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*Los Angeles, CA — Today, the American Film Institute (AFI) announced that AFI FEST 2019 presented by Audi will close with the World Premiere of Apple’s THE BANKER. The Closing Night Gala will take ...

Terrence Malick, Alex Gibney Films Join AFI Fest 2019 Lineup Terrence Malick's historical drama 'A Hidden Life' and Alex Gibney's 'Citizen K' have been added to the AFI Fest 2019 lineup as the ...

At the AFI Awards on Friday, Mel Brooks, who directed 1967 Hitler satire 'The Producers,' went off-script to call Taika Waititi's film 'Jojo Rabbit' a "terrific and eloquent and beautiful picture." By ...

Director Melina Matsoukas graduated from the American Film Institute in 2005. Crime thriller “Queen & Slim” will have its world premiere on the opening night of AFI FEST 2019. The movie is the feature ...

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Netflix’s Martin Scorsese mob drama The Irishman, which already has picked up Best Picture wins from critics groups, is one of the 10 films named to the American Film Institute’s AFI Motion Pictures ...

With last year’s collapse of the L.A. Film Festival, the annual AFI Fest has officially taken over as Los Angeles’ dominant local festival. But at a time when the international film festival circuit ...

The AFI Fest has been rolling out its 2019 slate for months — since announcing Melina Matsoukas’ Queen & Slim as its opening-night film in August — and now we have the full lineup. Check it out below.

The world premiere of Makeready and Universal Pictures’ “Queen & Slim” will kick off AFI Fest 2019 as the opening night gala, the institute announced today. Written by Emmy winner Lena Waithe, “Queen ...

Students at the American Film Institute lead the way for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s annual Student Academy Awards. The Academy named 16 students as winners on Thursday, including ...