October 1, 2022
JOYLAND
DescriptionBiosDescription U.S. Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Saim Sadiq and producer Apoorva Guru Charan. In his ravishing feature debut, Pakistani filmmaker Saim Sadiq astutely observes a patriarchal, lower-middle-class family’s hesitant explorations of desire and intimacy. When Haider (Ali Junejo), the affable but directionless second son, lands a gig as a...
October 1, 2022
I THOUGHT THE EARTH REMEMBERED ME
DescriptionTrailerDescription A terminally ill woman journeys back to the place where she once lived with the love of her life over thirty years ago. The place where she chooses to live out her last days and die on her own terms. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 5 Trailer
October 1, 2022
IS THAT BLACK ENOUGH FOR YOU?!?
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Elvis Mitchell and moderator David Fincher. With candor and a vital, unapologetic insight, film critic Elvis Mitchell takes us on a journey through the films that shaped him, those Hollywood-produced depictions of the Black experience that have always had an inordinate power to shape perception...
October 1, 2022
IT’S RAINING FROGS OUTSIDE (AMPANGABAGAT NIN TALAKBA HA LIKOL)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Los Angeles premiere The world is about to end. Maya is forced to go home to the province of Zambales. There, she confronts her childhood house that terrorizes her as frogs rain outside. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Bios Maria Estela Paiso has worked in post-production since 2016, editing several features and...
October 1, 2022
HUMAN FLOWERS OF FLESH
DescriptionBiosDescription Ida (Angeliki Papoulia of DOGTOOTH) leads a crew of five men on a sailing yacht. After becoming fascinated with the French Foreign Legion at a port in Marseille, she sets sail for Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria – the Legion’s historical headquarters – on a mystical journey across the Mediterranean Sea. In its most enchanting,...
October 1, 2022
A HUNDRED FLOWERS (HYAKKA)
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription North American Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Genki Kawamura. In this delicate feature debut from director Genki Kawamura, adapted from his own novel, Izumi finds his mother Yuriko wandering in the freezing cold on New Year’s Eve. The aging piano teacher is soon diagnosed with dementia, causing a rift...
October 1, 2022
HUMANS ARE DUMBER WHEN CRAMMED UP TOGETHER (LES HUMAINS SONT CONS QUAND ILS S’EMPILENT)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription US Premiere Locked up in their own apartments, some neighbors tell the camera about the little troubles of life in a community. Little by little, when everything piles up, it's enough to drive one mad. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Bios First interested in drawing, Laurène Fernandez completed a year of Applied...
October 1, 2022
HELLION (2014)
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Kat Candler and actor Josh Wiggins. Featuring remarkably nuanced, heart-wrenching performances, this vérité-style drama set in southeastern Texas follows motocross-obsessed 13-year-old Jacob Wilson, in a breakout performance from Josh Wiggins, whose behavior becomes increasingly delinquent after the death of his mother. When Child Protective Services...
October 1, 2022
HEAD OF A WOMAN / HEAD OF A MAN
DescriptionTrailerDescription A lost young man, struggling with his sense of self, encounters St. Francis of Assisi in the woods. The two share an intimate connection that forges an unwavering love. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3 Trailer
October 1, 2022
HOW TO BE A PERSON: HOW TO GET AN ABORTION
DescriptionBiosContactDescription If Alfie hadn’t dumped her, Sanam would never have booty-called Jawad. Now Sanam needs to get an abortion. How does she even do that and what will her Baba say if he finds out? Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Bios Sindha Agha is an Emmy®-nominated director, writer and visual artist. Agha kicked...
