October 16, 2019
EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY (ALLES WIRD GUT)
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A divorced father picks up his eight-year-old daughter. It seems like every second weekend, but something isn't right. Bios Patrick Vollrath grew up in central Germany. In 2013 he was a participant of the Berlinale Talent Campus. He has won several national and international prizes for his work. His latest film EVERYTHING WILL BE...
October 16, 2019
EVOLUTION
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Lucile Hadžihalilovićs sophomore feature is a fantastic tale of an island town inhabited only by women and boys. On this island live 10-year-old Nicolas and his mother. Nicolas and the island’s other boys are regularly subjected to strange medical procedures at the hands of the women. When Nicolas senses that his mother is lying...
October 16, 2019
E.T.E.R.N.I.T.
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A Tunisian immigrant working in asbestos removal must make a radical choice in the name of his family. Bios Born in 1984, Giovanni Aloi has directed LA PROMESSA, a true story that took place in the early 1980s about a rising football star killed by heroin; and LIVES, a portrait of auteurs including Charlie...
October 16, 2019
EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (EL ABRAZO DE LA SERPIENTE)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription The shaman Karamakate waits warily by the edge of the river as a German explorer approaches. The stranger seeks the Yakuna, a legendary rare flower that can cure the man of his mysterious sickness. Only the shaman knows its location, hidden deep within the recesses of the Colombian Amazon, but he is distrustful. It...
October 16, 2019
DISORDER
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription In Alice Winocour's sophomore feature DISORDER, the French filmmaker combines astute sound design with perceptive camera movements to externalize symptoms of PTSD, as ex-soldier Vincent (Matthias Schoenaerts, RUST AND BONE, AFI FEST 2012) becomes locked in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with ski-masked home invaders at a wealthy estate, where he is the only...
October 16, 2019
DON’T BE BAD (NON ESSERE CATTIVO)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Set in the drug-fueled scene of the mid-‘90s, DON’T BE BAD follows a pair of twentysomething best friends who are forever chasing the next high. When an alluring woman enters their lives, everything they know comes into question. As they drift apart and then together again, the lure of the hard-partying lifestyle threatens to...
October 16, 2019
DRAGSTRIP
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A moment or two before the race. Bios Daniel Claridge is a young filmmaker based in Cambridge whose work includes both documentary and fiction film. He works as a teaching assistant in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. Pacho Velez works at the intersection of ethnography, contemporary art and...
October 16, 2019
DESDE ALLÁ
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Armando is middle-aged, wealthy and living in a poor neighborhood in Caracas. He wanders the streets looking for young men to bring home. In exchange for a wad of cash, they follow his precise instructions: No touching — he will only watch them. Armando’s routine is broken, however, when his latest conquest, the street-tough...
October 16, 2019
DHEEPAN
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, DHEEPAN marks the return of French auteur Jacques Audiard to AFI FEST (RUST AND BONE screened in the Gala section at the 2013 festival). Audiard’s latest is another film of slow-burning tension punctuated by explosions of violence, but this time with a protagonist...
October 16, 2019
DAY ONE
DescriptionDescription No husband, no job, no future: Divorce is a life sentence for Feda, a thirty-year-old Afghan American woman pushed aside by her conservative community. Taking control of her life, she uses her one marketable skill as a bilingual immigrant, returning to her birthplace as an interpreter for US forces in Afghanistan. On her first...
