September 26, 2024
RECURRENCE (QUTAR)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: AFTER DARK Cows flee from a cottage as a planet approaches Earth. Fearfully, the cottage owner runs away, leaving his crippled son. As the cows return, they're plunged into a monstrous, eerie nightmare. Bios Ali Alizadeh is a writer, director, editor, photographer and graphic designer from Tehran. He...
September 26, 2024
REAS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription In her sophomore documentary feature, Argentinian filmmaker Lola Arias (THEATRE OF WAR) continues to explore themes of collective memory, cathartic expression and healing through reenactments of shared trauma. Centered on a vibrant, varied group of former Buenos Aires inmates all performing as themselves, REAS is a unique combination of hybrid documentary and prison musical....
September 26, 2024
A REAL PAIN
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the standout sophomore feature from multi-hyphenate writer-director Jesse Eisenberg (WHEN YOU FINISH SAVING THE WORLD) is an odd-couple road movie for the ages, an irreverent, funny, but deeply empathetic comedy that doubles as emotional exploration of complex family dynamics and intergenerational...
September 26, 2024
PERCEBES
DescriptionBiosContactDescription North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 Set in the sea and the urban Algarve, we follow the complete life cycle of a special shellfish, percebes, from their formation to the dish. Bios After graduating from the Fine Arts University of Lisbon, Alexandra Ramires and Laura Gonçalves began working in...
September 26, 2024
PAVEMENTS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with actors Nat Wolff and Logan Miller and producers Peter Kline, Danny Gabai and Lance Bangs. Alex Ross Perry’s imaginative documentary about the ‘90s-era indie rock band Pavement follows a dreamlike logic: this band should have been bigger back in the day, so why not create a...
September 26, 2024
PARTHENOPE
DescriptionBiosDescription North American Premiere Parthenope (Celeste Dalla Porta), a young woman possessed of near supernatural beauty, embarks on a sentimental education in her life and academic career in Naples in Paolo Sorrentino’s gorgeous dreamworld of a film. Named for the mythical siren who lent her name to the ancient Greek settlement where Naples now exists,...
September 26, 2024
THE PUZZLE PALACE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 2 In a Boca suburb, a couple retire to a second marriage of freedom, play and the world’s largest puzzle collection. Bios Jenny Schweitzer Bell and Brian Bell are a husband-and-wife filmmaking team based in New York City. Together, they produced several independent narrative features. Over the...
September 26, 2024
RAT!
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: AFTER DARK When a disgruntled music journalist accuses a global pop star of queerbaiting, the singer’s devoted fans descend on his remote cabin to wreak havoc and seek retribution. Bios Neal Suresh Mulani is a queer filmmaker exploring self-perception, masculinity and identity in the digital age. His short...
September 26, 2024
OH, CANADA
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with AFI Alumnus, director and screenwriter Paul Schrader. Based on Russell Banks' novel "Foregone," Paul Schrader’s new film features Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi portraying at different stages Leonard Fife, a political documentarian who achieved notoriety when he fled to Canada to avoid being drafted in the...
September 26, 2024
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
DescriptionBiosDescription Driving alone in the middle of the night, Shula comes across the body of her uncle, lying lifeless on a deserted road. Immediately inhabiting the role of dutiful family member, she ensures that the body is taken care of and, the following day, begins funeral preparations. Finding herself unable to suppress feelings of discomfort...
