October 16, 2019
DON’T BE BAD (NON ESSERE CATTIVO)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Set in the drug-fueled scene of the mid-‘90s, DON’T BE BAD follows a pair of twentysomething best friends who are forever chasing the next high. When an alluring woman enters their lives, everything they know comes into question. As they drift apart and then together again, the lure of the hard-partying lifestyle threatens to...
October 16, 2019
DISORDER
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription In Alice Winocour's sophomore feature DISORDER, the French filmmaker combines astute sound design with perceptive camera movements to externalize symptoms of PTSD, as ex-soldier Vincent (Matthias Schoenaerts, RUST AND BONE, AFI FEST 2012) becomes locked in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with ski-masked home invaders at a wealthy estate, where he is the only...
October 16, 2019
DESDE ALLÁ
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Armando is middle-aged, wealthy and living in a poor neighborhood in Caracas. He wanders the streets looking for young men to bring home. In exchange for a wad of cash, they follow his precise instructions: No touching — he will only watch them. Armando’s routine is broken, however, when his latest conquest, the street-tough...
October 16, 2019
DHEEPAN
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, DHEEPAN marks the return of French auteur Jacques Audiard to AFI FEST (RUST AND BONE screened in the Gala section at the 2013 festival). Audiard’s latest is another film of slow-burning tension punctuated by explosions of violence, but this time with a protagonist...
October 16, 2019
DAY ONE
DescriptionDescription No husband, no job, no future: Divorce is a life sentence for Feda, a thirty-year-old Afghan American woman pushed aside by her conservative community. Taking control of her life, she uses her one marketable skill as a bilingual immigrant, returning to her birthplace as an interpreter for US forces in Afghanistan. On her first...
October 16, 2019
DER NACHTMAHR
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription The sophomore feature from German filmmaker AKIZ is a sensory experience with a pulsing soundtrack and engrossing visual language that blur the lines between horror and coming-of-age films. Seventeen-year-old Tina falls completely out of her normal reality when she begins to experience severe nightmares and is haunted by a strange creature. The only person...
October 16, 2019
CONCUSSION
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription It’s the most popular sport in the United States. It’s the backbone for millions of jobs and billions of dollars. But what is the deadly side of football? CONCUSSION looks at the life of a brilliant immigrant doctor – perhaps the least likely person to stand up to the NFL and yet he did...
October 16, 2019
COLOR NEUTRAL
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A color explosion sparkles, bubbles and fractures in this handcrafted 16mm short from film artist Jennifer Reeves. Bios Brooklyn-based Jennifer Reeves has directed more than 20 films since 1990. Her subjective and personal films push the boundaries of film through direct-on-film techniques, first-person cinematography, intricate sound and image montage and optical printing, and have...
October 16, 2019
THE CLAN (EL CLAN)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Director Pablo Trapero returns to AFI FEST for a third time with his most outlandish tale yet. Following the real-life exploits of the notorious Puccios, THE CLAN tells the story of how a normal working-class family concocted a vicious plan to kidnap and heavily ransom select members of Argentina’s upper class. With killer period...
October 16, 2019
THE CLUB (EL CLUB)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription One of the most exciting contemporary voices in world cinema, Chilean iconoclast Pablo Larraín turns his provocative gaze toward the sins of the Catholic Church in this tightly wound, tonally subversive tragicomic parable. A tight-knit group of aging priests live, work and pray together in a small cottage in a seaside town. They spend...
