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Festivals/Programs: Chicago Intl Film Festival
September 18, 2025
Mother of Flies
A reclusive necromancer and a young woman battling uterine cancer form an intense and intimate bond in the latest haunting film from The Adams Family, the horror dream (or nightmare) team and real-life family that writes, edits, directs, and stars in all their films. A spiritual sequel to 2021...
September 18, 2025
My Father and Qaddafi
​​When Jihan was six years old, her father, Mansur Rashid Kikhia, a notable Libyan politician and human rights lawyer, flew to Egypt and never returned. In the late 1970s, during the brutal dictatorship of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, Kikhia had served as Libya’s ambassador to the United Nations unti...
September 18, 2025
My Father’s Shadow
On what begins as an ordinary day, two brothers wait—restless, suspended—for the return of their estranged father, journalist and activist Folarin. He suddenly appears and takes his sons on a thrilling, unexpected trip into Lagos to collect his long-overdue unpaid salary. Set against the backdrop...
September 18, 2025
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo
The Chilean desert, 1982. It is rumored that a single loving gaze between two men is how the plague spreads—an illness both mysterious and lethal that is tearing through a remote mining town. At the center of the paranoia is a community on the margins: a home where eleven-year-old Lidia grows up ...
September 18, 2025
New Group
If Invasion of the Body Snatchers traded pods for human pyramids and took place in a Japanese high school, it would be New Group. Ai is an ordinary schoolgirl easily swayed by the opinions of her peers. But her worldview begins to change with the arrival of nonconformist newcomer Yu, who retur...
