October 16, 2019
NINE QUEENS (NUEVE REINAS)
DescriptionDescription Avoiding guns, explosives and the excesses of a Hollywood budget, Argentine director Fabian Bielinsky has crafted one of the most gripping, irrepressible thrillers in recent memory. Two small-time swindlers, Juan and Marcos, agree to team up, but only on a one-day trial. Their first few hustles reveal obvious and seemingly incompatible differences between the...
October 16, 2019
NO MAN’S LAND
DescriptionDescription Awarded Best Screenplay at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, Danis Tanovic's astonishing first feature film is a provocative fable that takes an uncompromising look at the Bosnian war. The director's years as a front-line cameraman in the Bosnian army add to the realistic look of this absurd struggle. Tanovic uses the plight of three...
October 16, 2019
MORTAL TRANSFER (MORTEL TRANSFERT)
DescriptionDescription After an eight-year absence, acclaimed director Jean-Jacques Beineix (DIVA, BETTY BLUE) returns with a satis.fying, surreal piece of contemporary noir about a narcoleptic psychoanalyst who may or may not have murdered one of his patients. Dr. Michel Durand (an appropriately haggard Jean-Hugues Anglade) is so numb with boredom at his patients' petty rantings that...
October 16, 2019
MR. X (SR. X)
DescriptionDescription Whatever is going on in Latin cinema, we can only hope it's contagious. From the hundreds of Latin submissions, we are proud to present eight of the very best. WEDDING NIGHT: Passion multiplies during a wedding night. BAMBOLEHO: Inspired by the book The Baron of the Trees, by ltalo Calvino. ROGELIO: A dead man...
October 16, 2019
THE NEW COUNTRY (DET NYA LANDET)
DescriptionDescription THE NEW COUNTRY recently received awards for Best Film and Best Screenplay at the Nordic Awards and won the Prix Europa at the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels 2001, in addition to the Ecumenical Award at the Berlin Film Festival 2001. The film follows two unlikely friends - Massoud, a 40-year-old Iranian, and Ali,...
October 16, 2019
MIRACLE (MIRAKEL)
DescriptionDescription The screening of MIRACLE is part of AFl's Screen Education Program, in which students from public high schools in Los Angeles County are invited to participate in AFI FEST 2001 programs through curriculum, special screenings and other educational opportunities. MIRACLE is accompanied by a curriculum on the evolution and use of subtitles in international...
October 16, 2019
MONSTER’S BALL
DescriptionDescription MONSTER'S BALL is a hard-hitting Southern drama tempered by a story of powerful, life-changing love. Hank, an embittered prison guard working on Death Row in rural Georgia, begins an unlikely but emotionally charged affair with Leticia, the wife of a man he has just executed. Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry and Sean Combs,...
October 16, 2019
THE MEDICINE SHOW
DescriptionDescription Wendell Morris deftly handles this romantic comedy about cancer. When sardonic cartoon writer Taylor is diagnosed with colon cancer, he resolves to drink and deadpan his way through the entire affair, from the insufferable sympathy of friends and co-workers to the inherent indignities of hospitalization. But Taylor meets more than his match in Lynn,...
October 16, 2019
MILLENNIUM MAMBO
DescriptionDescription The film opens with Vicky (the vivacious Shu Qi) bouncing along an elevated pathway, lit by overhead fluorescents. A simple opening that in Hou Hsiao Hsien's hands (and the eyes of cinematographer Mark Lee) becomes a scene that's beyond beauty in color, mood and music, a moment of pure cinema. Vicky is shacked up...
October 16, 2019
MAYA
DescriptionDescription For 12-year-old Maya, life is very simple in her village located in rural India. She and her foster brother Sonjay are perfectly matched in size, athletic ability, adventurousness and mischievousness, while their mother and father are loving, supportive and wealthy enough to live graciously and generously. But everything changes when Maya becomes the victim...
