AFI Fest

Presented by American Film Institute
Oct 22 - Oct 26, 2025

Ongoing Series

Presented each year by the American Film Institute, the AFI Fest is the longest-running international film festival in Los Angeles. Screening at the Chinese Theatres on Hollywood Boulevard, AFI Fest brings films from around the world to LA.

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AFI Fest

UPCOMING SCREENINGS

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The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo

Wed, Oct 22 @ 8:45 pm
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Writer/director Diego Céspedes
As an unknown and deadly disease begins to spread, legend has it that it is transmitted between two men, through a simple glance, when they fall in love. While people are accusing her family, Lidia must find out whether this myth is real or not.
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Amoebas

Wed, Oct 22 @ 9:00 pm
Thu, Oct 23 @ 9:40 pm
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Writer/Director Siyou Tan
US Premiere
Sixteen-year-old tomboy Choo Xin Yu seems like a misfit when she joins a highly competitive, elite all-girls school in Singapore. But she quickly befriends three others who share her rebellious nature. While the girls struggle to fit in, they pledge loyalty to each other and vow to start a gang as a form of resistance. When their rebellious acts — recorded by the girls on a camcorder — are discovered by their teacher, their lives are upended. What keeps haunting Choo may be more than just the ghost she suspects is in her room.
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Phantoms of July

Fri, Oct 24 @ 8:20 pm
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US Premiere
Ursula and Neda, an East German waitress with a broken heart and an Iranian YouTuber with a broken arm, both feel trapped and lonely in their precarious lives. One summer evening, Ursula falls for a mysterious musician from the city, while Neda is convinced that she recognized an old friend from Tehran in an equally enigmatic street sweeper. The winding paths of chance draw the two women together on an unexpected ghost hunt in the mountains…
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Peter Hujar's Day

Sat, Oct 25 @ 4:30 pm
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A recently discovered conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz in 1974 reveals a glimpse into New York City’s downtown art scene and the personal struggles and epiphanies that define an artist’s life.
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Christy

Sat, Oct 25 @ 7:30 pm
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Christy Martin never imagined life beyond her small-town roots in West Virginia—until she discovered a knack for punching people. Fueled by grit, raw determination, and an unshakable desire to win, she charges into the world of boxing under the guidance of her trainer and manager-turned-husband, Jim. But while Christy flaunts a fiery persona in the ring, her toughest battles unfold outside it—confronting family, identity, and a relationship that just might become life-or-death.
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Fucktoys

Sat, Oct 25 @ 9:30 pm
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Writer/Director/Star Annapurna Sriram
Join AP on a bubblegum grindhouse adventure through sunny and romantic Trashtown, USA. In this raucous odyssey, a wanton minx quests hard across a dreamy landscape of smut, filth and psychics, hustling to lift a curse that has been f-cking her sh-t up.
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I Was Born This Way

Sun, Oct 26 @ 3:00 pm
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Making his mark first as a gospel singer, Bean got the break of his life when Motown tapped him in 1977 to record the disco song “I Was Born This Way,” which quickly became the first gay anthem at a time when it was uncommon to be out and proud. When the AIDS crisis hit, however, Bean soon found himself drawn to a different calling: compassionate activism. Instead of pursuing the momentum of his promising music career, he founded the Minority AIDS Project and the Unity Fellowship Church — the first LGBTQ+ church for people of color.
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The Chronology of Water

Sun, Oct 26 @ 4:45 pm
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Growing up in an environment torn apart by violence and alcohol, a young woman struggles to find her path. She manages to escape her family and enters university, where she finds refuge in literature. Gradually, words offer her an unexpected freedom…
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Junkie

Sun, Oct 26 @ 6:10 pm
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Writer/Director William Means and Producer Patty Jenkins
Perpetual screwup Stevie is running on empty having just escaped from rehab (again). On a quest to repay her debts and reconcile with her estranged, openly gay son Liam before skipping town for good, Stevie winds up in a slew of high-risk predicaments over the course of a few frenzied days.
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A Useful Ghost

Sun, Oct 26 @ 8:30 pm
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Writer/Director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
After Nat tragically dies from dust pollution, March is consumed by grief. But his daily life is turned upside down when he discovers his wife’s spirit has been reincarnated in a vacuum cleaner. As absurd as it seems, their bond is rekindled, stronger than ever. But it hardly to everyone’s liking. His family, still haunted by the accidental death of a factory worker, reject this supernatural relationship. To prove their love, Nat offers to clean the factory to prove herself a useful ghost, even if that means doing away with some lost souls…
AFI Fest

PAST SCREENINGS

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Langue Étrangère

Thu, Oct 24 @ 11:15 am
Sat, Oct 26 @ 10:45 am
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This Teddy-nominated coming of age story follows a young French girl studying abroad in Germany. Struck by a crush on her pen pal, she sets out to reinvent a new identity for herself.
This Teddy-nominated coming of age story follows a young French girl studying abroad in Germany. Struck by a crush on her pen pal, she sets out to reinvent a new identity for herself.
Fanny, a shy and lonely teenager, goes on a language exchange to Germany. In Leipzig, she meets her pen pal, Lena, a teenager eager to become politically active. Fanny is troubled. To win over Lena, she invents a life for herself, to the extent of becoming trapped in her lies.
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Christmas Eve in Miller's Point

Fri, Oct 25 @ 8:00 pm
Sun, Oct 27 @ 2:00 pm
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Director Tyler Taormina
A rambunctious extended family descends upon their small Long Island hometown for the holidays where hijinks, generational squabbles, and family traditions ensue.
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The Balconettes

Fri, Oct 25 @ 9:40 pm
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DGA Theater
This gory horror-comedy, which competed for the Queer Palm at Cannes this year, is the second feature directed by actress Noémie Merlant (Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Tár), and is co-written by Merlant and Queer auteur Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Tomboy).
This gory horror-comedy, which competed for the Queer Palm at Cannes this year, is the second feature directed by actress Noémie Merlant (Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Tár), and is co-written by Merlant and Queer auteur Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Tomboy).
As a heat wave brings a Marseille neighbourhood to the boil, three roommates gleefully meddle in the lives of their neighbours from their balcony. Until a late night drink turns into a bloody affair.
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Viet and Nam

Sat, Oct 26 @ 2:00 pm
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Writer/director Truong Minh Quý
This dreamy and erotic drama, about the illicit romance between two coal miners in Northern Vietnam, premiered at Cannes this year. Now banned in its home country, the film explores the scars of war and the pain of leaving home.
This dreamy and erotic drama, about the illicit romance between two coal miners in Northern Vietnam, premiered at Cannes this year. Now banned in its home country, the film explores the scars of war and the pain of leaving home.
In the depths of the underground coal mines, where danger awaits and darkness prevails, Nam and Viêt, both young miners, cherish fleeting moments, knowing that one of them will soon leave for a new life across the sea.
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REAS

Sun, Oct 27 @ 8:30 pm
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This genre-smashing Argentinian documentary musical features a group of cisgender and transgender women who use music and dance to tell the stories of their incarceration, set in the now-disused prison.
This genre-smashing Argentinian documentary musical features a group of cisgender and transgender women who use music and dance to tell the stories of their incarceration, set in the now-disused prison.
Gentle or rough, blonde or shaved, cis or trans, long term inmates or those newly admitted: women re-enact their lives in a Buenos Aires prison, in trance and balance, voguing and singing. A hybrid musical and charming piece of collective empowerment.
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Teaches of Peaches

Sun, Oct 27 @ 9:20 pm
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F**k the pain away with this Teddy-winning documentary, which follows the anniversary tour and dives into the archives of boundary-smashing, fearless feminist Queer rockstar Peaches.
F**k the pain away with this Teddy-winning documentary, which follows the anniversary tour and dives into the archives of boundary-smashing, fearless feminist Queer rockstar Peaches.
Peaches - artist, feminist, rock star. She has been challenging gender stereotypes for over 20 years and is on par with the icons of the pop and rock world. With exclusive private archive material and current footage of preparations and concerts of her 2022 jubilee tour “20 Years of Teaches of Peaches”, we learn how the Canadian Merrill Nisker became the internationally celebrated musician and electro-clash icon Peaches.