AFI FEST 2005 – Thursday Highlights
This evening’s highlights at the AFI FEST 2005 at the Arclight Theater complex in Hollywood: L’Enfer / Hell (France / Italy / Belgium, 98 min., 7:00pm), a film loosely inspired by the second part of Dante’s Inferno, with a stellar cast that includes Emmanuelle Béart, Carole Bouquet, Jacques Perrin, Jean Rochefort, Marie Gillain, and Karin Viard, and directed by Danis Tanovic, whose No Man’s Land won the 2001 Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award; Reinas / Queens (Spain, 107 min., 7:15pm), Manuel Gómez Pereira’s 
dramedy about five mothers (including Verónica Forqué, 
Carmen Maura, and Marisa Paredes) who must cope with their gay sons’ problems as they all get ready for Spain’s first mass gay wedding ceremony; Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic (U.S., 72 min., 9:30pm), a docu-stand-up comedy show in which comedian Sarah Silverman (who wrote the screenplay, directed by Liam Lynch) 
dissects sex, drugs, and religion – in addition to the Holocaust and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; Pål Sletaune’s Naboer / Next Door (Norway, 78 min., 10:00pm), a psychological thriller revolving around neighbors Kristoffer Joner, Cecilie A. Mosli, and Julia Schacht’s complex sex triangle; and Marcelo Gomes‘ Cinema, Aspirina e Urubus / Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (Brazil, 99 
min., 9:45pm), a dramatic comedy set in 1942 that revolves around the grudging friendship that develops between a German immigrant/war refugee (Peter Ketnath) and a Brazilian peasant (João Miguel) in Brazil’s arid Northeast.
European Film Academy 2005 nominees
A selection of notable films screening at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, Calif.
Full list of winners at the 2005 Tokyo International Film Festival
List of films submitted to the 2005 Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award
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