September 26, 2024
YUMMY
DescriptionBiosContactDescription USA Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: AFTER DARK Julia works as a dog food taste tester. After a brutal break up, dog food will never taste the same. Bios Martinus Klemet studied fine arts and animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts. His films have screened at numerous international festivals including Fredrikstad,...
September 26, 2024
VERMIGLIO
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Director Maura Delpero examines the intersection of midcentury gender politics, imposed tradition and religion in this year’s Silver Lion Grand Jury Winner from the Venice Film Festival. It is 1944 in the remote alpine village of Vermiglio, Italy. Removed from the immediacy of World War II, a big family lives under a strict patriarch,...
September 26, 2024
TWO PEOPLE EXCHANGING SALIVA (DEUX PERSONNES ÉCHANGEANT DE LA SALIVE)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Los Angeles Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: AFTER DARK In this absurdist tragedy set in a repressive society where kissing is punishable by death, an unhappy woman shops compulsively in a department store, fascinated by an ingenuous salesgirl. Bios Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata are a married couple and artistic collaborators. Singh...
September 26, 2024
UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE (UNE LANGUE UNIVERSELLE)
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Both screenings to be followed by a conversation with filmmaker Matthew Rankin and writer and producer Ila Firouzabadi. Winner of the first-ever Directors’ Fortnight Audience Award in Cannes, the delightfully offbeat second feature from Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin (THE TWENTIETH CENTURY) imagines a parallel universe somewhere between Winnipeg, Montreal and Tehran, where the dominant...
September 26, 2024
UNSTOPPABLE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director William Goldenberg, actors Jharrel Jerome and Jennifer Lopez, and subjects Anthony Robles and Judy Robles. UNSTOPPABLE tells the incredible real-life story of Anthony Robles, born without a leg, who became a champion high school and collegiate wrestler, winning an NCAA title in 2011. Despite his...
September 26, 2024
UNDER THE VOLCANO
DescriptionBiosDescription US Premiere Damian Kocur’s follow-up to his acclaimed debut BREAD AND SALT (2022) makes its U.S. premiere at AFI FEST a decade after his short 21 DAYS premiered at AFI DOCS in 2014. In the Polish filmmaker’s sophomore feature, a Ukrainian family of four vacationing abroad in the Canary Islands is suddenly forced into...
September 26, 2024
A TRAVELER’S NEEDS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Reuniting with prolific Korean director Hong Sang-soo for the third time, Isabelle Huppert stars as Iris, an eccentric French teacher making her way in Seoul. Clad in a bright green cardigan, she meets with a trio of students and probes their psyches to reveal an emotional truth worth translating. Her unorthodox methods are often...
September 26, 2024
TENNIS, ORANGES
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 A robotic vacuum suffering from burnout quits its job and sets out to find community and purpose on a quiet street where two lonely rabbits are stuck in perpetual loops. Bios Sean Pecknold is a film director based in Los Angeles. He has created films for...
September 26, 2024
TO A LAND UNKNOWN
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription One of the year's must-see narrative debuts which premiered at Cannes, Palestinian filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel's (A WORLD NOT OURS) visceral and timely thriller is set among a group of Palestinian refugees in Greece. Cousins Chatila (Mahmood Bakri) and Reda (Aram Sabbah) are stranded in a squat in Athens after fleeing a camp in Lebanon...
September 26, 2024
THANK YOU FOR BANKING WITH US!
DescriptionBiosContactDescription North American Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and writer Laila Abbas. Palestinian filmmaker Laila Abbas' stellar narrative feature debut is a riveting tale of two sisters unexpectedly reunited in a race against the clock to secure their inheritance under Islamic law. Mariam (Clara Khoury) and Noura (Yasmine Al Massri)...
