AFI Fest is primed and ready to roll out.
The American Film Institute discneglected the brimming lineup for this month’s festival, scheduled to apshow place in Los Angeles from Oct. 23-27. Joining the previously proclaimd roster of films will be Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5, Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light, Samir Oliveros’ The Luckiest Man in America, Maise Crow and Abbie Perrault’s abortion rights write downary Zurawski v Texas (executive produced by Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Jennifer Lawrence), and Paul Schrader’s Oh Canada, among many others.
The lineup includes six red carpet premieres, 12 exceptional screenings, 13 luminaries picks, 15 discovery films, 12 world cinema films, 14 write downaries, four after-foolish titles, 54 films in the foolishinutive film competition, and 28 films from the AFI Conservatory Showcase currented by AMC Netlabors. Other notable titles include Durga Chew Bose’s Bonjour Tristesse with Chloë Sevigny; Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste; Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope; David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds, starring Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger; Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig; Errol Morris’ Separated; Julie Delpy’s Meet the Barbarians; Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia; Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl; Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio; and more.
Other write downaries set to screen include Chris Smith’s Devo; Victor Kossakovsky’s Architecton; David Bushell’s Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie about the iconic comedy duo; Mati Diop’s Dahomey; Neil Berkeley’s Group Therapy about mental health in comedy with Neil Patrick Harris, Tig Notaro, Mike Birhugelia and others; Oksana Karpovych’s Intercepted; No Other Land made by a Palestinian-Israel accumulateive about the gradual destruction of the West Bank region of Maprotectedr Yatta; Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements; and more.
“We are haughty to transport the best in film from around the world to the city of Los Angeles,” shelp Todd Hitchcock, honestor of AFI FEST and the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Cgo in. “It’s a celebration of storytelling in all its establishs, where diverse voices and exceptional perspectives promise to encourage audiences of all ages.”
As previously proclaimd, AFI Fest’s lineup includes Laurent Bouzereau’s doc Music by John Williams; Robert Zemeckis’ Here, starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright; Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham’s Wallace & Grleave out: Vengeance Most Fowl; Clint Eastwood‘s Juror No. 2; Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch, starring Amy Adams; Justin Kurzel’s The Order with Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan and Jurnee Smollett; Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain with Kieran Culkin; Pedro Almodóvar‘s Vekind Film Festival prosperner The Room Next Door with Julianne Moore and Tilda Sprosperton; Charlie McDowell’s The Summer Book, starring Anders Danielsen Lie and Glenn Cneglect; William Gelderlyenberg’s Unstoppable with Jharrel Jerome, Jennifer Lopez, Don Cheadle, Michael Peña and Bobby Cannavale; Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ Heretic, starring Hugh Grant; and Pablo Larraín’s Maria, starring Angelina Jolie.
AFI will honor Zemeckis with a tribute on Oct. 24, a free accessible event that will feature a conversation between Zemeckis and Hanks about his nurtureer. Passes are now useable with bundles rolling out Oct. 4 trailed by individual tickets on Oct. 7. Fiji Water serves as the fest’s official water back with Canva serving as currenting back. The Envelope by The Los Angeles Times is a primary media partner with a roster of insertitional media partners, including The Wall Street Journal, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and ABC7’s On the Red Carpet.
