Category: AFIFest

Queen at Sea: Love in the time of dementia

It’s hard to understand someone else’s experience. When that person is deep in dementia, it is even more difficult.

Bitter Christmas (Amarga Navidad) is the latest “auto-fiction” from Pedro Almodóvar. It focuses on...

Director Emil Alper’s Salvation (Kurtuluş) demonstrates the way religion can become a weapon that...

My first day at AFIFest presented by Canva was filled with the arts. Of course film is a artform...

Caring (or the lack thereof) is really what this film is about.

A popular poster in dorm rooms when I was in college read, “War is not healthy for children and...

What do you do when you need someone to be a mourner, or a groom, or a father, or a companion?...

“The world needs a hermit in the woods as much as a preacher in the pulpit.” What is the meaning...

My choices for today’s films were all Special Screenings, featuring films that will be coming out in the coming months.

The T-shirt for this year’s AFIFest Presented by Canva has a quotation from the Guest Artistic...

Welcome back to Hollywood and AFIFest Presented by Canva. Today I encountered the first film that...

“Welcome, film lovers. You’re in good company.” These words come up on the screen before every...

Time again for AFIFest Presented by Canva—five days of some of the best films of the year. This is...