October 16, 2019
THE MAESTRO: KING OF THE COWBOY ARTISTS
DescriptionDescription SWORN TO THE DRUM: A TRIBUTE TO FRANCISCO AGUABELLA, depicts the Afro-Cuban drummer and composer, a fixture on the U.S. Latin music scene since the 1950s, honored with the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Award in 1992. Known for his vital cinematic portrayals of roots music and musicians ( The Blues Accordin'...
October 16, 2019
CAPRICIOUS SUMMER (ROZMARNÉ LÉTO)
DescriptionDescription This is a not to be missed delight from award winning director Jirf Menzel ( Closely Watched Trains, My Sweet Little Village, Cutting It ShorO. At a second-rate turn of the century resort, the pool manager, a priest and an ex-major spend a sleepy summer day swimming, drinking, eating and pontificating on life in...
October 16, 2019
LAND OF DARKNESS
DescriptionDescription As the closing event of the Tribute to Contemporary Mexican Cinema, the AFI Fest is proud to present this extraordinary debut film. Shot in the San Gabriel mountain range near Los Angeles with Mexican funds, this film cost less than $20,000. During the violent chaos of the Mexican Revolution, 'a young, idealistic priest becomes...
October 16, 2019
LAST SUMMER IN THE HAMPTONS
DescriptionDescription A FI Fest is proud to present the West Coast premiere of the eleventh film from acclaimed writer-director Henry Jaglom. Filmed entirely on location in East Hampton, Long Island, Last Summer in the Hamptons concerns three generations of a large theatrical family spending the last weekend of their last summer together at the decades-old...
October 16, 2019
LEMONADE JOE (LIMONÁDOVY JOE ANEB KONSKÁ OPERA)
DescriptionDescription At the Trigger Whiskey Saloon, bad girl Tornado Lou (Kveta Fialova) sings, and temperance crusader Olga Schoberova (a Playboy cover girl) is menaced by the hard-drinking baddies, when to the rescue rides white-hatted Karel Fiala as Lemonade Joe! Hilarious parody of the Western (the last hall of the Czech title means "or horse opera"),...
October 16, 2019
A LIGHT-SENSITIVE STORY
DescriptionDescription A touching portrayal of a young woman's struggle to survive in a hostile environment. Juli is a single parent, former photojournalist now reduced to taking school portraits. Her personar'tife is in shambles as she tries to find work, get a new flat, and deal with minor deceits and betrayals. Luck refuses to shine on...
October 16, 2019
BRIDE TO BE (NOVIA QUE TE VEA)
DescriptionDescription Two young Jewish women, both Mexican by birth, co-exist in modern Mexico City. One of the girls belongs to a Sefardic family whose speech and customs recall medieval Spain from which the Jews were expelled in 1492. The other is from an Ashkenazy family scarred by memories of the Holocaust. The two struggle to...
October 16, 2019
KOREA
DescriptionDescription A stylistically photographed, moody story of a family in a rural Irish village in 1952. Young Eamon Doyle lives with his fisherman father, a grumbling man set in his ways. Other young men in the economically depleted area have emigrated to America to find a better life, only to find themselves conscripted into the...
October 16, 2019
KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER
DescriptionDescription An epic love story based on Nobel prize winner Sigrid Undset's beloved 1928 trilogy "The Bridal Wreath." Medieval Norway is gorgeously filmed by Sven Nykvist. Kristin, the innocent and virtuous daughter of a prominent landowner, has gone to spend a year in a convent after an attempted rape. Although she is promised in an...
October 16, 2019
LAND AND FREEDOM
DescriptionDescription Land and Freedom is a wonderful, dismayed epic, and the finest film that Englishman Ken Loach has made, a movie worthy of George Orwell and Homage to Cataloma. A young Communist from Liverpool goes off to Spain on his own to join the revolutionary militia. He sees battle- captured with brilliant, nervy exactness-as well...
