AFI FEST presented by Audi will take place November 10-17 at the Dolby Theatre, TCL Chinese 6 Theatres, the Egyptian Theatre and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

KATI KATI

Director: Mbithi Masya
Screenwriter: Mbithi Masya, Mugambi Nthiga
Producer: Sarika Hemi Lakhani, Siobhain "Ginger" Wilson, Tom Tykwer, Katja Lebedjewa, Marie Steinmann-Tykwer, Guy Wilson
Director of Photography: Andrew "Dru" Mungai
Editor: Louizah Wanjiku
Music: Sean Peevers, Ibrahim Sidede, Just a Band
Cast: Nyokabi Gethaiga, Elsaphan Njora, Paul Ogola, Peter King Mwania

Kenya - Germany, 2016
75 min.
Feature
New Auteurs Section

In this beautiful, dreamlike depiction of the afterlife, an African woman finds herself in a resort where every soul has their wishes granted — except escape.
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Without any memories or knowledge of who she is or why she is there, Kaleche finds herself in a field. Soon she finds a group of strangers in the nearby resort who tell her the truth: She is dead and this is the afterlife, not quite heaven or hell, where everyone is waiting to move on. All they have to do to get what they want is write it down and their wish appears the very next day. The only thing they cannot have is escape. The magical realist debut feature of Mbithi Masya, a member of a popular Kenyan alternative house funk group, KATI KATI deploys memorable performances and deceptively simple cinematic techniques to give us a beautiful, dreamlike depiction of life and the possible life after it. — Sudeep Sharma

WÙLU

Director: Daouda Coulibaly
Screenwriter: Daouda Coulibaly
Producer: Eric Névé, Oumar Sy
Director of Photography: Pierre Milon
Editor: Julien Leloup
Music: Eric Neveux
Cast: Ibrahim Koma, Inna Modja, Ismaël n’Diaye, Jean-Marie Traoré, Habib Dembélé Mariame N’Diaye, Quim Gutiérrez, Olivier Rabourdin

France - Senegal, 2016
95 min.
Feature
World Cinema Section

An honest but frustrated worker living in Mali resorts to drug-running to make ends meet, and soon finds himself embroiled in a conflict that stretches all the way to Al Qaeda.

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When low-level transit employee Ladji (powerfully played by Ibrahim Koma) misses out on a potentially lucrative promotion, his years of scraping by to support himself and his sister finally bring him to a breaking point. He uses his connections to earn money as a drug-runner, dangerous work for which he soon discovers he’s well-suited. It’s not long before Ladji is rising in the ranks of the criminal network, and his control on the situation quickly slips from his grasp as he becomes embroiled in conflicts that stretch from Mali’s government all the way to Al Qaeda. Set in Mali’s capital city of Bamako, the debut feature of director/writer Daouda Coulibaly is at once a bracing gangster film and an intricate political statement on the country’s recent turmoil. — Mike Dougherty

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Film guide: http://afifest.afi.com/2016/sections

Cost : Free and open to the public.

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