Free Events
at the 62nd Chicago International Film Festival

Facing urban disinvestment and addiction in Chicago, a mother finds healing when sent to her family home in the Mississippi Delta.

On a spiritual mission, a young nun haunted by prophetic dreams gets lost in a strange landscape, where extraordinary encounters change the course of her destiny.

In this joyful, moving documentary, Chicago comedian Arlieta uses improv comedy techniques to care for her father as he battles Alzheimer’s.

The bond between teen best friends is tested when they react in drastically different ways to a traumatic event in this intimate coming-of-age.

This Digging Deeper session will chart the extraordinary versatility but also some consistent signatures across Pawal Pawlikowski’s career, ranging from 2004’s psychosexual suspenser My Summer of Love to 2013’s post-Holocaust drama Ida, which further raised his profile and earned him an Oscar.

This presentation considers how teamwork and partnership, in all their complexity, are ongoing preoccupations of director Mike Leigh’s storytelling, not just his working methods. We’ll also honor Leigh’s undervalued collaboration with behind-the-camera talent, including editors and cinematographers, and his keen hold on specific dilemmas of middle and old age.

Radu Jude’s prolific and much-lauded artistry has often proved fiery, literally and otherwise. His florid, impudent style poses its own commentary on our brazen and spiraling era, even before each movie reveals its series of witty, provocative viewpoints on such raw-nerve subjects as cancel culture, media manipulation, and histories of genocide.