October 11, 2021
THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Norway Official International Feature Film Oscar® Submission Julie is experiencing an existential crisis of life and love. She’s altered her career path a handful of times and begins dating Aksel, an older and successful graphic novelist. As time goes on, Julie bristles against his need to settle down. When Julie crashes a party one...
October 11, 2021
WILDHOOD
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription US Premiere Talent attending in-person screening: Gharrett Paon (Producer), Damon D’Oliveira (Producer), Phillip Lewitski (Actor), Joshua Odjick (Actor), Michael Greyeyes (Actor). The road of life can be difficult as Link, an indigenous Mi’kmaw teen, certainly knows. Fortunately, he has his younger half-brother, Travis, by his side. When their abusive father is discovered to be hiding an unimaginable secret...
October 11, 2021
VERA DREAMS OF THE SEA (VERA ANDRRON DETIN)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription North American Premiere Talent attending in-person screening: Director of Photography Sevdije Kastrat. Following the virtual screening, watch a special conversation with director Kaltrina Krasniqi moderated by AFI Festivals Associate Programmer Cedar Sherbert. Unassuming sign language interpreter Vera (Teuta Ajdini) lives a quiet life alongside retired husband Fatmir in their modest Pristina apartment. Happy to...
October 11, 2021
VOIR
DescriptionDescription A collection of visual essays...for the love of cinema.
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
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
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
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
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...
