September 26, 2024
RAT!
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: AFTER DARK When a disgruntled music journalist accuses a global pop star of queerbaiting, the singer’s devoted fans descend on his remote cabin to wreak havoc and seek retribution. Bios Neal Suresh Mulani is a queer filmmaker exploring self-perception, masculinity and identity in the digital age. His short...
September 26, 2024
THE PUZZLE PALACE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 2 In a Boca suburb, a couple retire to a second marriage of freedom, play and the world’s largest puzzle collection. Bios Jenny Schweitzer Bell and Brian Bell are a husband-and-wife filmmaking team based in New York City. Together, they produced several independent narrative features. Over the...
September 26, 2024
PARTHENOPE
DescriptionBiosDescription North American Premiere Parthenope (Celeste Dalla Porta), a young woman possessed of near supernatural beauty, embarks on a sentimental education in her life and academic career in Naples in Paolo Sorrentino’s gorgeous dreamworld of a film. Named for the mythical siren who lent her name to the ancient Greek settlement where Naples now exists,...
September 26, 2024
OCTOPUS BANANA HOTCHPOTCH (HOBOTNICA BANANA MISMAS)
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 A lively and dynamic journey through the lives of best friends and soulmates, Mila and Mara. Their life paths join in an adventure over many decades, enriched and driven by sisterly love. Bios Milanka Fabjancic is an academic painter, graduating from the department of painting at...
September 26, 2024
THE ORDER
DescriptionBiosDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with actors Nicholas Hoult and Jurnee Smollett. In early 1980s Idaho, hard-driving Terry Husk (Jude Law), an FBI agent recently transferred from New York, investigates a string of bank robberies across the Pacific Northwest. The trail leads to the white supremacist Aryan Nations, and a splinter group...
September 26, 2024
OH, CANADA
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with AFI Alumnus, director and screenwriter Paul Schrader. Based on Russell Banks' novel "Foregone," Paul Schrader’s new film features Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi portraying at different stages Leonard Fife, a political documentarian who achieved notoriety when he fled to Canada to avoid being drafted in the...
September 26, 2024
ONE DAY THIS KID
DescriptionBiosContactDescription US Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 2 An exploration of silent struggle and unspoken tension as Hamed, a first-generation Afghan Canadian man, navigates an undefined future with his father. Inspired by David Wojnarowicz's renowned text. Bios Alexander Farah is an Afghan-Canadian filmmaker whose work has screened at Berlinale, Telluride and...
September 26, 2024
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
DescriptionBiosDescription Driving alone in the middle of the night, Shula comes across the body of her uncle, lying lifeless on a deserted road. Immediately inhabiting the role of dutiful family member, she ensures that the body is taken care of and, the following day, begins funeral preparations. Finding herself unable to suppress feelings of discomfort...
September 26, 2024
NEXT?
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription US Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 Half-animal, half-human creatures meet at a speed-dating dance where they explore their differences and difficulties communicating. When a lovestruck man-cum-anteater falls for a woman-cum-shrew, he gets caught up in their courtship ballet. Bios After studying applied arts, Christel Guibert worked in animation for 10...
September 26, 2024
MY MOTHER IS A COW
DescriptionBiosContactDescription North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1 Left in her aunt’s care at the edge of a burning wetland, Mia is desperate for her mother’s touch – but in this volatile, threatening world, love comes in an unexpected form. Bios Moara Passoni wrote and directed the award-winning essay film...
