AFI FEST Articles

Liv Mjönes, Ruth Vega Fernandez, With Every Heartbeat BREAKTHROUGH SELECTIONS EXPECTING: In Chile, a young girl and her boyfriend wait for a black-market drug to take effect in this tense and insightful examination of teen pregnancy. DIR/SCR Francisca Fuenzalida. Chile. U.S. Premiere. LIGHT OF MINE: Rapidly going blind, photographer Owen and his wife Laura take a life-changing trip to Yellowstone National Park where they experience [...]

Jean-Marc Vallée’s Café du Flore Chantal Akerman, Joseph Cedar, Béla Tarr, Nuri Bilge Ceylan: AFI FEST 2011 World Cinema Selections ARIRANG: Traumatized by a near-fatal accident during filming, director Kim Ki-duk offers a visionary self-portrait of a troubled artist reeling from an emotional breakdown. DIR Kim Ki-duk. South Korea. U.S. Premiere. CAFÉ DU FLORE: In his follow-up to C.R.A.Z.Y., Jean Marc Vallée tells two parallel [...]

Chantal Akerman (center), Almayer’s Folly WORLD CINEMA SELECTIONS ALMAYER’S FOLLY: Chantal Akerman loosely adapts Joseph Conrad’s novel set in Malaysia, the tragic tale of a failed European trader and his "mixed blood" daughter. DIR Chantal Akerman. CAST Stanislas Merhar, Marc Barbé, Aurora Marion, Zac Andrianasolo. Belgium/France. U.S. Premiere. ALPS: DOGTOOTH director Yorgos Lanthimos returns with a tale of a group offering an unusual service for [...]

Jafar Panahi, This Is Not a Film AFI FEST 2011 has announced the list of movies screening in the festival’s World Cinema, Breakthrough, Midnight and Shorts programs. Both World Cinema and Breakthrough feature numerous films having their U.S. premieres, including Chantal Akerman’s Almayer’s Folly, Jean-Marc Vallée’s Café du Flore, Alexander Sokurov’s Faust, in addition to the North American premiere of Alexandra-Therese Keining’s (lesbian) romantic drama [...]