October 16, 2019
JINN
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Being a teenager can already be dramatic. Now add religious conversion, first love and having to change your favorite pizza topping. Summer is a typical teen who finds herself in a unique situation. When her mother joins a local mosque, Summer is forced to explore whether she too wants to convert to Islam. Further...
October 16, 2019
THE JUNIPER TREE (EINITRÉÐ)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Nietschka Keene’s unheralded debut features a 20-year-old Björk as Margit, who escapes with sister Katla when their mother is killed for practicing witchcraft. To ensure their protection, Katla casts a love spell on a young widower, but his son is not so easily persuaded. In this insightful interpretation of the Brothers Grimm tale, Keene...
October 16, 2019
INSTINCT
DescriptionBiosDescription A psychosexual thriller about Isabelle, a lonely gallery owner, who meets a dangerously seductive performance artist and discovers they have more in common than expected. An AFI Conservatory Thesis Film. Bios Maria Alice Arida (AFI Class of 2017) is a Brazilian genre director focused on female-driven thrillers and horror films. Before obtaining her MFA...
October 16, 2019
IRISH PRINCE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription When an older Irish gentleman reveals to his pals how he met his wife, the story turns out to be a lot more familiar than expected. Bios Joey Garfield is an award-winning director. He has had the pleasure of creating work with Kevin Hart, Reggie Watts, Hannibal Burress, the Lucas Brothers, Run The Jewels...
October 16, 2019
INSTINCT
DescriptionBiosDescription A psychosexual thriller about Isabelle, a lonely gallery owner, who meets a dangerously seductive performance artist and discovers they have more in common than expected. An AFI Conservatory Thesis Film. Bios Maria Alice Arida (AFI Class of 2017) is a Brazilian genre director focused on female-driven thrillers and horror films. Before obtaining her MFA...
October 16, 2019
III
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A sudden meeting of a man and a woman begins a hypnotic act — a game of pleasure and discomfort. III is a portrait of a woman in an exhausting relationship with a man, which allures and repulses at the same time. Bios Marta Pajek was born in 1982 in Kielce, Poland. She graduated...
October 16, 2019
IN FABRIC
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Three-time AFI FEST alum Peter Strickland returns with his most demented vision to date. Like a perverted cross between PHANTOM THREAD and SUSPIRIA, IN FABRIC centers on an unusual department store run by a hypnotic coven. Set in the world of 1970s fashion, the film follows the lives of various characters as they are...
October 16, 2019
I AM THE NIGHT
DescriptionDescription Inspired by a true story, and directed by AFI Conservatory alumna Patty Jenkins, this TNT event series tells the incredible story of Fauna Hodel (India Eisley) who was given away at birth. As Fauna begins to investigate the unbelievable secrets to her past, she meets a disgraced reporter (Chris Pine), haunted by the case...
