September 28, 2020
UMBILICAL
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). An animated documentary exploring how the filmmaker’s mother’s abusive relationship with her father shaped her own experiences in...
September 28, 2020
TRAGIC JUNGLE (SELVA TRÁGICA)
DescriptionBiosDescription Following the film, AFI Festivals Director of Programming Sarah Harris leads a conversation with filmmaker Yulene Olaizola and actress Indira Andrewin. Set in 1920, a Belizean woman desperately trying to get away from a white British landowner heads into the only place she can: deep into the Mayan rainforest. The jungle gives, but it...
September 28, 2020
UNDER THE OPEN SKY
DescriptionBiosDescription Film critic Amy Nicholson leads a conversation with filmmaker Miwa Nishikawa. Having been behind bars for 13 years for murder, Masao Mikami (Koji Yakusho) is released from prison and now finds himself in a world very different than the one he knew when he went in. As a tatted and scarred ex-Yakuza man, settling...
September 28, 2020
UNCLE FRANK
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Following the film, AFI Director of Programming Sarah Harris leads a conversation between filmmaker Alan Ball and actors Paul Bettany, Peter Macdissi and Sophia Lillis. Beth has always been keen on her uncle Frank. On the rare occasions whenever he would visit them in rural South Carolina from New York City, she would revel...
September 28, 2020
UNITED STATES OF JOE’S
DescriptionBIODescription In rural Utah, a valley of world-class bouldering is nestled among a conservative community of Mormons, cowboys and coal miners. When punk rock climbers show up, cultures clash, but the story doesn’t end there. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 6 BIO Peter Mortimer is the founder of Sender Films, which he...
September 28, 2020
THE TORTURE LETTERS
DescriptionBIODescription North America Premiere One of Laurence Ralph's first memories of the police is when a plainclothes officer harassed his family. Now a Princeton anthropology professor, Ralph traces his story to the entrenched practices of torture by the Chicago Police. Screens as part of MEET THE PRESS SHORTS 5 BIO Laurence Ralph is an anthropologist...
September 28, 2020
TIL LIFE DO US PART
DescriptionTrailerDescription Two 70-year-old best friends with a pact to kill themselves by their 71st birthday learn that life is worth living with a great friend. Trailer
September 28, 2020
THERE’S CAKE (SENSE POSTRE)
DescriptionBioContactTrailerDescription World Premiere Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Neo Sora (THE CHICKEN), Claudia Vernis (THERE'S CAKE), Keisha Rae Witherspoon (T), Kathy Esquenazi Mitrani (RUBBED IN PINK), Ariane Boukerche (THEY SALIVATE) and Mitch Mcglocklin (FOREVER), Jacqueline Lentzou (THE END OF SUFFERING). Marina is surrounded by food, which occupies...
September 28, 2020
TIGER AND OX (호랑이와 소)
DescriptionBioContactTrailerDescription North America Premiere Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Eric Moore leads a conversation between filmmakers Yi Tang (BLACK GOAT), Em Weinstein (IN FRANCE MICHELLE IS A MAN'S NAME), Seungee Kim (TIGER & OX), Erica Tremblay (LITTLE CHIEF), Inès Girihiwe (BREAKING GROUND), Johnson Cheng (LONELY BLUE NIGHT), Kimi Howl Lee (CHILD OF LAND). What...
September 28, 2020
THEY SALIVATE (ILS SALIVENT)
DescriptionBioContactTrailerDescription Following the program, AFI Festivals Programmer Malin Kan leads a conversation between filmmakers Neo Sora (THE CHICKEN), Claudia Vernis (THERE'S CAKE), Keisha Rae Witherspoon (T), Kathy Esquenazi Mitrani (RUBBED IN PINK), Ariane Boukerche (THEY SALIVATE) and Mitch Mcglocklin (FOREVER), Jacqueline Lentzou (THE END OF SUFFERING). In this the story of a kiss, a couple...
