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Festivals/Programs: Chicago Intl Film Festival
September 18, 2025
Below the Clouds
From the Oscar-nominated director of Fire at Sea comes an immersive and impressionistic portrait of humanity at the precipice. With Below the Clouds, celebrated filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi trains his camera on communities living in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, the volcano famous for burying the ci...
September 18, 2025
Black Rabbit, White Rabbit
Remaking a classic Iranian film in Tajikistan, the director insists that his movie replicate the original in every detail, down to shot compositions and period-specific props, including one real gun. Worried about bringing a live weapon onto the set, the film’s armorer hopes to swap in a replica ...
September 18, 2025
The Book of Sijjin and Illiyyin
Fresh off a best director win at Fantasia for Hadrah Daeng Ratu, the prolific horror filmmaker at its helm, The Book of Sijjin and Illiyyin brings gross-out gore to an Indonesian story of black magic revenge that tips the scales on the delicate balance between good and evil. In the Islamic fai...
September 18, 2025
Bouchra
Bouchra, a coyote, is a queer Moroccan filmmaker based in New York City, navigating love and work in a world populated by other animal friends and family, including her hot ex-girlfriend, a cow, her best friend, a lizard, and her mom, Aicha, a coyote who lives back home in Casablanca. While Bouch...
September 18, 2025
Brand New Landscape
Set against the backdrop of an ever-changing Tokyo, Brand New Landscape is an assured, complex debut inflected with an ingenious injection of the surreal. Reeling after the death of their mother and long estranged from their father, twentysomething siblings Ren and Emi are left to their own devic...
