October 1, 2022
RINGING ROCKS
DescriptionTrailerDescription A young man supporting his boyfriend's recovery from paranoid delusions takes him on a romantic getaway to an isolated desert resort, only to start questioning his own grip on reality. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 5 Trailer
October 1, 2022
SAN GABRIEL VALLEY
DescriptionTrailerDescription Ten months after she moved to the United States with her husband Qinyi, Supin learns her favorite student at the Chinese piano shop is about to leave the country. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 5 Trailer
October 1, 2022
SAINT OMER
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Alice Diop. It’s a haunting scenario that keeps her awake at night: a young woman gently laying down her 15-month-old daughter upon the shoreline and allowing the sea to claim her. For novelist Rama, the very thought is shattering, both as a newly expectant parent...
October 1, 2022
REWIND & PLAY
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be preceded by a special introduction from historian Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. French-Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis exhumes and reedits raw footage from an excruciating, never-aired 1969 interview with legendary jazz pianist Thelonious Monk. Intended for French television and conducted in...
October 1, 2022
PIAFFE
DescriptionBiosDescription In a playful exploration of gender, eroticism and control, the introverted Eva (Simone Bucio) is tasked with completing her sibling Zara’s work as a foley artist after Zara is admitted into a psychiatric hospital. Struggling through the sessions for a commercial for a mood-stabilizing drug curiously featuring dressage imagery, Eva finds herself growing a...
October 1, 2022
THE PORTRAIT
DescriptionTrailerDescription Celebrating the five-year anniversary of his clothing line, fashion designer Dorian Gray must decide whether or not to sell his company to accomplished designer Cornelius Black. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 8 Trailer
October 1, 2022
ONE MAN BAND
DescriptionDescription A depressed organ recipient embarks on a life-changing journey to fulfill the last wish of his donor by forming an amateur band with the donor’s other two organ recipients. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 7
October 1, 2022
PACIFICTION
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Albert Serra. Turning his lens to the tropical landscapes of Tahiti, Albert Serra’s latest marks a departure from his usual subject of historical aristocratic decay, which culminated with the debaucherous LIBERTÉ (AFI FEST 2019). A dreamy, hypnotic political thriller, PACIFICTION observes the uneasy relationships on...
October 1, 2022
ON XERXES’ THRONE (ΣΤΟΝ ΘΡΟΝΟ ΤΟΥ ΞΕΡΞΗ)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription US Premiere At the Perama shipyard, a ban on physical contact has turned human interaction into otherworldly simulations. The suppression of touch has transformed the boatyard into a charged landscape of repressed sensuality. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5 Bios Evi Kalogiropoulou is a filmmaker and visual artist working in Athens and London,...
October 1, 2022
ONE FINE MORNING (UN BEAU MATIN)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Following two travel films in a row - the India-set MAYA (AFI FEST 2018) and the metatextual BERGMAN ISLAND - Mia Hansen-Løve returns to her Parisian roots with another intricately melancholic work of auto-fiction. Léa Seydoux illuminates the screen as Sandra, a translator and single mother balancing raising her daughter and caring for her...
