This Is Not A Fiction Film Festival

Schedule of Events:

7:00 PM: LANDSCAPE SUICIDE
$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Los Feliz 3 | Q&A with filmmaker James Benning  

‘This Is Not A Fiction’

Benning continues his examination of Americana through the stories of two murderers that took place 30 years apart. Ed Gein, a Wisconsin farmer and multiple murderer who taxidermied his victims in the 1950s, and Bernadette Protti, who stabbed one of her California high-school classmates to death in 1984 over an insult.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: USA

7:00pm -- POWER / STRONG ISLAND + Q&A with filmmaker Yance Ford. Moderated by Kirby Dick.

Aero Theatre
Los Angeles Premiere of POWER
Free Screening for Closing Night! 
'This Is Not a Fiction'

POWER is a deep dive into the untold history of American policing that asks, “Who is more powerful: the people — or the police?” 

Yance Ford's Oscar-nominated documentary will screen following the Q&A. In STRONG ISLAND, the forces of family, grief and racial injustice converge while exploring the murder of the filmmaker's brother.

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10:00 PM: THIS IS NOT A FILM
$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Los Feliz 3 | ‘This Is Not A Fiction’

In Persian with English subtitles.

This clandestine documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (OFFSIDE, THE CIRCLE) during his house arrest in his Tehran apartment. While appealing his sentence – six years in prison and a 20 year ban from filmmaking – Panahi is seen talking to his family and lawyer on the phone, discussing his plight with Mirtahmasb and reflecting on the meaning of the art of filmmaking.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

COUNTRY: Iran