AFI FEST

  • BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS Among Red Carpet Gala Films at AFI Fest 2022

    Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truth
    Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

    Six Red Carpet Premiere films including Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu; the U.S. Premiere of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson; Is That Black Enough for You?!?, directed by Elvis Mitchell; Living, directed by Oliver Hermanus; She Said, directed by Maria Schrader; and The Son, directed by Florian Zeller, will screen at AFI FEST 2022, November 2-6. All films will screen at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre.

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  • World Premiere of SELENA GOMEZ: MY MIND AND ME Opens AFI FEST

    Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me opens AFI Fest
    Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me

    The World Premiere of Apple Original documentary film Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me will open the 36th edition of AFI FEST on Wednesday, November 2.

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  • U.S. Premiere of Steven Spielberg’s THE FABELMANS will Close AFI FEST

    AFI FEST 2022

    The Fabelmans, the coming-of-age drama directed by AFI Life Achievement Award recipient and Academy Award®-winning director Steven Spielberg, will close AFI FEST 2022.

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  • AFI FEST 2022 Announces Dates + Expands Lineup to Include Documentary Films

    AFI FEST 2022 dates
    Halle Berry and Ava DuVernay, Red Carpet Premiere Screening of Bruised, AFI FEST, TCL Chinese Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA – 13 Nov 2021 | Photo Credit: John Salangsang/AFI/Shutterstock

    AFI FEST 2022 officially announced its dates and opened the call for entries. The 36th edition of AFI FEST will take place in Los Angeles, CA, on November 2-6, 2022.

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  • JOCKEY and JUICE WRLD Win Audience Awards at AFI FEST 2021

    2021 AFI FEST Awards Winners - Jockey, Juice Wrld
    Jockey directed by Clint Bentley and Juice Wrld directed by Tommy Oliver – 2021 AFI FEST Awards Winners

    Jockey directed by Clint Bentley took the Audience Award – Narrative Feature and Juice Wrld directed by Tommy Oliver took the Audience Award – Documentary Feature at AFI FEST 2021. Love, Dad (Milý tati) directed by Diana Cam Van Nguyen won the Grand Jury Prize – Animation and Al-Sit directed by Suzannah Mirghani won the Grand Jury Prize – Live Action making the films eligible for the 2021 Best Live Action Short and Best Animated Short Academy Awards®.

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  • Illumination’s SING 2 World Premieres at AFI FEST 2021

    SING 2
    SING 2 – courtesy Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures

    SING 2, the new animated feature film written and directed by Garth Jennings will World Premiere at AFI FEST 2021 as a Red Carpet Premiere. The film will screen in-person at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre on Sunday, November 14 and open in theaters on December 22, 2021.

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  • Jane Campion’s THE POWER OF THE DOG Added to AFI FEST 2021

    Benedict Cumberbatch as Phil Burbank in The Power of the Dog
    Benedict Cumberbatch as Phil Burbank in The Power of the Dog. [Cr. Kirsty Griffin/NETFLIX © 2021]

    The critically acclaimed drama film The Power Of The Dog, written and directed by Academy Award® winner Jane Campion, has been added to the AFI FEST 2021 lineup as a Red Carpet Premiere event.

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  • AFI FEST 2021 Announces Lineup incl. Pedro Almodóvar’s PARALLEL MOTHERS

    Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers starring Penélope Cruz
    Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers starring Penélope Cruz

    AFI FEST unveiled the full lineup for this year’s festival including Parallel Mothers, written and directed by Academy Award® winner Pedro Almodóvar, which will screen as a Red Carpet Premiere at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre on Saturday, November 13.

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  • Halle Berry’s BRUISED and Benjamin Cleary’s SWAN SONG to Premiere at AFI FEST 2021

    Bruised directed by Halle Berry
    Bruised directed by Halle Berry

    AFI FEST 2021 will include the World Premieres of Academy Award® winner Halle Berry’s directorial debut Bruised from Netflix and Academy Award® winner Benjamin Cleary’s feature directorial debut Swan Song from Apple Original Films.

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  • KING RICHARD Starring Will Smith will Close AFI FEST 2021

    AUNJANUE ELLIS as Oracene “Brandy” Williams, MIKAYLA BARTHOLOMEW as Tunde Price, WILL SMITH as Richard Williams, SANIYYA SIDNEY as Venus Williams, DEMI SINGLETON as Serena Williams and DANIELE LAWSON as Isha Price in Warner Bros. Pictures’ inspiring drama KING RICHARD
    (L – r) Aunjanue Ellis as Oracene “Brandy” Williams, Mikayla Bartholomew as Tunde Price, Will Smith as Richard Williams, Saniyya Sidney as Venus Williams, Demi Singleto as Serena Williams and Daniele Lawson as Isha Price in Warner Bros. Pictures’ inspiring drama King Richard, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Chiabella James

    AFI FEST 2021 will close with Warner Bros. Pictures’ King Richard, directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green with cinematography by Robert Elswit (AFI Class of 1977) and starring two-time Academy Award®nominee Will Smith. The film follows Richard Williams, an undeterred father who, with the support of his family, is instrumental in raising two of the most extraordinarily gifted athletes of all time, Venus and Serena Williams. The Closing Night screening will take place on Sunday, November 14 at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre.

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  • Lin-Manuel Miranda’s tick, tick…BOOM! to Open AFI FEST 2021

    tick, tick…BOOM! directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda
    TICK, TICK…BOOM! (L-R) Andrew Garfield as Jonathan Larson, Alexandra Shipp as Susan in TICK, TICK…BOOM! Photo Credit: Macall Polay/NETFLIX ©2021

    AFI FEST 2021 will open with the World Premiere of Netflix’s tick, tick…BOOM! directed by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda in his feature directorial debut.

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  • AFI FEST 2020 Winners – WOLFWALKERS and 76 DAYS Win Audience Awards

    Wolfwalkers directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
    Wolfwalkers directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart

    AFI FEST 2020 presented by Audi announced the films that received this year’s Jury and Audience awards. The Audience Award – Narrative Feature went to Wolfwalkers directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart and the Audience Award – Documentary Feature went to 76 Days directed by Hao Wu, Weixi Chen, Anonymous.

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