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
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...
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,...
