October 16, 2019
MY BEAUTIFUL ME
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
THE INHERITORS
DescriptionDescription This slyly political feature is as much about Austria's rural class system in the 1930s as it is a wry commentary on the nature of utopia. The title refers to seven servants and the windfall they receive when their landowner boss dies under suspicious circumstances. In his will, their mocking master leaves his estate...
October 16, 2019
INTERNET LOVE
DescriptionDescription A transcontinental love story that follows electronic pen pals in Los Angeles and Germany who start getting amorous, INTERNET LOVE is as much about the dehumanizing effect of computers as it is about the questionable authenticity of any idealized relationships. When the heartsick Laura gets too frustrated in Germany dating Daniel through her keyboard,...
October 16, 2019
ISN’T IT ROMANTIC
DescriptionDescription After celebrating a buddy's birthday at a strip bar, Alan, thinking he's helping a stranded motorist, picks up the wrong girl at the wrong time on the wrong stretch of Hollywood Boulevard and ends up busted by the cops a la Hugh Grant. Now, a week later, Alan's wife Laura has kicked him out...
October 16, 2019
JEROME
DescriptionDescription In this nine-to-five, work-oriented world - who hasn't thought of escaping their everyday responsibilities? JEROME is a day-inthe- life story of one such dreamer, Wade Hampton, who has been trapped for the last 15 years in an unfulfilling existence at an assembly-line factory in Bakersfield, CA. One day, Wade walks away from his job,...
October 16, 2019
JUGOFILM
DescriptionDescription Many films have brought home the tragedy of war by focusing on the plight of those fighting on the front lines. Young Milan and his family have managed to avoid the holocaust consuming those trapped in Yugoslavia, but they are concerned for the safety of Milan's grandmother, who still dwells in the war-torn country....
October 16, 2019
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.
October 16, 2019
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...
October 16, 2019
IN THE NAVEL OF THE SEA
DescriptionDescription In a remote fishing island in the 1950s, Pepito grows up learning the trade of his mother, the only midwife capable of delivering the newborn babies of the comm'unity. At first, the young son doesn't mind the unusual arrangement, but as he grows older, he begins to resist the role traditionally meant only for...
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....
