December 2018 / Silver Spring, MD / afi.com/silver/eushowcase
For the last 30 years, AFI has given East Coast cinephiles a taste of the year’s best in foreign cinema. Taking place in December at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, the AFI European Union Film Showcase is the perfect send-off from the previous year in film, and acts as a great warm-up to awards season, programming “many countries’ official Oscar submissions for Best Foreign Language Film,” notes a panelist. As is the case for any AFI-sanctioned film fest, viewers will also get to catch masterworks that may be too divisive or formally daring to secure proper distribution, with a panelist explaining, “They give the community an opportunity to see films from around the world that they may not have a chance to see again. I can always get down with that.”
Photograph courtesy of AFI Silver (European Union Film Showcase)
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How about calling it "Our reviewers 25 favorite festivals" -- for these are festivals that your jury has presumably been to and likes -- and that's fine. To call it the world's 25 coolest is a wee bit presumptuous, no?
Only 5 from the 25 are not in the USA and Crystal Palace International Film Festival (cpiff.co.uk) which is actually known as the UK's coolest festival is not even mentioned!
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Only 5 from the 25 are not in the USA and Crystal Palace International Film Festival (cpiff.co.uk) which is actually known as the UK's coolest festival is not even mentioned!