Monday Highlights at the AFI FEST 2005
by Andre Soares
Monday highlights at the AFI FEST 2005, currently being held at the Arclight Theatre complex in Hollywood, include: Richard Bracewell’s The Gigolos (U.K., 100 min., 4:15pm), the tale of a professional escort whose career dedicated to pleasing wealthy London women is jeopardized following a disagreement with his manager; Fuck (U.S., 91 min., 7:00pm), Steve Anderson’s study of freedom of speech, focuses on the most shocking, disgusting, utterly vile - and oftentimes quite handy - expletive in the English language; Sandra Hacker and
Christopher Buchholz’s Horst Buchholz. . . Mein Papa / Horst Buchholz . . . My Father (Germany, 92 min., 10:00pm), which is described as "a sincere documentary and a tragicomic film portrait providing unusual insight into the life of a world-class star and his family" (Horst Buchholz, who died in 2003 at the age of 69, starred in more than 70 films, including The Magnificent Seven and Fanny); and Lajos Koltai’s 
Sorstalanság / Fateless (Hungary, 134 min., 6:45pm), based on Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertész’s story of a 14-year-old who, after being separated from his family, is interned in several concentration camps during World War II. Fateless is Hungary’s official submission for the 2005 Academy Awards.
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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