Chicago Intl Film Festival

A group of people clad in black walk single file into a room. A young girl glares at the camera.

Sound of Falling

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This eerie, uncommonly powerful collage explores inherited trauma and patriarchal abuses across four generations of farmworking women.
A young boy stands at a chalkboard that reads "Bobby O'Brien Detective Agency". He talks to someone unseen.

Spilt Milk

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Inspired by his favorite TV detective Kojak, an eleven-year-old boy in 1980s Dublin is drawn into the city’s underbelly as he investigates his older brother’s disappearance.
A young person sits at the edge of a body of water, looking over their shoulder at something unseen.

Strange River

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On a family bicycle trip along the Danube, young Dídac’s encounters with a mysterious boy awaken new feelings in this lyrical coming-of-age story.
Still from The Stranger: In a black-and-white seaside scene, a young man in a loose button-down shirt and high-waisted trousers stands against a wooden beam, looking out toward the ocean with a solemn, pensive expression.

The Stranger

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Algiers, 1938. A young man shows utter indifference to the events of his life, even as he lands in jail on murder charges in this searing adaptation of Camus’ classic.
Poster of film, an illustrated boy looks up towards the sky with a small row of wooden houses behind him.

Sugar Cane Alley

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In 1930s French-colonized Martinique, an eleven-year-old boy becomes the hope for his community, and his grandmother will do anything to see his ambitions realized.
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