AFI FEST 2026 — AT NIGHT
Beatrice Gibson’s AT NIGHT is a revelation of discourse among six women across one night in Paris. Featuring Diocouda Diaoune, Kátia Belo Cardoso, Sophie Robinson, Amy Gwatkin, Lily Mcmenamy—and Gibson in a semifictionalised version of herself—the film’s nocturnal dreamscape deftly
AFI FEST 2026 — FLESH AND FUEL
Queer truckers are on a cinematic roll. As a place to grab a bite, catch a nap, and score a bit of rough trade, truck stops are a perennial locus of action in the gay imaginary, but not so much
AFI FEST 2026 — IVÁN AND HADOUM
As a relationship between Iván and Hadoum is formed and then flourishes, the film explores how the performance of gender is navigated within the shifting modes of personal and familial expectation.
AFI FEST 2025 — THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO
Join Chilean filmmaker Diego Céspedes, who brings his debut feature “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo” to AFI Fest 2025 presented by Canva. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the writer-director.
AFI FEST 2025 — WE BELIEVE YOU
Centered around a riveting 50-minute custody hearing shot in real time, “We Believe You” is the debut feature from the writing and directing team Charlotte Devillers and Arnaud Dufeys. Taking on a Rashomon effect as the estranged parents of two
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