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Festivals/Programs: Chicago Intl Film Festival
September 18, 2025
A Poet
Oscar, an aging wannabe poet who never quite broke through, is past his prime. He drinks too much, his relationship with his daughter is in dire straits, he has no career prospects, and he is living with his mother. He takes a teaching job at a high school in hopes of putting his life back togeth...
September 18, 2025
The President’s Cake
Witty, playful, and profoundly moving, The President’s Cake is a story of struggle and survival under Saddam Hussein’s sanctioned Iraq. Though the country is suffering massive food shortages, a decree is sent across the nation: the President requires a cake from every school to celebrate his birt...
September 18, 2025
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
Driven to document the war in Gaza, filmmaker and Festival alum Sepideh Farsi (2014’s Red Rose) tries to enter the region. Blocked at the border, Farsi strikes up a relationship via cellphone with a bright-eyed young Palestinian photographer and poet named Fatma Hassona, who is holed up in her bo...
September 18, 2025
The Reckoning of Erin Morrigan
In a remote safe house on the Northern Irish border, former IRA operative Erin Morrigan lives in isolation. Dying of cancer, she self-medicates with homemade opiates and alcohol, all the while tormented by hallucinatory flashbacks of her past spent interrogating and killing suspected informers. B...
September 18, 2025
Reedland
Johan lives a quiet and reclusive life on his farm, cutting reeds in the Dutch lowlands and caring for his granddaughter. His world is shaken when he comes upon the lifeless body of a young woman on his property. While the mysterious tragedy stirs up conflicts and tensions between neighboring fac...
