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Festivals/Programs: Chicago Intl Film Festival
September 18, 2025
Renoir
In 1987 suburban Tokyo, sensitive eleven-year-old Fuki is faced with her father's terminal illness without much in the way of emotional support from her overwhelmed mother. Left to her own devices, she retreats into her own imagination, developing an interest in telepathy and a penchant for phoni...
September 18, 2025
Rental Family
Set in modern-day Tokyo, Rental Family follows an American actor (Brendan Fraser) who struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese "rental family" agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients’ worlds, he begins to form genu...
September 18, 2025
Resurrection
An audacious, ambitious vision from master filmmaker Bi Gan (Long Day's Journey Into Night), Resurrection is a whirlwind love letter to cinema unlike any before. Set in a future where society has lost the desire to dream, a clandestine set of rebels called “Fantasmers” continue to indulge in fant...
September 18, 2025
The Secret Agent
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a university researcher, is on the lam. He holes up in the seaside city of Recife, hoping to reconnect with his young son before ultimately escaping the country. Fearing for his life, he assumes an alias to avoid attracting the attention of Brazil’s military dictatorship. A...
September 18, 2025
Sentimental Value
In the wake of their mother’s passing, sisters Nora and Agnes are reunited with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned filmmaker. Never without an agenda, Gustav offers Nora, a talented but tortured stage actress, a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. After N...
