AFI FEST 2024 — SECOND CHANCE
Writer-director Subhadra Mahajan presents her feature debut SECOND CHANCE—starring Dheera Johnson—on the closing day of AFI Fest 2024. Both will be on hand for a post-screening conversation.
AFI FEST 2024 — SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT
Johan Grimonprez’s remarkable new film SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT is a vividly expressionistic overview of the early years of African autonomy and the birth of international Black Power. Interpolating texts, photographs, audiovisual clips, and performances by jazz giants, this
AFI FEST 2024 — THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG
Shot in secret and made under extreme duress—its creator hit with the announcement of a prison and flogging sentence during its very production—THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG has, in a sense, escaped the shackles of its context and is
AFI FEST 2023 — LITTLE GIRL BLUE
Monique Lange—born into a family of intellectuals that included Henri Bergson—was a novelist and screenwriter of such films as “Les violons du bal” and Joseph Losey’s “The Trout.” Her daughter Carole Achache was a writer and photographer who, upon her
AFI FEST 2023 — LA CHIMERA
The films of Alice Rohrwacher bring you outside and keep you there, contemplating the land and its hapless interlopers that constitute the tragicomedies around which she’s made her name. The rural beauty of Italy—its histories and its ongoing despoilment—again takes
AFI FEST 2023 — ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY
Swooning under the possibilities inherent in poetic thought transformed by performance as a means of projection into other worlds, other lives—“literature-sickness,” in the words of one character—the voices in the film ORLANDO: MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY release the Woolf classic from
AFI FEST 2023 — THE SUMMER WITH CARMEN
Taking place in two time periods—present day Greece and two summers prior—THE SUMMER WITH CARMEN features director Zacharias Mavroeidis’ signature mix of melodrama, sarcasm, and comedy. Two good friends (played by Yorgos Tsiantoulas and Andreas Lampropoulos) on a queer beach in
AFI FEST 2021 — HOLY EMY
AFI Fest 2021 comes to an intriguing close with a Sunday evening screening of HOLY EMY, directed and co-written by Araceli Lemos, and inspired by her feelings of disconnection when she moved from Greece to Los Angeles. Cryptic and compelling,
AFI FEST 2021 — WILDHOOD
The Mi'kmaq approach is more holistic than separate labels and separated-out parts of an identity. Two-Spirit identity is an intersection of the relationship to land, gender, sexuality, ceremony, and culture. It's hard in English to summarize or speak about those
AFI FEST 2021 — PETITE MAMAN
Two years after her international breakout feature Portrait of a Lady on Fire, writer-director Céline Sciamma returns with PETITE MAMAN, a story of companionship bent by longing and the circular turn of time. This weekend, the AFI Fest presents an early
