September 26, 2024
ONE DAY THIS KID
DescriptionBiosContactDescription US Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 2 An exploration of silent struggle and unspoken tension as Hamed, a first-generation Afghan Canadian man, navigates an undefined future with his father. Inspired by David Wojnarowicz's renowned text. Bios Alexander Farah is an Afghan-Canadian filmmaker whose work has screened at Berlinale, Telluride and...
September 26, 2024
THE ORDER
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with screenwriter Zach Baylin, producers Bryan Haas and Stuart Ford, and actors Nicholas Hoult and Jurnee Smollett moderated by journalist Antonia Blyth. In early 1980s Idaho, hard-driving Terry Husk (Jude Law), an FBI agent recently transferred from New York, investigates a string of bank robberies across the...
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
NEXT?
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription US Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 Half-animal, half-human creatures meet at a speed-dating dance where they explore their differences and difficulties communicating. When a lovestruck man-cum-anteater falls for a woman-cum-shrew, he gets caught up in their courtship ballet. Bios After studying applied arts, Christel Guibert worked in animation for 10...
September 26, 2024
NIGHTBITCH
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with producer and actor Amy Adams moderated by writer and film critic, Scott Mantz. Motherhood is a (night) bitch in Marielle Heller's (DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME) frank, perceptive and fur-ociously funny adaptation of Rachel Yoder's bestselling novel. Oscar® nominee Amy Adams stars as...
September 26, 2024
MY FAVOURITE CAKE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Barred from traveling internationally and facing a court case as a result of making this film, Iranian filmmaking duo Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha (BALLAD OF A WHITE COW) bravely imagine the possibility of freedom and pleasure within their homeland’s repressive regime. Seventy-year-old widow Mahin lives a solitary lifestyle with her daughter having emigrated...
September 26, 2024
MY MOTHER IS A COW
DescriptionBiosContactDescription North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1 Left in her aunt’s care at the edge of a burning wetland, Mia is desperate for her mother’s touch – but in this volatile, threatening world, love comes in an unexpected form. Bios Moara Passoni wrote and directed the award-winning essay film...
September 26, 2024
NO OTHER LAND
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Basel Adra is a Palestinian activist living under occupation in the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta. Yuval Abraham is an Israeli journalist whose freedom of movement allows him to come and go as he pleases. As unlikely as it might seem, the two strike up a friendship and, together with Rachel Szor and...
September 26, 2024
MUNA
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 2 British-Somali teen Muna is desperate to go on a school trip to escape the monotony of her household, but when tragedy strikes, she must instead navigate a mourning period for someone she never really knew. Bios An alum of the BFI NETWORK@LFF Program, Warda Mohamed...
September 26, 2024
MUSIC BY JOHN WILLIAMS
DescriptionBiosDescription World Premiere MUSIC BY JOHN WILLIAMS is a comprehensive look at the prolific life and career of legendary composer John Williams. From his early days as a jazz pianist to his 54 Oscar® nominations and five wins, the documentary celebrates Williams’ countless contributions to the moving image arts, music for the concert stage as...
