October 16, 2019
BABYLAND
DescriptionDescription A woman seeks love and beyond in a small American town.
October 16, 2019
BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW
DescriptionDescription Filmmaker Magazine recently named director Panos Cosmatos one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film,"" and this, his debut feature, makes it easy to see why. Suffused with a love for classic cinema, this audacious sci-fi film set in 1983 looks like it fell out of a time capsule, not like it was...
October 16, 2019
ATTENBERG
DescriptionDescription Athina Rachel Tsangari's ATTENBERG is a unique spin on the coming-of-age film. In a stark white crumbling town by the sea, 23-year-old Marina has grown up an outsider to human interaction, splitting her time between caring for her dying father and receiving lessons in human intimacy from her only friend Bella. Finding the human...
October 16, 2019
THE ARTIST
DescriptionDescription Silence is golden in director Michel Hazanavicius' delightful block-and-white feature set in 1920s Hollywood. Jean Dujardin won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his charming portrayal of George Valentin, a vain, preening silent film star of swashbuckling romances . Equally beguiling is Berenice Bejo as Peppy Miller, a star-struck young...
October 16, 2019
ANOTHER BULLET DODGED
DescriptionDescription In the fading echoes of a relationship, character is revealed.
October 16, 2019
ARIRANG
DescriptionDescription In ARIRANG , we find director Kim Ki·duk in the mountains of South Korea, secluded from the world of filmmaking and living a very simple life Kim retired from filmmaking in 2008 following a near-fatal accident on the set of his film DREAM. While shooting a scene depicting suicide , the film's lead actress...
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
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
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
ALL FLOWERS IN TIME
DescriptionDescription A darkly surreal, Lynchian look at memory and identity, starring Chloe Sevigny as a red-eyed shapeshifter.
