October 16, 2019
ONE WEEK AND A DAY (SHAVUA VE YOM)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription 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 different ways. Vicky is eager to get back to teaching her elementary school students,...
October 16, 2019
A NIGHT IN TOKORIKI (O NOAPTE ÎN TOKORIKI)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription On Geanina’s 18th birthday, her boyfriend and Alin will give her a most surprising gift. Bios 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 a documentary and several short films, including PERENNIAL PLANTS (2013) and BLACK FRIDAY...
October 16, 2019
NOTES ON BLINDNESS
DescriptionDescription An immersive VR experience based on one man’s sensory and psychological experience of blindness.
October 16, 2019
NOCTURAMA
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription 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 plans have been set in motion, they meet at a department store to wait...
October 16, 2019
THE NET (GEUMUL)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription 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 inadvertently drifts into South Korean waters. He is immediately seized by the South Korean...
October 16, 2019
MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription “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 THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE. Grim yet colorful, the images innovatively represent cartoon violence, but also...
October 16, 2019
NERUDA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription 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 party Pablo Neruda went into hiding to escape arrest. Assisted by party members with...
October 16, 2019
MULE
DescriptionDescription A thrilling, emotional journey through the last moments of a man’s life. Chose your ending – do you want to be buried or cremated?
October 16, 2019
MOTHER (MADRE)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Sixteen-year-old Andrea travels downtown from her poor neighborhood to audition for a porno film. Bios 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 short film LEIDI, the story of a teenage mother looking for the father...
October 16, 2019
MISTER UNIVERSO
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription 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 given to him by 1957 Mister Universe Arthur Robin, aka “Black Hercules” — Tairo...
