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)...

PAIN CHAIN

DescriptionDescription Three characters' lives are overturned by the arrival of an enchanted amulet that has the power to transfer pain from one person to another.

MITZI AND JOE

DescriptionDescription The AFI Fest is proud to spotlight Filmmakers Alliance, the cutting-edge Los Angeles filmmaking collective, by screening its latest collection of short films under the title of "Love and Death" -four darkly comic takes on love, crime, relationships, birth, death and socks. The four films will be preceeded by a PSA on domestic abuse...

MOVIN’ TO MONTANA

DescriptionDescription The thoughtful tale of a fatherless boy, Jesse, who runs away from home believing that football great Joe Montana is his father.

MR. ZHAO

DescriptionDescription Stories of adultery always transcend cultural boundaries, and "Mr. Zhao" is no exception. When the title character, a teacher, begins an affair with one of his former students, his wife follows him and discovers the infidelity. Complicating matters, his mistress reveals that she's carrying his child. Not wanting to sever responsibility completely for the...

MUCH ADO ABOUT PUBERTY

DescriptionDescription A 16th century Elizabethan family of three finds themselves living in suburban America.

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)...

THE OTHER CONQUEST

DescriptionDescription Through a startling visual and aural tapestry of fact. fiction and spirituality, THE OTHER CONQUEST tells the story of Emperor Moctezuma's illegitimate son, the Aztec scribe Topiltzin, who is trying to adapt to a new, hostile world after the 1521 Spanish Conquest of Mexico. When the Spaniards discover a clandestine human sacrifice, Topiltzin is...

MEETING DADDY

DescriptionDescription In the role of his lifetime, Lloyd Bridges is "Daddy," the South's (and possibly the world's) most wily and manipulative father. Peter is a transplanted New Yorker who is having a hard time loving Los Angeles -- that is, until he meets Melanie, the girl of his dreams. Peter is Jewish. Melanie is southern....

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.

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