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Festivals/Programs: Chicago Intl Film Festival
September 17, 2026
A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra
Jo, an angst-ridden, suburban 15-year-old, is going through it. She misses her bus, bickers with her mother, is bored by her boyfriend, and tries to avoid her divorced dad. Fed up with school, she’s awakened from her humdrum day when she encounters new student Phaedra singing in choir class. An i...
September 17, 2026
Dao
Spanning France, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau, Dao follows a West African diasporic family navigating two major community gatherings across parallel timelines: a modern wedding celebration in the French countryside and an ancestral funeral ceremony for a patriarch back in Guinea-Bissau. With this e...
September 17, 2026
Corpus
It’s a steamy summer in New York in 1998, and the club scene is thriving. Sayo is a nightlife photographer who makes ends meet by selling drugs, and his sometimes-lover, Vince, is a star on the rise. Together with a mutual friend, they hesitantly accept an invitation to a party upstate, but the r...
September 17, 2026
Congo Boy
Based on director Rafiki Fariala’s own lived experiences, Congo Boy is an autobiographical coming-of-age musical drama set amid the civil unrest of Bangui, Central African Republic. When both of his parents are suddenly imprisoned for carrying false passports, 17-year-old Congolese refugee Robert...
September 17, 2026
A Common Story
After dropping off their beloved daughter (and only child) Irene at university, Erika (Alba Roherwacher) and Mauro (Guido Caprino) return to their small-town home. Slipping back into the quotidian routines that have stitched their lives together, from morning coffee rituals to suppers together, n...
