September 25, 2025
JIA
DescriptionTrailerDescription Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1 Jia loves her bestie Nina more than anything, but when Nina tells Jia she wants to attend the school dance with a boy and not with Jia as planned, a choice is made that changes their friendship forever. Trailer
September 25, 2025
JUNKIE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription World Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with AFI Alumnus, director, screenwriter and producer William Means, AFI Alumna and executive producer Patty Jenkins, AFI Alumna and producer Rachel Weise, AFI Alumnus and editor Noam Klement and actors Rocky Shay, Rett Keeter, Jessica Lea Risco, Kian Morr and Drew Faulkner. Executive-produced by AFI...
September 25, 2025
JAY KELLY
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription The new film from writer/director Noah Baumbach (MARRIAGE STORY, THE SQUID AND THE WHALE, co-screenwriter of BARBIE) follows famous movie actor Jay Kelly (George Clooney) and his devoted manager Ron (Adam Sandler) as they embark on a whirlwind and unexpectedly profound journey through Europe. Along the way, both men are forced to confront the...
September 25, 2025
IS THIS THING ON?
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with screenwriter, producer and actor Will Arnett and actor Laura Dern moderated by writer and film critic, Scott Mantz. Bradley Cooper’s beautifully affecting dramedy stars Will Arnett and Laura Dern in standout performances as a New York couple whose separation leads to major midlife self-reckoning and reinvention....
September 25, 2025
IRON LAKE
DescriptionTrailerDescription Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 4 On a '90s scouting trip, a volatile teenager expresses secret feelings for another boy. When he’s rejected, he must decide: risk his secret getting out to the troop or go to dark lengths to keep it hidden. Trailer
September 25, 2025
I WAS BORN THIS WAY
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and producer Daniel Junge, director Sam Pollard, producer Wellington Love, executive producer Cori Robinson and subject Beatitude Bishop Zachary Jones. The late Motown/disco/gospel singer Carl Bean was a human being impossible to categorize or confine to a single genre. His widespread impact intersects Black and...
September 25, 2025
HOW TO SHOOT A GHOST
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Charlie Kaufman and screenwriter Eva H.D. Visionary director Charlie Kaufman reteams with actress Jessie Buckley for an impressionistic short that exhumes spectral traces of the personal and the political from the city of Athens. Buckley, in her second collaboration with Kaufman after 2020’s I’M THINKING...
September 25, 2025
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and screenwriter Sarah Goher. In her remarkable debut feature, director/writer Sarah Goher turns a sharply observant lens on class and society in modern Cairo. Eight-year-old Toha — the child maid of an upper middle-class family — navigates a world not built for her as she...
September 25, 2025
THE HANGING OF STUART CORNFELD
DescriptionBiosDescription World Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with director, screenwriter and producer Joan Bofill Amargós. Stuart Cornfeld (AFI Class of 1975) looks back on his colorful career as a creative producer, collaborating with Anne Bancroft (AFI DWW+ Class of 1974), Mel Brooks, David Lynch (AFI Class of 1970), David Cronenberg, Steven Soderbergh,...
September 25, 2025
HONEYJOON
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director, screenwriter and producer Lilian T. Mehrel moderated by Bryce Norbitz, Vice President, Tribeca Studios, Artist Development. On the lush volcanic shores of the Azores, June (Ayden Mayeri) travels with her Persian-Kurdish mother, Lela (Amira Casar), one year after the loss of her father. What begins...
