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Festivals/Programs: Chicago Intl Film Festival
September 18, 2025
Short Summer
Eight-year-old Katya is spending the summer with her grandparents in the Russian countryside. She and her friends play soccer, hide and seek, and roam the nearby fields, their lives adopting the languid rhythms of the season. Amid the rolling hills and serene landscapes, time seems to stand still...
September 18, 2025
Showing Up
Lizzy (Michelle Williams), a sculptor preparing to open a new show, is trying to hold things together. Her hot water heater is busted, her brother might be going off the rails, her divorced parents are exasperating, and her neighbor and landlord Jo (Hong Chau) is frustratingly aloof. When she sud...
September 18, 2025
Silent Friend
Nestled in the heart of a university campus in Germany, a majestic gingko tree stands tall. Bearing silent witness to the school’s history and the lives of the people that have passed through its halls, the stately plant serves as a kind of nexus that connects three characters across time: in 190...
September 18, 2025
Sirât
After a young woman goes missing at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco, her father and brother traverse the forbidden desert landscape searching for her. Their journey takes them from one dance party to another, but none of the itinerant revelers can point to her whereabouts. Hearin...
September 18, 2025
Sisu: Road to Revenge
Returning to the house where his family was brutally murdered during the war, “the man who refuses to die” (Jorma Tommila) dismantles it, loads it on a truck, and is determined to rebuild it somewhere safe in their honor. When the Red Army commander who killed his family (Stephen Lang) comes back...
