October 16, 2019
HUNTING TIGERS
DescriptionDescription Kim Longinotto's and Jano Williams' Dream Girls is a fascinating documentary about the Takarazuka Revue, a musical troupe in Japan dedicated to romantic Hollywood-style musical extravaganzas, staged with spectacular sets and choreographyand an all-female cast. In Bui Doi: Life Like Dust, directors Ahrin Mishan and Nick Rothenberg create a subtle portrait of an imprisoned...
October 16, 2019
I’M NOT COOKING TONIGHT
DescriptionDescription A wryly comical and inventive debut feature that captures the dynamics of love across cultures. Takaya Yamazaki, a Japanese native, based this story on his own relationship with his midwestern-born wife and the stormy waters that they sailed before finally settling into marriage. We find the couple engaged in a romantic "cold war" when...
October 16, 2019
IL CAPITANO
DescriptionDescription An austere but oddly powerful narrative of a young Finnish couple on a crime spree in Sweden that begins with minor burglaries and ends with a triple-murder. Based on a true story, the film has obvious echoes of the Manson killings, and Badlands. But Troell's film, with its subtle analysis of the master/slave relationship,...
October 16, 2019
THE INSATIABLE MRS. KIRSCH
DescriptionDescription From British director Ken Russell ( Tommy, Altered States) comes The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch, a tale which depicts the hilariously misguided passion of a writer who becomes obsessed with the mysterious, passionate, intriguingly insatiable Mrs. Kirsch. Director
October 16, 2019
DEKALOG 1
DescriptionDescription Krzysztof (Henryk Baranowski), a middle-aged mathematician, uses his home computers to strengthen his relationship with his young son (Wojciech Klata). Krzysztof insists on raising his son according to principles of scientific rationalism, and realizes-tragically-that his computer calculations cannot render the world predictable or safe. Henry Sheehan (Hollywood Reporter) commented "Kieslowski sketches out a complete...
October 16, 2019
HELAS POUR MOI
DescriptionDescription AFI Fest is proud to present as its Middle Gala Jean-Luc Godard's internationally acclaimed new film, Helas Pour Mai, starring French superstar Gerard Depardieu and Laurence Masliah. Depardieu plays Simon, an ordinary man whose body is briefly inhabited by God. The film focuses on the relationship between Simon and his wile Rachel (Laurence Masliah),...
October 16, 2019
HELICOPTER
DescriptionDescription Dora Was Dysfunctional is a sweetly comic tale about a quirky young woman searching for love. When her boyfriend leaves her, she finds comfort in the Ukrainian love rituals recommended by her immigrant grandmother. Eugene, aka Helicopter, acts as manager for his friend Malik, prepping him for try-outs for the USC basketball team. Helicopter...
October 16, 2019
HIGH SCHOOL II
DescriptionDescription One of America's foremost documentarians, Frederick Wiseman ( Titicut Follies), continues his examination of American institutional life with High School II. Unrelated to his 1969 film High School, High Schoof'llfocuses on Central Park East Secondary School, a successful, public, alternative high school in New York's Spanish Harlem. The film gives a fascinating glimpse into...
October 16, 2019
THE HOUSE BUILT ON SAND (DOM NA PESKE)
DescriptionDescription Russia in the 1930s serves as the setting for this memorable drama of two women from disparate social backgrounds united in a strange, tumultuous, and ultimately destructive friendship. There is a Chekhov-like intimacy to Adomenaite's characters, a feeling of people being trapped together. They keep gravitating to a house in the country where they...
October 16, 2019
DEATH IN VENICE, CA
DescriptionDescription Underwater is the story of an introverted twelve-year-old girl, Patty Rose, who has developed a terrible fear of water since the death of her father. The collision of Patty's fantasies and a real-life crisis force her to confront her fears. Waving Not Drowning is the darkly comedic portrayal of a young man searching for...
