THIS HOUSE (CETTE MAISON)

DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Miryam Charles and actors Schelby Jean-Baptiste and Florence Blain Mbaye. On a wintery day in Bridgeport, Connecticut, 2008, a teenage girl named Tessa was mysteriously murdered in her own home. Ten years later, Canadian filmmaker and Tessa’s cousin, Miryam Charles, reopens the cold case in...

THE SWARMERS (SCHWARMTIERE)

DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Los Angeles premiere Karla is new at a highly traditional boarding school. Because she breaks the nose of popular classmate Pombert on her very first day, her social decline becomes inevitable. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Bios Alison Kuhn was born in Germany and studies Directing at Film University Babelsberg. Her film...

SUCK HARD

DescriptionTrailerDescription Reeling from an earth-shattering break up, 17-year-old Zoe must confront all that is left of her first love: a cardboard box of “stuff.” Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 8 Trailer

SUBJECT

DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with co-director Jennifer Tiexiera and co-producers and participants Ahmed Hassan, Margie Ratliff and Mukunda Angulo. From award-winning filmmakers Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall, SUBJECT considers the ethical complications inherent in documentary filmmaking and leads an in-depth investigation into the documentarian and subject relationship. In revisiting notable works,...

“SR.”

DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Chris Smith and producers Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey and Kevin Ford. A tender, career-spanning chronicle of the irreverent, underground filmmaker Robert Downey Sr., who directed films for nearly 50 years, including the iconoclastic works of PUTNEY SWOPE (1969), GREASER’S PALACE (1972) and CHAFED ELBOWS...

THE SPIRAL

DescriptionBiosContactDescription US Premiere A WhatsApp audio begins, and with it, a downward spiral unfolds. The voice of a woman sinking into a health anxiety attack quickly entangles a complex labyrinth of fears and emotions. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Bios María Silvia Esteve is an Argentine film director. Her debut documentary film SILVIA...

SIERRA

DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A father and his son are losing the folk race. In order to win, the boy turns himself into a car tire. Loosely inspired by the director's childhood, SIERRA pulls us into the surreal car racing world. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5 Bios Sander Joon uses animation to create surreal worlds with...

SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING (FUMER FAIT TOUSSER)

DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux (DEERSKIN, AFI FEST 2019) returns with another delightfully absurdist comedy, featuring a band of spandex-clad vigilante superheroes called the Tobacco Force - Benzene, Nicotine, Methanol, Mercury and Ammonia – who channel the negative effects of smoking to combat the enemy. When it becomes clear that their group cohesion is faltering,...

THE SON

DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with Florian Zeller, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Ben Smithard and Iain Canning. Florian Zeller follows up his previous feature THE FATHER (AFI FEST 2020) with an affecting spiritual sequel adapted from his own stage play. Peter (Hugh Jackman) has a fraught relationship with his teenage son Nicholas (Zen McGrath)...

SOREDIA

DescriptionTrailerDescription During an improvised trip to the California mountains, a self-conscious French girl studying in the U.S. finds herself lost and, desperate for a sense of belonging, decides to act on her growing obsession towards her charismatic new friend. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 8 Trailer

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