October 16, 2019
QUEST
DescriptionDescription Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during the Halloween season plus the rarely seen otherworldly animations of Ian Emes and more....
October 16, 2019
NICOTINE
DescriptionDescription Madrid, 2016. Smoking is forbidden. Two old friends meet up again and neither will emerge unhurt from this encounter.
October 16, 2019
THE OATH
DescriptionDescription A prisoner is found unconscious in his cell after an attempted suicide. The prison doctor is called to resuscitate the man and so must face an ethical dilemma.
October 16, 2019
THE ORIENTAL NIGHTFISH
DescriptionDescription Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during the Halloween season plus the rarely seen otherworldly animations of Ian Emes and more....
October 16, 2019
THE ORIGINS OF BEETHOVEN’S MOONLIGHT SONATA
DescriptionDescription Film preservation also means exhibition to AFI. This extraordinary program of rare films saved and/or restored by AFI includes the long lost first OUR GANG movie, the oldest surviving AfricanAmerican feature, a lost Harold Lloyd comedy and a lost Edison color film. The OUR GANG/UTILE RASCALS movie titled OUR GANG ( 1922, 8 min)...
October 16, 2019
PALJAS
DescriptionDescription In an unusual mix of realism and whimsy, this masterful South African drama takes an inspired approach to the question of prejudice in small town communities. The once-normal McDonald family is now isolated and nine-year-old Willem has stopped talking. When a circus train full of animals is left behind at the town railway station,...
October 16, 2019
PECULIAR PATIENTS PRANKS
DescriptionDescription Film preservation also means exhibition to AFI. This extraordinary program of rare films saved and/or restored by AFI includes the long lost first OUR GANG movie, the oldest surviving AfricanAmerican feature, a lost Harold Lloyd comedy and a lost Edison color film. The OUR GANG/UTILE RASCALS movie titled OUR GANG ( 1922, 8 min)...
October 16, 2019
MY MOTHER DREAMS THE SATAN DISCIPLES IN NEW YORK
DescriptionDescription A mother/daughter/biker comedy about a Midwestern housewife who travels to Manhattan for the first time and begins to spin a fantasy about the Satan Disciples motorcycle club across the street from her daughter's apartment.
October 16, 2019
MY SON THE FANATIC
DescriptionDescription Parvez, a taxi driver in Britain, can't break out of his working class status and afford a better life for his wife, Minoa and son, Farid. Working into the night to earn his keep, Parvez endures condescension from people like Schultz, a private client he chauffeurs around town and matches up with local prostitute...
October 16, 2019
OUR GANG
DescriptionDescription Film preservation also means exhibition to AFI. This extraordinary program of rare films saved and/or restored by AFI includes the long lost first OUR GANG movie, the oldest surviving AfricanAmerican feature, a lost Harold Lloyd comedy and a lost Edison color film. The OUR GANG/UTILE RASCALS movie titled OUR GANG ( 1922, 8 min)...
