October 16, 2019
DIRT
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Some things must die to live. Bios Darius Clark Monroe's most recent film DIRT screened at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, New Directors New Films and Telluride Film Festival. His documentary short film TWO CITIES debuted at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival. He was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent...
October 16, 2019
THE DEMONS (LES DÉMONS)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Growing up in suburban Montreal in the late 1980s, 10-year-old Félix is surrounded by a seemingly loving and stable family, and should be living a carefree existence. But the mysterious grown-up world around him comes into vivid focus when an intense marital fight erupts between his parents, and he starts to overhear stories about...
October 16, 2019
DEATH IN SARAJEVO (SMRT U SARAJEVU)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription In 1914, a Serbian man named Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, kicking off the chain of events that led to World War I. One hundred years later, during a centennial commemoration of those events, Academy Award®-winning director Danis Tanović turns the luxurious Hotel Europa in the heart of Sarajevo into an...
October 16, 2019
DEER FLOWER
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A family visit to a deer farm results in a peculiar experience. Bios Kangmin Kim is an award-winning filmmaker and designer based in LA. His films have screened at festivals including as AFI FEST, Annecy, Ottawa, Sundance and. He is a multitalented artist and designer with a strong background in stop-motion, graphic design and fashion....
October 16, 2019
DARK NIGHT
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Tim Sutton’s third feature is a quiet meditation on the planning and impact of a Cineplex massacre in a suburban town, taking place over the course of one day, from sunrise to midnight. Loosely inspired by the horrific real-life killings in a Colorado movie theater in 2012, Sutton doesn’t apply a political message to...
October 16, 2019
DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription In her iconic feature film directorial debut, filmmaker Julie Dash beautifully weaves lush lyrical imagery and a poetic narrative to transport us into the tapestry of Gullah culture, descendants of slaves off the Georgia coast. Narrated by the voice of an unborn child, DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST introduces three generations of the Peazant family...
October 16, 2019
A CONVERSATION WITH DIRECTOR BARRY JENKINS ABOUT MOONLIGHT
DescriptionDescription In this in-depth, moderated discussion, MOONLIGHT director Barry Jenkins and cast members will talk about this landmark lm that traces a young gay African- American man’s coming of age in Miami.
October 16, 2019
CROSSCURRENT (长江图)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription In a daze following his father’s sudden death, cargo ship captain Gao Chun falls under the spell of a mysterious book of poetry found hidden in his ship’s engine room, sending the beleaguered captain on an unexpected journey both up the Yangtze River, the very cradle of Chinese civilization, and into the center of...
October 16, 2019
CRYSTAL LAKE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A group of girls takes over the half pipe. There on the ramp, with no boys around, they are thriving and visible. Bios Jennifer Reeder constructs personal films about relationships, trauma and coping. Her award-winning narratives are innovative and borrow from a range of forms including after-school specials, amateur music videos and magical realism....
October 16, 2019
THE COMMUNE (KOLLEKTIVET)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Director Thomas Vinterberg returns to AFI FEST with his most personal film yet. Basking in the warm glow of Denmark in the 1970s, Erik and Anne are young people struggling to get by and raise their new family. When they fall in love with the enormous vintage home where Erik grew up, they hatch...
