News Archive
Category: Festival News
October 27, 2022
Winners Announced for Audience Choice Awards, Presented by Xfinity!
Festival News
The 58th Chicago International Film Festival announces the winners of the Audience Choice Awards in four categories: International Feature, English-Language Feature, Documentary, and Short Film. The Festival’s Audience Choice Awards are presented by Xfinity. Feature Film ...
October 21, 2022
58th Chicago International Film Festival Announces Award Winners
Festival News
The 58th Chicago International Film Festival, North America’s longest-running competitive film festival, today announced the winners of its 2022 edition in categories including International Feature Film Competition, New Directors Competition, International Documentary Competition, OutLook Compet...
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...
