October 16, 2019
HIDDEN
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Possessed by sibling rivalry, Parham, must face his role in a series of events that have incapaciated his half-brother. Bios Farzad Ostovarzadeh (AFI Class of 2015) was a directing graduate of the Young Fellow Filmmakers Club from Tehran. He has also participated in workshops with famous Iranian filmmakers such as Bahram Beizaii and Naser...
October 16, 2019
THE HITCH-HIKER
DescriptionBiosContactDescription When two all-American everymen pick up a deranged hitchhiker on the barren highways of the Southwest, the three descend into a gripping nightmare that is pure film noir. The hitchhiker quickly takes his drivers hostage and forces them into the deep badlands of the Mexican-American border, where he pushes them to the brink of...
October 16, 2019
HARD WORLD FOR SMALL THINGS
DescriptionDescription A narrative exploration of the circumstances and lives affected by a single tragedy in Los Angeles.
October 16, 2019
HARMONIUM (FUCHI NI TATSU)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Awarded the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Koji Fukada’s latest film uses themes of Japanese domesticity to investigate the surrounding fissures that expand to collapse a family shaken by tragedy. With his wife Akie, Toshio runs a machinery workshop in the garage attached to their family home. When Toshio...
October 16, 2019
THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MÄKI
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, this impressive debut from Finnish filmmaker Juho Kuosmanen is based on the true story and follows the buildup of the 1962 world featherweight championship title match in Helsinki between Finland’s Olli Mäki (a delightfully appealing Jarkko Lahti) and the champion, American...
October 16, 2019
HARBERS STUDIOS SHORT FILM SHOWCASE: WOMEN IN FOCUS
DescriptionDescription Join Harbers Studios for a special screening and conversation on short films, featuring Janicza Bravo’s WOMAN IN DEEP and Academy Award® winner Megan Mylan’s TALLER THAN THE TREES. This screening is part of Harbers Studios’ ongoing Women in Focus series, celebrating women filmmakers and the stories behind their work.
October 16, 2019
GRADUATION (BACALAUREAT)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Romeo, a middle-aged doctor living in the Romanian city of Cluj, is faced with a brutal moral dilemma. His bright young daughter, Eliza, is on the cusp of receiving a scholarship to Cambridge — she just needs to ace her final exam to secure her placement at the prestigious British university. When Eliza is...
October 16, 2019
HAM HEADS
DescriptionBiosDescription Larry and Barry are the world's oldest living conjoined twins. They live in their brother's basement. Bios Efrén Hernández is a director/writer currently living in Queens, New York. His first short film MASTER MUSCLES premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014. HAM HEADS is his second short film to screen at AFI FEST....
October 16, 2019
GODLESS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Gana is a nurse who spends her days shuttling between elderly patients. Yet behind her seemingly selfless work tending to the physical indignities of old age, Gana is running a scam: In cahoots with her boyfriend — with whom she shares a morphine addiction — Gana steals her patients’ ID cards and sells them...
October 16, 2019
GNOMES AND GOBLINS
DescriptionDescription Take a first step into the interactive fantasy world of Jon Favreau’s GNOMES & GOBLINS and its many realms and denizens.
