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Festivals/Programs: Chicago Intl Film Festival
September 18, 2025
Anything That Moves
From the twisted mind behind All Jacked Up and Full of Worms comes a raucous, Chicago-set riff on '70s sexploitation films. Writer-director Alex Phillips returns to the Festival with this stunning 16mm thriller following Liam, an unassuming bike-courier and sex worker in Chicago delivering whatev...
September 18, 2025
Arco
After falling from the sky and accidentally landing in 2075, adolescent time traveler Arco is shocked to find a world in peril and seemingly on the brink of collapse. Soon after, he encounters 10-year-old Iris, a lonely and isolated girl being raised by her trusted robot caretaker Mikki. Buoyed b...
September 18, 2025
The Beauty of the Donkey
Award-winning Swiss Albanian filmmaker Dea Gjinovci (2020's Wake Up on Mars) returns to the bucolic Kosovo town of her father's youth—a place he hasn’t seen in 60 years—for this lyrical journey into the past at once wistful and tragic. Together, they recreate his childhood memories, making sets t...
September 18, 2025
Before the Call
Jinwoo, a Korean American, returns to Seoul amid an escalating global crisis. Despite being exempt from service, he’s determined to enlist in the military and join the Korean soldiers being sent overseas. Awaiting his deployment day, he spends his time wandering the city’s winding streets, reconn...
September 18, 2025
Belén
Based on the true story that sparked an international movement, Belén chronicles the harrowing case of Julieta, a young woman falsely accused of infanticide, and Soledad Deza (Dolores Fonzi), the fearless lawyer who takes on the highly controversial, explosive case. In Tucumán, a conservative reg...
