October 16, 2019
LION’S DEN (LEONERA)
DescriptionDescription Director-screenwriter Pablo Trapero (ROLLING FAMILY, EL BONAERENSE) returns to AFI FEST with this redemptive story of a young pregnant woman trying to survive in prison. This film follows the ill-fated and beautiful Julia, who, after killing her lover, gives birth to a son, Tomas, in prison Helped through her early days in prison by...
October 16, 2019
LAST MEAL
DescriptionDescription Revenge and weird cuisine are served up at a death-row diner.
October 16, 2019
THE LEGLESS BOY CANNOT DANCE (EL NIÑO SIN PIERNAS NO PUEDE BAILAR)
DescriptionDescription A boy is left alone after the death of an old man, but then discovers a new friend.
October 16, 2019
THE LAST DAYS OF SHISHMAREF
DescriptionDescription While politicians, scientists and environmentalists debate the effects of global warming , an lnupiaq Eskimo community in northwest Alaska, just under the Arctic Circle , faces the real-world consequences of climate change every day. The ice beneath the small Alaskan village of Shishmaref, on the island of Sarichef, is melting. Homes are falling into...
October 16, 2019
LAST CHANCE HARVEY
DescriptionDescription Academy Award-winners Dustin Hoffman (RAIN MAN, KRAMER VS. KRAMER) and Emma Thompson (SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, HOWARD 'S END) skillfully capture the vulnerability and yearning of an unexpected midlife romance in this endearing new film from write r and director Joel Hopkins (JUMP TOMORROW) On a disastrous trip to London to attend his daughter's wedding...
October 16, 2019
LAKE TAHOE
DescriptionDescription Director Fernando Eimbcke returns to AFI FEST (his first film, DUCK SEASON, won the AFI FEST 2004 Grand Jury Prize) with his second film, one with a strong autobiographical element. After Eimbcke's father died, he passed through a long denial process and then crashed the family car LAKE TAHOE was born out of these...
October 16, 2019
KISSES
DescriptionDescription On Christmas Day, Dylan (Shane Curry) a sullen, asthmatic 11-year-old boy living in a filthy slum in Dublin flees his father's drunken violence. Along for the adventure is fellow 11-year-old Kylie (Kelly O'Neill), the bold, determined girl who lives next door The two hope to find Dylan's older brother, who ran away from home...
October 16, 2019
L’ AIMEE
DescriptionDescription Two lesser-known works by the master of contemporary French cinema showcase Desplechin's versatility and explore themes of family and transition: his award-winning debut LA VIE DES MORTS tells the story of a reunion built on a tragedy, and the documentary L'AIMEE reconstructs his own family's past.
October 16, 2019
KINGS AND QUEEN
DescriptionDescription When single, working mother Devos discovers her father is gravely ill, she receives little support from her ex-boyfriend, a capricious, tax-dodging violinist (Cesar winner Amalric) recently committed to a mental health institution, where he improvises hip-hop choreography and verbally spars with his drug-addled lawyer and placid hospital supervisor Catherine Deneuve. Desplechin's outsize tragicomedy sticks...
October 16, 2019
KASSIM THE DREAM
DescriptionDescription Kassim "The Dream" Ouma is a complex character. He's the 2004 IBF Junior Middleweight champion of the world, a father, o young man who hasn't seen his mother since he was a teen and a former Ugandan child soldier who was abducted by a rebel army at the age of six. Kassim brings this...
