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Festivals/Programs: Chicago Intl Film Festival
September 17, 2026
Tangles
In 1990s San Francisco, Sarah is living her best gay life—her illustration career is taking off, and she’s just started dating a badass new girlfriend—when a trip back to her conservative hometown reveals that her mother Midge has Alzheimer’s. Midge’s vibrant and headstrong personality begins to ...
September 17, 2026
SUMO: Spirit Weighs Nothing
The Japanese sport of sumo goes back centuries, and its wrestlers (rikishi) are more than just athletes. Marked by their heavyweight physique, topknot hairstyle, and traditional garb (mawashi), they epitomize aspects of Japan’s premodern culture and Shinto beliefs and rituals. This exquisitely cr...
September 17, 2026
Summer Drift
It’s summertime in Geneva. By day, Johanna works meticulously assembling luxury watches. After hours, she dreams of bringing her old Volkswagen Beetle back to life and returning to the stockcar races that she formerly frequented. One day, she finally resolves to confront the transphobia in the ca...
September 17, 2026
Stand Up
After a night out drinking with friends in Rotterdam ends in a terrible crash, twentysomething Vera wakes in the hospital to discover one of her legs has been amputated. Frustrated and angry, she struggles to accept her new reality until she encounters kindred spirit Xander inside her rehabilitat...
September 17, 2026
The Spiral
They were the envy of everyone in Bari, Italy: The ideal couple, beautiful and successful, living in a tastefully appointed estate with an aspiring model and actress daughter and a soccer star son. That is, until a single tragedy leads to a Faustian bargain with a mysterious stranger, spiraling i...
