October 16, 2019
INVOLUNTARY (DE OFRIVILLIGA)
DescriptionDescription It's almost summer in Sweden. Throughout the city, people ore engaging in minor indiscretions and misbehavior. leffe likes to show off for his friends and play salacious pranks, especially when he's drinking A righteous grade-school teacher doesn't know where to draw the line: She insists her fellow educators need a bit of instruction. And...
October 16, 2019
IN THE THEME (B TEME)
DescriptionDescription A young couple celebrating their first wedding anniversary hold forth on marriage, family and the future in this documentary.
October 16, 2019
IDIOTS AND ANGELS
DescriptionDescription Following a career spanning decodes, animation icon Bill Plympton thrusts his most sublimely provocative vision to dote upon the world. His latest feature-length endeavor, a darkly comic fantasia without words, focuses on a vicious and dastardly fellow who haunts seedy locales. Perhaps due to his amoral intentions, he is slowly wasting away . One...
October 16, 2019
IMAGINADORES
DescriptionDescription "What's wrong with wanting to escape when you ore in prison?" on Argentine comic book artist asks, referring to the transformative possibilities of fantasy-based literature. This powerful documentary, which focuses on the amazing cultural force that is the Argentine comic book industry, describes for all of us the appeal and potential of the fantasy...
October 16, 2019
I’M GONNA EXPLODE (VOY A EXPLOTAR)
DescriptionDescription After his acclaimed second feature, DRAMA/ME X, Gerardo Naranjo returns to AFI FEST with this compelling love story of two 15-year-olds who begin to discover themselves while learning about each other. Set in Guanajuato, Mexico , the film tells the story of two troubled, rebellious teenagers. When Roman is caught plotting to kill the...
October 16, 2019
I THINK I THOUGHT
DescriptionDescription Joe's life threatens to come apart when he begins thinking too much. He discovers Thinkers Anonymous, where he learns that thinking is best left to professionals like politicians, religious leaders and the news media .
October 16, 2019
THE HUSTLER
DescriptionDescription Paul Newman brought a new, casual intelligence to male stardom in the 1950s and '60s, a sensitive tricksterism versus Brando's and Dean's wounded inarticulation; David Thomson wrote that Newman "seems to me an uneasy, self-regarding personality, as if handsomeness had left him guilty." As Fast Eddie, the talented pool player who lacks the self-esteem,...
October 16, 2019
HUNGER
DescriptionDescription Though ostensibly about the 1981 hunger strike initiated by Irish Republican Army leader Bobby Sands, this poetic-realist debut by Steve McQueen ventures into far deeper territory, seeking to visually articulate the very nature of oppression and resistance. Beginning with bloody knuckles rinsed in a basin, McQueen builds scene after vivid scene to provoke or...
October 16, 2019
HORSE TERRITORY
DescriptionDescription A woman in transition, traverses the Horse Territory.
October 16, 2019
THE HIGHER FORCE (STORA PLANID)
DescriptionDescription On the heels of his stunning, critically acclaimed drama THE AMAZING TRUTH ABOUT QUEEN RAQUELA (2008), rising Icelandic filmmaker Olaf de Fleur Johannesson presents a quirky, hilarious, kindly comedy about a bumbling petty criminal who dreams of a better life as the true artist he really is. David spends his days as a mostly...
