October 16, 2019
BLOOD OF MY BLOOD (SANGUE DEL MIO SANGUE)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Beginning in 1965 with the classic FISTS IN THE POCKET, Marco Bellocchio has never wavered in his allegiance to politics and uncomfortable sexuality in his 50 years of filmmaking. BLOOD OF MY BLOOD incorporates his enduring obsessions into a dual narrative of lust in a convent in the 17th century and the contemporary story...
October 16, 2019
BASKIN
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription First-time feature director Can Evrenol audaciously mashes up a cop movie and a satanic cult slasher in BASKIN, the unholy spawn of their union. Gorkem Kasal brings sensitivity and strength to his performance as the vulnerable cop, who has a role to play in the mystery that entraps his squad in the basement of...
October 16, 2019
ANOMALISA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription We all are self-obsessed, but customer service guru David Stone is especially so. He’s in Cincinnati for one night to speak at a conference and sign his latest book. As he settles in his chicly generic hotel room and orders room service, it becomes clear that there’s something wrong with the world around him....
October 16, 2019
BAD AT DANCING
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A perpetual third wheel and awkward outsider inserts herself into her roommate's relationship. Bios Joanna Arnow is a filmmaker and cinematographer based in Brooklyn. She recently wrote, directed and edited short film BAD AT DANCING, which was awarded the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival. Her films have screened...
October 16, 2019
AFERIM!
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Celebrated filmmaker Radu Jude returns to AFI FEST with a refreshingly crisp historical drama, delving deep into the past to produce a Romanian Western teeming with life and bursting with cynical satire. Based on historical documents and traditional folklore, Jude’s odyssey through the landscape of feudal Eastern Europe concerns an easygoing gendarme who, with...
October 16, 2019
AGAINST NIGHT
DescriptionDescription The late 1960s, heyday of the Soviet space program. A Soyuz capsule carrying two cosmonauts violently reenters the atmosphere, burning up. Miraculously, both men survive, landing far off-course in the remote frozen steppes of Mongolia. With no way to call for help, one of the men -- Vitali -- sets off, in the midst...
October 16, 2019
THE 33
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Patricia Riggen’s THE 33 tells the harrowing true story of the Copiapó mining accident in 2010, when a group of Chilean miners spent 69 days trapped underground. Despite the low pay and unsafe working conditions, there are few options other than mining available to the rural Chilean working class. When the mine shows signs...
October 16, 2019
45 YEARS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription British screen icons Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay star as Kate and Geoff Mercer, a couple approaching their 45th wedding anniversary. A week before the planned festivities, a bomb of information arrives that threatens to throw their pleasantly routine marriage into permanent upheaval. Director Andrew Haigh (WEEKEND) infuses the film with a slow-burn suspense,...
October 16, 2019
YOUNG LIONS OF GYPSY (A CIAMBRA)
DescriptionDescription Over the course of one long night, a young Romani boy grows up.
October 16, 2019
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW (IERI, OGGI, DOMANI)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Vittorio De Sica’s YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW is a unique, three-part omnibus film featuring the megawatt star coupling of Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. The iconic actors here are in comedic mode, as they play three sets of couples from different parts of Italy, all exploring gender dynamics and sexual mores. With exquisite Cinemascope...
