September 28, 2020
POSSE
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. A band of Buffalo Soldiers are sent on a suicide mission to Cuba in 1898 to intercept a shipment of gold during the Spanish-American War. The African American unit is...
September 28, 2020
PILLARS
DescriptionBioContactTrailerDescription 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). One Sunday at church, 12-year-old Amber experiences her first kiss, a moment of innocence that triggers a series...
September 28, 2020
PIEDRA SOLA
DescriptionBiosContactDescription USA Premiere Following the film, AFI FEST Lead Screening Committee Member Cedar Sherbert leads a conversation between filmmaker Alejandro Telémaco Tarraf and cinematographer Alberto Balazs. Nestled deep in the remote Argentinian mountainside lives a llama herder with his family. He regularly travels the arduous route over the rugged terrain with his son to sell...
September 28, 2020
OUT OF THE BLUE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription USA Premiere Following the film, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation with restoration producers John Alan Simon and Elizabeth Karr. Commemorating the 40th anniversary of director Dennis Hopper’s too-long unavailable OUT OF THE BLUE, this punk-rock masterpiece can now be seen digitally restored in immaculate 4K, which lends a magnificent lushness to...
September 28, 2020
PINK SKIES AHEAD
DescriptionBiosContactDescription World Premiere Following the film at 8:45 p.m. PDT, AFI Festivals Director of Programming Sarah Harris leads a conversation between filmmaker Kelly Oxford and actors Jessica Barden, Odeya Rush and Devon Bostick. After watching this Special Presentation, join us for a live AFI Summit session on October 19 at 1:00 p.m. PDT: CENTERING CHARACTERS...
September 28, 2020
ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI…
DescriptionBiosEvent InformationEvent FAQsDescription ONE NIGHT ONLY DRIVE-IN EVENT $40 per vehicle with a max of 4 people per car. In February 1964, friends Cassius Clay, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke and Malcolm X gather in a hotel room to celebrate Clay’s heavyweight championship win. Reveling in the night, they match wits and stories. As their banter...
September 28, 2020
NOUR
DescriptionBioContactTrailerDescription USA 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). Nour and Adem set off in search of their father, who they have not seen for a...
September 28, 2020
ON THE RECORD
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Screens as part of A Tribute to Kirby Dick In association with AFI FEST’s tribute to Kirby Dick, we are very pleased to be able to present this free showing of ON THE RECORD, directed and produced by Dick and his longtime collaborator Amy Ziering. First reported by The New York Times, the documentary...
September 28, 2020
OIL & WATER
DescriptionBIOContactTrailerDescription Facing imminent takeover of ancestral lands, the women in the Turkana region of Kenya stand up against oil giant Tullow. Despite resistance from the men in their community, they continue to fight for their way of life. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 2 BIO Anjali Nayar has been named one of...
September 28, 2020
NINE DAYS
DescriptionBiosDescription Following the film, AFI FEST Senior Programmer Claudia Puig leads a conversation between filmmaker Edson Oda and actors Zazie Beetz and Winston Duke. What if you had just a little over a week to persuade an enigmatic gatekeeper to allow you to be born? How would you proceed? Winston Duke plays the cryptic and somber...
