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Festivals/Programs: Chicago Intl Film Festival
September 17, 2026
The Shoe Thief
When a girl who steals shoes from her one-night stands discovers a pair she doesn't remember taking, she must track down the owner—and confront what she's been running from at home. This film screens as part of the Best of CineYouth 2026 shorts program.
September 17, 2026
A Month in Minnesota
A Month in Minnesota, from award-winning director Annie Sundberg (The Trials of Darryl Hunt, The Devil Rides on Horseback), goes beyond the headlines of the ICE raids in Minneapolis. It provides a more intimate view of what transpired on the ground through interviews with political officials—incl...
September 17, 2026
ICE OUT: Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon and A Month in Minnesota
Two powerful short documentaries chronicle the brutal tactics used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement forces in Chicago and Minneapolis, and the bravery and resourcefulness of the local communities fighting against them. In Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon, Oscar-nominated director Bill M...
September 17, 2026
Outré: Deviants and Deviations
In The Bovine Comedy, a farmhand faces an obsessive proposal from his boss, who pays him to extract invaluable semen from his bull, one of the last in Asia. Cosmonauts builds a wild, animated world in which people and creatures alike seek love and sex aboard a rocket ship drifting through space, ...
September 17, 2026
Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon
In Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon, Oscar-nominated director Bill Morrison reconstructs, through cellphone and body-cam footage, a shocking confrontation on Chicago’s Northwest side on October 12, 2025, after federal agents detained a young Latino man. This film screens as part of the ICE OUT:...
