serial killer is picking off relevant local filmmakers one by one, Hasan suddenly has a new insecurity...
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PIU PIU
A restless young woman yearns to escape the confines of romance in order to find her superpower. Naima Ramos-Chapman is from Brooklyn, New York. She makes movement with body, word, image, silence, sound and technology, telling stories of transformation and...
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PUTIN’S WITNESSES (SVIDETELI PUTINA)
With PUTIN’S WITNESSES, documentarian Vitaly Mansky — former head of documentaries for Russian national television — returns to footage he filmed when commissioned, and provided with unnervingly intimate access, on a propaganda piece promoting Vladmir Putin’s first presidential election. The...
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QUEEN OF DIAMONDS
Filmmaker Nina Menkes is a spell caster, a conjurer who weaves a hypnotic trance amid the white bones and blue sky of the expansive and alienating desert landscape. Its dark nights punctuated by neon and the ever-constant chorus of slot...
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METEORITE
Bird men suffer mysterious falls in the search for where the sun rises. An altered reality through rites that converge in one objective: die to generate life. Mauricio Sáenz is a visual artist and filmmaker with a practice between experimental...
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MY BRILLIANT FRIEND (L’AMICA GENIALE)
MY BRILLIANT FRIEND adapts the first book in Elena Ferrante’s renowned coming-of-age saga, with the fidelity and attention to detail to satisfy even its most obsessive readers. Written and directed by Italian filmmaker Saverio Costanzo (2014’s HUNGRY HEARTS), it is...
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PEREZ – “LES VACANCES CONTINUENT”
A music video that embraces the bloody, neon soul of KNIFE+HEART. Yann Gonzalez was born in 1977 in Nice. He directed primarily short films before his feature debut, YOU AND THE NIGHT (2013). KNIFE + HEART is his sophomore feature....
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NEVER LOOK AWAY (WERK OHNE AUTOR)
Inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history, NEVER LOOK AWAY tells the story of young art student, Kurt (Tom Schilling), who falls in love with fellow student Ellie (Paula Beer). Ellie’s father, Professor Seeband (Sebastian Koch),...
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PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE.
In an effort to improve feminine hygiene, a machine that creates low-cost biodegradable sanitary pads is installed in a rural village in Northern India. Rayka Zehtabchi is an Iranian-American film director based in Los Angeles. Her directorial debut, MADARAN, qualified...
Read More..
PIERCING
Reed (Christopher Abbott) is a seemingly normal guy struggling to channel some dark urges involving an ice pick. To keep his family out of harm's way, he checks himself into a hotel and orders a prostitute, with the secret intention...
Read More..
ON THE BASIS OF SEX
ON THE BASIS OF SEX follows the inspiring and spirited true story of young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Academy Award® nominee Felicity Jones) as she teams with her husband Marty (Armie Hammer) to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S....
Read More..
MEETINGS OF ANNA (LES RENDEZ-VOUS D’ANNA)
Anna (Aurore Clément) is a respected Belgian filmmaker on a no-frills European tour promoting her latest film. As she travels from city to city, she has a series of startling encounters with different men and women — from an ex-lover,...
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ONE DAY (EGY NAP)
Anna is a married mother of three with a job, a best friend and a pushy mother-in-law. Dropping us into the world of modern harried parents, ONE DAY begins early in the morning. The youngest wakes up at the crack...
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THE MEMPHIS BELLE: A STORY OF A FLYING FORTRESS
In 1943, William Wyler, one of Hollywood’s most renowned and versatile directors, went to Europe to document the Air War in progress. William Wyler (1902 – 1981) was an Oscar®-winning director, known for such classics films as BEN-HUR, THE BEST...
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THE ORPHAN (O ÓRFÃO)
Jonathas is adopted but then returned due to his "different" way. Inspired by true events. Carolina Markowicz is a screenwriter and director based in São Paulo, Brazil. She was one of the 10 emerging international filmmakers invited to be part...
Read More..
OUR TIME (NUESTRO TIEMPO)
Two-time AFI FEST alum Carlos Reygadas returns with an intensely personal project. OUR TIME tells the story of an upper-middle-class rancher (Reygadas) whose wife (played by Reygadas' real-life spouse) draws him into a cuckolding fetish. As the emotional stakes rise,...
Read More..
NON-FICTION (DOUBLE VIES)
Alain and Selena (Guillaume Canet and Juliette Binoche) are an affluent Parisian couple in a seemingly content marriage; he's the head of a prestigious publishing imprint, and she's an actress in a weekly crime drama. As Alain attempts to navigate...
Read More..
NORMAL APPEARANCES
An unsettling supercut of the women of #BachelorNation watching themselves being watched. Nonfiction filmmaker Penny Lane has made three features (THE PAIN OF OTHERS, NUTS! and OUR NIXON) and about a dozen short films. Her awards include a Special Jury...
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MATRIA
Faced with the challenges presented by her daily routine, Ramona tries to take refuge in the relationship that ties her to her daughter and granddaughter. Alvaro Gago graduated in Audiovisual Communication and Music in Spain, theater studies in Chicago and...
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OF FATHERS AND SONS
At the outset of Talal Derki’s chilling exposé of children groomed to become jihadi soldiers, the Syrian documentarian echoes his father’s advice: that he should record his nightmares to prevent them from resurfacing. For more than two years, Derki posed...
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MAYA
Roman Kolinka (EDEN, THINGS TO COME) reunites with director Mia Hansen-Løve as Gabriel, a French war reporter who has just been released from months of forced captivity in Syria. He decides to reassess his life and priorities by returning to...
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MY BRILLIANT FRIEND (L’AMICA GENIALE)
MY BRILLIANT FRIEND adapts the first book in Elena Ferrante’s renowned coming-of-age saga, with the fidelity and attention to detail to satisfy even its most obsessive readers. Written and directed by Italian filmmaker Saverio Costanzo (2014’s HUNGRY HEARTS), it is...
Read More..
NEVER LOOK AWAY (WERK OHNE AUTOR)
Inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history, NEVER LOOK AWAY tells the story of young art student, Kurt (Tom Schilling), who falls in love with fellow student Ellie (Paula Beer). Ellie’s father, Professor Seeband (Sebastian Koch),...
Read More..
NITRATE KISSES
This debut feature from acclaimed lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer is at once an experimental excavation of queer histories, a celebration of difference across communities and a lamentation for histories lost to cultural repression. In this poetic, beautiful and, at times,...
Read More..
MAGIC ALPS
An Afghani refugee arrives in Italy with his goat and seeks political asylum for both of them. Andrea Brusa and Marco Scotuzzi are two Italian award-winning filmmakers. Brusa holds an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA. He wrote VIOLA, FRANCA, which...
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MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
Directed by Josie Rourke, MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS explores the turbulent life of the charismatic Mary Stuart. Queen of France at 16 and widowed at 18, Mary (Saoirse Ronan) defies pressure to remarry. Instead, she returns to her native Scotland...
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MEETINGS OF ANNA (LES RENDEZ-VOUS D’ANNA)
Anna (Aurore Clément) is a respected Belgian filmmaker on a no-frills European tour promoting her latest film. As she travels from city to city, she has a series of startling encounters with different men and women — from an ex-lover,...
Read More..
THE MEMPHIS BELLE: A STORY OF A FLYING FORTRESS
In 1943, William Wyler, one of Hollywood’s most renowned and versatile directors, went to Europe to document the Air War in progress. William Wyler (1902 – 1981) was an Oscar®-winning director, known for such classics films as BEN-HUR, THE BEST...
Read More..
METEORITE
Bird men suffer mysterious falls in the search for where the sun rises. An altered reality through rites that converge in one objective: die to generate life. Mauricio Sáenz is a visual artist and filmmaker with a practice between experimental...
Read More..
LEMONADE (LUNA DE MIERE)
Based on a true story, this feature debut follows Mara, a young mother from Romania who is awaiting a green card. As she begins to navigate the labyrinth of modern U.S. immigration, she soon realizes that the American Dream is...
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A LITTLE BREAK (LES PETITES VACANCES)
While on their summer break, two young women explore their sexuality. The first of seven siblings, Louise Groult left rural Normandy for Nantes at 18 to study filmmaking. In 2010, she moved to Paris, where she earned a Master’s in...
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MAGIC ’85
During the height of the AIDS epidemic in LA, Gabriel, a lonely hospice worker, helps lead his patients to a conscious death. An AFI Conservatory Thesis Film. Annika Kurnick recently graduated from the directing program at the AFI Conservatory (Class...
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MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
Directed by Josie Rourke, MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS explores the turbulent life of the charismatic Mary Stuart. Queen of France at 16 and widowed at 18, Mary (Saoirse Ronan) defies pressure to remarry. Instead, she returns to her native Scotland...
Read More..
MATRIA
Faced with the challenges presented by her daily routine, Ramona tries to take refuge in the relationship that ties her to her daughter and granddaughter. Alvaro Gago graduated in Audiovisual Communication and Music in Spain, theater studies in Chicago and...
Read More..
MAYA
Roman Kolinka (EDEN, THINGS TO COME) reunites with director Mia Hansen-Løve as Gabriel, a French war reporter who has just been released from months of forced captivity in Syria. He decides to reassess his life and priorities by returning to...
Read More..
THE KOMINSKY METHOD
Sandy Kominsky (Michael Douglas), a once-famous actor, now spends his days as an acting coach in Los Angeles. In this comedic new series created by Chuck Lorre (THE BIG BANG THEORY, TWO AND A HALF MEN), Kominsky tackles late-in-life curveballs...
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L’ANIMALE
As graduation looms and her fellow teens brace for the future, Mati (breakout star Sophie Stockinger) is more content to race her motorbike with her all-male crew than follow in her mother's footsteps and continue veterinarian training. She dons her...
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LEMONADE (LUNA DE MIERE)
Based on a true story, this feature debut follows Mara, a young mother from Romania who is awaiting a green card. As she begins to navigate the labyrinth of modern U.S. immigration, she soon realizes that the American Dream is...
Read More..
A LITTLE BREAK (LES PETITES VACANCES)
While on their summer break, two young women explore their sexuality. The first of seven siblings, Louise Groult left rural Normandy for Nantes at 18 to study filmmaking. In 2010, she moved to Paris, where she earned a Master’s in...
Read More..
MAGIC ’85
During the height of the AIDS epidemic in LA, Gabriel, a lonely hospice worker, helps lead his patients to a conscious death. An AFI Conservatory Thesis Film. Annika Kurnick recently graduated from the directing program at the AFI Conservatory (Class...
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MAGIC ALPS
An Afghani refugee arrives in Italy with his goat and seeks political asylum for both of them. Andrea Brusa and Marco Scotuzzi are two Italian award-winning filmmakers. Brusa holds an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA. He wrote VIOLA, FRANCA, which...
Read More..
THE JUNIPER TREE (EINITRÉÐ)
Nietschka Keene’s unheralded debut features a 20-year-old Björk as Margit, who escapes with sister Katla when their mother is killed for practicing witchcraft. To ensure their protection, Katla casts a love spell on a young widower, but his son is...
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KNIFE+HEART (UN COUTEAU DANS LE COEUR)
Premiering in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the latest from provocative French auteur Yann Gonzalez is a blood-soaked, neon-drenched delight set in the world of gay porn in 1970s Paris. Among the drugs, debauchery and kinkily creative film...
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KNIFE+HEART (UN COUTEAU DANS LE COEUR)
Premiering in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the latest from provocative French auteur Yann Gonzalez is a blood-soaked, neon-drenched delight set in the world of gay porn in 1970s Paris. Among the drugs, debauchery and kinkily creative film...
Read More..
THE KOMINSKY METHOD
Sandy Kominsky (Michael Douglas), a once-famous actor, now spends his days as an acting coach in Los Angeles. In this comedic new series created by Chuck Lorre (THE BIG BANG THEORY, TWO AND A HALF MEN), Kominsky tackles late-in-life curveballs...
Read More..
L’ANIMALE
As graduation looms and her fellow teens brace for the future, Mati (breakout star Sophie Stockinger) is more content to race her motorbike with her all-male crew than follow in her mother's footsteps and continue veterinarian training. She dons her...
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JEOM
A strange and wonderful story about a special connection between father and son. Kangmin Kim is an award-winning filmmaker and designer based in Los Angeles. His films have been screened at many festivals such as Sundance, SXSW, Annecy, Ottawa and...
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JINN
Being a teenager can already be dramatic. Now add religious conversion, first love and having to change your favorite pizza topping. Summer is a typical teen who finds herself in a unique situation. When her mother joins a local mosque,...
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JEOM
A strange and wonderful story about a special connection between father and son. Kangmin Kim is an award-winning filmmaker and designer based in Los Angeles. His films have been screened at many festivals such as Sundance, SXSW, Annecy, Ottawa and...
Read More..
JINN
Being a teenager can already be dramatic. Now add religious conversion, first love and having to change your favorite pizza topping. Summer is a typical teen who finds herself in a unique situation. When her mother joins a local mosque,...
Read More..
THE JUNIPER TREE (EINITRÉÐ)
Nietschka Keene’s unheralded debut features a 20-year-old Björk as Margit, who escapes with sister Katla when their mother is killed for practicing witchcraft. To ensure their protection, Katla casts a love spell on a young widower, but his son is...
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INSTINCT
A psychosexual thriller about Isabelle, a lonely gallery owner, who meets a dangerously seductive performance artist and discovers they have more in common than expected. An AFI Conservatory Thesis Film. Maria Alice Arida (AFI Class of 2017) is a Brazilian...
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IRISH PRINCE
When an older Irish gentleman reveals to his pals how he met his wife, the story turns out to be a lot more familiar than expected. Joey Garfield is an award-winning director. He has had the pleasure of creating work...
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INSTINCT
A psychosexual thriller about Isabelle, a lonely gallery owner, who meets a dangerously seductive performance artist and discovers they have more in common than expected. An AFI Conservatory Thesis Film. Maria Alice Arida (AFI Class of 2017) is a Brazilian...
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III
A sudden meeting of a man and a woman begins a hypnotic act — a game of pleasure and discomfort. III is a portrait of a woman in an exhausting relationship with a man, which allures and repulses at the...
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IN FABRIC
Three-time AFI FEST alum Peter Strickland returns with his most demented vision to date. Like a perverted cross between PHANTOM THREAD and SUSPIRIA, IN FABRIC centers on an unusual department store run by a hypnotic coven. Set in the world...
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III
A sudden meeting of a man and a woman begins a hypnotic act — a game of pleasure and discomfort. III is a portrait of a woman in an exhausting relationship with a man, which allures and repulses at the...
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IN FABRIC
Three-time AFI FEST alum Peter Strickland returns with his most demented vision to date. Like a perverted cross between PHANTOM THREAD and SUSPIRIA, IN FABRIC centers on an unusual department store run by a hypnotic coven. Set in the world...
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I AM THE NIGHT
Inspired by a true story, and directed by AFI Conservatory alumna Patty Jenkins, this TNT event series tells the incredible story of Fauna Hodel (India Eisley) who was given away at birth. As Fauna begins to investigate the unbelievable secrets...
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“I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS” (ÎMI ESTE INDIFERENT DACA ÎN ISTORIE VOM INTRA CA BARBARI)
Mariana (Ioana Iacob) is a young, defiant artist mounting a city-commissioned theatrical production of the Odessa massacre, a horrific episode of World War II in which Romanian soldiers killed tens of thousands of Ukrainian Jews. As Mariana attempts to stage...
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HAPPY AS LAZZARO (LAZZARO FELICE)
In auteur Alice Rohrwacher's stunning third feature, a simple young man named Lazzaro works with other unpaid laborers on an isolated estate in the Italian countryside. But when Lazzaro suffers an accident, HAPPY AS LAZZARO kicks into high gear as...
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HER SMELL
Alex Ross Perry returns to AFI FEST with a bold portrait of a self-destructive artist that will push audiences to their limits. In HER SMELL, Becky Something (Elisabeth Moss) battles addiction and personal demons, while trying to maintain her celebrity...
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HOTEL BY THE RIVER (GANGBYUN HOTEL)
During an extended stay along the Han River, an aging poet hounded by disturbing visions of his own mortality invites his two grown sons to visit. Down the hall in another room, a younger woman aids her friend in nursing...
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THE GREAT PRETENDER
Expanding upon the themes of self-delusion Nathan Silver explored in 2017’s THIRST STREET, his latest comedy follows four New Yorkers who intersect within the framework of Mona’s (Maëlle Poésy-Guichard) autobiographical play. Silver’s nonlinear narrative employs alternately wry and melancholic voiceover...
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GREEN BOOK
Frank Anthony Vallelonga, aka Tony Lip (Academy Award® nominee Viggo Mortensen), a New York City bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in The Bronx, is hired to drive and protect Dr. Don Shirley (Academy Award® winner Mahershala Ali), a world-class black...
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HAIR WOLF
The staff of a black hair salon fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture. Mariama Diallo’s film HAIR WOLF won the 2018 Sundance Film Festival Jury Award for U.S. Fiction Short...
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HALF A CHICKEN
Bryan struggles to keep his chicken alive. LA-based documentarian Sarah Ginsburg shot and edited the feature BEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS (SXSW 2016) and was an editor on HOLLOW, the Peabody interactive documentary about life in Appalachia. She was the...
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HAPPY AS LAZZARO (LAZZARO FELICE)
In auteur Alice Rohrwacher's stunning third feature, a simple young man named Lazzaro works with other unpaid laborers on an isolated estate in the Italian countryside. But when Lazzaro suffers an accident, HAPPY AS LAZZARO kicks into high gear as...
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GOD NEVER DIES (DIOS NUNCA MUERE)
Living in hidden America, Paula, a Mexican farmworker, struggles to raise her two children on her own. Barbara Cigarroa is a Mexican-American filmmaker from South Texas who currently resides in New York City. Her screenplay was invited to IFP's 2018...
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GOOD PEOPLE
Overwhelmed by guilt after an intense affair, Emma returns home to her family hoping to reconnect with her husband. An AFI Conservatory thesis film. Gregory Kohn's (AFI Class of 2017) first two features, NORTHEAST and COME DOWN MOLLY, both premiered...
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THE GRAND BIZARRE
Rich, multicolored tapestries dance in and out of the snapping jaws of suitcases, along the decks of ships and along far-flung shorelines as the clatter of industrial soundscapes morphs into irresistible pop confections. Alive with color, gesture, sound and truly...
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THE GREAT PRETENDER
Expanding upon the themes of self-delusion Nathan Silver explored in 2017’s THIRST STREET, his latest comedy follows four New Yorkers who intersect within the framework of Mona’s (Maëlle Poésy-Guichard) autobiographical play. Silver’s nonlinear narrative employs alternately wry and melancholic voiceover...
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GREEN BOOK
Frank Anthony Vallelonga, aka Tony Lip (Academy Award® nominee Viggo Mortensen), a New York City bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in The Bronx, is hired to drive and protect Dr. Don Shirley (Academy Award® winner Mahershala Ali), a world-class black...
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FAUVE
Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer. Driven by a passion for Skateboarding, Jeremy Comte directed his first short documentary FEEL THE HILL at 18 years...
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THE FAVOURITE
In THE FAVOURITE, director Yorgos Lanthimos showcases his uniquely dark humor with a story of royal intrigue, jealousy and betrayal. Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) sits on the English throne in the early 18th century while her close friend, Lady Sarah...
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FUGUE (FUGA)
After a two-year disappearance, free-spirited Alicja is reunited with her parents, husband and young son despite having no memory of them. Suddenly thrust back into a domestic life she has no recollection of choosing, Alicja struggles to reconcile her new...
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GENESIS (GENÈSE)
Guillaume is an outwardly confident teenager in a posh boarding school. Intelligent and brash, he veers between likable and overbearing both in the faculty's and his fellow student's eyes. When surprising new feelings of love and alienation consume him, his...
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GINGERBREAD
In 1862, during the bloodiest days of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln reluctantly agrees to join Mary Todd in a séance to contact their recently departed son. Kendell Courtney Klein (AFI Class of 2014) is drawn to biopics that explore...
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GOOD PEOPLE
Overwhelmed by guilt after an intense affair, Emma returns home to her family hoping to reconnect with her husband. An AFI Conservatory thesis film. Gregory Kohn's (AFI Class of 2017) first two features, NORTHEAST and COME DOWN MOLLY, both premiered...
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THE GRAND BIZARRE
Rich, multicolored tapestries dance in and out of the snapping jaws of suitcases, along the decks of ships and along far-flung shorelines as the clatter of industrial soundscapes morphs into irresistible pop confections. Alive with color, gesture, sound and truly...
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EVERYBODY KNOWS (TODOS LO SABEN)
Laura (Penélope Cruz) has returned to Spain for her sister's wedding. The mood in her bucolic hometown is festive, and many faces from the past are present for the nuptials, including Paco (Javier Bardem), a longtime friend of the family....
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FAMILY
Kate Stone (Taylor Schilling) is career-focused, and enjoys her life that way. Her brash attitude keeps relationships at arm's length, making her an outcast in her own right. When her estranged brother calls asking her to babysit her tween niece...
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GINGERBREAD
In 1862, during the bloodiest days of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln reluctantly agrees to join Mary Todd in a séance to contact their recently departed son. Kendell Courtney Klein (AFI Class of 2014) is drawn to biopics that explore...
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GOD NEVER DIES (DIOS NUNCA MUERE)
Living in hidden America, Paula, a Mexican farmworker, struggles to raise her two children on her own. Barbara Cigarroa is a Mexican-American filmmaker from South Texas who currently resides in New York City. Her screenplay was invited to IFP's 2018...
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DRYLONGSO
Forthright and plucky Pica Sullivan (Toby Smith) is an art school student growing up in Oakland, CA, who is determined to document “America’s most endangered species”: the African-American male. While photographing men in the neighborhood out of fear they will...
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DULCE
In coastal Colombia, a mother teaches her daughter how to swim, so that she may go to the mangroves and harvest piangua shellfish with other women in the village. Guille Isa is a director and production designer based in Lima....
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EGG
A woman is locked in her home with an egg. She eats the egg, then repents. She kills it. She lets the egg die of hunger. Martina Scarpelli is an Italian filmmaker with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from...
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ENEMIES: THE PRESIDENT, JUSTICE & THE FBI
Inspired by Tim Weiner’s book “Enemies: A History of the FBI,” this four-part documentary series executive-produced by Alex Gibney explores the complex history of conflict between the FBI and U.S. presidents. In the episode “That’s What Friends Are For,” the...
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FUGUE (FUGA)
After a two-year disappearance, free-spirited Alicja is reunited with her parents, husband and young son despite having no memory of them. Suddenly thrust back into a domestic life she has no recollection of choosing, Alicja struggles to reconcile her new...
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GENESIS (GENÈSE)
Guillaume is an outwardly confident teenager in a posh boarding school. Intelligent and brash, he veers between likable and overbearing both in the faculty's and his fellow student's eyes. When surprising new feelings of love and alienation consume him, his...
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DIVIDE AND CONQUER: THE STORY OF ROGER AILES
DIVIDE AND CONQUER: THE STORY OF ROGER AILES explores the rise and fall of the titular, late Republican Party heavyweight. Director Alexis Bloom expertly weaves interviews with allies and enemies, revealing how Ailes worked in the shadows to orchestrate media...
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DOGMAN
Matteo Garrone's latest film is a gripping drama about Marcello, a gentle yet cowardly dog groomer who finds himself caught up in Italy’s criminal underworld. Marcello forms a dangerous, one-sided relationship with former boxer and cokehead Simone, who terrorizes the...
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DOWN THERE
A blissful night is unexpectedly interrupted by a sound from downstairs. Different reactions are triggered as well as indifference. Zhengfan Yang started making films after he graduated from law school. Together with Shengze Zhu, he co-founded Burn The Film in...
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FAMILY
Kate Stone (Taylor Schilling) is career-focused, and enjoys her life that way. Her brash attitude keeps relationships at arm's length, making her an outcast in her own right. When her estranged brother calls asking her to babysit her tween niece...
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FAUVE
Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer. Driven by a passion for Skateboarding, Jeremy Comte directed his first short documentary FEEL THE HILL at 18 years...
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THE FAVOURITE
In THE FAVOURITE, director Yorgos Lanthimos showcases his uniquely dark humor with a story of royal intrigue, jealousy and betrayal. Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) sits on the English throne in the early 18th century while her close friend, Lady Sarah...
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DESERT RATS
Out in the Salt Flats, people think nothing can survive, but Lily did. Directed by AFI Conservatory Directing Workshop for Women alumna Shaz Bennett. Shaz Bennett’s (AFI Directing Workshop for Women, Class of 2012) debut feature ALASKA IS A DRAG...
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DESTROYER
In the tradition of films such as HEAT, TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA and TRAINING DAY, director Karyn Kusama drops us into the world of Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman), a hardened LA detective who, many years ago, barely survived...
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DIAMANTINO
He's not the sharpest tool in the shed, but when Portuguese soccer god Diamantino is on the field, his head filled with visions of giant Pekingese puppies frolicking in cotton-candy clouds, he transforms into a football Adonis with a heart...
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THE DIVE (HATZLILA)
Leaving Tel Aviv to return to the small kibbutz near the Israel-Lebanon border where he grew up, sensitive, battle-scarred veteran Yoav knows all too well the emotional (and literal) battleground he’s about to step into. With gung-ho, my-country-right-or-wrong brother Itai...
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ENEMIES: THE PRESIDENT, JUSTICE & THE FBI
Inspired by Tim Weiner’s book “Enemies: A History of the FBI,” this four-part documentary series executive-produced by Alex Gibney explores the complex history of conflict between the FBI and U.S. presidents. In the episode “That’s What Friends Are For,” the...
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EVERYBODY KNOWS (TODOS LO SABEN)
Laura (Penélope Cruz) has returned to Spain for her sister's wedding. The mood in her bucolic hometown is festive, and many faces from the past are present for the nuptials, including Paco (Javier Bardem), a longtime friend of the family....
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DAUGHTER OF MINE (FIGLIA MIA)
10-year-old Vittoria (Sara Casu) is a quiet girl whose uneventful Sardinian summer becomes upended when she discovers her birth mother is the town drunk, Angelica (Alba Rohrwacher). As Vittoria begins to split her time between Angelica and the more stable...
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DEAD HORSE NEBULA
Entrenched in Turkish cinema traditions though entirely its own, Tarik Aktaş’ feature debut DEAD HORSE NEBULA is either a real or imagined childhood memory of adults attempting to remove the body of a dead horse from an open field. What...
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DEAD PIGS
Five lives collide in Cathy Yan’s quirky and comic debut. A bumbling pig farmer has an interest in VR and paying off his gangster loans, but his pigs are mysteriously dying and floating in the river towards Shanghai. His sister,...
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DULCE
In coastal Colombia, a mother teaches her daughter how to swim, so that she may go to the mangroves and harvest piangua shellfish with other women in the village. Guille Isa is a director and production designer based in Lima....
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EGG
A woman is locked in her home with an egg. She eats the egg, then repents. She kills it. She lets the egg die of hunger. Martina Scarpelli is an Italian filmmaker with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from...
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COUNTERFEIT KUNKOO
In a city that houses millions, Smita discovers a strange prerequisite for renting a house in middle-class Mumbai. She would make an ideal tenant, except for one glaring flaw — she is an Indian woman without a husband. Reema Sengupta...
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THE CRUZ BROTHERS AND MISS MALLOY
This charming feature debut from recently rediscovery Kathleen Collins (LOSING GROUND) follows three Puerto Rican brothers who, under the guidance of their deceased father, are enlisted to assist an eccentric elderly woman in restoring her crumbling Victorian home. When the...
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CYCLISTS (BICIKLISTI)
During the final race of the cycling season, two men in the lead compete for more than the Grand Trophy. Veljko Popovic graduated in 2003 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Department of Painting. In 1998, he started...
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DOGMAN
Matteo Garrone's latest film is a gripping drama about Marcello, a gentle yet cowardly dog groomer who finds himself caught up in Italy’s criminal underworld. Marcello forms a dangerous, one-sided relationship with former boxer and cokehead Simone, who terrorizes the...
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DOWN THERE
A blissful night is unexpectedly interrupted by a sound from downstairs. Different reactions are triggered as well as indifference. Zhengfan Yang started making films after he graduated from law school. Together with Shengze Zhu, he co-founded Burn The Film in...
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DRYLONGSO
Forthright and plucky Pica Sullivan (Toby Smith) is an art school student growing up in Oakland, CA, who is determined to document “America’s most endangered species”: the African-American male. While photographing men in the neighborhood out of fear they will...
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COME ON MANDY
A wheelchair-bound woman tries to get her dog to come when she calls. Joshua Wilmott is an American film director and screenwriter. He works in the Documentary, Fiction and Experimental forms. Recurrent in much of his work is the exploration...
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COMMUNION LOS ANGELES
A dystopian vision of the present, this experimental documentary uses poetic time-lapse photography to create an indistinguishable swell of half-audible monologues, radio frequencies and voicemails. This technique builds a decidedly unsettling distance, even as the rhythms of reoccurring highway vistas,...
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CONCUSSION PROTOCOL
By the end of the 2017-18 season, more than 250 players in the NFL will have sustained concussions. For his latest project, data artist Josh Begley tracked these injuries. Josh Begley is a data artist and app developer based in...
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DIVIDE AND CONQUER: THE STORY OF ROGER AILES
DIVIDE AND CONQUER: THE STORY OF ROGER AILES explores the rise and fall of the titular, late Republican Party heavyweight. Director Alexis Bloom expertly weaves interviews with allies and enemies, revealing how Ailes worked in the shadows to orchestrate media...
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THE CHAMBERMAID (LA CAMARISTA)
Lila Avilés’ intimate debut presents a strong, new voice within the wave of contemporary Mexican cinema. In THE CHAMBERMAID, Eve is a young housekeeping maid in a luxurious Mexico City hotel who struggles with the daily grind of her monotonous...
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THE COLD BLUE
In 1943, William Wyler, one of Hollywood’s most renowned and versatile directors, went to Europe to document the Air War in progress. Incredibly, all of the raw color footage Wyler shot for the Memphis Belle was recently discovered deep in...
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COLD WAR (ZIMNA WOJNA)
It's Poland in the late 1950s and a team of musicians and broadcasters are touring the countryside in search of authentic folk music to spread and inspire patriotism. Wiktor, the star pianist and leader of this effort, immediately falls for...
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DIAMANTINO
He's not the sharpest tool in the shed, but when Portuguese soccer god Diamantino is on the field, his head filled with visions of giant Pekingese puppies frolicking in cotton-candy clouds, he transforms into a football Adonis with a heart...
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THE DIVE (HATZLILA)
Leaving Tel Aviv to return to the small kibbutz near the Israel-Lebanon border where he grew up, sensitive, battle-scarred veteran Yoav knows all too well the emotional (and literal) battleground he’s about to step into. With gung-ho, my-country-right-or-wrong brother Itai...
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BULBUL CAN SING
Bulbul is an independent girl living a typical teenage life in the Assam region of India. She practices her singing, and begins a sweet romance with a boy who wrote her a love poem. She spends most of her time...
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CAM
CAM plunges the audience into the world of online camgirls — young women who make a living and control their own boundaries while securing their agency and identity via webcam. Lola (Madeline Brewer of THE HANDMAID'S TALE) has her own...
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CAPERNAUM (CAPHARNAÜM)
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Nadine Labaki’s CAPERNAUM follows Zain as he journeys from gutsy, streetwise child to hardened 12-year-old adult: fleeing his abusive, negligent parents, surviving through his wits on the streets, taking...
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CAT DAYS (NEKO NO HI)
Jiro, a little boy, feels sick. His father takes him to the doctor. She diagnoses a harmless condition, but it shakes the core of the boy's identity. Jon Frickey lives in Hamburg, Germany. Having previously worked as an art director...
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DESERT RATS
Out in the Salt Flats, people think nothing can survive, but Lily did. Directed by AFI Conservatory Directing Workshop for Women alumna Shaz Bennett. Shaz Bennett’s (AFI Directing Workshop for Women, Class of 2012) debut feature ALASKA IS A DRAG...
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DESTROYER
In the tradition of films such as HEAT, TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA and TRAINING DAY, director Karyn Kusama drops us into the world of Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman), a hardened LA detective who, many years ago, barely survived...
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BLACK MOTHER
With rawness and emotional intensity, director Khalik Allah weaves a rapturous dream-state of a documentary, at once a love letter to and a prayer for his family's ancestral home of Jamaica. From lush farmland to gritty street-corners, from prostitutes to...
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BLOOMSTREET 11 (BLOEISTRAAT 11)
As summer progresses, the bodies of inseparable best friends start to morph and shift as puberty interrupts their bond. Nienke Deutz is a Dutch director and artist currently living and working in Rotterdam. In 2010, she received her Bachelor in...
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BLOWIN’ UP
BLOWIN’ UP is an intimate portrait of the Queens Human Trafficking Intervention Court, a groundbreaking model of progressive justice, and the rebel heroines working to change the way women charged with prostitution are prosecuted in America. Director Stephanie Wang-Breal follows...
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DAUGHTER OF MINE (FIGLIA MIA)
10-year-old Vittoria (Sara Casu) is a quiet girl whose uneventful Sardinian summer becomes upended when she discovers her birth mother is the town drunk, Angelica (Alba Rohrwacher). As Vittoria begins to split her time between Angelica and the more stable...
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DEAD HORSE NEBULA
Entrenched in Turkish cinema traditions though entirely its own, Tarik Aktaş’ feature debut DEAD HORSE NEBULA is either a real or imagined childhood memory of adults attempting to remove the body of a dead horse from an open field. What...
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DEAD PIGS
Five lives collide in Cathy Yan’s quirky and comic debut. A bumbling pig farmer has an interest in VR and paying off his gangster loans, but his pigs are mysteriously dying and floating in the river towards Shanghai. His sister,...
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THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM
Filmmaker John Chester documents the eight-year effort of an ambitious, life-changing personal venture: moving out of Los Angeles with his wife, Molly, and building a diverse, sustainable farm. We follow the highs and lows of this adventure, as the couple...
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BIRD BOX
In this unpredictable sci-fi thriller, based on the bestselling novel of the same name, a mother, Malorie (Sandra Bullock), and two children navigate a hostile, even demonic landscape after an apocalyptic event. As Malorie confronts her ambivalence toward motherhood while...
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BIRDIE
A casual gesture of friendliness quickly spirals into a paralyzing moment for a woman on a train. Classically trained as an actress, Shelly Lauman comes to filmmaking via a career on some of Australia’s most prestigious stages. She earned her...
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THE CRUZ BROTHERS AND MISS MALLOY
This charming feature debut from recently rediscovery Kathleen Collins (LOSING GROUND) follows three Puerto Rican brothers who, under the guidance of their deceased father, are enlisted to assist an eccentric elderly woman in restoring her crumbling Victorian home. When the...
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CYCLISTS (BICIKLISTI)
During the final race of the cycling season, two men in the lead compete for more than the Grand Trophy. Veljko Popovic graduated in 2003 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Department of Painting. In 1998, he started...
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ASH IS PUREST WHITE (JIANGHU ER NV)
It's 2001, and Qiao (Zhao Tao) is the tough-minded girlfriend of low-level gangster Guo Bin (Liao Fan), who runs a nightclub and gambling den. When Guo Bin is attacked on the street by a group of thugs on motorcycles, Qiao...
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BABY BROTHER
My baby brother moves back in with our parents. Kamau Bilal is a Black-American filmmaker working in Central Missouri. He was named one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2018 by Filmmaker Magazine. His work has earned critical...
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THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS
Joel and Ethan Coen have crafted another musical yarn, this time as a wildly entertaining anthology of short films based on a fictional book of “Western tales.” So saddle up for these brilliantly bizarre ballads of mortality, brutality and fortune,...
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COUNTERFEIT KUNKOO
In a city that houses millions, Smita discovers a strange prerequisite for renting a house in middle-class Mumbai. She would make an ideal tenant, except for one glaring flaw — she is an Indian woman without a husband. Reema Sengupta...
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AMAZING GRACE
A documentary presenting Aretha Franklin with choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles, in January 1972.
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AND BREATHE NORMALLY (ANDIÐ EÐLILEGA)
Lára is a struggling single mother whose new job as a border guard in an Icelandic airport is all that's keeping her and her young son from complete destitution. While training, Lára notices that the passport of Adja, a woman...
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ANGELS ARE MADE OF LIGHT
Filmed over three years, the latest documentary from James Longley follows students and teachers at a school in an old neighborhood of Kabul that is slowly rebuilding from past conflicts. Interweaving the modern history of Afghanistan with present-day portraits, the...
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APPLIED PRESSURE
Ease the pain from past physical and mental distress. The body remembers. Aches may linger. Lay prone, breathe deeply, release tension, let go of the pain. Experimental animator Kelly Sears recasts and reframes American archetypes and institutions to reimagine our...
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COMMUNION LOS ANGELES
A dystopian vision of the present, this experimental documentary uses poetic time-lapse photography to create an indistinguishable swell of half-audible monologues, radio frequencies and voicemails. This technique builds a decidedly unsettling distance, even as the rhythms of reoccurring highway vistas,...
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CONCUSSION PROTOCOL
By the end of the 2017-18 season, more than 250 players in the NFL will have sustained concussions. For his latest project, data artist Josh Begley tracked these injuries. Josh Begley is a data artist and app developer based in...
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ALL GOOD (ALLES IST GUT)
Winner of the Locarno Film Festival’s first-feature competition, Eva Trobisch’s ALL GOOD is an arresting portrayal of a woman who refuses to see herself victimized by sexual assault. Janne (Aenne Schwarz, in a commanding performance) drinks and dances with abandon...
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ALL INCLUSIVE
Under the spell of mass entertainment on the high seas. Corina Schwingruber Ilić was born in 1981, and lives and works in Lucerne, Switzerland, and Belgrade, Serbia. Since 2010, she has worked as a filmmaker and editor. In 2017, she...
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AMATEURS (AMATÖRER)
The small Swedish town of Lafors wants a fresh start. When German investors show interest in building their superstore in the hamlet, community leaders decide to create a promotional video. Tasked with the project, local official Musse turns to high...
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COLD WAR (ZIMNA WOJNA)
It's Poland in the late 1950s and a team of musicians and broadcasters are touring the countryside in search of authentic folk music to spread and inspire patriotism. Wiktor, the star pianist and leader of this effort, immediately falls for...
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COME ON MANDY
A wheelchair-bound woman tries to get her dog to come when she calls. Joshua Wilmott is an American film director and screenwriter. He works in the Documentary, Fiction and Experimental forms. Recurrent in much of his work is the exploration...
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49 MILE SCENIC DRIVE
The compelling and amusing story behind one of San Francisco's most visually arresting signposts and the design change that tarnished a legacy. Bradley Smith is an artist and filmmaker living in San Francisco. His award-winning film 49 MILE SCENIC DRIVE...
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ACID FOREST (RŪGŠTUS MIŠKAS)
A wispy strip of land stretching between Russia and Lithuania is home to the unlikeliest of attractions. At the top of a narrow staircase in the Curonian Spit, a platform designated for tourists overlooks a dying forest of leafless trees,...
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ADA
Ada is an unlikeable competitive walker who makes a dress out of toilet paper and has an unfortunate run-in with a hose. Eleanore Pienta is a director, actor and dancer. Eleanore Pienta starred opposite Jason Schwartzman in Bob Byington’s 7...
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AKASHA
Premiering at the Venice International Film Festival, documentarian hajooj kuka’s attention-grabbing, narrative debut AKASHA is a delightfully offbeat comedy set in rebel-held Sudan, where fighting has stopped amid the rainy season. Eager to resume battle after the rain subsides, the...
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THE CHAMBERMAID (LA CAMARISTA)
Lila Avilés’ intimate debut presents a strong, new voice within the wave of contemporary Mexican cinema. In THE CHAMBERMAID, Eve is a young housekeeping maid in a luxurious Mexico City hotel who struggles with the daily grind of her monotonous...
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THE COLD BLUE
In 1943, William Wyler, one of Hollywood’s most renowned and versatile directors, went to Europe to document the Air War in progress. Incredibly, all of the raw color footage Wyler shot for the Memphis Belle was recently discovered deep in...
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3 FACES (SE ROKH)
Eight years and four films into a 20-year government-imposed filmmaking ban, Jafar Panahi continues to expand on themes of artistic repression with his latest and most expressly feminist film in over a decade. 3 FACES is at once a gentle...
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CAPERNAUM (CAPHARNAÜM)
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Nadine Labaki’s CAPERNAUM follows Zain as he journeys from gutsy, streetwise child to hardened 12-year-old adult: fleeing his abusive, negligent parents, surviving through his wits on the streets, taking...
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CAT DAYS (NEKO NO HI)
Jiro, a little boy, feels sick. His father takes him to the doctor. She diagnoses a harmless condition, but it shakes the core of the boy's identity. Jon Frickey lives in Hamburg, Germany. Having previously worked as an art director...
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BLOWIN’ UP
BLOWIN’ UP is an intimate portrait of the Queens Human Trafficking Intervention Court, a groundbreaking model of progressive justice, and the rebel heroines working to change the way women charged with prostitution are prosecuted in America. Director Stephanie Wang-Breal follows...
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BULBUL CAN SING
Bulbul is an independent girl living a typical teenage life in the Assam region of India. She practices her singing, and begins a sweet romance with a boy who wrote her a love poem. She spends most of her time...
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CAM
CAM plunges the audience into the world of online camgirls — young women who make a living and control their own boundaries while securing their agency and identity via webcam. Lola (Madeline Brewer of THE HANDMAID'S TALE) has her own...
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BLACK MOTHER
With rawness and emotional intensity, director Khalik Allah weaves a rapturous dream-state of a documentary, at once a love letter to and a prayer for his family's ancestral home of Jamaica. From lush farmland to gritty street-corners, from prostitutes to...
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BLOOMSTREET 11 (BLOEISTRAAT 11)
As summer progresses, the bodies of inseparable best friends start to morph and shift as puberty interrupts their bond. Nienke Deutz is a Dutch director and artist currently living and working in Rotterdam. In 2010, she received her Bachelor in...
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BIRD BOX
In this unpredictable sci-fi thriller, based on the bestselling novel of the same name, a mother, Malorie (Sandra Bullock), and two children navigate a hostile, even demonic landscape after an apocalyptic event. As Malorie confronts her ambivalence toward motherhood while...
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BIRDIE
A casual gesture of friendliness quickly spirals into a paralyzing moment for a woman on a train. Classically trained as an actress, Shelly Lauman comes to filmmaking via a career on some of Australia’s most prestigious stages. She earned her...
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THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS
Joel and Ethan Coen have crafted another musical yarn, this time as a wildly entertaining anthology of short films based on a fictional book of “Western tales.” So saddle up for these brilliantly bizarre ballads of mortality, brutality and fortune,...
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THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM
Filmmaker John Chester documents the eight-year effort of an ambitious, life-changing personal venture: moving out of Los Angeles with his wife, Molly, and building a diverse, sustainable farm. We follow the highs and lows of this adventure, as the couple...
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ASH IS PUREST WHITE (JIANGHU ER NV)
It's 2001, and Qiao (Zhao Tao) is the tough-minded girlfriend of low-level gangster Guo Bin (Liao Fan), who runs a nightclub and gambling den. When Guo Bin is attacked on the street by a group of thugs on motorcycles, Qiao...
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BABY BROTHER
My baby brother moves back in with our parents. Kamau Bilal is a Black-American filmmaker working in Central Missouri. He was named one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2018 by Filmmaker Magazine. His work has earned critical...
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ANGELS ARE MADE OF LIGHT
Filmed over three years, the latest documentary from James Longley follows students and teachers at a school in an old neighborhood of Kabul that is slowly rebuilding from past conflicts. Interweaving the modern history of Afghanistan with present-day portraits, the...
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APPLIED PRESSURE
Ease the pain from past physical and mental distress. The body remembers. Aches may linger. Lay prone, breathe deeply, release tension, let go of the pain. Experimental animator Kelly Sears recasts and reframes American archetypes and institutions to reimagine our...
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AMATEURS (AMATÖRER)
The small Swedish town of Lafors wants a fresh start. When German investors show interest in building their superstore in the hamlet, community leaders decide to create a promotional video. Tasked with the project, local official Musse turns to high...
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AMAZING GRACE
A documentary presenting Aretha Franklin with choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles, in January 1972.
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AND BREATHE NORMALLY (ANDIÐ EÐLILEGA)
Lára is a struggling single mother whose new job as a border guard in an Icelandic airport is all that's keeping her and her young son from complete destitution. While training, Lára notices that the passport of Adja, a woman...
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ALL GOOD (ALLES IST GUT)
Winner of the Locarno Film Festival’s first-feature competition, Eva Trobisch’s ALL GOOD is an arresting portrayal of a woman who refuses to see herself victimized by sexual assault. Janne (Aenne Schwarz, in a commanding performance) drinks and dances with abandon...
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ALL INCLUSIVE
Under the spell of mass entertainment on the high seas. Corina Schwingruber Ilić was born in 1981, and lives and works in Lucerne, Switzerland, and Belgrade, Serbia. Since 2010, she has worked as a filmmaker and editor. In 2017, she...
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ADA
Ada is an unlikeable competitive walker who makes a dress out of toilet paper and has an unfortunate run-in with a hose. Eleanore Pienta is a director, actor and dancer. Eleanore Pienta starred opposite Jason Schwartzman in Bob Byington’s 7...
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AKASHA
Premiering at the Venice International Film Festival, documentarian hajooj kuka’s attention-grabbing, narrative debut AKASHA is a delightfully offbeat comedy set in rebel-held Sudan, where fighting has stopped amid the rainy season. Eager to resume battle after the rain subsides, the...
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49 MILE SCENIC DRIVE
The compelling and amusing story behind one of San Francisco's most visually arresting signposts and the design change that tarnished a legacy. Bradley Smith is an artist and filmmaker living in San Francisco. His award-winning film 49 MILE SCENIC DRIVE...
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ACID FOREST (RŪGŠTUS MIŠKAS)
A wispy strip of land stretching between Russia and Lithuania is home to the unlikeliest of attractions. At the top of a narrow staircase in the Curonian Spit, a platform designated for tourists overlooks a dying forest of leafless trees,...
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3 FACES (SE ROKH)
Eight years and four films into a 20-year government-imposed filmmaking ban, Jafar Panahi continues to expand on themes of artistic repression with his latest and most expressly feminist film in over a decade. 3 FACES is at once a gentle...
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ZOLTAR FROM ZORAN
Jimmy, a twelve-year old boy, claims to be an alien in order to escape his cruel family life and the horrors of junior high.
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WOUNDINGS
Set in a futuristic world reminiscent of Kubrick's CLOCKWORK ORANGE and Orwell's 1984, WOUNDINGS unfolds in a remote post-apocalyptic island under rigid militaristic rule and occupied by lonely shell-shocked soldiers whose job is to keep the peace and hopefully colonize...
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THE WOUNDS
True story of two under-age criminals (is) harrowing, shocking, the reflection of a society that has been devastated by political and moral upheaval. Dragojevic hasn't pulled any punches with this film-the wounds alluded to by the title are more than...
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ZACHARIA FARTED
While on a long awaited fishing holiday, Michael (writer/producer Colin Cunningham) and Brian (Benjamin Ratner) stumble on a blank headstone out in the middle of nowhere. What starts off as a quick investigation becomes a seven day safari through the...
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WELCOME TO HOLLYWOOD
With his new film, writer/director Adam rifkin documents the meteoric rise of actor Nick Decker from complete unknown to Hollywood superstar. From his first role on BAYWATCH, a film shoot in Las Vegas, the Academy Awards, the Sundance Film Festival,...
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WITHIN OUR GATES
Film preservation also means exhibition to AFI. This extraordinary program of rare films saved and/or restored by AFI includes the long lost first OUR GANG movie, the oldest surviving AfricanAmerican feature, a lost Harold Lloyd comedy and a lost Edison...
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WAKING NED DEVINE
A disarmingly original comic fable about the true' meaning of fortune, WAKING NED DEVINE invites audiences into the enchanting village ofTullymore, population 52 ... and shrinking. Jackie and Michael are life-long friends who have a talent for getting into mischief....
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THE WEEK THAT GIRL DIED
Everything changes in a small East Coast fishing town when three lifelong friends find themselves risking their hearts after chance encounters with three of the most unexpected women. First, Vinnie meets Jessie at his Uncle's wake. Then Jimmy, who thought...
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VOICE OF BERGMAN
Ingmar Bergman has been active in film production for almost 55 years and is also one of the leading experts in Sweden on the silent film era. His experiences as an artist and film director are absolutely unique, making him...
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WAITING FOR WOODY
An out-of-work actor hopes to get a job in Woody Allen's next movie. Special appearances by George Clooney and Jennifer Anniston.
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TRANSFORMER
One of the most playfully profound filmmakers working today, Lars Von Trier has always delighted in wallowing in the profane while tricking his viewers into a transcendence of vision. Stig Bjorkman, longtime Danish film critic and author, here spends an...
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ZACHARIA FARTED
While on a long awaited fishing holiday, Michael (writer/producer Colin Cunningham) and Brian (Benjamin Ratner) stumble on a blank headstone out in the middle of nowhere. What starts off as a quick investigation becomes a seven day safari through the...
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TRIPLE EXPOSURE
Sexual obsession and blind passion drive three characters to their ultimate destiny in this moody F ilmN oir.
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ZOLTAR FROM ZORAN
Jimmy, a twelve-year old boy, claims to be an alien in order to escape his cruel family life and the horrors of junior high.
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WELCOME TO HOLLYWOOD
With his new film, writer/director Adam rifkin documents the meteoric rise of actor Nick Decker from complete unknown to Hollywood superstar. From his first role on BAYWATCH, a film shoot in Las Vegas, the Academy Awards, the Sundance Film Festival,...
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THE SWINDLE
Betty and Victor, a rather ill-matched couple, tour unobtrusively around France in their motor-home, earning their living as petty con artists, until one day they find themselves involved in an international money scam which takes them far from France to...
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WITHIN OUR GATES
Film preservation also means exhibition to AFI. This extraordinary program of rare films saved and/or restored by AFI includes the long lost first OUR GANG movie, the oldest surviving AfricanAmerican feature, a lost Harold Lloyd comedy and a lost Edison...
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THE TERRORIST
Second only to Hollywood in terms of production volume and box office, India's film industry almost never taps into American markets, resulting in a veritable gold mine of movies that generally remain undiscovered in the United States. Among the few...
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WOUNDINGS
Set in a futuristic world reminiscent of Kubrick's CLOCKWORK ORANGE and Orwell's 1984, WOUNDINGS unfolds in a remote post-apocalyptic island under rigid militaristic rule and occupied by lonely shell-shocked soldiers whose job is to keep the peace and hopefully colonize...
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‘TIS THE SEASON
On Christmas morning, a teenager attempts to videotape a suicide message as circumstances conspire against him.
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THE WOUNDS
True story of two under-age criminals (is) harrowing, shocking, the reflection of a society that has been devastated by political and moral upheaval. Dragojevic hasn't pulled any punches with this film-the wounds alluded to by the title are more than...
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VOICE OF BERGMAN
Ingmar Bergman has been active in film production for almost 55 years and is also one of the leading experts in Sweden on the silent film era. His experiences as an artist and film director are absolutely unique, making him...
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WAITING FOR WOODY
An out-of-work actor hopes to get a job in Woody Allen's next movie. Special appearances by George Clooney and Jennifer Anniston.
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WAKING NED DEVINE
A disarmingly original comic fable about the true' meaning of fortune, WAKING NED DEVINE invites audiences into the enchanting village ofTullymore, population 52 ... and shrinking. Jackie and Michael are life-long friends who have a talent for getting into mischief....
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SUSAN’S PLAN
One of this year's most anticipated screenings is the World Premiere of John Landis' first independent feature film in over 20 years. SUSAN'S PLAN is about a woman who conspires with her lover to murder her ex-husband for his substantial...
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THE WEEK THAT GIRL DIED
Everything changes in a small East Coast fishing town when three lifelong friends find themselves risking their hearts after chance encounters with three of the most unexpected women. First, Vinnie meets Jessie at his Uncle's wake. Then Jimmy, who thought...
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SWEETY BARRETT
This gently affecting and beautifully directed first film is full of surprises. Sweety Barrett is a big, strong, simple man. When the film begins, he has lost his job at a circus and finds himself in a mean-spirited, corrupt little...
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‘TIS THE SEASON
On Christmas morning, a teenager attempts to videotape a suicide message as circumstances conspire against him.
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TRANSFORMER
One of the most playfully profound filmmakers working today, Lars Von Trier has always delighted in wallowing in the profane while tricking his viewers into a transcendence of vision. Stig Bjorkman, longtime Danish film critic and author, here spends an...
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TRIPLE EXPOSURE
Sexual obsession and blind passion drive three characters to their ultimate destiny in this moody F ilmN oir.
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STONEBROOK
STONEBROOK is the story of a young man caught between the underworld and his integrity as he struggles to advance in life. Erik leaves his farm roots behind for Stonebrook, an elite private university. His finances in shambles, Erik is...
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THE STOREKEEPER
After suf fering a series o f burglaries, and elderly storekeeper finally takes the law into his own hands with tragic consequences.
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THE STOREKEEPER
After suf fering a series o f burglaries, and elderly storekeeper finally takes the law into his own hands with tragic consequences.
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SUSAN’S PLAN
One of this year's most anticipated screenings is the World Premiere of John Landis' first independent feature film in over 20 years. SUSAN'S PLAN is about a woman who conspires with her lover to murder her ex-husband for his substantial...
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SWEETY BARRETT
This gently affecting and beautifully directed first film is full of surprises. Sweety Barrett is a big, strong, simple man. When the film begins, he has lost his job at a circus and finds himself in a mean-spirited, corrupt little...
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THE SWINDLE
Betty and Victor, a rather ill-matched couple, tour unobtrusively around France in their motor-home, earning their living as petty con artists, until one day they find themselves involved in an international money scam which takes them far from France to...
Read More..
THE TERRORIST
Second only to Hollywood in terms of production volume and box office, India's film industry almost never taps into American markets, resulting in a veritable gold mine of movies that generally remain undiscovered in the United States. Among the few...
Read More..
THE SMELL OF HORROR
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
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SOUTHIE
A young man returns home to his South Boston roots after being away from his family for three years. Although he has gotten his life back together, he finds it hard to come back to the temptations that forced him...
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SOUTHIE
A young man returns home to his South Boston roots after being away from his family for three years. Although he has gotten his life back together, he finds it hard to come back to the temptations that forced him...
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STONEBROOK
STONEBROOK is the story of a young man caught between the underworld and his integrity as he struggles to advance in life. Erik leaves his farm roots behind for Stonebrook, an elite private university. His finances in shambles, Erik is...
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THE SHOE
One morning, three Soviet patrolmen discover a woman's shoe in the sand and footsteps leading to the local village of Leipaja. Alarms sound, troops are dispatched: an official inquiry begins. To whom does the shoe belong? A three-man investigative team,...
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A SHORT WAIT BETWEEN TRAINS
The story of four Negro combat soldiers who have just returned to the American South from the fighting in Europe during World War II.
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THE SHOE
One morning, three Soviet patrolmen discover a woman's shoe in the sand and footsteps leading to the local village of Leipaja. Alarms sound, troops are dispatched: an official inquiry begins. To whom does the shoe belong? A three-man investigative team,...
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A SHORT WAIT BETWEEN TRAINS
The story of four Negro combat soldiers who have just returned to the American South from the fighting in Europe during World War II.
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THE SMELL OF HORROR
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
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SEKAL HAS TO DIE (JE TREBA ZABIT SEKALA)
It is the summer of 1943. In the village of Lakotice, which war has not yet touched, prosperous farms sit sprinkled amongst the ripening wheat. The farmers fear only a cruel and bitter man named Sekal, who by denouncing his...
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SHIVA’S TEARDROPS
The AFI Fest is proud to spotlight Filmmakers Alliance, the cutting-edge Los Angeles filmmaking collective, by screening its latest collection of short films under the title of "Love and Death" -four darkly comic takes on love, crime, relationships, birth, death...
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ROSITA
In a series of comical slapstick situations, an unlucky fortune teller and her devoted assistant struggle to keep their drowning enterprise afloat.
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SAMURAI FICTION
"The world's first rock 'n' roll samurai movie" is director Hiroyuki Nakano's electrifying blend of genres and attitudes, conjuring a hip cinematic feast for the senses. Set in 17th century Japan, the story follows the hot-headed Heishiro lnukai and his...
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SEAFARI
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
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QUIET DESPERATION
An alienated man's isolation is broken by quarreling neighbors.
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RACE TO ATLANTIS
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
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THE RIFT
A drama with elements of a psychological thriller, this is a film about the basic human attitudes and emotions of its main characters: Stefan, a seasonal worker, Joze, the village codger, and two sisters, young Anica and her older sister...
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THE RIVER OF GOLD
Rocha's gripping tale of jealousy is centered around Portugal's river of gold, where his middle-aged, working class characters live and toil. Carolina a levelcrossing keeper, and her boyfriend Antonio, the owner of a dredge boat, decide to get married. But...
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PECULIAR PATIENTS PRANKS
Film preservation also means exhibition to AFI. This extraordinary program of rare films saved and/or restored by AFI includes the long lost first OUR GANG movie, the oldest surviving AfricanAmerican feature, a lost Harold Lloyd comedy and a lost Edison...
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A PLACE CALLED CHIAPAS
A PLACE CALLED CHIAPAS is an exemplary documentary that vividly and lucidly explores a modern Mexican standoff. Filmmaker Nettie Wilde notes that in 'canada, the North American Free Trade Agreement, which went into effect Jan. 1, 1994, was a matter...
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THE POLISH BRIDE
One of four Dutch films in a cinematic quartet that explores the end of the millennium in Holland, this is an exquisitely tender love story between misanthropic farmer Henk and Anne, the abused woman he takes in, whose life of...
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QUEST
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
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QUIET DESPERATION
An alienated man's isolation is broken by quarreling neighbors.
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RACE TO ATLANTIS
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
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THE OTHER CONQUEST
Through a startling visual and aural tapestry of fact. fiction and spirituality, THE OTHER CONQUEST tells the story of Emperor Moctezuma's illegitimate son, the Aztec scribe Topiltzin, who is trying to adapt to a new, hostile world after the 1521...
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OUR GANG
Film preservation also means exhibition to AFI. This extraordinary program of rare films saved and/or restored by AFI includes the long lost first OUR GANG movie, the oldest surviving AfricanAmerican feature, a lost Harold Lloyd comedy and a lost Edison...
Read More..
PAIN CHAIN
Three characters' lives are overturned by the arrival of an enchanted amulet that has the power to transfer pain from one person to another.
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PALJAS
In an unusual mix of realism and whimsy, this masterful South African drama takes an inspired approach to the question of prejudice in small town communities. The once-normal McDonald family is now isolated and nine-year-old Willem has stopped talking. When...
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A PLACE CALLED CHIAPAS
A PLACE CALLED CHIAPAS is an exemplary documentary that vividly and lucidly explores a modern Mexican standoff. Filmmaker Nettie Wilde notes that in 'canada, the North American Free Trade Agreement, which went into effect Jan. 1, 1994, was a matter...
Read More..
THE POLISH BRIDE
One of four Dutch films in a cinematic quartet that explores the end of the millennium in Holland, this is an exquisitely tender love story between misanthropic farmer Henk and Anne, the abused woman he takes in, whose life of...
Read More..
QUEST
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
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NICOTINE
Madrid, 2016. Smoking is forbidden. Two old friends meet up again and neither will emerge unhurt from this encounter.
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THE OATH
A prisoner is found unconscious in his cell after an attempted suicide. The prison doctor is called to resuscitate the man and so must face an ethical dilemma.
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THE ORIENTAL NIGHTFISH
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
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THE ORIGINS OF BEETHOVEN’S MOONLIGHT SONATA
Film preservation also means exhibition to AFI. This extraordinary program of rare films saved and/or restored by AFI includes the long lost first OUR GANG movie, the oldest surviving AfricanAmerican feature, a lost Harold Lloyd comedy and a lost Edison...
Read More..
PALJAS
In an unusual mix of realism and whimsy, this masterful South African drama takes an inspired approach to the question of prejudice in small town communities. The once-normal McDonald family is now isolated and nine-year-old Willem has stopped talking. When...
Read More..
PECULIAR PATIENTS PRANKS
Film preservation also means exhibition to AFI. This extraordinary program of rare films saved and/or restored by AFI includes the long lost first OUR GANG movie, the oldest surviving AfricanAmerican feature, a lost Harold Lloyd comedy and a lost Edison...
Read More..
MY BEAUTIFUL ME
The AFI Fest is proud to spotlight Filmmakers Alliance, the cutting-edge Los Angeles filmmaking collective, by screening its latest collection of short films under the title of "Love and Death" -four darkly comic takes on love, crime, relationships, birth, death...
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MY MOTHER DREAMS THE SATAN DISCIPLES IN NEW YORK
A mother/daughter/biker comedy about a Midwestern housewife who travels to Manhattan for the first time and begins to spin a fantasy about the Satan Disciples motorcycle club across the street from her daughter's apartment.
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MY SON THE FANATIC
Parvez, a taxi driver in Britain, can't break out of his working class status and afford a better life for his wife, Minoa and son, Farid. Working into the night to earn his keep, Parvez endures condescension from people like...
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OUR GANG
Film preservation also means exhibition to AFI. This extraordinary program of rare films saved and/or restored by AFI includes the long lost first OUR GANG movie, the oldest surviving AfricanAmerican feature, a lost Harold Lloyd comedy and a lost Edison...
Read More..
PAIN CHAIN
Three characters' lives are overturned by the arrival of an enchanted amulet that has the power to transfer pain from one person to another.
Read More..
MITZI AND JOE
The AFI Fest is proud to spotlight Filmmakers Alliance, the cutting-edge Los Angeles filmmaking collective, by screening its latest collection of short films under the title of "Love and Death" -four darkly comic takes on love, crime, relationships, birth, death...
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MOVIN’ TO MONTANA
The thoughtful tale of a fatherless boy, Jesse, who runs away from home believing that football great Joe Montana is his father.
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MR. ZHAO
Stories of adultery always transcend cultural boundaries, and "Mr. Zhao" is no exception. When the title character, a teacher, begins an affair with one of his former students, his wife follows him and discovers the infidelity. Complicating matters, his mistress...
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MUCH ADO ABOUT PUBERTY
A 16th century Elizabethan family of three finds themselves living in suburban America.
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THE ORIGINS OF BEETHOVEN’S MOONLIGHT SONATA
Film preservation also means exhibition to AFI. This extraordinary program of rare films saved and/or restored by AFI includes the long lost first OUR GANG movie, the oldest surviving AfricanAmerican feature, a lost Harold Lloyd comedy and a lost Edison...
Read More..
THE OTHER CONQUEST
Through a startling visual and aural tapestry of fact. fiction and spirituality, THE OTHER CONQUEST tells the story of Emperor Moctezuma's illegitimate son, the Aztec scribe Topiltzin, who is trying to adapt to a new, hostile world after the 1521...
Read More..
THE LITTLE GIRL WHO FELL FROM A TREE
SINGLE WHITE FEMALE meets FATAL ATIRACTION in this exciting psycho-thriller set in Berlin. A troubled young couple unable to have children find their lives infiltrated by a seductive young woman who moves into the adjacent flat. Flashes of a little...
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LOVE WITHOUT SOCKS
The AFI Fest is proud to spotlight Filmmakers Alliance, the cutting-edge Los Angeles filmmaking collective, by screening its latest collection of short films under the title of "Love and Death" -four darkly comic takes on love, crime, relationships, birth, death...
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MANUEL OCAMPO: GOD IS MY CO-PILOT
Philippine-born contemporary artist Manuel Ocampo and his unforgettably provocative paintings have been a staple of the Los Angeles art scene and galleries throughout the world for the past decade, mixing religious iconography with debasing images of regal cockroaches and rats...
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MEETING DADDY
In the role of his lifetime, Lloyd Bridges is "Daddy," the South's (and possibly the world's) most wily and manipulative father. Peter is a transplanted New Yorker who is having a hard time loving Los Angeles -- that is, until...
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THE OATH
A prisoner is found unconscious in his cell after an attempted suicide. The prison doctor is called to resuscitate the man and so must face an ethical dilemma.
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THE ORIENTAL NIGHTFISH
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
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LATE LAST NIGHT
One of the brightest dark comedies to emerge this year, LATE LAST NIGHT is that rare mix of sharp wit and quirky charm wrapped around an infernal all-night bender worthy of Dante -Scorsese's AFTER HOURS re-imagined for L.A. When Dan...
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LEFT LUGGAGE
Set in Antwerp, Belgium, in the early 70's Chaja, a young philosophy student, supports herself doing odd jobs while attending University. She has a complex relationship with her parents, both survivers of the concentration camps. Her mother denies the past...
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THE LESSER EVIL
Twenty-two years is a long time. Almost long enough for the Father Ivan Williams, Officer Frank O'Brien, attorney George Masseli, and mild-mannered businessman Derek Eastman to forget the darkest secret of their past. Almost. On a cold afternoon twenty-two years...
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LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (LA VITA È BELLA)
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (La Vitae Bella) is a Chaplinesque fable about the power of imagination set against the stark reality of World War II Europe. The film combines satire, physical comedy, social commentary and a touch of the surreal into...
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MY MOTHER DREAMS THE SATAN DISCIPLES IN NEW YORK
A mother/daughter/biker comedy about a Midwestern housewife who travels to Manhattan for the first time and begins to spin a fantasy about the Satan Disciples motorcycle club across the street from her daughter's apartment.
Read More..
MY SON THE FANATIC
Parvez, a taxi driver in Britain, can't break out of his working class status and afford a better life for his wife, Minoa and son, Farid. Working into the night to earn his keep, Parvez endures condescension from people like...
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NICOTINE
Madrid, 2016. Smoking is forbidden. Two old friends meet up again and neither will emerge unhurt from this encounter.
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KEEP IN A DRY PLACE AND AWAY FROM CHILDREN
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
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THE LAST CONTRACT
In February of 1986, the controversial Swedish Prime Minster Olaf Palme was gunned down in downtown Stockholm. This taut and compelling thriller in the vein of THE DAY OF THE JACKAL follows Roger Nyman, a young police officer who is...
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THE LAST DAYS OF MAY
An engaging and original film about a divorced mother, Pat and her loving and protective relationship with her mentally ill daughter, May. May was once a brilliant mathematics major in college when something inside of her snapped, bringing about her...
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MUCH ADO ABOUT PUBERTY
A 16th century Elizabethan family of three finds themselves living in suburban America.
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MY BEAUTIFUL ME
The AFI Fest is proud to spotlight Filmmakers Alliance, the cutting-edge Los Angeles filmmaking collective, by screening its latest collection of short films under the title of "Love and Death" -four darkly comic takes on love, crime, relationships, birth, death...
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THE INHERITORS
This slyly political feature is as much about Austria's rural class system in the 1930s as it is a wry commentary on the nature of utopia. The title refers to seven servants and the windfall they receive when their landowner...
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INTERNET LOVE
A transcontinental love story that follows electronic pen pals in Los Angeles and Germany who start getting amorous, INTERNET LOVE is as much about the dehumanizing effect of computers as it is about the questionable authenticity of any idealized relationships....
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ISN’T IT ROMANTIC
After celebrating a buddy's birthday at a strip bar, Alan, thinking he's helping a stranded motorist, picks up the wrong girl at the wrong time on the wrong stretch of Hollywood Boulevard and ends up busted by the cops a...
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JEROME
In this nine-to-five, work-oriented world - who hasn't thought of escaping their everyday responsibilities? JEROME is a day-inthe- life story of one such dreamer, Wade Hampton, who has been trapped for the last 15 years in an unfulfilling existence at...
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JUGOFILM
Many films have brought home the tragedy of war by focusing on the plight of those fighting on the front lines. Young Milan and his family have managed to avoid the holocaust consuming those trapped in Yugoslavia, but they are...
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MOVIN’ TO MONTANA
The thoughtful tale of a fatherless boy, Jesse, who runs away from home believing that football great Joe Montana is his father.
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MR. ZHAO
Stories of adultery always transcend cultural boundaries, and "Mr. Zhao" is no exception. When the title character, a teacher, begins an affair with one of his former students, his wife follows him and discovers the infidelity. Complicating matters, his mistress...
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HYDE
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
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I WOKE UP EARLY THE DAY I DIED
A cross-dressing thief escapes from a sanitarium, wearing his nurse's uniform. The reason for his residence in Casa de la Loco? Random noises trigger a cerebral frenzy, driving him to kill. He embarks on a homicidal larceny bender. .. Clearly...
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IN THE NAVEL OF THE SEA
In a remote fishing island in the 1950s, Pepito grows up learning the trade of his mother, the only midwife capable of delivering the newborn babies of the comm'unity. At first, the young son doesn't mind the unusual arrangement, but...
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MEETING DADDY
In the role of his lifetime, Lloyd Bridges is "Daddy," the South's (and possibly the world's) most wily and manipulative father. Peter is a transplanted New Yorker who is having a hard time loving Los Angeles -- that is, until...
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MITZI AND JOE
The AFI Fest is proud to spotlight Filmmakers Alliance, the cutting-edge Los Angeles filmmaking collective, by screening its latest collection of short films under the title of "Love and Death" -four darkly comic takes on love, crime, relationships, birth, death...
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GODS AND MONSTERS
On May 29, 1957, the lifeless body of retired film director James Whale, director of the FRANKENSTEIN movies, was found, sportily attired in his favorite suit, at the bottom of his swimming pool. In this fictional account, Whale has recently...
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GOING TO KANSAS CITY
Finnish exchange student Mikko is going to Kansas City, but instead of landing in a hot-spot of jazz and blues, he finds himself stranded in a tiny farming community light years from his dreams. Here he's introduced to the best...
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GREEN FISH
Fresh from finishing his military service, Mak-Dong rescues Mi-Ae, a damsel in distress on a train, who only leaves behind her scarf as a memento. Smitten, MakDong returns home to a fragmented family whose remaining members, except for his polio-stricken...
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HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT
The AFI Fest is proud to spotlight Filmmakers Alliance, the cutting-edge Los Angeles filmmaking collective, by screening its latest collection of short films under the title of "Love and Death" -four darkly comic takes on love, crime, relationships, birth, death...
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LOVE WITHOUT SOCKS
The AFI Fest is proud to spotlight Filmmakers Alliance, the cutting-edge Los Angeles filmmaking collective, by screening its latest collection of short films under the title of "Love and Death" -four darkly comic takes on love, crime, relationships, birth, death...
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MANUEL OCAMPO: GOD IS MY CO-PILOT
Philippine-born contemporary artist Manuel Ocampo and his unforgettably provocative paintings have been a staple of the Los Angeles art scene and galleries throughout the world for the past decade, mixing religious iconography with debasing images of regal cockroaches and rats...
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GEORGICA
This Estonian film ravishes you with the simplicity of its story and the competence of its imagery. Jakub is an old preacher who lives alone on an island, until one day a young mute boy comes to live with him....
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GERI’S GAME
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
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GOD SAID, HA!
Filmed before a live audience, GOD SAID HA! brings SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE alum Julia Sweeney's critically-acclaimed stage production (that had its world debut in San Francisco) to the screen. Shortly after Sweeney moves into her dream Hollywood bungalow or, as...
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THE LESSER EVIL
Twenty-two years is a long time. Almost long enough for the Father Ivan Williams, Officer Frank O'Brien, attorney George Masseli, and mild-mannered businessman Derek Eastman to forget the darkest secret of their past. Almost. On a cold afternoon twenty-two years...
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LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (LA VITA È BELLA)
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (La Vitae Bella) is a Chaplinesque fable about the power of imagination set against the stark reality of World War II Europe. The film combines satire, physical comedy, social commentary and a touch of the surreal into...
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THE LITTLE GIRL WHO FELL FROM A TREE
SINGLE WHITE FEMALE meets FATAL ATIRACTION in this exciting psycho-thriller set in Berlin. A troubled young couple unable to have children find their lives infiltrated by a seductive young woman who moves into the adjacent flat. Flashes of a little...
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FAMILY ATTRACTION
The last "nuclear family" in America is an endangered species, held in captivity at The National Zoo.
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FIRE-EATER
Twin girls, abandoned by their mother, are raised by their grandmother who calls them Vladimir and llyich after her hero Lenin. Their life under the protection of their grandmother and her Communist teaching ends with her sudden death, and at...
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FREE ENTERPRISE
SWINGERS and DINER meet MY FAVORITE YEAR in this quirky romantic comedy about two lifelong film fanatics struggling with turning 30 who meet their idol, William Shatner, and discover he's even more screwed up than they are. Wrestling with the...
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FUR
Guided by the forces of the Coney Island freak show, young Rose stiches her grisly fabric of freedom.
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LATE LAST NIGHT
One of the brightest dark comedies to emerge this year, LATE LAST NIGHT is that rare mix of sharp wit and quirky charm wrapped around an infernal all-night bender worthy of Dante -Scorsese's AFTER HOURS re-imagined for L.A. When Dan...
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LEFT LUGGAGE
Set in Antwerp, Belgium, in the early 70's Chaja, a young philosophy student, supports herself doing odd jobs while attending University. She has a complex relationship with her parents, both survivers of the concentration camps. Her mother denies the past...
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DETENTION
A seemingly stable and thoughtful teacher who hasn't been in a classroom in 25 years is called back as substitute teacher in a suburban high school. Having been in high school himself 30 years prior, it couldn't have changed that...
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DOWN IN THE DELTA
Maya Angelou's feature-length directing debut opens in Chicago where Loretta, played by three-time Emmy Award winner Alfre Woodard, lives with her mother and two children. Unskilled and unable to make a living, Loretta falls into an alcohol-fueled tailspin. Loretta's mother,...
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THE DREAMLIFE OF ANGELS
A raw, clear-eyed melodrama about two young women and the fragile friendship they form. When 20-year old homeless backpacker Isa buoyantly enters the emotionally cool world of Marie, the two become reluctant friends, and Isa eventually moves into Marie's apartment...
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THE LAST CONTRACT
In February of 1986, the controversial Swedish Prime Minster Olaf Palme was gunned down in downtown Stockholm. This taut and compelling thriller in the vein of THE DAY OF THE JACKAL follows Roger Nyman, a young police officer who is...
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THE LAST DAYS OF MAY
An engaging and original film about a divorced mother, Pat and her loving and protective relationship with her mentally ill daughter, May. May was once a brilliant mathematics major in college when something inside of her snapped, bringing about her...
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DANCEMAKER
Paul Taylor has been hailed as "the world's greatest living choreographer," having created a stunning body of dance work over the last forty years. When the curtain opens on the Paul Taylor Dance Company, audiences see a troupe of dancers...
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DANCING AT LUGHNASA
It makes sense that, with its exceptionally strong sense of place, Brian Friel's popular, award-winning stage play would translate beautifully to the screen. Pat O'Connor's adaptation of "Dancing at Lughnasa" brings the play's pre-war Ireland to life, creating a lovely...
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DEAD LEAVES
DEAD LEAVES is a dark, poetic meditation on suicide, selfmutilation and the romantic themes of melancholy, mortality, eternal love and loss. The story's doomed hero Joey (played by Israeli actor Haim Abramski) saves the body of his deceased lover, the...
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JUGOFILM
Many films have brought home the tragedy of war by focusing on the plight of those fighting on the front lines. Young Milan and his family have managed to avoid the holocaust consuming those trapped in Yugoslavia, but they are...
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KEEP IN A DRY PLACE AND AWAY FROM CHILDREN
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
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CAUGHT IN THE SPRAY
A young, homeless documentarian finds himself losing his sanity in the middle of a film deal with a neurotic producer and a gunwielding rap artist.
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THE CRITIC
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
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CUSP
After surviving a stalker's attack, Marie, a neophyte artist, finds herself and her art transformed, but at what price .. .???
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INTERNET LOVE
A transcontinental love story that follows electronic pen pals in Los Angeles and Germany who start getting amorous, INTERNET LOVE is as much about the dehumanizing effect of computers as it is about the questionable authenticity of any idealized relationships....
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ISN’T IT ROMANTIC
After celebrating a buddy's birthday at a strip bar, Alan, thinking he's helping a stranded motorist, picks up the wrong girl at the wrong time on the wrong stretch of Hollywood Boulevard and ends up busted by the cops a...
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JEROME
In this nine-to-five, work-oriented world - who hasn't thought of escaping their everyday responsibilities? JEROME is a day-inthe- life story of one such dreamer, Wade Hampton, who has been trapped for the last 15 years in an unfulfilling existence at...
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BROTHER TIED
Cal and Aaron are two brothers whose relationship is clearly very troubled. Cal forms a friendship with a young man, Cassius, from a very different background. When Aaron goads Cassius into a fight at a Christmas party and Cal stands...
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BURNT BY FROST
A magnificent film about love in the borderland between realism and surrealism, created by Norwegian film's most prominent lyric poet. Raw and brutal, tender and magical, this film dares to explore the limits of the medium. Simon and Lillian are...
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THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
Robert Wiene's seminal horror movie, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, remains one of the most inspired and chilling exercises in express paranoia ever made. The plot, about a hypnotist who uses a sleepwalker to carry out his murders, resonates the...
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CARESSES
One of the most prolific and adventurous filmmakers in contemporary Spanish cinema, Ventura Pons offers up a kaleidoscopic x-ray of peculiar urban behaviors. A circuit of abrupt meetings between displaced city dwellers links the encounters of characters infected with a...
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IN THE NAVEL OF THE SEA
In a remote fishing island in the 1950s, Pepito grows up learning the trade of his mother, the only midwife capable of delivering the newborn babies of the comm'unity. At first, the young son doesn't mind the unusual arrangement, but...
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THE INHERITORS
This slyly political feature is as much about Austria's rural class system in the 1930s as it is a wry commentary on the nature of utopia. The title refers to seven servants and the windfall they receive when their landowner...
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BLEACH
A science-fiction police thriller which deals with memory and traumatic experiences.
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THE BOOK OF GREAT WISHES
The authorities of a sanitarium for elderly and bedridden patients decide to offer shelter to some small girls who have lost their home when their orphanage catches fire. Seven year old Marysia tries to befriend Adam, a man at the...
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THE BOXER TRAILER
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
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BRIDE OF WAR
Based on a true story of love and bravery in war-ravaged Europe, this heart-wrenching film was shot entirely in Poland. It skillfully combines the intensity of combat with the joy and heartache of young romance. A headstrong soldier is captured...
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HYDE
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
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I WOKE UP EARLY THE DAY I DIED
A cross-dressing thief escapes from a sanitarium, wearing his nurse's uniform. The reason for his residence in Casa de la Loco? Random noises trigger a cerebral frenzy, driving him to kill. He embarks on a homicidal larceny bender. .. Clearly...
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BENEATH THE SURFACE
While her younger sister Jannika is a well-adjusted girl at peace with her family, rebellious 23-year-old Sandra is sinking rapidly into the quicksand of drugs and prostitution. Her pusher roommate Roffe forces her to turn tricks to pay for the...
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BEYOND PARADISE
A traumatic event forces a young Californian to move to the big island of Hawaii. There he discovers a strange, violent place that exists beneath the postcard image of this tropical paradise. At his new high school, Mark encounters a...
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THE BIG MAMBO
Martin, a not-so busy actor, is resolutely determined not to grow up. Walking about Berlin, he dreams of making a film about his own youth and the good old days of rock'n'roll. Sadly he is the only one interested in...
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BINGO
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
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GREEN FISH
Fresh from finishing his military service, Mak-Dong rescues Mi-Ae, a damsel in distress on a train, who only leaves behind her scarf as a memento. Smitten, MakDong returns home to a fragmented family whose remaining members, except for his polio-stricken...
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HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT
The AFI Fest is proud to spotlight Filmmakers Alliance, the cutting-edge Los Angeles filmmaking collective, by screening its latest collection of short films under the title of "Love and Death" -four darkly comic takes on love, crime, relationships, birth, death...
Read More..
THE APPLE
An astonishing re-enactment of a tragic true story: eleven-year old twin daughters are kept locked away at home their entire lives as possessive parents deny them the sort cif freedom and friendships that other children take for granted. When a...
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THE BAND
Filmmaker David Zeiger spends one year filming his 18 year old son Danny and fellow members of the Decatur High School Marching Band. Surprisingly at ease and unselfconscious in front of the camera, the students philosophize, clown and give unflinchingly...
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BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
Eisenstein, the AFI Film Festival presents the recently restored version of BATILESHIP POTEMKIN, featuring formerly excised footage. Undeniably one of the greatest films in cinematic history, BATILESHIP POTEMKIN effectively portrays the horrors of the failed Russian Revolution of 1905. Besides...
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THE BEARD
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
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GODS AND MONSTERS
On May 29, 1957, the lifeless body of retired film director James Whale, director of the FRANKENSTEIN movies, was found, sportily attired in his favorite suit, at the bottom of his swimming pool. In this fictional account, Whale has recently...
Read More..
GOING TO KANSAS CITY
Finnish exchange student Mikko is going to Kansas City, but instead of landing in a hot-spot of jazz and blues, he finds himself stranded in a tiny farming community light years from his dreams. Here he's introduced to the best...
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AMY
A little girl (played by a luminous 8-yearold Alana De Roma) rendered speechless after witnessing a harrowing event years prior is taken by her mother from the country to the city to get their lives back together. Her mother's attempts...
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ANGELMAKER
A dark and atmospheric folk tale wherein a young girl confronts a series of moral choices in a rough turn-of-the-century Appalachia.
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GEORGICA
This Estonian film ravishes you with the simplicity of its story and the competence of its imagery. Jakub is an old preacher who lives alone on an island, until one day a young mute boy comes to live with him....
Read More..
GERI’S GAME
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
Read More..
GOD SAID, HA!
Filmed before a live audience, GOD SAID HA! brings SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE alum Julia Sweeney's critically-acclaimed stage production (that had its world debut in San Francisco) to the screen. Shortly after Sweeney moves into her dream Hollywood bungalow or, as...
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ACCIDENT
An accide nt involving a little boy is not what it seems.
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AIRBAG
AIRBAG sets out to be frenzied, fun, and daring .. .Th1s third, long awaited feature from 30-year-old helmer Juanma Baja Ullos is a $6 million postmodern comedy thriller that shows equal traces of John Woo and Quentin Tarantino ...w ithout...
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AMERICAN MASTERS – LEONARD BERNSTEIN: REACH FOR THE NOTE
One night in 1943, twenty-five year old Leonard Bernstein stepped in to guest conduct for the New York Philharmonic's ailing Bruno Walter and became an overnight sensation. Two years later, he was appointed symphony director - the first American director...
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FREE ENTERPRISE
SWINGERS and DINER meet MY FAVORITE YEAR in this quirky romantic comedy about two lifelong film fanatics struggling with turning 30 who meet their idol, William Shatner, and discover he's even more screwed up than they are. Wrestling with the...
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FUR
Guided by the forces of the Coney Island freak show, young Rose stiches her grisly fabric of freedom.
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12 BUCKS
Two physically and emotionaly abused brothers must overcome the tragedy that separated them so many years ago. Fifteen years later, the brothers are re-united in Los Angeles. A mysterious note speaking of resurrection sets them off on what promises to...
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FAMILY ATTRACTION
The last "nuclear family" in America is an endangered species, held in captivity at The National Zoo.
Read More..
FIRE-EATER
Twin girls, abandoned by their mother, are raised by their grandmother who calls them Vladimir and llyich after her hero Lenin. Their life under the protection of their grandmother and her Communist teaching ends with her sudden death, and at...
Read More..
1001 NIGHTS
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
Read More..
DOWN IN THE DELTA
Maya Angelou's feature-length directing debut opens in Chicago where Loretta, played by three-time Emmy Award winner Alfre Woodard, lives with her mother and two children. Unskilled and unable to make a living, Loretta falls into an alcohol-fueled tailspin. Loretta's mother,...
Read More..
THE DREAMLIFE OF ANGELS
A raw, clear-eyed melodrama about two young women and the fragile friendship they form. When 20-year old homeless backpacker Isa buoyantly enters the emotionally cool world of Marie, the two become reluctant friends, and Isa eventually moves into Marie's apartment...
Read More..
DEAD LEAVES
DEAD LEAVES is a dark, poetic meditation on suicide, selfmutilation and the romantic themes of melancholy, mortality, eternal love and loss. The story's doomed hero Joey (played by Israeli actor Haim Abramski) saves the body of his deceased lover, the...
Read More..
DETENTION
A seemingly stable and thoughtful teacher who hasn't been in a classroom in 25 years is called back as substitute teacher in a suburban high school. Having been in high school himself 30 years prior, it couldn't have changed that...
Read More..
DANCEMAKER
Paul Taylor has been hailed as "the world's greatest living choreographer," having created a stunning body of dance work over the last forty years. When the curtain opens on the Paul Taylor Dance Company, audiences see a troupe of dancers...
Read More..
DANCING AT LUGHNASA
It makes sense that, with its exceptionally strong sense of place, Brian Friel's popular, award-winning stage play would translate beautifully to the screen. Pat O'Connor's adaptation of "Dancing at Lughnasa" brings the play's pre-war Ireland to life, creating a lovely...
Read More..
THE CRITIC
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
Read More..
CUSP
After surviving a stalker's attack, Marie, a neophyte artist, finds herself and her art transformed, but at what price .. .???
Read More..
CARESSES
One of the most prolific and adventurous filmmakers in contemporary Spanish cinema, Ventura Pons offers up a kaleidoscopic x-ray of peculiar urban behaviors. A circuit of abrupt meetings between displaced city dwellers links the encounters of characters infected with a...
Read More..
CAUGHT IN THE SPRAY
A young, homeless documentarian finds himself losing his sanity in the middle of a film deal with a neurotic producer and a gunwielding rap artist.
Read More..
BURNT BY FROST
A magnificent film about love in the borderland between realism and surrealism, created by Norwegian film's most prominent lyric poet. Raw and brutal, tender and magical, this film dares to explore the limits of the medium. Simon and Lillian are...
Read More..
THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
Robert Wiene's seminal horror movie, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, remains one of the most inspired and chilling exercises in express paranoia ever made. The plot, about a hypnotist who uses a sleepwalker to carry out his murders, resonates the...
Read More..
BRIDE OF WAR
Based on a true story of love and bravery in war-ravaged Europe, this heart-wrenching film was shot entirely in Poland. It skillfully combines the intensity of combat with the joy and heartache of young romance. A headstrong soldier is captured...
Read More..
BROTHER TIED
Cal and Aaron are two brothers whose relationship is clearly very troubled. Cal forms a friendship with a young man, Cassius, from a very different background. When Aaron goads Cassius into a fight at a Christmas party and Cal stands...
Read More..
BLEACH
A science-fiction police thriller which deals with memory and traumatic experiences.
Read More..
THE BOOK OF GREAT WISHES
The authorities of a sanitarium for elderly and bedridden patients decide to offer shelter to some small girls who have lost their home when their orphanage catches fire. Seven year old Marysia tries to befriend Adam, a man at the...
Read More..
THE BOXER TRAILER
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
Read More..
BINGO
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
Read More..
BENEATH THE SURFACE
While her younger sister Jannika is a well-adjusted girl at peace with her family, rebellious 23-year-old Sandra is sinking rapidly into the quicksand of drugs and prostitution. Her pusher roommate Roffe forces her to turn tricks to pay for the...
Read More..
BEYOND PARADISE
A traumatic event forces a young Californian to move to the big island of Hawaii. There he discovers a strange, violent place that exists beneath the postcard image of this tropical paradise. At his new high school, Mark encounters a...
Read More..
THE BIG MAMBO
Martin, a not-so busy actor, is resolutely determined not to grow up. Walking about Berlin, he dreams of making a film about his own youth and the good old days of rock'n'roll. Sadly he is the only one interested in...
Read More..
THE BEARD
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
Read More..
THE APPLE
An astonishing re-enactment of a tragic true story: eleven-year old twin daughters are kept locked away at home their entire lives as possessive parents deny them the sort cif freedom and friendships that other children take for granted. When a...
Read More..
THE BAND
Filmmaker David Zeiger spends one year filming his 18 year old son Danny and fellow members of the Decatur High School Marching Band. Surprisingly at ease and unselfconscious in front of the camera, the students philosophize, clown and give unflinchingly...
Read More..
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
Eisenstein, the AFI Film Festival presents the recently restored version of BATILESHIP POTEMKIN, featuring formerly excised footage. Undeniably one of the greatest films in cinematic history, BATILESHIP POTEMKIN effectively portrays the horrors of the failed Russian Revolution of 1905. Besides...
Read More..
ANGELMAKER
A dark and atmospheric folk tale wherein a young girl confronts a series of moral choices in a rough turn-of-the-century Appalachia.
Read More..
AMERICAN MASTERS – LEONARD BERNSTEIN: REACH FOR THE NOTE
One night in 1943, twenty-five year old Leonard Bernstein stepped in to guest conduct for the New York Philharmonic's ailing Bruno Walter and became an overnight sensation. Two years later, he was appointed symphony director - the first American director...
Read More..
AMY
A little girl (played by a luminous 8-yearold Alana De Roma) rendered speechless after witnessing a harrowing event years prior is taken by her mother from the country to the city to get their lives back together. Her mother's attempts...
Read More..
ACCIDENT
An accide nt involving a little boy is not what it seems.
Read More..
AIRBAG
AIRBAG sets out to be frenzied, fun, and daring .. .Th1s third, long awaited feature from 30-year-old helmer Juanma Baja Ullos is a $6 million postmodern comedy thriller that shows equal traces of John Woo and Quentin Tarantino ...w ithout...
Read More..
1001 NIGHTS
Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during...
Read More..
12 BUCKS
Two physically and emotionaly abused brothers must overcome the tragedy that separated them so many years ago. Fifteen years later, the brothers are re-united in Los Angeles. A mysterious note speaking of resurrection sets them off on what promises to...
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THE WITMAN BOYS (WITMAN FIUK)
Featured in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, this stylish and disturbing tale of two young brothers who, after the sudden death of their father, enter a downward spiral of grim morbidity, maintains a gripping level of tension throughout. "Talented director...
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WITHOUT A MAP
A struggling writer who hates his day job has trouble with his sexy-as-ice girlfriend with wandering eyes. When a smart, vibrant and agreeable young woman enters his life, it seems his troubled search for meaning is over - until the...
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WINNER TAKE NOTHING
In 1984 Margaux Hemingway and her husband, Bernard Foucher, set out to make a documentary about her grandfather Ernest Hemingway. It was to be a lighthearted adventure, visiting Ernest's watering holes and meeting and interviewing his friends. The search took...
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WHEN I WAS A BOY
The events surrounding a tomboy who gets her first bra circa 1963 .
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THE WINGS OF THE DOVE
Based on Henry James' tumof- the-century tale of passion and betrayal, this stunningly photographed story unfolds amidst fashionable London townhouses and gilded Venetian palazzos. Kate (Helena Bonham Carter) is a spirited, intelligent woman who finds herself in a struggle between...
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WELCOME TO SARAJEVO
"Some of us had covered many wars before - Yugoslavia was my 14th ... Yet, despite all my experience of war, nothing prepared me for Yugoslavia," writes journalist Michael Nicholson in "Natasha's Story," the basis for this emotionally charged story...
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VINCENT
brings to audiences the best in contemporary clay animated films of the last 20 years. This landmark collection celebrates the I 00th anniversary of stop motion filmmaking, the earliest form of animation. Produced one frame at a time, and sometimes...
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TREKKIES
An engaging documentary that not only entertains, but paints a portrait of the largest, most amazing fan phenomenon in pop culture history. For 30 years the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise has entertained millions of fans around the world. But...
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TOXIC REMEDY
Emotions: too much can kill you ... Too little and you're already dead.
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THE TINGLER
Classic Castle thriller with Price as a coroner who discovers a creature who grows on people's spines from fright. The only way to subdue it is by screaming. First movie reference to LSD, as Price takes a trip. Great audience...
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WITHOUT A MAP
A struggling writer who hates his day job has trouble with his sexy-as-ice girlfriend with wandering eyes. When a smart, vibrant and agreeable young woman enters his life, it seems his troubled search for meaning is over - until the...
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Fourteen year old Lola, new to Brooklyn, learns the art of writing her name.
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THE WITMAN BOYS (WITMAN FIUK)
Featured in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, this stylish and disturbing tale of two young brothers who, after the sudden death of their father, enter a downward spiral of grim morbidity, maintains a gripping level of tension throughout. "Talented director...
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WELCOME TO SARAJEVO
"Some of us had covered many wars before - Yugoslavia was my 14th ... Yet, despite all my experience of war, nothing prepared me for Yugoslavia," writes journalist Michael Nicholson in "Natasha's Story," the basis for this emotionally charged story...
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WHEN I WAS A BOY
The events surrounding a tomboy who gets her first bra circa 1963 .
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THE WINGS OF THE DOVE
Based on Henry James' tumof- the-century tale of passion and betrayal, this stunningly photographed story unfolds amidst fashionable London townhouses and gilded Venetian palazzos. Kate (Helena Bonham Carter) is a spirited, intelligent woman who finds herself in a struggle between...
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SWEET JANE
Tony, a young teen dying of AIDS, does not want to spend the end of his life in a hospital. Alone in the world, he escapes from the hospital to follow a lady who 'looks like an angel.' But the...
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WINNER TAKE NOTHING
In 1984 Margaux Hemingway and her husband, Bernard Foucher, set out to make a documentary about her grandfather Ernest Hemingway. It was to be a lighthearted adventure, visiting Ernest's watering holes and meeting and interviewing his friends. The search took...
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SWEPT FROM THE SEA (AMY FOSTER)
Inspired by a Joseph Conrad story entitled "Amy Foster," Beeban Kidron's SWEPT FROM THE SEA is an epic romantic drama set in 19th century Cornwall, England that pitches the morality of man against the immortality of nature. To the world,...
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TOXIC REMEDY
Emotions: too much can kill you ... Too little and you're already dead.
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TREKKIES
An engaging documentary that not only entertains, but paints a portrait of the largest, most amazing fan phenomenon in pop culture history. For 30 years the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise has entertained millions of fans around the world. But...
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VINCENT
brings to audiences the best in contemporary clay animated films of the last 20 years. This landmark collection celebrates the I 00th anniversary of stop motion filmmaking, the earliest form of animation. Produced one frame at a time, and sometimes...
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STEAMING MILK
Andy, an aspiring screenwriter looking to hit the big-time, is having trouble distinguishing reality from the world he's created in his script. The possibility of actually selling his dream, intermixed with one bad day at the coffee house makes for...
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THE TINGLER
Classic Castle thriller with Price as a coroner who discovers a creature who grows on people's spines from fright. The only way to subdue it is by screaming. First movie reference to LSD, as Price takes a trip. Great audience...
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SOULMATES
A heartwarming drama about the unlikely family that develops between three strangers: a talented but depressed young composer, an embittered old soul musician and a world-weary nurse. The three form an unlikely bond when the composer, having taken a job...
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THE SOULER OPPOSITE
An engaging romantic comedy about an obscure stand-up comedian whose life is turned upside down when he falls head over heels for a young political activist who is clearly in the "spiritual quest" mode. They throw themselves into a psycho-sexual...
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TAG
Fourteen year old Lola, new to Brooklyn, learns the art of writing her name.
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THE SHOPPING QUEEN
Sandi and her arch nemesis, Veronica, both receive car faxes announcing a sale at Armani and race to buy the same dress.
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STEAMING MILK
Andy, an aspiring screenwriter looking to hit the big-time, is having trouble distinguishing reality from the world he's created in his script. The possibility of actually selling his dream, intermixed with one bad day at the coffee house makes for...
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SWEET JANE
Tony, a young teen dying of AIDS, does not want to spend the end of his life in a hospital. Alone in the world, he escapes from the hospital to follow a lady who 'looks like an angel.' But the...
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SWEPT FROM THE SEA (AMY FOSTER)
Inspired by a Joseph Conrad story entitled "Amy Foster," Beeban Kidron's SWEPT FROM THE SEA is an epic romantic drama set in 19th century Cornwall, England that pitches the morality of man against the immortality of nature. To the world,...
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SETANTA
A documentary covering on independent music label based in London.
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SETANTA
A documentary covering on independent music label based in London.
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THE SHOPPING QUEEN
Sandi and her arch nemesis, Veronica, both receive car faxes announcing a sale at Armani and race to buy the same dress.
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THE SOULER OPPOSITE
An engaging romantic comedy about an obscure stand-up comedian whose life is turned upside down when he falls head over heels for a young political activist who is clearly in the "spiritual quest" mode. They throw themselves into a psycho-sexual...
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SOULMATES
A heartwarming drama about the unlikely family that develops between three strangers: a talented but depressed young composer, an embittered old soul musician and a world-weary nurse. The three form an unlikely bond when the composer, having taken a job...
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REAL STORIES OF THE DONUT MEN
This wi Id and wacky tale of revenge features a young man who, when victimized by the incompetence and injustice of the bureaucracy, puts together a band of anarchist musicians to impersonate the police and wreak havoc on the city....
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REAL STORIES OF THE DONUT MEN
This wi Id and wacky tale of revenge features a young man who, when victimized by the incompetence and injustice of the bureaucracy, puts together a band of anarchist musicians to impersonate the police and wreak havoc on the city....
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RAISING THE ASHES
In November 1996, while Americans traditionally celebrated Thanksgiving, one hundred and fifty people from seven countries gathered at the Nazi death camp in Auschwitz, Poland for five days of meditation and reflection on the hon-ors of the Holocaust. After appreciating...
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RANT
Two ants, one sandwich, and a chance to be heroes, as a couple of bold insects encounter the perils of the large world.
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PERFECT MOMENT
"If you were to die tomorrow, what moment would you most remember and how did it change your life?" This question was asked to over 80 individuals, from all walks of life and ethnic backgrounds. PERFECT MOMENT is a film...
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PIECES
A sinister comedy about three crazed ItalianAmerican brothers in a Cleveland hairpiece business whose sometimes vicious, often hilarious lives have plummeted to an all-time low. The brothers plan to salvage their situation by stealing and selling a competitor's client list....
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PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE
Hailed as the worst movie ever made. Pompous aliens try conquering Earth by resurrecting corpses from a San Fernando Valley cemetery. This cult film is a must see. Last appearance by Lugosi who died during filming.
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PUNCHING THE CLOWN, A PORTRAIT OF HENRY PHILLIPS
This documentary film, which includes fictional content, spans a few days in the life of Henry Phillips, a socially and politically abrasive singer/songwriter and a household name in the LA club circuit. In the film, Phillips is led to evaluate...
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MONA LISA DESCENDING A STAIRCASE
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MR. SARDONICUS
Recluse Count with a cursed sardonic goulish grin which he got from greedily defiling his father's grove, lures his wife's old boyfriend/doctor to cure him with a new medical treatment. Bizarre, creepy and sick.
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MY BODY
A neurotic and self-loathing man dares to open himself up to his true sexual orientation.
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NO CHILD OF MINE
This film is a shocking and compelling drama detatlmg the true story of a young girl's experiences of chtld abuse. Kerry,_ a seemingly happy school girl, endures an almost mcomprehensible series of brutalities and betrayals. The film was shot in...
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OPENING TITLES
brings to audiences the best in contemporary clay animated films of the last 20 years. This landmark collection celebrates the I 00th anniversary of stop motion filmmaking, the earliest form of animation. Produced one frame at a time, and sometimes...
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PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE
Hailed as the worst movie ever made. Pompous aliens try conquering Earth by resurrecting corpses from a San Fernando Valley cemetery. This cult film is a must see. Last appearance by Lugosi who died during filming.
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MARQUISE
Set against the backdrop of the court of King Louis XIV at Versailles, this is a magnificent piece of filmmakmg- luxuriously romantic and beautiful. A ravishingly beautiful but poverty stricken young dancer marnes a famous actor in Moliere's drama troupe,...
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MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
The most Bergman-like of Carmon's films, this timeless tale has Price as evil Prince Prospero, a Satan worshipper living it up in his castle with his entourage while the countryside is being ravished by a plague. Beautifully photographed by Nicolas...
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PIECES
A sinister comedy about three crazed ItalianAmerican brothers in a Cleveland hairpiece business whose sometimes vicious, often hilarious lives have plummeted to an all-time low. The brothers plan to salvage their situation by stealing and selling a competitor's client list....
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MANDRAGORA
A tragic and moving drama about runaway children on the streets of Prague. When a small town teenage boy can no longer stand the pressures from his father and his school obligations, he leaves for Prague. Helpless and lonely, he...
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PERFECT MOMENT
"If you were to die tomorrow, what moment would you most remember and how did it change your life?" This question was asked to over 80 individuals, from all walks of life and ethnic backgrounds. PERFECT MOMENT is a film...
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LUNCH WITH LOUIE
A repressed bureaucrat having lunch in a park finds his solitude disturbed by a somewhat friendly, somewhat threatening derelict.
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MANDALA
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OPENING TITLES
brings to audiences the best in contemporary clay animated films of the last 20 years. This landmark collection celebrates the I 00th anniversary of stop motion filmmaking, the earliest form of animation. Produced one frame at a time, and sometimes...
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LOVERBOY
A small gang of urchins living in a condemned building jealously destroy a budding romance between two of their elders.
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NO CHILD OF MINE
This film is a shocking and compelling drama detatlmg the true story of a young girl's experiences of chtld abuse. Kerry,_ a seemingly happy school girl, endures an almost mcomprehensible series of brutalities and betrayals. The film was shot in...
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LOVEHOUND
An animated lave triangle between Pete, his browbeating bass, Ronnie "The Realtor", and the woman of Pete's dreams, Ronnie's mistress ... the lovely Ethel.
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LOVER GIRL
Jake is a sixteen-year-old girl who likes candy more than anything else. Abandoned by her mother and turned away by her sister (Kristy Swanson), she is stranded until a massage parlour operator (Sandra Bernhard) takes her in. Before long, Jake...
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MR. SARDONICUS
Recluse Count with a cursed sardonic goulish grin which he got from greedily defiling his father's grove, lures his wife's old boyfriend/doctor to cure him with a new medical treatment. Bizarre, creepy and sick.
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MY BODY
A neurotic and self-loathing man dares to open himself up to his true sexual orientation.
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LONERS ON WHEELS
"I'll either get another 100,000 miles on my van or live to be 100 years old. I think I'll take both," exclaims Duchess Grubb, 87 year old matriarch of the Loners on Wheels club, a national, singles-only recreational vehicle club...
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brings to audiences the best in contemporary clay animated films of the last 20 years. This landmark collection celebrates the I 00th anniversary of stop motion filmmaking, the earliest form of animation. Produced one frame at a time, and sometimes...
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LOAFING
A skateboarder, a yuppie, a homeless man and a salesman find themselves in the awkward silence of a New York public bathroom where they overcome their vast differences through a rather unique human interaction.
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MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
The most Bergman-like of Carmon's films, this timeless tale has Price as evil Prince Prospero, a Satan worshipper living it up in his castle with his entourage while the countryside is being ravished by a plague. Beautifully photographed by Nicolas...
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LEGS
Over one hundred pairs of legs ranging from 6 months to 97 years are surveyed in this telling montage of the human body.
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LITTLE FUGITIVE
Widely regarded as one of the most influential and enjoyable films of American independent cinema, this is an utterly charming fable that poetically captures the joys and wonders of childhood. When a seven year old boy is tricked into believing...
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MARQUISE
Set against the backdrop of the court of King Louis XIV at Versailles, this is a magnificent piece of filmmakmg- luxuriously romantic and beautiful. A ravishingly beautiful but poverty stricken young dancer marnes a famous actor in Moliere's drama troupe,...
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LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY (O SERTÃO DAS MEMÓRIAS)
"Araujo's debut feature crystallizes the raw materials of his native Sertao (Brazil's drought-ndden northeast) into an allegory so riveting it resembles cinema verite made by an all-seeing god. In the film's mythic present, (a) heroic pair manage to evade the...
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MANDRAGORA
A tragic and moving drama about runaway children on the streets of Prague. When a small town teenage boy can no longer stand the pressures from his father and his school obligations, he leaves for Prague. Helpless and lonely, he...
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THE KEY
Sensual, controversial, decadent, yet oddly funny, this is a story of an aging professor's (SHALL WE DANCE's Akira Emoto) perverted desire towards his sexually suppressed young wife. Seeking stimulation to his fading potency, he keeps a detailed diary of his...
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KNOCKIN’ ON HEAVEN’S DOOR
Martin has a brain tumor and Rudi is suffering from bone cancer. Their diagnoses: nearly dead. But Rudi has never seen the ocean, so the two steal a baby blue Mercedes and escape from the hospital. With two goofy gangsters,...
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MANDALA
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KEEP COOL (YOU HUA HAO HAO SHUO)
This controversial entry was selected for the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival and then pulled from competition by the Chinese government. In a marked departure in both style and substance, Zhang (RAISE THE RED LANTERN, STORY OF QIU...
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LOVERBOY
A small gang of urchins living in a condemned building jealously destroy a budding romance between two of their elders.
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LUNCH WITH LOUIE
A repressed bureaucrat having lunch in a park finds his solitude disturbed by a somewhat friendly, somewhat threatening derelict.
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THE JUNKY’S CHRISTMAS
brings to audiences the best in contemporary clay animated films of the last 20 years. This landmark collection celebrates the I 00th anniversary of stop motion filmmaking, the earliest form of animation. Produced one frame at a time, and sometimes...
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KAOS ON WARWICK
A haunting tale about one boy's search for identity and acceptance in a racially divided society.
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LOVER GIRL
Jake is a sixteen-year-old girl who likes candy more than anything else. Abandoned by her mother and turned away by her sister (Kristy Swanson), she is stranded until a massage parlour operator (Sandra Bernhard) takes her in. Before long, Jake...
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JOURNEY ON THE HOUR HAND (AKREBIN YOLCULUGU)
A double winner for best film and best direction in the Istanbul fest's national competition, this existential mystery tale about a clock mender who arrives in a village where time has stopped has a jewel-like perfection ... When a stranger...
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LOVEHOUND
An animated lave triangle between Pete, his browbeating bass, Ronnie "The Realtor", and the woman of Pete's dreams, Ronnie's mistress ... the lovely Ethel.
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THE IMPOSTOR (EL IMPOSTOR)
Enigmatic and mesmerizing, this is a tale of two young men, Sebastian, a runaway hiding at his father's hacienda in the Pampas, and Juan, who has been sent to spy on him for his parents. Juan soon becomes immersed in...
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IS IT THE DESIGN ON THE WRAPPER?
What is the cure for a crappy childhood? A six year-old girl tells us as she gets the better of a bubble gum lady, and goes home strangely comforted.
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LONERS ON WHEELS
"I'll either get another 100,000 miles on my van or live to be 100 years old. I think I'll take both," exclaims Duchess Grubb, 87 year old matriarch of the Loners on Wheels club, a national, singles-only recreational vehicle club...
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IF YOU LOVED ME
An outrageous black comedy about what could happen when love is pushed to the Nth degree - when 'the power of love' takes on a new, darker meaning.
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LOAFING
A skateboarder, a yuppie, a homeless man and a salesman find themselves in the awkward silence of a New York public bathroom where they overcome their vast differences through a rather unique human interaction.
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I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE
Invaders take over humans in grand plan to reproduce. Newly wed wife notices some strange behavior in her idyllic husband and friends. Good effects and performances make this a cult classic. Edited by George Tomasini (VERTIGO, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, PSYCHO)
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LITTLE FUGITIVE
Widely regarded as one of the most influential and enjoyable films of American independent cinema, this is an utterly charming fable that poetically captures the joys and wonders of childhood. When a seven year old boy is tricked into believing...
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HANDS ON A HARD BODY
A hilarious gem of a film, this disarming doc about a contest in Longview, Texas to win a new Nissan truck takes a hokey small-town event and turns it into a metaphorical morality tale as two dozen entrants suffer three...
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HOMBRES COMPLICADOS
This darkly comic film about brotherly love - and hate - is part gangster film, part road movie, and totally wild. Roger is a smooth petty crook who is not quite clever enough for the big time. Constantly in debt,...
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LEGS
Over one hundred pairs of legs ranging from 6 months to 97 years are surveyed in this telling montage of the human body.
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A GUY WALKS INTO A BAR
A young man journeys to Hollywood to pursue his dream of acting in westerns.
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HACKS
This witty ensemble comedy about the lives of televison writers in Hollywood, boasts an all-star cast including Stephen Rea, I!leana Douglas, John Ritter, Tom Arnold, Ryan O'Neal, Lisa Kudrow, Olivia D'Abo and Jason Priestley. Brian is suffering from writer's block....
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KNOCKIN’ ON HEAVEN’S DOOR
Martin has a brain tumor and Rudi is suffering from bone cancer. Their diagnoses: nearly dead. But Rudi has never seen the ocean, so the two steal a baby blue Mercedes and escape from the hospital. With two goofy gangsters,...
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LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY (O SERTÃO DAS MEMÓRIAS)
"Araujo's debut feature crystallizes the raw materials of his native Sertao (Brazil's drought-ndden northeast) into an allegory so riveting it resembles cinema verite made by an all-seeing god. In the film's mythic present, (a) heroic pair manage to evade the...
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GENERIC METAL TITAN
Teen spirit goes murderously awry as Midwestern kids, Neil and Chuck, have a few differences of opinion.
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A GRAND DAY OUT
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THE GREAT COGNITO
brings to audiences the best in contemporary clay animated films of the last 20 years. This landmark collection celebrates the I 00th anniversary of stop motion filmmaking, the earliest form of animation. Produced one frame at a time, and sometimes...
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THE KEY
Sensual, controversial, decadent, yet oddly funny, this is a story of an aging professor's (SHALL WE DANCE's Akira Emoto) perverted desire towards his sexually suppressed young wife. Seeking stimulation to his fading potency, he keeps a detailed diary of his...
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FYRE ANTS ROCK
A misfit punk band groupie learns the difference between obsession and honor.
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THE GAME-BAG (IL CANIERE)
Three friends on their way from Italy to one of the most beautiful game reserves on the Balkan peninsula expect their annual rendezvous with the chief huntsman. But this time something has gone awry - the huntsman is nowhere to...
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KEEP COOL (YOU HUA HAO HAO SHUO)
This controversial entry was selected for the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival and then pulled from competition by the Chinese government. In a marked departure in both style and substance, Zhang (RAISE THE RED LANTERN, STORY OF QIU...
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FRANCES
The bio pic of 30's controversial movie star Frances Farmer.
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KAOS ON WARWICK
A haunting tale about one boy's search for identity and acceptance in a racially divided society.
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FIRST DAUGHTER
An eight year old girl, mourning her father's death, discovers a world of fantasy and her unknown culture when she visits Vietnam.
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FOUR DAYS IN SEPTEMBER (O QUE É ISSO, COMPANHEIRO?)
Best known for DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS, Barreto enters the complex world of politics, based on the true story of the 1969 kidnapping of the American ambassador to Brazil (Alan Arkin). A group of young and naive idealists...
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THE JUNKY’S CHRISTMAS
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THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
This is a first rote horror film and the first of Carmon's Poe adaptations. When a suitor arrives at the Usher house to claim his beautiful fiancee, Price as her older brother in one of his best performances comes between...
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FIRE IN PARADISE (LES RAISONS DU COEUR)
On her honeymoon cruise, Juliette realizes that her new husband has married her for her money. Dismayed and angry, she meets a poor bride-to-be on board the ship. This young woman is traveling to India to man-y a missionary she...
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JOURNEY ON THE HOUR HAND (AKREBIN YOLCULUGU)
A double winner for best film and best direction in the Istanbul fest's national competition, this existential mystery tale about a clock mender who arrives in a village where time has stopped has a jewel-like perfection ... When a stranger...
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ELLES
"When you're my age, I'll be 70," ruefully notes a literature professor (Miou-Miou) to her student lover. But her friends have problems of their own. Five women, all edging the wrong side of 40, face life's ups and downs together....
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EX VOTO
When a reporter investigates the disappearance of a young girl, she begins to question her view of reality.
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IS IT THE DESIGN ON THE WRAPPER?
What is the cure for a crappy childhood? A six year-old girl tells us as she gets the better of a bubble gum lady, and goes home strangely comforted.
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DUST
A declining small town finds unexpected hope when a farm pig delivers a message from God - but the truth may not be so hopeful.
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EAST PALACE, WEST PALACE (DONG GONG XI GONG)
Screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, this controversial and compelling film centers on a sensitive young gay writer who is arrested at his favorite cruising ground and held by the police for intensive interrogation. The questioning quickly transforms into...
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EIGHT DAYS A WEEK
Crazy-in-love like his grandfather before him, Peter stands under the window of the girl of his dreams, day and night, night and day, all summer long to steal her and become more than just friends. In his vigil, he becomes...
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IF YOU LOVED ME
An outrageous black comedy about what could happen when love is pushed to the Nth degree - when 'the power of love' takes on a new, darker meaning.
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THE IMPOSTOR (EL IMPOSTOR)
Enigmatic and mesmerizing, this is a tale of two young men, Sebastian, a runaway hiding at his father's hacienda in the Pampas, and Juan, who has been sent to spy on him for his parents. Juan soon becomes immersed in...
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DOGS ARE COLOR BLIND
A funny film about a dream coming true, the fulfillment of fantasies ... not to be shared with anyone. One night in downtown TelAviv, a young couple comes home to find their house has been broken into. He sets out...
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DROUGHT
A searing tragedy af a man and woman trapped in a dying romance within a landscape parched by rainless heat.
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I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE
Invaders take over humans in grand plan to reproduce. Newly wed wife notices some strange behavior in her idyllic husband and friends. Good effects and performances make this a cult classic. Edited by George Tomasini (VERTIGO, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, PSYCHO)
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DARKNESS, LIGHT, DARKNESS
brings to audiences the best in contemporary clay animated films of the last 20 years. This landmark collection celebrates the I 00th anniversary of stop motion filmmaking, the earliest form of animation. Produced one frame at a time, and sometimes...
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DAUGHTER OF HORROR
No dialogue, just very strange narration from Ed McMahon and a weird soundtrack ties this bizarre expressionist film together about an insane woman on a hellish spiral into the darkest pits of society and depths of insanity. Initially banned by...
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DÉJÀ VU
Dana (Victoria Foyt), a young American woman traveling on business in Jerusalem, meets a mysterious older French woman at a cafe (Aviva Marks) who shares a fascinating story of lost love revolving around the expensive antique pin she's wearing. The...
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HOMBRES COMPLICADOS
This darkly comic film about brotherly love - and hate - is part gangster film, part road movie, and totally wild. Roger is a smooth petty crook who is not quite clever enough for the big time. Constantly in debt,...
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COST OF LIVING
A gritty and real is tic portrait of a drifter and scam artist whose mission seems to be independence. She intends to pass through a small town anonymously, but gets involved with a couple of locals and stays longer than...
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CREATURE COMFORTS
brings to audiences the best in contemporary clay animated films of the last 20 years. This landmark collection celebrates the I 00th anniversary of stop motion filmmaking, the earliest form of animation. Produced one frame at a time, and sometimes...
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HANDS ON A HARD BODY
A hilarious gem of a film, this disarming doc about a contest in Longview, Texas to win a new Nissan truck takes a hokey small-town event and turns it into a metaphorical morality tale as two dozen entrants suffer three...
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THE CHILDREN OF HEAVEN
Ali and Zohre, two children of a poor neighborhood, are faced with a big problem. Ali has lost the shoes of his little sister while bringing them home from the shoemaker. They can't tell anyone. Zohre has no other shoes...
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CHOPPER CHICKS IN ZOMBIETOWN
Just what the title says. Tough sexy biker chicks roll into small town where a sadistic scientist and his midget sidekick dre killing townspeople and turning them into Zombies. Billy Bob Thornton as an ex flame of one of the...
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THE CHRISTMAS ORATORIO
A gripping family saga of longing and passion begins one illfated summer day and spans three generations trying to deal with the loss of a beloved young wife and mother. Encompassing sorrow, joy, passion, pain, humor, and a plenitude of...
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HACKS
This witty ensemble comedy about the lives of televison writers in Hollywood, boasts an all-star cast including Stephen Rea, I!leana Douglas, John Ritter, Tom Arnold, Ryan O'Neal, Lisa Kudrow, Olivia D'Abo and Jason Priestley. Brian is suffering from writer's block....
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BROTHER (BRAT)
Danila Bagrov (brilliantly portrayed by Sergei Bodrov of PRISONER OF THE MOUNTAINS) returns home after two years in the army. Dissatisfied with life in the provincial small town, he leaves for St. Petersburg where his elder brother has been very...
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CHARACTER (KARAKTER)
This tale opens with a bloodied young lawyer named Katadreuffe (Fedja van Huet) being arrested for the murder of an important and feared citizen, bailiff Dreverhaven (Jan Decleir), who also happens to be his father. Flashbacks give the accused's version...
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A GUY WALKS INTO A BAR
A young man journeys to Hollywood to pursue his dream of acting in westerns.
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BLACK SUNDAY
Eerie and atmospheric, this starts with a bunch of medieval witches being ritually killed with spiked masks. The witches swear revenge and come back to terrorize their descendants a couple hundred years later. Steele plays both witch and innocent beautiful...
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THE BLOODY GLOVE
A Christmas Eve night full of surprises and unexpected plots when Werner's colleague, Sam, discovers that he has been falsifying the books and wants the money back.
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BRIDE OF MIDNIGHT
Based on a screenplay by Luis Burruel, this is a gothic tale of jealousy and ambition, focusing on a wealthy family living in isolation in rural Galicia at the end of the 19th century. When a young man comes to...
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A GRAND DAY OUT
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THE GREAT COGNITO
brings to audiences the best in contemporary clay animated films of the last 20 years. This landmark collection celebrates the I 00th anniversary of stop motion filmmaking, the earliest form of animation. Produced one frame at a time, and sometimes...
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THE BIG STORY
brings to audiences the best in contemporary clay animated films of the last 20 years. This landmark collection celebrates the I 00th anniversary of stop motion filmmaking, the earliest form of animation. Produced one frame at a time, and sometimes...
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BIKER DREAMS
A revealing and funny chronicle of the Harley-Davidson biker subculture in all its surprising diversity. Some bikers show off scars like badges of honor, others take pride in the craftsmanship of maintaining and customizing bikes. Part sociological inquiry, part road...
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THE GAME-BAG (IL CANIERE)
Three friends on their way from Italy to one of the most beautiful game reserves on the Balkan peninsula expect their annual rendezvous with the chief huntsman. But this time something has gone awry - the huntsman is nowhere to...
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GENERIC METAL TITAN
Teen spirit goes murderously awry as Midwestern kids, Neil and Chuck, have a few differences of opinion.
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BETWEEN MARX AND A NAKED WOMAN (ENTRE MARX Y UNA MUJER DESNUDA)
This sensual, surreal and sometimes bizarre drama focuses on an author his friends, his forbidden love for; woman and their activism in a left wing party during the '60s in Ecuador. "Startlingly inventive and sophisticated, beautifully done_ film from tiny...
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THE BIG EMPTY
A darkly comic, thoroughly unconventional triangle develops when an alienated private eye forces his way into the lives of the suspicious wife who hired him and the adulterous husband he is shadowing. The detective impulsively and obsessively weaves himself into...
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FRANCES
The bio pic of 30's controversial movie star Frances Farmer.
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FYRE ANTS ROCK
A misfit punk band groupie learns the difference between obsession and honor.
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BAT OUT OF HELL (J’IRAI AU PARADIS, CAR L’ENFER EST ICI)
A gritty modem film noir, BAT OUT OF HELL roars into frame as the wild young son of a local godfather is brutally hijacked after pulling off his first successful hit. A vicious turf war ensues through the streets of...
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BEST MAN
Twenty years ago, Ira Wohl won an Academy A ward for his documentary BEST BOY, which examined the life of his then fifty year old, mentally retarded cousin Philly. Philly had always lived at home with his parents, but at...
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FIRST DAUGHTER
An eight year old girl, mourning her father's death, discovers a world of fantasy and her unknown culture when she visits Vietnam.
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FOUR DAYS IN SEPTEMBER (O QUE É ISSO, COMPANHEIRO?)
Best known for DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS, Barreto enters the complex world of politics, based on the true story of the 1969 kidnapping of the American ambassador to Brazil (Alan Arkin). A group of young and naive idealists...
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ARTEMISIA
Ravishingly beautiful, this sumptuous romance takes place in seventeenth century Italy, and tells the tale of 17 year old Artemisia, who defies the conventions of her time and pursues her passion for painting. When she meets an arrogant artist who...
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THE ASSISTANT
Against the backdrop of the waning days of the great Depression, this emotionally charged drama paints a story of love and redemption about a young man who applies for a job with a family at their general store . Through...
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THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
This is a first rote horror film and the first of Carmon's Poe adaptations. When a suitor arrives at the Usher house to claim his beautiful fiancee, Price as her older brother in one of his best performances comes between...
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FIRE IN PARADISE (LES RAISONS DU COEUR)
On her honeymoon cruise, Juliette realizes that her new husband has married her for her money. Dismayed and angry, she meets a poor bride-to-be on board the ship. This young woman is traveling to India to man-y a missionary she...
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AN AMBIGUOUS REPORT ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD
This exquisitely crafted surreal fairy tale for adults by renowned Czech director Juraj Jakubisko takes place in a small village lost in the mountains, somewhere at the end of the world, and offers the fateful story of two sinful lovers...
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ELLES
"When you're my age, I'll be 70," ruefully notes a literature professor (Miou-Miou) to her student lover. But her friends have problems of their own. Five women, all edging the wrong side of 40, face life's ups and downs together....
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EX VOTO
When a reporter investigates the disappearance of a young girl, she begins to question her view of reality.
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AFTERGLOW
Set in the city of Montreal, Alan Rudolph's AFTERGLOW is a romantic comedy-drama that paints a wry comic portrait of two modern marriages drifting toward the rocks. Lucky (Nick Nolte) is a contractor whose business owes its success to his...
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EAST PALACE, WEST PALACE (DONG GONG XI GONG)
Screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, this controversial and compelling film centers on a sensitive young gay writer who is arrested at his favorite cruising ground and held by the police for intensive interrogation. The questioning quickly transforms into...
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EIGHT DAYS A WEEK
Crazy-in-love like his grandfather before him, Peter stands under the window of the girl of his dreams, day and night, night and day, all summer long to steal her and become more than just friends. In his vigil, he becomes...
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DROUGHT
A searing tragedy af a man and woman trapped in a dying romance within a landscape parched by rainless heat.
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DUST
A declining small town finds unexpected hope when a farm pig delivers a message from God - but the truth may not be so hopeful.
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DAUGHTER OF HORROR
No dialogue, just very strange narration from Ed McMahon and a weird soundtrack ties this bizarre expressionist film together about an insane woman on a hellish spiral into the darkest pits of society and depths of insanity. Initially banned by...
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DÉJÀ VU
Dana (Victoria Foyt), a young American woman traveling on business in Jerusalem, meets a mysterious older French woman at a cafe (Aviva Marks) who shares a fascinating story of lost love revolving around the expensive antique pin she's wearing. The...
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DOGS ARE COLOR BLIND
A funny film about a dream coming true, the fulfillment of fantasies ... not to be shared with anyone. One night in downtown TelAviv, a young couple comes home to find their house has been broken into. He sets out...
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CREATURE COMFORTS
brings to audiences the best in contemporary clay animated films of the last 20 years. This landmark collection celebrates the I 00th anniversary of stop motion filmmaking, the earliest form of animation. Produced one frame at a time, and sometimes...
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DARKNESS, LIGHT, DARKNESS
brings to audiences the best in contemporary clay animated films of the last 20 years. This landmark collection celebrates the I 00th anniversary of stop motion filmmaking, the earliest form of animation. Produced one frame at a time, and sometimes...
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THE CHRISTMAS ORATORIO
A gripping family saga of longing and passion begins one illfated summer day and spans three generations trying to deal with the loss of a beloved young wife and mother. Encompassing sorrow, joy, passion, pain, humor, and a plenitude of...
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COST OF LIVING
A gritty and real is tic portrait of a drifter and scam artist whose mission seems to be independence. She intends to pass through a small town anonymously, but gets involved with a couple of locals and stays longer than...
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THE CHILDREN OF HEAVEN
Ali and Zohre, two children of a poor neighborhood, are faced with a big problem. Ali has lost the shoes of his little sister while bringing them home from the shoemaker. They can't tell anyone. Zohre has no other shoes...
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CHOPPER CHICKS IN ZOMBIETOWN
Just what the title says. Tough sexy biker chicks roll into small town where a sadistic scientist and his midget sidekick dre killing townspeople and turning them into Zombies. Billy Bob Thornton as an ex flame of one of the...
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BRIDE OF MIDNIGHT
Based on a screenplay by Luis Burruel, this is a gothic tale of jealousy and ambition, focusing on a wealthy family living in isolation in rural Galicia at the end of the 19th century. When a young man comes to...
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BROTHER (BRAT)
Danila Bagrov (brilliantly portrayed by Sergei Bodrov of PRISONER OF THE MOUNTAINS) returns home after two years in the army. Dissatisfied with life in the provincial small town, he leaves for St. Petersburg where his elder brother has been very...
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CHARACTER (KARAKTER)
This tale opens with a bloodied young lawyer named Katadreuffe (Fedja van Huet) being arrested for the murder of an important and feared citizen, bailiff Dreverhaven (Jan Decleir), who also happens to be his father. Flashbacks give the accused's version...
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BLACK SUNDAY
Eerie and atmospheric, this starts with a bunch of medieval witches being ritually killed with spiked masks. The witches swear revenge and come back to terrorize their descendants a couple hundred years later. Steele plays both witch and innocent beautiful...
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THE BLOODY GLOVE
A Christmas Eve night full of surprises and unexpected plots when Werner's colleague, Sam, discovers that he has been falsifying the books and wants the money back.
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BIKER DREAMS
A revealing and funny chronicle of the Harley-Davidson biker subculture in all its surprising diversity. Some bikers show off scars like badges of honor, others take pride in the craftsmanship of maintaining and customizing bikes. Part sociological inquiry, part road...
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BETWEEN MARX AND A NAKED WOMAN (ENTRE MARX Y UNA MUJER DESNUDA)
This sensual, surreal and sometimes bizarre drama focuses on an author his friends, his forbidden love for; woman and their activism in a left wing party during the '60s in Ecuador. "Startlingly inventive and sophisticated, beautifully done_ film from tiny...
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THE BIG EMPTY
A darkly comic, thoroughly unconventional triangle develops when an alienated private eye forces his way into the lives of the suspicious wife who hired him and the adulterous husband he is shadowing. The detective impulsively and obsessively weaves himself into...
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THE BIG STORY
brings to audiences the best in contemporary clay animated films of the last 20 years. This landmark collection celebrates the I 00th anniversary of stop motion filmmaking, the earliest form of animation. Produced one frame at a time, and sometimes...
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BEST MAN
Twenty years ago, Ira Wohl won an Academy A ward for his documentary BEST BOY, which examined the life of his then fifty year old, mentally retarded cousin Philly. Philly had always lived at home with his parents, but at...
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THE ASSISTANT
Against the backdrop of the waning days of the great Depression, this emotionally charged drama paints a story of love and redemption about a young man who applies for a job with a family at their general store . Through...
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BAT OUT OF HELL (J’IRAI AU PARADIS, CAR L’ENFER EST ICI)
A gritty modem film noir, BAT OUT OF HELL roars into frame as the wild young son of a local godfather is brutally hijacked after pulling off his first successful hit. A vicious turf war ensues through the streets of...
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AN AMBIGUOUS REPORT ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD
This exquisitely crafted surreal fairy tale for adults by renowned Czech director Juraj Jakubisko takes place in a small village lost in the mountains, somewhere at the end of the world, and offers the fateful story of two sinful lovers...
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ARTEMISIA
Ravishingly beautiful, this sumptuous romance takes place in seventeenth century Italy, and tells the tale of 17 year old Artemisia, who defies the conventions of her time and pursues her passion for painting. When she meets an arrogant artist who...
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AFTERGLOW
Set in the city of Montreal, Alan Rudolph's AFTERGLOW is a romantic comedy-drama that paints a wry comic portrait of two modern marriages drifting toward the rocks. Lucky (Nick Nolte) is a contractor whose business owes its success to his...
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WIVES III
If Wives was a youthful debate and Wives: Ten Years Later quiet rebellion, Wives Ill is wise and joyful affirmation. This ode to three spirited friends of over twenty years opens on a surprise birthday party for Kaja on board...
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THE WAITING ROOM (DE WACHTKAMER)
A man waits with others at a train station, taking advantage of his wife's trip to the coffee counter to make eyes at the passing women. A beauty in blue returns his challenging looks, and by the time his wife...
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WHO KILLED PIXOTE? (QUEM MATOU PIXOTE?)
This film is based on actual facts. It tells the story of Fe?nando Ramos da Silva, a boy from the slums who, at the age of 11, became famous as the star of Hector Babenco's film Pixote, an international public...
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THE USUAL CHILDREN
A couple's romantic evening is shattered by the squabbling of their two children. In an attempt at mediation, the father proceeds to tell a story, only to be sucked into the fantasy world which he and his children are now...
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VAMPIRA: ABOUT SEX, DEATH AND TAXES
Vampira, a.k.a. Mailo Nurmi, is a part of the almost lost history of popular culture. Presenter of the KABC TV station midnight horror films, Vampira exuded a combination of death and erotica that struck deep into the subconscious of the...
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THE VISITOR
A voyeuristic stranger spends the evening with a woman in her home. She assumes that it is her husband making all the noise in the kitchen ....
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UNDERTAKER
A filmic interpretation of a poem written and performed by Patricia Smith, this film confronts the issue of violence amongst young men in America.
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UNHOOK THE STARS
Rowlands plays Mildred, a financially secure widow whose husband has left her a comfortable suburban house that she now shares with her rebellious teenage daughter, Ann Mary Margaret. After yet another loud argument with her mother, Ann Mary takes off...
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UBISTVO S PREDUMISLAJAJEM (PREMEDITATED MURDER)
Premeditated Murder contrasts a recent love story ( 1992) with a past romance (1944), both doomed by the inhumanity of Yugoslav politics. While Builka takes photos of anti-war sit-ins and demos at the university for a with-it young publisher, she...
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UNDERGROUND
"This is supposed to be a very personal view of my country's history in recent times," says Emir Kusturica, "an attempt ... offer a clearer notion of the situation in this chaotic part of the world, which has been twisted...
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TUMULT
Shot almost entirely in Los Angeles, Tumult is set during the abortive 1960 attempt by imperial guards to overthrow Ethiopian ruler Haile Selassie. The fictional tale follows the life of Yoseph, an aristrocatturned- revolutionary who secretly masterminds the coup d'etat....
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TWO CRIMES (DOS CRIMENES)
Accused of a crime he did not commit, young Marcos Gonzalez leaves Mexico City to hide out with his wealthy Uncle Ramon in the small town of Muerdago. There, he becomes involved with his adventure-seeking cousin-in-law, Amalia, and her daughter,...
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A TRAM IN MOSCOW (UN TRAMWAY A MOSCOU)
A lovely autumn day in Moscow as line A tram makes its last journey. This journey, which runs through the old city, is no longer making money and is about to be closed. The old tramway is like a touring...
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TROUBLE IN THE IMAGE
Trouble In the Image is a deceptively loosekn it collage of non-sequitur imagery, dizzying optical tricks, absurdist iuxtapositions, and surreal syntheses which unfolds in its 38 minutes into a bittersweet and hilarious subversion of both the capitalist system and narrative...
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TO SPEAK THE UNSPEAKABLE: THE MESSAGE OF ELIE WIESEL (DIRE L’INDICIBLE: LA QUETE D’ELIE WIESEL)
"In his own lifetime, Elie Wiesel has become a symbol. His name cannot be dissociated from 20th Century Jewish Destiny and the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. He is their living conscience .... " Thus states Judit Elek...
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TO THE ENDS OF TIME
An epic fantasy adventure for the whole family with inventions and weaponry straight out of a Leonardo Do Vinci sketchbook, the film takes us where man's greatest enemy-time-is conquered by his most potent force-love. When a powerhungry sorceress steals a...
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SWEET ANGEL MINE
The setting of Radclyffe's visually stunning directorial debut-an isolated island in Nova Scotia-emphasizes the ominous tone of this psychological thriller. Three women-Rauchine, her young mother, Megan, and Grmndma-live a mysterious and lonely existence in their family home. Their deep-seated cycle...
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TEMPTATION (POKUSZENIE)
In her first major role, young actress Magdalena Cielecka shines as Anna, a Catholic nun imprisoned for "fomenting sedition" who's set free after agreeing to collaborate with the authorities. It's the winter of 1953, the darkest period of Stalinism, and...
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TENDRILS
Two lifelong friends and business partners are torn apart by the seductive charm of easy money.
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THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE
A powerful and deeply moving drama about the clash of a headstrong father and his three grown children, The Substance of Fire marks the motion picture directorial debut of three-time Tony Award nominee Daniel Sullivan. Holocaust survivor Isaac Geldhart is...
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SUPERIOR PEOPLE
In the summer of 1995, I brought a film crew back to my hometown, Superior, Iowa. Most people fly over America's heartland and think that nothing is there. I wanted to present an accurate picture of family farming and life...
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A SINGLE GIRL (LA FILLE SEULE)
Valerie, played by Virginie Ledoyen, one morning reveals to her boyfriend, Remi, played by Benoit Magimel, that she is pregnant. Neither Valerie nor Remi knows what this dramatic change within her is to mean for them as a couple. Over...
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SLING BLADE
This dark southern tale follows the life of Karl, a man who has just been released from an asylum after having hacked up his mother and her lover with a sling blade over 25 years before. Deemed "cured", Karl secures...
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LA SECONDA VOLTA
University professor Alberto Sajevo lives life with a bullet lodged in his skull. One day, he has a chance encounter with the the woman who shot him twelve years earlier in a terrorist attack. Taking advantage of the woman's lack...
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SIGNAL LEFT, TURN RIGHT (DA ZUO DENG, XIANG XOU ZHUAN)
The third in Huang's "Urban Attitude" trilogy, Signal Left, Turn Right is a sharp social satire on the contradictions of modern Chinese life in the face of open door economic policy. Using the automobile as a symbol of prestige and...
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SIGNS OF FIRE (SINAIS DE FOGO)
1936: Engineering student Diogo Infante arrives at his aunt and uncle's seaside town for· his summer vacation, reuniting with old flame Ruth Gabriel and assorted schoolmates, even as all the Spanish tourists leave amid the looming Civil War. It is...
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THE SANDMAN (DER SANDMANN)
The young TV journalist, Ina Littmann, is responsible for the background research for a personality talk show. The show's next guest is to be the infamous author, Henry Kupfer, whose latest work deals with the story of a serial murderer....
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A SATURDAY ON EARTH (UN SAMEDI SUR LA TERRE)
This murder mystery, with its puzzle-like construction, is comprised of slowly unfolding personal histories and the taped testimonies of "witnesses" involved in the case. The story is set in Normandy, where the meandering fates of a brother and sister will...
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SALÓN MÉXICO
A crime has been committed in the 1930's Mexico City dance hall Salon Mexico, an oasis of lovers dancing the danzon. In one of its dressing rooms two people lie dead: the taxi dancer, Mercedes, and her lover, the robber...
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SAMBÓLICO
A Finnish conductor spends a relaxing afternoon on the beach in Rio when he spots a dark-eyed beauty in need of his help. They embark upon a wild journey through the sights and sounds of Rio, but there is a...
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ROUND EYES IN THE MIDDLE KINGDOM
This film tells the story of the Caucasian residents of China from the l 930's to the present. It follows a family ?f Westerne?s who fled China as the revolution spread in 1949, b,μt focuses on one man who stayed,...
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SAINT-EX
In July of 1944, an unarmed reconnaissance aircraft piloted by Antoine de Saint-Exupery disappeared over the Mediterranean and was never found. Saint-Ex returns to the magical world felt and documented by the author of Night Flight, Wind, Sand and Stars,...
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REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE
Just your typical southern Army base, wracked by repressed homosexuality (Marlon Brando), crazed love in a berry patch (Elizabeth Taylor), and a whip fetish (Brando and Taylor). Gothic, garish, and over the top performances are strangely balanced by innovative, delicate...
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RICHARD III
Afi Fest is proud to present the world premiere of the restored print of an epic l 91 2 version of Shakespeare's Richard Ill, a film previously believed to be lost. Being shown publicly for the first time in eighty...
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RIDICULE
"Wit opens the door to the company of lords"-that was the humbling hoop through which French nobles had to jump to get the attention of their capricious king and, in movie parlance, "pitch" their projects. In this searing depiction of...
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PRISONER OF THE MOUNTAINS
Shot during the bloody conflict in Chechenya not far from an actual location which a number of Chechen rebels called home, this film about love, brutality and humanity in a time of war achieves an unusual immediacy. Two wounded Russian...
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THE QUIET ROOM
Rolf de Heer's audacious new film takes the viewer into the mind of a 7-year-old girl whose parents are separating. This is an interior picture in more ways than one. Most of the action takes place in two rooms, the...
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THE PIANO
Ada, her nine-year-old daughter and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand. Of all her belongings, her husband refuses to transport the piano, and it is left behind on the beach....
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PRETTY VILLAGE, PRETTY FLAME (LEPA SELA LEPA GORE)
Based on a story written from eye-witness testimony, Pretty Village Pretty Flame follows one incident in the lives of one group of Serbian soldiers during the conflict in Yugoslavia. In the spring of 1992 a group of men found both...
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PARTY
To celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary, Leonor and Rogerio hold a garden party at their beautiful palace in the Azores. Amongst their guests are Irene, a famous Greek actress, and Michel, her lover. Michel feels it his duty to court...
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PIANESE NUNZIO 14 ANNI A MAGGIO
Members of the organized crime scene in Naples attempt to destroy the credibility of an influential priest of the people by misrepresenting his relationship with a young street urchin named Nunzio.
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THE NUN (LA MONJA)
A young girl dealing with the death of her mother must choose between her two worlds of fantasy and reality which are presided over by her visions of a nun.
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PALOOKAVILLE
Alan Taylor's debut feature is a refreshing change from the neo-noir violence that currently enshrouds American independent filmmaking. Palookaville, starring William Forsythe, Vincent Gallo and Adam Trese as three Jerseyites driven by unemployment to stick up an armed car, reinvents...
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THE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN OF PHILIP K. DICK
This is a darkly comic journey through the surreal landscape of America, as seen through the paranoid eyes of science fiction genius Philip K. Dick. Set in 1968 Berkeley against a backdrop of worn-out radical chic, shrill Nixonian totalitarianism and...
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NO EASY WAY
Matthew Livingston has AIDS. Thirty-something and resigned to death, he plays the once-beloved piano only to eke out a living at a local hotel. He shuns all human contact until one day Diana Campbell, a struggling mother of two sons,...
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NO MERCY (SIN COMPASION)
As in Dostoyevsky's classic novel, Sin Compasion tells the story of a poor, tormented young student, Ramon. He is desperately trying to find out who he is, first in an act of justice that he hopes will free him, then...
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MYRA BRECKINRIDGE
This picture based on Gore Vidal's comic novel about a sex-change operation is, according to Leonard Mallin, "as bad as any movie ever made." Full of zealous sexploitation of Mae West, Raquel Welch, Tom Selleck, Farrah Fawcett and many others....
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NEROLIO
Nerolio could have been titled "A few days in the life of Pasolini." A fact-faithful documentary could not better convey the controversial texture of the late Italian director's work and persona. Grimaldi's protagonist is a world-renowned poet and director whose...
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MY DINGALING
This offbeat film is a parody of instructional sex education films made during the 50's and 60's.
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MY MOTHER’S COURAGE (MUTTERS COURAGE)
At a celebration Gf his eightieth birthday in Berlin, the renowned writer/director George Tabori tells the true story of what happened to his mother, Elsa, fifty years before in Budapest: ... On a hot summer's day in 1944 Elsa Tabori...
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LA MIA GENERAZIONE
1983: A warm-hearted police captain is assigned to take a convicted Red Brigade terrorist from a Sicilian prison to his waiting girlfriend in Milan, only to find that it is a sinister trap to elicit the names of the terrorist's...
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MOTHER NIGHT
In 1961, Howard W. Campbell, Jr., an obscure American playwright, is delivered to an Israeli prison. Awaiting trial as a Nazi war criminal, Campbell finds himself in the cell directly below that of the notorious Adolph Eichmann, who is also...
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MACADAM TRIBU (MACADAM TRIBE)
The Tarmac Tribe are confused. With Africa in the throes of economic modernization, its people find themselves severed from their tribal roots. The story of their search for work, love and an identity, Macadam Tribe is a vision of Africa...
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MENNO’S MIND
In the near future, Menno, a naive government computer technician, is drawn into a web of intrigue by a rebellious underground determined to stop a rogue politician from stealing an impending national election. The rebels force Menno to download the...
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LOVE’S DEBRIS (POUSSIERES D’AMOUR)
"This film is based on the deeply held conviction that everything we express through the voice is the 'product' of our quest for closer contact with another person, with love and every possible expression of love. In order to verify...
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LUMIÈRE AND COMPANY (LUMIÈRE ET COMPAGNIE)
A lively tip of the hat to the pioneers of the moving picture, this film is an anthology of short pieces by forty contemporary filmmakers wt,o used a restored camera which had belonged to the Lumiere brothers to make their...
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LUST AND REVENGE
Claudia Karvan plays bored, wealthy divorcee Georgina Oliphant, spoiled daughter of pharmaceutical tycoon George Oliphant. George urgently needs to reduce his company's profits for tax purposes, and decides to sponsor the creation of an ambitious bronze statue, 100% tax deductible,...
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LOOKING FOR RICHARD
Ranging from New York's streets to the reconstructed Globe Theater in London, talking with everyone from strangers encountered by chance to scholars and celebrated actors, Pacino is the voluble, mercurial center of a film that ingeniously interweaves commentary on Shakespeare...
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THE LOVE LESSON
Seventeen years ago, two women made an agreement. Grace, a civil servant, would raise the son of Camille, a gallery owner-with the provisions that the three would live in close proximity and that the adoption be kept from the child...
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THE LONE STAR LETTERS
Set in the tiny town of Sweetwater, Texas, The Lone Star Letters focuses on the life and times of the local post office staff whose personalities are anything but tiny. Chaos and local gossip ensues as undercover postal police man,...
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KISS ME, STUPID
A leeringly silly Billy Wilder sex farce that aspired to be Moliere or Feydeau, but ended up as one of the first films condemned by the once-powerful Legion of Decency. Dean Martin plays a lecherous night club crooner named Dino...
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LES ENFANTS MODELES
Two child models, like dolls, are being made up to perfection for the preparation of a large fashion shoot. Today's shoot requires that the two children kiss, forcing them to publicly face their adolescent insecurities.
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THE KING OF MASKS
An aging traveling performer named Wang is a master of the Sichuan opera technique of changing masks so quickly that the act appears miraculous. Aging and longing for a male heir to whom he can teach his skills, he buys...
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KIDS RETURN
The humorous opening stretch introduces high school buddies Shinji and Masaru as they cut classes and disrupt lessons. They extort cash from their classmates to finance long afternoons ,hanging out at a neighborhood coffee shop and a diner frequented by...
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KAMIKAZE TAXI
Kantake is a cab driver raised in Peru who still speaks Japanese pidgin style. He is to become the third side of a unique dramatic triangle, conjoining reps of three social groups that rarely crisscross: Japan's 150,000 foreign-raised citizens, its...
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JUICEHEAD
Addicted to electricity, Buzzy lurches through life sucking on sockets, unable to touch anyone without shocking them. When he falls for an ace electrician, his cycle of addiction and isolation becomes unbearable, as his desire to touch her forces him...
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IT’S A LONG WAY TO THE SEA…
Puwal is a boatman in Nemuguri village, on the bank of the river Dihing in Assam. For three generations, his forefathers have been ferrying people to and fro. Life goes on smoothly until Puwal begins to hear persistent reports about...
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ISOTTA
An overweight thirty-year-old woman works in a factory, spends her days fantasizing, falls for a Greek businessman, loses him to her best friend and still manages to love life.
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I’M SO-SO
Shot in May of 1995, I'm So-So uses a combination of interviews and brief film clips to explore the life and art of the renowned Polish director who had just announced his decision to retire from making films. Among the...
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IN FULL GALLOP (CWAL)
In Full Gallop is an autobiographical adaptation of Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi's boyhood in the l 950's. As a result of constant surveillance by the Secret Police and the subsequent threat to young Hubert's education, his mother ships Hubert off...
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THE HOLY WEEK (WIELKI TYDZIEN)
The horror of the Nazi years have been done to death and often inadvertently turned into soap opera by filmmakers. For Andrzej Wajda, though, those years are no abstract symbol-they're a flesh and blood memory, and he makes them come...
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WIVES III
If Wives was a youthful debate and Wives: Ten Years Later quiet rebellion, Wives Ill is wise and joyful affirmation. This ode to three spirited friends of over twenty years opens on a surprise birthday party for Kaja on board...
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HERE ON EARTH (AQUI NA TERRA)
40-ish economist Luis Miguel Cintra loses his father then starts going to pieces, hearing sounds no one else does, quitting his job, even alienating his beautiful doctor wife Jessica Weiss. Meanwhile, far away in the country, poor lost kids Rita...
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HIGH HEELS
Aging pop star Becky Del Paramo returns to Madrid after 15 years to perform and, in passing, to resolve her relationship with the daughter she abandoned as a little girl in favor of her .career. When she meets Rebecca's new...
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VAMPIRA: ABOUT SEX, DEATH AND TAXES
Vampira, a.k.a. Mailo Nurmi, is a part of the almost lost history of popular culture. Presenter of the KABC TV station midnight horror films, Vampira exuded a combination of death and erotica that struck deep into the subconscious of the...
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THE VISITOR
A voyeuristic stranger spends the evening with a woman in her home. She assumes that it is her husband making all the noise in the kitchen ....
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THE WAITING ROOM (DE WACHTKAMER)
A man waits with others at a train station, taking advantage of his wife's trip to the coffee counter to make eyes at the passing women. A beauty in blue returns his challenging looks, and by the time his wife...
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WHO KILLED PIXOTE? (QUEM MATOU PIXOTE?)
This film is based on actual facts. It tells the story of Fe?nando Ramos da Silva, a boy from the slums who, at the age of 11, became famous as the star of Hector Babenco's film Pixote, an international public...
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HEARTS AND MINDS
South Africa in the late l 980's is a country divided, wracked by anti-communist para· noia and sliding headlong towards civil war. Against this background, we find Andries Fourie, 'an officer in the South African Police, a man devastated by...
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UNDERGROUND
"This is supposed to be a very personal view of my country's history in recent times," says Emir Kusturica, "an attempt ... offer a clearer notion of the situation in this chaotic part of the world, which has been twisted...
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UNDERTAKER
A filmic interpretation of a poem written and performed by Patricia Smith, this film confronts the issue of violence amongst young men in America.
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UNHOOK THE STARS
Rowlands plays Mildred, a financially secure widow whose husband has left her a comfortable suburban house that she now shares with her rebellious teenage daughter, Ann Mary Margaret. After yet another loud argument with her mother, Ann Mary takes off...
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THE USUAL CHILDREN
A couple's romantic evening is shattered by the squabbling of their two children. In an attempt at mediation, the father proceeds to tell a story, only to be sucked into the fantasy world which he and his children are now...
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HEARING THE LIGHT
Michael Gordon, a successful deaf painter whose hearing is restored through laser surgery, experiences a crisis of faith when he realizes that his popularity may be more a result of exploitative marketing of his former handicap than his actual talent...
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TUMULT
Shot almost entirely in Los Angeles, Tumult is set during the abortive 1960 attempt by imperial guards to overthrow Ethiopian ruler Haile Selassie. The fictional tale follows the life of Yoseph, an aristrocatturned- revolutionary who secretly masterminds the coup d'etat....
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TWO CRIMES (DOS CRIMENES)
Accused of a crime he did not commit, young Marcos Gonzalez leaves Mexico City to hide out with his wealthy Uncle Ramon in the small town of Muerdago. There, he becomes involved with his adventure-seeking cousin-in-law, Amalia, and her daughter,...
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UBISTVO S PREDUMISLAJAJEM (PREMEDITATED MURDER)
Premeditated Murder contrasts a recent love story ( 1992) with a past romance (1944), both doomed by the inhumanity of Yugoslav politics. While Builka takes photos of anti-war sit-ins and demos at the university for a with-it young publisher, she...
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HAMSUN
This film chronicles the troubling and fantastic life of Norwegian Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun. Increasingly nationalistic in his writings, the aging writer openly supports the Nazi party during World War II. A known personality around the world, Hamsun takes advantage...
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TO THE ENDS OF TIME
An epic fantasy adventure for the whole family with inventions and weaponry straight out of a Leonardo Do Vinci sketchbook, the film takes us where man's greatest enemy-time-is conquered by his most potent force-love. When a powerhungry sorceress steals a...
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A TRAM IN MOSCOW (UN TRAMWAY A MOSCOU)
A lovely autumn day in Moscow as line A tram makes its last journey. This journey, which runs through the old city, is no longer making money and is about to be closed. The old tramway is like a touring...
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TROUBLE IN THE IMAGE
Trouble In the Image is a deceptively loosekn it collage of non-sequitur imagery, dizzying optical tricks, absurdist iuxtapositions, and surreal syntheses which unfolds in its 38 minutes into a bittersweet and hilarious subversion of both the capitalist system and narrative...
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HAIFA
Haifa is a sensitive story of the days leading up to the peace agreement signed by Arafat and Rabin in Washington and the mixed emotions that followed the historic event. "Everyday people go about their business in a poor, dusty...
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SWEET ANGEL MINE
The setting of Radclyffe's visually stunning directorial debut-an isolated island in Nova Scotia-emphasizes the ominous tone of this psychological thriller. Three women-Rauchine, her young mother, Megan, and Grmndma-live a mysterious and lonely existence in their family home. Their deep-seated cycle...
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TEMPTATION (POKUSZENIE)
In her first major role, young actress Magdalena Cielecka shines as Anna, a Catholic nun imprisoned for "fomenting sedition" who's set free after agreeing to collaborate with the authorities. It's the winter of 1953, the darkest period of Stalinism, and...
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TENDRILS
Two lifelong friends and business partners are torn apart by the seductive charm of easy money.
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TO SPEAK THE UNSPEAKABLE: THE MESSAGE OF ELIE WIESEL (DIRE L’INDICIBLE: LA QUETE D’ELIE WIESEL)
"In his own lifetime, Elie Wiesel has become a symbol. His name cannot be dissociated from 20th Century Jewish Destiny and the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. He is their living conscience .... " Thus states Judit Elek...
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THE GROUP
The highminded women of Vassar's Class of '33 soon find that the rest of their lives will be centered around catching and holding a mate. Sharp insights of Mary McCarthy's novel are polished into glossy camp as this bluestocking crew...
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A SINGLE GIRL (LA FILLE SEULE)
Valerie, played by Virginie Ledoyen, one morning reveals to her boyfriend, Remi, played by Benoit Magimel, that she is pregnant. Neither Valerie nor Remi knows what this dramatic change within her is to mean for them as a couple. Over...
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SLING BLADE
This dark southern tale follows the life of Karl, a man who has just been released from an asylum after having hacked up his mother and her lover with a sling blade over 25 years before. Deemed "cured", Karl secures...
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THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE
A powerful and deeply moving drama about the clash of a headstrong father and his three grown children, The Substance of Fire marks the motion picture directorial debut of three-time Tony Award nominee Daniel Sullivan. Holocaust survivor Isaac Geldhart is...
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SUPERIOR PEOPLE
In the summer of 1995, I brought a film crew back to my hometown, Superior, Iowa. Most people fly over America's heartland and think that nothing is there. I wanted to present an accurate picture of family farming and life...
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GREETINGS
A tawdry great time, this early Brian De Palma picture gives us skin, the draft and the counterculture all rolled into one. Truly memorable performances from Robert De Niro, Jonathan Warden, Gerrit Graham and Allen Garfield. Also with Megan McCormick....
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LA SECONDA VOLTA
University professor Alberto Sajevo lives life with a bullet lodged in his skull. One day, he has a chance encounter with the the woman who shot him twelve years earlier in a terrorist attack. Taking advantage of the woman's lack...
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SIGNAL LEFT, TURN RIGHT (DA ZUO DENG, XIANG XOU ZHUAN)
The third in Huang's "Urban Attitude" trilogy, Signal Left, Turn Right is a sharp social satire on the contradictions of modern Chinese life in the face of open door economic policy. Using the automobile as a symbol of prestige and...
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SIGNS OF FIRE (SINAIS DE FOGO)
1936: Engineering student Diogo Infante arrives at his aunt and uncle's seaside town for· his summer vacation, reuniting with old flame Ruth Gabriel and assorted schoolmates, even as all the Spanish tourists leave amid the looming Civil War. It is...
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FRONTIERLAND (FRONTERILANDIA)
The title refers not to a location, but rather to those spaces where cultures intertwine. This film is an experimental, poetic documentary of the Lafino experience in border towns-an exploration, say the directors, "of the mythical perceptions which both sides...
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SAMBÓLICO
A Finnish conductor spends a relaxing afternoon on the beach in Rio when he spots a dark-eyed beauty in need of his help. They embark upon a wild journey through the sights and sounds of Rio, but there is a...
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THE SANDMAN (DER SANDMANN)
The young TV journalist, Ina Littmann, is responsible for the background research for a personality talk show. The show's next guest is to be the infamous author, Henry Kupfer, whose latest work deals with the story of a serial murderer....
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A SATURDAY ON EARTH (UN SAMEDI SUR LA TERRE)
This murder mystery, with its puzzle-like construction, is comprised of slowly unfolding personal histories and the taped testimonies of "witnesses" involved in the case. The story is set in Normandy, where the meandering fates of a brother and sister will...
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FORGOTTEN SILVER
This wickedly clever hoax "documentary" is a highly amusing satire on the recent spate of historical documentaries made to celebrate the centenary of cinema. The film deals with the career of a supposedly forgotten pioneer of international cinema, Colin McKenzie,...
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RIDICULE
"Wit opens the door to the company of lords"-that was the humbling hoop through which French nobles had to jump to get the attention of their capricious king and, in movie parlance, "pitch" their projects. In this searing depiction of...
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ROUND EYES IN THE MIDDLE KINGDOM
This film tells the story of the Caucasian residents of China from the l 930's to the present. It follows a family ?f Westerne?s who fled China as the revolution spread in 1949, b,μt focuses on one man who stayed,...
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SAINT-EX
In July of 1944, an unarmed reconnaissance aircraft piloted by Antoine de Saint-Exupery disappeared over the Mediterranean and was never found. Saint-Ex returns to the magical world felt and documented by the author of Night Flight, Wind, Sand and Stars,...
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SALÓN MÉXICO
A crime has been committed in the 1930's Mexico City dance hall Salon Mexico, an oasis of lovers dancing the danzon. In one of its dressing rooms two people lie dead: the taxi dancer, Mercedes, and her lover, the robber...
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ERMO
Ermo is a hard-working woman who sells her home-made noodles by the roadside in a rural town. l.1er husband is ill and a stranger to her mind, and her small son spends much of his time at the neighbor's house,...
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FIRST DATE
What happens when a man asks out a woman he's only iust met? He realizes he's got more than he bargained for, and begins the process of understanding what it means to be dating in the nineties.
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THE QUIET ROOM
Rolf de Heer's audacious new film takes the viewer into the mind of a 7-year-old girl whose parents are separating. This is an interior picture in more ways than one. Most of the action takes place in two rooms, the...
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REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE
Just your typical southern Army base, wracked by repressed homosexuality (Marlon Brando), crazed love in a berry patch (Elizabeth Taylor), and a whip fetish (Brando and Taylor). Gothic, garish, and over the top performances are strangely balanced by innovative, delicate...
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RICHARD III
Afi Fest is proud to present the world premiere of the restored print of an epic l 91 2 version of Shakespeare's Richard Ill, a film previously believed to be lost. Being shown publicly for the first time in eighty...
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THE EMPTY MIRROR
The Empty Mirror provides Adolf Hitler with the dramatic opportunity to recapitulate, explain and analyze his insidious career. A virtual one-man performance piece by British actor Norman Rodway, pie imagines a postwar Hitler holed up in an underground bunker dictating...
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THE PIANO
Ada, her nine-year-old daughter and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand. Of all her belongings, her husband refuses to transport the piano, and it is left behind on the beach....
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PRETTY VILLAGE, PRETTY FLAME (LEPA SELA LEPA GORE)
Based on a story written from eye-witness testimony, Pretty Village Pretty Flame follows one incident in the lives of one group of Serbian soldiers during the conflict in Yugoslavia. In the spring of 1992 a group of men found both...
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PRISONER OF THE MOUNTAINS
Shot during the bloody conflict in Chechenya not far from an actual location which a number of Chechen rebels called home, this film about love, brutality and humanity in a time of war achieves an unusual immediacy. Two wounded Russian...
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THE EMPEROR’S SHADOW
The movie opens in 210 B.C. with Ying Zheng, the first emperor of a united China, making a sacrifice by the churning waters of the Yellow River. Weary from a life of war-mongering and bloodletting, he can hardly stand without...
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THE NUN (LA MONJA)
A young girl dealing with the death of her mother must choose between her two worlds of fantasy and reality which are presided over by her visions of a nun.
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PALOOKAVILLE
Alan Taylor's debut feature is a refreshing change from the neo-noir violence that currently enshrouds American independent filmmaking. Palookaville, starring William Forsythe, Vincent Gallo and Adam Trese as three Jerseyites driven by unemployment to stick up an armed car, reinvents...
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PARTY
To celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary, Leonor and Rogerio hold a garden party at their beautiful palace in the Azores. Amongst their guests are Irene, a famous Greek actress, and Michel, her lover. Michel feels it his duty to court...
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PIANESE NUNZIO 14 ANNI A MAGGIO
Members of the organized crime scene in Naples attempt to destroy the credibility of an influential priest of the people by misrepresenting his relationship with a young street urchin named Nunzio.
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ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET (DER ELEFANT VERGISST NIE)
Young and lonely Countess Lilly von Teltow has the good fortune of being rescued from the sight of a car accident by two members of a traveling circus: the circus' elephant and its trainer, the dwarf Ramon. He visits the...
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THE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN OF PHILIP K. DICK
This is a darkly comic journey through the surreal landscape of America, as seen through the paranoid eyes of science fiction genius Philip K. Dick. Set in 1968 Berkeley against a backdrop of worn-out radical chic, shrill Nixonian totalitarianism and...
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NO EASY WAY
Matthew Livingston has AIDS. Thirty-something and resigned to death, he plays the once-beloved piano only to eke out a living at a local hotel. He shuns all human contact until one day Diana Campbell, a struggling mother of two sons,...
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NO MERCY (SIN COMPASION)
As in Dostoyevsky's classic novel, Sin Compasion tells the story of a poor, tormented young student, Ramon. He is desperately trying to find out who he is, first in an act of justice that he hopes will free him, then...
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THE EIGHTH DAY (LE HUITEME JOUR)
Pascal Duquenne plays Georges, who has been in an institution for the mentally handicapped since the death of his mother a few years earlier. Work-obsessed Harry (Daniel Auteuil) is presented giving a seminar on sales technique. His is a colorless...
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MY DINGALING
This offbeat film is a parody of instructional sex education films made during the 50's and 60's.
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MY MOTHER’S COURAGE (MUTTERS COURAGE)
At a celebration Gf his eightieth birthday in Berlin, the renowned writer/director George Tabori tells the true story of what happened to his mother, Elsa, fifty years before in Budapest: ... On a hot summer's day in 1944 Elsa Tabori...
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MYRA BRECKINRIDGE
This picture based on Gore Vidal's comic novel about a sex-change operation is, according to Leonard Mallin, "as bad as any movie ever made." Full of zealous sexploitation of Mae West, Raquel Welch, Tom Selleck, Farrah Fawcett and many others....
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NEROLIO
Nerolio could have been titled "A few days in the life of Pasolini." A fact-faithful documentary could not better convey the controversial texture of the late Italian director's work and persona. Grimaldi's protagonist is a world-renowned poet and director whose...
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THE EDGE OF THE HORIZON (O FIO DO HORIZONTE)
"We have two lives: the real one which we dream about in childhood; and the false one which we share with others, and which finishes in a coffin."-Alvaro de Campos. Just another shooting on Lisbon's docks-but as nightshift pathologist Claude...
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MACADAM TRIBU (MACADAM TRIBE)
The Tarmac Tribe are confused. With Africa in the throes of economic modernization, its people find themselves severed from their tribal roots. The story of their search for work, love and an identity, Macadam Tribe is a vision of Africa...
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MENNO’S MIND
In the near future, Menno, a naive government computer technician, is drawn into a web of intrigue by a rebellious underground determined to stop a rogue politician from stealing an impending national election. The rebels force Menno to download the...
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LA MIA GENERAZIONE
1983: A warm-hearted police captain is assigned to take a convicted Red Brigade terrorist from a Sicilian prison to his waiting girlfriend in Milan, only to find that it is a sinister trap to elicit the names of the terrorist's...
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MOTHER NIGHT
In 1961, Howard W. Campbell, Jr., an obscure American playwright, is delivered to an Israeli prison. Awaiting trial as a Nazi war criminal, Campbell finds himself in the cell directly below that of the notorious Adolph Eichmann, who is also...
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EARTH
This movie is so beautiful and strange that those qualities alone recommend it. The hero is an exterminator-he specializes in killing the bugs that infest the red, rather Martian soil of a marvelous bleak stretch of Spanish countryside. Moreover, he...
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THE LOVE LESSON
Seventeen years ago, two women made an agreement. Grace, a civil servant, would raise the son of Camille, a gallery owner-with the provisions that the three would live in close proximity and that the adoption be kept from the child...
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LOVE’S DEBRIS (POUSSIERES D’AMOUR)
"This film is based on the deeply held conviction that everything we express through the voice is the 'product' of our quest for closer contact with another person, with love and every possible expression of love. In order to verify...
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LUMIÈRE AND COMPANY (LUMIÈRE ET COMPAGNIE)
A lively tip of the hat to the pioneers of the moving picture, this film is an anthology of short pieces by forty contemporary filmmakers wt,o used a restored camera which had belonged to the Lumiere brothers to make their...
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LUST AND REVENGE
Claudia Karvan plays bored, wealthy divorcee Georgina Oliphant, spoiled daughter of pharmaceutical tycoon George Oliphant. George urgently needs to reduce his company's profits for tax purposes, and decides to sponsor the creation of an ambitious bronze statue, 100% tax deductible,...
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DYING TO GO HOME (MARTINHO POR CHEGAR A CASA)
Manuel, a Portuguese immigrant living in Amsterdam, wakes up in a cemetery and discovers he's a ghost. There's another ghost there: a Chinese man who tells him he will only find peace if he can get his bones back to...
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LES ENFANTS MODELES
Two child models, like dolls, are being made up to perfection for the preparation of a large fashion shoot. Today's shoot requires that the two children kiss, forcing them to publicly face their adolescent insecurities.
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THE LONE STAR LETTERS
Set in the tiny town of Sweetwater, Texas, The Lone Star Letters focuses on the life and times of the local post office staff whose personalities are anything but tiny. Chaos and local gossip ensues as undercover postal police man,...
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LOOKING FOR RICHARD
Ranging from New York's streets to the reconstructed Globe Theater in London, talking with everyone from strangers encountered by chance to scholars and celebrated actors, Pacino is the voluble, mercurial center of a film that ingeniously interweaves commentary on Shakespeare...
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A DRIFTING LIFE (LUMENG HUACHUN)
Kun-cheng lives with his family on their poor but stable farm. When his wife dies suddenly in childbirth, he is left permanently embittered and fatalistic. He leaves the care of the farm and his children to his parents, and embarks...
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A DROP IN THE OCEAN (STAGONA STON OKEANO)
The difficulties of love in the modern world: some things are universal. Stage actress Amalia Moutoussi, in a powerful performance, finds romance impinging on her own art as she falls for craggy-faced Giorgos Sfyrides, a billiard-playing wouldbe emigre, who, in...
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KAMIKAZE TAXI
Kantake is a cab driver raised in Peru who still speaks Japanese pidgin style. He is to become the third side of a unique dramatic triangle, conjoining reps of three social groups that rarely crisscross: Japan's 150,000 foreign-raised citizens, its...
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KIDS RETURN
The humorous opening stretch introduces high school buddies Shinji and Masaru as they cut classes and disrupt lessons. They extort cash from their classmates to finance long afternoons ,hanging out at a neighborhood coffee shop and a diner frequented by...
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THE KING OF MASKS
An aging traveling performer named Wang is a master of the Sichuan opera technique of changing masks so quickly that the act appears miraculous. Aging and longing for a male heir to whom he can teach his skills, he buys...
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KISS ME, STUPID
A leeringly silly Billy Wilder sex farce that aspired to be Moliere or Feydeau, but ended up as one of the first films condemned by the once-powerful Legion of Decency. Dean Martin plays a lecherous night club crooner named Dino...
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DRIFTING CLOUDS (KAUAS PILVET KARKAAVAT)
There's something at once familiar and unconventional about Aki Kaurismaki's Drifting Clouds. For those who've savored the flying Finn's oeuvre-embracing such films as Ariel, Match Factory Girl and La Vie de Boheme-the new outing reiterates a dead pan fatalism that's...
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IN FULL GALLOP (CWAL)
In Full Gallop is an autobiographical adaptation of Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi's boyhood in the l 950's. As a result of constant surveillance by the Secret Police and the subsequent threat to young Hubert's education, his mother ships Hubert off...
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ISOTTA
An overweight thirty-year-old woman works in a factory, spends her days fantasizing, falls for a Greek businessman, loses him to her best friend and still manages to love life.
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IT’S A LONG WAY TO THE SEA…
Puwal is a boatman in Nemuguri village, on the bank of the river Dihing in Assam. For three generations, his forefathers have been ferrying people to and fro. Life goes on smoothly until Puwal begins to hear persistent reports about...
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JUICEHEAD
Addicted to electricity, Buzzy lurches through life sucking on sockets, unable to touch anyone without shocking them. When he falls for an ace electrician, his cycle of addiction and isolation becomes unbearable, as his desire to touch her forces him...
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DEAD HEART
In the scrubby desert village of Wala Wala, a jailed Aboriginal is found dead in local lawman Ray Lorkin's police lock-up. In Wala Wala, justice is black and white-Aboriginal traditions vs. Australian law. In an attemp't to reconcile the need...
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HIGH HEELS
Aging pop star Becky Del Paramo returns to Madrid after 15 years to perform and, in passing, to resolve her relationship with the daughter she abandoned as a little girl in favor of her .career. When she meets Rebecca's new...
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THE HOLY WEEK (WIELKI TYDZIEN)
The horror of the Nazi years have been done to death and often inadvertently turned into soap opera by filmmakers. For Andrzej Wajda, though, those years are no abstract symbol-they're a flesh and blood memory, and he makes them come...
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I’M SO-SO
Shot in May of 1995, I'm So-So uses a combination of interviews and brief film clips to explore the life and art of the renowned Polish director who had just announced his decision to retire from making films. Among the...
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DEACON BRODIE
In 1788, the city of Edinburgh was rocked with the revelation that William Brodie (aka Deacon Brodie), master cabinet maker and town councilor had been found guilty of attempting to steal a fortune from the city's Customs and Excise offices....
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HAMSUN
This film chronicles the troubling and fantastic life of Norwegian Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun. Increasingly nationalistic in his writings, the aging writer openly supports the Nazi party during World War II. A known personality around the world, Hamsun takes advantage...
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HEARING THE LIGHT
Michael Gordon, a successful deaf painter whose hearing is restored through laser surgery, experiences a crisis of faith when he realizes that his popularity may be more a result of exploitative marketing of his former handicap than his actual talent...
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HEARTS AND MINDS
South Africa in the late l 980's is a country divided, wracked by anti-communist para· noia and sliding headlong towards civil war. Against this background, we find Andries Fourie, 'an officer in the South African Police, a man devastated by...
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HERE ON EARTH (AQUI NA TERRA)
40-ish economist Luis Miguel Cintra loses his father then starts going to pieces, hearing sounds no one else does, quitting his job, even alienating his beautiful doctor wife Jessica Weiss. Meanwhile, far away in the country, poor lost kids Rita...
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A CORNER IN GOLD
In his pursuit to become a legend in the chaos of the gold pit, a young man named Dare journeys on a train which travels repeatedly to the gold market and back. Dare works diligently towards his goal until finally...
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GREETINGS
A tawdry great time, this early Brian De Palma picture gives us skin, the draft and the counterculture all rolled into one. Truly memorable performances from Robert De Niro, Jonathan Warden, Gerrit Graham and Allen Garfield. Also with Megan McCormick....
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THE GROUP
The highminded women of Vassar's Class of '33 soon find that the rest of their lives will be centered around catching and holding a mate. Sharp insights of Mary McCarthy's novel are polished into glossy camp as this bluestocking crew...
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HAIFA
Haifa is a sensitive story of the days leading up to the peace agreement signed by Arafat and Rabin in Washington and the mixed emotions that followed the historic event. "Everyday people go about their business in a poor, dusty...
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CON RABBIA E CON AMORE
Claudio, superficial middle-class university student, one day meets young and wise Francesca at a bus stop, where they strike up a friendly relationship. As Francesca is walking away, however, she is caught in a crossfire and shot. During the next...
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COOLBREEZE AND BUZZ
A girl and her father, separated by time and by his love for the unfettered life, meet again and become re-acquainted in the Florida panhandle.
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ERMO
Ermo is a hard-working woman who sells her home-made noodles by the roadside in a rural town. l.1er husband is ill and a stranger to her mind, and her small son spends much of his time at the neighbor's house,...
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FIRST DATE
What happens when a man asks out a woman he's only iust met? He realizes he's got more than he bargained for, and begins the process of understanding what it means to be dating in the nineties.
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FORGOTTEN SILVER
This wickedly clever hoax "documentary" is a highly amusing satire on the recent spate of historical documentaries made to celebrate the centenary of cinema. The film deals with the career of a supposedly forgotten pioneer of international cinema, Colin McKenzie,...
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FRONTIERLAND (FRONTERILANDIA)
The title refers not to a location, but rather to those spaces where cultures intertwine. This film is an experimental, poetic documentary of the Lafino experience in border towns-an exploration, say the directors, "of the mythical perceptions which both sides...
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THE COME-ON (EL ANZUELO)
A middle class couple disregards the romantic yearnings of their young daughter Alejandra and promises her hand in marriage to Alfonso, who is many years her senior but economically well-off. To celebrate the event in style, the bride's parents spend...
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THE EIGHTH DAY (LE HUITEME JOUR)
Pascal Duquenne plays Georges, who has been in an institution for the mentally handicapped since the death of his mother a few years earlier. Work-obsessed Harry (Daniel Auteuil) is presented giving a seminar on sales technique. His is a colorless...
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ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET (DER ELEFANT VERGISST NIE)
Young and lonely Countess Lilly von Teltow has the good fortune of being rescued from the sight of a car accident by two members of a traveling circus: the circus' elephant and its trainer, the dwarf Ramon. He visits the...
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THE EMPEROR’S SHADOW
The movie opens in 210 B.C. with Ying Zheng, the first emperor of a united China, making a sacrifice by the churning waters of the Yellow River. Weary from a life of war-mongering and bloodletting, he can hardly stand without...
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THE EMPTY MIRROR
The Empty Mirror provides Adolf Hitler with the dramatic opportunity to recapitulate, explain and analyze his insidious career. A virtual one-man performance piece by British actor Norman Rodway, pie imagines a postwar Hitler holed up in an underground bunker dictating...
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A DROP IN THE OCEAN (STAGONA STON OKEANO)
The difficulties of love in the modern world: some things are universal. Stage actress Amalia Moutoussi, in a powerful performance, finds romance impinging on her own art as she falls for craggy-faced Giorgos Sfyrides, a billiard-playing wouldbe emigre, who, in...
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CLOCKS
Clocks offers an impression of the work of composer and pianist Elena Kats-Chemin. Accompanied by her own music, we see Elena at work: composing, at the piano, in dialogue with Richard Toop, Daryl Pratt and Elizabeth Burton. -Production notes
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DYING TO GO HOME (MARTINHO POR CHEGAR A CASA)
Manuel, a Portuguese immigrant living in Amsterdam, wakes up in a cemetery and discovers he's a ghost. There's another ghost there: a Chinese man who tells him he will only find peace if he can get his bones back to...
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EARTH
This movie is so beautiful and strange that those qualities alone recommend it. The hero is an exterminator-he specializes in killing the bugs that infest the red, rather Martian soil of a marvelous bleak stretch of Spanish countryside. Moreover, he...
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THE EDGE OF THE HORIZON (O FIO DO HORIZONTE)
"We have two lives: the real one which we dream about in childhood; and the false one which we share with others, and which finishes in a coffin."-Alvaro de Campos. Just another shooting on Lisbon's docks-but as nightshift pathologist Claude...
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DEACON BRODIE
In 1788, the city of Edinburgh was rocked with the revelation that William Brodie (aka Deacon Brodie), master cabinet maker and town councilor had been found guilty of attempting to steal a fortune from the city's Customs and Excise offices....
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DEAD HEART
In the scrubby desert village of Wala Wala, a jailed Aboriginal is found dead in local lawman Ray Lorkin's police lock-up. In Wala Wala, justice is black and white-Aboriginal traditions vs. Australian law. In an attemp't to reconcile the need...
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DRIFTING CLOUDS (KAUAS PILVET KARKAAVAT)
There's something at once familiar and unconventional about Aki Kaurismaki's Drifting Clouds. For those who've savored the flying Finn's oeuvre-embracing such films as Ariel, Match Factory Girl and La Vie de Boheme-the new outing reiterates a dead pan fatalism that's...
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A DRIFTING LIFE (LUMENG HUACHUN)
Kun-cheng lives with his family on their poor but stable farm. When his wife dies suddenly in childbirth, he is left permanently embittered and fatalistic. He leaves the care of the farm and his children to his parents, and embarks...
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CLINIC E
This black comedy about the power of denial follows the misadventures of Jack Everhart. Upon being called in for an HIV test per the submitted list of an ex-lover who has tested positive, Jack embarks upon an obsessive search to...
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THE COME-ON (EL ANZUELO)
A middle class couple disregards the romantic yearnings of their young daughter Alejandra and promises her hand in marriage to Alfonso, who is many years her senior but economically well-off. To celebrate the event in style, the bride's parents spend...
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CON RABBIA E CON AMORE
Claudio, superficial middle-class university student, one day meets young and wise Francesca at a bus stop, where they strike up a friendly relationship. As Francesca is walking away, however, she is caught in a crossfire and shot. During the next...
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COOLBREEZE AND BUZZ
A girl and her father, separated by time and by his love for the unfettered life, meet again and become re-acquainted in the Florida panhandle.
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A CORNER IN GOLD
In his pursuit to become a legend in the chaos of the gold pit, a young man named Dare journeys on a train which travels repeatedly to the gold market and back. Dare works diligently towards his goal until finally...
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THE CHINESE FEAST
No figure within the Hong Kong New Wave has been more influential than Tsui Hark-director of Peking Opera Blues and the best of the Once Upon a Time in China series, and a producer of John Woo's The Killer and...
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THE CHINESE FEAST
No figure within the Hong Kong New Wave has been more influential than Tsui Hark-director of Peking Opera Blues and the best of the Once Upon a Time in China series, and a producer of John Woo's The Killer and...
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CLINIC E
This black comedy about the power of denial follows the misadventures of Jack Everhart. Upon being called in for an HIV test per the submitted list of an ex-lover who has tested positive, Jack embarks upon an obsessive search to...
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CLOCKS
Clocks offers an impression of the work of composer and pianist Elena Kats-Chemin. Accompanied by her own music, we see Elena at work: composing, at the piano, in dialogue with Richard Toop, Daryl Pratt and Elizabeth Burton. -Production notes
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CHARMS ZWISCHENFALLE
Welcome to Charm's Incidents, an intense but humorOtJS reverie on the life of forgotten Soviet dadaist Daniil Charms. Charms wrote one book before dying in a Nazi prison camp during the war. Vienna-based director-writer Michael Kreihsl has adapted the various...
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THE BRYLCREEM BOYS
The story of The Brylcreem Boys takes place against the backdrop of the Republic of Ireland in 1941, when-as part of an effort to remain strictly neutralthe Dublin Government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier...
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BUTTERFIELD 8
It's been called garish, trashy, cliched. Elizabeth Taylor won an Oscar for her portrayal of a high-class prostitute wanting to go straight, convinced she's found Mr. Right. Dina Merrill is the noble wife to end all noble wives. With Laurence...
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CELLULOIDE
A group of struggling young artists in wartime Italy manages to make a film under the noses of the Nazis. This picture chronicles the making of Roberto Rossellini's classic Open City and presents portrayals of luminaries Rossellini, Anna Magnani and...
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CHALK
is principally set in Pop Watson's large, funky East Bay pool hall, the Crabtree. Any glory days are long past; ailing Pop has a cantankerous relationship with his resentful biological son, and a slightly warmer one with T.C., who's been...
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BONA
Bona is an 1 8-year-old woman of a lower middle class family in the Philippines. Young and romantic in the midst of the poverty and hardship around her, she one day spies Gordo, a young actor, performing a bit role...
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BREAKING THE WAVES
A robust Scandinavian oil-rigger and a pretty but naive Scottish village girl marry; they are blissfully happy; he becomes paralyzed after a work accident; their lives fall apart. This is the framework of Danish director Lars Von Trier's Breaking the...
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THE BRUCE
This extravagant production tells the story of Scotland's warrior-king, Robert The Bruce, following his epic adventures and exploring his complex relationship with England's King Edward I, known as the Hammer of the Scots. In tribute to The Bruce's tireless efforts...
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CELLULOIDE
A group of struggling young artists in wartime Italy manages to make a film under the noses of the Nazis. This picture chronicles the making of Roberto Rossellini's classic Open City and presents portrayals of luminaries Rossellini, Anna Magnani and...
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BLUE MOUNTAIN
The Balmer villa is just as perfect and pleasant as can be. Manfred is a respected and well-to-do businessman, Renate a competent and happy housewife, and their pre-teen daughter, Sonia, a nice young lady. Within this idyllic household, however, a...
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BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE
Married doldrums are out, swinging is in. Sex-savvy couple Robert Culp and wife Natalie Wood show bored Dyan Cannon and bewildered lawyer-husband Elliott Gould how it's done. A comic, unabashedly commercial debut for director Paul Mazursky. 1969. 104 min.
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BUTTERFIELD 8
It's been called garish, trashy, cliched. Elizabeth Taylor won an Oscar for her portrayal of a high-class prostitute wanting to go straight, convinced she's found Mr. Right. Dina Merrill is the noble wife to end all noble wives. With Laurence...
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BETWEEN PANCHO VILLA AND A NAKED WOMAN (ENTRE PANCHO VILLA Y UNA MUJER DESNUDA)
This story describes the dilemma of Gina, an enterprising, fortyish, divorced woman who wants more out of her casual relationship with Adrian, a liberal intellectual who's in it only for some good sex and shies away from any form of...
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BETWEEN THE FAMILIAR
In Brighton Beach, a young girl feels estranged from her pretentious mother, and finds strength with a lonely salesman.
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BLACK DJU
From the sea and sun of the Cape Verde Islands, it's one very big step to rainy, gloomy, land-locked Luxembourg, but that's the journ?y 20-year-old Dju Dele Dibonga must take to track down his dad, whose yearly visits and monthly...
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THE BLIND COW (DIE BLINDE KUH)
Satellite television in 1994 is available for all Europeans to enjoy. What is puzzling scientists as well as the public is why the ominous flickering swastikas and images of Hitler have been appearing on a certain satellite frequency. Two highly...
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THE BRYLCREEM BOYS
The story of The Brylcreem Boys takes place against the backdrop of the Republic of Ireland in 1941, when-as part of an effort to remain strictly neutralthe Dublin Government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier...
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BAD BOY BUBBY
Bubby's entire knowledge of the universe stops at the walls of the two-room slum he has been confined to for the thirty-eight years since his birth. He knows of the existence of only himself and his mother. He plays with...
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BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA
Set in Greenville, S.C., not long after WWII, this story looks behind Tobacco Road cliches to evoke the complex weave of love, hardship and family bonds that conditioned the life of the poor whites in the days before New South...
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THE BRUCE
This extravagant production tells the story of Scotland's warrior-king, Robert The Bruce, following his epic adventures and exploring his complex relationship with England's King Edward I, known as the Hammer of the Scots. In tribute to The Bruce's tireless efforts...
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ALL OF THEM WITCHES (SOBRE NATURAL)
Dolores, a young and attractive newlywed, lives a rather isolated existence in an old, downtown Mexico City apartment which she shares with her businessman husband. Her quiet existence is turned into a nightmare when her friend and neighbor from across...
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AN ALMOST PERFECT AFFAIR (EIN FAST PERFEKTER SEITENSPRUNG)
Henny (Elfi Eschke) backs out of a marriage to the strait-laced son of the arrogant top dog in a small town and flees to see the world. Because she can't pay the bills in the Vienna hotel she checks into...
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ANGRYMAN
This wild black comedy follows a guy who gets fed up with the world and transforms into an angry caped crusader who takes revenge on the world's iniustices.
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BACKGROUND NOISE (R.D.F.: RUMORE DI FONDO)
Three working-class kids from the fringes of Rome murder a loan shark and then take a woman hostage. Corrupt cop Tiresia turns up on the scene, hoping for a swift and reputable conclusion, but all sides suffer together in this...
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BREAKING THE WAVES
A robust Scandinavian oil-rigger and a pretty but naive Scottish village girl marry; they are blissfully happy; he becomes paralyzed after a work accident; their lives fall apart. This is the framework of Danish director Lars Von Trier's Breaking the...
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ACROPOLE (AKROPOL)
This film re-creates the life and atmosphere of Athens' celebrated Acropole theater, which featured lavish, Hollywood-style musicals in the '50's and '60's. Performed by self-taught actors, the Acropole's bawdy political satire was an attraction not only for the well-to-do, but...
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ADAM AND EVE (ADÃO E EVA)
Up-and-coming newscaster Maria de Medeiros decides the clock is ticking and picks her latest interviewee, unsuspecting Karro Elejalde, as the daddy-neglecting to tip off lover Ana Bustorff. But the predictable fireworks are just the beginning, as Elejalde refuses to take...
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ALIX’S WHITE LIGHT
In an effort to prevent tragedy, Kimmy tells her younger sister Alix morality tales using samurai and geisha imagery. Will Alix understand before it's too late ... ?
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BONA
Bona is an 1 8-year-old woman of a lower middle class family in the Philippines. Young and romantic in the midst of the poverty and hardship around her, she one day spies Gordo, a young actor, performing a bit role...
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BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE
Married doldrums are out, swinging is in. Sex-savvy couple Robert Culp and wife Natalie Wood show bored Dyan Cannon and bewildered lawyer-husband Elliott Gould how it's done. A comic, unabashedly commercial debut for director Paul Mazursky. 1969. 104 min.
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BLUE MOUNTAIN
The Balmer villa is just as perfect and pleasant as can be. Manfred is a respected and well-to-do businessman, Renate a competent and happy housewife, and their pre-teen daughter, Sonia, a nice young lady. Within this idyllic household, however, a...
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BLACK DJU
From the sea and sun of the Cape Verde Islands, it's one very big step to rainy, gloomy, land-locked Luxembourg, but that's the journ?y 20-year-old Dju Dele Dibonga must take to track down his dad, whose yearly visits and monthly...
Read More..
THE BLIND COW (DIE BLINDE KUH)
Satellite television in 1994 is available for all Europeans to enjoy. What is puzzling scientists as well as the public is why the ominous flickering swastikas and images of Hitler have been appearing on a certain satellite frequency. Two highly...
Read More..
BETWEEN THE FAMILIAR
In Brighton Beach, a young girl feels estranged from her pretentious mother, and finds strength with a lonely salesman.
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BETWEEN PANCHO VILLA AND A NAKED WOMAN (ENTRE PANCHO VILLA Y UNA MUJER DESNUDA)
This story describes the dilemma of Gina, an enterprising, fortyish, divorced woman who wants more out of her casual relationship with Adrian, a liberal intellectual who's in it only for some good sex and shies away from any form of...
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BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA
Set in Greenville, S.C., not long after WWII, this story looks behind Tobacco Road cliches to evoke the complex weave of love, hardship and family bonds that conditioned the life of the poor whites in the days before New South...
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BAD BOY BUBBY
Bubby's entire knowledge of the universe stops at the walls of the two-room slum he has been confined to for the thirty-eight years since his birth. He knows of the existence of only himself and his mother. He plays with...
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BACKGROUND NOISE (R.D.F.: RUMORE DI FONDO)
Three working-class kids from the fringes of Rome murder a loan shark and then take a woman hostage. Corrupt cop Tiresia turns up on the scene, hoping for a swift and reputable conclusion, but all sides suffer together in this...
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ANGRYMAN
This wild black comedy follows a guy who gets fed up with the world and transforms into an angry caped crusader who takes revenge on the world's iniustices.
Read More..
AN ALMOST PERFECT AFFAIR (EIN FAST PERFEKTER SEITENSPRUNG)
Henny (Elfi Eschke) backs out of a marriage to the strait-laced son of the arrogant top dog in a small town and flees to see the world. Because she can't pay the bills in the Vienna hotel she checks into...
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ALL OF THEM WITCHES (SOBRE NATURAL)
Dolores, a young and attractive newlywed, lives a rather isolated existence in an old, downtown Mexico City apartment which she shares with her businessman husband. Her quiet existence is turned into a nightmare when her friend and neighbor from across...
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ALIX’S WHITE LIGHT
In an effort to prevent tragedy, Kimmy tells her younger sister Alix morality tales using samurai and geisha imagery. Will Alix understand before it's too late ... ?
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ADAM AND EVE (ADÃO E EVA)
Up-and-coming newscaster Maria de Medeiros decides the clock is ticking and picks her latest interviewee, unsuspecting Karro Elejalde, as the daddy-neglecting to tip off lover Ana Bustorff. But the predictable fireworks are just the beginning, as Elejalde refuses to take...
Read More..
ACROPOLE (AKROPOL)
This film re-creates the life and atmosphere of Athens' celebrated Acropole theater, which featured lavish, Hollywood-style musicals in the '50's and '60's. Performed by self-taught actors, the Acropole's bawdy political satire was an attraction not only for the well-to-do, but...
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THE YOUNG POISONER’S HANDBOOK
This macabre, darkly comic and .e;inister tale of genius gone wrong is based on the true story of a young man's descent into madness against the absurd backdrop of typical suburban English life. A 14 year old boy's experiments with...
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ZABRISKIE POINT
Zabriskie Point is screened as a tribute to this year's AFI Fest guest of honor, master director Michelangelo Antonioni. This most emblematic L.A. movie is a bemused European intellectual's hallucinatory vision of America in the sixties: billboards, freeways, riots, .guns...
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THE WONDROUS VOYAGE OF KORNEL ESTI (ESTI KORNÉL CSODÁLATOS UTAZÁSA)
Two trains depart from two distant points in time. On one of the trains, the renowned but ailing European writer Kornet Esti is traveling to Germany for his last lecture tour on a wintry day in 1933. The other train...
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WHO IS HENRY JAGLOM?
Who is Henry Jaglom? With an entire spectrum of opinions, including interviews with Candice Bergen, Andrea Marcovicci, John Landis, Peter Bogdanovich, and Milos Forman, with footage from the making of Jaglom's movies, and with new material from Jaglom mentor Orson...
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THE WHITE PLAGUE (BÍLÁ NEMOC)
The only thing stopping Marshal Zdenek Stepanek, dictator of a mythical country, from starting his long-dreamed-of expansionist war is the deadly disease devastating the populace-but then slum doctor Hugo Haas discovers the cure. One hitch: his price is peacel But...
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WARRIOR LANLING
A breathtaking, poetic myth with classic elements of Shakespeare and Indian folklore which takes place in ancient China. Young, handsome Prince Lanling is deeply humiliated by the leader of an opposing tribe who refuses to fight him because of his...
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WAR STORIES
With astonishing candor and often refreshing humor, seven elderly women face the camera and reminisce about their lives during World War II. Using newsreel clips, popular songs of the era and vivid contributions from the storytellers' photo albums, what is...
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VELVA JEAN LEARNS TO DRIVE
The year is 1946 and Velva Jean, a small town spiritual young woman blessed with a talent for singing, lives with her tent preacher husband and his father in rural North Carolina. When she is forced to teach herself to...
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VUKOVAR POSTE RESTANTE
Shot on location in the bombed out border town of Vukovar in the former Yugoslavia, this deeply moving, riveting story is more than the average Romeo and Juliet tale of star crossed lovers Croatian Anna and Serbian Toma marry in...
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UNTAMED WOMEN (MUJERES INSUMISAS)
A sincere, honest and powerful portrayal of the condition of women in contemporary Mexican society, this film portrays a group of lower middle class women who decide to flee to the United States to get away from their unsatisfied lives...
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THE UNKNOWN DESERTER (DER UNBEKANNTE DESERTEUR)
A thoughtful and visually stunning inquiry into the moral nature of obedience and military violence. Two soldiers, imprisoned at the bottom of an empty swimming pool in the basement of a villa exchange stories of their capture. One finds out...
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ULYSSES’ GAZE
Greece's greatest filmmaker, Theo Angelopoulos, dramatizes a central crisis for any artistparticularly someone like Angelopoulos, who has often faced difficult subjects in dangerous times (Days of 36): how can a filmmaker keep his/her passion for cinema in a world exploding...
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TWO NUDES BATHING
A lavish fantasy on the origins of the anonymous painting which hangs in the Louvre. In late 16th Century France a young D?tch portrait painter is commissioned by a count who is determined to have a prim and proper likeness...
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TROUBLESOME LOVE (L’ AMORE MOLESTO)
A disturbing psychological study of a middle aged woman who attempts to piece together the reasons for the death of her mother, who washed ashore after a mysterious midnight swim with an unknown man. "A mature and unusually powerful picture...
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THE TROUBLES WE’VE SEEN: A HISTORY OF JOURNALISM IN WARTIME (1ST AND 2ND JOURNEYS)
Eminent French documentarian Marcel Ophuls ( The Sorrow and the Pity, Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie) has turned his eye to Bosnia from the perspective of the journalists who cover the war. From 1993 to 1994...
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TRINITY AND BEYOND
On August 6th and August 9th, 1995, the world observed the 50th anniversaries of the most destructive forces ever unleashed in human history: the dropping of atomic bombs by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Filmmaker Peter Kuran...
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TOLERANCE (GONDOVISELES)
A young couple, imprisoned for the husband's work-related thievery, lose their children to a foster home. Upon their release, they endeavor to regain custody of their young daughter, only to find their dreams of a family reunion crushed by the...
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TRIAL
A dynamic and intelligent courtroom drama scripted by Don Man'kiewicz. A Southern California murder trial with overtones of (gaspl) interracial sex is ruthlessly exploited by left and right wing forces. Sound at all familiar? Watch for the famous "Sea of...
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TERMINUS BREST (BAHNHOF BREST)
On the Russian-Polish border lies a city named Brest. Unlike its French and Bulgarian counterparts, this Brest has not remained untouched by the ravages of war. Taking the Brest train station as a starting point, former East German filmmaker Gerd...
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TALE OF THE THREE JEWELS (HIKAYAT AL-JAWAHER AL-THALATH)
The stark contrast between the grirn' realities of life in contemporary Gaza and a young boy's liberating imagination imbue this Palestinian tale with a haunting quality ... Youssef is a 12-year-old lad whose precarious family unit includes a fugitive brother...
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TAKE CARE OF YOUR SCARF, TATIANA (PIDÄ HUIVISTA KIINI, TATJANA)
A quirky, droll road movie about the deadpan adventures of two Finnish men, driving a black Volga station wagon through Finland some time in the mid-sixties. Vallo, the owner of the car, drinks enormous amounts of coffee. Reino, a mechanic,...
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SWORN TO THE DRUM: A TRIBUTE TO FRANCISCO AGUABELLA
SWORN TO THE DRUM: A TRIBUTE TO FRANCISCO AGUABELLA, depicts the Afro-Cuban drummer and composer, a fixture on the U.S. Latin music scene since the 1950s, honored with the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Award in 1992. Known...
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SWEETIES (CARAMELLE)
Anna's physical decline is irreversible, but she is a voluptuous woman in the prime of life. And she will do anything to rekindle her husband's waning desire. When diets and aerobics fail to do the trick, she turns to a...
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STREETLIFE
A tough story shot through with humor and compassion centers on a group of women in a grim, South Wales housing project for whom a steady job means doing someone else's ironing or engaging in a little amateur prostitution. They...
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STORIES FROM THE KRONEN (HISTORIAS DEL KRONEN)
Sex, drugs, rock'n'roll-that's just the early part of the evening for night-lifer Carlos. The largest grossing film so far this year in Spain centers around a bar in downtown Madrid where Spanish Generation Xers burn both sides of the candle....
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LA STRADA
AFI Fest is pleased to present Charlotte Chandler, who will discuss her new Random House book, "I Fellini", about the legendary Italian director Federico Fellini. "I have orr1y one life, and that I have told to you. This is my...
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SHOTGUN FREEWAY: DRIVES THRU LOST L.A.
Like a surreal educational film frorn'ihe 1950s, this tour of Los Angeles' anguished coming of age-from pueblo to condo, explores the lives of 14 Angelenos whose oral histories attempt to illuminate this undefinable, noir city. Ranging from artist to activist...
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THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET (OBCHOD NA KORZE)
Wartime in the fascist Slovak state: although happy go lucky carpenter Jozef Kr6ner's detested brother-in-law gets him the supposedly cushy job of "Aryan controller" of Jewish widow Ida Kaminska's button shop, the oblivious old lady treats him as a simple...
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SHARAKU
A stunning depiction of life in ancient Tokyo (then called Eda), this is the sumptuously told story of the real life wood-block artist who became the first ukiyoe (floating world) artist Sharaku, who dared to depict his subjects in a...
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SEVEN DAYS IN MAY
After a night of paranoid adventure, we invite the Marathon audience to "stride into the bright sunlight of freedom." This political thriller, considered to be highly credible in its day, concerns a lone colonel's desperate attempt to stop a military...
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THE SECOND ROOM
About an isolated architect who discovers the "second room" and finds his own completion.
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RADIO STAR-THE AFN STORY
Filmed in Germany, America and Korea, Radio Star is a nostalgic trip to the past. For 50 years, the Armed Forces Network (AFN) was a radio station on special duty at the front, giving the troops a "radiophonic feeling of...
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SCREAMERS
Screamers is a fun, fast-paced futwristic thriller with enough jolts per frame to keep even the most impatient action fan happy. Canadian helmer Christian Duguay (Million Dollar Babies) keeps the focus on the often-violent thrills 'n' spills throughout. Based on...
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THE PASSENGER
A dissatisfied TV reporter changes identities with a dead man while on assignment in Africa, and finds he is now a gunrunner. He encounters a beautiful woman who is drawn to him, as he follows a mysterious path toward death....
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THE OUTPOST (A RÉSZLEG)
Atmospheric and poetic, this is an allegory of a society which finds itself mystified and humiliated by the often arbitrary dictates of authority. An engineer is abruptly and inexplicably transferred to a new job as head of a section. Under...
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ORSON WELLES: THE ONE-MAN BAND
Fans of Orson Welles will not be disappointed by this wonderful opportunity to see parts of rarely or never before seen films by the "Wunderkind". With excerpts from The Deep, The Dreamers, Merchant of Venice, Moby Dick, Churchill and The...
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ON OUR SELECTION
Based on turn of the century articles by Steele Rudd about his family, this lively Aussie efltry delivers an earthy look at the hardships involved in working a small parcel of land (or "selection"). In a sepia toned flashback, the...
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O QUATRILHO
"Quatrilho" is the name of a card game which requires its players to betray their partners in order to win. At the beginning of this century, in a small Italian immigrant community in the southernmost region of Brazil, two couples...
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NONNIE AND ALEX
A young boy's mother has recently passed away. His journey leads from denial to acceptance which he finds with the help of his best friend. Festival screenings: Sundance FF - Honorable Mention; Aspen Short FF - First Place.
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NO LOANS TODAY
Surprisingly intimate and non-judgmental, this document of life in the African-American community of South Central Los Angeles offers a revealing exploration of the unseen resilience of the people who live here, with the pawnshop as a metaphor for survival. Since...
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NO QUARTER
In an ever increasing world of absurdism and loathing, our hero Sisyphus battles against parking tickets, heavy traffic and an agoraphobic girlfriend. A bleak comedy about the existential dilemma of choosing insanity over suicide. Behind the blissful smile of life...
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THE NEON BIBLE
A moving story of a young boy growing up in a small 1940s Bible Belt town in America's Deep South. The film boasts a strong cast, including the extraordinary Gena Rowlands as Aunt Mae, who brings a dash of glamour...
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THE MOOR’S HEAD (DER KOPF DES MOHREN)
Georg, a physicist at a testing laboratory, finds himself face to face with the horrific image of one of the victims of a fatal toxic gas leak in a nearby chemical plant. He becomes obsessed with protecting his family from...
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THE MONKEY KID
Based on the director's childhood experiences, this is a lyrical, rhythmic chronicle of the daily life of a child of intellectuals during China's Cultural Revolution. When her parents are sent to the countryside for "re-education," (in truth brainwashing) a nine...
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MISSION TO MOSCOW
M ission To Moscow tries to explain Soviet Russia to American audiences. Real-life U.S. Ambassador Davies (Walter Huston) talks up the lovable side of misunderstood mass murderer Joseph Stalin, while Mrs. Davies discovers Moscow's marvelous day care facilities.
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MIRACLE ALLEY (ELL CALLEJON DE LOS MILAGROS)
We are proud to open the TRIBUTE CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN CINEMA with the film most honored this year by the Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Adapted from a book by Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, the film's three...
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MICCONCEPTION
An ironic mother and daughter tale of lost dreams and sexual desires. Mary Roberts struggles with her mother and her conscience when confronted with life changing choices. Will the young cellist abandon her moral principles in pursuit of cherished dreams?
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MEMOIRS OF A FRUSTRATED HEDONIST
Director Claas Danielson takes us on the inner and outer journey of a 78 year old art historian, to the realm of beauty and horror. Born into an impoverished Russian noble family in 1915, she found herself in flight in...
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MEDEA
Created for Danish television in 1988, Medea is an updated version of the classic Greek drama about the jealousy and deep sorrow of an abandoned wife and mother and the hatred that ensues. Lars von Trier (Elements of Crime, Zentropa)...
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MAMMO
Director Shyam Benegal, whose roots are in documentary filmmaking, has created a sensitive portrait of Mammo, an Indian woman who must use all her resources to survive after the death of her Pakistani husband. When her in-laws oust her from...
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MAKING A FILM FOR ME IS LIVING
During the filming of Beyond the Clouds, Michelangelo Antonioni's wife Enrica shot this fascinating "making of" documentary. The AFI Fest is honored to screen this unique close-up of a master artist at work. "For the first time in his career,...
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MAIRI MHOR: HER LIFE AND SONGS
Mary McPherson wrote the first of her great songs, "The Speakers of English" when she was fifty-one. From that moment until she died twenty-five years later, she poured out some of the most eloquent, lyrical and best-loved songs in the...
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LISBON STORY
Originally commissioned to do a documentary portrait of the city of Lisbon, director Wim· Wenders found his creative expression unfettered when plans changed and he was able to use his distinctive style to create a charming comedy about a film...
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THE MAESTRO: KING OF THE COWBOY ARTISTS
SWORN TO THE DRUM: A TRIBUTE TO FRANCISCO AGUABELLA, depicts the Afro-Cuban drummer and composer, a fixture on the U.S. Latin music scene since the 1950s, honored with the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Award in 1992. Known...
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LIKE TWO CROCODILES (COME DU COCCODRILLI)
Seamlessly blending past and present into a haunting story of a man trying to resolve the trauma of his youth, this moving drama revolves around Gabriele, a middle-aged art dealer living in Paris, and his search for answers to questions...
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A LIGHT-SENSITIVE STORY
A touching portrayal of a young woman's struggle to survive in a hostile environment. Juli is a single parent, former photojournalist now reduced to taking school portraits. Her personar'tife is in shambles as she tries to find work, get a...
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LEMONADE JOE (LIMONÁDOVY JOE ANEB KONSKÁ OPERA)
At the Trigger Whiskey Saloon, bad girl Tornado Lou (Kveta Fialova) sings, and temperance crusader Olga Schoberova (a Playboy cover girl) is menaced by the hard-drinking baddies, when to the rescue rides white-hatted Karel Fiala as Lemonade Joe! Hilarious parody...
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LAND OF DARKNESS
As the closing event of the Tribute to Contemporary Mexican Cinema, the AFI Fest is proud to present this extraordinary debut film. Shot in the San Gabriel mountain range near Los Angeles with Mexican funds, this film cost less than...
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LAST SUMMER IN THE HAMPTONS
A FI Fest is proud to present the West Coast premiere of the eleventh film from acclaimed writer-director Henry Jaglom. Filmed entirely on location in East Hampton, Long Island, Last Summer in the Hamptons concerns three generations of a large...
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KOREA
A stylistically photographed, moody story of a family in a rural Irish village in 1952. Young Eamon Doyle lives with his fisherman father, a grumbling man set in his ways. Other young men in the economically depleted area have emigrated...
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KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER
An epic love story based on Nobel prize winner Sigrid Undset's beloved 1928 trilogy "The Bridal Wreath." Medieval Norway is gorgeously filmed by Sven Nykvist. Kristin, the innocent and virtuous daughter of a prominent landowner, has gone to spend a...
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LAND AND FREEDOM
Land and Freedom is a wonderful, dismayed epic, and the finest film that Englishman Ken Loach has made, a movie worthy of George Orwell and Homage to Cataloma. A young Communist from Liverpool goes off to Spain on his own...
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A KISS TO THIS LAND (UN BESO A ESTA TIERRA)
This wonderful film, the only documentary in this section, follows the lives of seven Jews who emigrated to Mexico from Europe and the Middle East in the first two decades of this century. Narrated by these individuals from the perspective...
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KISSES AND SCRATCHES (CSÓKKAL ÉS KÖRÖMMEL)
Angi is a free-spirited social worker trying to survive on the fringe of Budapest's gay demimonde. A babysitting stint involves her with a fearful young wife's emerging lesbian identity. Shot in an experimental video style by male feminist and radical...
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JLG BY JLG: DECEMBER SELF-PORTRAIT
In one of his most accessible films, Jean-Luc Godard makes philosophical and reflective observations on the worlds of cinema, language and art. At his lakeside home in Switzerland, Godard is a delightful mixture of King Lear and his detective character...
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THE JOKE (ZERT)
Ironies abound-upbeat songs of the revolution overlap labor camp scenes, transistorized rod drowns out a folk band-as Josef Somr ( Closely Watched Trains) returns to his home town 15 years after being sent to the slammer for a "Long Live...
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HOTEL PARADISE
An attractive woman in her best years emerges from a dreadful hangover in the bridal suite of a luxury hotel. To her surprise, she finds herself handcuffed to a naked man in bed next to her. Worse-this is her wedding...
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I MARRIED A COMMUNIST
Also released as Women On Pier 13. A Communist agent blackmails a shipping executive trying to hide a radical thirties past. Moody, noir-ish, and paranoid-not a bad thriller in its own· "right."
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HEAD
Written by Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson (prior to their Five Easy Pieces hit), this psychedelic trip finds the mad mod TV rock group the Monkees (hey, hey) dissing themselves and the· industry a la A Hard Day's Night. Reviewed...
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HEDD WYN
Beautifully crafted and epic in scale, this moving film depicts the life of World War I Welsh poet Hedd Wyn, whose passionate ambition to win his country's prime literary honor was the driving force in his life. The handsome, romantic...
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FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG
The strange and sensational life of actress Jean Seberg-discovered at 17 by Otto Preminger to star in Saint Joan, immortalized by Godard in Breathless, smeared by the FBI for her support of the Black Panthers, a suicide at age 40-is...
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THE HAMMER OF WITCHES (KLADIVO NA CARODEJNICE)
1680, Moravia simple peasant superstition is snowballed by all-powerful inquisitor Boblig into a seemingly endless, horrific procession to the stake-but even honest men can blame themselves for their cowardice (just as, of course, in later trials). Co-scripted by "New Wave"...
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FITZPATRICK TRAVELTALKS
In the 1930's, millions of depression era theatergoers were transported to distant, exotic locations by means of these 35mm shorts, among the earliest examples of three strip Technicolor. Included with features, newsreels and cartoons, these ten minute films were a...
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THE FLYING DUTCHMAN (DE VLIEGENDE HOLLANDER)
An epic fairy tale for adults set in the 16th Century from award winning director Jos Stelling ( The Pointsman), this is a dreamlike visual retelling of the poetic fable of the sailor doomed to roam the seven seas on...
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FRESH BAIT (L’ APPAT)
Bertrand Tavernier (L627, Round Midnight) has based this horrific crime drama on the true case of two seemingly ordinary young men and a girl who committed cold-blooded murder to steal enough money to open a chain of boutiques in America....
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THE WHITE PLAGUE (BÍLÁ NEMOC)
The only thing stopping Marshal Zdenek Stepanek, dictator of a mythical country, from starting his long-dreamed-of expansionist war is the deadly disease devastating the populace-but then slum doctor Hugo Haas discovers the cure. One hitch: his price is peacel But...
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WHO IS HENRY JAGLOM?
Who is Henry Jaglom? With an entire spectrum of opinions, including interviews with Candice Bergen, Andrea Marcovicci, John Landis, Peter Bogdanovich, and Milos Forman, with footage from the making of Jaglom's movies, and with new material from Jaglom mentor Orson...
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THE WONDROUS VOYAGE OF KORNEL ESTI (ESTI KORNÉL CSODÁLATOS UTAZÁSA)
Two trains depart from two distant points in time. On one of the trains, the renowned but ailing European writer Kornet Esti is traveling to Germany for his last lecture tour on a wintry day in 1933. The other train...
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THE YOUNG POISONER’S HANDBOOK
This macabre, darkly comic and .e;inister tale of genius gone wrong is based on the true story of a young man's descent into madness against the absurd backdrop of typical suburban English life. A 14 year old boy's experiments with...
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ZABRISKIE POINT
Zabriskie Point is screened as a tribute to this year's AFI Fest guest of honor, master director Michelangelo Antonioni. This most emblematic L.A. movie is a bemused European intellectual's hallucinatory vision of America in the sixties: billboards, freeways, riots, .guns...
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FAREWELL USSR, FILM I, PERSONAL
A beautiful and haunting experimental documentary directed by Alexander Rodnyansky, using old and new film footage on unusual stock to present poetic fragments of Babyj Jar and Jewish life in present Russia. Ukraine, 1992, 60 min. Preceded by Sarajevo Film...
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THE FIRST 100 YEARS: A CELEBRATION OF AMERICAN MOVIES
Using his brilliant touch, compilation whiz Chuck Workman (Precious Images) has created a superb feature on the first century of the cinema. Produced for HBO in association with the AFI, this dazzling tribute is full to the brim with over...
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VELVA JEAN LEARNS TO DRIVE
The year is 1946 and Velva Jean, a small town spiritual young woman blessed with a talent for singing, lives with her tent preacher husband and his father in rural North Carolina. When she is forced to teach herself to...
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VUKOVAR POSTE RESTANTE
Shot on location in the bombed out border town of Vukovar in the former Yugoslavia, this deeply moving, riveting story is more than the average Romeo and Juliet tale of star crossed lovers Croatian Anna and Serbian Toma marry in...
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WAR STORIES
With astonishing candor and often refreshing humor, seven elderly women face the camera and reminisce about their lives during World War II. Using newsreel clips, popular songs of the era and vivid contributions from the storytellers' photo albums, what is...
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WARRIOR LANLING
A breathtaking, poetic myth with classic elements of Shakespeare and Indian folklore which takes place in ancient China. Young, handsome Prince Lanling is deeply humiliated by the leader of an opposing tribe who refuses to fight him because of his...
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EXTERIOR NIGHT
Mark Rappaport's (From the Journals of Jean Seberg) unique film using the actual background scenes and rear screen process plates from Warner Bros. films from the early 30's to the early 50's, in which a young man travels in time...
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FAMILY PORTRAIT
An intriguing, somewhat quirky and often painful look at the estranged relationship between an adult brother and sister. Returning to their childhood home to attend to their dying mother, Jane and Johnny Janacek discover some buried truths about their mother...
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TWO NUDES BATHING
A lavish fantasy on the origins of the anonymous painting which hangs in the Louvre. In late 16th Century France a young D?tch portrait painter is commissioned by a count who is determined to have a prim and proper likeness...
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ULYSSES’ GAZE
Greece's greatest filmmaker, Theo Angelopoulos, dramatizes a central crisis for any artistparticularly someone like Angelopoulos, who has often faced difficult subjects in dangerous times (Days of 36): how can a filmmaker keep his/her passion for cinema in a world exploding...
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THE UNKNOWN DESERTER (DER UNBEKANNTE DESERTEUR)
A thoughtful and visually stunning inquiry into the moral nature of obedience and military violence. Two soldiers, imprisoned at the bottom of an empty swimming pool in the basement of a villa exchange stories of their capture. One finds out...
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UNTAMED WOMEN (MUJERES INSUMISAS)
A sincere, honest and powerful portrayal of the condition of women in contemporary Mexican society, this film portrays a group of lower middle class women who decide to flee to the United States to get away from their unsatisfied lives...
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END OF A PRIEST (FARARUV KONEC)
A droll comedy in the Czech tradition, this is a philosophical parable about the world. Passing as a priest, a lowly church employee lives off "delighted to have him" parishioners, and spends his time debating with a teacher, explaining to...
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END OF THE ICON
A shop repairman yearning for excitement and passion in an otherwise mundane life n·eads to Hollywood in search of his old drinking buddy. After a few days of drunken revelry, the two men realize that the meaning they are searching...
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TRIAL
A dynamic and intelligent courtroom drama scripted by Don Man'kiewicz. A Southern California murder trial with overtones of (gaspl) interracial sex is ruthlessly exploited by left and right wing forces. Sound at all familiar? Watch for the famous "Sea of...
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TRINITY AND BEYOND
On August 6th and August 9th, 1995, the world observed the 50th anniversaries of the most destructive forces ever unleashed in human history: the dropping of atomic bombs by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Filmmaker Peter Kuran...
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THE TROUBLES WE’VE SEEN: A HISTORY OF JOURNALISM IN WARTIME (1ST AND 2ND JOURNEYS)
Eminent French documentarian Marcel Ophuls ( The Sorrow and the Pity, Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie) has turned his eye to Bosnia from the perspective of the journalists who cover the war. From 1993 to 1994...
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TROUBLESOME LOVE (L’ AMORE MOLESTO)
A disturbing psychological study of a middle aged woman who attempts to piece together the reasons for the death of her mother, who washed ashore after a mysterious midnight swim with an unknown man. "A mature and unusually powerful picture...
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THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (LA ORILLA DE LA TIERRA)
An ironic style reminiscent of Sergio Leone and wonderful touches of Latin American magical realism, enliven this tale of two greedy men in search of a treasure, each of whom holds only half the map Meanwhile, in a sleepy, dusty...
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THE EMIGRANT (AL MOHAGER)
The Old Testament tale of Joseph and his brothers is retold from an Egyptian point of view. Three thousand years ago, when Pharaonic Egypt was the center of civilization, the favorite son of a shepherd and scapegoat of his brothers...
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TAKE CARE OF YOUR SCARF, TATIANA (PIDÄ HUIVISTA KIINI, TATJANA)
A quirky, droll road movie about the deadpan adventures of two Finnish men, driving a black Volga station wagon through Finland some time in the mid-sixties. Vallo, the owner of the car, drinks enormous amounts of coffee. Reino, a mechanic,...
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TALE OF THE THREE JEWELS (HIKAYAT AL-JAWAHER AL-THALATH)
The stark contrast between the grirn' realities of life in contemporary Gaza and a young boy's liberating imagination imbue this Palestinian tale with a haunting quality ... Youssef is a 12-year-old lad whose precarious family unit includes a fugitive brother...
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TERMINUS BREST (BAHNHOF BREST)
On the Russian-Polish border lies a city named Brest. Unlike its French and Bulgarian counterparts, this Brest has not remained untouched by the ravages of war. Taking the Brest train station as a starting point, former East German filmmaker Gerd...
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TOLERANCE (GONDOVISELES)
A young couple, imprisoned for the husband's work-related thievery, lose their children to a foster home. Upon their release, they endeavor to regain custody of their young daughter, only to find their dreams of a family reunion crushed by the...
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DITA SAXOVÁ
In a postwar dormitory for Jewish orphans/Krystyna Mikolajewska dreamily fends off girlish jealousies, an assortment of suitors (director Jirf Menzel is the one with the glasses), and the occasional importunate older man, while converting her dentist father's gold foil legacy...
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THE DRESDEN
An unforgettable journey through the last great Hollywood lounge, unchanged for 40 years.
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LA STRADA
AFI Fest is pleased to present Charlotte Chandler, who will discuss her new Random House book, "I Fellini", about the legendary Italian director Federico Fellini. "I have orr1y one life, and that I have told to you. This is my...
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STREETLIFE
A tough story shot through with humor and compassion centers on a group of women in a grim, South Wales housing project for whom a steady job means doing someone else's ironing or engaging in a little amateur prostitution. They...
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SWEETIES (CARAMELLE)
Anna's physical decline is irreversible, but she is a voluptuous woman in the prime of life. And she will do anything to rekindle her husband's waning desire. When diets and aerobics fail to do the trick, she turns to a...
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SWORN TO THE DRUM: A TRIBUTE TO FRANCISCO AGUABELLA
SWORN TO THE DRUM: A TRIBUTE TO FRANCISCO AGUABELLA, depicts the Afro-Cuban drummer and composer, a fixture on the U.S. Latin music scene since the 1950s, honored with the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Award in 1992. Known...
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DESTINATION MOON
Call it "1948: A Space Odyssey." Rarely seen on the big screen, the first American space movie is a fascinating could-have-been alternative to the Apollo program. One of the most unabashedly libertarian films ever made in Hollywood, Robert Heinlein's story...
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DEVILISH EDUCATION (DIABELSKA EDUKACJA)
It is the turn of the century, and the milkmaid Gosia is caring for her cows in an idyllic rural countryside. The afternoon is hot, so she bathes naked in the river. The next day a stranger in black appears...
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SHARAKU
A stunning depiction of life in ancient Tokyo (then called Eda), this is the sumptuously told story of the real life wood-block artist who became the first ukiyoe (floating world) artist Sharaku, who dared to depict his subjects in a...
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THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET (OBCHOD NA KORZE)
Wartime in the fascist Slovak state: although happy go lucky carpenter Jozef Kr6ner's detested brother-in-law gets him the supposedly cushy job of "Aryan controller" of Jewish widow Ida Kaminska's button shop, the oblivious old lady treats him as a simple...
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SHOTGUN FREEWAY: DRIVES THRU LOST L.A.
Like a surreal educational film frorn'ihe 1950s, this tour of Los Angeles' anguished coming of age-from pueblo to condo, explores the lives of 14 Angelenos whose oral histories attempt to illuminate this undefinable, noir city. Ranging from artist to activist...
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STORIES FROM THE KRONEN (HISTORIAS DEL KRONEN)
Sex, drugs, rock'n'roll-that's just the early part of the evening for night-lifer Carlos. The largest grossing film so far this year in Spain centers around a bar in downtown Madrid where Spanish Generation Xers burn both sides of the candle....
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DESERT SNOW
Downwind from America's nuclear testing fields, Price scavenges for bones on the desert floor. He eventually comes across Madge who spends her days tending to dogs who are hit along the road. Enamored with life, Madge's glow lures Price from...
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SCREAMERS
Screamers is a fun, fast-paced futwristic thriller with enough jolts per frame to keep even the most impatient action fan happy. Canadian helmer Christian Duguay (Million Dollar Babies) keeps the focus on the often-violent thrills 'n' spills throughout. Based on...
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THE SECOND ROOM
About an isolated architect who discovers the "second room" and finds his own completion.
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SEVEN DAYS IN MAY
After a night of paranoid adventure, we invite the Marathon audience to "stride into the bright sunlight of freedom." This political thriller, considered to be highly credible in its day, concerns a lone colonel's desperate attempt to stop a military...
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DESERT SEAS (DESIERTOS MARES)
A film director suffers from a deep existential crisis when his wife leaves him for another man. This crisis, which leads him to near suicide, takes him through an obsessive reminiscence of a childhood trip from the desert to the...
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CURSED LAWN (GAZON MAUDIT)
In this quirky, comic love triangle a ,couple finds their lives forever altered when a cigar smoking lesbian enters their home. The womanizing, macho husband is threatened by the burgeoning relationship between his wife and this unexpected interloper, but is...
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CUTTING IT SHORT (POSTRIZINY)
Pure delight, as progress comes to a rural brewery in the '20s: manager Jiri Schmitzer's sidecarred motorcycle sometimes refuses to stop; his stentorian-voiced brother keeps extending that visit; and the brewery's board fusses over his accounts; but then it's time...
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ORSON WELLES: THE ONE-MAN BAND
Fans of Orson Welles will not be disappointed by this wonderful opportunity to see parts of rarely or never before seen films by the "Wunderkind". With excerpts from The Deep, The Dreamers, Merchant of Venice, Moby Dick, Churchill and The...
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THE OUTPOST (A RÉSZLEG)
Atmospheric and poetic, this is an allegory of a society which finds itself mystified and humiliated by the often arbitrary dictates of authority. An engineer is abruptly and inexplicably transferred to a new job as head of a section. Under...
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THE PASSENGER
A dissatisfied TV reporter changes identities with a dead man while on assignment in Africa, and finds he is now a gunrunner. He encounters a beautiful woman who is drawn to him, as he follows a mysterious path toward death....
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RADIO STAR-THE AFN STORY
Filmed in Germany, America and Korea, Radio Star is a nostalgic trip to the past. For 50 years, the Armed Forces Network (AFN) was a radio station on special duty at the front, giving the troops a "radiophonic feeling of...
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CROWS (WRONY)
A simple, lyrical, stylishly photographed story from award winning director Dorota Kedzierzawska about nine year old Wrony (Crow), who desperately wants to love and be loved. A loner expelled from school, she wanders the streets where she meets and kidnaps...
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NO LOANS TODAY
Surprisingly intimate and non-judgmental, this document of life in the African-American community of South Central Los Angeles offers a revealing exploration of the unseen resilience of the people who live here, with the pawnshop as a metaphor for survival. Since...
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NO QUARTER
In an ever increasing world of absurdism and loathing, our hero Sisyphus battles against parking tickets, heavy traffic and an agoraphobic girlfriend. A bleak comedy about the existential dilemma of choosing insanity over suicide. Behind the blissful smile of life...
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NONNIE AND ALEX
A young boy's mother has recently passed away. His journey leads from denial to acceptance which he finds with the help of his best friend. Festival screenings: Sundance FF - Honorable Mention; Aspen Short FF - First Place.
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O QUATRILHO
"Quatrilho" is the name of a card game which requires its players to betray their partners in order to win. At the beginning of this century, in a small Italian immigrant community in the southernmost region of Brazil, two couples...
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ON OUR SELECTION
Based on turn of the century articles by Steele Rudd about his family, this lively Aussie efltry delivers an earthy look at the hardships involved in working a small parcel of land (or "selection"). In a sepia toned flashback, the...
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CRIMINAL
A poetically haunting story about the loss of innocence and imagination in an indifferen'f world. Based on the true story of Simon Willerton, who hanged himself in jail in 1990 at the age of seventeen, this is a bittersweet, compelling...
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THE MONKEY KID
Based on the director's childhood experiences, this is a lyrical, rhythmic chronicle of the daily life of a child of intellectuals during China's Cultural Revolution. When her parents are sent to the countryside for "re-education," (in truth brainwashing) a nine...
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THE MOOR’S HEAD (DER KOPF DES MOHREN)
Georg, a physicist at a testing laboratory, finds himself face to face with the horrific image of one of the victims of a fatal toxic gas leak in a nearby chemical plant. He becomes obsessed with protecting his family from...
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THE NEON BIBLE
A moving story of a young boy growing up in a small 1940s Bible Belt town in America's Deep South. The film boasts a strong cast, including the extraordinary Gena Rowlands as Aunt Mae, who brings a dash of glamour...
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COUNTDOWN (VISSZASZAMLALAS)
A somber, finely crafted film about the pitfalls of the system of private enterprise now taking hold in Hungary, Countdown is a very pessimistic film but an emotionally involving one ... a truck driver who decides to go into business...
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MEDEA
Created for Danish television in 1988, Medea is an updated version of the classic Greek drama about the jealousy and deep sorrow of an abandoned wife and mother and the hatred that ensues. Lars von Trier (Elements of Crime, Zentropa)...
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MEMOIRS OF A FRUSTRATED HEDONIST
Director Claas Danielson takes us on the inner and outer journey of a 78 year old art historian, to the realm of beauty and horror. Born into an impoverished Russian noble family in 1915, she found herself in flight in...
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MICCONCEPTION
An ironic mother and daughter tale of lost dreams and sexual desires. Mary Roberts struggles with her mother and her conscience when confronted with life changing choices. Will the young cellist abandon her moral principles in pursuit of cherished dreams?
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MIRACLE ALLEY (ELL CALLEJON DE LOS MILAGROS)
We are proud to open the TRIBUTE CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN CINEMA with the film most honored this year by the Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Adapted from a book by Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, the film's three...
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MISSION TO MOSCOW
M ission To Moscow tries to explain Soviet Russia to American audiences. Real-life U.S. Ambassador Davies (Walter Huston) talks up the lovable side of misunderstood mass murderer Joseph Stalin, while Mrs. Davies discovers Moscow's marvelous day care facilities.
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COLD COMFORT FARM
John Schlesinger reveals again his masterly touch in Cold Comfort Farm, a deliciously eccentric, fabulously acted comedy of manners, based on Stella Gibbons'. popular 1932 novel ... its playful mood and wicked wit are likely to delight film audiences. In...
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MAIRI MHOR: HER LIFE AND SONGS
Mary McPherson wrote the first of her great songs, "The Speakers of English" when she was fifty-one. From that moment until she died twenty-five years later, she poured out some of the most eloquent, lyrical and best-loved songs in the...
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MAKING A FILM FOR ME IS LIVING
During the filming of Beyond the Clouds, Michelangelo Antonioni's wife Enrica shot this fascinating "making of" documentary. The AFI Fest is honored to screen this unique close-up of a master artist at work. "For the first time in his career,...
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MAMMO
Director Shyam Benegal, whose roots are in documentary filmmaking, has created a sensitive portrait of Mammo, an Indian woman who must use all her resources to survive after the death of her Pakistani husband. When her in-laws oust her from...
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CAPRICIOUS SUMMER (ROZMARNÉ LÉTO)
This is a not to be missed delight from award winning director Jirf Menzel ( Closely Watched Trains, My Sweet Little Village, Cutting It ShorO. At a second-rate turn of the century resort, the pool manager, a priest and an...
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LIKE TWO CROCODILES (COME DU COCCODRILLI)
Seamlessly blending past and present into a haunting story of a man trying to resolve the trauma of his youth, this moving drama revolves around Gabriele, a middle-aged art dealer living in Paris, and his search for answers to questions...
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LISBON STORY
Originally commissioned to do a documentary portrait of the city of Lisbon, director Wim· Wenders found his creative expression unfettered when plans changed and he was able to use his distinctive style to create a charming comedy about a film...
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THE MAESTRO: KING OF THE COWBOY ARTISTS
SWORN TO THE DRUM: A TRIBUTE TO FRANCISCO AGUABELLA, depicts the Afro-Cuban drummer and composer, a fixture on the U.S. Latin music scene since the 1950s, honored with the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Award in 1992. Known...
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BRIDE TO BE (NOVIA QUE TE VEA)
Two young Jewish women, both Mexican by birth, co-exist in modern Mexico City. One of the girls belongs to a Sefardic family whose speech and customs recall medieval Spain from which the Jews were expelled in 1492. The other is...
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LAND OF DARKNESS
As the closing event of the Tribute to Contemporary Mexican Cinema, the AFI Fest is proud to present this extraordinary debut film. Shot in the San Gabriel mountain range near Los Angeles with Mexican funds, this film cost less than...
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LAST SUMMER IN THE HAMPTONS
A FI Fest is proud to present the West Coast premiere of the eleventh film from acclaimed writer-director Henry Jaglom. Filmed entirely on location in East Hampton, Long Island, Last Summer in the Hamptons concerns three generations of a large...
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LEMONADE JOE (LIMONÁDOVY JOE ANEB KONSKÁ OPERA)
At the Trigger Whiskey Saloon, bad girl Tornado Lou (Kveta Fialova) sings, and temperance crusader Olga Schoberova (a Playboy cover girl) is menaced by the hard-drinking baddies, when to the rescue rides white-hatted Karel Fiala as Lemonade Joe! Hilarious parody...
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A LIGHT-SENSITIVE STORY
A touching portrayal of a young woman's struggle to survive in a hostile environment. Juli is a single parent, former photojournalist now reduced to taking school portraits. Her personar'tife is in shambles as she tries to find work, get a...
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BRANWEN
This compelling, contemporary film is set in Wales and Northern Ireland, where nationalism is a burning issue that can divide families over conflicting political ideals. Branwen is a passionate Welsh nationalist and her determination is strengthened when she meets a...
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KISSES AND SCRATCHES (CSÓKKAL ÉS KÖRÖMMEL)
Angi is a free-spirited social worker trying to survive on the fringe of Budapest's gay demimonde. A babysitting stint involves her with a fearful young wife's emerging lesbian identity. Shot in an experimental video style by male feminist and radical...
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KOREA
A stylistically photographed, moody story of a family in a rural Irish village in 1952. Young Eamon Doyle lives with his fisherman father, a grumbling man set in his ways. Other young men in the economically depleted area have emigrated...
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KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER
An epic love story based on Nobel prize winner Sigrid Undset's beloved 1928 trilogy "The Bridal Wreath." Medieval Norway is gorgeously filmed by Sven Nykvist. Kristin, the innocent and virtuous daughter of a prominent landowner, has gone to spend a...
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LAND AND FREEDOM
Land and Freedom is a wonderful, dismayed epic, and the finest film that Englishman Ken Loach has made, a movie worthy of George Orwell and Homage to Cataloma. A young Communist from Liverpool goes off to Spain on his own...
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BIG JIM MCLAIN
The Duke smashes a Communist spy ring infiltrating labor unions on the Honolulu waterfront. One of the few movies that, even during the McCarthy period, favorably portrayed the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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HOTEL PARADISE
An attractive woman in her best years emerges from a dreadful hangover in the bridal suite of a luxury hotel. To her surprise, she finds herself handcuffed to a naked man in bed next to her. Worse-this is her wedding...
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I MARRIED A COMMUNIST
Also released as Women On Pier 13. A Communist agent blackmails a shipping executive trying to hide a radical thirties past. Moody, noir-ish, and paranoid-not a bad thriller in its own· "right."
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JLG BY JLG: DECEMBER SELF-PORTRAIT
In one of his most accessible films, Jean-Luc Godard makes philosophical and reflective observations on the worlds of cinema, language and art. At his lakeside home in Switzerland, Godard is a delightful mixture of King Lear and his detective character...
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THE JOKE (ZERT)
Ironies abound-upbeat songs of the revolution overlap labor camp scenes, transistorized rod drowns out a folk band-as Josef Somr ( Closely Watched Trains) returns to his home town 15 years after being sent to the slammer for a "Long Live...
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A KISS TO THIS LAND (UN BESO A ESTA TIERRA)
This wonderful film, the only documentary in this section, follows the lives of seven Jews who emigrated to Mexico from Europe and the Middle East in the first two decades of this century. Narrated by these individuals from the perspective...
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BEYOND THE CLOUDS (PAR DELÀ LES NUAGES)
Antonioni looks at love in four short stories based on his writings, diaries and short story collection entitled "Bowling Alley on the Tiber." In the first, a young man is so in love with a girl that he cannot decide...
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FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG
The strange and sensational life of actress Jean Seberg-discovered at 17 by Otto Preminger to star in Saint Joan, immortalized by Godard in Breathless, smeared by the FBI for her support of the Black Panthers, a suicide at age 40-is...
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THE HAMMER OF WITCHES (KLADIVO NA CARODEJNICE)
1680, Moravia simple peasant superstition is snowballed by all-powerful inquisitor Boblig into a seemingly endless, horrific procession to the stake-but even honest men can blame themselves for their cowardice (just as, of course, in later trials). Co-scripted by "New Wave"...
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HEAD
Written by Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson (prior to their Five Easy Pieces hit), this psychedelic trip finds the mad mod TV rock group the Monkees (hey, hey) dissing themselves and the· industry a la A Hard Day's Night. Reviewed...
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HEDD WYN
Beautifully crafted and epic in scale, this moving film depicts the life of World War I Welsh poet Hedd Wyn, whose passionate ambition to win his country's prime literary honor was the driving force in his life. The handsome, romantic...
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BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
One of Europe's leading directors tells a story as fragile and transparent as the light of Hong Kong made of silences, expectations and sorrow. An old freighter belonging to a company that has gone out of business drops anchor off...
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THE FIRST 100 YEARS: A CELEBRATION OF AMERICAN MOVIES
Using his brilliant touch, compilation whiz Chuck Workman (Precious Images) has created a superb feature on the first century of the cinema. Produced for HBO in association with the AFI, this dazzling tribute is full to the brim with over...
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FITZPATRICK TRAVELTALKS
In the 1930's, millions of depression era theatergoers were transported to distant, exotic locations by means of these 35mm shorts, among the earliest examples of three strip Technicolor. Included with features, newsreels and cartoons, these ten minute films were a...
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THE FLYING DUTCHMAN (DE VLIEGENDE HOLLANDER)
An epic fairy tale for adults set in the 16th Century from award winning director Jos Stelling ( The Pointsman), this is a dreamlike visual retelling of the poetic fable of the sailor doomed to roam the seven seas on...
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FRESH BAIT (L’ APPAT)
Bertrand Tavernier (L627, Round Midnight) has based this horrific crime drama on the true case of two seemingly ordinary young men and a girl who committed cold-blooded murder to steal enough money to open a chain of boutiques in America....
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BETWEEN SUMMERS (SOMMAREN)
Without using any of the conventional images of grief, the director has created a sobering but beautiful interpretation of the worst tragedy that can befall a family. One hot summer afternoon while Torun is napping, her sister Ellen takes Torun's...
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EXTERIOR NIGHT
Mark Rappaport's (From the Journals of Jean Seberg) unique film using the actual background scenes and rear screen process plates from Warner Bros. films from the early 30's to the early 50's, in which a young man travels in time...
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FAMILY PORTRAIT
An intriguing, somewhat quirky and often painful look at the estranged relationship between an adult brother and sister. Returning to their childhood home to attend to their dying mother, Jane and Johnny Janacek discover some buried truths about their mother...
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FAREWELL USSR, FILM I, PERSONAL
A beautiful and haunting experimental documentary directed by Alexander Rodnyansky, using old and new film footage on unusual stock to present poetic fragments of Babyj Jar and Jewish life in present Russia. Ukraine, 1992, 60 min. Preceded by Sarajevo Film...
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AWAKENING (ÉBREDÉS)
A thirteen year old girl in 1952 Budapest can't cope with the death of her mother. Is it possible comprehend death? This little girl with big eyes and a pony tail finds the perfect solution: she revives her mother. Together...
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THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (LA ORILLA DE LA TIERRA)
An ironic style reminiscent of Sergio Leone and wonderful touches of Latin American magical realism, enliven this tale of two greedy men in search of a treasure, each of whom holds only half the map Meanwhile, in a sleepy, dusty...
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THE EMIGRANT (AL MOHAGER)
The Old Testament tale of Joseph and his brothers is retold from an Egyptian point of view. Three thousand years ago, when Pharaonic Egypt was the center of civilization, the favorite son of a shepherd and scapegoat of his brothers...
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END OF A PRIEST (FARARUV KONEC)
A droll comedy in the Czech tradition, this is a philosophical parable about the world. Passing as a priest, a lowly church employee lives off "delighted to have him" parishioners, and spends his time debating with a teacher, explaining to...
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END OF THE ICON
A shop repairman yearning for excitement and passion in an otherwise mundane life n·eads to Hollywood in search of his old drinking buddy. After a few days of drunken revelry, the two men realize that the meaning they are searching...
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AUGUSTIN
Augustin was not the sensation of last year's Cannes Film Festival, it was something better: most charming, most surprising, wackiest movie of the entire 12-day event. A low-key, totally deadpan comedy, this feature follows its Keatonesque protagonist, beautifully played by...
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DESTINATION MOON
Call it "1948: A Space Odyssey." Rarely seen on the big screen, the first American space movie is a fascinating could-have-been alternative to the Apollo program. One of the most unabashedly libertarian films ever made in Hollywood, Robert Heinlein's story...
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DEVILISH EDUCATION (DIABELSKA EDUKACJA)
It is the turn of the century, and the milkmaid Gosia is caring for her cows in an idyllic rural countryside. The afternoon is hot, so she bathes naked in the river. The next day a stranger in black appears...
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DITA SAXOVÁ
In a postwar dormitory for Jewish orphans/Krystyna Mikolajewska dreamily fends off girlish jealousies, an assortment of suitors (director Jirf Menzel is the one with the glasses), and the occasional importunate older man, while converting her dentist father's gold foil legacy...
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THE DRESDEN
An unforgettable journey through the last great Hollywood lounge, unchanged for 40 years.
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ANONYMOUS LOVE LETTER (SIN REMITENTE)
A young woman, disillusioned with love, plays a cruel joke on her elderly neighbor whose cat is his only companion and who strongly disapproves of her promiscuous lifestyle. The joke consists of a series of anonymous love letters, which she...
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CURSED LAWN (GAZON MAUDIT)
In this quirky, comic love triangle a ,couple finds their lives forever altered when a cigar smoking lesbian enters their home. The womanizing, macho husband is threatened by the burgeoning relationship between his wife and this unexpected interloper, but is...
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CUTTING IT SHORT (POSTRIZINY)
Pure delight, as progress comes to a rural brewery in the '20s: manager Jiri Schmitzer's sidecarred motorcycle sometimes refuses to stop; his stentorian-voiced brother keeps extending that visit; and the brewery's board fusses over his accounts; but then it's time...
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DESERT SEAS (DESIERTOS MARES)
A film director suffers from a deep existential crisis when his wife leaves him for another man. This crisis, which leads him to near suicide, takes him through an obsessive reminiscence of a childhood trip from the desert to the...
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DESERT SNOW
Downwind from America's nuclear testing fields, Price scavenges for bones on the desert floor. He eventually comes across Madge who spends her days tending to dogs who are hit along the road. Enamored with life, Madge's glow lures Price from...
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THE AFRICAN CHILD (L’ ENFANT NOIR)
Freely adapted from Laye Camara's 1953 autobiographical account, this is an unsentimental and engaging look at a young man's rite of passage, set in motion when he is torn away from the roots of his traditional home village in Guinea...
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COLD COMFORT FARM
John Schlesinger reveals again his masterly touch in Cold Comfort Farm, a deliciously eccentric, fabulously acted comedy of manners, based on Stella Gibbons'. popular 1932 novel ... its playful mood and wicked wit are likely to delight film audiences. In...
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COUNTDOWN (VISSZASZAMLALAS)
A somber, finely crafted film about the pitfalls of the system of private enterprise now taking hold in Hungary, Countdown is a very pessimistic film but an emotionally involving one ... a truck driver who decides to go into business...
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CRIMINAL
A poetically haunting story about the loss of innocence and imagination in an indifferen'f world. Based on the true story of Simon Willerton, who hanged himself in jail in 1990 at the age of seventeen, this is a bittersweet, compelling...
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CROWS (WRONY)
A simple, lyrical, stylishly photographed story from award winning director Dorota Kedzierzawska about nine year old Wrony (Crow), who desperately wants to love and be loved. A loner expelled from school, she wanders the streets where she meets and kidnaps...
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BRANWEN
This compelling, contemporary film is set in Wales and Northern Ireland, where nationalism is a burning issue that can divide families over conflicting political ideals. Branwen is a passionate Welsh nationalist and her determination is strengthened when she meets a...
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BRIDE TO BE (NOVIA QUE TE VEA)
Two young Jewish women, both Mexican by birth, co-exist in modern Mexico City. One of the girls belongs to a Sefardic family whose speech and customs recall medieval Spain from which the Jews were expelled in 1492. The other is...
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CAPRICIOUS SUMMER (ROZMARNÉ LÉTO)
This is a not to be missed delight from award winning director Jirf Menzel ( Closely Watched Trains, My Sweet Little Village, Cutting It ShorO. At a second-rate turn of the century resort, the pool manager, a priest and an...
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BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
One of Europe's leading directors tells a story as fragile and transparent as the light of Hong Kong made of silences, expectations and sorrow. An old freighter belonging to a company that has gone out of business drops anchor off...
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BEYOND THE CLOUDS (PAR DELÀ LES NUAGES)
Antonioni looks at love in four short stories based on his writings, diaries and short story collection entitled "Bowling Alley on the Tiber." In the first, a young man is so in love with a girl that he cannot decide...
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BIG JIM MCLAIN
The Duke smashes a Communist spy ring infiltrating labor unions on the Honolulu waterfront. One of the few movies that, even during the McCarthy period, favorably portrayed the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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ANONYMOUS LOVE LETTER (SIN REMITENTE)
A young woman, disillusioned with love, plays a cruel joke on her elderly neighbor whose cat is his only companion and who strongly disapproves of her promiscuous lifestyle. The joke consists of a series of anonymous love letters, which she...
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AUGUSTIN
Augustin was not the sensation of last year's Cannes Film Festival, it was something better: most charming, most surprising, wackiest movie of the entire 12-day event. A low-key, totally deadpan comedy, this feature follows its Keatonesque protagonist, beautifully played by...
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AWAKENING (ÉBREDÉS)
A thirteen year old girl in 1952 Budapest can't cope with the death of her mother. Is it possible comprehend death? This little girl with big eyes and a pony tail finds the perfect solution: she revives her mother. Together...
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BETWEEN SUMMERS (SOMMAREN)
Without using any of the conventional images of grief, the director has created a sobering but beautiful interpretation of the worst tragedy that can befall a family. One hot summer afternoon while Torun is napping, her sister Ellen takes Torun's...
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THE AFRICAN CHILD (L’ ENFANT NOIR)
Freely adapted from Laye Camara's 1953 autobiographical account, this is an unsentimental and engaging look at a young man's rite of passage, set in motion when he is torn away from the roots of his traditional home village in Guinea...
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WOYZECK
Bleak but beautiful, Woyzeck is a moving, intelligent transportation of Georg Buechner's theatrical masterpiece. The setting is a Hungarian railroad yard, where unshaven, sweatstained lug Woyzeck serves as a point man, sitting all day in a tiny wooden box by...
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WYATT EARP
The 1994 AFI International Film Festival is honored to open this year with Warner Bros.' epic Western, Wyatt Earp, directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, and Gene Hackman. This sweeping tale of the transformation of the...
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THE WILD EAST (DIKI VOSTOK)
Rach id Nougmanov's ( The Needle) The Wild East is The Seventh Samurai shot in a radical eclectic style that mixes John Ford Westerns and Mad Max-like post-industrial and postmodern influences. This campy fable is about a group of midgets,...
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WOMEN FROM THE LAKE OF SCENTED SOULS (XIANG HUN NU)
Frederic Cassidy's Kissing Time is a reverential and referential tribute to silent films, made in the tradition of 1920s cinema. Bloods on the Moon is a textured examination of a father forced to decide which to believe, his instinct or...
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WOMEN IN REVOLT
Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, and Jackie Curtis star as three "women's libbers" trying desperately to get away from men. But liberation has its price-one finds movie stardom on the casting couch, another ends up a Bowery wino, and another bears...
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WET
Hollywood maverick Bob Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces, Mountains of the Moon) sets his erotic tale in Los Angeles at a luxury bathroom fixture store. When a beautiful customer demands the store manager let her test one of the bathtubs, he...
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WHERE GODS ARE DEAD (DER GUDENE ER DODE)
The fighting in the former Yugoslavia has heretofore come to Americans in the form of television sound bites and bloody, but faceless images. From Vibeke Lokkeberg comes a film that observes this brutal conflict from a decidedly human and personal...
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WAVING NOT DROWNING
Underwater is the story of an introverted twelve-year-old girl, Patty Rose, who has developed a terrible fear of water since the death of her father. The collision of Patty's fantasies and a real-life crisis force her to confront her fears....
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THE WEDDING GIFT
Julie Walters (Educating Rita) and Jim Broadbent (Life Is Swee? star in this touching love story about a middle-aged couple's struggle against a mysterious illness. Doctors are baffled as Diana Longden's (Walters) debilitating flu grows progressively worse. When the medical...
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VROOOM!
Melvin van Peebles (Sweet Sweetback's Badassss Song) is recognized by such filmmakers as Spike Lee and Robert Townsend as the father of black cinema. Van Peebles' film Vroomttells a tale set in the bayous, where an old witch grants a...
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WAR AND PEACE
Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace (Viona I Mir), in its original, complete, non-dubbed 403 minute widescreen version, may be, at least among serious American critics, one of the most curiously misunderstood and underrated of all the great epic films. (And...
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UNCOMMON GROUND
This impassioned documentary follows five multiethnic Los Angeles high school students as they travel to South Africa to live with South African students in a black township. The film focuses on the day-to-day activities of these diverse youth as they...
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UNDERWATER
Underwater is the story of an introverted twelve-year-old girl, Patty Rose, who has developed a terrible fear of water since the death of her father. The collision of Patty's fantasies and a real-life crisis force her to confront her fears....
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TOUCH ME
Touch Me, from Australian director Paul Cox (Exile, A Woman's Tale) tells of two women who escape the city and their frustrating relationships to spend a weekend alone in the country. The hills around Melbourne provide the setting for an...
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TRASH
The story of Joe and his lover-protector, Holly, who fancies herself as Marlene Dietrich but sounds more like Phil Silvers. They try to make a go of things in their Lower East Side basement, as Holly cruises the Fillmore East...
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TROUBLE IN PARADISE
This film epitomizes the term "Comedies of Elegance"-all polish, gloss and wit-and witnesses Lubitsch at the height of his film artistry, before the censors hit. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins play two elegant thieves who realize they are made for...
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TOTAL BALALAIKA SHOW
Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's Total Balalaika Show is the most inspired crosscultural pairing since Nureyev danced with Miss Piggy. This concert documentary has Finland's musically challenged roc·k band, the Leningrad Cowboys, trading hotlicks and bellowing dopey standards with the sometimes...
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TOTALLY F***ED UP
Totally F***ed Up is acclaimed L.A. filmmaker Gregg Araki's ( The Living End) most mature film to date. Araki goes further out into the margins to explore gay and lesbian youth, and becomes one of the few to treat this...
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TIGRERO: A FILM THAT WAS NEVER MADE
In Mika Kaurismaki's innovative new film, legendary director Sam Fuller leads a nostalgic and unconventional journey into the past. Forty years ago, Fuller went into Brazil's Amazonian rainforest to research locations for his adventure film, Tigrero. The project never came...
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TOPAZE
Director Harry D'Arrast photographed common people and places with remarkable elegance. Here he presents an ultra-sophisticated comedy-drama based on a play by Pagnol. John Barrymore portrays a timid French schoolteacher who gets fired, is duped into endorsing a product under...
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THIS IS THE NIGHT
In this pre-code tale of gay infidelity, Thelma Todd is having an affai.r with Roland Young Young must engage Lily Damita as his wife when Todd's husband Cary Grant arrives in town unexpectedly. They al I jaunt off to Venice...
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THE THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER (A TERCEIRA MARGEM DO RIO)
In his newest film, beloved Brazilian filmmaker Nelson Pereira dos Santos distills the essence of five short stories to create a narrative that encompasses city and country, reality and fantasy, good and evil. Liojorge and Alva have always known their...
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TALES OF HOFFMANN
The New York Times called Tales of Hoffmann, "By far the most glowingly ambitious and swanky attempt ever made to recreate classical opera on the motion picture screen." The film portrays the German poet Hoffmann in three adventures as he...
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STARBABY
In Benders, Franny, an alcoholic, falls desperately for Jack, a crisis hotline operator and recovering addict. This truly human tale touchingly portrays two lost people who struggle together to overcome alcoholism and loneliness. In Starbaby, a star-struck waif adrift in...
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SOLDIER OF ORANGE (SOLDAAT VAN ORANJE)
Nominated for a 1979 Academy Award, this suspenseful World War II story set in the Netherlands concerns the heroics of six young Dutch men involved in the Resistance. "Verhoeven is a filmmaker of immense vitality, passion, and humor, which gives...
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SNAKES AND LADDERS (SERPIENTES Y ESCALERAS)
The childhood game of the title serves as a metaphor for the coming-of-age of two young Mexican women in the male-dominated society of the 1950s. Along with Dana Rotberg (Danzon), director Busi Cortes (Rome/fa's Secret) is at the forefront of...
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SHOE BIZ
Frederic Cassidy's Kissing Time is a reverential and referential tribute to silent films, made in the tradition of 1920s cinema. Bloods on the Moon is a textured examination of a father forced to decide which to believe, his instinct or...
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RULES OF THE ROAD
"The Travellers have no place left to go. And they never knew a place where they could stay," concludes documentary filmmaker Oliver Herbrich about the subjects of his film. For centuries the Travellers have wandered the Irish countryside in a...
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SCREAM OF STONE (SCHREI AUS STEIN)
Spectacular scenes of a dizzying ascent and breathtaking mountain landscapes provide the backdrop to a parable of fatal passions in renowned director Werner Herzog's latest film. Roccia is the most experienced mountaineer in the world; Martin, representative of a younger...
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ROOSTERS
Edward James Olmos stars in Robert M. Young's film about the power struggles among a strong-willed Latino family in the contemporary American Southwest. Gallo Morales returns home from prison intent on resuming his career breeding fighting cocks. But his father...
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RHINOSKIN: THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR
A hilarious look at one young actor's journey through the minefield of Hollywood. Humiliation comes in large doses for Tod De Pree, whose goal is to get a one-line part in a sitcom before Rhinoskin's production runs out of money...
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REFLECTIONS OF A CHILDSTAR
Mike Schlitt's parodic documentary about Aqua Boy, a former TV child star.
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RAVE REVIEW
Director Jeff Seymour brings wit and a playful sense of self-parody to his debut feature, Rave Review. While his colleagues make millions in Hollywood, director Steve Maletti is constantly hustling money just to keep his theatre company out of bankruptcy....
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THE RAGE OF PARIS
Danielle Darrieux plays a French girl who goes to New York City to become a model. An audition requires her to model nude, and she mistakenly proposes to strip for Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who assumes she is a blackmailer.
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PRINCE IGOR
Director Roman Tikhomirov pursues the logic of cinema, not the op1ua house, in his dazzling re-imagining of Borodin's Prince Igor, which tells the story of a war between the Russians and Tartars. The mournful, elegiac opening shots, as the camera...
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THE PEOPLE FROM THE UNIVERSAL (LA GENTE DE LA UNIVERSAL)
A raunchy black comedy that marks a lively debut by Colombian director Felipe Aljura . . . Central characters are the sexually insatiable trio who run a spitball Bogota P.I. agency: ex-cop Diogenes, his sexy wife Fabiola, and handsome nephew...
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OUT OF SIGHT
Acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (Feast of the Gods) continues to redefine the stylistic limits of the documentary in Out of Sight, his film about a blind Northern California woman. "I don't know if America is ready for a blind girl...
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PARAJANOV
Persecuted by Soviet authorities throughout his life for his non-conformist lifestyle, Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov ( The Color of Pomegranates) created films with a revolutionary visual style. In this fascinating documentary portrait of the legendary filmmaker, director Ron Holloway attempts...
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ONLY THE BRAVE (ROMANCE DE VALENCIA)
Dutch documentary maker Sonia Herman Daiz looks at those who practice an art form still decried by much of Europe as a cruel and bloodthirsty spectacle-the bull fight. Shot on location in Spain, the film follows the 20-year-old bullfighter, Enrique...
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ONE HOUR WITH YOU
A remake of Lubitsch's silent The Marriage Circle (1924). Set to music, this sparkling comedy highlights Maurice Chevalier's charm and Jeanette MacDonald's singing talents. Although Lubitsch is given credit as director of this sparkling comedy, Cukor did all the work...
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OH… ROSALINDA!
This riotously inventive musical fantasy was the third of British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's music-theatre extravaganzas, after The Red Shoes and Tales of Hoffmann. An updating of Strauss' Die Fledermaus to postwar Vienna, it tells the story of...
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NO THANKS NOT SURE YES PLEASE
Andrew Peterson's satirical look at the search for Mr./Ms. Right in the 90s.
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THE NEEDLE (IGLA)
Part action thriller, part social problem film, The Needle marks Nougmanov as one of the most stylish and gifted of the new wave of Eastern European filmmakers. The film centers on Moro who returns to his hometown after a long...
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MOSES AND AARON
Moses and Aaron, written in 1932, has long been acknowledged as one of Schoenberg's most important works. The film's subject matter had important political significance-that Schoenberg, a Jewish artist, composed a work that explores his cultural roots at a time...
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MY SOUL BROTHER (MI HERMANO DEL ALMA)
A moral rollercoaster ride in the tradition of Double Indemnity and Jagged Edge Carlos can't help being suspicious when his black-sheep brother Tony returns after an acrimonious breakup ten years earlier. But soon Carlos, a rising young insurance agent, is...
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THE MOON’S OUR HOME
Margaret Sullavan plays a movie star and Henry Fonda a writer who assume pseudonyms for their professions. They meet using their real names, without realizing who each other is. Their marriage gets off to a rocky start and continues to...
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MIDNIGHT
American Claudette Colbert arrives in Paris without money or luggage. Wandering into a party, she gets entangled in John Barrymore's plot to keep a gigolo away from his wife. "An effervescent farce that suggests the films of Lubitsch in its...
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THE MERRY WIDOW
Lubitsch again fools the Production Code folks as he interjects verboten sexual material into this glossy operetta. Chevalier is sent to Paris to propose to the wealthiest woman of his country (MacDonald) and bring her back so the country doesn't...
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THE MAN ON THE BALCONY (MANNEN PA BALKONGEN)
Swedish detective Martin Beck finds himself embroiled in intrigue once again in The Man on the Balcony, the fourth in a series of dark crime mysteries from Sweden's popular writing team, Maj Sjowall and PerWahloo. Stockholm turns into a city...
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MAN FACING SOUTHEAST (HOMBRE MIRANDO AL SUDESTE)
Eliseo Subiela's Man Facing Southeast stars Hugo Soto as an enigmatic mental patient and Lorenzo Ouinteras as the jaded psychiatrist who comes to believe that the inmate is very special indeed. "Writer-director Subiela incorporates a wide variety of influences to...
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THE MAKING OF…AND GOD SPOKE
Arthur Borman's debut feature is a satirical and deliriously funny journey into the bowels of Hollywood. And God Spoke would have been Hollywood's first biblical epic since the sixties. But the production by B-filmmakers Clive Walton and Marvin Handleman goes...
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MADAME WANG’S
A KGB agent comes to California to prepare for a Russian takeover of the U.S. After losing his papers, he connects with a band of homeless, overweight, and over-the-hill transvestites and becomes a punker in a Chinese restaurant owned by...
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THE MAGIC BROTHERS
This wacky Zelig-esque parodic documentary offers the bizarre account of the muchpublicized 1954 birth and upbringing of quadruplets in Poland and their pursuit by a bored communist-controlled media. The boys have a penchant for the pop culture of the forbidden...
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THE LUNATIC
Filmed on Jamaica's northern coast and featuring the music of Toots and the Maytals, Aswad, Burning Flames, and Black Uhuru, The Lunatic is the ribald feature film debut of music video pioneer Loi Creme. It is the story of genial...
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LOVE HURTS (HARTVERSCHEUREND)
Charting the volatile trajectory of an irreconcilable relationship against the backdrop of countercultural Amsterdam, Love Hurts channels electric lead performances into a visitation of passion's outer limits. K/iijke de Jong creates a persuasive examination of a young couple agonizing between...
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LOVE AFTER LOVE (APRES L’AMOR)
Beloved actress Isabelle Huppert and acclaimed French director Diane Kurys follow their triumphant pairing in Entre Nou,s with Love After Love. Huppert gives a superbly calibrated performance in the role of Lola, a popular fiction writer living in Paris. Having...
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LAURA SOBERS
In Benders, Franny, an alcoholic, falls desperately for Jack, a crisis hotline operator and recovering addict. This truly human tale touchingly portrays two lost people who struggle together to overcome alcoholism and loneliness. In Starbaby, a star-struck waif adrift in...
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LAST STATION
Armenia's tumultuous struggle for political independence is the backdrop for this compelling tale of lost love and broken dreams. Gerald, an Armenian actor, reminisces about his life with his wife Nora (played by Los Angeles actress Nora Armani) and their...
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LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK (KATERINA IZMAILOVA)
Adopted from Shostakovich's opera with his full participation, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (called Katerina lzmailova after its initial banning) is a psychologically complex drama of love, violence, and betrayal. Emotionally stifled by her marriage, Katerina seduces Sergei, a mercenary farmhand....
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THE LAST KLEZMER
Leopold Kozlowski served as a music consultant and as an actor in Schindler's List, bu1 his greatest role is that of the last performing klezmer musician from the Polish musical tradition. Kozlowski is currently'the sole preserver of the dying art...
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KISSING TIME
Frederic Cassidy's Kissing Time is a reverential and referential tribute to silent films, made in the tradition of 1920s cinema. Bloods on the Moon is a textured examination of a father forced to decide which to believe, his instinct or...
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THE KINGDOM OF ZYDECO
Robert Mugge, one of America's finest makers of music documentaries, examines the black Creole music scene of Southwest Louisiana and its attempts to name a new leader. After the death of the genre's latest king, a struggle ensues over the...
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KALAMAZOO
Frederic Cassidy's Kissing Time is a reverential and referential tribute to silent films, made in the tradition of 1920s cinema. Bloods on the Moon is a textured examination of a father forced to decide which to believe, his instinct or...
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JUST FRIENDS
A lively and lyrical homage to jazz and friendship. Set in Antwerp, 1959, Just Friends is the story of Jack, a dockworker who unloads banana crates and dreams of playing his saxophone with the superstars of New York's jazz scene....
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JOHNNY 100 PESOS (JOHNNY CIEN PESOS)
Based on a 1990 event in downtown Santiago de Chile, Johnny One Hundred Pesos is an absorbing thriller about the botohed robbery of an illegal currency exchange parlor. The leader of the bandits is Johnny, a student who's bored of...
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THE JANITOR
A delightful animated film about a cosmic janitor whose boss is none other than God.
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THE INSATIABLE MRS. KIRSCH
From British director Ken Russell ( Tommy, Altered States) comes The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch, a tale which depicts the hilariously misguided passion of a writer who becomes obsessed with the mysterious, passionate, intriguingly insatiable Mrs. Kirsch. Director
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IT’LL HAVE BLINKING EYES AND A MOVING MOUTH
"If it ain't fun, don't do it," says artist Hobart Brown. His credo couldn't be more evident in It'll Have Blinking Eyes and a Moving Mouth, a documentary about Brown and the kinetic sculpture race he founded twenty-four years ago....
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IL CAPITANO
An austere but oddly powerful narrative of a young Finnish couple on a crime spree in Sweden that begins with minor burglaries and ends with a triple-murder. Based on a true story, the film has obvious echoes of the Manson...
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I’M NOT COOKING TONIGHT
A wryly comical and inventive debut feature that captures the dynamics of love across cultures. Takaya Yamazaki, a Japanese native, based this story on his own relationship with his midwestern-born wife and the stormy waters that they sailed before finally...
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HUNTING TIGERS
Kim Longinotto's and Jano Williams' Dream Girls is a fascinating documentary about the Takarazuka Revue, a musical troupe in Japan dedicated to romantic Hollywood-style musical extravaganzas, staged with spectacular sets and choreographyand an all-female cast. In Bui Doi: Life Like...
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THE HOUSE BUILT ON SAND (DOM NA PESKE)
Russia in the 1930s serves as the setting for this memorable drama of two women from disparate social backgrounds united in a strange, tumultuous, and ultimately destructive friendship. There is a Chekhov-like intimacy to Adomenaite's characters, a feeling of people...
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HIGH SCHOOL II
One of America's foremost documentarians, Frederick Wiseman ( Titicut Follies), continues his examination of American institutional life with High School II. Unrelated to his 1969 film High School, High Schoof'llfocuses on Central Park East Secondary School, a successful, public, alternative...
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HELICOPTER
Dora Was Dysfunctional is a sweetly comic tale about a quirky young woman searching for love. When her boyfriend leaves her, she finds comfort in the Ukrainian love rituals recommended by her immigrant grandmother. Eugene, aka Helicopter, acts as manager...
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HELAS POUR MOI
AFI Fest is proud to present as its Middle Gala Jean-Luc Godard's internationally acclaimed new film, Helas Pour Mai, starring French superstar Gerard Depardieu and Laurence Masliah. Depardieu plays Simon, an ordinary man whose body is briefly inhabited by God....
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HEAT
Sylvia Miles is a fading, practically unknown star, given to game shows, TV movies, and studs. Joe Dallesandro is a one-time child actor living in a sunbaked motel, next door to Miles' freaked out daughter who lives with a baby...
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THE GOOD FAIRY
William Wyler's first comedy and Preston Sturges' screenplay sparkle with romance. Margaret Sullavan plays a woman just released from an asylum, whose innocence attracts the amorous advances of a millionaire. In haste, she claims she is married to Herbert Marshall...
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HANDGUN
As a comic spin on the action/heist genre, first-time director Whitney Ransick's Handgun resembles a cross between Simple Men and Reservoir Dogs. Jack (Seymour Cassel) dies after being shot in a hold-up amfleaves behind a half-million dollar booty which his...
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GATHER AT THE RIVER: A BLUEGRASS CELEBRATION
Award-winning director Robert Mugge (Kumu Hula) takes a comprehensive look at the past, present, and future of bluegrass music in the performance documentary, Gather at the River: A Bluegrass Celebration. Not long ago, bluegrass was considered all but dead. But...
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THE FRONTIER (LA FRONTERA)
The wild, inspiring beauty of southern Chile and the untamed spirits of those who live there get equal attention in first-time director Ricardo Larrain's successful and engaging film. Awarded a Silver Bear at the 1992 Berlin Film Festival, it was...
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FROM THE EAST (D’EST)
Chantal Akerman first came to prominence with her formalist avant-garde work, Jeanne Dielman. She once again rewrites cinematic conventions with her groundbreaking new documentary, D'Est. The film records her journey from East Germany to Moscow, lastinb from late summer to...
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FRESH KILL
Shu Lea Cheang makes her directorial debut with this satirical, hyper-paced, ecological nightmare of a film. The story focuses on an interracial lesbian couple, Claire and Shareen, and their daughter, Honey. Problems start when Honey is kidnapped by ,· Shareen's...
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THE FOURTH MAN (DE WIERDE MAN)
This stylish film noir thriller tells the story of a brilliant novelist who is Catholic, alcoholic, gay, and tormented by horrifying premonitions. His obsession with a young man leads him to a sexually voracious woman who may be a murderess....
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WOMEN IN REVOLT
Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, and Jackie Curtis star as three "women's libbers" trying desperately to get away from men. But liberation has its price-one finds movie stardom on the casting couch, another ends up a Bowery wino, and another bears...
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WOYZECK
Bleak but beautiful, Woyzeck is a moving, intelligent transportation of Georg Buechner's theatrical masterpiece. The setting is a Hungarian railroad yard, where unshaven, sweatstained lug Woyzeck serves as a point man, sitting all day in a tiny wooden box by...
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WYATT EARP
The 1994 AFI International Film Festival is honored to open this year with Warner Bros.' epic Western, Wyatt Earp, directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, and Gene Hackman. This sweeping tale of the transformation of the...
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THE FOURTH GREEN FIELD
The Fourth Green Field is a compelling examination of the dramatic and far-reaching impact of the Prevention of Terrorism Act on the citizens of Northern Ireland. With stories more evocative of South Africa than a Western European democracy, the film...
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THE WEDDING GIFT
Julie Walters (Educating Rita) and Jim Broadbent (Life Is Swee? star in this touching love story about a middle-aged couple's struggle against a mysterious illness. Doctors are baffled as Diana Longden's (Walters) debilitating flu grows progressively worse. When the medical...
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WET
Hollywood maverick Bob Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces, Mountains of the Moon) sets his erotic tale in Los Angeles at a luxury bathroom fixture store. When a beautiful customer demands the store manager let her test one of the bathtubs, he...
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WHERE GODS ARE DEAD (DER GUDENE ER DODE)
The fighting in the former Yugoslavia has heretofore come to Americans in the form of television sound bites and bloody, but faceless images. From Vibeke Lokkeberg comes a film that observes this brutal conflict from a decidedly human and personal...
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THE WILD EAST (DIKI VOSTOK)
Rach id Nougmanov's ( The Needle) The Wild East is The Seventh Samurai shot in a radical eclectic style that mixes John Ford Westerns and Mad Max-like post-industrial and postmodern influences. This campy fable is about a group of midgets,...
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WOMEN FROM THE LAKE OF SCENTED SOULS (XIANG HUN NU)
Frederic Cassidy's Kissing Time is a reverential and referential tribute to silent films, made in the tradition of 1920s cinema. Bloods on the Moon is a textured examination of a father forced to decide which to believe, his instinct or...
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FLESH
Joe Dallesandro plays a hustler whose wife asks him to get $200 for her lover's abortion. This leads to a series of encounters with a bizarre mix of urban oddballs. He returns home to find his wife more interested in...
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VROOOM!
Melvin van Peebles (Sweet Sweetback's Badassss Song) is recognized by such filmmakers as Spike Lee and Robert Townsend as the father of black cinema. Van Peebles' film Vroomttells a tale set in the bayous, where an old witch grants a...
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WAR AND PEACE
Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace (Viona I Mir), in its original, complete, non-dubbed 403 minute widescreen version, may be, at least among serious American critics, one of the most curiously misunderstood and underrated of all the great epic films. (And...
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WAVING NOT DROWNING
Underwater is the story of an introverted twelve-year-old girl, Patty Rose, who has developed a terrible fear of water since the death of her father. The collision of Patty's fantasies and a real-life crisis force her to confront her fears....
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FALSE PREGNANCY (GROSSESSE NERVEUSE)
This irresistible black comedy was awarded Germany's prestigious Max Ophuls Prize. Mildly misanthropic Martin discovers that a former lover is expecting his child. However, Sally doesn't want his help in raising the baby. For Martin, this is the beginning of...
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TRASH
The story of Joe and his lover-protector, Holly, who fancies herself as Marlene Dietrich but sounds more like Phil Silvers. They try to make a go of things in their Lower East Side basement, as Holly cruises the Fillmore East...
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TROUBLE IN PARADISE
This film epitomizes the term "Comedies of Elegance"-all polish, gloss and wit-and witnesses Lubitsch at the height of his film artistry, before the censors hit. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins play two elegant thieves who realize they are made for...
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UNCOMMON GROUND
This impassioned documentary follows five multiethnic Los Angeles high school students as they travel to South Africa to live with South African students in a black township. The film focuses on the day-to-day activities of these diverse youth as they...
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UNDERWATER
Underwater is the story of an introverted twelve-year-old girl, Patty Rose, who has developed a terrible fear of water since the death of her father. The collision of Patty's fantasies and a real-life crisis force her to confront her fears....
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EXILE
Internationally acclaimed Australian director Paul Cox's (A Woman's Tale) challenging new film is a spiritual adventure in the tradition of Robinson Crusoe. Based on E.L. Grant Watson's novel Priest Island, the story is set in Australia during the last century....
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TOPAZE
Director Harry D'Arrast photographed common people and places with remarkable elegance. Here he presents an ultra-sophisticated comedy-drama based on a play by Pagnol. John Barrymore portrays a timid French schoolteacher who gets fired, is duped into endorsing a product under...
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TOTAL BALALAIKA SHOW
Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's Total Balalaika Show is the most inspired crosscultural pairing since Nureyev danced with Miss Piggy. This concert documentary has Finland's musically challenged roc·k band, the Leningrad Cowboys, trading hotlicks and bellowing dopey standards with the sometimes...
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TOTALLY F***ED UP
Totally F***ed Up is acclaimed L.A. filmmaker Gregg Araki's ( The Living End) most mature film to date. Araki goes further out into the margins to explore gay and lesbian youth, and becomes one of the few to treat this...
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TOUCH ME
Touch Me, from Australian director Paul Cox (Exile, A Woman's Tale) tells of two women who escape the city and their frustrating relationships to spend a weekend alone in the country. The hills around Melbourne provide the setting for an...
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THE DUTCH MASTER
Susan Seidelman's (Desperately Seeking Susan, She-Devi0 The Dutch Master, which was nominated for a 1993 Academy Award, tells the story of Teresa, a Brooklyn dental hygienist who is nervous about her upcoming marriage to a traffic cop. She begins to...
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TALES OF HOFFMANN
The New York Times called Tales of Hoffmann, "By far the most glowingly ambitious and swanky attempt ever made to recreate classical opera on the motion picture screen." The film portrays the German poet Hoffmann in three adventures as he...
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THE THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER (A TERCEIRA MARGEM DO RIO)
In his newest film, beloved Brazilian filmmaker Nelson Pereira dos Santos distills the essence of five short stories to create a narrative that encompasses city and country, reality and fantasy, good and evil. Liojorge and Alva have always known their...
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THIS IS THE NIGHT
In this pre-code tale of gay infidelity, Thelma Todd is having an affai.r with Roland Young Young must engage Lily Damita as his wife when Todd's husband Cary Grant arrives in town unexpectedly. They al I jaunt off to Venice...
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TIGRERO: A FILM THAT WAS NEVER MADE
In Mika Kaurismaki's innovative new film, legendary director Sam Fuller leads a nostalgic and unconventional journey into the past. Forty years ago, Fuller went into Brazil's Amazonian rainforest to research locations for his adventure film, Tigrero. The project never came...
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DORA WAS DYSFUNCTIONAL
Dora Was Dysfunctional is a sweetly comic tale about a quirky young woman searching for love. When her boyfriend leaves her, she finds comfort in the Ukrainian love rituals recommended by her immigrant grandmother. Eugene, aka Helicopter, acts as manager...
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DREAM GIRLS
Kim Longinotto's and Jano Williams' Dream Girls is a fascinating documentary about the Takarazuka Revue, a musical troupe in Japan dedicated to romantic Hollywood-style musical extravaganzas, staged with spectacular sets and choreographyand an all-female cast. In Bui Doi: Life Like...
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SNAKES AND LADDERS (SERPIENTES Y ESCALERAS)
The childhood game of the title serves as a metaphor for the coming-of-age of two young Mexican women in the male-dominated society of the 1950s. Along with Dana Rotberg (Danzon), director Busi Cortes (Rome/fa's Secret) is at the forefront of...
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SOLDIER OF ORANGE (SOLDAAT VAN ORANJE)
Nominated for a 1979 Academy Award, this suspenseful World War II story set in the Netherlands concerns the heroics of six young Dutch men involved in the Resistance. "Verhoeven is a filmmaker of immense vitality, passion, and humor, which gives...
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STARBABY
In Benders, Franny, an alcoholic, falls desperately for Jack, a crisis hotline operator and recovering addict. This truly human tale touchingly portrays two lost people who struggle together to overcome alcoholism and loneliness. In Starbaby, a star-struck waif adrift in...
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DON’T PAVE MAIN STREET: CARMEL’S HERITAGE
Clint Eastwood narrates this powerful and revealing look at a little-known sector of Americana-the small group of Bohemians whose ecological passidns, unorthodox ,, lifestyles, and remarkable literary and artistic achievements were largely responsible for making Carmel, California, everything it is...
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ROOSTERS
Edward James Olmos stars in Robert M. Young's film about the power struggles among a strong-willed Latino family in the contemporary American Southwest. Gallo Morales returns home from prison intent on resuming his career breeding fighting cocks. But his father...
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RULES OF THE ROAD
"The Travellers have no place left to go. And they never knew a place where they could stay," concludes documentary filmmaker Oliver Herbrich about the subjects of his film. For centuries the Travellers have wandered the Irish countryside in a...
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SCREAM OF STONE (SCHREI AUS STEIN)
Spectacular scenes of a dizzying ascent and breathtaking mountain landscapes provide the backdrop to a parable of fatal passions in renowned director Werner Herzog's latest film. Roccia is the most experienced mountaineer in the world; Martin, representative of a younger...
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SHOE BIZ
Frederic Cassidy's Kissing Time is a reverential and referential tribute to silent films, made in the tradition of 1920s cinema. Bloods on the Moon is a textured examination of a father forced to decide which to believe, his instinct or...
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THE RAGE OF PARIS
Danielle Darrieux plays a French girl who goes to New York City to become a model. An audition requires her to model nude, and she mistakenly proposes to strip for Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who assumes she is a blackmailer.
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RAVE REVIEW
Director Jeff Seymour brings wit and a playful sense of self-parody to his debut feature, Rave Review. While his colleagues make millions in Hollywood, director Steve Maletti is constantly hustling money just to keep his theatre company out of bankruptcy....
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REFLECTIONS OF A CHILDSTAR
Mike Schlitt's parodic documentary about Aqua Boy, a former TV child star.
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RHINOSKIN: THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR
A hilarious look at one young actor's journey through the minefield of Hollywood. Humiliation comes in large doses for Tod De Pree, whose goal is to get a one-line part in a sitcom before Rhinoskin's production runs out of money...
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DEKALOG 9
Kieslowski makes full use of melodrama here to demonstrate why one should not covet thy neighbor's wife. Roman (Piotr Machalica) and Hanka (Ewa Blaszczyk) are welleducated and sophisticated professionals, but Roman has been devastated by the realization that he is...
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DESIRE
A post-Code film brimming with "the Lubitsch touch" (i.e. sexual innuendo) and Frank Borzage's romanticism. Marlene Dietrich, fresh out of the Von Sternberg camp, is brought charmingly down to earth. She plays a jewel thief who flees to Spain and...
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OUT OF SIGHT
Acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (Feast of the Gods) continues to redefine the stylistic limits of the documentary in Out of Sight, his film about a blind Northern California woman. "I don't know if America is ready for a blind girl...
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PARAJANOV
Persecuted by Soviet authorities throughout his life for his non-conformist lifestyle, Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov ( The Color of Pomegranates) created films with a revolutionary visual style. In this fascinating documentary portrait of the legendary filmmaker, director Ron Holloway attempts...
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THE PEOPLE FROM THE UNIVERSAL (LA GENTE DE LA UNIVERSAL)
A raunchy black comedy that marks a lively debut by Colombian director Felipe Aljura . . . Central characters are the sexually insatiable trio who run a spitball Bogota P.I. agency: ex-cop Diogenes, his sexy wife Fabiola, and handsome nephew...
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PRINCE IGOR
Director Roman Tikhomirov pursues the logic of cinema, not the op1ua house, in his dazzling re-imagining of Borodin's Prince Igor, which tells the story of a war between the Russians and Tartars. The mournful, elegiac opening shots, as the camera...
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DEKALOG 8
Zofia (Maria Koscialkowska) is a successful professor of ethics in her sixties who seems quite content with her life. Her only odd activity is placing flowers daily in an empty room in her apartment. One day, a young American woman...
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THE NEEDLE (IGLA)
Part action thriller, part social problem film, The Needle marks Nougmanov as one of the most stylish and gifted of the new wave of Eastern European filmmakers. The film centers on Moro who returns to his hometown after a long...
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NO THANKS NOT SURE YES PLEASE
Andrew Peterson's satirical look at the search for Mr./Ms. Right in the 90s.
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OH… ROSALINDA!
This riotously inventive musical fantasy was the third of British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's music-theatre extravaganzas, after The Red Shoes and Tales of Hoffmann. An updating of Strauss' Die Fledermaus to postwar Vienna, it tells the story of...
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ONE HOUR WITH YOU
A remake of Lubitsch's silent The Marriage Circle (1924). Set to music, this sparkling comedy highlights Maurice Chevalier's charm and Jeanette MacDonald's singing talents. Although Lubitsch is given credit as director of this sparkling comedy, Cukor did all the work...
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ONLY THE BRAVE (ROMANCE DE VALENCIA)
Dutch documentary maker Sonia Herman Daiz looks at those who practice an art form still decried by much of Europe as a cruel and bloodthirsty spectacle-the bull fight. Shot on location in Spain, the film follows the 20-year-old bullfighter, Enrique...
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DEKALOG 7
Three generations of scandals and lies are the backdrop for this story. Ania is the little girl who believes Ewa is her mother and Majka (Maja Barelkowska) an older sister. These are the relationships-or are they? Actually, Majka is Ania's...
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MIDNIGHT
American Claudette Colbert arrives in Paris without money or luggage. Wandering into a party, she gets entangled in John Barrymore's plot to keep a gigolo away from his wife. "An effervescent farce that suggests the films of Lubitsch in its...
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THE MOON’S OUR HOME
Margaret Sullavan plays a movie star and Henry Fonda a writer who assume pseudonyms for their professions. They meet using their real names, without realizing who each other is. Their marriage gets off to a rocky start and continues to...
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MOSES AND AARON
Moses and Aaron, written in 1932, has long been acknowledged as one of Schoenberg's most important works. The film's subject matter had important political significance-that Schoenberg, a Jewish artist, composed a work that explores his cultural roots at a time...
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MY SOUL BROTHER (MI HERMANO DEL ALMA)
A moral rollercoaster ride in the tradition of Double Indemnity and Jagged Edge Carlos can't help being suspicious when his black-sheep brother Tony returns after an acrimonious breakup ten years earlier. But soon Carlos, a rising young insurance agent, is...
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DEKALOG 6
A full-length version of this film was released to great acclaim as A Short Film About Love. The most romantic episode of the series, it deals with Tomek, a 19-year-man (Olaf Lubaszenko) who falls madly in love with his older...
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THE MAKING OF…AND GOD SPOKE
Arthur Borman's debut feature is a satirical and deliriously funny journey into the bowels of Hollywood. And God Spoke would have been Hollywood's first biblical epic since the sixties. But the production by B-filmmakers Clive Walton and Marvin Handleman goes...
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MAN FACING SOUTHEAST (HOMBRE MIRANDO AL SUDESTE)
Eliseo Subiela's Man Facing Southeast stars Hugo Soto as an enigmatic mental patient and Lorenzo Ouinteras as the jaded psychiatrist who comes to believe that the inmate is very special indeed. "Writer-director Subiela incorporates a wide variety of influences to...
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THE MAN ON THE BALCONY (MANNEN PA BALKONGEN)
Swedish detective Martin Beck finds himself embroiled in intrigue once again in The Man on the Balcony, the fourth in a series of dark crime mysteries from Sweden's popular writing team, Maj Sjowall and PerWahloo. Stockholm turns into a city...
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THE MERRY WIDOW
Lubitsch again fools the Production Code folks as he interjects verboten sexual material into this glossy operetta. Chevalier is sent to Paris to propose to the wealthiest woman of his country (MacDonald) and bring her back so the country doesn't...
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DEKALOG 4
In the fourth film of the series, Kieslowski examines the sexual taboos underlying the Fourth Commandment, "Honor thy Mother and Father." While her father is away on business, a young woman named Anka (Adrianna Biedrzynska) discovers an unopened letter from...
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THE LUNATIC
Filmed on Jamaica's northern coast and featuring the music of Toots and the Maytals, Aswad, Burning Flames, and Black Uhuru, The Lunatic is the ribald feature film debut of music video pioneer Loi Creme. It is the story of genial...
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MADAME WANG’S
A KGB agent comes to California to prepare for a Russian takeover of the U.S. After losing his papers, he connects with a band of homeless, overweight, and over-the-hill transvestites and becomes a punker in a Chinese restaurant owned by...
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THE MAGIC BROTHERS
This wacky Zelig-esque parodic documentary offers the bizarre account of the muchpublicized 1954 birth and upbringing of quadruplets in Poland and their pursuit by a bored communist-controlled media. The boys have a penchant for the pop culture of the forbidden...
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DEKALOG 3
Christmas with the family is interrupted by a man's former lover. Janusz (Daniel Olbrychski) and his family attend Christmas Eve services at their church. He recognizes a lonely woman's face in the crowd and hides from her. Home again, his...
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LAST STATION
Armenia's tumultuous struggle for political independence is the backdrop for this compelling tale of lost love and broken dreams. Gerald, an Armenian actor, reminisces about his life with his wife Nora (played by Los Angeles actress Nora Armani) and their...
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LAURA SOBERS
In Benders, Franny, an alcoholic, falls desperately for Jack, a crisis hotline operator and recovering addict. This truly human tale touchingly portrays two lost people who struggle together to overcome alcoholism and loneliness. In Starbaby, a star-struck waif adrift in...
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LOVE AFTER LOVE (APRES L’AMOR)
Beloved actress Isabelle Huppert and acclaimed French director Diane Kurys follow their triumphant pairing in Entre Nou,s with Love After Love. Huppert gives a superbly calibrated performance in the role of Lola, a popular fiction writer living in Paris. Having...
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LOVE HURTS (HARTVERSCHEUREND)
Charting the volatile trajectory of an irreconcilable relationship against the backdrop of countercultural Amsterdam, Love Hurts channels electric lead performances into a visitation of passion's outer limits. K/iijke de Jong creates a persuasive examination of a young couple agonizing between...
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DEKALOG 2
A woman's decision to have an abortion hinges on her husband's life-or-death condition. She (Krystyna Janda) tries to enlist a Catholic doctor (Aleksander Bardini) in her decision whether to abort the baby she's having by another man. The old doctor...
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KALAMAZOO
Frederic Cassidy's Kissing Time is a reverential and referential tribute to silent films, made in the tradition of 1920s cinema. Bloods on the Moon is a textured examination of a father forced to decide which to believe, his instinct or...
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THE KINGDOM OF ZYDECO
Robert Mugge, one of America's finest makers of music documentaries, examines the black Creole music scene of Southwest Louisiana and its attempts to name a new leader. After the death of the genre's latest king, a struggle ensues over the...
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KISSING TIME
Frederic Cassidy's Kissing Time is a reverential and referential tribute to silent films, made in the tradition of 1920s cinema. Bloods on the Moon is a textured examination of a father forced to decide which to believe, his instinct or...
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LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK (KATERINA IZMAILOVA)
Adopted from Shostakovich's opera with his full participation, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (called Katerina lzmailova after its initial banning) is a psychologically complex drama of love, violence, and betrayal. Emotionally stifled by her marriage, Katerina seduces Sergei, a mercenary farmhand....
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THE LAST KLEZMER
Leopold Kozlowski served as a music consultant and as an actor in Schindler's List, bu1 his greatest role is that of the last performing klezmer musician from the Polish musical tradition. Kozlowski is currently'the sole preserver of the dying art...
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DEKALOG 10
In the final work in the Decalogue series, Kieslowski breaks into full comedy for an examination of the Commandment, "Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Goods." Arthur (Zbigniew Zamachowski) is a Polish punk rock star. His older brother Jerzy (Jerzy...
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IT’LL HAVE BLINKING EYES AND A MOVING MOUTH
"If it ain't fun, don't do it," says artist Hobart Brown. His credo couldn't be more evident in It'll Have Blinking Eyes and a Moving Mouth, a documentary about Brown and the kinetic sculpture race he founded twenty-four years ago....
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THE JANITOR
A delightful animated film about a cosmic janitor whose boss is none other than God.
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JOHNNY 100 PESOS (JOHNNY CIEN PESOS)
Based on a 1990 event in downtown Santiago de Chile, Johnny One Hundred Pesos is an absorbing thriller about the botohed robbery of an illegal currency exchange parlor. The leader of the bandits is Johnny, a student who's bored of...
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JUST FRIENDS
A lively and lyrical homage to jazz and friendship. Set in Antwerp, 1959, Just Friends is the story of Jack, a dockworker who unloads banana crates and dreams of playing his saxophone with the superstars of New York's jazz scene....
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DEKALOG 1
Krzysztof (Henryk Baranowski), a middle-aged mathematician, uses his home computers to strengthen his relationship with his young son (Wojciech Klata). Krzysztof insists on raising his son according to principles of scientific rationalism, and realizes-tragically-that his computer calculations cannot render the...
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HUNTING TIGERS
Kim Longinotto's and Jano Williams' Dream Girls is a fascinating documentary about the Takarazuka Revue, a musical troupe in Japan dedicated to romantic Hollywood-style musical extravaganzas, staged with spectacular sets and choreographyand an all-female cast. In Bui Doi: Life Like...
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I’M NOT COOKING TONIGHT
A wryly comical and inventive debut feature that captures the dynamics of love across cultures. Takaya Yamazaki, a Japanese native, based this story on his own relationship with his midwestern-born wife and the stormy waters that they sailed before finally...
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IL CAPITANO
An austere but oddly powerful narrative of a young Finnish couple on a crime spree in Sweden that begins with minor burglaries and ends with a triple-murder. Based on a true story, the film has obvious echoes of the Manson...
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THE INSATIABLE MRS. KIRSCH
From British director Ken Russell ( Tommy, Altered States) comes The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch, a tale which depicts the hilariously misguided passion of a writer who becomes obsessed with the mysterious, passionate, intriguingly insatiable Mrs. Kirsch. Director
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DEATH IN VENICE, CA
Underwater is the story of an introverted twelve-year-old girl, Patty Rose, who has developed a terrible fear of water since the death of her father. The collision of Patty's fantasies and a real-life crisis force her to confront her fears....
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DEFICIENCY (CARENCES)
Based on events that occurred in France in 1984, Deficiency is a horrific and all-too-realistic tale of murder and betrayal. It tells the story of Roland Resse, a loner and wanderer, who takes a room with a kindly older Jewish...
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HELAS POUR MOI
AFI Fest is proud to present as its Middle Gala Jean-Luc Godard's internationally acclaimed new film, Helas Pour Mai, starring French superstar Gerard Depardieu and Laurence Masliah. Depardieu plays Simon, an ordinary man whose body is briefly inhabited by God....
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HELICOPTER
Dora Was Dysfunctional is a sweetly comic tale about a quirky young woman searching for love. When her boyfriend leaves her, she finds comfort in the Ukrainian love rituals recommended by her immigrant grandmother. Eugene, aka Helicopter, acts as manager...
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HIGH SCHOOL II
One of America's foremost documentarians, Frederick Wiseman ( Titicut Follies), continues his examination of American institutional life with High School II. Unrelated to his 1969 film High School, High Schoof'llfocuses on Central Park East Secondary School, a successful, public, alternative...
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THE HOUSE BUILT ON SAND (DOM NA PESKE)
Russia in the 1930s serves as the setting for this memorable drama of two women from disparate social backgrounds united in a strange, tumultuous, and ultimately destructive friendship. There is a Chekhov-like intimacy to Adomenaite's characters, a feeling of people...
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THE DEAD MOTHER (LA MADRE MUERTA)
A smart and stylish psychological thriller from acclaimed Spanish director Juanma Baja Ulloa (Butterfly Wings). lsmae.f (Karra Elejalde), a psychopath, breaks into a house and kills the owner as her daughter watches. Years later, he believes he sees the gaze...
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THE FRONTIER (LA FRONTERA)
The wild, inspiring beauty of southern Chile and the untamed spirits of those who live there get equal attention in first-time director Ricardo Larrain's successful and engaging film. Awarded a Silver Bear at the 1992 Berlin Film Festival, it was...
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GATHER AT THE RIVER: A BLUEGRASS CELEBRATION
Award-winning director Robert Mugge (Kumu Hula) takes a comprehensive look at the past, present, and future of bluegrass music in the performance documentary, Gather at the River: A Bluegrass Celebration. Not long ago, bluegrass was considered all but dead. But...
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THE GOOD FAIRY
William Wyler's first comedy and Preston Sturges' screenplay sparkle with romance. Margaret Sullavan plays a woman just released from an asylum, whose innocence attracts the amorous advances of a millionaire. In haste, she claims she is married to Herbert Marshall...
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HANDGUN
As a comic spin on the action/heist genre, first-time director Whitney Ransick's Handgun resembles a cross between Simple Men and Reservoir Dogs. Jack (Seymour Cassel) dies after being shot in a hold-up amfleaves behind a half-million dollar booty which his...
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HEAT
Sylvia Miles is a fading, practically unknown star, given to game shows, TV movies, and studs. Joe Dallesandro is a one-time child actor living in a sunbaked motel, next door to Miles' freaked out daughter who lives with a baby...
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THE DARK SIDE OF THE HEART (EL LADO OSCURO DEL CORAZON)
From the director of Man Facing Southeast comes a magnificent parable about one man's battle against the forces of conformity. Oliverio is a handsome, defiant young poet whose search for the perfect woman leads him to Ana, a no-nonsense prostitute...
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THE FOURTH GREEN FIELD
The Fourth Green Field is a compelling examination of the dramatic and far-reaching impact of the Prevention of Terrorism Act on the citizens of Northern Ireland. With stories more evocative of South Africa than a Western European democracy, the film...
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THE FOURTH MAN (DE WIERDE MAN)
This stylish film noir thriller tells the story of a brilliant novelist who is Catholic, alcoholic, gay, and tormented by horrifying premonitions. His obsession with a young man leads him to a sexually voracious woman who may be a murderess....
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FRESH KILL
Shu Lea Cheang makes her directorial debut with this satirical, hyper-paced, ecological nightmare of a film. The story focuses on an interracial lesbian couple, Claire and Shareen, and their daughter, Honey. Problems start when Honey is kidnapped by ,· Shareen's...
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FROM THE EAST (D’EST)
Chantal Akerman first came to prominence with her formalist avant-garde work, Jeanne Dielman. She once again rewrites cinematic conventions with her groundbreaking new documentary, D'Est. The film records her journey from East Germany to Moscow, lastinb from late summer to...
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THE CLOUD DOOR
Indian director Mani Kaul's (The Fool, Siddheshwan) The Cloud Door tells of a young man's love for a beautiful princess and his attempts to consummate his feelings with the help of a talking parrot-the princess' pet.
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DANCING (DANSEN)
Jan Troell's poetic study of dancing combines a breathtaking array of images-the spontaneous expression of young people dancing at the subway, flamenco dancers, and excerpts from Isadora Duncan's work. Dancing is Troell's vision of dance as an artistic language between...
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THE DUTCH MASTER
Susan Seidelman's (Desperately Seeking Susan, She-Devi0 The Dutch Master, which was nominated for a 1993 Academy Award, tells the story of Teresa, a Brooklyn dental hygienist who is nervous about her upcoming marriage to a traffic cop. She begins to...
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EXILE
Internationally acclaimed Australian director Paul Cox's (A Woman's Tale) challenging new film is a spiritual adventure in the tradition of Robinson Crusoe. Based on E.L. Grant Watson's novel Priest Island, the story is set in Australia during the last century....
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FALSE PREGNANCY (GROSSESSE NERVEUSE)
This irresistible black comedy was awarded Germany's prestigious Max Ophuls Prize. Mildly misanthropic Martin discovers that a former lover is expecting his child. However, Sally doesn't want his help in raising the baby. For Martin, this is the beginning of...
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FLESH
Joe Dallesandro plays a hustler whose wife asks him to get $200 for her lover's abortion. This leads to a series of encounters with a bizarre mix of urban oddballs. He returns home to find his wife more interested in...
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THE CHILE CON CARNE CLUB
Dora Was Dysfunctional is a sweetly comic tale about a quirky young woman searching for love. When her boyfriend leaves her, she finds comfort in the Ukrainian love rituals recommended by her immigrant grandmother. Eugene, aka Helicopter, acts as manager...
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A CLASS TO REMEMBER (GAKKO)
Frederic Cassidy's Kissing Time is a reverential and referential tribute to silent films, made in the tradition of 1920s cinema. Bloods on the Moon is a textured examination of a father forced to decide which to believe, his instinct or...
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DON’T PAVE MAIN STREET: CARMEL’S HERITAGE
Clint Eastwood narrates this powerful and revealing look at a little-known sector of Americana-the small group of Bohemians whose ecological passidns, unorthodox ,, lifestyles, and remarkable literary and artistic achievements were largely responsible for making Carmel, California, everything it is...
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DORA WAS DYSFUNCTIONAL
Dora Was Dysfunctional is a sweetly comic tale about a quirky young woman searching for love. When her boyfriend leaves her, she finds comfort in the Ukrainian love rituals recommended by her immigrant grandmother. Eugene, aka Helicopter, acts as manager...
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DREAM GIRLS
Kim Longinotto's and Jano Williams' Dream Girls is a fascinating documentary about the Takarazuka Revue, a musical troupe in Japan dedicated to romantic Hollywood-style musical extravaganzas, staged with spectacular sets and choreographyand an all-female cast. In Bui Doi: Life Like...
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BUI DOI: LIFE LIKE DUST
Kim Longinotto's and Jano Williams' Dream Girls is a fascinating documentary about the Takarazuka Revue, a musical troupe in Japan dedicated to romantic Hollywood-style musical extravaganzas, staged with spectacular sets and choreographyand an all-female cast. In Bui Doi: Life Like...
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A CHILD FROM THE SOUTH
1993 Academy Award nominee Pete Postlethwaite stars in this compelling feature from Brazilian filmmaker Sergio Rezende. One of the high points of the 1991 AFF, A Child from the South tells the story of Nadia, a young journalist who returns...
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DEKALOG 7
Three generations of scandals and lies are the backdrop for this story. Ania is the little girl who believes Ewa is her mother and Majka (Maja Barelkowska) an older sister. These are the relationships-or are they? Actually, Majka is Ania's...
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DEKALOG 8
Zofia (Maria Koscialkowska) is a successful professor of ethics in her sixties who seems quite content with her life. Her only odd activity is placing flowers daily in an empty room in her apartment. One day, a young American woman...
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DEKALOG 9
Kieslowski makes full use of melodrama here to demonstrate why one should not covet thy neighbor's wife. Roman (Piotr Machalica) and Hanka (Ewa Blaszczyk) are welleducated and sophisticated professionals, but Roman has been devastated by the realization that he is...
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DESIRE
A post-Code film brimming with "the Lubitsch touch" (i.e. sexual innuendo) and Frank Borzage's romanticism. Marlene Dietrich, fresh out of the Von Sternberg camp, is brought charmingly down to earth. She plays a jewel thief who flees to Spain and...
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BLOODS ON THE MOON
Frederic Cassidy's Kissing Time is a reverential and referential tribute to silent films, made in the tradition of 1920s cinema. Bloods on the Moon is a textured examination of a father forced to decide which to believe, his instinct or...
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BORIS GODUNOV
A compelling drama based on Pushkin's play about the guilt-ridden 16th-century Czar Boris Godunov, this version of Russia's most famous opera features the great Alexander Pirogov as Boris and the Bolshoi Orchestra and Chorus. Director Vera Stroyeva staged passages of...
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DEKALOG 10
In the final work in the Decalogue series, Kieslowski breaks into full comedy for an examination of the Commandment, "Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Goods." Arthur (Zbigniew Zamachowski) is a Polish punk rock star. His older brother Jerzy (Jerzy...
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DEKALOG 2
A woman's decision to have an abortion hinges on her husband's life-or-death condition. She (Krystyna Janda) tries to enlist a Catholic doctor (Aleksander Bardini) in her decision whether to abort the baby she's having by another man. The old doctor...
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DEKALOG 3
Christmas with the family is interrupted by a man's former lover. Janusz (Daniel Olbrychski) and his family attend Christmas Eve services at their church. He recognizes a lonely woman's face in the crowd and hides from her. Home again, his...
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DEKALOG 4
In the fourth film of the series, Kieslowski examines the sexual taboos underlying the Fourth Commandment, "Honor thy Mother and Father." While her father is away on business, a young woman named Anka (Adrianna Biedrzynska) discovers an unopened letter from...
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DEKALOG 6
A full-length version of this film was released to great acclaim as A Short Film About Love. The most romantic episode of the series, it deals with Tomek, a 19-year-man (Olaf Lubaszenko) who falls madly in love with his older...
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BLACK HARVEST (SORT HOST)
A haunting epic drama about the tragedies, passions, and losses of a wealthy Danish family. Set in Denmark's countryside at the turn of the century, this is a dark tale about a tyrannical patriarch whose black-hearted desires sweep him, his...
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BLOOD FOR DRACULA
In this delightful mixture of gore, myth, and sex set in Italy, Udo Kier plays a youngish Dracula who lives on virgin blood. When he preys on a family with four pretty daughters, Dracula gets his comeuppance. "A respectful, yet...
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THE DEAD MOTHER (LA MADRE MUERTA)
A smart and stylish psychological thriller from acclaimed Spanish director Juanma Baja Ulloa (Butterfly Wings). lsmae.f (Karra Elejalde), a psychopath, breaks into a house and kills the owner as her daughter watches. Years later, he believes he sees the gaze...
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DEATH IN VENICE, CA
Underwater is the story of an introverted twelve-year-old girl, Patty Rose, who has developed a terrible fear of water since the death of her father. The collision of Patty's fantasies and a real-life crisis force her to confront her fears....
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DEFICIENCY (CARENCES)
Based on events that occurred in France in 1984, Deficiency is a horrific and all-too-realistic tale of murder and betrayal. It tells the story of Roland Resse, a loner and wanderer, who takes a room with a kindly older Jewish...
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DEKALOG 1
Krzysztof (Henryk Baranowski), a middle-aged mathematician, uses his home computers to strengthen his relationship with his young son (Wojciech Klata). Krzysztof insists on raising his son according to principles of scientific rationalism, and realizes-tragically-that his computer calculations cannot render the...
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A CLASS TO REMEMBER (GAKKO)
Frederic Cassidy's Kissing Time is a reverential and referential tribute to silent films, made in the tradition of 1920s cinema. Bloods on the Moon is a textured examination of a father forced to decide which to believe, his instinct or...
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THE BEGINNING AND THE END (PRINCIPIO Y FIN)
Based on the novel by 1988 Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, Arturo Ripstein's monumental work is at once breathtakingly dramatic and heartbreakingly mundane. After the death of its patriarch, the Botero family is left forsaken. Widow Ignacia sends her three...
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THE CLOUD DOOR
Indian director Mani Kaul's (The Fool, Siddheshwan) The Cloud Door tells of a young man's love for a beautiful princess and his attempts to consummate his feelings with the help of a talking parrot-the princess' pet.
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BENDERS
In Benders, Franny, an alcoholic, falls desperately for Jack, a crisis hotline operator and recovering addict. This truly human tale touchingly portrays two lost people who struggle together to overcome alcoholism and loneliness. In Starbaby, a star-struck waif adrift in...
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DANCING (DANSEN)
Jan Troell's poetic study of dancing combines a breathtaking array of images-the spontaneous expression of young people dancing at the subway, flamenco dancers, and excerpts from Isadora Duncan's work. Dancing is Troell's vision of dance as an artistic language between...
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THE DARK SIDE OF THE HEART (EL LADO OSCURO DEL CORAZON)
From the director of Man Facing Southeast comes a magnificent parable about one man's battle against the forces of conformity. Oliverio is a handsome, defiant young poet whose search for the perfect woman leads him to Ana, a no-nonsense prostitute...
Read More..
BORIS GODUNOV
A compelling drama based on Pushkin's play about the guilt-ridden 16th-century Czar Boris Godunov, this version of Russia's most famous opera features the great Alexander Pirogov as Boris and the Bolshoi Orchestra and Chorus. Director Vera Stroyeva staged passages of...
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BUI DOI: LIFE LIKE DUST
Kim Longinotto's and Jano Williams' Dream Girls is a fascinating documentary about the Takarazuka Revue, a musical troupe in Japan dedicated to romantic Hollywood-style musical extravaganzas, staged with spectacular sets and choreographyand an all-female cast. In Bui Doi: Life Like...
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A CHILD FROM THE SOUTH
1993 Academy Award nominee Pete Postlethwaite stars in this compelling feature from Brazilian filmmaker Sergio Rezende. One of the high points of the 1991 AFF, A Child from the South tells the story of Nadia, a young journalist who returns...
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ANDY WARHOL’S FRANKENSTEIN (FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN)
A mad scientist, married to his sister, spends his time kidnapping, cutting up, and sewing together young people in order to create a perfect male and female specimen. A vision of a new generation of almost catatonic youth-sexually indiscriminate, interchangeable...
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THE CHILE CON CARNE CLUB
Dora Was Dysfunctional is a sweetly comic tale about a quirky young woman searching for love. When her boyfriend leaves her, she finds comfort in the Ukrainian love rituals recommended by her immigrant grandmother. Eugene, aka Helicopter, acts as manager...
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BARREN LIVES (VIDAS SECAS)
AFI Film Fest is honored to host this special screening of the film that helped bring Brazil's Cinema Novo movement to international attention. Often compared to Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, this landmark film tells the inspirational story of one...
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BENDERS
In Benders, Franny, an alcoholic, falls desperately for Jack, a crisis hotline operator and recovering addict. This truly human tale touchingly portrays two lost people who struggle together to overcome alcoholism and loneliness. In Starbaby, a star-struck waif adrift in...
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BLACK HARVEST (SORT HOST)
A haunting epic drama about the tragedies, passions, and losses of a wealthy Danish family. Set in Denmark's countryside at the turn of the century, this is a dark tale about a tyrannical patriarch whose black-hearted desires sweep him, his...
Read More..
BLOOD FOR DRACULA
In this delightful mixture of gore, myth, and sex set in Italy, Udo Kier plays a youngish Dracula who lives on virgin blood. When he preys on a family with four pretty daughters, Dracula gets his comeuppance. "A respectful, yet...
Read More..
BLOODS ON THE MOON
Frederic Cassidy's Kissing Time is a reverential and referential tribute to silent films, made in the tradition of 1920s cinema. Bloods on the Moon is a textured examination of a father forced to decide which to believe, his instinct or...
Read More..
ANDY WARHOL’S FRANKENSTEIN (FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN)
A mad scientist, married to his sister, spends his time kidnapping, cutting up, and sewing together young people in order to create a perfect male and female specimen. A vision of a new generation of almost catatonic youth-sexually indiscriminate, interchangeable...
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BARREN LIVES (VIDAS SECAS)
AFI Film Fest is honored to host this special screening of the film that helped bring Brazil's Cinema Novo movement to international attention. Often compared to Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, this landmark film tells the inspirational story of one...
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THE BEGINNING AND THE END (PRINCIPIO Y FIN)
Based on the novel by 1988 Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, Arturo Ripstein's monumental work is at once breathtakingly dramatic and heartbreakingly mundane. After the death of its patriarch, the Botero family is left forsaken. Widow Ignacia sends her three...
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THE YOUNG LADIES OF WILKO (PANNY Z WILKA)
Noted director Andrzej Wajda is in fine form. After two political films that had problems at home but high popularity, his latest, The Young Ladies of Wilko, is a romantic period piece and a truly successful change-of-pace The film takes...
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WILD STRAWBERRIES (SMULTRONSTALLET)
The classic and poignant Wild Strawberries is one of the most admired, and most loved, of Ingmar Bergman's films its culminating effect of achieved serenity and fulfillment is unique. Wild Strawberries traces an aged professor's realization of the critical human...
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WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM
One of the most talked-about films in the world when first released, WR can be called The Crying Game of its era. As Variety remarked, "Yugoslav filmmaker Dusan Makavejev has brought,off a most unusual film built round the work of...
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THE WEDDING (WESELE)
The most interesting and typically Polish film of the year, and perhaps Wajda's best. Rleality combines with dreams, nightmares, unrealized ambitions. The Wedding's time frame is the beginning of this century, the period of the so-called Young Poland. Vibrant with...
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SWEET MOVIE
Sweet Movie is literally sweet with lovemaking in a bed of sugar and a girl being bathed in chocolate for advertising purposes But it also has an underpinning of scatology and a zany look at sensuality. Neither hard nor softcore,...
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THE SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR
"Makavejev has gone further than Godard," claimed one critic of The Switchboard Operator, which was also called by Tony Rayns "Makavejev's most interesting and concentrated treatment of his recurrent themes. A tragicomic love affair between a switchboard operator and a...
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SUNDAY’S CHILDREN (SONDAGSBARN)
Sunday's Children is another gorgeous, richly poignant memoir written by Ingmar Bergman ( Wild Strawberries, Fanny and Alexander), but directed by his son Daniel as his first feature. Though the master keeps saying he has retired from film-making, you would...
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SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
Ray Bradbury's enduring fascination with carnivals began at the age of 12 when a travelling show rolled through his boyhood home of Waukegan, Illinois. In this way the foundation for Something Wicked This Way Comes, a short story he wrote...
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THE SHADOW LINE (SMUGA CIENIA)
The Shadow Line marks Wajda's attempt to tackle one fo the great novels of Joseph Conrad (of Polish descent, real name Korzeniowski). Co-produced with Thames Television, it is Conrad's semi-autobiographical story of a merchant ship's young captain. Wajda's idea was...
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SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE
The Grand Prize winner at Cannes in 1989, sex, lies and videotape proved to be one of the most successful American independent films to receive distribution. "Sex, lies and videotape, starring Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher and James Spader, is one...
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SCANDAL
Closing the 1989 AFI Los Angeles Film Festival, Scandal was a sexy, politically charged, early hit for Miramax. "In 1963 the sensational revelations that a good-time girl had been having affairs with a British cabinet minister and a Soviet naval...
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SANKOFA
An epic production on black slavery, Sankofa was produced, written, directed and edited by Haile Gerima. The film links directly to the Ethiopian-American director's previous work as another statement on African history and its relevance to black society today. The...
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SAMSON (SAMPSON)
Wajda's Samson is a transposition of the Biblical story of the muted prisoner who, after suffering temptation, brings death gloriously upon himself and his captors. Samson (played with a spare, haunting authority by the French actor, Serge Moulin) is in...
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A RAGE IN HARLEM
Directed by African American Bill Duke, and starring an all black cast, A Rage in Harlem is a hard-hitting opportunity for fine performers. A deal about to go sour opens the film, as Slim (Badja Djola) and his trusted sidekicks...
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THE PROMISED LAND (ZIEMIA OBIECANA)
One of Wadja's greatest films, now beginning to be more widely recognized, "The Promised Land is adapted from a novel by Wladyslaw Reymont, written at the turn of the century, treating the drama of nature and the philosophy of peasant...
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MY LEFT FOOT
My Left Foot won a Best Actor Oscar for Daniel Day Lewis as an Irish writer who overcomes cerebral palsy and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Brenda Fricker for the portrayal of his formidable mother. As Vincent Canby wrote,...
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THE MIRACLE (1991)
Neil Jordan's The Miracle is a beguiling yarn set in a seaside Irish resort. Told by Jimmy (Niall Byrne), a wet-behind-the-ears teen, The Miracle is a coming-of-age story spiked with a heavy dose of family history. Like Jordan's Mona Lisa,...
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MANIFESTO
Makavejev's long exile from his homeland ended in 1988 with the release of Manifesto, a Ruritanian political farce mostly shot in Yugoslavia. Although the film marks the most disciplined, traditional storytelling of Makavejev's career, it has seen only limited bookings...
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A MAN IS NOT A BIRD (COVEK NIJE TICA)
In a bleak industrial town in Slovenia, a visiting engineer (Janez Vrhovec) has an affair with a young and carefree hairdresser (Milena Dravic), which does not prevent her making love to a truck driver (Boris Dvornik) she had known previously....
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MAN OF IRON (CZLOWIEK Z ZELAZA)
Andrzej Wajda's Man of Iron is more than a film-it's an event, qualified to rank as the best 'Film of the Year" by virtue of its theme and the sheer documentation of a news story that made headlines the world...
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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALLEN GINSBERG
This unique and thought-provoking documentary explores the essence of the visionary poet, pacifist, teacher, writer and activist Allen Ginsberg. Director Aronson fashions his biography in clear chronological order, each decade serving as a chapter in Ginsberg's life. His dynamic era...
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LAUREL AVENUE
AFI Graduate Carl Franklin has been acknowledged as one of the hottest filmmakers in America since the international acclaim he received last year for his superb thriller One False Move, which appeared on many top-ten-of-the-year lists. His latest project, the...
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KANAL
Kanal is the central film in Wajda's Resistance trilogy, receiving the 1957 Cannes Special Jury Prize. Wajda's stark depiction of a tragic moment in Polish history, the film is set inlate September, 1944, just after the Warsaw Uprising mounted in...
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JAMES ELLROY
Crime writer James Ellroy has become one of the major literary voices of Los Angeles in recent years. Austrian filmmaker Reinhard Jud follows the author of "the best crime thrillers in the world" through his native LA, exploring the cityscape...
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INTO THE WEST
The appeal of legends which invent worlds existing beyond our own mundane realm is universal. Directed by Mike Newell of Enchanted April, and written by Jim Sheridan, who put Ireland on the cinema map with his Oscar-winning My Left Foot,...
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THE INLAND SEA
Based on the renowned Donald Richie book of the same name. Lucille Carra's The Inland Sea is a wonderfully vivid recreation of Richie's journey thirty years ago through the Inland Sea region of Japan. where he was intent on experiencing...
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INNOCENCE UNPROTECTED (NEVINOST BEZ ZASTITE)
The Sunday Telegraph called lnnlicence Unprotected "a hilarious piece of cinematic collage that manages to be an affectionate spoofing of old movies, political history of Yugoslavia and satirical comment on the country's new muscleman and escapologist, President Tito." "In 1942,...
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HOUSE OF CARDS
First time feature director/writer Michael Lessee's House of Cards is a hauntwho cinema11g, visually striking new drama about the mysterious world of a child's imagination, which in his words explores "the conflict between two ways of seeing what none of...
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GORILLA BATHES AT NOON
For his first film in five years, Dusan Makavejev returns to the themes that made him famous in the 60's and early 70's. Gorilla Bathes at Noon is immensely likable and could well restore Makavejev to prominence. Set in Berlin,...
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A FOREIGN FIELD
AFI Fest is honored to pay tribute to one of the greatest stars of British cinema, Sir Alec Guinness. His featured role in A Foreign Field, presented in this special gala, was written expressly for him by screen writer Roy...
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FAR AWAY FROM ST. PETERSBURG
In Latvian director Alexander Hahn's man-with-no-country comedy, writer lwan Rabczynski, born in St. Petersburg, Florida, writes cheap novels with the Russian touch under the pen-name "J.F Romanoff." His recent. unpublished novel, a supposedly autobiographical tragedy, is liberally sprinkled with words...
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FAHRENHEIT 451
Based on the Bradbury book of the same name, Fahrenheit 451 was memorably translated to screen by French auteur Francois Truffaut. "Fahrenheit 451 is less science fiction than a tale of 'once upon a time'. Truffaut presents a cozy world...
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THE DAY OF DESPAIR (O DIA DO DESESPERO)
The 1992 AFI Fest tribute to Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira was a revelation for Los Angeles. His latest film is another major work, saluting Portugal's greatest novelist. "Characterized as a blend of JeanMarie Straub and Max Ophuls, Manoel de...
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THE CRYING GAME
The biggest arthouse hit in history, The Crying Game doubled the earnings of Miramax's sex, lies and videotape, which previously held the record. It also received three Oscar nominations, and was awarded an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. "An astonishingly...
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THE YOUNG LADIES OF WILKO (PANNY Z WILKA)
Noted director Andrzej Wajda is in fine form. After two political films that had problems at home but high popularity, his latest, The Young Ladies of Wilko, is a romantic period piece and a truly successful change-of-pace The film takes...
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CINEMA PARADISO
Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film of 1989 as well as the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes, Cinema Paradiso is one of the most delightful films ever made about the joys of the movies. Cinema Paradiso is the...
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WILD STRAWBERRIES (SMULTRONSTALLET)
The classic and poignant Wild Strawberries is one of the most admired, and most loved, of Ingmar Bergman's films its culminating effect of achieved serenity and fulfillment is unique. Wild Strawberries traces an aged professor's realization of the critical human...
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WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM
One of the most talked-about films in the world when first released, WR can be called The Crying Game of its era. As Variety remarked, "Yugoslav filmmaker Dusan Makavejev has brought,off a most unusual film built round the work of...
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EL CID
The 1993 AFI International Film Festival is proud to open its seventh year with the U.S. premiere of the newly restored and lengthened El Cid, the 1961 epic drama masterpiece from director Anthony Mann, starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren....
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THE WEDDING (WESELE)
The most interesting and typically Polish film of the year, and perhaps Wajda's best. Rleality combines with dreams, nightmares, unrealized ambitions. The Wedding's time frame is the beginning of this century, the period of the so-called Young Poland. Vibrant with...
Read More..
SUNDAY’S CHILDREN (SONDAGSBARN)
Sunday's Children is another gorgeous, richly poignant memoir written by Ingmar Bergman ( Wild Strawberries, Fanny and Alexander), but directed by his son Daniel as his first feature. Though the master keeps saying he has retired from film-making, you would...
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SWEET MOVIE
Sweet Movie is literally sweet with lovemaking in a bed of sugar and a girl being bathed in chocolate for advertising purposes But it also has an underpinning of scatology and a zany look at sensuality. Neither hard nor softcore,...
Read More..
THE SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR
"Makavejev has gone further than Godard," claimed one critic of The Switchboard Operator, which was also called by Tony Rayns "Makavejev's most interesting and concentrated treatment of his recurrent themes. A tragicomic love affair between a switchboard operator and a...
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CHANTILLY LACE
The AFI Los Angeles Film Festival is proud to close its 1993 event with Linda Yellen's extraordinary Showtime film, Chantilly Lace. the style of John Cassevetes, Yellen has created an ensemble drama around seven fine actresses improvised upon a forty-page...
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SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
Ray Bradbury's enduring fascination with carnivals began at the age of 12 when a travelling show rolled through his boyhood home of Waukegan, Illinois. In this way the foundation for Something Wicked This Way Comes, a short story he wrote...
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SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE
The Grand Prize winner at Cannes in 1989, sex, lies and videotape proved to be one of the most successful American independent films to receive distribution. "Sex, lies and videotape, starring Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher and James Spader, is one...
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THE SHADOW LINE (SMUGA CIENIA)
The Shadow Line marks Wajda's attempt to tackle one fo the great novels of Joseph Conrad (of Polish descent, real name Korzeniowski). Co-produced with Thames Television, it is Conrad's semi-autobiographical story of a merchant ship's young captain. Wajda's idea was...
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SCANDAL
Closing the 1989 AFI Los Angeles Film Festival, Scandal was a sexy, politically charged, early hit for Miramax. "In 1963 the sensational revelations that a good-time girl had been having affairs with a British cabinet minister and a Soviet naval...
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SAMSON (SAMPSON)
Wajda's Samson is a transposition of the Biblical story of the muted prisoner who, after suffering temptation, brings death gloriously upon himself and his captors. Samson (played with a spare, haunting authority by the French actor, Serge Moulin) is in...
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SANKOFA
An epic production on black slavery, Sankofa was produced, written, directed and edited by Haile Gerima. The film links directly to the Ethiopian-American director's previous work as another statement on African history and its relevance to black society today. The...
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THE PROMISED LAND (ZIEMIA OBIECANA)
One of Wadja's greatest films, now beginning to be more widely recognized, "The Promised Land is adapted from a novel by Wladyslaw Reymont, written at the turn of the century, treating the drama of nature and the philosophy of peasant...
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A RAGE IN HARLEM
Directed by African American Bill Duke, and starring an all black cast, A Rage in Harlem is a hard-hitting opportunity for fine performers. A deal about to go sour opens the film, as Slim (Badja Djola) and his trusted sidekicks...
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MY LEFT FOOT
My Left Foot won a Best Actor Oscar for Daniel Day Lewis as an Irish writer who overcomes cerebral palsy and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Brenda Fricker for the portrayal of his formidable mother. As Vincent Canby wrote,...
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THE BLACK PIRATE
Ray Douglas Bradbury gained his middle name from his mother, who adored the silent star Douglas Fairbanks; The Black Pirate remains among his favorite films. "Alongside Keaton and Gene Kelly, Fairbanks was perhaps the most graceful athletic mover in the...
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MANIFESTO
Makavejev's long exile from his homeland ended in 1988 with the release of Manifesto, a Ruritanian political farce mostly shot in Yugoslavia. Although the film marks the most disciplined, traditional storytelling of Makavejev's career, it has seen only limited bookings...
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THE MIRACLE (1991)
Neil Jordan's The Miracle is a beguiling yarn set in a seaside Irish resort. Told by Jimmy (Niall Byrne), a wet-behind-the-ears teen, The Miracle is a coming-of-age story spiked with a heavy dose of family history. Like Jordan's Mona Lisa,...
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A MAN IS NOT A BIRD (COVEK NIJE TICA)
In a bleak industrial town in Slovenia, a visiting engineer (Janez Vrhovec) has an affair with a young and carefree hairdresser (Milena Dravic), which does not prevent her making love to a truck driver (Boris Dvornik) she had known previously....
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MAN OF IRON (CZLOWIEK Z ZELAZA)
Andrzej Wajda's Man of Iron is more than a film-it's an event, qualified to rank as the best 'Film of the Year" by virtue of its theme and the sheer documentation of a news story that made headlines the world...
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BECK
Beck is the intriguing Dutch adaptation of "The Locked Room", a crime mystery by Sweden's acclaimed writing team Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. featuring their series· detective Martin Beck (Jan Decleir). who was also featured in the American film The...
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THE BIRCH WOOD (BRZEZINA)
In The Birch wood Wajda frees his characters from the weight of historical and social determinism and confronts them with their own individual destinies. The story is misleadingly simple, but deals with basic human emotio.n s and anxieties; it is...
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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALLEN GINSBERG
This unique and thought-provoking documentary explores the essence of the visionary poet, pacifist, teacher, writer and activist Allen Ginsberg. Director Aronson fashions his biography in clear chronological order, each decade serving as a chapter in Ginsberg's life. His dynamic era...
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KANAL
Kanal is the central film in Wajda's Resistance trilogy, receiving the 1957 Cannes Special Jury Prize. Wajda's stark depiction of a tragic moment in Polish history, the film is set inlate September, 1944, just after the Warsaw Uprising mounted in...
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LAUREL AVENUE
AFI Graduate Carl Franklin has been acknowledged as one of the hottest filmmakers in America since the international acclaim he received last year for his superb thriller One False Move, which appeared on many top-ten-of-the-year lists. His latest project, the...
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INTO THE WEST
The appeal of legends which invent worlds existing beyond our own mundane realm is universal. Directed by Mike Newell of Enchanted April, and written by Jim Sheridan, who put Ireland on the cinema map with his Oscar-winning My Left Foot,...
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JAMES ELLROY
Crime writer James Ellroy has become one of the major literary voices of Los Angeles in recent years. Austrian filmmaker Reinhard Jud follows the author of "the best crime thrillers in the world" through his native LA, exploring the cityscape...
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AS YOU LIKE IT
Shakespeare's spoof of pastoral dramas. As You Like It, has been updated with contemporary social edge by director Christine Edzard (Little DorritO Raising the same ironic laughter. Rosalind's outrageous love story now invites comparison to the contemporary taste for "alternative...
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THE INLAND SEA
Based on the renowned Donald Richie book of the same name. Lucille Carra's The Inland Sea is a wonderfully vivid recreation of Richie's journey thirty years ago through the Inland Sea region of Japan. where he was intent on experiencing...
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INNOCENCE UNPROTECTED (NEVINOST BEZ ZASTITE)
The Sunday Telegraph called lnnlicence Unprotected "a hilarious piece of cinematic collage that manages to be an affectionate spoofing of old movies, political history of Yugoslavia and satirical comment on the country's new muscleman and escapologist, President Tito." "In 1942,...
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HOUSE OF CARDS
First time feature director/writer Michael Lessee's House of Cards is a hauntwho cinema11g, visually striking new drama about the mysterious world of a child's imagination, which in his words explores "the conflict between two ways of seeing what none of...
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GORILLA BATHES AT NOON
For his first film in five years, Dusan Makavejev returns to the themes that made him famous in the 60's and early 70's. Gorilla Bathes at Noon is immensely likable and could well restore Makavejev to prominence. Set in Berlin,...
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A FOREIGN FIELD
AFI Fest is honored to pay tribute to one of the greatest stars of British cinema, Sir Alec Guinness. His featured role in A Foreign Field, presented in this special gala, was written expressly for him by screen writer Roy...
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FAHRENHEIT 451
Based on the Bradbury book of the same name, Fahrenheit 451 was memorably translated to screen by French auteur Francois Truffaut. "Fahrenheit 451 is less science fiction than a tale of 'once upon a time'. Truffaut presents a cozy world...
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FAR AWAY FROM ST. PETERSBURG
In Latvian director Alexander Hahn's man-with-no-country comedy, writer lwan Rabczynski, born in St. Petersburg, Florida, writes cheap novels with the Russian touch under the pen-name "J.F Romanoff." His recent. unpublished novel, a supposedly autobiographical tragedy, is liberally sprinkled with words...
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THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
One of Ray Bradbury's favorites (he claims to have seen it at least two dozen times) The Adventures of Robin Hood is a true classic of the swashbuckling genre and one of the great "fun" movies of all time. In...
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THE CRYING GAME
The biggest arthouse hit in history, The Crying Game doubled the earnings of Miramax's sex, lies and videotape, which previously held the record. It also received three Oscar nominations, and was awarded an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. "An astonishingly...
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THE DAY OF DESPAIR (O DIA DO DESESPERO)
The 1992 AFI Fest tribute to Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira was a revelation for Los Angeles. His latest film is another major work, saluting Portugal's greatest novelist. "Characterized as a blend of JeanMarie Straub and Max Ophuls, Manoel de...
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EL CID
The 1993 AFI International Film Festival is proud to open its seventh year with the U.S. premiere of the newly restored and lengthened El Cid, the 1961 epic drama masterpiece from director Anthony Mann, starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren....
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CINEMA PARADISO
Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film of 1989 as well as the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes, Cinema Paradiso is one of the most delightful films ever made about the joys of the movies. Cinema Paradiso is the...
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CHANTILLY LACE
The AFI Los Angeles Film Festival is proud to close its 1993 event with Linda Yellen's extraordinary Showtime film, Chantilly Lace. the style of John Cassevetes, Yellen has created an ensemble drama around seven fine actresses improvised upon a forty-page...
Read More..
THE BIRCH WOOD (BRZEZINA)
In The Birch wood Wajda frees his characters from the weight of historical and social determinism and confronts them with their own individual destinies. The story is misleadingly simple, but deals with basic human emotio.n s and anxieties; it is...
Read More..
THE BLACK PIRATE
Ray Douglas Bradbury gained his middle name from his mother, who adored the silent star Douglas Fairbanks; The Black Pirate remains among his favorite films. "Alongside Keaton and Gene Kelly, Fairbanks was perhaps the most graceful athletic mover in the...
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BECK
Beck is the intriguing Dutch adaptation of "The Locked Room", a crime mystery by Sweden's acclaimed writing team Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. featuring their series· detective Martin Beck (Jan Decleir). who was also featured in the American film The...
Read More..
AS YOU LIKE IT
Shakespeare's spoof of pastoral dramas. As You Like It, has been updated with contemporary social edge by director Christine Edzard (Little DorritO Raising the same ironic laughter. Rosalind's outrageous love story now invites comparison to the contemporary taste for "alternative...
Read More..
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
One of Ray Bradbury's favorites (he claims to have seen it at least two dozen times) The Adventures of Robin Hood is a true classic of the swashbuckling genre and one of the great "fun" movies of all time. In...
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YOL
T he first film represented in the U.S. by Tom Garvin and one of the great films of our time, Yo/was the masterpiece of Turkish director Yilmaz Guney and Grand Prize winner at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. Guney was...
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WILD WHEELS
Director Harrod, Blank drove his wildly decorated VW Bug across the country to make this delightful documentary about car art. including everyone from writer/Merry Prankster Ken Kesey and his converted school bus to a Louisiana fried chicken dealer's giant "Chicken...
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WHEN THE PARTY’S OVER
An insightful, Lawrence Kasdan-ish tale of transition centering on the L.A. household of three twentysomething roommates. MJ, a charismatic, manipulative yuppie, burns hard on the fast track, and her rhythms are a bit overcranked compared with her roommates: a social...
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A WAR OF CHILDREN
In this engrossing story of life in a strife-torn society, two middle-class Belfast families-one Protestant, one Catholic-find themselves engulfed in tl11; surrounding violence. Their years of friendship are turned to bitter hatred, with complications of painful consequence in the lives...
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WADECK’S MOTHER’S FRIEND’S SON
Arnold Barkus' imaginatively crafted, offbeat tale of three young immigrants Anton, a naive Polish sailor, arrives in New York and wreaks havoc in the lives of Wadeck and his French roommate Barbara. Much of the story focuses on Barbara as...
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THE VISITOR
Four shorts from a special collection showcasing original works from new Quebec screenwriters. In The Visitor, a terrified woman spends the night in her closet listening to an intruder whose uncanny behavior indicates that he belongs there. When a baby...
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THE USUAL
An impressive first feature from Eric Tretbar, this quietly observant, gentle film announces a promising new US independent filmmaker. Claire, a Minnesota farm girl who moves to the big city, has a fling with New Yorker Aldo, and waits tables...
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TWO MEN IN L.A.
Four wildly different comedies from emerging filmmakers. The Bruce Diet is Jeff Baron's comedy/horror film about the "perfect diet" in which you can eat as much as you like and lose weight forever - all for only $75. In John...
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UNBECOMING AGE
Tom Garvin represents this delightful new US independent film starring Diane Salinger, Wallace Shawn and Colleen Camp It tells the fairy tale-like story of a 40-year-old woman who suddenly finds that she no longer knows what age she is and...
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TROUBLED PARADISE
Troubled Paradise takes us to a Hawaii that few tourists will ever see. This beautifully filmed documentary sensitively examines the social and political problems lacing Hawaii's indigenous population through interviews with an incredibly diverse cross-section of the island's inhabitants. At...
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TO LIV(E)
Actress Liv Ullman's 1900 visit to Hong Kong, in which she condemned the deportation of 51 Vietnamese refugees from the colony, has inspired this first feature film by critic/author Evans Chan. The film is structured around a series of imaginary...
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THROUGH AN OPEN WINDOW
Paul Warner's In the Name of The Father tells of the relationship between a war-weary medieval knight and the young boy he takes captive The lusciously filmed Rosemary is Dan Halperin's homage to the Edward Hopper painting "Nighthawks" in this...
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THEY HAVE WALKED ON THE MOON
Four shorts from a special collection showcasing original works from new Quebec screenwriters. In The Visitor, a terrified woman spends the night in her closet listening to an intruder whose uncanny behavior indicates that he belongs there. When a baby...
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TAMPOPO
Juzo ltami, with Tom Garvin's help, has become the most popular Japanese director in America since Kurosawa. ltami's first two films, The Funeral and Tampopo, had their Los Angeles premieres at the first AFI Fest in 1987. Tampopo is probably...
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STREET WARS
Acclaimed director Jamaa Fanaka puts a new, fanciful twist in the gangster genre with Street Wars. Seventeen-year-old Sugarpop graduates from an exclusive military academy as "top gun" of a class trained in ultra-light aircraft. Celebrating his acceptance to West Point...
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SPOTSWOOD
SPOTSWOOD
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SOLITAIRE
Francis Damberger has combined lost hopes, shattered dreams and colorful characters to create an intimate, touching dramatic comedy. The film focuses on the reunion of three childhood friends at a remote, ramshackle cafe in a small town. Burt is the...
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SOCIAL SUICIDE
Social Suicide is an offbeat satirical comedy that takes a humorous look at the California debutante scene and the rituals surrounding "coming of age" in high society. Debutante Kim decides to take handsome Latino Tom Garcia tci the ball instead...
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SHOOT TO KILL (DISPAREN A MATAR)
Documentary filmmaker Carlos Azpurua directed this ambitious suspense thriller which current political events in Venezuela make particularly relevant. As the police sweep a poor neighborhood in an attempt to lower crime, things get out of hand and an innocent man...
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SHOOT FOR THE CONTENTS
Trinh T Minh-ha's Shoot for the Contents, whose title plays on the meanings of an ancient Chinese guessing game, is an excursion into the maze of allegorical storytelling in China. Weaving points of view of both insiders and outsiders from...
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SHANGHAI JIAQIMY AMERICAN GRANDSON (SHANGHAI JIAQI)
Director Ann Hui brings her well-defined characters to life through intimate, sensitive observations of their personal rituals, eccentricities, hopes and fears. In My American Grandson, she lovingly portrays Ku, a slightly eccentric widower who leads a quiet life in Shanghai....
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SAO PAULO, SP
The city Sao Paulo SP teams with life and energy, defying a Western logic which forecast its demise decades ago. As the subject of this kaleidoscopic documentary, the city reveals its special character through the voices of its various inhabitants....
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SAN JUAN STORY – THE BELL
San Juan Story is a delightful tale of a rum taster who unexpectedly loses his greatest talent. In The Bell, a family falls victim to a curse cast by the slaves of their plantation. Shown with Distant Water, the story...
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ROSEMARY
Paul Warner's In the Name of The Father tells of the relationship between a war-weary medieval knight and the young boy he takes captive The lusciously filmed Rosemary is Dan Halperin's homage to the Edward Hopper painting "Nighthawks" in this...
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ROE VS. WADE
This 1989 production is the superb telling of the true story of Norma Mccorvey (Jane Roe), an unwed mother whose landmark case before the U S. Supreme Court led to the legalization of abortion in 1973. A powerful and subtle...
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RETURN TRIPS
Return Trips is an impassioned documentary which should appeal to anyone attempting to rediscover their cultural heritage. By tracing American Jewish emigration and assimilation through rarely-seen archival photographs and newsreel footage (placing emphasis on their own family histories), filmmakers Rosenbush...
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REFUGEES
Refugees is a powerful portrait of Salvadoran refugees in the U.S., most of whom are ordinary working class people forced to flee their country. Natives, an unusual documentary with an eye toward the absurd, shows another view of this human...
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THE REFRIGERATOR
Nicholas Jacob's feature debut is a wacky, highly enter- taining throwback to the Teenage Monster Movies of the 50s and 60s. An innocent young couple move into an apartment in New York which harbors an unruly household appliance: a 1963...
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RAMPAGE
This terrifying thriller from Academy-Award winning director William Fried kin begins as a smiling, handsome young man calm- ly enters a suburban house, pulls down the shades, and proceeds to brutally murder an entire family with shocking efficiency. Based on...
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QUEST FOR LOVE
An intelligent and compassionate film tracing the political and sexual confusion of a woman living on a post-independent island in South Africa. Alex is a willful political activist struggling to rebuild a school in Manzania, and coming to terms with...
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THE PLAGUE SOWER (DICERIA DELL’UNTORE)
An al I-star cast headed by Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave and Fernando Rey star in this engrossing Kafka-esque Italian fable about the inhabitants of a sanitarium in the period just after World War II. The story, based on Gesualdo Bufali?o's...
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PUAMANA
Three new short films by documentary master Les Blank explore themes of culture, home and family in three different areas of the United States. Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge is an enchanting collection of an 80-year-old Applachian...
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PAINTING THE TOWN
This witty and engrossing documentary reveals Richard Osterweii's fascinating double life for the past eighteen years this New York painter has been crashing thousand dollar-aplate dinners, celebrity funerals, and hi Qi'! society parties while driving a cab during the day,...
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OVER THE OCEAN (MEEVER LA YAM)
Set in Tel-Aviv in 1962, this film tells the story of Eastern European holocaust survivors Rosa and Menachem Goldfarb who emigrated to Israel after the war. The Goldfarbs are experiencing a common dilemma: the troubled daily existence in the young...
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NORHA AND THE MICROBABE
Four wildly different comedies from emerging filmmakers. The Bruce Diet is Jeff Baron's comedy/horror film about the "perfect diet" in which you can eat as much as you like and lose weight forever - all for only $75. In John...
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NOH MASK MURDERS
Renowned Japanese director Kon Ichikawa brings us an entertaining whodunit which cunningly mixes contemporary and traditional Japanese concerns. The film's complicated plot centers around two strange murders which occur hundreds of miles apart, but the connection between them leads us...
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NO REPLY
Florida filmmaker Kenneth Brian Jones brings us The Clearing in which a boy becomes entranced by a traveling storyteller seeking an heir to his legacy In Daresha Kyi's Land Where My Fathers Died, a young couple find a common bond...
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THE NEON CEILING
Lee Grant won an Emmy for her convincing performance as a runaway wife, fleeing middle-class boredom with her teenage daughter, who finds herself in a truck-stop diner in the California desert. Gig Young plays the gruff, reclusive proprietor of the...
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NATIVES
Refugees is a powerful portrait of Salvadoran refugees in the U.S., most of whom are ordinary working class people forced to flee their country. Natives, an unusual documentary with an eye toward the absurd, shows another view of this human...
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MY SONS (MUSUKO)
Director Yoji Yamada, best known for his wildly popular Tora-san series, has crafted an insightful portrait of the complex relations between a father and his children. A widower, Akio, is lonely and resentful that his children moved from their small-town...
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MY GRANDPA IS A VAMPIRE
Moonrise tells the humorous and often suspenseful story of Lonny, a young boy who has an unusual summer vacation in New Zealand. Lonny stays with his grandfather (played by Al Lewis, best known for his role as Grandpa Munster on...
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MOTORAMA
Destined to be a cult classic, Motorama is unquestionably one of the weirdest road movies ever made. Ten-year-old Gus des- perately wants to win a gas station contest called Motorama (col- lect all the letters and win 500 million dollars)...
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MOISE
Four shorts from a special collection showcasing original works from new Quebec screenwriters. In The Visitor, a terrified woman spends the night in her closet listening to an intruder whose uncanny behavior indicates that he belongs there. When a baby...
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MOONDANCE
Two couples with contrasting personalities meet for a turbu- lent weekend reunion at a secluded mountain cabin. Bitter, uptight Eric is troubled by a bad relationship with his father, financial problems and the overbearing concern of ti'is wife Amy. When...
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MISSING PARENTS
The festival once again presents new works from the Discovery Program, a project for emerging filmmakers. All films are productions of Chanticleer Films. A secret long-distance love affair forces a small town waitress to re-evaluate her life and marriage in...
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MARC AND ANN
Three new short films by documentary master Les Blank explore themes of culture, home and family in three different areas of the United States. Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge is an enchanting collection of an 80-year-old Applachian...
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LOVE IS LIKE THAT
First-time director Jill Goldman tells this classic love story with warmth and subtlety, in a refreshingly unpretentious style. Lenny and Eloise have many reasons to be cynical about love: she leads a life of overwork and meaningless affairs; he has...
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LOSER
This New York comedy turns the yuppie nightmare genre on its head by taking a lunkheaded no-hoper and dropping him into Manhattan glitzery. Hank is at the bottom of the heap - out of work, money and love. Then he...
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THE LONG WINTER (EL LARGO INVIERNO)
A moving tribute to Catalans opposing the fascists just before the 1939 fall of Barcelona. Director/co-writer Camino recreates with sweeping touches the intrigues, violence, and misery of that winter, threading into the historical upheaval a love story between an idealistic...
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THE LIVING END
Black humor doesn't get much darker than The Living End, a road movie about two HIV-positive young men, Jon and Luke, who manage to turn potential tragedy into a desperate, uproarious celebration of their new-found nihilistic freedom. Like Thelma and...
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YOL
T he first film represented in the U.S. by Tom Garvin and one of the great films of our time, Yo/was the masterpiece of Turkish director Yilmaz Guney and Grand Prize winner at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. Guney was...
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LISTEN CAREFULLY
Paul Warner's In the Name of The Father tells of the relationship between a war-weary medieval knight and the young boy he takes captive The lusciously filmed Rosemary is Dan Halperin's homage to the Edward Hopper painting "Nighthawks" in this...
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WHEN THE PARTY’S OVER
An insightful, Lawrence Kasdan-ish tale of transition centering on the L.A. household of three twentysomething roommates. MJ, a charismatic, manipulative yuppie, burns hard on the fast track, and her rhythms are a bit overcranked compared with her roommates: a social...
Read More..
WILD WHEELS
Director Harrod, Blank drove his wildly decorated VW Bug across the country to make this delightful documentary about car art. including everyone from writer/Merry Prankster Ken Kesey and his converted school bus to a Louisiana fried chicken dealer's giant "Chicken...
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THE LETTERS FROM MOAB
The festival once again presents new works from the Discovery Program, a project for emerging filmmakers. All films are productions of Chanticleer Films. A secret long-distance love affair forces a small town waitress to re-evaluate her life and marriage in...
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WADECK’S MOTHER’S FRIEND’S SON
Arnold Barkus' imaginatively crafted, offbeat tale of three young immigrants Anton, a naive Polish sailor, arrives in New York and wreaks havoc in the lives of Wadeck and his French roommate Barbara. Much of the story focuses on Barbara as...
Read More..
A WAR OF CHILDREN
In this engrossing story of life in a strife-torn society, two middle-class Belfast families-one Protestant, one Catholic-find themselves engulfed in tl11; surrounding violence. Their years of friendship are turned to bitter hatred, with complications of painful consequence in the lives...
Read More..
LEA
Four shorts from a special collection showcasing original works from new Quebec screenwriters. In The Visitor, a terrified woman spends the night in her closet listening to an intruder whose uncanny behavior indicates that he belongs there. When a baby...
Read More..
THE VISITOR
Four shorts from a special collection showcasing original works from new Quebec screenwriters. In The Visitor, a terrified woman spends the night in her closet listening to an intruder whose uncanny behavior indicates that he belongs there. When a baby...
Read More..
THE USUAL
An impressive first feature from Eric Tretbar, this quietly observant, gentle film announces a promising new US independent filmmaker. Claire, a Minnesota farm girl who moves to the big city, has a fling with New Yorker Aldo, and waits tables...
Read More..
TWO MEN IN L.A.
Four wildly different comedies from emerging filmmakers. The Bruce Diet is Jeff Baron's comedy/horror film about the "perfect diet" in which you can eat as much as you like and lose weight forever - all for only $75. In John...
Read More..
UNBECOMING AGE
Tom Garvin represents this delightful new US independent film starring Diane Salinger, Wallace Shawn and Colleen Camp It tells the fairy tale-like story of a 40-year-old woman who suddenly finds that she no longer knows what age she is and...
Read More..
LAND WHERE MY FATHERS DIED
Florida filmmaker Kenneth Brian Jones brings us The Clearing in which a boy becomes entranced by a traveling storyteller seeking an heir to his legacy In Daresha Kyi's Land Where My Fathers Died, a young couple find a common bond...
Read More..
TO LIV(E)
Actress Liv Ullman's 1900 visit to Hong Kong, in which she condemned the deportation of 51 Vietnamese refugees from the colony, has inspired this first feature film by critic/author Evans Chan. The film is structured around a series of imaginary...
Read More..
TROUBLED PARADISE
Troubled Paradise takes us to a Hawaii that few tourists will ever see. This beautifully filmed documentary sensitively examines the social and political problems lacing Hawaii's indigenous population through interviews with an incredibly diverse cross-section of the island's inhabitants. At...
Read More..
THROUGH AN OPEN WINDOW
Paul Warner's In the Name of The Father tells of the relationship between a war-weary medieval knight and the young boy he takes captive The lusciously filmed Rosemary is Dan Halperin's homage to the Edward Hopper painting "Nighthawks" in this...
Read More..
THEY HAVE WALKED ON THE MOON
Four shorts from a special collection showcasing original works from new Quebec screenwriters. In The Visitor, a terrified woman spends the night in her closet listening to an intruder whose uncanny behavior indicates that he belongs there. When a baby...
Read More..
TAMPOPO
Juzo ltami, with Tom Garvin's help, has become the most popular Japanese director in America since Kurosawa. ltami's first two films, The Funeral and Tampopo, had their Los Angeles premieres at the first AFI Fest in 1987. Tampopo is probably...
Read More..
JULIE: OLD TIME TALES OF THE BLUE RIDGE
Three new short films by documentary master Les Blank explore themes of culture, home and family in three different areas of the United States. Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge is an enchanting collection of an 80-year-old Applachian...
Read More..
STREET WARS
Acclaimed director Jamaa Fanaka puts a new, fanciful twist in the gangster genre with Street Wars. Seventeen-year-old Sugarpop graduates from an exclusive military academy as "top gun" of a class trained in ultra-light aircraft. Celebrating his acceptance to West Point...
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JOHNNY SUEDE
A gently ironic fantasy about a dreamy young man who adopts the name Johnny Suede and sets out to be a pop star, using Ricky Nelson as his model. Sporting a pompadour and flashy costumes, he is innocence incarnate, viewing...
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SPOTSWOOD
SPOTSWOOD
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SOLITAIRE
Francis Damberger has combined lost hopes, shattered dreams and colorful characters to create an intimate, touching dramatic comedy. The film focuses on the reunion of three childhood friends at a remote, ramshackle cafe in a small town. Burt is the...
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JERICO
This majestic revisionist portrayal of the Spanish conquest of the New World has a pro-Indian stance reminiscent of Dances With Wolves and Black Robe. The story chronicles the experiences of Friar Santiago, a missionary who accompanies Spanish conquistadors to South...
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SHOOT TO KILL (DISPAREN A MATAR)
Documentary filmmaker Carlos Azpurua directed this ambitious suspense thriller which current political events in Venezuela make particularly relevant. As the police sweep a poor neighborhood in an attempt to lower crime, things get out of hand and an innocent man...
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SOCIAL SUICIDE
Social Suicide is an offbeat satirical comedy that takes a humorous look at the California debutante scene and the rituals surrounding "coming of age" in high society. Debutante Kim decides to take handsome Latino Tom Garcia tci the ball instead...
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SHANGHAI JIAQIMY AMERICAN GRANDSON (SHANGHAI JIAQI)
Director Ann Hui brings her well-defined characters to life through intimate, sensitive observations of their personal rituals, eccentricities, hopes and fears. In My American Grandson, she lovingly portrays Ku, a slightly eccentric widower who leads a quiet life in Shanghai....
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SHOOT FOR THE CONTENTS
Trinh T Minh-ha's Shoot for the Contents, whose title plays on the meanings of an ancient Chinese guessing game, is an excursion into the maze of allegorical storytelling in China. Weaving points of view of both insiders and outsiders from...
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INNOCENTS ABROAD
In this humorous look at a busload of American tourists traveling through Europe, the archetypal images of ugly Americans in Bermuda shorts don't hold up. Les Blank's intimate camera work and disarming interviews provide a delightful portrait of this diverse...
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IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER
Paul Warner's In the Name of The Father tells of the relationship between a war-weary medieval knight and the young boy he takes captive The lusciously filmed Rosemary is Dan Halperin's homage to the Edward Hopper painting "Nighthawks" in this...
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SAN JUAN STORY – THE BELL
San Juan Story is a delightful tale of a rum taster who unexpectedly loses his greatest talent. In The Bell, a family falls victim to a curse cast by the slaves of their plantation. Shown with Distant Water, the story...
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SAO PAULO, SP
The city Sao Paulo SP teams with life and energy, defying a Western logic which forecast its demise decades ago. As the subject of this kaleidoscopic documentary, the city reveals its special character through the voices of its various inhabitants....
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IN SEARCH OF OUR FATHERS
This remarkably candid documentary traces director/writer Marco Williams's search over the course of nearly seven years for the father he never knew. Slowly, painfully, after traveling to Paris and to numerous cities in America, Marco Williams ends his search in...
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ROE VS. WADE
This 1989 production is the superb telling of the true story of Norma Mccorvey (Jane Roe), an unwed mother whose landmark case before the U S. Supreme Court led to the legalization of abortion in 1973. A powerful and subtle...
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ROSEMARY
Paul Warner's In the Name of The Father tells of the relationship between a war-weary medieval knight and the young boy he takes captive The lusciously filmed Rosemary is Dan Halperin's homage to the Edward Hopper painting "Nighthawks" in this...
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RETURN TRIPS
Return Trips is an impassioned documentary which should appeal to anyone attempting to rediscover their cultural heritage. By tracing American Jewish emigration and assimilation through rarely-seen archival photographs and newsreel footage (placing emphasis on their own family histories), filmmakers Rosenbush...
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THE REFRIGERATOR
Nicholas Jacob's feature debut is a wacky, highly enter- taining throwback to the Teenage Monster Movies of the 50s and 60s. An innocent young couple move into an apartment in New York which harbors an unruly household appliance: a 1963...
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REFUGEES
Refugees is a powerful portrait of Salvadoran refugees in the U.S., most of whom are ordinary working class people forced to flee their country. Natives, an unusual documentary with an eye toward the absurd, shows another view of this human...
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HELLO, HEMINGWAY
Hello Hemingway is a thoughtful, lovely little film about a bright young neighbor of Ernest Hemingway's in pre-revolutionary Cuba who finds a metaphor for her own life in "The Old Man and the Sea." Larita is shocked because - after...
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PUAMANA
Three new short films by documentary master Les Blank explore themes of culture, home and family in three different areas of the United States. Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge is an enchanting collection of an 80-year-old Applachian...
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QUEST FOR LOVE
An intelligent and compassionate film tracing the political and sexual confusion of a woman living on a post-independent island in South Africa. Alex is a willful political activist struggling to rebuild a school in Manzania, and coming to terms with...
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RAMPAGE
This terrifying thriller from Academy-Award winning director William Fried kin begins as a smiling, handsome young man calm- ly enters a suburban house, pulls down the shades, and proceeds to brutally murder an entire family with shocking efficiency. Based on...
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THE PLAGUE SOWER (DICERIA DELL’UNTORE)
An al I-star cast headed by Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave and Fernando Rey star in this engrossing Kafka-esque Italian fable about the inhabitants of a sanitarium in the period just after World War II. The story, based on Gesualdo Bufali?o's...
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OVER THE OCEAN (MEEVER LA YAM)
Set in Tel-Aviv in 1962, this film tells the story of Eastern European holocaust survivors Rosa and Menachem Goldfarb who emigrated to Israel after the war. The Goldfarbs are experiencing a common dilemma: the troubled daily existence in the young...
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PAINTING THE TOWN
This witty and engrossing documentary reveals Richard Osterweii's fascinating double life for the past eighteen years this New York painter has been crashing thousand dollar-aplate dinners, celebrity funerals, and hi Qi'! society parties while driving a cab during the day,...
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NORHA AND THE MICROBABE
Four wildly different comedies from emerging filmmakers. The Bruce Diet is Jeff Baron's comedy/horror film about the "perfect diet" in which you can eat as much as you like and lose weight forever - all for only $75. In John...
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THE GREAT KIDNAPPING (DAIYUKAI)
Kihachi Okamoto has constructed an uproariously funny, inventive and charming comedy that effortlessly transcends language barriers. The Great Kidnapping tell? the story of a wealthy family matriarch who helps three ex-cons'pull off a kidnapping with herself as the victim. The...
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NO REPLY
Florida filmmaker Kenneth Brian Jones brings us The Clearing in which a boy becomes entranced by a traveling storyteller seeking an heir to his legacy In Daresha Kyi's Land Where My Fathers Died, a young couple find a common bond...
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NOH MASK MURDERS
Renowned Japanese director Kon Ichikawa brings us an entertaining whodunit which cunningly mixes contemporary and traditional Japanese concerns. The film's complicated plot centers around two strange murders which occur hundreds of miles apart, but the connection between them leads us...
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NATIVES
Refugees is a powerful portrait of Salvadoran refugees in the U.S., most of whom are ordinary working class people forced to flee their country. Natives, an unusual documentary with an eye toward the absurd, shows another view of this human...
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THE NEON CEILING
Lee Grant won an Emmy for her convincing performance as a runaway wife, fleeing middle-class boredom with her teenage daughter, who finds herself in a truck-stop diner in the California desert. Gig Young plays the gruff, reclusive proprietor of the...
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THE GOOD FASCIST
The explosive subject matter of director Helena Nogueira's latest offering is certain to shock and disturb audiences, as her films have in the past. The Good Fascist deals with the repercussions of the 1974 civil war in Mozambique, following the...
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MY GRANDPA IS A VAMPIRE
Moonrise tells the humorous and often suspenseful story of Lonny, a young boy who has an unusual summer vacation in New Zealand. Lonny stays with his grandfather (played by Al Lewis, best known for his role as Grandpa Munster on...
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MY SONS (MUSUKO)
Director Yoji Yamada, best known for his wildly popular Tora-san series, has crafted an insightful portrait of the complex relations between a father and his children. A widower, Akio, is lonely and resentful that his children moved from their small-town...
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THE GIVING
In present-day Los Ange,les, a bank executive decides to take ? drastic measures to help the homeless, though its contrary to his personality. As he steps from his BMW into L.A.'s Skid Row, he confronts a remarkable community of homeless...
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MOISE
Four shorts from a special collection showcasing original works from new Quebec screenwriters. In The Visitor, a terrified woman spends the night in her closet listening to an intruder whose uncanny behavior indicates that he belongs there. When a baby...
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MOONDANCE
Two couples with contrasting personalities meet for a turbu- lent weekend reunion at a secluded mountain cabin. Bitter, uptight Eric is troubled by a bad relationship with his father, financial problems and the overbearing concern of ti'is wife Amy. When...
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MOTORAMA
Destined to be a cult classic, Motorama is unquestionably one of the weirdest road movies ever made. Ten-year-old Gus des- perately wants to win a gas station contest called Motorama (col- lect all the letters and win 500 million dollars)...
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THE FRONTIER (LA FRONTERA)
The wild, inspiring beauty of Southern Chile and the untamed spirits of those who live there get equal attention in first-time director Ricardo Larrain's successful and engaging film, awarded a Silver Bear at the 1992 Berlin Film Festival and heralded...
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MISSING PARENTS
The festival once again presents new works from the Discovery Program, a project for emerging filmmakers. All films are productions of Chanticleer Films. A secret long-distance love affair forces a small town waitress to re-evaluate her life and marriage in...
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MARC AND ANN
Three new short films by documentary master Les Blank explore themes of culture, home and family in three different areas of the United States. Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge is an enchanting collection of an 80-year-old Applachian...
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LOSER
This New York comedy turns the yuppie nightmare genre on its head by taking a lunkheaded no-hoper and dropping him into Manhattan glitzery. Hank is at the bottom of the heap - out of work, money and love. Then he...
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LOVE IS LIKE THAT
First-time director Jill Goldman tells this classic love story with warmth and subtlety, in a refreshingly unpretentious style. Lenny and Eloise have many reasons to be cynical about love: she leads a life of overwork and meaningless affairs; he has...
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THE LIVING END
Black humor doesn't get much darker than The Living End, a road movie about two HIV-positive young men, Jon and Luke, who manage to turn potential tragedy into a desperate, uproarious celebration of their new-found nihilistic freedom. Like Thelma and...
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THE LONG WINTER (EL LARGO INVIERNO)
A moving tribute to Catalans opposing the fascists just before the 1939 fall of Barcelona. Director/co-writer Camino recreates with sweeping touches the intrigues, violence, and misery of that winter, threading into the historical upheaval a love story between an idealistic...
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THE LETTERS FROM MOAB
The festival once again presents new works from the Discovery Program, a project for emerging filmmakers. All films are productions of Chanticleer Films. A secret long-distance love affair forces a small town waitress to re-evaluate her life and marriage in...
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LISTEN CAREFULLY
Paul Warner's In the Name of The Father tells of the relationship between a war-weary medieval knight and the young boy he takes captive The lusciously filmed Rosemary is Dan Halperin's homage to the Edward Hopper painting "Nighthawks" in this...
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LEA
Four shorts from a special collection showcasing original works from new Quebec screenwriters. In The Visitor, a terrified woman spends the night in her closet listening to an intruder whose uncanny behavior indicates that he belongs there. When a baby...
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THE FIFTEENTH PHASE OF THE MOON
The festival once again presents new works from the Discovery Program, a project for emerging filmmakers. All films are productions of Chanticleer Films. A secret long-distance love affair forces a small town waitress to re-evaluate her life and marriage in...
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FIT: EPISODES IN THE HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BODY
Actress Linda Hunt narrates this outstanding and vivid chronicle of America's attitude towards physical fitness from the 1890s to the 1960s. The material is thought-provoking, the writing is sharp, and the wealth of archival footage used to illustrate the essay...
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LAND WHERE MY FATHERS DIED
Florida filmmaker Kenneth Brian Jones brings us The Clearing in which a boy becomes entranced by a traveling storyteller seeking an heir to his legacy In Daresha Kyi's Land Where My Fathers Died, a young couple find a common bond...
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FAMILY PORTRAIT (RETRATO DE FAMILIA)
Director/writer Luis Galvao Teles skillfully tells this disturbing tale of dark obsession between a father and daughter. A photographer kidnaps his own daughter, Ophelia, in a desperate attempt to win back her mother, who deserted him after a wild love...
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JULIE: OLD TIME TALES OF THE BLUE RIDGE
Three new short films by documentary master Les Blank explore themes of culture, home and family in three different areas of the United States. Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge is an enchanting collection of an 80-year-old Applachian...
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JOHNNY SUEDE
A gently ironic fantasy about a dreamy young man who adopts the name Johnny Suede and sets out to be a pop star, using Ricky Nelson as his model. Sporting a pompadour and flashy costumes, he is innocence incarnate, viewing...
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JERICO
This majestic revisionist portrayal of the Spanish conquest of the New World has a pro-Indian stance reminiscent of Dances With Wolves and Black Robe. The story chronicles the experiences of Friar Santiago, a missionary who accompanies Spanish conquistadors to South...
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INNOCENTS ABROAD
In this humorous look at a busload of American tourists traveling through Europe, the archetypal images of ugly Americans in Bermuda shorts don't hold up. Les Blank's intimate camera work and disarming interviews provide a delightful portrait of this diverse...
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IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER
Paul Warner's In the Name of The Father tells of the relationship between a war-weary medieval knight and the young boy he takes captive The lusciously filmed Rosemary is Dan Halperin's homage to the Edward Hopper painting "Nighthawks" in this...
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IN SEARCH OF OUR FATHERS
This remarkably candid documentary traces director/writer Marco Williams's search over the course of nearly seven years for the father he never knew. Slowly, painfully, after traveling to Paris and to numerous cities in America, Marco Williams ends his search in...
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COWS (VACAS)
In this surreal Spanish melodrama, director Julio Medem contrasts beautifully photographed images of the lush Basque countryside with haunting visions of violence and madness. The film opens during a war as two friends fight together: ultimately one is kill.ed and...
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HELLO, HEMINGWAY
Hello Hemingway is a thoughtful, lovely little film about a bright young neighbor of Ernest Hemingway's in pre-revolutionary Cuba who finds a metaphor for her own life in "The Old Man and the Sea." Larita is shocked because - after...
Read More..
THE CLEARING
Florida filmmaker Kenneth Brian Jones brings us The Clearing in which a boy becomes entranced by a traveling storyteller seeking an heir to his legacy In Daresha Kyi's Land Where My Fathers Died, a young couple find a common bond...
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CLAUDE
A witty, offbeat romantic comedy with a delightful performance by Irene Jacob, who won the best actress award last year at Cannes for her work in The Double Life of Veronique. Claude is a confused young man whose life has...
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THE GREAT KIDNAPPING (DAIYUKAI)
Kihachi Okamoto has constructed an uproariously funny, inventive and charming comedy that effortlessly transcends language barriers. The Great Kidnapping tell? the story of a wealthy family matriarch who helps three ex-cons'pull off a kidnapping with herself as the victim. The...
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CITY OF THE BLIND
Alberto Cortes' remarkable film subtly weaves ten stories set in one Mexico City apartment. Beginning in the 40s and moving into the 90s, the film charts everything from the rise and fall of radical politics to the transition from the...
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CHEB
Chebtells the story of Merwan, a 19-year-old Algerian boy who has lived in France since early childhood. Deported by the French government to Algeria, he finds himself in ?country whose language and customs he doesn't understand. With the help of...
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THE GIVING
In present-day Los Ange,les, a bank executive decides to take ? drastic measures to help the homeless, though its contrary to his personality. As he steps from his BMW into L.A.'s Skid Row, he confronts a remarkable community of homeless...
Read More..
THE GOOD FASCIST
The explosive subject matter of director Helena Nogueira's latest offering is certain to shock and disturb audiences, as her films have in the past. The Good Fascist deals with the repercussions of the 1974 civil war in Mozambique, following the...
Read More..
THE BRUCE DIET
Four wildly different comedies from emerging filmmakers. The Bruce Diet is Jeff Baron's comedy/horror film about the "perfect diet" in which you can eat as much as you like and lose weight forever - all for only $75. In John...
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BULLETS FOR BREAKFAST
Personal/experimental filmmaker Holly Fisher's intriguing film mixes Western author Ryerson Johnson, feminist poet Nancy Nielson, postcards of European paintings and clips from My Darling Clementine on an optical printer to explore the viefont underside of persistent gender barriers. A fascinating...
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THE FRONTIER (LA FRONTERA)
The wild, inspiring beauty of Southern Chile and the untamed spirits of those who live there get equal attention in first-time director Ricardo Larrain's successful and engaging film, awarded a Silver Bear at the 1992 Berlin Film Festival and heralded...
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BROTHER’S KEEPER
Delbert, Bill, Lyman and Roscoe Ward are illiterate bachelor brothers who never ventured beyond their dairy farm in New York state. Their quiet life was shattered when the ailing Bill was found dead and Delbert confessed to suffocating him as...
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A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (GULING JIE SHAONIAN SHA REN SHIJIAN)
Edward Yang's long-awaited fourth feature is a picture of Taiwan in 1960-61, caught between the pull of mainland China and the lure of the U.S., the Utopian land where Elvis Presley sings of a "brighter summer day" It's also a...
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THE FIFTEENTH PHASE OF THE MOON
The festival once again presents new works from the Discovery Program, a project for emerging filmmakers. All films are productions of Chanticleer Films. A secret long-distance love affair forces a small town waitress to re-evaluate her life and marriage in...
Read More..
FIT: EPISODES IN THE HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BODY
Actress Linda Hunt narrates this outstanding and vivid chronicle of America's attitude towards physical fitness from the 1890s to the 1960s. The material is thought-provoking, the writing is sharp, and the wealth of archival footage used to illustrate the essay...
Read More..
FAMILY PORTRAIT (RETRATO DE FAMILIA)
Director/writer Luis Galvao Teles skillfully tells this disturbing tale of dark obsession between a father and daughter. A photographer kidnaps his own daughter, Ophelia, in a desperate attempt to win back her mother, who deserted him after a wild love...
Read More..
BIRCH STREET GYM
The "best" of 1991's I ive-action shorts, the Oscar nominees for short films. Last Breeze of Summer by AFl's own Arik Caspi and David Massey, is a moving and authentic story of school desegregation in 1957 Texas told from the...
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BERDEL
A sensitively told tale of a family tragedy, Berdel is also a bitter polemic against the inhuman practice of bartering women which still takes place in Anatolia today. Omer's obsessive desire for a male child, backed up by custom, blights...
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COWS (VACAS)
In this surreal Spanish melodrama, director Julio Medem contrasts beautifully photographed images of the lush Basque countryside with haunting visions of violence and madness. The film opens during a war as two friends fight together: ultimately one is kill.ed and...
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ANOTHER HOPE (OTRA ESPERANZA)
Another Hope tells the story of a young man who begins working at a power plant near his village, where he learns of many strange disappearances of the factory's workers. Eventually he discovers that the vanishing workers are being subjected...
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AMELIA EARHART
This ambitious movie biography portrays the life of the famed aviatrix, portrayed by Susan Clark (nominated for an Emmy for her performance), including her marriage to noted publisher G.P. Putnam. Earhart's mysterious disappearance over the Pacific remains, to this day,...
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CITY OF THE BLIND
Alberto Cortes' remarkable film subtly weaves ten stories set in one Mexico City apartment. Beginning in the 40s and moving into the 90s, the film charts everything from the rise and fall of radical politics to the transition from the...
Read More..
CLAUDE
A witty, offbeat romantic comedy with a delightful performance by Irene Jacob, who won the best actress award last year at Cannes for her work in The Double Life of Veronique. Claude is a confused young man whose life has...
Read More..
THE CLEARING
Florida filmmaker Kenneth Brian Jones brings us The Clearing in which a boy becomes entranced by a traveling storyteller seeking an heir to his legacy In Daresha Kyi's Land Where My Fathers Died, a young couple find a common bond...
Read More..
ALYCE IN WONDERLAND
Four wildly different comedies from emerging filmmakers. The Bruce Diet is Jeff Baron's comedy/horror film about the "perfect diet" in which you can eat as much as you like and lose weight forever - all for only $75. In John...
Read More..
CHEB
Chebtells the story of Merwan, a 19-year-old Algerian boy who has lived in France since early childhood. Deported by the French government to Algeria, he finds himself in ?country whose language and customs he doesn't understand. With the help of...
Read More..
BULLETS FOR BREAKFAST
Personal/experimental filmmaker Holly Fisher's intriguing film mixes Western author Ryerson Johnson, feminist poet Nancy Nielson, postcards of European paintings and clips from My Darling Clementine on an optical printer to explore the viefont underside of persistent gender barriers. A fascinating...
Read More..
A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (GULING JIE SHAONIAN SHA REN SHIJIAN)
Edward Yang's long-awaited fourth feature is a picture of Taiwan in 1960-61, caught between the pull of mainland China and the lure of the U.S., the Utopian land where Elvis Presley sings of a "brighter summer day" It's also a...
Read More..
BROTHER’S KEEPER
Delbert, Bill, Lyman and Roscoe Ward are illiterate bachelor brothers who never ventured beyond their dairy farm in New York state. Their quiet life was shattered when the ailing Bill was found dead and Delbert confessed to suffocating him as...
Read More..
THE BRUCE DIET
Four wildly different comedies from emerging filmmakers. The Bruce Diet is Jeff Baron's comedy/horror film about the "perfect diet" in which you can eat as much as you like and lose weight forever - all for only $75. In John...
Read More..
AGE ISN’T EVERYTHING
A very funny comedy with edge about a young man whose dreams of being an astronaut are squashed by his ambitious parents who talk him into a Wall Street career. Externally he agrees but internally he rebels - in an...
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THE ADDICT
Refugees is a powerful portrait of Salvadoran refugees in the U.S., most of whom are ordinary working class people forced to flee their country. Natives, an unusual documentary with an eye toward the absurd, shows another view of this human...
Read More..
BERDEL
A sensitively told tale of a family tragedy, Berdel is also a bitter polemic against the inhuman practice of bartering women which still takes place in Anatolia today. Omer's obsessive desire for a male child, backed up by custom, blights...
Read More..
BIRCH STREET GYM
The "best" of 1991's I ive-action shorts, the Oscar nominees for short films. Last Breeze of Summer by AFl's own Arik Caspi and David Massey, is a moving and authentic story of school desegregation in 1957 Texas told from the...
Read More..
ALYCE IN WONDERLAND
Four wildly different comedies from emerging filmmakers. The Bruce Diet is Jeff Baron's comedy/horror film about the "perfect diet" in which you can eat as much as you like and lose weight forever - all for only $75. In John...
Read More..
AMELIA EARHART
This ambitious movie biography portrays the life of the famed aviatrix, portrayed by Susan Clark (nominated for an Emmy for her performance), including her marriage to noted publisher G.P. Putnam. Earhart's mysterious disappearance over the Pacific remains, to this day,...
Read More..
ANOTHER HOPE (OTRA ESPERANZA)
Another Hope tells the story of a young man who begins working at a power plant near his village, where he learns of many strange disappearances of the factory's workers. Eventually he discovers that the vanishing workers are being subjected...
Read More..
THE ADDICT
Refugees is a powerful portrait of Salvadoran refugees in the U.S., most of whom are ordinary working class people forced to flee their country. Natives, an unusual documentary with an eye toward the absurd, shows another view of this human...
Read More..
AGE ISN’T EVERYTHING
A very funny comedy with edge about a young man whose dreams of being an astronaut are squashed by his ambitious parents who talk him into a Wall Street career. Externally he agrees but internally he rebels - in an...
Read More..
ALIAS ‘LA GRINGA’
Director Alberto Durant and renowned cinematographer Mario Garcia Joya have created a riveting adventure thriller in the tradition of Papi/Ion. An escaped convict called La Gringa is sent to an island prison where his life is threatened by an old...
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ALIAS ‘LA GRINGA’
Director Alberto Durant and renowned cinematographer Mario Garcia Joya have created a riveting adventure thriller in the tradition of Papi/Ion. An escaped convict called La Gringa is sent to an island prison where his life is threatened by an old...
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