September 28, 2020
WOLFWALKERS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription USA Premiere Following the film, AFI Festivals Director of Programming Sarah Harris leads a conversation with filmmakers Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart. In 17th-century Ireland, a magical friendship takes shape. Young Robyn and her wolf-hunter father, Bill, are sent from England tasked with ridding the woodland outside of town of wolves. After being told...
September 28, 2020
VEIL
DescriptionTrailerDescription When Leila, a Muslim teenager, shows up to her senior prom in a conservative and modest dress, her beliefs, culture and sense of identity gets tested. Trailer
September 28, 2020
THE VISIT
DescriptionBioContactTrailerDescription North America Premiere Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Yuan Yuan (HEADING SOUTH), Azadeh Moussavi (THE VISIT), Rim Nakhli (NOUR), Tayler Montague (IN SUDDEN DARKNESS), Danski Tang (UMBILICAL) and Naïla Guiguet (DUSTIN). After six months, Elaheh is finally allowed to visit her husband, who is a political...
September 28, 2020
WANDER DARKLY
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Following the film, AFI FEST Senior Programmer Claudia Puig leads a conversation with director Tara Miele and actor Sienna Miller. How would you regard the arc of a romance if you could revisit it? This visually stunning, moving and time-bending drama is told assuredly by director Tara Miele. The viewer is rewarded with an...
September 28, 2020
VOTE NEIL
DescriptionBioContactTrailerDescription Neil is a first-time politician running for State House. Mike is his fiancé and campaign manager searching for purpose. An intimate portrait about politics, the Southern LGBTQ experience and one incredible love story. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 7 Bio Honora Talbott is a writer and director driven to tell stories...
September 28, 2020
THE WATERMELON WOMAN
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Following the film, film scholar and Cinema's Legacy guest curator Racquel Gates leads a conversation with Michael B. Gillespie, Hannah Giorgis and Terri Francis. Aspiring filmmaker and video store clerk Cheryl, self-referentially portrayed by director/writer/editor Cheryl Dunye, is embarking on a documentary project tracing the unwritten history of an unidentified Black actress spotted in...
September 28, 2020
UNDER THE OPEN SKY
DescriptionBiosDescription Film critic Amy Nicholson leads a conversation with filmmaker Miwa Nishikawa. Having been behind bars for 13 years for murder, Masao Mikami (Koji Yakusho) is released from prison and now finds himself in a world very different than the one he knew when he went in. As a tatted and scarred ex-Yakuza man, settling...
September 28, 2020
UNCLE FRANK
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Following the film, AFI Director of Programming Sarah Harris leads a conversation between filmmaker Alan Ball and actors Paul Bettany, Peter Macdissi and Sophia Lillis. Beth has always been keen on her uncle Frank. On the rare occasions whenever he would visit them in rural South Carolina from New York City, she would revel...
September 28, 2020
UNITED STATES OF JOE’S
DescriptionBIODescription In rural Utah, a valley of world-class bouldering is nestled among a conservative community of Mormons, cowboys and coal miners. When punk rock climbers show up, cultures clash, but the story doesn’t end there. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 6 BIO Peter Mortimer is the founder of Sender Films, which he...
September 28, 2020
TRAGIC JUNGLE (SELVA TRÁGICA)
DescriptionBiosDescription Following the film, AFI Festivals Director of Programming Sarah Harris leads a conversation with filmmaker Yulene Olaizola and actress Indira Andrewin. Set in 1920, a Belizean woman desperately trying to get away from a white British landowner heads into the only place she can: deep into the Mayan rainforest. The jungle gives, but it...
