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...
October 16, 2019
A COAT MADE DARK
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Two burglars strike it rich after stealing a mysterious coat. Bios Since graduating from the National Film School in Ireland, Jack O’Shea has specialized in classical, hand-drawn techniques for design and animation, providing an inventive approach and offbeat imagery for music videos and film. His work has appeared at film festivals worldwide, including the...
October 16, 2019
CITIZEN KANE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Ranked at the top of AFI’s list of the greatest films of all time, Orson Welles’ portrait of newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane (a thinly veiled stand-in for William Randolph Hearst) is brilliant, blistering and beautiful. The story moves through the tragedies and triumphs of Kane’s life, from a happy childhood in snowy Colorado...
October 16, 2019
CATATONIC
DescriptionDescription An immersive journey through an insane asylum in which the audience, bound to a wheelchair, undergoes a sensory-shocking horror thrill ride.
October 16, 2019
CIRQUE DU SOLEIL KA
DescriptionTrailerDescription Designed as an epic VR cirque show, the world of KÀ The Battle Within is an adventure of heroism and martial arts. Trailer
October 16, 2019
BUSTER’S MAL HEART
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Sarah Adina Smith’s sophomore feature is the story of Jonah, a man who has been split in two by grief — one who lives in the woods and another who is trapped at sea — with each incarnation looking for a reckoning with God. Actor Rami Malek delivers an exceptional performance, playing fractured parts...
October 16, 2019
CARMEN JONES
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Directed by the legendary Otto Preminger and adapted from a 1943 Broadway musical of the same name, CARMEN JONES stars Dorothy Dandridge in the title role that made her the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar®. In this award-winning cinematic treasure, Dandridge plays an enchanting seductress who digs her...
October 16, 2019
BRIGHT LIGHTS: STARRING CARRIE FISHER AND DEBBIE REYNOLDS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription In real life, Carrie Fisher lives next door to her mother, Debbie Reynolds — or, rather, you could say that Princess Leia lives next to Tammy. The tenuous dialectic between individual, character and icon is negotiated onscreen in BRIGHT LIGHTS: STARRING CARRIE FISHER AND DEBBIE REYNOLDS by two performers often described as “larger than...
October 16, 2019
BURLAP
DescriptionDescription Step inside the lair of a lonely and disturbed killer as he comes closer than ever to completing his masterpiece.
October 16, 2019
A BRIEF HISTORY OF PRINCESS X
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A supercharged history of sculptor Constantin Brancusi’s infamous "Princess X." Bios Born in 1984, Gabriel Abrantes has directed 18 short films over the past eight years, often setting his provocative narratives in diverse contexts such as, Argentina, Brazil, France, Haiti, Portugal and Sri Lanka. His films have premiered at festivals such as Berlin, Toronto...
