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Author: Kasey Martin
October 14, 2022
Director Spotlight: Alex Phillips on All Jacked Up and Full of Worms
Festival News
We are beyond excited to welcome alum, Alex Phillips, back to the festival this year with his debut feature, All Jacked Up and Full of Worms. It is a surrealist and vibrantly twisted tale that follows a trio as they careen down a rabbit hole after ingesting hallucinogenic earthworms. Riveting tho...
October 13, 2022
3 Films Reinventing Genre to Watch at the 58th Chicago International Film Festival
Festival News
Women laced into tightly wrought corsets; femme fatales shrouded in shadow; a precocious detective with a sharp wit. Each image evokes something particular, connects to a collective association with a specific genre. This association comes with preexisting knowledge, an awareness about what symme...
October 9, 2022
Director Spotlight: Mikko Myllylahti on The Woodcutter Story
Festival News
We are incredibly excited to be hosting Finnish filmmaker and poet Mikko Myllylahti at the festival this year. His film The Woodcutter Story, also shown at Cannes this year, is set in an unnamed Finnish timber village in the far north during the pervasively dark winter. Deadline calls the film “d...
October 7, 2022
International Feature Academy Award Submissions in the 58th Chicago International Film Festival
Festival News
As usual, there are several films that are the official submissions for their country in the Best International Feature Oscar category at this year's Festival, hoping to make the Academy Awards shortlist and eventual select list of five nominees. To even be selected as the submission and placed i...
October 7, 2022
Director Spotlight: Alfrun Ornolfsdottir on Band
Festival News
Showing her vibrant documentary, Band, we are so thrilled to host Icelandic filmmaker and band member Alfrun Ornolfsdottir at the 58th Chicago International Film Festival. The wonderfully heartfelt documentary follows her own band, an all-female, electro-punk Icelandic group, called Post Performa...
