The lineup for the 2025 edition of AFI Fest is coming into view.
Rounding out the red carpet premieres section will be Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly starring George Clooney as a movie star grappling with his legacy (Oct. 23), James Vanderbilt’s historical epic Nuremberg starring Rami Malek and Russell Crowe (Oct. 24), Gus Van Sant’s ripped-from-the-headlines Man on a Wire starring Bill Skarsgård (Oct. 25), and David Michôd’s Christy toplined by Sydney Sweeney as a boxer fighting for her place in the sport (Oct. 25).
Also revealed today are the films that make up the special screenings section of the festival: Jonatan Etzler’s Bad Apples starring Saoirse Ronan as an overworked schoolteacher that makes some questionable decisions, Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia starring Emma St