News Archive
Festivals/Programs: Chicago Intl Film Festival
September 18, 2025
Cover-Up
Chicago journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered some of the most momentous political scandals in American history, from exposing the U.S. military’s My Lai massacre in Vietnam to its torturing of Iraqi citizens at Abu Ghraib. After decades spent trying to get Hersh to agree to make a documentary, ...
September 18, 2025
The Cowboy
At 11-years-old, Crowley McCuistion has a bright future ahead of him as a cowboy in the plains of Colorado. Training since he was a toddler and encouraged by his strict father Curt, mother Farrah, and supportive older brother Yancie, the young Crowley knows exactly who he wants to be when he grow...
September 18, 2025
The Currents
Lina, an accomplished Argentinian designer and artist, walks alone around the wintery Swiss town where she has just received an award. In a sudden and dangerous impulse, she plunges from a bridge into the icy river, emerging unhurt but shaken. Back in Buenos Aires, she is confronted with a crippl...
September 18, 2025
Dracula
A young filmmaker tasks himself with reclaiming the Dracula story for Romanian cinema, only to experience a crisis of creativity. Determined to make his film, he channels his ideas into an artificial intelligence program, DR. A.I. JUDEX 0.0, generating a collage of stories that include a seedy, f...
September 18, 2025
Dry Leaf
Lisa, a photographer, goes missing while on assignment to photograph rural soccer fields in Georgia. Troubled by her disappearance, her father Irakli embarks on a journey across the country’s vast and varied landscape in hopes of finding her. He’s accompanied by Lisa’s invisible best friend, Leva...
