ONE FINE MORNING — MIA HANSEN-LØVE AND LÉA SEYDOUX IN CONVERSATION
For the closing night of this year's festival, Hansen-Løve returns to AFI Fest with ONE FINE MORNING, starring Léa Seydoux as a freelance translator and single mother negotiating a relationship with an old friend-turned-lover (Melvil Poupaud) while arranging for the
SAINT OMER — ALICE DIOP IN CONVERSATION
SAINT OMER—Alice Diop’s feature directorial debut—extends the great documentarian’s range of purview into narrative fiction to explicate the depredations of projection and the right to remain unknown. Based on a famous 2016 French court case, PhD student Laurence Coly (played
JOANNA HOGG — THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER
Architecture as character—a stage set for experience and a porous container of memories—informed Joanna Hogg's 2013 film “Exhibition,” which explored the evolving dynamic of an artist couple as they prepare to sell their contemporary showplace of a house. With her
DRY GROUND BURNING — JOANA PIMENTA IN CONVERSATION
An AFI Fest 2022 must-see, DRY GROUND BURNING—written and directed by Pimenta and Adirley Queirós—blends documentary, science fiction, and scripted narrative in its unique focus on Chitara (Joana Darc Furtado) and Léa (Léa Alves Da Silva), gasolinheiras who tap the
