October 16, 2019
FIRE AT SEA (FUOCOAMMARE)
DescriptionBiosDescription 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 documentaries, FIRE AT SEA. Twelve-year-old Samuele lives on an island in the Mediterranean, far...
October 16, 2019
FLIRTING WITH DISASTER
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription 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 employee, Mel and his wife Nancy (Patricia Arquette) and their baby son travel to...
October 16, 2019
FATA MORGANA
DescriptionBiosContactDescription 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. Bios Originally from Beijing, Amelie Wen (AFI Class of 2015) is a recent graduate of the AFI Conservatory and recipient of the Bison Fellowship for promising Chinese filmmakers. Her...
October 16, 2019
FEAR ITSELF
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription 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 “Final Girl” trope of many horror films — the film navigates a dreamscape of...
October 16, 2019
ELLE-2016
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription 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 LeBlanc, a successful video game company head who is brutally attacked in her home...
October 16, 2019
THE EYES OF MY MOTHER
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription 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 of violence that disrupts the seemingly bucolic life of a Midwestern Portuguese-American family. Francisca,...
October 16, 2019
E.W.A
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Ewa can't stop bleeding. Bios 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 to write and direct his first short, E.W.A. Contact La Distributrice de films
October 16, 2019
EARS, NOSE AND THROAT
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A woman’s testimonial faculties are confirmed through medical examinations before she recites a tragic story. Bios 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 over 130 short-form works — have screened internationally at film festivals, cinemas, art...
October 16, 2019
DREAMING OF BALTIMORE (AU LOIN, BALTIMORE)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription 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. Bios Lola Quivoron was born in 1989 in Paris. After her diploma, she completed preparatory school, and studied modern literature and cinema. In 2012, she entered the Directing...
October 16, 2019
DRAMATIC RELATIONSHIPS
DescriptionBiosDescription The male gaze inspected through the relationship between a director and his female actors. Bios 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 award-winning short films FAMILY NIGHTMARE (2011) and PERSON TO PERSON (2014) premiered at...
