October 16, 2019
PATERSON
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Premiering at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, PATERSON is the latest film from America’s punk poet laureate Jim Jarmusch. Adam Driver stars as the title character, a working-class poet and bus driver living in Paterson, NJ. Eschewing the comforts of modern life, he lives a routine existence, finding beauty in everyday details. From this...
October 16, 2019
PANAMERICAN MACHINERY (MAQUINARIA PANAMERICA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription There isn’t a better workplace than Maquinaria Panamericana. Employees are in a convenient location, with an expansive workspace. They have a generous boss who treats his workers as family. It all feels more like fun than labor, until the day owner Don Alejandro is found dead at the back of the warehouse. Suddenly everything...
October 16, 2019
THE ORNITHOLOGIST (O ORNITÓLOGO)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Behold the latest fever dream from director João Pedro Rodrigues. As the film begins, the title character, while blissfully studying birds, is tossed out of his kayak by a rogue current and swiftly becomes incapacitated. Once rescued, he finds that each supposed port along this river harbors more risk than the last. Chinese tourists,...
October 16, 2019
OSCURO ANIMAL
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Gorgeously shot and paced with patient rigor, feature debut director Felipe Guerrero’s OSCURO ANIMAL follows three Colombian women who are all brutally affected by the country’s armed conflict. Rocio returns from a routine laundry trip to find her small village gutted; homeless, she travels to Bogotá (but not without more violence en route) and...
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
OLD STONE (LAO SHI)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Timid and unassuming, cab driver Lao Shi (Chen Gang) finds his quiet workaday life turned inside out after helping an accident victim to the hospital. His decency is rewarded with a nightmarish descent into an unforgiving bureaucratic machine and the scorn of a deeply cynical culture where it’s more cost effective for victims to...
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
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
NOTES ON BLINDNESS
DescriptionDescription An immersive VR experience based on one man’s sensory and psychological experience of blindness.
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...
