October 16, 2019
MUCH ADO ABOUT PUBERTY
DescriptionDescription A 16th century Elizabethan family of three finds themselves living in suburban America.
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
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...
October 16, 2019
THE LITTLE GIRL WHO FELL FROM A TREE
DescriptionDescription SINGLE WHITE FEMALE meets FATAL ATIRACTION in this exciting psycho-thriller set in Berlin. A troubled young couple unable to have children find their lives infiltrated by a seductive young woman who moves into the adjacent flat. Flashes of a little girl's past reveal an abusive father, a magnificent tree, and the little girl hiding...
October 16, 2019
LOVE WITHOUT SOCKS
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...
October 16, 2019
MANUEL OCAMPO: GOD IS MY CO-PILOT
DescriptionDescription Philippine-born contemporary artist Manuel Ocampo and his unforgettably provocative paintings have been a staple of the Los Angeles art scene and galleries throughout the world for the past decade, mixing religious iconography with debasing images of regal cockroaches and rats shooting heroin, and in turn delivering a jolting re-appropriation of anti-colonial, multicultural themes through...
October 16, 2019
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....
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
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...
