SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2014 The San Diego International Film Festival kicks off with a provocative drama starring A-list talent and promises to spark conversations about power, secrets and accountability.<\/p>\n
Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, and Ayo Edebiri star in the festival’s opening film “After the Hunt.” Roberts plays a college professor whose star student levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, threatening to expose a dark secret from her past.<\/p>\n
“It is going to be a conversation starter, that’s for sure,” said Tonya Mantooth, CEO and artistic director of the San Diego International Film Festival. “And so that is going to be, I think that’s definitely going to get some attraction on the award circuit.”<\/p>\n
The festival also features “Hamnet,” which chronicles William Shakespeare and his wife dealing with the death of their son, an experience many believe led him to write “Hamlet.”<\/p>\n
Oscar winner Brendan Fraser stars in “Rental Family” as an American actor who lands an unusual job with a Japanese talent agency playing stand-in roles for strangers.<\/p>\n
The festival includes shorts and documentaries, including “Ugo: an Artist at War.” On D-Day, Ugo Giannini came ashore with the first assault wave on Omaha Beach. An artist, Ugo made drawings and wrote letters about his service, which his wife discovered after his death.<\/p>\n
The last day of the festival focuses on culinary cinema with “The Chef & the Daruma,” which introduces audiences to Hidekazu Tojo, a Japanese immigrant to Canada who rose to prominence and is credited with inventing the California roll.<\/p>\n
“He flipped it around, put the rice on the outside, and introduced it, but it’s also a really interesting spiritual journey for him, and it ties in the spirituality of Japan and the craft in which they take when they do the food,” Mantooth said.<\/p>\n
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