AFI FILM FESTIVAL

The AFI Film Festival of Los Angeles will open its regular daily screening schedule today and continue through March 28. Today’s screenings are at the Los Feliz Theater, 1822 N. Vermont Ave.

TODAY’S SCHEDULE

12:30 p.m.--” ’38” (Austria, 1986; director: Wolfgang Glueck)

3 p.m.--”Genesis” (see above)

5:30 p.m.--”Means and Ends” (see above)

7:30 p.m.--”The Puppetoon Movie” (U.S.A., 1986; producer: Albert Leibovit)

9:30 p.m.--”Man Facing Southeast” (Argentina, 1986; director: Eliseo Subielo)

Capsule reviews of films in today’s program were given in Sunday’s Calendar with the exception of “Genesis” and “Means and Ends,” prints of which were not available for previewing.

“GENESIS”

India/France, 1986, 3 p.m.

Noted Indian film maker Mrinal Sen effects a striking parable concerning three people living a subsistence existence in the ruins of a deserted village during an unspecified era. The characters--called simply the farmer, the weaver and the woman--thrive until their mortal shortcomings come to the fore. Sen exacts some old-fashioned justice in this motley Garden of Eden but remains a shade too judgmental to serve the humanistic nature of the story.