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
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.
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
WRONG
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Dolph Springer (the wonderful Jack Plotnick) awakens one morning to realize he has tragically lost the love of his life – his dog, Paul. So begins WRONG, the micro-epic tale of Dolph’s quest to reunite with his best friend and set his world right. Things quickly spiral into the realm of the absurd. Using...
October 16, 2019
WHATEVEREST
DescriptionTrailerDescription An original documentary about the unlikely inspiration behind "Inspector Norse," a dance tune produced by Todd Terje. Trailer
October 16, 2019
WEST OF MEMPHIS
DescriptionBiosDescription Unfolding with the epic scope and emotional complexity of a Russian novel, Amy Berg’s WEST OF MEMPHIS casts a light on the brutal murder of three young boys in the Robin Hood Hills area of West Memphis, Arkansas – and the 18-year struggle to exonerate the teenagers who were convicted of the crimes. As...
October 16, 2019
WHITE ELEPHANT
DescriptionBiosDescription Pablo Trapero returns to AFI FEST following his pulsating neo-noir CARANCHO with an explosive vision of Argentina’s crumbling slums and the men who labor to sustain those struggling to survive in them. When an Amazon tribe is brutally slaughtered, Father Nicholas leaves the jungle and heads toward the slums of Buenos Aires and the...
October 16, 2019
WAR WITCH (REBELLE)
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A harrowing drama laced with moments of exquisite beauty, WAR WITCH unfolds as a bedtime story of sorts – told by a 14-year old African child soldier to her unborn son. Taken from her village at gunpoint, Komona (Rachel Mwanza) is given a rifle and fed an hallucinogenic milk that gifts her with the...
