AFI Fest Announces 2019 Lineup
142 films from 52 countries. 51% directed by women. Tickets on sale to the general public tomorrow but are available to AFI members today. Explore all of the films & events at #AFIFEST 2019 now ▶️ https://t.co/6jVaGAHcBK #FestWithLA pic.twitter.com/iRFl71e7lL
- AFI FEST (@AFIFEST) October 29, 2019
AFI Fest has announced this year's lineup, which is underwhelming compared to other festival lineups this season. And in more unfortunate news, the previously free of charge festival is now charging for tickets to each screening.
On the plus side, with 51% of this year's films directed by women, AFI Fest is one of the few festivals that has actually achieved gender parity with directors of its selections.
The festival has a few big premieres: Clint Eastwood's Richard Jewell and Melina Matsoukas' Queen and Slim, both of which were previously announced, as well as the Apple film The Banker, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Mackie, Nicholas Hoult and Nia Long. Other big name films at this year's fest include The Aeronauts, Clemency, and Just Mercy.
This year's festival is honoring Alan J. Pakula by screening several of his films, such as Sophie's Choice and Klute.
16 DECEMBER
Álvaro Gago
ADAM
Maryan Touzani
THE AERONAUTS
Tom Harper
ALAN PAKULA: GOING FOR TRUTH
Matthew Miele
ALIEN (REONGHEE)
Jegwang Yeon
AMERICAN FACTORY (美国工厂)
Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
AND THEN WE DANCED
Levan Akin
ANNA
Dekel Berenson
ANNE AT 13,000 FT
Kazik Radwanski
ANTIGONE
Sophie Deraspe
THE APOLLO
Roger Ross Williams
ATLANTICS (ATLANTIQUE)
Mati Diop
AZIZA
Soudade Kaadan
BABYTEETH
Shannon Murphy
BACURAU
Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho
BALLOON
Jeremy Merrifield
BALLOON (QI QIU)
Pema Tseden
THE BANKER
George Nolfi
BEANPOLE
Kantemir Balagov
BIKRAM: YOGI, GURU, PREDATOR
Eva Orner
BLACK BUS STOP
Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold
BLACKBIRD
Roger Michell
BLESSED LAND
Phạm Ngọc Lân
BLOW THE MAN DOWN
Bridget Savage Cole, Danielle Krudy
THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE ...
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Kathleen Hepburn
BUG BITE
Emily Ann Hoffman
THE BURNING BUSH (הסנה הבוער)
Noam Greif
CACTUS BLOSSOM
Samir Oliveros
CARNE
Camila Kater
THE CAVE
Feras Fayyad
THE CHEF
Hao Zheng
CHEZ JOLIE COIFFURE
Rosine Mbakam
CHILD
Talia Zucker
CITIZEN K
Alex Gibney
CLEMENCY
Chinonye Chukwu
THE CLINIC
Elivia Shaw
CORPUS CHRISTI (BOŻE CIAŁO)
Jan Komasa
THE CROWN
Benjamin Caron
DEEP TISSUE
Meredith Alloway
DEERSKIN
Quentin Dupieux
DESERT ONE
Barbara Kopple
THE DEVIL’S HARMONY
Dylan Holmes Williams
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US AND THE SKY
Vasilis Kekatos
DOCKING
Trevor Anderson
EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SUDD...
Scott Calonico
EXAM
Sonia K. Hadad
EXIT 12
Mohammad Gorjestani
FAMILY MEMBERS (LOS MIEMBROS DE LA FAMIL...
Mateo Bendesky
FIRE IN PARADISE
Drea Cooper, Zackary Canepari
FLORENCE
Emanuele Daga
FORMAN VS. FORMAN
Jakub Hejna, Helena Třeštíková
FORT IRWIN
Quinn Else
THE FRIEND
Gabriela Cowperthwaite
GHOSTS OF SUGAR LAND
Bassam Tariq
THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT (SINGLE CHANNEL)
Ja'Tovia Gary
THE GOLDEN LEGEND (LEYENDA DORADA)
Chema García Ibarra, Ion de Sosa
GRACE
R.J. Glass
HALA
Minhal Baig
HE DREAMS OF GIANTS
Keith Fulton, Lou Pepe
HELLO AHMA
Siyou Tan
A HIDDEN LIFE
Terrence Malick
THE HISTORY OF MONSTERS
Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz
THE HUMAN FACTOR
Dror Moreh
I AM NOT ALONE
Garin Hovannisian
I WAS AT HOME, BUT… (ICH WAR ZUHAU...
Angela Schanelec
IDOL (WOO SANG)
Lee Su-jin
INTERMISSION EXPEDITION
Wiep Teeuwisse
IVANA THE TERRIBLE
Ivana Mladenović
JALLIKATTU
Lijo Jose Pellissery
JUST MERCY
Destin Daniel Cretton
THE KINGMAKER
Lauren Greenfield
KLUTE
Alan J. Pakula
KNIVES AND SKIN
Jennifer Reeder
THE LAST TO SEE THEM (GLI ULTIMI A VEDER...
Sara Summa
LIBERTÉ
Albert Serra
LIBERTY
Faren Humes
LINGUA FRANCA
Isabel Sandoval
LOST & FOUND
Orlando Von Einsiedel
LOUISE
Natalie Camou
LOVE ME TENDER
Klaudia Reynicke
A LOVE SONG FOR LATASHA
Sophia Nahli Allison
MACK WRESTLES
Erin Sanger, Taylor Hess
MARRIAGE MATERIAL, THE MUSICAL!
Oran Zegman
MATERNAL
Maura Delpero
MILLER & SON
Asher Jelinsky
THE MINORS
Robert Machoian
MISS BOUNDLESS (弄璋记)
Qiyu Zhou
MONSTRUO DIOS
Agustina San Martín
MORS DAG
Jeanine Frost
MS SLAVIC 7
Sofia Bohdanowicz, Deragh Campbell
MTHUNZI
Tebogo Malebogo
NOBADI
Karl Markovics
OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE
Ric Burns
ONE CHILD NATION
Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang
OUT OF PLACE
Peier "Tracy" Shen
PATRICK (DE PATRICK)
Tim Mielants
THE PLANTERS
Alexandra Kotcheff, Hannah Leder
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
Céline Sciamma
PRESENT.PERFECT. (WAN MEI XIAN ZAI SHI)
Shengze Zhu
PROGENY
Justin Daering
PROXIMA
Alice Winocour
QUEEN & SLIM
Melina Matsoukas
READY FOR WAR
Andrew Renzi
RICHARD JEWELL
Clint Eastwood
ROCKS
Sarah Gavron
A RODEO FILM
Darius Dawson
ROMANTIC COMEDY
Elizabeth Sankey
SAINT MAUD
Rose Glass
THE SCIENCE OF FICTIONS (HIRUK-PIKUK SI-...
Yosep Anggi Noen
SEARCHING EVA
Pia Hellenthal
SELAH AND THE SPADES
Tayarisha Poe
SIN CIELO
J. S. Maarten
THE SLEEPWALKERS (LOS SONÁMBULOS)
Paula Hernández
SLUG LIFE
Sophie Gate
SOMETHING TO REMEMBER (NÅGOT ATT MINNAS...
Niki Lindroth von Bahr
SON-MOTHER (PESAR-MADAR)
Mahnaz Mohammadi
THE SONG OF NAMES
François Girard
SONG WITHOUT A NAME (CANCION SIN NOMBRE)
Melina Léon
SOPHIE’S CHOICE
Alan J. Pakula
SOUTH OXFORD, ALL IOWA LAWN TENNIS CLUB,...
Darius Clark Monroe
THE STERILE CUCKOO
Alan J. Pakula
STORY
Jolanta Bankowska
SUICIDE BY SUNLIGHT
Nikyatu Jusu
TAKE ME TO PROM
Andrew Moir
TALKING ABOUT TREES
Suhaib Gasmelbari
THEY WON’T LAST
Portlynn Tagavi
TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (TABI NO OWARI ...
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
THE TRAITOR
Marco Bellocchio
TREE #3
Omer Ben-Shachar
TROOP ZERO
Bert & Bertie
THE TRUTH
Hirokazu Kore-eda
THE TWO POPES
Fernando Meirelles
UNDER COVERS
Michaela Olsen
UNDER THE FLAG
Jiawei Cheng
VARDA BY AGNÈS
Agnès Varda
VINCENT
Gabriele Di Sazio
WAX PAUL NOW
Val Bodurtha, Rebecca Shaw, Sophie Mann
WELCOME TO THE USA
Assel Aushakimova
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE WATER AND THE...
Jian Luo
THE WHISTLERS
Corneliu Porumboiu
YELLOW GIRL & ME
Isabella Issa
YOUR LAST DAY ON EARTH (TU ÚLTIMO DÍA ...
Marc Martínez Jordán
You can read more about each film at the AFI website. If you're in LA and want to check out some of the festival's offerings, OP can personally recommend Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Proxima, and has also heard great things about Rocks, Atlantics, and Blow the Man Down.
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I'm an AFI member and got zero notice about this year's schedule or when tickets were set to go on sale, and their website is a damn laggy mess. Really disappointing after last year's excellent festival.