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Festivals/Programs: Chicago Intl Film Festival

An animated man, with chainsaws for his arms and his face, stands with his arms spread. Blood and debris fall around him.

September 18, 2025

Chainsaw Man—The Movie: Reze Arc

For the first time, Chainsaw Man slashes his way onto the big screen in an epic, action-fueled adventure that continues the hugely popular anime series. Denji worked as a Devil Hunter for the yakuza, trying to pay off the debt he inherited from his parents, until the yakuza betrayed him and had h...

In a bright and spacious building, a man embraces another man. The man getting held is crying.

September 18, 2025

Child of Dust

This heartfelt and intimate documentary follows the extraordinary, emotional journey of Sang, a 55-year-old Vietnamese man who always dreamed of meeting his father, an American soldier. Among the thousands of “Amerasian” children born during the Vietnam War derogatorily known as “children of dust...

A young man stands in a yellowing field, with an umbrella-like statue in the background.

September 18, 2025

Christy

Kicked out of his last foster home, sullen and misunderstood 17-year-old Christy moves in with his older brother’s family in a working-class neighborhood in Cork. While the brothers struggle to reconnect after years of separation in the shadow of their shared traumatic pasts, Christy begins to fi...

Two teenagers with glitter on their faces sit in the backseat of a car, purple light flooding them. One of them rests on the other's shoulder.

September 18, 2025

The Condor Daughter

High in a remote community in the Bolivian Andes, a tender Quechua song ushers a new life into the world. Young Clara has learned these songs, and the sacred ways of midwifery, from her adoptive mother Ana, with whom she cares for the pregnant women of the surrounding villages. Despite her sense ...

A close up of a young girl sitting outside, her face hopeful as she looks to the right. The sky behind her is bright white.

September 18, 2025

Cotton Queen

In a close-knit Sudanese village known for harvesting the purist cotton by virginal hands, teenage Nafisa is dreaming of something beyond fertile fields. Her ambitions are amplified with the arrival of a wealthy young businessman returning to Sudan after years abroad. His introduction of a geneti...

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