October 11, 2021
GOLDEN AGE KARATE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Teen karate pro Jeff Wall teaches senior citizens self-defense at a local nursing home, giving them the tools to feel in control, connected and cared for. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 1 Bios Sindha Agha is an Emmy®-nominated filmmaker who creates pieces with distinct, vibrant visuals. Agha began her career by...
October 11, 2021
GOOD MADAM (MLUNGU WAM)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Following the theatrical screening, watch a special conversation with director Jenna Cato Bass, producer Babalwa Baartman and actor Chumisa Cosa moderated by AFI FEST Programmer Julia Kipnis. South African auteur and AFI FEST alum Jenna Cato Bass (HIGH FANTASY) delivers a haunting, psychological thriller steeped in remnants of postcolonialism and apartheid. Tsidi (Chumisa Cosa)...
October 11, 2021
THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Following the theatrical screening, watch a special conversation with directors Ramon and Silvan Zürcher moderated by AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan. In the long-awaited follow-up to their 2013 collaboration THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT and a continuation in what they describe as “a loose trilogy about human togetherness,” Ramon and Silvan Zürcher’s THE GIRL AND...
October 11, 2021
ENVIAR Y RECIBIR
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A warehouse worker at a fast fashion company forms an attachment to a piece of damaged inventory. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Bios Cosmo Collins Salovaara is a filmmaker from New York, currently based in Los Angeles. His work is primarily concerned with the retooling of gender and genre tropes. Contact Cosmo...
October 11, 2021
THE FACILITY
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A group of immigrants, detained inside an infamous American detention center as the pandemic spreads, organize in protest to demand protections and their release. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 2 Bios Seth Freed Wessler is an award-winning investigative journalist, currently with ProPublica. Seth has reported for The New York Times, Reveal,...
October 11, 2021
THE FIRST WAVE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Talent attending in-person screening: Matthew Heineman (director/producer), Jenna Millman (producer), Leslie Norville (producer), Dr. Nathalie Dougé (subject), Ahmed Ellis (subject), Alexis Ellis (subject), Karl Arabian (subject), Brussels Jabon (subject), Naph Jabon (subject). “Every day we look death right in its eye. And the scary part is it looks right back at you.” In early 2020,...
October 11, 2021
EUREKA
DescriptionContactDescription A young indentured Chinese prostitute must overcome her toxic dependency on the brothel madam on the eve of the 1885 anti-Chinese riot in Eureka, California. Screens as part of AFI CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 1 Contact Susan Dretzka AFI Conservatory sdretzka@afi.com
October 11, 2021
COW
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Luma, branded “1129,” is a distinctive dairy cow living on a cattle farm in the English countryside. AFI Conservatory Alumna Andrea Arnold’s first-ever documentary depicts the daily life and routine of Luma and her calf in captivity: being led this way and that and probed constantly. They are singular pawns in a much larger...
October 11, 2021
DRIVE MY CAR (DORAIBU MAI KÂ)
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Japan Official International Feature Film Oscar® Submission Following the theatrical screening, watch a special conversation with director Ryusuke Hamaguchi moderated by AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan. Expanding on the eponymous Haruki Murakami short story, this epic examination of loss from Japanese auteur Ryusuke Hamaguchi (ASAKO I & II), which won Best Screenplay at Cannes,...
October 11, 2021
THE DEATH CLEANER (EL LIMPIADOR)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription For a forensic cleaner in Mexico City, healing is at the core of his service. Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Bios Louise Monlaü is a filmmaker based in Paris. Contact Yvonne Ashley Kouadjo The New York Times Op-Docs yvonneashley.kouadjo@nytimes.com
