SCREENING WEDNESDAY JULY 19 at the AMC ROLLING HILLS (7:00 p.m. and 7:15 p.m.)

directed by Christian Petzold (Phoenix; Barbara; Transit)

winner Silver Bear Grand Jury award at the Berlin Film Festival

AFIRE is a comedy/drama set at a small holiday house by the Baltic Sea.  The days are hot and it hasn’t rained in weeks. Four young people come together, friends old and new.  As the parched forests around them begin to ignite, so do their emotions.  Happiness, lust and love; but also jealousies, resentments and tensions. Meanwhile the forests burn.  And before long, the flames are there.

“Petzold tries to take the air out of a pompous windbag, and more often than not succeeds to delightful and caustic effect.” – Ben Kroll, IndieWire

“In Petzold’s masterly hands, gravity and comedy work in easy and thrilling harmony.” – Caitlin Quinlan, Sight and Sound

Language: German (English subtitles)

Length: 1 hr. 40 min.