October 16, 2019
ANOTHER BULLET DODGED
DescriptionDescription In the fading echoes of a relationship, character is revealed.
October 16, 2019
ART HISTORY
DescriptionDescription "Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper," filmmaker Jean Cocteau once famously said. But what Cocteau didn't anticipate was how unstable the lines between reality and fantasy can become when the cost of films becomes so small and the crews necessary to make them so...
October 16, 2019
ALPS (ALPIS)
DescriptionContactDescription Acclaimed Greek auteur Yorgos Lonthimos makes his first appearance at AFI FEST with his newest film, ALPS. A paramedic, a nurse, a gymnast and her coach have formed a group they call Alps. They provide a most unusual service for families coping with the loss of a loved one They inhabit the role of...
October 16, 2019
ALMAYER’S FOLLY (LA FOLIE ALMAYER)
DescriptionDescription For her first narrative feature in six years, Chantal Akerman loosely adapts Joseph Conrad's first novel in what is almost a companion piece to her 2000 masterpiece LA CAPTIVE (also adapted from the work of a literary giant, Marcel Proust). Using richly atmospheric and concentrated long takes, Akerman slowly exposes complex layers of stifling...
October 16, 2019
ALL FLOWERS IN TIME
DescriptionDescription A darkly surreal, Lynchian look at memory and identity, starring Chloe Sevigny as a red-eyed shapeshifter.
October 16, 2019
ALL IN ALL
DescriptionDescription A lave story set on the final night of Christian summer camp.
October 16, 2019
AANTENI
DescriptionDescription When Simin files for divorce from her husband Nader , neither of them imagines that her action will lead to a domestic incident that will force each member of the family to conceal the truth in a desperate attempt to protect each other. Director Asghar Farhadi deftly builds mounting suspense with smart narrative twists...
October 16, 2019
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN
DescriptionDescription Based on the internationally beloved and irrepressible characters created by Herge, the story follows the unquenchably curious young reporter Tintin Uamie Bell) and his fiercely loyal dog Snowy as they discover a model ship carrying an explosive secret. Drawn into a centuries-old mystery, Tintin finds himself in the sightlines of Ivan lvanovitch Sakharine (Daniel...
October 16, 2019
30,000 DAYS
DescriptionDescription These three ultra· short shorts came from the prolific mind of experimental filmmaker Stephanie Barber
October 16, 2019
WIN/WIN
DescriptionContactDescription Filmmaker Jaap van Heusden returns lo AFI FEST, this time with his first feature film after his short A COMPLICATED STORY, SIMPLY TOLD was on official selection at AFI FEST 2006. This hyperkinetic cautionary tale follows a young man whose talent with numbers al first wins him women and praise al work but might...
