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
AFI FEST 2021 — PARIS, 13TH DISTRICT
Co-written with Léa Mysius and Céline Sciamma and based on “Amber Sweet,” “Kill and Die,” and “Hawaiian Getaway”—three stories from Adrian Tomine’s acclaimed Optic Nerve series and transposed in monochrome to Paris—Jacques Audiard’s latest PARIS, 13TH DISTRICT / LES OLYMPIADES will
AFI FEST 2021 — JEFFERY ROBINSON, EMILY KUNSTLER, AND SARAH KUNSTLER
George Orwell warned us that “Who controls the past controls the future.” Knowledge is power. A false narrative about the role of white supremacy and anti-Black racism in America has led to our failure to make significant, lasting progress on
