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Festivals/Programs: Chicago Intl Film Festival
September 17, 2026
Clementine Orange
Angelica has fallen hard for John, a prisoner with whom she exchanges letters and phone calls that have sparked her fantasies of a dangerous, tattooed criminal lover. When John is released on a 24-hour parole, they finally meet face-to-face, and her illusion shatters—the real John could not be fu...
September 17, 2026
A City in the Forest
In 2021, in the wake of a racial reckoning in America, the city of Atlanta proposed the construction of a massive police training facility, known as “Cop City,” on 300 acres of urban forest southwest of downtown. Community members and activists quickly pushed back. This tense, vivid chronicle of ...
September 17, 2026
Clarissa
Reimagining Virginia Woolf’s classic novel Mrs. Dalloway in modern-day Lagos, Nigeria, Clarissa tracks a high-society woman over the course of a single day as she prepares for an elaborate birthday celebration. But as the hours unfold, unexpected encounters with long-distant friends and former lo...
September 17, 2026
Citizen Osama
In besieged northern Gaza, Osama lives with his parents, wife, and his newborn son, who was miraculously born in the eighth month of the war. Driven by duty and hope, the once aspiring artist transformed himself into a hardened conflict photographer, wearing a bulletproof press vest and helmet, a...
September 17, 2026
It Will Happen Tonight
As with every great love story, this one starts with an unforgettable meet-cute. En route to her own wedding, bridal gown-clad Greta (Jasmine Trinca) darts through Matteo’s (Louis Garrel) tennis match—stopping just long enough to beat him at his own game. Without another thought, Greta runs off t...
