TODAY AT AFI FESTIVAL : F<i> ollowing are The Times’ recommendations for today’s schedule of the American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival. Information: (213) 466-1767. </i>

Others: “On the Wire” (Nuart; 7 p.m.) Elaine Proctor’s grim drama about rape and racism in South Africa has “an interesting idea of apartheid’s effect on Afrikaners . . . turned pretentiously muddled and melodramatic.”