October 16, 2019
A CHILD FROM THE SOUTH
DescriptionDescription 1993 Academy Award nominee Pete Postlethwaite stars in this compelling feature from Brazilian filmmaker Sergio Rezende. One of the high points of the 1991 AFF, A Child from the South tells the story of Nadia, a young journalist who returns home to her native South Africa to cover a UN conference. A political exile...
October 16, 2019
THE CHILE CON CARNE CLUB
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
ANDY WARHOL’S FRANKENSTEIN (FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN)
DescriptionDescription A mad scientist, married to his sister, spends his time kidnapping, cutting up, and sewing together young people in order to create a perfect male and female specimen. A vision of a new generation of almost catatonic youth-sexually indiscriminate, interchangeable in their parts ... a highly original and perversely fascinating movie.-Paul Zimmerman, Newsweek.
October 16, 2019
BARREN LIVES (VIDAS SECAS)
DescriptionDescription AFI Film Fest is honored to host this special screening of the film that helped bring Brazil's Cinema Novo movement to international attention. Often compared to Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, this landmark film tells the inspirational story of one family's pilgrimage through the sertao (Brazil's rugged northeast) in search of a better life....
October 16, 2019
BENDERS
DescriptionDescription In Benders, Franny, an alcoholic, falls desperately for Jack, a crisis hotline operator and recovering addict. This truly human tale touchingly portrays two lost people who struggle together to overcome alcoholism and loneliness. In Starbaby, a star-struck waif adrift in Hollywood is taken in by celebrity-hounds, falls for Luke Perry, and hangs out with...
October 16, 2019
BLACK HARVEST (SORT HOST)
DescriptionDescription A haunting epic drama about the tragedies, passions, and losses of a wealthy Danish family. Set in Denmark's countryside at the turn of the century, this is a dark tale about a tyrannical patriarch whose black-hearted desires sweep him, his wife, and his four daughters towards a bitter and tragic end. While his submissive...
October 16, 2019
BLOOD FOR DRACULA
DescriptionDescription In this delightful mixture of gore, myth, and sex set in Italy, Udo Kier plays a youngish Dracula who lives on virgin blood. When he preys on a family with four pretty daughters, Dracula gets his comeuppance. "A respectful, yet mocking handling of the vampire legend with some graceful love scenes and some harrowing...
October 16, 2019
BLOODS ON THE MOON
DescriptionDescription Frederic Cassidy's Kissing Time is a reverential and referential tribute to silent films, made in the tradition of 1920s cinema. Bloods on the Moon is a textured examination of a father forced to decide which to believe, his instinct or his love for his son. Elizabeth's fiance has left her for another in Shoe...
October 16, 2019
ANDY WARHOL’S FRANKENSTEIN (FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN)
DescriptionDescription A mad scientist, married to his sister, spends his time kidnapping, cutting up, and sewing together young people in order to create a perfect male and female specimen. A vision of a new generation of almost catatonic youth-sexually indiscriminate, interchangeable in their parts ... a highly original and perversely fascinating movie.-Paul Zimmerman, Newsweek.
October 16, 2019
BARREN LIVES (VIDAS SECAS)
DescriptionDescription AFI Film Fest is honored to host this special screening of the film that helped bring Brazil's Cinema Novo movement to international attention. Often compared to Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, this landmark film tells the inspirational story of one family's pilgrimage through the sertao (Brazil's rugged northeast) in search of a better life....
