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
THE FUTURE PERFECT (EL FUTURO PERFECTO)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Awarded Best First Feature at the Locarno International Film Festival, German-Argentinian newcomer Nele Wolatz‘s THE FUTURE PERFECT explores fractured relationships within culture, tradition and language in this whimsical romantic comedy. Xiaobin has just moved to Argentina to reunite with her family, who own a laundromat in Buenos Aires. She finds work at a nearby...
October 16, 2019
GLOVE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription The true story of a glove that's been floating in space since 1968. Bios Alexa Lim Haas is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker from New York City. She studied directing and animation at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2011. She applies her practice in drawing, painting and source material to both her...
October 16, 2019
FRAUD
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Who is the author of a film — its director or its subject? And what is real — an identity presented to the world, or a secret self? These are just some of the questions raised by Dean Fleischer-Camp’s FRAUD. An AFI FEST alum with a résumé of defiantly original work, Fleischer-Camp presents audiences...
October 16, 2019
FRANCA: CHAOS AND CREATION
DescriptionBiosContactDescription In this incisive documentary, director Francesco Carrozzini creates an intimate portrait of his mother, Franca Sozzani, the legendary editor-in-chief of Italian Vogue. Her provocative, often controversial photo shoots — exemplified by the notorious Black Issue and Plastic Surgery Issue — have placed her magazine at an exciting intersection of fashion, art and commerce for...
October 16, 2019
FLIRTING WITH DISASTER
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Following the birth of his first child, Mel (Ben Stiller) feels he can’t decide on a name until he meets his own biological parents. When he finds his mother’s address from Tina (Téa Leoni), an incompetent but attractive adoption agency employee, Mel and his wife Nancy (Patricia Arquette) and their baby son travel to...
October 16, 2019
FIRE AT SEA (FUOCOAMMARE)
DescriptionBiosDescription As part of the inaugural World Cinema Masters in Conversation section at AFI FEST, renowned documentarian Gianfranco Rosi will sit down with Venice Film Festival Artistic Director Alberto Barbera for an in-depth conversation about one of the year’s most lauded documentaries, FIRE AT SEA. Twelve-year-old Samuele lives on an island in the Mediterranean, far...
October 16, 2019
FATA MORGANA
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A grieving couple is forced to examine their marriage when they journey from China to the United States for the funeral for their only child. Bios Originally from Beijing, Amelie Wen (AFI Class of 2015) is a recent graduate of the AFI Conservatory and recipient of the Bison Fellowship for promising Chinese filmmakers. Her...
October 16, 2019
FEAR ITSELF
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Film essayist Charlie Lyne uses clips from horror films to explore why the world’s most popular film genre burrows so deeply into our psyches in this fourth-wall-breaking, boundary-pushing, cinematic deep-dive. Using lone female voice narration — eerily reminiscent of the “Final Girl” trope of many horror films — the film navigates a dreamscape of...
October 16, 2019
ELLE-2016
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Paul Verhoeven returns with his French-language debut and most sophisticated genre reworking to date. An adaptation of the French-Armenian novel “Oh…” by Philippe Djian, ELLE is a thriller as challenging as it is provocative. The inimitable Isabelle Huppert is Michèle LeBlanc, a successful video game company head who is brutally attacked in her home...
