September 24, 2026
THE MOSQUITO BOWL
DescriptionBioTrailerDescription World Premiere After the attack on Pearl Harbor, four of America's greatest college football stars — John McLaughry (Nicholas Galitzine), Bob Baumann (Bill Skarsgård), Tony Butkovich (Ray Nicholson) and David Schreiner (Tom Francis) — set fame aside to enlist in the Marines. Eager to serve, they are immediately pulled out of their idealistic youth...
September 24, 2026
THE MELTDOWN (EL DESHIELO)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Chile's Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and screenwriter Manuela Martelli and producer Alejandra García. An Antarctic iceberg is transported to the other side of the world to be exhibited as a symbol of the impressive natural resources of a country eager to rebrand itself...
September 24, 2026
THE MATCH
DescriptionBiosContactDescription All ticket holders for the October 22 screening of THE MATCH at 6:45 p.m. in Chinese 4 are invited to a reception in the festival lounge following the film, sponsored by the Consulate General of Argentina in Los Angeles. In 1986, just a few years after the deadly Falklands War (Guerra de las Malvinas), Argentina...
September 24, 2026
MAVERICK: THE EPIC ADVENTURES OF DAVID LEAN
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Even at the height of his fame following his greatest accomplishments — the Oscar®-winning epics THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI in 1957, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA in 1962 and DOCTOR ZHIVAGO in 1965 — David Lean had his naysayers. For auteurist film critics and other cultural gatekeepers, Lean’s cinema was suspect for its success,...
September 24, 2026
MARGA EN EL DF
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 2 In the wake of Selena Quintanilla’s murder, Marga’s life takes an unexpected turn during a surprise visit to Mexico City. Bios Gabriela Ortega is an award-winning screenwriter, director and actress from the Dominican Republic, representing her country in the New Producers Room at the Cannes...
September 24, 2026
A MAN OF HIS TIME (NOTRE SALUT)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Writer-director Emmanuel Marre takes an unconventional approach to this biopic on an unconventional subject. Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival, A MAN OF HIS TIME follows Henri Marre (Swann Arlaud), a careerist climbing the ranks of the Vichy regime in 1940s France. Henri imagines himself a prophet of managerial...
September 24, 2026
A LONG WINTER
DescriptionBiosDescription Award-winning British filmmaker Andrew Haigh (45 YEARS, AFI FEST 2015; ALL OF US STRANGERS, AFI FEST 2023) adapts Irish writer Colm Tóibín's eponymous novella for this mysterious and beguiling film about grief, desire, queer awakening, self-discovery and the elusive structures that hold a family together. In the vast, snowbound landscape of the Colorado Rockies...
September 24, 2026
THE MAN I LOVE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and screenwriter Ira Sachs. If Ira Sachs’ two previous films, the serrated, queer love triangle PASSAGES (2023) and the dishy 1970s New York time-capsule PETER HUJAR’S DAY (AFI FEST 2025), had a love child, THE MAN I LOVE would be it. Set in a bohemian...
September 24, 2026
LIVING WITH A VISIONARY
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 Narrated by James Cromwell, and based on John Matthias’ memoir, this soulful, bittersweet chronicle reflects on the final chapter in John’s fifty-year marriage to Diana, an art curator grappling with Parkinson’s. Bios Stephen P. Neary is a Hoosier-born writer, director and storyboard artist living in Los...
September 24, 2026
THE LONELIEST MAN IN TOWN
DescriptionDescription The Italian-Austrian directing duo of Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel (LA PIVELLINA) return with this fictionalized portrait of real-life Austrian blues musician Al Cook (aka Alois Koch), who, inspired by Elvis Presley and legendary blues musicians like Robert Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson, has dedicated his life and career to honoring this musical tradition,...
