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...
October 16, 2019
“I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS” (ÎMI ESTE INDIFERENT DACA ÎN ISTORIE VOM INTRA CA BARBARI)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Mariana (Ioana Iacob) is a young, defiant artist mounting a city-commissioned theatrical production of the Odessa massacre, a horrific episode of World War II in which Romanian soldiers killed tens of thousands of Ukrainian Jews. As Mariana attempts to stage a realistic reenactment of the mass murder to force her fellow Romanians to confront...
October 16, 2019
HAPPY AS LAZZARO (LAZZARO FELICE)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription In auteur Alice Rohrwacher's stunning third feature, a simple young man named Lazzaro works with other unpaid laborers on an isolated estate in the Italian countryside. But when Lazzaro suffers an accident, HAPPY AS LAZZARO kicks into high gear as a work of fantastic time-jumping poetry and grounded social critique. Anchored by a hypnotic,...
October 16, 2019
HER SMELL
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Alex Ross Perry returns to AFI FEST with a bold portrait of a self-destructive artist that will push audiences to their limits. In HER SMELL, Becky Something (Elisabeth Moss) battles addiction and personal demons, while trying to maintain her celebrity and creativity as lead musician of a '90s punk-rock band. Backstage, Becky comes unhinged,...
October 16, 2019
HOTEL BY THE RIVER (GANGBYUN HOTEL)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription During an extended stay along the Han River, an aging poet hounded by disturbing visions of his own mortality invites his two grown sons to visit. Down the hall in another room, a younger woman aids her friend in nursing the still-fresh wounds of a breakup. In this simmering and melancholic drama from the...
October 16, 2019
GREEN BOOK
DescriptionBiosDescription Frank Anthony Vallelonga, aka Tony Lip (Academy Award® nominee Viggo Mortensen), a New York City bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in The Bronx, is hired to drive and protect Dr. Don Shirley (Academy Award® winner Mahershala Ali), a world-class black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South. It's 1962, during...
October 16, 2019
HAIR WOLF
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription The staff of a black hair salon fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture. Bios Mariama Diallo’s film HAIR WOLF won the 2018 Sundance Film Festival Jury Award for U.S. Fiction Short Film. Diallo’s previous work includes the award-winning short film SKETCH, and EVERYBODY DIES!,...
October 16, 2019
HALF A CHICKEN
DescriptionBiosDescription Bryan struggles to keep his chicken alive. Bios LA-based documentarian Sarah Ginsburg shot and edited the feature BEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS (SXSW 2016) and was an editor on HOLLOW, the Peabody interactive documentary about life in Appalachia. She was the co-creator of the podcast “She Does,” a series of audio portraits of women...
October 16, 2019
HAPPY AS LAZZARO (LAZZARO FELICE)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription In auteur Alice Rohrwacher's stunning third feature, a simple young man named Lazzaro works with other unpaid laborers on an isolated estate in the Italian countryside. But when Lazzaro suffers an accident, HAPPY AS LAZZARO kicks into high gear as a work of fantastic time-jumping poetry and grounded social critique. Anchored by a hypnotic,...
