After Hours Film Society's 18th Annual Student Film Festival
Congratulations to the 2021 Award-Winning Students!
After Hours Film Society announces the premiere of Anim8, its 18th annual student film festival. Eighty-one students from 15 countries competed for awards this year and the entries were stellar! The top twenty-five submissions, as selected by the judges, are at the heart of the festival. What you’ll see are the efforts of students ranging in ages from 13 to 53 years old... >> Read More>>
Best of Show: (Tie)
“Patches” by Georgie Athanasopoulos
Best of Show | Undergraduate | Laval, Quebec, Canada | Running Time: 2:01 Mins.
Outcast due to physical differences, a lonely little boy in the 1920's makes an unlikely friend and finds belonging through sacrifice.
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“I Find Him in The Weather” by Mia Lorentsen
Best of Show | Undergraduate | Chicago, IL | Running Time: 3:34 Mins.
Through the use of rotoscope and abstract animation, this short film recounts the final moments the director had with her father and his lasting impact on her life through signs in the weather.
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After Hours Film Society Presents
Golden Voices November 29 | 7:30 pm Raya and Victor built a shared career as the Soviet Union’s most beloved film dubbers, translating the work of Federico Fellini and Stanley Kubrick into Russian over the decades. Upon the collapse of the USSR in 1990, the Jewish couple must immigrate to Israel and reinvent their talents to find employment. As they strive to acclimate to their adopted home, opportunities for first-rate vocal performances are few and far between. Raya answers a help wanted ad searching for women with “pleasant voices” and finds herself catering to a lonely Russian community as a phone-sex operator, while Victor falls in with a band of black market film pirates from the VHS underground. Read More>>> |
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After Hours Film Society Presents
Carol December 6 | 7:30 pm Set in 1950s New York, two women from very different backgrounds find themselves in the throes of love. A young woman in her 20s, Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol (Cate Blanchett), an alluring woman trapped in a loveless, convenient marriage. As an immediate connection sparks between them, the innocence of their first encounter dims and their connection deepens. While Carol breaks free from the confines of marriage, her husband (Kyle Chandler) threatens her competence as a mother when Carol’s involvement with Therese and close relationship with her best friend Abby (Sarah Paulson) comes to light. As Carol leaves the comfort of home to travel with Therese, an internal journey of self-discovery coincides with her new sense of space. Read More>>> |
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