October 16, 2019
ALLUMETTE
DescriptionDescription 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.
October 16, 2019
ALBÜM
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription 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 photo albums, small bits of evidence to back up false memories. Things go awry...
October 16, 2019
ALL THESE VOICES
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A Nazi soldier in disguise encounters a survivors’ avant-garde theater troupe celebrating the end of the war. Bios David Henry Gerson (AFI Class of 2015) is a filmmaker and actor who grew up in DC. A graduate of Columbia University and the AFI Conservatory, he won a Student Academy Award for his AFI thesis...
October 16, 2019
AFTER LOVE (L’ÉCONOMIE DU COUPLE)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription 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 turmoil of divorce in full view of their twin daughters. At the center of...
October 16, 2019
ACTOR MARTINEZ
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription 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 set, the filmmakers decide to scrap the movie that Arthur had planned to instead...
October 16, 2019
20TH CENTURY WOMEN
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription 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 son by herself for many years. Surrounding Dorothea’s small family is Abbie (Greta Gerwig),...
October 16, 2019
YOUTH
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription 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 a career-defining performance, plays an aging composer who has retreated to a picturesque Swiss...
October 16, 2019
YOLO
DescriptionBiosContactDescription 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. Bios Born in 1976, Ben Russell is an American media artist and curator whose films, installations and performances foster a deep engagement with the history and semiotics...
October 16, 2019
YELLOW FIEBER
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Athens was covered in a strange yellow dust. No one expected what was about to happen. Bios Konstantina Kotzamani was born in Komotini in 1983. She studied cinema at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has participated at the Berlin and Sarajevo talent campuses as a director. Her short films have been selected in...
