October 22, 2019
LOST & FOUND
DescriptionBiosDescription A determined man, armed only with a megaphone, his determination, and an unshakeable smile, sets out to reunite lost children with their families in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, which now houses over 600,000 Rohingya Muslims. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Bios Orlando von Einsiedel is the multi-award-winning director of the Oscar®-nominated short...
October 22, 2019
LINGUA FRANCA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Talent attending: Nicole Cosgrove (Executive Producer), Jerry Kerkman (Executive Producer), Isabel Sandoval (Director), Jhett Tolentino (Producer), Carlo Velayo (Producer) Olivia is an undocumented Filipina trans woman and the home health aide for Olga, an elderly Russian American woman in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. While tending to Olga’s increasing dementia, she finds her life intersecting with...
October 22, 2019
LIBERTÉ
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription In his latest provocation Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra (THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV) finds a small clearing in the woods somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin where, over the course of one extended night of debauchery, a band of exiled Libertines seeking support from the German Duc de Walchen (Helmut Berger) will revel in the freedom...
October 22, 2019
THE LAST TO SEE THEM (GLI ULTIMI A VEDERLI VIVERE)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Talent attending: Sara Summa (Director) Loosely based on true events, this impressionistic film doesn’t focus on the aftermath of a family’s brutal murder nor the violent act itself. Instead, THE LAST TO SEE THEM centers on the 24 hours before an entire family is slaughtered. Since each of the subjects is completely unaware o his...
October 22, 2019
LIBERTY
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Alex and Milagros deal with great life upheaval as they prepare to dance at their community’s redevelopment groundbreaking ceremony. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Bios Faren Humes is a writer and director from Miami, Florida. Her work engages with temporality and duration to show, materialize and experience connectedness. Her film LIBERTY is the Jury Award...
October 22, 2019
KNIVES AND SKIN
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Talent attending: Marika Engelhardt (Talent), Brian Hieggelke (Producer), Jan (Producer), Jennifer Reeder (Director), Christopher Rejano (Cinematographer), Raven Whitley (Talent) Returning to AFI FEST with this electric feature debut, writer/director Jennifer Reeder graduates from her amazing short film work (BLOOD BELOW THE SKIN, CRYSTAL LAKE) with absolute aplomb. In the small Midwestern town of Middle...
October 22, 2019
KLUTE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription The inaugural film in Alan J. Pakula’s “paranoia trilogy,” KLUTE follows small-town private investigator John Klute (Donald Sutherland) who is led to Manhattan sex worker Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda in an Academy Award®- winning performance) while searching for a missing person. As Bree becomes embroiled in the investigation, they realize that she is being...
October 22, 2019
JUST MERCY
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Talent attending: Bryan Stevenson (Writer (Memoir)) In the late 1980s, a young African-American, Harvard-educated lawyer named Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) declines various lucrative jobs and instead moves to Alabama determined to defend and fight for innocent death-row inmates. Early in his career, he takes on the case of Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx), a...
October 22, 2019
THE KINGMAKER
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription FREE SCREENING Talent attending: Lauren Greenfield (Director) A fascinating and riveting political documentary that plays like a sprawling television family drama, THE KINGMAKER is both a definitive biography of former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos and an exposé of the Marcos family’s relentless — and surprisingly successful — efforts to achieve a stunning political...
October 22, 2019
JALLIKATTU
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Like the ferocious beast at the center of JALLIKATTU that eludes capture by an entire village of pursuers, Malayalam filmmaker Lilo Jose Pellissery breaks through the passivity of the movie-going experience with this fresh, totally original vision of contemporary Indian cinema. When a buffalo escapes in a village in the tropical state of Kerala,...
