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Sunday 9/ 13 | Monday 9/ 14 | Tuesday 9/ 15 Filmmaker Q&As - Fri, Sept. 4, 7:00 p.m. — SOLD OUT! Moderated by Roxana Hadadi, critic for Vulture & New York Magazine - Sat, Sept. 5, 1:30 p.m. Moderated by Sky Sitney, co-founder and director, DC/DOX Please note: Advance tickets for the Fri, Sept. 4,...  Filmmaker Na Hong-jin’s first film since 2016’s THE WAILING is a wildly entertaining and high-octane action thriller set in the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor. Police chief Bum-seok (Hwang Jung-min) and officer Sung-ae (Hoyeon) are called to find a mysterious creature that has...  A collection of Hall of Fame-worthy LOONEY TUNES cartoons, both fan-favorite and critically acclaimed animated shorts. RABBIT SEASONING (1952) | DIR Chuck Jones A SHEEP IN THE DEEP (1962) | DIR Chuck Jones WHAT’S OPERA, DOC? (1957) | DIR Chuck Jones ALI BABA BUNNY (1957)...  “Nobody’s perfect,” but Billy Wilder’s boundary-breaking comedy just may be. Speakeasy musicians Jerry (Jack Lemmon) and Joe (Tony Curtis) happen to be in the wrong Chicago garage on St. Valentine’s Day, 1929. To hide from the mob, they disguise themselves as women and join an...  Sci-fi meets spy-fi in this imaginative ‘60s spectacular that combines adventurous speculative technology and Cold War paranoia, directed by Richard Fleischer and produced by Saul David, who hit pay dirt with the spy spoof OUR MAN FLINT and its sequel IN LIKE FLINT. After a... | Wednesday 9/ 16Filmmaker Na Hong-jin’s first film since 2016’s THE WAILING is a wildly entertaining and high-octane action thriller set in the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor. Police chief Bum-seok (Hwang Jung-min) and officer Sung-ae (Hoyeon) are called to find a mysterious creature that has...  Eleven-year-old Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) has just relocated from Minnesota to San Francisco with her family, a jarring move that proves difficult. Living in her mind, her personified emotions — Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Anger (Lewis Black)...  Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay) works in a dead-end job as a clerk in an undertaker’s office, but in his vivid — and overactive — imagination, he is the president of the country of Ambrosia, or a famous novelist, or an insurgent revolutionary. But Billy’s Walter...  The Opening Night screening of THE MATCH is sold out. At approximately 7:00 p.m. on Wed, Sept. 16, a standby line will form outside AFI Silver; any remaining seats will be made available just before the 7:00 p.m. showtime. Tickets are still available for the...  Visionary director Jane Schoenbrun (I SAW THE TV GLOW) presents a new kind of horror film. Bursting with imagination and surreal wit, their latest genre-bending wonder affirms there is no such thing as a guilty pleasure. After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the...  In an impoverished neighborhood of 1980s Medellín, a group of disaffected teens steal a TV reporter’s camera to document their lives, piercing the derelict landscape’s oppressive atmosphere with disarming reflections on dreams and death. But their understanding of reality and hope begins to erode as... | Thursday 9/ 17Filmmaker Na Hong-jin’s first film since 2016’s THE WAILING is a wildly entertaining and high-octane action thriller set in the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor. Police chief Bum-seok (Hwang Jung-min) and officer Sung-ae (Hoyeon) are called to find a mysterious creature that has...  Set in 1979 New Mexico — with a vibrant, sun-drenched color palette and killer disco soundtrack to match — this is a wry yet sincere coming-of-age tale from Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke (whose latest feature FLIES also screens in this year’s festival. Over the course... Filmmaker Q&As - Fri, Sept. 4, 7:00 p.m. — SOLD OUT! Moderated by Roxana Hadadi, critic for Vulture & New York Magazine - Sat, Sept. 5, 1:30 p.m. Moderated by Sky Sitney, co-founder and director, DC/DOX Please note: Advance tickets for the Fri, Sept. 4,...  [LA HIJA CÓNDOR] In a remote indigenous community in the Bolivian Andes, the midwives sing ancient Quechuan songs to aid birthing mothers and their newborns. Clara (Marisol Vallejos Montaño), a teenager with a gifted voice, is one such midwife, taught by her adoptive mother, Ana... Sci-fi meets spy-fi in this imaginative ‘60s spectacular that combines adventurous speculative technology and Cold War paranoia, directed by Richard Fleischer and produced by Saul David, who hit pay dirt with the spy spoof OUR MAN FLINT and its sequel IN LIKE FLINT. After a... Visionary director Jane Schoenbrun (I SAW THE TV GLOW) presents a new kind of horror film. Bursting with imagination and surreal wit, their latest genre-bending wonder affirms there is no such thing as a guilty pleasure. After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the... In an impoverished neighborhood of 1980s Medellín, a group of disaffected teens steal a TV reporter’s camera to document their lives, piercing the derelict landscape’s oppressive atmosphere with disarming reflections on dreams and death. But their understanding of reality and hope begins to erode as... | Friday 9/ 18 Brazilian filmmaker Priscilla Kellen’s debut feature is a vibrant, colorful and whimsical tale of a curious papaya seed who longs to fly away from her fate of rooting into the ground and turning into a tree. Her escape from her mother tree takes her across...  Asunción, 1959. Radio DJ Narciso Arévalos (Diro Romero) returns from Buenos Aires baptized by the raucous sounds of rock and roll. With his matinee-idol good looks and pompadour hairstyle, he quickly becomes an object of desire for men and women alike. But the local radio... | Saturday 9/ 19Set in 1979 New Mexico — with a vibrant, sun-drenched color palette and killer disco soundtrack to match — this is a wry yet sincere coming-of-age tale from Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke (whose latest feature FLIES also screens in this year’s festival. Over the course... Brazilian filmmaker Priscilla Kellen’s debut feature is a vibrant, colorful and whimsical tale of a curious papaya seed who longs to fly away from her fate of rooting into the ground and turning into a tree. Her escape from her mother tree takes her across...  [VICENTINA PEDE DESCULPAS] In the southeastern Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, a public bus goes about its regularly scheduled route, packed to the brim with riders. Without reason, the bus veers off an overpass, killing all but one of its passengers. As news media starts...  [SOY MARIO] Mario (Oustin de León) is a 40-year-old transgender cab driver, working to save money to continue his gender-affirming care. But when he cannot afford his medication, a chance encounter leads to an unexpected pregnancy that opens the possibility of fulfilling his dream of...  Left to rot on the vine at a Michelin-starred restaurant in São Paulo, 50-something sommelier Isabel (Marina Person) cannot seem to please her boss, who does not understand her love of challenging, natural wines made in Brazil. Prone to taking these rejected bottles home for...  In this newly restored entry in the long-running series of films featuring El Santo, masked luchador Santo comes to the aid of a town that is under attack by a violent mob of lepers who have teamed up with a criminal biker gang. El Santo... |
Sunday 9/ 20 [CORDILLERA DE FUEGO] After centuries of forced displacement, indigenous communities in Guatemala have settled on new land, persevering by collective action. But when volcanologist Paula (María Mercedes Coroy, IXCANUL) discovers a new volcano forming under the fault lines of these communities, she worries their way...  [BAJO EL MISMO SOL] Lázaro (David Castillo), a thin-skinned Spanish colonialist, arrives to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in 1819 with plans to make good on his family’s dream of producing silk in the Americas. To ensure high-quality production, he has brought with him Mei...  [CHICAS TRISTES] La Maestra (Rocio Guzmán) and Paula (Darana Álvarez) are teenage best friends with an unspoken and unbreakable bond. If they are not in the pool practicing for the school swim team, they are constantly hanging out, having sleepovers and buzzing about their first... The Opening Night screening of THE MATCH is sold out. At approximately 7:00 p.m. on Wed, Sept. 16, a standby line will form outside AFI Silver; any remaining seats will be made available just before the 7:00 p.m. showtime. Tickets are still available for the...  [CUBA Y LA NOCHE] In 2018, the Cuban government published Decree 349, a law that requires artists to obtain permission from the Cuban culture ministry for any public or private exhibitions. In response, a group of journalists, artists and academics calling themselves the San Isidro... In an impoverished neighborhood of 1980s Medellín, a group of disaffected teens steal a TV reporter’s camera to document their lives, piercing the derelict landscape’s oppressive atmosphere with disarming reflections on dreams and death. But their understanding of reality and hope begins to erode as... | Monday 9/ 21[LA HIJA CÓNDOR] In a remote indigenous community in the Bolivian Andes, the midwives sing ancient Quechuan songs to aid birthing mothers and their newborns. Clara (Marisol Vallejos Montaño), a teenager with a gifted voice, is one such midwife, taught by her adoptive mother, Ana... [CHICAS TRISTES] La Maestra (Rocio Guzmán) and Paula (Darana Álvarez) are teenage best friends with an unspoken and unbreakable bond. If they are not in the pool practicing for the school swim team, they are constantly hanging out, having sleepovers and buzzing about their first... In an impoverished neighborhood of 1980s Medellín, a group of disaffected teens steal a TV reporter’s camera to document their lives, piercing the derelict landscape’s oppressive atmosphere with disarming reflections on dreams and death. But their understanding of reality and hope begins to erode as... | Tuesday 9/ 22[CUBA Y LA NOCHE] In 2018, the Cuban government published Decree 349, a law that requires artists to obtain permission from the Cuban culture ministry for any public or private exhibitions. In response, a group of journalists, artists and academics calling themselves the San Isidro... Asunción, 1959. Radio DJ Narciso Arévalos (Diro Romero) returns from Buenos Aires baptized by the raucous sounds of rock and roll. With his matinee-idol good looks and pompadour hairstyle, he quickly becomes an object of desire for men and women alike. But the local radio... In this newly restored entry in the long-running series of films featuring El Santo, masked luchador Santo comes to the aid of a town that is under attack by a violent mob of lepers who have teamed up with a criminal biker gang. El Santo... | Wednesday 9/ 23[CORDILLERA DE FUEGO] After centuries of forced displacement, indigenous communities in Guatemala have settled on new land, persevering by collective action. But when volcanologist Paula (María Mercedes Coroy, IXCANUL) discovers a new volcano forming under the fault lines of these communities, she worries their way...  [SI NO ARDEMOS, CÓMO ILUMINAR LA NOCHE] Thirteen-year-old Laura (Lara Yuja Mora) is left adrift as she is forced to move to the Costa Rican countryside to live with her mother’s new boyfriend. Her new stepsister tries to ingratiate herself, but Laura is more interested... [BAJO EL MISMO SOL] Lázaro (David Castillo), a thin-skinned Spanish colonialist, arrives to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in 1819 with plans to make good on his family’s dream of producing silk in the Americas. To ensure high-quality production, he has brought with him Mei... | Thursday 9/ 24Set in 1979 New Mexico — with a vibrant, sun-drenched color palette and killer disco soundtrack to match — this is a wry yet sincere coming-of-age tale from Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke (whose latest feature FLIES also screens in this year’s festival. Over the course...  A night you will remember for the rest of your life. This is a celebration of Pulp, one of Britain’s most unusual bands, captured during their triumphant 2025 tour. Directed by longtime collaborator Garth Jennings and narrated by Pulp frontman, Jarvis Cocker, the film weaves...  [LA MUERTE NO TIENE DUEÑO] Genre royalty Asia Argento stars as Caro, a fragile woman who returns to Venezuela to claim her inheritance, a crumbling cacao plantation, in Jorge Thielen Armand’s (FORTITUDE, LA SOLEDAD) anticolonial fever dream. Caro’s plans to sell the land for a... [SI NO ARDEMOS, CÓMO ILUMINAR LA NOCHE] Thirteen-year-old Laura (Lara Yuja Mora) is left adrift as she is forced to move to the Costa Rican countryside to live with her mother’s new boyfriend. Her new stepsister tries to ingratiate herself, but Laura is more interested... | Friday 9/ 25 [HIEDRA] Stuck in a state of arrested development, 30-something Azucena (Simone Bucio, THE UNTAMED) mostly keeps to herself, working a dead-end job and caring for her elderly grandfather. But she starts to come out of her shell when she connects with a group of teenagers...  [MOSCAS] Returning to the nostalgia-laden black and white of his breakthrough debut DUCK SEASON, Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke crafts a delicate yet wry exploration of grief in his bittersweet new feature. In a busy corner of Mexico City, retiree Olga (Teresita Sánchez) lives a solitary... [LA MUERTE NO TIENE DUEÑO] Genre royalty Asia Argento stars as Caro, a fragile woman who returns to Venezuela to claim her inheritance, a crumbling cacao plantation, in Jorge Thielen Armand’s (FORTITUDE, LA SOLEDAD) anticolonial fever dream. Caro’s plans to sell the land for a... | Saturday 9/ 26 [THE DANCE OF THE KOKORRDIT] The ancestral homeland of the Wounaan people, nestled within the Darién Gap on the border between Panama and Colombia, is under threat from loggers, ranchers and miners. But perhaps the biggest threat is the government that turns a blind eye...  An adaptation of Colombian writer Pilar Quintana’s novel, Dominga Sotomayor’s (THURSDAY TILL SUNDAY, TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG) impressive third feature expands on the Chilean filmmaker's distinctive explorations of memory, landscape and the inner lives of women. On Santa María, a remote island off the...  Filmmaker Fernando Trueba partners with flamenco guitarist Niño Josele for this spiritual successor to CALLE 54 that captures the glittering sound of flamenco, jazz and Brazilian music. Primarily consisting of studio sessions, with brief connecting interludes, BAJAÑÍ features performances by Caetano Veloso, Ron Carter, Rubén...  [NADA ENTRE LOS DOS] A food-poisoning scandal sends a multi-national corporation into a tailspin, and they convene top executives at a Mexican resort for an emergency summit on how best to tackle this public relations nightmare. Arriving from the Buenos Aires office is Mechi (Natalia...  [PRINCESA BURRO] Chilean directing duo Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña (THE WOLF HOUSE) take a genre-busting detour into the multiverse in their latest mind-blowingly handcrafted creation. In the long-ago kingdom of Chile, the black plague leaves a path of destruction and death, turning King Arthur... |
Sunday 9/ 27 THE RIVER TRAIN [EL TREN FLUVIAL] In the far reaches of the Argentine pampas, nine-year-old Milo (Milo Barría) is a malambo phenom. He trains under the unrelenting eye of his father to perfect the intricate footwork and bombastic stomping required for this impressive gaucho folk...  Though the Carnation Revolution of 1974 toppled Portugal’s 40-year-old dictatorship and ushered in a wave of democracy, the following years were filled with growing pains. In the 1980s, as the new government eschewed the socialist policies of the revolution amidst rampant unemployment and economic recession,...  Deep in the Guatemalan highlands, Romero (Józef Coxaj) leads a seemingly beautiful life with his wife and young child. But he dreams of something bigger, so he leaves his family behind to search for work in Guatemala City, with promises of returning in six months.... | Monday 9/ 28 In the mid-1950s, Havana was home to more movie theaters than Paris or New York City combined. Decades later, the city’s once-grand movie palaces are now crumbling, echoing the disillusion and spreading mental health panic gripping Cuban society. Illuminada (Mirtha Ibarra) has worked as an...  In this delicate story by Salvadoran filmmaker Arturo López Rodas, three old friends — Ricardo, José and Paco — reunite for a funeral after several decades apart. As they reminisce about their pasts through a long conversation mingled with jokes and drinks, they reflect on... [MOSCAS] Returning to the nostalgia-laden black and white of his breakthrough debut DUCK SEASON, Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke crafts a delicate yet wry exploration of grief in his bittersweet new feature. In a busy corner of Mexico City, retiree Olga (Teresita Sánchez) lives a solitary... | Tuesday 9/ 29In this delicate story by Salvadoran filmmaker Arturo López Rodas, three old friends — Ricardo, José and Paco — reunite for a funeral after several decades apart. As they reminisce about their pasts through a long conversation mingled with jokes and drinks, they reflect on...  Famed Russian revolutionary film director Sergei Eisenstein traveled to Mexico in December 1930 to experience firsthand its “geographical, ethnological, cultural and historical diversity” and to make the feature film known to the world as ¡QUE VIVA MÉXICO! After shooting 200,000 feet of 35mm film footage,... An adaptation of Colombian writer Pilar Quintana’s novel, Dominga Sotomayor’s (THURSDAY TILL SUNDAY, TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG) impressive third feature expands on the Chilean filmmaker's distinctive explorations of memory, landscape and the inner lives of women. On Santa María, a remote island off the... | Wednesday 9/ 30Deep in the Guatemalan highlands, Romero (Józef Coxaj) leads a seemingly beautiful life with his wife and young child. But he dreams of something bigger, so he leaves his family behind to search for work in Guatemala City, with promises of returning in six months....  In the peak of a hot and sweaty summer in the suburbs of Montevideo, the firmly middle-class Saldañas offer to dog-sit for their well-to-do neighbors, the Pernas, who hand over their keys and the instructions for their alarm without a second thought. Unable to afford... [PRINCESA BURRO] Chilean directing duo Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña (THE WOLF HOUSE) take a genre-busting detour into the multiverse in their latest mind-blowingly handcrafted creation. In the long-ago kingdom of Chile, the black plague leaves a path of destruction and death, turning King Arthur... |
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