October 16, 2019
AFTERMATH ON MEADOWLARK LANE
DescriptionDescription While on their way to a mariachi recital, a devastating car crash forces a mother and her two sons to confront the truth about their past-based on a true story.
October 16, 2019
THE AERIAL (LA ANTENA)
DescriptionDescription White text on a black screen reads, "Once upon a time... there was a city without a voice." A pop-up storybook city fills the frame and the black and white homage to silent cinema begins. Although the inhabitants of the unidentified city have lost their voices, their words appear as text on the screen...
October 16, 2019
AFGHAN MUSCLES
DescriptionDescription Danish director Andreas Mol Dalsgaard's relentlessly entertaining documentary follows the most popular sport in Afghanistan, male bodybuilding. And this is not the Afghanistan of your nightly news. Just check out the hilarious scene at a qualifier for the men's national team: competitors strut their stuff in spray-on tans and Speedos while robed, bearded men...
October 16, 2019
1000 JOURNALS
DescriptionDescription Like a modern day message in a bottle, "Someguy" from San Francisco sent 1000 journals out into the world. Offering them via his Web site, leaving them on park benches and restrooms or just handing them to strangers, they began a world tour. With the return of completed journal #526 , the question became...
October 16, 2019
4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (4 LUNI, 3 SAPTAMINI SI 2 ZILE)
DescriptionDescription Winner of Cannes' Palme d'Or, writer/director Cristian Mungiu's masterwork manages to be political without a single conventional reference to politics. The story, set in the final year of Ceaucescu's dictatorship in Romania, depicts a college student (the magnificent Anamaria Marinca) in her attempts to help her roommate (Laura Vasiliu) obtain an illegal abortion. As...
October 16, 2019
ZOZO
DescriptionDescription Director Josef Fares (JALLA JALLA, KOPS) is an innovative storyteller with an extraordinary sense of humor and visual flare. His new film ZOZO is more dramatic and emotionally charged, yet still steeped in Fares' unique style. Zozo is a young boy growing up in Beirut. In spite of the Lebanese civil war outside his...
October 16, 2019
ZIM AND CO.
DescriptionDescription French director Pierre Jolivet has crafted a film that on the surface is a light comedy but contains within it wonderful social observations. Already a smash hit at this year's Cannes Film Festival, AFI is proud to present the North American premiere of the latest film from this acclaimed filmmaker. Following a minor scooter...
October 16, 2019
THE ZIT
DescriptionDescription A small zit becomes a big problem. Don't touch it!
October 16, 2019
YOGISHA (THE SUSPECT)
DescriptionDescription When you're a cop in Tokyo, office politics are more deadly than the yakuza. That bitter truth becomes apparent when Chief Inspector Shinji Muroi (Tashiro Yanagiba) re-opens a controversial murder case. Muroi doesn't believe that the young policeman accused of the crime is guilty. His superiors, the Metro Police Chief and the Fed's Deputy...
October 16, 2019
YOUNGSTER
DescriptionDescription A 12-year-old drug dealer finds himself in a tough situation when hands over a crack rock to a pushy addict without first getting paid.
