October 11, 2021
VIDEO VISIT
DescriptionBiosDescription Each week, people visit the Brooklyn Public Library to video call incarcerated loved ones. A story of two mothers and their sons, and the librarians who keep the families connected. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Bios Malika Zouhali-Worrall is a British/Moroccan filmmaker based in New York. An Emmy® Award-winning director, her directing...
October 11, 2021
WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (RAS VKHEDAVT, RODESAC CAS VUKUREBT?)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription After a seemingly predestined pair of romantic encounters, pharmacist Lisa and soccer player Giorgi arrange a date, but after a peculiar curse strikes the pair, each awakens with an altered appearance, leaving them unrecognizable to one another. A seedling, a rain gutter and even the wind attempt to communicate with them, but the two...
October 11, 2021
THE TSUGUA DIARIES (DIÁRIOS DE OTSOGA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription When lockdown halted production, Lisbon-based filmmakers Miguel Gomes (TABU, ARABIAN NIGHTS) and Maureen Fazendeiro (BLACK SUN, MOTU MAEVA) incorporated their interrupted project organically into a playful meta-premise: friends Crista, Carloto and João are building a greenhouse for butterflies, cleaning out an above-ground pool and participating in spontaneous dance parties when there is a sudden...
October 11, 2021
UNCLENCHING THE FISTS (RAZZHIMAYA KULAKI)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Russia Official International Feature Film Oscar® Submission Following the theatrical screening, watch a special conversation with director Kira Kovalenko moderated by AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan. In a remote North Caucasus mining town, Ada is coming of age in a deeply dysfunctional family isolated by the men that surround her: a clingy younger brother,...
October 11, 2021
tick, tick…BOOM!
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Opening Night / World Premiere There will be a post-screening conversation with Lin-Manuel Miranda (Director), Andrew Garfield (Actor), Robin De Jesus (Actor), Alexandra Shipp (Actor) and Steven Levenson (Screenwriter) moderated by filmmaker Rian Johnson. Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award® winner Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his feature directorial debut with tick, tick…BOOM!, an adaptation of the...
October 11, 2021
TO WHAT REMAINS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription World Premiere Over 200 aircrafts were shot down over the island of Palau in the South Pacific during World War II. In the early 1990s, Dr. Pat Scannon went to Palau to help a dive team locate a Japanese trawler sunk on a mission by future President George H.W. Bush during the war. With...
October 11, 2021
THE TRAIN STATION
DescriptionBiosContactDescription In this beautifully animated documentary short, filmmaker Lyana Patrick narrates her family's powerful story of love and survival at Lejac Indian Residential School. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 1 Bios Lyana Patrick is a member of the Stellat’en First Nation (Carrier Nation) on her father’s side and Acadian/Scottish on her mother’s...
October 11, 2021
THEY WON’T CALL IT MURDER
DescriptionBiosDescription Mothers, sisters and grandmothers of those killed by Columbus police, seeking justice in a community bound together by grief and a system that refuses to call these killings murder. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 4 Bios Melissa Gira Grant is a staff writer covering justice at The New Republic. Ingrid Raphaël...
October 11, 2021
TAKEOVER
DescriptionBiosContactDescription An exploration of July 14, 1970, when members of the Young Lords Party stormed the Lincoln Hospital in South Bronx, making their cries for decent healthcare heard by the world. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 3 Bios Emma Francis-Snyder is a New York-based activist and documentary filmmaker. She is a 2020...
October 11, 2021
SUNDOWN
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Michel Franco returns to AFI FEST with his latest film which follows a family emergency that summons siblings Neil and Alice Bennett away from their luxurious Acapulco vacation and back to London, with Neil conveniently discovering his passport has disappeared, keeping him in Mexico with thin promises of a speedy return. Armed with his...
