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AFI FEST Unveils Inaugural Young Americans & New Auteurs Sections
Kudos to the AFI FEST for setting up an important sidebar that will expose the best that the next generation of filmmakers have to offer. Bumping up their crop of exciting new auteur cinema, sections labeled “Young Americans” and “New Auteurs” (Cannes heavy) are showcases you’ll want to keep an eye on – I can vouch on a good chunk of titles already selected.
Kudos to the AFI FEST for setting up an important sidebar that will expose the best that the next generation of filmmakers have to offer. Bumping up their crop of exciting new auteur cinema, sections labeled “Young Americans” and “New Auteurs” (Cannes heavy) are showcases you’ll want to keep an eye on – I can vouch on a good chunk of titles already selected.
Among the half dozen included names in “Young Americans” section we find a pair of filmmakers in Alistair Banks Griffin and David Robert Mitchell who were included in our own American New Wave 25 feature this summer. Two Gates Of Sleep, one of my top discoveries of the year from this year’s Cannes will finally receive its North American premiere. Filling out the section, we also have the North American premiere for the Locarno preemed Kitao Sakurai’s Aardvark (Sakurai was the cinematographer on You Wont Miss Me), Mike Ott’s Littlerock (which I’ll be covering at the Nouveau Cinema festival), and the SXSW pair of Matt Porterfield’s Putty Hill (see pic above) and Matt Mccormick’s Some Days Are Better Than Others.
Here are the selected titles that will be shown between the 4th and 11th of November:
The Young Americans Section
Aardvark (New York City): Dir/Scr Kitao Sakurai. USA/Argentina. North American Premiere.
Littlerock (California): Dir/Scr Mike Ott. USA
The Myth Of The American Sleepover (Detroit): Dir/Scr David Robert Mitchell. USA
Putty Hill (Baltimore, Md.): Dir/Scr Matt Porterfield. USA
Some Days Are Better Than Others (Portland, Ore.): Dir/Scr Matt Mccormick. USA
Two Gates Of Sleep (Louisiana): Dir/Scr Alistair Banks Griffin. USA U.S. Premiere.
The New Auteurs Section
Adrienn Pál: Dir Ágnes Kocsis. Scr Ágnes Kocsis, Andrea Roberti. Hungary/Netherlands/Austria/France. U.S. Premiere.
Bedevilled: Dir Cheol-Soo Jang. Scr Choi Gwang-Young. South Korea.
Heartbeats (Les Amours Imaginaires): Dir/Scr Xavier Dolan. Canada.
Le Quattro Volte: Dir/Scr Michelangelo Frammartino. Italy/Germany/Switzerland.
Morgen: Dir/Scr Marian Crisan. Romania/France/Hungary. U.S. Premiere.
Nothing’s All Bad (Smukke Mennesker): Dir/Scr Mikkel Munch-Fals. North American Premiere.
Pulsar: Dir/Scr Alex Stockman. Belgium.
Shit Year: Dir/Scr Cam Archer. USA
