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Festivals/Programs: Chicago Intl Film Festival
September 18, 2025
Chasing the Party
A night out in New York City goes in opposite directions for teenage best friends Melissa and Stephanie. One gets the club fantasy of their dreams; the other learns why it’s best not to meet your heroes. This film screens as part of Shorts Program 4: City & State.
September 18, 2025
It’s Just a Fucking Opening
Up-and-coming artist Anisa is woefully unprepared for the pettiness and performative antics taking place at the gallery opening for her latest pieces. Everything but the artwork seems to take center stage. With an absent girlfriend and career-oriented bestie focused on their own priorities, Anisa...
September 18, 2025
Make No Mistake: These Are the Glory Days
While on tour for their sophomore album, emo band HOME IS WHERE pulls up to venues across the country and provides moments of community, celebration, and freedom for their trans-forward audience as well as themselves. Energetic performances are the bridge between moments of vulnerability for the ...
September 18, 2025
Shorts 5: Comedy
Laugh away the woes of the world with this eclectic collection of comedies. From the absurd anxieties of wannabe filmmakers to the ridiculous delusions of the recently dumped, these stories are insightful, unexpected, and delightfully irreverent. In Nervous Energy, two fiercely ambitious aspir...
September 18, 2025
Nervous Energy
Two fiercely ambitious aspiring filmmakers make a pact to break up with their boyfriends to free them up for the next phase of their careers. This hilarious take on the romanticizing of prestigious filmmakers and the desperate passion of aspiring artists is explosive, rambunctious, and delightful...
