October 16, 2019
BETHLEHEM
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Sanfur (Sahdi Marei), a young Palestinian, is only 15 when he is recruited as an informant by Shin Bet, the Israeli secret service. Sanfur’s militant older brother is on the Shin Bet’s most wanted list and Sanfur is the key to his capture, dead or alive. The fraternal bond between the brothers is strong,...
October 16, 2019
BIG BAD WOLVES
DescriptionBiosContactDescription The celebrated filmmaking duo behind Israel’s first horror film (RABIES, 2010) masterfully explores an unimaginable terror in this tense and ambitious fairy tale gone wrong. A killer of children is on the loose, raping, mangling and beheading little girls. An obsessive cop, who believes he’s identified the culprit, hatches a gruesome plan to take...
October 16, 2019
BABY BLUES
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Natalia is a 17-year-old mother juggling adolescent desires and adult responsibilities in Kasia Rosłaniec’s visually stylish sophomore film set in present-day Poland. Rejected by her mother, Natalia roller-skates down the streets of Warsaw pushing a trendy baby-stroller, chasing after her boyfriend, Kuba. While he prefers to smoke weed and skateboard with his buddy, she...
October 16, 2019
BALCONY (BALLKONI)
DescriptionContactTrailerDescription An entire village reacts to a boy dangling from a balcony in this one-shot tour de force. Contact n'Art Trailer
October 16, 2019
B FOR BOY
DescriptionBiosDescription Director Chika Anadu’s remarkable debut feature is a scathing critique of Nigeria’s patriarchal social order. Her protagonist, Amaka, maintains a happy marriage, raises a 7 year old daughter and runs her own successful business, yet her failure to produce a son for her husband makes her a target of derision among family, friends and neighbors. Anadu...
October 16, 2019
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A dark, hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house where they grew up, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them. Based on Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award®-winning play and directed...
October 16, 2019
AWFUL NICE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Director Todd Sklar skillfully crafts a peculiar and hilarious version of the family road trip movie when two estranged brothers, Jim (James Pumphrey) and Dave (Alex Rennie), must travel to Branson, Missouri, to check out the family’s summer home they have co-inherited following the untimely death of their father. Cleverly written and well-acted, the...
October 16, 2019
AFTER HOURS
DescriptionBiosDescription Martin Scorsese won Best Director at Cannes in 1986 with the black comedy AFTER HOURS for the masterful way he externalizes the protagonist’s paranoia on one harrowing, interminable night in New York City. – Wonsun Choi AFTER HOURS is a nightmare in Soho that is pleasant and funny to watch – a sophisticated combination...
October 16, 2019
ZAYTOUN
DescriptionBiosDescription In 1982, amid the fighting of the Lebanese Civil War, Israeli pilot Yoni (Stephen Dorff) crash lands in Beirut, where he is taken prisoner by the combat-trained inhabitants of a Palestinian refugee camp. Among the captors is Fahed, a young orphan whose father was killed during an Israeli air raid. When Fahed secretly releases...
October 16, 2019
YOUNG HOLLYWOOD ROUNDTABLE
DescriptionDescription The Los Angeles Times returns with its very popular Young Hollywood Roundtable. Some of the year’s hottest rising stars will engage in a lively discussion the The Times’ Amy Kaufman on life in the industry and being thrust into the limelight. Visit AFI.com/AFIFEST to see who will be in the spotlight this year.
