September 28, 2020
DUSTIN
DescriptionBioContactDescription 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). At a nightclub we meet Dustin, a young transgender woman and her friends. As the...
September 28, 2020
DOWNSTREAM TO KINSHASA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription USA Premiere Following the film, AFI Festivals Senior Programmer Ken Jacobson leads a conversation with filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi. In June 2000, the brutal Six-Day War between Uganda and Rwanda swept through the city of Kisangani, Congo, leaving 1,000 Congolese dead and 3,000 injured. Filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi (KINSHASA MAKAMBO, NATIONAL DIPLOMA) follows a group of...
September 28, 2020
CORRESPONDENCIA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Jamil McGinnis and Pat Heywood (GRAMERCY), Helki Frantzen (L.A. ROLL), Carla Simón and Dominga Sotomayor (CORRESPONDENCIA), Santiago Barzi (CHINESE WALL). Two young filmmakers discuss the present and past, family, heritage, maternity and cinema. Their personal and profound reflections are suddenly echoed...
September 28, 2020
DAVID
DescriptionBioContactTrailerDescription USA Premiere Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Zach Woods (DAVID), Henriette Rietz (POSTPARTUM), Jonatan Etzler (SWIMMER), Bridey Elliot (THE FEELING), Sean Glass (A 1984 PERIOD PIECE IN PRESENT DAY), Jacob Halpren (CLAIRE AT SEVEN MONTHS) and Bridget Moloney (BLOCKS). David needs help. Screens as part of...
September 28, 2020
DEAD PRESIDENTS
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. Vietnam veteran Anthony (Larenz Tate) tries to adjust to life back home in the Bronx after a grim tour of duty that began when he was 18. But roadblocks abound...
September 28, 2020
DIA DE LAS CARPAS
DescriptionTrailerDescription A group of boys help an undocumented girl get to the beach to reunite with her family, unaware of her magical secret that will change their lives forever. Trailer
September 28, 2020
CHURCH AND THE FOURTH ESTATE
DescriptionBIOContactDescription A reporter uncovers a file that reveals a shocking series of child-abuse allegations in Idaho's Boy Scouts, which rattles the community and implicates the Mormon church. The story reveals long-running crimes that threaten to bankrupt the Boy Scouts. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 4 BIO Brian Knappenberger is an American documentary...
September 28, 2020
CLAIRE AT SEVEN MONTHS
DescriptionBioContactDescription Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Zach Woods (DAVID), Henriette Rietz (POSTPARTUM), Jonatan Etzler (SWIMMER), Bridey Elliot (THE FEELING), Sean Glass (A 1984 PERIOD PIECE IN PRESENT DAY), Jacob Halpren (CLAIRE AT SEVEN MONTHS) and Bridget Moloney (BLOCKS). A pregnant woman visits her family’s beach condo in...
September 28, 2020
COLLECTIVE (COLLECTIV)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Following the film, AFI Festivals Senior Programmer Ken Jacobson leads a conversation between filmmaker Alexander Nanau and subject Cătălin Tolontan. In 2015, a fire roared through the Colectiv nightclub in Bucharest, Romania, killing 27 people and leaving over 100 injured. Following the tragedy, the Romanian Health Minister declared that the burn victims would receive...
September 28, 2020
CITIZEN PENN
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Dean of the AFI Conservatory Susan Ruskin leads a conversation between filmmaker Don Hardy and subjects Sean Penn and Ann Lee. “Humanitarian” is not necessarily the word that comes to mind in relation to the iconoclastic actor/director Sean Penn. Don Hardy’s eye-opening documentary CITIZEN PENN, however, shows that Penn, through his nonprofit Community Organized...
