Chicago International Film Festival

Festival Guide

Updates

Did you miss a buzz worthy film? Worried you miss your chance? Fear not, because Best of Fest is here! Many of our Award winners and Audience Favorites are now back by popular demand.

BEST OF FEST WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 24

HOLY MOTORS - Gold Hugo Best Film, Silver Hugo Best Actor, Silver Hugo Best Cinematography

Director: Leos Carax • FRANCE/GERMANY • 8:30pm

AFTER LUCIA / DESPUÉS DE LUCÍA - Silver Hugo Special Jury Prize
Director: Michel Franco • MEXICO/FRANCE• 7:15pm

THE LAST SENTENCE / Dom över död man - Silver Hugo Best Actress
Director: Jan Troell • SWEDEN • 7:45pm

THE EXAM / A VIZSGA - Gold Hugo New Directors Competition
Director: Peter Bergendy • HUNGARY • 8:30pm

FLOWERBUDS / POUPATA - Silver Hugo New Directors Competition
Director: Zdenek Jirasky • CZECH REPUBLIC • 8:15pm

THE BELIEVERS - Gold Hugo Docufest
Directors: Clayton Brown • Monica Long Ross • USA • 8:20pm

NUMBERED – Silver Hugo Docufest
Directors: Dana Doron • Uriel Sinai • ISRAEL • 5:30

SHORTS 2: ANIMATION (Blurring the Lines)
Various Directors • 5:45

BEST OF INTERCOM
Various Directors • 6:15 PM

ART OF CONFLICT: THE MURALS OF NORTHERN IRELAND – Back by popular demand
Director: Valeri Vaughn • USA • 3:30

THE WORLD IS FUNNY / HAOLAM MATSHIK – Back by popular demand
Director: Shemi Zarhin • ISRAEL • 3:15

DAY OF THE CROWS / LE JOUR DES CORNEILLES – Back by popular demand
Director: Jean-Christophe Dessaint • FRANCE • 6:15pm

KEN NORDINE PRESENTS AGENBITE OF INTWIT
Director Ken Nordine • 6:30 PM • EFAGE1

POST TENEBRAS LUX
Director: Carlos Reygadas • MEXICO/FRANCE • 6:00pm

MARIE KROYER / MARIE KRØYER
Director: Bille August • DENMARK • 6:00pm

ANY DAY NOW
Director: Travis Fine • USA • 7:30pm

You can find the full list of award winners here: http://www.chicagofilmfestival.com/news/display_news.php?article=_france__germany__hungary__canada__israel_and_the_united_states_take_home_the_gold_

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OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Newly added: Silver Linings Playbook

USA | Director: David O. Russell

Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything - his house, his job, and his wife. He now finds himself living back with his mother (Jacki Weaver) and father (Robert DeNiro) after spending eight months in a state institution on a plea bargain. Pat is determined to rebuild his life, remain positive and reunite with his wife. When Pat meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a mysterious girl with problems of her own who offers to help, an unexpected bond begins to form between them, and silver linings appear in both of their lives.

Newly added: Student

Kazakhstan | Director: Darezhan Omirbaev

Following up his adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Darezhan Omirbaev returns to Russian literature, this time adapting Crime and Punishment to modern-day Kazhakstan. Goaded on by a lecture on modern capitalism, a philosophy student murders a local shopkeeper and must ponder the moral and philosophical implications of his actions. This much-adapted story is brought to new light in Post-Communist Kazhakstan, where crime and corruption have lingered following the transition to capitalism.

Newly added: Liv & Ingmar

Norway | Director: Dheeraj Akolkar

This feature documentary is an affectionate yet truthful account of the 42 years and 12 films long relationship between legendary actress Liv Ullmann and master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Told entirely from Liv’s point of view, this rollercoaster journey of extreme highs and lows is constructed as a collage of images and sounds from timeless Ullmann-Bergman films along with behind the scenes footage, still photographs, passages from Liv’s book Changing and Ingmar’s love letters to Liv. Liv & Ingmar is a candid and humane look at two of the greatest artists of our time.

Newly added: Bound by Flesh

USA | Director: Leslie Zemeckis

The Hilton sisters’ incredible story begins in England in the early 1900s when their mother, after discovering she had given birth to conjoined twins, sold the babies to a woman who viewed the girls exclusively as “cash cows.” Their new caretaker/manager put the young pair on display in the back of pubs, eventually taking them on tour in carnivals and circuses. When the twins came to America, they instantly became a gigantic success, but the 23-year-old sisters were unable to cope with the dishonest agents and managers that would exploit them over and over again throughout their lives. Leslie Zemeckis’ compelling documentary explores the colorful, tragic lives of the world’s most famous conjoined twins.

The Patience Stone: Cancelled

Post Tenebras Lux: Fri Oct 19 at 2:30 PM, Sun Oct 21 at 1:30 PM, and Wed Oct 24 at 6:00 PM

Flight - Thu, Oct 25: Rush Tickets only

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