Festival Film List
Explore all of the films that this year’s festival has to offer, from thrilling dramas to outrageous comedies. Use the filter controls to find just the films you’re looking for, screening exactly the way you want to experience them.
107 Mothers (Cenzorka)
A Chiara
Acts of Love
Filmmaker Isidore Bethel mixes fiction and documentary in this tender exploration of hookup culture, gay sexuality, and universal questions about what it means to love and be loved.
Amira
Amparo
Antlers
In an isolated, economically depressed Oregon town, a middle-school teacher and her sheriff brother become embroiled with her enigmatic student whose dark secrets lead to terrifying encounters with a legendary ancestral creature.
Any Given Day
Babi Yar. Context
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc)
Belfast
Bergman Island
The Beta Test
A hot-shot Hollywood talent agent becomes ensnared in a web of conspiracy, paranoia, and guilt that threatens to upend both his career and his personal life.
Broadcast Signal Intrusion
When AV tech whiz James stumbles across grainy archival television footage, it sends him on a search for answers, and he soon uncovers unexpected connections to the inexplicable disappearance of his wife years earlier.
Brother’s Keeper (Okul Tirasi)
C’mon C’mon
Captain Volkonogov Escaped (Kapitan Volkonogov Bezhal)
Cinema Sabaya (סינמה סבאיא)
CineYouth Festival: Best of the Fest
CineYouth Film Festival: Best of the Fest showcases the 14 winners of the 2021 festival.
Citizen Ashe
Come Here (Jai jumlong)
Commitment Hasan
A Cop Movie (Una película de policías)
An inventive and imaginative interrogation of the troubling double bind of those trying to enforce the law within a dysfunctional system in which morality has no sway.
Costa Brava, Lebanon
The idyllic life of the free-spirited Badri family comes abruptly to a halt when, unexpectedly, the neighboring land on their utopic mountain home is requisitioned and an illegal landfill is built just beyond their fence.
Cow
Drive My Car
Dune
Exposure
In the face of precarious ice floes and punishing frostbite, an expedition of 11 women from across Arab and Western countries join together with the audacious goal of reaching the North Pole before it becomes impossible to do so.
Fabian: Going to the Dogs (Fabian oder Der Gang vor die Hunde)
Flee
For the Left Hand
The French Dispatch
Friends and Strangers
The Gravedigger’s Wife
Great Freedom (Grosse Freiheit)
Halloween Kills
The Strode women join a group of other survivors of Michael’s first rampage who decide to take matters into their own hands, forming a vigilante mob that sets out to hunt Michael down, once and for all.
The Hand of God (È stata la mano di Dio)
Happening (L'Événement)
In 1963 France, Anne, a bright young student, gets pregnant, seeing her opportunities to finish her studies and excel slipping from her. Anne’s pregnancy forces her to confront the shame and pain of an abortion, even if she must risk prison to do so.
The Harder They Fall
Hellbender
The Hidden Child (Il bambino nascosto)
Hit the Road (Jadde Khaki)
The House of Snails (La Casa de Caracol)
Novelist Antonio Prieto arrives at a remote mountain town in Southern Spain hoping to find peace and quiet to work on his next novel. But local color soon turns menacing when Antonio realizes the town is harboring a dark and terrifying secret.
In Front of Your Face (Dangsin-Eolgul-Apeseo)
Julia
King Richard
The Last Duel
The Last Execution (Nahschuss)
The Last Forest (A Última Floresta)
Brazilian filmmaker Luiz Bolognesi returns to the rainforest of his homeland to tell the bewitching yet tragic story of Indigenous culture under threat from outside forces.
The Last Shelter (Le Dernier Refuge)
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter
Mad God
From the warped mind of master creature-maker and special effects guru Phil Tippett comes this wildly imaginative stop-motion animated adventure that follows a lone intrepid soldier on a mission through the nightmarish morass.
Madeleine Collins
Maixabel
Maria Chapdelaine
Mayor Pete
Memoria
Mothering Sunday
My Brothers Dream Awake (Mis Hermanos Sueñan Despiertos)
Nobody Has to Know
The Odd-Job Men (Sis dies corrents)
One Second (Yi miao zhong)
Oscar Micheaux – The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
The Other Side of the River
Parallel Mothers
Paris, 13th District (Les olympiades)
Passing
Petite Maman
The Power of the Dog
Prayers for the Stolen (Noche de fuego)
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
Robust
The Sadness (哭悲)
A young couple brave unimaginable chaos as they journey through the carnage of Taipei in an attempt to reunite with one another and escape the deadly hordes of the infected.
Shankar’s Fairies
Shorts 1: Expanding Sensibilities (City and State)
This eclectic showcase highlights the vibrancy of the Chicago and Illinois filmmaking communities across an array of forms and genres.
Shorts 2: Shifts and Rifts (Animation)
The creative conjurings of dreams, psychedelic adventures, and familial reconnections run throughout this set of animated wonders from around the globe. This transcendent program is packed with a variety of animation styles.
Shorts 3: Unexpected Terrors (After Dark)
These six shorts spanning four countries show the real world is just as terrifying as the supernatural, highlighting how the uncanny and the unexpected can be found even in mundane situations.
Shorts 4: Abstract Reflections (Documentary)
These non-fiction films include intimate portraits and daring confrontational works that exhibit the myriad textures of everyday life. Autobiographical memories and reimagined histories shape new perspectives.
Shorts 5: Disorientation & The Familiar (Drama)
These innovative shorts articulate moments of emotional transformation and depict how obstacles of love plague characters amid societal upheaval.
Shorts 6: Side-Splitting (Comedy)
Defying conventions, these comedic films brim with humorous and quirky idiosyncrasies.
Shorts 7: Illuminating Gazes (Black Perspectives)
This suite of shorts offers nuanced approaches to storytelling, delving into self-discovery, cultural legacies, and the creation of safe spaces.
Shorts 8: Discursive Proclivities (Experimental)
This program of experimental films challenges the conventional concepts of fiction and documentary filmmaking and expands the medium in formally exciting and boldly innovative ways.
Shorts 9: Site-Specific (Architecture)
Reacting to architecture, manufactured public spaces, and psychogeographies, this program, ranging from abstract cinema to emotive documentary, unpacks the ways that the buildings, cities, and spaces where we live ultimately affect every facet of our lives.
Shorts 10: Drawn Together (Family-Friendly Animation)
This group of fun, energetic, emotional, and beautifully made animated works will capture the imaginations of audiences of all ages.
Silent Land (Cicha ziemia)
Skál
Spencer
The Story of Film: A New Generation
Sundown
The Tsugua Diaries (Diários de Otsoga)
The Velvet Underground
Wandering Heart (Errante corazón)
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky (Ras vkhedavt, rodesac cas vukurebt?)
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (偶然と想像)
Whether the Weather is Fine (Kun maupay man it panahon)
After a typhoon devastates the Filipino city of Tacloban, young and resourceful Miguel must navigate the storm’s aftermath, along with his mother and friend Andrea.