October 16, 2019
WALTZ WITH BASHIR
DescriptionDescription Beginning with unnerving images of a pock of dogs racing through the streets of Tel Aviv-on emblem of tormented conscience-writer-director and former Israeli soldier Ari Folman offers the most powerful statement yet about the agony of years of Middle East violence. Using of times otherworldly, atmospheric animation , Folman reconstructs a notorious atrocity that...
October 16, 2019
WAITING FOR SANCHO
DescriptionDescription How can filmmaking be filmed? The question would seem to have been answered already, given the teeming amount of "making of" featurette extras that cling to DVD packages. But the dirty little secret of "making of" films is that none of them show filmmaking as it is, in the moment of creation. Which is...
October 16, 2019
UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US
DescriptionDescription In 1991 , Norwegian churches started to burn, just after on underground scene of anti consumerist metal musicians had begun to jell. While reporters and police scrambled for answers, more and more churches went up in flames. They had no leads until Varg Vikernes, one of the architects of an underground music-art-political scene known...
October 16, 2019
VISIONEERS
DescriptionDescription George Washington Winsterhammerman lives an ordinary life. He has a wife, a kid, a house and a boat. Every day George gets in his minivan and goes to work as a Level Three Tunt at the Jeffers Corporation, the largest and most profitable corporation in the history of humankind . Though he lives an...
October 16, 2019
LA VIE DES MORTS
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
TWO LOVERS
DescriptionDescription Acclaimed director James Gray (LITTLE ODESSA, WE OWN THE NIGHT) presents a taut, emotionally charged psychological love story. Inspired in part by Dostoyevsky's story "White Nights," and adapted by Gray and co-scripter Richard Menello , TWO LOVERS is a modern-day romantic drama set in New York. After a devastating breakup, Leonard, a depressed young...
October 16, 2019
TWO-LEGGED HORSE (ASBE DU-PA)
DescriptionDescription Acclaimed director Samira Makhmalbaf (5 IN THE AFTERNOON, THE BLACKBOARD) returns to AFI FEST with TWO-LEGGED HORSE, an exploration of how two people can test the very limits of a human relationship. Set in Afghanistan, the film introduces us to a subculture of impoverished children who find shelter in a maze of abandoned sewer...
October 16, 2019
TULPAN
DescriptionDescription One of the most delightful works to come out of the Cannes and Toronto film festivals this year, Sergey Dvortsevoy's tale centers on Asa, a Kazakh sailor who returns home and dreams of life as a shepherd on the windswept and remote plains of the Kazakh steppe Complications ensue when Asa's stoic brother in-law...
October 16, 2019
TRUTH IN 24
DescriptionDescription For the past decade, Audi has upheld its historically formidable presence in the international car-racing arena. Yet in recent years a tense and emotionally charged rivalry with European car company Peugeot has plagued the Audi team. TRUTH IN 24 follows the men behind the iconic four interlocking rings, the racers, the mechanics, the coaches...
October 16, 2019
TOMMY
DescriptionDescription Havana, Cuba. A onetime dancer, now HIV-positive, talks about love and longing and shares his life with us.
