September 24, 2026
QUEEN AT SEA
DescriptionDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director, screenwriter, producer and editor Lance Hammer. Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall shared the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance at the Berlin Film Festival in Lance Hammer’s sensitive and devastating family drama exploring the complexities of aging, sexuality and parental care. Entering the North London...
September 24, 2026
PROSECUTION (STAATSSCHUTZ)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription U.S. Premiere Following his lyrical award-winning debut NO HARD FEELINGS, German-Iranian filmmaker Faraz Shariat returns to the realm of radically queer and post-migrant cinema with this propulsive, gritty procedural. In a modest East German neighborhood, we follow German Korean state prosecutor Seyo Kim (newcomer Chen Emilie Yan in a star-making turn), who is serving...
September 24, 2026
PUNKIN
DescriptionTrailerDescription Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1 When their road trip is derailed by a car breakdown and the threat of deportation, eight-year-old Nina, an undocumented Venezuelan girl, begins to see the cracks in her father’s armor. Trailer
September 24, 2026
PRETENDERS
DescriptionBioDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with producer Dan Braun. Before Chrissie Hynde became the commanding voice of the Pretenders, she was a restless young woman from Akron, Ohio, born in 1951 and captivated by the liberating possibilities of rock 'n' roll. As a teenager, she absorbed the sounds and attitudes of 1960s...
September 24, 2026
PRIVATE PROPERTY
DescriptionBiosContactDescription North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1 Two outsiders — Maya, a Nepali immigrant working overnight to build a future, and Danny, an unhoused Black veteran searching for warmth and shelter — clash over where they each belong. Bios Deepak Rauniyar’s films have screened at major international festivals including...
September 24, 2026
POSSIBLE LOVE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription South Korea's Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Lee Chang-dong’s (POETRY, AFI FEST 2010) first film in eight years, POSSIBLE LOVE reunites partners from his previous films, having been co-written with Oh Jung-mi (BURNING) and starring actors Jeon Do-yeon (SECRET SUNSHINE) and Sul Kyung-gu (PEPPERMINT CANDY, OASIS), while also featuring exciting new collaborations with...
September 24, 2026
PARALLEL TALES (HISTOIRES PARALLÈLES)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription North American Premiere Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi reworks aspects of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE and A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING into a metafictional maze, mixing voyeurism, deceit and illusion into a twisty tale of competitive fictions. Faded novelist and jaded recluse Sylvie (Isabelle Huppert) spies on the sound effects team working...
September 24, 2026
ONE IN A MILLION
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with co-director, producer and cinematographer Jack MacInnes. Winner of the Audience Award and the Directing Award in the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Documentary section, this sweeping and intimate 10-year chronicle follows a Syrian family and their effervescent eldest daughter, Isra'a, as they make the perilous journey...
September 24, 2026
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD WITH QUENTIN TARANTINO
DescriptionTrailerDescription Join us for this special event at AFI FEST 2026 presented by Canva, ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD WITH QUENTIN TARANTINO. The evening will include a conversation with Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino following an IMAX screening of ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD. Ahead of David Fincher’s highly anticipated new film THE...
September 24, 2026
NOWHERE TO LAY MY EYES
DescriptionBiosContactDescription This film screens with THE DAY SHE RETURNS as a double feature of Hong Sang-soo’s latest works. Estranged from her mother for nearly a decade, Sanghee (Kim Min-hee) takes a rare trip to a blustery Jeju Island for a long-awaited visit. A snack importer and experimental filmmaker, Sanghee is something of a disappointment to...
