An accessibly human exploration of artificial intelligence, a high-end coven at the mall and the latest from French directors Julia Ducournau (Alpha) and Sylvain Chomet (A Magnificent Life) are among indie offerings this weekend in an eclectic market peppered with the serious, the funny, the dark and the literary. Matthew Shear and Oscar Boyson make their respective directorial debuts with Fantasy Life and Our Hero, Balthazar.
Focus Features’ The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, Oscar-winning director Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell’s exploration of one of humanity’s most significant and riskiest advances, materializes at 782 theaters after lively debuts at Sundance and SXSW with critics and audiences joining the intense global conversation around artificial intelligence.
“An ‘apocaloptimist’ is someone who does not give into binary,” Roher said in a conversation at Deadline’s Sundance Studio. “When being asked to choose between a perspective of apocalyptic doom or
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