October 16, 2019
OUR TIME (NUESTRO TIEMPO)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Two-time AFI FEST alum Carlos Reygadas returns with an intensely personal project. OUR TIME tells the story of an upper-middle-class rancher (Reygadas) whose wife (played by Reygadas' real-life spouse) draws him into a cuckolding fetish. As the emotional stakes rise, life on the idyllic landscape becomes threatened. Bios Carlos Reygadas studied law in Mexico and...
October 16, 2019
PEREZ – “LES VACANCES CONTINUENT”
DescriptionBiosDescription A music video that embraces the bloody, neon soul of KNIFE+HEART. Bios Yann Gonzalez was born in 1977 in Nice. He directed primarily short films before his feature debut, YOU AND THE NIGHT (2013). KNIFE + HEART is his sophomore feature. Both films premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. His short film, ISLANDS, played...
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
ROMA
DescriptionBiosDescription Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) is the live-in maid and nanny for an upper-middle-class family in Mexico City in the 1970s. While Cleo’s days are long, she is content in her role in the house, despite the occasional hushed upbraiding from her employers, and the daily task of cleaning dog excrement from the family’s large garage....
October 16, 2019
SHE (AJO)
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription To escape an early marriage arranged by her father, Zana has to make a courageous decision. Bios More Raça is a Kosovar director and writer of short and documentary films. Raça focuses on socialeconomic issues concerning women’s issues and challenges. Apart from her profession, she is actively engaged in the promotion and protection of...
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
ON THE BASIS OF SEX
DescriptionBiosContactDescription ON THE BASIS OF SEX follows the inspiring and spirited true story of young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Academy Award® nominee Felicity Jones) as she teams with her husband Marty (Armie Hammer) to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of gender discrimination. Directed by AFI Conservatory...
October 16, 2019
ONE DAY (EGY NAP)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Anna is a married mother of three with a job, a best friend and a pushy mother-in-law. Dropping us into the world of modern harried parents, ONE DAY begins early in the morning. The youngest wakes up at the crack of dawn and so another day begins: Get the kids up, dressed, fed, out...
October 16, 2019
RAY & LIZ
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription In this immersive debut, director and photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz. As Thatcher-era circumstances progressively worsen in their nicotine-stained, grim existence, familial affection is a rare commodity. With a distinctly...
