October 11, 2021
MISTRESS DISPELLER
DescriptionBiosContactDescription World Premiere A professional “mistress dispeller” works with a married couple struggling with infidelity in contemporary China. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5 Bios Elizabeth Lo is an award-winning filmmaker featured on Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” and DOC NYC’s “40 Under 40 List,” and has presented her work at...
October 11, 2021
MISERY LOVES COMPANY
DescriptionBiosContactDescription One night, Seolgi is lying on a grass field with friends. A shooting star falls, and dark and intrusive thoughts hits her and her melancholy blooms into "flower people." Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Bios Sasha Lee is an animator based in South Korea and graduate of RISD. In the name of...
October 11, 2021
MISSION: HEBRON
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Israeli soldiers are recruited at age 18 and, only months later, are already overseeing Palestinian civil life. Former soldiers describe their time in Hebron, the most troubled city in the West Bank. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 5 Bios Rona Segal is an Israeli filmmaker and writer of the feature film...
October 11, 2021
MANO SANTA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A grandfather harbors his runaway grandson after fleeing the constraints of home. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 4 Bios Steph Camacho is a filmmaker and photographer from Puerto Rico. They are known for writing and directing the multi-award-winning LGBTQ+ shorts SAM (2017) and MANO SANTA (2020). Other short format works include NIHILO (2021),...
October 11, 2021
MELTDOWN IN DIXIE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A film exploring the broader role of Confederate symbolism in the 21st century and the lingering racial oppression which these symbols help maintain. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 4 Bios Emily Harrold is a documentary filmmaker from Orangeburg, South Carolina. Her films have screened at festivals including the Tribeca Film Festival,...
October 11, 2021
MASS AVE
DescriptionContactDescription Over a day of landscaping work, a first generation African American and his immigrant father have their relationship and outlooks on life transformed irreversibly when racially profiled by police. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1 Contact Susan Dretzka AFI Conservatory sdretzka@afi.com
October 11, 2021
MEDUSA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Anita Rocha da Silveira (KILL ME PLEASE) returns to AFI FEST with MEDUSA, a modern horror-satire that fiercely critiques evangelical fanaticism in a Brazil which draws eerie comparisons to American society. Mariana (played with verve by Mari Oliveira) is part of a Christian girl gang that roughs up women they deem to be sinners...
October 11, 2021
MEMORIA
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Colombia Official International Feature Film Oscar® Submission While visiting Bogotá, Colombia, Jessica (Tilda Swinton), a Scottish orchid farmer grappling with deep existential unease, becomes tormented by a sound only she can hear: the heavy thud of a falling metal ball. But when a sound engineer recreates the noise, Jessica finds that communicating the unplaceable...
October 11, 2021
LOVE, DAD (MILÝ TATI)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription She finds letters full of love her dad wrote her years ago. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Bios Diana Cam Van Nguyen is a Czech-Vietnamese director based in Prague. In her works, she focuses on personal topics through the means of animated documentary. Contact Luce Grosjean Miyu Distribution festival@miyu.fr
October 11, 2021
LYNCHING POSTCARDS: 'TOKEN OF A GREAT DAY'
DescriptionBiosContactDescription From 1880–1968 over 4,000 African Americans were lynched at the hands of white mobs. These lynchings were commemorated through souvenir postcards that would ultimately be subverted by Black activists to expose racist violence in the U.S. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 4 Bios Christine Turner is a filmmaker whose work has...
