March 20, 2026
THE SOCIAL NETWORK (2010) – AFI Movie Club
A film both timely and prescient, David Fincher’s THE SOCIAL NETWORK (2010) was honored with an AFI AWARD, recognizing it as one of the year’s most outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image. According to the official rationale, “THE SOCIAL NETWORK captures the zeitgeist of 2010, a world defined by the difference between...
March 8, 2025
ON THE BASIS OF SEX (2018) – AFI Movie Club
A legal drama and biography chronicling the early cases of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, ON THE BASIS OF SEX (2018) stars Felicity Jones as the iconic figure – and is directed by AFI Alum Mimi Leder (AFI Class of 1973), with cinematography by another alum, Michael Grady (AFI Class of 1993). The film...
June 12, 2020
AFI Movie Club: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME was honored with an AFI AWARD in 2017 – recognizing it as one of the 10 outstanding films deemed culturally and artistically representative of the year’s most significant achievements in the art of the moving image – and was the Centerpiece Gala screening at AFI FEST 2017 Presented by Audi. In…
September 25, 2018
ON THE BASIS OF SEX World Premiere to Open AFI FEST 2018
The 32nd edition of AFI FEST presented by Audi will open with the World Premiere of Participant Media's ON THE BASIS OF SEX, in association with Alibaba Pictures and distributed by Focus Features. Directed by AFI Conservatory alumna Mimi Leder (AFI Class of 1973), the inspiring drama tells the story of young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg...
November 9, 2017
AFI FEST 2017: Timothée Chalamet on CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
Rising star Timothée Chalamet spends a sun-dappled summer in Italy falling in love with Armie Hammer in director Luca Guadagnino’s exquisite CALL ME BY YOUR NAME. Adapted from the celebrated novel by André Aciman, the passionate romance — built on stolen glances, coded exchanges and erotic tension — is also a coming-of-age story, with its young protagonist Elio…
October 20, 2017
Announcing AFI FEST 2017 Centerpiece Galas and Tribute
AFI has revealed the three Centerpiece Galas and Tribute that will take place at AFI FEST 2017 presented by Audi. The Centerpiece Galas are: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (DIR Luca Guadagnino) on Friday, November 10; THE DISASTER ARTIST (DIR James Franco) on Sunday, November 12; and HOSTILES (DIR Scott Cooper) on Tuesday, November 14. On…
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