October 16, 2019
SHOPLIFTERS (MANBIKI KAZOKU)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription The winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, SHOPLIFTERS tells the tender story of a family of misfits and grifters struggling to make ends meet, but happily making the most of life together in Tokyo. After finding a young girl out in the cold, Osamu and his wife agree to...
October 16, 2019
WIDOWS
DescriptionBiosDescription Academy Award®-winning director Steve McQueen returns with a crime thriller where women take charge. Veronica's (Viola Davis) decadent lifestyle is abruptly interrupted when her husband is killed, along with his criminal gang, in a heist gone wrong. She soon discovers the debt with which she, and other widows from his gang, are suddenly burdened....
October 16, 2019
THE WILD PEAR TREE (AHLAT AGACI)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Palme d’Or winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s THE WILD PEAR TREE is an achingly beautiful portrait of an ambitious young writer returning home after college. Hoping to enjoy momentary solace in the company of nature’s calming indifference and with parents whose lives are already settled, Sinan finds only guilt in confrontations with the too-early failures...
October 16, 2019
RELAXER
DescriptionBiosContactDescription AFI FEST alum Joel Potrykus takes us back to the halcyon days of Y2K for his latest study in broken men and thwarted ambitions – and it all takes place on a couch. Longtime collaborator and frequent muse Joshua Burge reunites with Potrykus, with Burge playing Abbie, a young man whose permanently pained face...
October 16, 2019
THE RETURN
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Karoline — a woman raised in Denmark by adoptive parents — travels to South Korea seeking more information about her birth mother. She takes up residence at KoRoot, a real-life guesthouse in Seoul for transnational adoptees. It's there that the formal daring and seamless blend of documentary and fiction in Malene Choi's debut feature...
October 16, 2019
THE WEEKEND
DescriptionBiosDescription Despite remaining friends, stand-up comedian Zadie is “extremely single” ever since her breakup with Bradford. When she invites him to her mother’s bed and breakfast for the weekend, Bradford invites his girlfriend. What begins as a fun weekend getaway quickly becomes riddled with baggage, jealousy and desire. Tension between the guests build as secrets...
October 16, 2019
WHERE THE WATER RUNS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription During the most drastic and prolonged drought in California history, a water truck delivery driver uses his resources to return water to the communities that need it most. An AFI Conservatory thesis film. Bios DuBois Ashong (AFI Class of 2017) focuses on telling stories centering on under-represented communities around the world. Largely self-taught DuBois'...
October 16, 2019
WHILE I YET LIVE
DescriptionBiosDescription Five acclaimed African-American quilters from Gee's Bend, Alabama, talk about love, religion and the fight for civil rights as they continue the tradition of quilting that originally brought them together. Bios Maris Curran's films have shown at Berlinale, TIFF, Sheffield Doc/Fest and MoMA, among 50 other prestigious festivals and institutions. Her debut narrative feature,...
