October 1, 2022
GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Jacquelyn Mills. On the remote Sable Island off the coast of Nova Scotia lives conservationist Zoe Lucas. After first falling in love with the island as a bright-eyed art student in the ‘70s, Lucas became a self-taught naturalist and stayed as one of the few...
October 1, 2022
THE FLYING SAILOR
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription US Premiere Two ships collide in a harbor, an explosion shatters a city and a sailor is blasted skyward. THE FLYING SAILOR is a contemplation of the wonder and fragility of existence. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Bios Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis joined forces to direct WHEN THE DAY BREAKS (1999),...
October 1, 2022
FIRE BORN
DescriptionTrailerDescription Ruby, who lost her mother at birth to gun violence, works as a cop in Los Angeles. Drawing her gun to stop a robbery, she finds herself in the same situation as when she was born. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 8 Trailer
October 1, 2022
FIVE
DescriptionDescription After spending seven years in prison, Malcolm seeks to mend his relationship with his mother while devoting himself as a consistent and faithful new convert to Islam. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1
October 1, 2022
THE FIVE DEVILS
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription In this darkly enthralling tale, a strange little girl named Vicky (Sally Dramé) possesses an exceptional gift for scent. Adoringly attached to her mother Joanne (Adèle Exarchopoulos), who is a swimming coach, Vicky secretly collects and reproduces concoctions of various scents in jars. When her father’s estranged sister, Julia (Swala Emati), unexpectedly returns to...
October 1, 2022
FINDING VEGA
DescriptionTrailerDescription A coming-of-age story of a rebellious Chinese American girl named Xing who has a passionate love for the starry sky and discovers the complexities of her ill mother's love and spirit. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 6 Trailer
October 1, 2022
THE FABELMANS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription US Premiere A film that has been 75 years in the making, Steven Spielberg’s THE FABELMANS is a soul-bearing and spellbinding movie memoir for the ages. Set in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, this semi-autobiographical coming-of-age epic is told through the lens of Sammy Fabelman, who falls in love with moviemaking and grapples...
October 1, 2022
THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription On the heels of her twofold memoir THE SOUVENIR, Joanna Hogg once again turns her lens to the tightly-wound, minute yet nebulous magnetism of mother-daughter relationships in this spiritual third installment. Starring the chameleonic Tilda Swinton as both Julie and her aging mother Rosalind, the two return to a former family manor that now functions...
October 1, 2022
EVERYTHING WRONG AND NOWHERE TO GO
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Los Angeles Premiere Plagued by overwhelming anxiety about climate change, a filmmaker starts seeing a climate psychologist in hopes that she can find some peace of mind about the end of the world. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Bios Sindha Agha is an Emmy®-nominated director, writer and visual artist. Agha kicked off...
October 1, 2022
THE ERL KING
DescriptionTrailerDescription When a young woman from a strict, religious family suddenly finds herself seduced by an ancient woodland god, she falls into a romance that threatens to consume her on the 1800s frontier. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 6 Trailer
