AFS Cinema
6406 North Interstate 35 - Suite 3100, Austin, TX 78752
Movieline: 1-(512)-686-3823
Website: https://www.austinfilm.org/afs-cinema/

Harvest ()
Cast: Caleb Landry Jones, Harry Melling
Runtime: 2 hr. 11 mins.
Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears. In Tsangari’s spellbinding period piece, townsman-turned-farmer Walter Thirsk (Caleb Landry-Jones) and befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent (Harry Melling) are childhood friends about to face an invasion from the outside world. The agrarian community, entirely dependent on the land, is disrupted by three breeds of outsiders: the mapmaker (Arinze Kene); the company man (Frank Dillane) and migrants from another place, all representing the trauma of impending modernity. Combining beautifully textured storytelling with Sean Price Williams’ stunning cinematography, HARVEST is a beautifully visceral and immersive cinematic experience.

Folktales ()
Runtime: 1 hr. 46 mins.
In Norse mythology, the three “Norns” are powerful deities who weave the threads of fate and shape humans’ futures. Today, Pasvik Folk High School in northern Norway aims to produce a similar life-changing effect on its students. FOLKTALES tells the timely and heartwarming story of teenagers who choose to spend an unconventional “gap year” learning to dog sled and survive the Arctic wilderness, in hopes of finding connection and meaning in the modern world. Guided by patient teachers and a yard full of heroic Alaskan huskies, they discover their own potential and develop deep relationships with the land, animals and humans around them. Through intimate verité storytelling and exhilarating cinematography, Ewing and Grady examine humans on the cusp of adulthood, finding themselves at the edge of the world.

Cloud (NR)
Cast: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa
Runtime: 2 hr. 3 mins.
Ryosuke makes his living as an online wholesaler, flipping goods from desperate sellers for a profit. As his business grows, so does his paranoia. Auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa's latest is another masterful examination of dread and contagion in modern Japan.

Donnie Darko (R)
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone
Runtime: 1 hr. 53 mins.
Donnie is a troubled high school student: in therapy, prone to sleepwalking and in possession of an imaginary friend, a six-foot rabbit named Frank, who tells him the world is going to end in 28 days 06 hours 42 minutes and 12 seconds. During that time he will navigate teenage life, narrowly avoid death in the form of a falling jet engine, follow Frank s maladjusted instructions and try to maintain the space-time continuum.