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Festivals/Programs: Chicago Intl Film Festival
September 17, 2026
Rehearsals for a Revolution
Over five chapters, each focusing on a relative or friend, Iranian filmmaker Pegah Ahangarani sketches her life story defined by expressions of resistance. Drawing from personal archives, home videos, footage from gripping street protests, and recorded voices, she retraces more than 40 years of I...
September 17, 2026
Ray Gunn
From Academy Award winner Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) comes this retro-futuristic noir about private eye Raymond Gunn (Sam Rockwell), and a case involving aliens, murder, and a multimedia star named Venus Nova (Scarlett Johansson). Set in the gigantic city of Metropia, the story trac...
September 17, 2026
Possible Love
Master filmmaker Lee Chang-dong (Burning, Poetry) returns to the Festival with a bold, searing exploration of class divisions, labor, exploitation, and artistic ethics. After a local factory shuts down and a subsequent union strike is violently quashed, laid-off Mi-ok and his wife Ho-seok are try...
September 17, 2026
Paper Tiger
In James Gray’s deeply felt and intense drama, two brothers, Gary Pearl (Adam Driver), a tough ex-cop, and Irwin Pearl (Miles Teller), his younger engineer sibling, become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. As they try to navigate their way through the dangerous world...
September 17, 2026
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Harry Lehman (John Turturro) is an aging pickpocket who plies his trade with ever-diminishing returns in a drastically changed New York City. Wallets stuffed with cash have been replaced by easily canceled credit cards, and Harry struggles to make ends meet as he cares for his disabled wife, Rosi...
