September 26, 2024
HERE
DescriptionBiosDescription World Premiere Reuniting the director, writer and stars of FORREST GUMP – a modern classic that celebrates its 30th anniversary this year – HERE is an original film about multiple families and a special place they inhabit. The story travels through generations, capturing the most relatable of human experiences. Zemeckis directs from a screenplay...
September 26, 2024
HARD TRUTHS
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with AFI DWW Alumna and actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Reuniting with British filmmaker Mike Leigh, Marianne Jean-Baptiste (SECRETS & LIES) portrays Pansy, the hardened matriarch of a middle-class Black family living in London. Her defenses are attuned with hyper-precision to detect the slightest hint of a micro-aggression, and...
September 26, 2024
HARVEST
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director, producer and writer Athina Rachel Tsangari. In the bucolic British countryside, a hard-scrabble community of medieval farmers are fiercely protective of their own and intensely wary of outsiders. But one such outsider has become a vital part of their village, Walter Thirsk (Caleb Landry Jones)....
September 26, 2024
GROUP THERAPY
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Featuring an absolutely stacked cast of comedians including Mike Birbiglia, Nicole Byer, Atsuko Okatsuka and Tig Notaro, this candidly charming documentary explores the interconnectedness between the nature of comedy and mental health. Alternating between dedicated sit-down interviews and a larger group discussion led by Emmy Award® winner Neil Patrick Harris in front of a...
September 26, 2024
GIRLS ARE MADE TO MAKE LOVE (LES FILLES C’EST FAIT POUR FAIRE L’AMOUR)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription World Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 Following women aged 25 through 45, this sociological investigation into couples’ sexuality tackles experiences of desire and love, norms in heterosexual relationships and paths to emancipation. Bios Jeanne Paturle, Cécile Rousset and Jeanne Drouet are also the directors behind ESPERANÇA, which played at the...
September 26, 2024
GRAND TOUR
DescriptionBiosContactDescription 1918. Mandalay. After a long engagement, lowly British diplomat Edward (Gonçalo Waddington) is finally set to be reunited with his betrothed, Molly (Crista Alfaiate). But instead of meeting her at the dock, he gets cold feet and hops on a boat to Singapore, setting off a cat and mouse game across Colonial-era Asia. Mostly...
September 26, 2024
GAUCHO GAUCHO
DescriptionBiosDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director, producer and cinematographer Michael Dweck. After exploring the lives of elderly Italian villagers hunting rare truffles with their canine companions in the award-winning THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS, acclaimed documentarians Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw train their cameras on a rural Argentine community of gauchos — skilled...
September 26, 2024
GLORIA!
DescriptionBiosDescription Tradition and the nouveau clash in this poppy feminist romp about a quartet of renegade musicians. It is late 18th century in a deteriorating Catholic music institute for girls, and a silent, downtrodden young lady Teresa (jeeringly nicknamed “The Mute”) works as the ground’s maid. As whispers of excitement at the imminent visit of...
September 26, 2024
GIGI
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 From the tormented little mermaid to the fulfilled woman she is today, Gigi tells us about her gender transition with humor and sensitivity. Bios After studying at EMCA in Angoulême, where she directed her first animated documentary, Cynthia Calvi joined the En sortant...
September 26, 2024
EEPHUS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription October 25 screening to be followed by a conversation with filmmaker Carson Lund and writers Michael Basta and Nate Fisher. Set in the crisp New England fall just before Halloween, the feature directorial debut of Carson Lund (also the cinematographer of CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER’S POINT at this year's AFI FEST) captures the wistful...
