AFI FEST, the internationalfilm festival held by the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles Nov7-17, has announced its lineup, which is composed of 134 films from 37countries.
The festival is divided intovarious categories: International feature competition, internationaldocumentary competition and international shorts competition, AmericanDirections, Asian New Classics, European Showcase, Latin Cinema Series andSpecial Screenings.
"AFI FESThas become the festival of record for international cinema here in Los Angeleseach year," said festival director Christian Gaines. "Our 2002programme is remarkable in the diversity of voices and visions from all cornersof the world and the way it reflects the diversity of Los Angeles."
The festivalopens with the US premiere of Denzel Washington's Antwone Fisher, the centerpiece gala is the US premiereof Atom Egoyan's Ararat and the closing night is the gala presentation of PedroAlmodovar's Talk To Her.
Internationalfeature competition, all US premieres, consists of the following films:
An Adolescent (Japan) Eiji Okuda, director
BlissfullyYours (Thailand) ApichatpongWeerasethakul
Chaos AndDesire (Canada) ManonBriand
EveryStewardess Goes To Heaven(Argentina/Spain) Daniel Burman
Hold My Heart (Norway) Trygve Allister Diesen
HypnotizedAnd Hysterical (Hairdresser Wanted) (France) Claude Duty
Max (US/Canada/Germany) Menno Meyjes
Okay (Denmark) Jesper W Nielsen
Samsara (India/Germany) Pan Nalin
ShatteredGlass (Germany) ChrisKraus
Snakeskin (New Zealand) Gillian Ashurst
This Is Not ALove Song (UK) BilleEltringham
InternationalDocumentary Competition:
7thStreet (US) Josh Pais
AnonymouslyYours (Burma/US) GayleFerraro
Blind Spot:Hitler's Secretary(Austria) Andre Heller & Othmar Schmiderer
Cinemania (US) Angela Christlieb
Family (Denmark) Sami Martin Saif & PhieAmbo
Jimmy Scott:If You Only Knew (US)Matthew Buzzell
MozambiqueWhere Film Goes (Italy)Nello Ferrieri & Raffaele Rago
Photos ToSend (US/Ireland)Dierdre Lynch
Prom Night InKansas City (US) HaliLee & Peter Von Ziegesar
The SmithFamily (US) Tasha Oldham
Unprecedented:The 2000 Presidential Election (US) Richard Ray Perez & Joan Sekler
A Wedding InRamallah (Australia)Sherine Salama
AmericanDirections:
Civil Brand (Neema Barnette)
Evenhand (Joseph Pierson)
I'mWith Lucy (Jon Sherman)
Love Liza (Todd Louiso)
Love The HardWay (Peter Sehr)
Safety OfObjects (Rose Troche)
The SlaughterRule (Alex Smith &Andrew Smith)
Solitude (Susan Kraker & Pi Ware)
West BankBrooklyn (GhaziAlbuliwi)
XX/XY (Austin Chick)
Asian NewClassics
Balzac AndThe Little Chinese Seamstress (China/France) Dai Sijie
Chihwaseon (Korea) Im Kwon-Taek
Dark Water (Japan) Hideo Nakata
The DesertedValley (Vietnam) PhamNhue Giang
IranianSpread (Iran) KianooshAyyari
MillenniumActress (Japan) SatoshiKon
ShaolinSoccer (China) StephenChow
Small Voices (Philippines) Gil M Portes
To Stay Alive (Iran) Dariush Mehrjoui
The Way Home (Korea) Lee Jeong-Hyang
EuropeanShowcase:
The Cuckoo (Russia) Alexander Rogozhkin
DivineIntervention(France/Palestine/Morocco/Germany) Elia Suleiman
Gebirtig (Austria/Germany/Poland/US) Lukas Stepanik& Robert Schindel
Irreversible (France) Gaspar Noe
The Man OnThe Train (France)Patrice Leconte
MorvernCallar (UK) Lynne Ramsay
Respiro (Italy) Emanuele Crialese
SleepingRough (Netherlands)Eugenie Jansen
Supplement (Poland) Krzysztof Zanussi
Sweet Sixteen (UK) Ken Loach
Latin CinemaSeries:
About TheLiving (Mexico) JorgeAguilera
City Of God (Brazil) Fernando Mereilles
The City OfNo Limits(Spain/Argentina) Antonio Hernandez
The DancerUpstairs(Spain/Italy/Ecuador) John Malkovich
Don'tTempt Me(Spain/France/Italy/Mexico) Agustin Diaz Yanes
TheInheritance (Brazil)Daniel Filho
Intacto (Spain) Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
A Lucky Day (Argentina/Italy) Sandra Gugliotta
Nothing More (Cuba) Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti
Testimony:The Maria Guardado Story(US) Randy Vasquez
SpecialScreenings:
Only TheStrong Survive (US)Chris Hegedus, DA Pennebaker
The QuietAmerican (Australia)Phillip Noyce
Rabbit ProofFence (Australia)Phillip Noyce
Spider (Canada/UK) David Cronenberg
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